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This book focuses on the latest developments in animal science and zoology. Chapter 1 is aimed at the concept of sustainable livestock. Chapter 2 focuses on progresses in equine cytogenetics, and genomic tools. Chapter 3 analyzes morphometric parameters of the fine structure of the primary remiges of Corvid Birds (Corvidae) in the context of adaptation to flight. Chapter 4 aims to generate Allometric models for five species of Carcharhiniformes. Chapter 5 analyzes patterns of foraging activity among birds during the winter. Chapter 6 discusses the application of nano-sensors in livestock disease diagnoses. Chapter 7 describes and analyzes new species of plume moths (Pterophoridae) from the northern part of Chile Región de Atacama and some plume and flower moths from South America.

Este volumen reúne diez artículos de estudiosos que reflexionan en torno a las trayectorias de vida de al menos 15 personas afrodescendientes. A través de la reconstrucción de momentos significativos de su vida, estos textos abren la posibilidad de conocer distintas experiencias y significaciones de ser afrodescendiente entre los siglos XVI y XIX en México.

This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted—with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth. The meeting proceedings analyses the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world. The congress is expected to enhance the inter-disciplinary research development of international engineering geology and the environment, and contribute to the advancement of major projects, ecological progress, and habitable earth with in-depth discussion in the area of engineering geology and global climate change, geological hazard assessment and prevention, geotechnical properties of rock and soil mass, engineering geology and the environmental issues concerning marine, transportation, urban and ecological environment protection, engineering geology and resilience engineering construction, intelligent engineering geology, and new theories, methods, and techniques in engineering geology.

This classic in the literature of the European exploration and settlement of the New World has never until now been available in the English language. Its author, born in 1671, was descended from a noble Spanish family and was a learned and influential member of Caracas society. His Historia de la conquista y poblacion de la provincia de Venezuela is widely regarded as a literary masterpiece and a major historical work. It has been read and acclaimed throughout the world. Jeannette Varner's sensitive translation will be welcomed by English-speaking Latin Americanists everywhere. The work is an accurate and absorbing narration of the early history of Venezuela, from Christopher Columbus's arrival on August 1, 1498, on his third voyage to the New World, until its sack by the British corsair, Sir Francis Drake, at the end of the sixteenth century. Based firmly on the histories of official chroniclers and early historians of Venezuela, its first four book are a matchless introduction to the subject and provide valuable background for scholarly study. The last three books, dealing with the bloody struggle for the domination of Caracas and its vicinity, constitute Oviedo's original contribution to the history of Venezuela. Widely divergent subject matter ranges from the ghastly crimes of the tyrant Lope de Aguirre, who murdered both his priest and his daughter, to the mystic transfiguration of Martin Tinajero, whose body attracted swarms of wild bees with its odor of honey. In his Letras y hombres de Venezuela, Arturo Uslar Pietri calls the book a'song of pride in race and love of the land, an elegy full of sentiment and melody.'This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth—though'progress'came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining how an Indigenous person held state-level power in Mexico during the thirty-five-year dictatorship that preceded the Mexican Revolution (the Porfiriato), and the apogee of scientific racism across Latin America. Although he was one of few recognizably Indigenous persons in office, Próspero Cahuantzi of Tlaxcala kept his position (1885–1911) longer than any other gubernatorial appointee under Porfirio Díaz's transformative but highly oppressive dictatorship (1876–1911). Cahuantzi leveraged his identity and his region's Indigenous heritage to ingratiate himself to Díaz and other nation-building elites. Locally, Cahuantzi navigated between national directives aimed at modernizing Mexico, often at the expense of the impoverished rural majority, and strategic management of Tlaxcala's natural resources—in particular, balancing growing industrial demand for water with the needs of the local population. Jaclyn Ann Sumner shows how this intermediary actor brokered national expectations and local conditions to maintain state power, challenging the idea that governors during the Porfirian dictatorship were little more than provincial stewards who repressed dissent. Drawing upon documentation from more than a dozen Mexican archives, the book brings Porfirian-era Mexico into critical conversations about race and environmental politics in Latin America.

El paisaje es una experiencia de contemplación, emoción y reflexión, al mismo tiempo es el resultado del trabajo de hombres y mujeres en el espacio geográfico. Es una consecuencia cultural y su naturaleza se constituye en una revelación en el universo de las formas, al ser concebida, vivida y modelada por las sociedades dentro de un permanente proceso de transformación. Se trata de un dispositivo de convergencia de la percepción, los sentimientos y las representaciones, en el que se construye la historia desde sus orígenes. Asimismo, el patrimonio contenido en los paisajes crea una memoria capaz de llevarnos por nuevas vías del conocimiento, solo se deben de interpretar el lenguaje que está expresado en el territorio y en sus bienes materiales e inmateriales. Ahora bien, en la con figuración estética del paisaje es dilucidar sobre lo sublime de la vida, el pensamiento y la creación artística. En el marco de estos indicadores se encuentra la percepción y la imaginación como una amalgama del goce, pero también de la angustia o el miedo. Comprender lo estético en el paisaje es desentrañar la función del gusto en la historia, que se organiza en el terreno de la sensibilidad y en la reflexión sobre las complejas manifestaciones de la naturaleza humana. Proceso que se convierte en un instrumento para captar y transmitir lo invisible en el espacio y crear, en el campo de estudio sobre el paisaje patrimonial, nuevas significaciones. En este sentido, el ejercicio de delimitar paisajes para después aprehenderlos y estudiarlos es un ritual creativo, que a lo largo de la historia se ha desarrollado y ha formado parte de las tantas maneras de adaptarnos al medio, al tiempo que lo interpretamos; y es precisamente en este punto en el que se centra este libro, en las distintas posibilidades de imagínalo y representarlo. Por ello, en este volumen, se compendia una serie de trabajos donde se hace una reflexión profunda sobre el pensamiento y la creación de los paisajes patrimoniales desde diversas miradas disciplinares y enfoques epistemológicos, que disciernen sobre la filosofía, la estética y el arte en los paisajes y los paisajes en el arte.