Charlo is a member of the hostile alien race called the Veimurians. They vacated their dying world, Oanus, which was destroyed by radiation and acid rain, and is being sucked up by the black hole its imploding star created. Their mission? Destroy any and all life they come upon to ensure the survival of their species, through the use of harnessed chemicals to simulate the same rains that destroyed their own planet. Charlo begins to feel remorse for other races, specifically humans of Earth, and takes a course of action all of her race that remain, with the aid of others from the planet Zorus and their space fleet. She plans to destroy her own race in order to save billions of others in the future. The only question is, can she do it?

New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of Hemingway's groundbreaking non-fictional work. Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time, Hemingway had already won critical and popular acclaim for his short stories and novels of the late twenties. A mature and self-confident artist, he now risked his career by switching from fiction to nonfiction, from American characters to Spanish bullfighters, from exotic and romantic settings to the tough world of theSpanish bullring, a world that might seem frightening and even repellant to those who do not understand it. Hemingway's nonfiction has been denied the attention that his novels and short stories have enjoyed, a state of affairs this Companion seeks to remedy, breaking new ground by applying theoretical and critical approaches to a work of nonfiction. It does so in original essays that offer a thorough, balanced examination of a complex, boundary-breaking, and hitherto neglected text. The volume is broken into sections dealing with: the composition, reception, and sources of Death in the Afternoon; cultural translation, cultural criticism, semiotics, and paratextual matters; and the issues of art, authorship, audience, and the literary legacy of Death in the Afternoon. The contributors to the volume, four men and seven women, lay to rest the stereotype of Hemingway as a macho writer whom women do not read; and their nationalities (British, Spanish, American, and Israeli) indicate that Death in the Afternoon, even as it focuses on a particular national art, discusses matters of universal concern. Contributors: Miriam B. Mandel, Robert W. Trogdon, Lisa Tyler, Linda Wagner-Martin, Peter Messent, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Anthony Brand, Nancy Bredendick, Hilary Justice, Amy Vondrak, and Keneth Kinnamon. MiriamB. Mandel teaches in the English Department of Tel Aviv University.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, while Lima's aristocrats hotly debated the future of a nation filled with "Indians," thousands of Aymara and Quechua Indians left the pews of the Catholic Church and were baptized into Seventh-day Adventism. One of the most staggering Christian phenomena of our time, the mass conversion from Catholicism to various forms of Protestantism in Latin America was so successful that Catholic contemporaries became extremely anxious on noticing that parts of the Indigenous population in the Andean plateau had joined a Protestant church. In Sacrifice and Regeneration Yael Mabat focuses on the extraordinary success of Seventh-day Adventism in the Andean highlands at the beginning of the twentieth century and sheds light on the historical trajectories of Protestantism in Latin America. By approaching the religious conversion among Indigenous populations in the Andes as a multifaceted and dynamic interaction between converts, missionaries, and their social settings and networks, Mabat demonstrates how the religious and spiritual needs of converts also brought salvation to the missionaries. Conversion had important ramifications on the way social, political, and economic institutions on the local and national level functioned. At the same time, socioeconomic currents had both short-term and long-term impacts on idiosyncratic religious practices and beliefs that both accelerated and impeded religious change. Mabat's innovative historical perspective on religious transformation allows us to better comprehend the complex and often contradictory way in which Protestantism took shape in Latin America.

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It's been four years since the war against the Veimurians has ended. Charlo, Kit and Zok'ai Live peacefully on one of Rosea's many beaches. But once Charlo and Kit are to house the Late Akmar's niece, things get weird. General Axis and the rest of the Zoran fleet have detected some sort of life signal coming out of the black hole of Oanus' recently deceased star. Somehow, someone or something has escaped. This life form disappears for some time, but reappears just outside Rosea's system. It remains still at first, but then expresses its desire to destroy everything in its path, including Charlo and everyone she loves, to have revenge on her for what she's done. Charlo and Kit come to find it is an old enemy, reincarnated in an even more ruthless form than before. To save the galaxy and to protect those most dear to her, Charlo has to discover and harness her primitive, hidden powers in order to defeat this ruthless, ugly, terrifying foe.