Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.

The history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form. In Projecting Spirits, Pasi Väliaho maps how the leading optical media of the period—the camera obscura and the magic lantern—developed in response to, and framed, the era's key intellectual dilemma of whether the world fell under God's providential care, or was subject to chance and open to speculating. As Väliaho shows, camera obscuras and magic lanterns were variously employed to give the world an intelligible and manageable design. Jesuit scholars embraced devices of projection as part of their pursuit of divine government, whilst the Royal Society fellows enlisted them in their quest for empirical knowledge as well as colonial expansion. Projections of light and shadow grew into critical metaphors in early responses to the turbulences of finance. In such instances, Väliaho argues, "projection" became an indispensable cognitive form to both assert providence, and to make sense of an economic reality that was gradually escaping from divine guidance. Drawing on a range of materials—philosophical, scientific and religious literature, visual arts, correspondence, poems, pamphlets, and illustrations—this provocative and inventive work expands our concept of the early media of projection, revealing how they spoke to early modern thinkers, and shaped a new, speculative concept of the world.

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfields. The essays in this collection offer a complex, yet accessible transdisciplinary overview of the heterogeneous and asynchronous historical, political, and cultural processes that account for the becoming of Latin America in the nineteenth century—from Mexico and the Caribbean Basin to the Southern Cone. The thematic division of the book into six parts allows for a better understanding of the ways in which different themes are interrelated and affords readers the opportunity to draw their own connections among subfields. The volume assembles a robust sample of recent and innovative scholarship on the subject, reformulating from fresh perspectives commonly held views on the issues that characterized the era. Additionally, it provides an overarching analysis of the field and introduces cutting-edge concepts all within one expansive volume, opening the dialogue about topics that share common denominators and modeling how those topics can be approached from a variety of perspectives. The innovative volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American studies and Spanish studies. Readers unfamiliar with the period will acquire a comprehensive view of its complexities, while specialists will discover new interpretations and archives.

El libro nos sugiere una nueva perspectiva en los roles del enamoramiento. Tradicionalmente, ha sido el hombre quien ha llevado la iniciativa y la mujer quien ha respondido a ese cortejo. Sin embargo, actualmente se est cuestionando esta dinmica y nos dirigimos hacia modelos de pareja ms igualitarios. Nos explica las rahan llevado a esta situacin y alternativas para afrontarlas.La primera parte describe las diversas aptitudes del hombre para atraer a una mujer y profundiza en la interaccin entre los dos sexos. Se plantean las diversas situaciones de la soledad, la dinmica del enamoramiento, la necesidad de tener a alguien a nuestro lado. Despus se analiza el salto que se produce del enamoramiento al amor.En la segunda parte hallamos las claves para iniciar una relacin, cmo seducir a nuestra posible pareja, qu rituales y maneras hemos de seguir para llevar a buen puerto nuestra empresa, las dificultades que nosotros mismos nos creamos cuando pretendemos enamorar a otra persona, las diversas variantes del enamoramiento y sus consecuencias, los varios tipos de parejas (desde la estable a la mera alianza por intereses), las dificultades y amenazas que pueden destruir el amor.Finalmente hay una peque?a reflexin sobre cmo puede ser el amor en el futuro.El libro cuenta con prcticos esquemas y un glosario fiere