Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations.Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-trading societies, where traders, financiers, officials, surgeons, notaries, ship captains, and others began thinking about human bodies as aggregate populations understood through numbers: measurements, averages, and ca...

Argentine comic book artist Pablo Martinena began his remarkable career with TidalWave Productions, illustrating dynamic biography covers featuring icons such as Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Benson Boone, and Robert Downey Jr. This 25-page art gallery — Volume Four — celebrates his work with a stunning collection of never-before-seen images and covers from one of the most prolific artists in TidalWave’s history. With over 200 covers to his name—featured in major outlets like TIME Magazine, The ...

A Pura Belpré Award Honor, Young AdultA Robert F. Sibert Informational Book HonorIn this moving intergenerational tale perfect for fans of Messy Roots and Illegal, Eisner-nominated creator Pablo Leon combines historical research of the Guatemalan Civil War with his own experiences as a Guatemalan immigrant to depict a powerful story of family, sacrifice, survival, and hope.Langley Park, Maryland, 2013

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

This book explains how “natural wine” was made and not discovered by Spanish lawmakers, chemists, merchants, and theologians, showing how Spain consolidated a legal construct that normalized specific technical interventions while preserving the label natural.The book argues that wine labeled as “natural” was not the preservation of a traditional product but the product of a legal fiction that allowed wines with additives to be normalized and protected under law. In doing so, the bo...

It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew out of the air taking passengers with them. In the weeks that followed, the remaining people who were on board - the society of the snow - emerg...

The Price is a sequel to Angels Over Waslala and Angels in the Night. In Nicaragua, life is primitive. Drugs, alcohol, and thievery are a way of life. The Yoders experienced the dark side of life as they sought to share the Lord Jesus with these beautiful people trapped in the grip of vice and its consequences. They confronted this evil by demonstrating the love of Christ. Many times life after such experiences goes unrecorded. Not so with several of these thieves. In The Price Pablo graph...

**The Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (**Gabriel García Márquez)."In his work a continent awakens to consciousness," wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers and political figures-a loyal member of...

A translation of Pablo Neruda's early collections of odes, this book features poems that are addressed to hope and to gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and to artichokes. Reflecting the lucent, candid vitality driving Neruda's charming accounts, these poems celebrate things big and the small: even lamentations become commemorations. Compassionately amused one moment then sobered by injustice and supportive of resistance the next, this bilingual compilation will appeal to f...

From the Nobel Laureate in Literature and "the greatest poet of the 20th century," the classic memoir, expanded with newly discovered material (Gabriel García Márquez).Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherless, pensive child, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years. From there, his memoir follows his travels as a globetrottin...

Prof. Umlor is an infamous villain that just escaped Ironstorm prison to execute his evil plan. The Rilex Elite Police must put together a team that is strong enough to defeat Umlor and his plans, can they defeat the mischiveous professor?

NAVIGATING THE POLYCRISIS OF OUR TIMEIn a world on the edge of social, ecological, and economic upheaval, Collapse reveals the forces that are unraveling modern civilization. This sharp exploration dives into the heart of the polycrisis—why systems are faltering, how they are interconnected, and what comes next.From cultural delusions to logistical blind spots, Collapse unveils the shaky foundations of a society b...