Visualizing Loss in Latin America
Visualizing Loss in Latin America

Author: Gisela Heffes

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-05-19

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3031288319

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Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste—a significant trait that overwhelmingly defines it.

Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics

Author: Jens Andermann

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-09-04

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 3110775964

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The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large. By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.

Latin American Technopoetics
Latin American Technopoetics

Author: Scott Weintraub

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0429839391

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Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media analyzes the ways in which poetry and multimedia installations by six prominent poets and artists engage, and in turn are engaged by, scientific discourses. In its innovative readings of contemporary digital media works, Latin American Technopoetics is the first book to investigate the powerful dialogue between recent techno-cultural phenomena, literature, and various scientific fields. This cutting-edge analysis of poetic and artistic experimentation—robots that compose and recite poetry, algorithms that create visualizations of poetic language or of the connections between everyday language and scientific terminology, arrays of multi-dimensional poetic spaces, and telematic and transgenic art—makes a strong case for the increasing viability of a scientific poetics currently gaining prominence in Latin American literary and media studies, digital humanities, and science and technology studies.

Visualizing Environmental Science
Visualizing Environmental Science

Author: Linda R. Berg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-11-10

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13:

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This book follows a unique approach by placing a greater emphasis on visual learning as a means for environmental scientists to understand and connect with the central issues of environmental science. It vividly illustrates the overarching role that humans play in our planet's environmental problems and successes. In each chapter, What a Scientist Sees features are presented to highlight a concept or phenomenon from the perspective of a professional in the field. Process diagrams are also used to depict complex processes. Environmental scientists will be able to reinforce their understanding of the field and gain new insights with this second edition.

Visualizing Earth Science
Visualizing Earth Science

Author: Zeeya Merali

Publisher: Wiley Global Education

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 111843594X

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Visualizing Earth Science relies heavily on rich visuals to expand on concepts for students and solidify their understanding of them. This accessible format, coupled with the assumption that students have little knowledge of earth science, allows students to navigate through the material with greater ease the goal being to help them understand the world around them and interpret what they see in a meaningful, accurate and exciting way. Authors Zeeya Merali and Brian Skinner focus on visual learning in their debut of their first edition, Visualizing Earth Science. This text weaves illustrated timelines throughout to exemplify how concepts fit together and develop over time. Students will quickly learn difficult concepts with this innovative, visual approach.

Visualizing Elementary Social Studies Methods
Visualizing Elementary Social Studies Methods

Author: John K. Lee

Publisher: Wiley Global Education

Published: 2012-04-13

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 111831283X

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An excellent resource for social studies teachers, this book will help them learn about and reflect on their responsibilities in our society. It focuses on classroom-based experiences and real-world contexts. The teaching methods discussed are also closely associated to social studies subject matter so they can be integrated into the actual classroom. Each chapter also examines how social studies is situated within the larger elementary curriculum to demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of the instruction.

Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View (ENHANCED EBOOK)
Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View (ENHANCED EBOOK)

Author: Brian Larson

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2012-08-22

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0071810226

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The only official guide to Tableau 8, the award-winning BI software In this book, Certified Tableau trainer and bestselling BI author George Peck teaches you how to build meaningful data visualizations and dashboards using Tableau 8. Complete with training videos, Tableau 8: The Official Guide provides comprehensive coverage of the latest version of Tableau, the BI software designed for faster data analysis and better business dashboards. Electronic content features original Camtasia videos that bring all examples to life Shows how to build dashboards and analytics in minutes and hours, not days and weeks Enables informed business decision-making based on real data discovery

The Cargo Rebellion
The Cargo Rebellion

Author: Jason Chang

Publisher: PM Press

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1629639796

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The Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise. The laborers learned that Bryson’s claimed destination of San Francisco was a lie to trick them into deadly servitude in the dreaded guano islands of Peru. Reaching a dramatic tipping point, the mutineers rose up and killed Bryson and several of the ship's officers and then attempted to sail back to China. This book's centerpiece, a deft graphic account of the rebellion in the context of the “coolie trade” and the struggle to end traffic in human “cargo,” is supported by essays that spotlight the rebellion itself, how the subject of indentured Asian workers is being taught in classrooms, and how Chinese workers shaped the evolution of American music, particularly in the making of the first drum set. The Cargo Rebellion is a history from below that does justice to the memory of hundreds of thousands of indentured workers and demonstrates how Asian migration to the Americas was rooted in slavery, colonialism, and the life-and-death struggle against servitude.

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America

Author: Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9402415521

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This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization). Brazil, in particular, offers an immense amount of biodiversity, including plants with great pharmacological interest and ethno-medicinal importance. Contributions are from internationally recognized professionals, specialists of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant domain and have been invited mostly from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.