This book examines the astronomical achievements that took place in Glasgow, Scotland, including Glasgow's "Big Bang" of 1863, the "Astronomer Royal for Scotland," and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once were located in the city.

In this pioneering study, Carol Clark D'Lugo examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that reflects the social and political fissures within modern Mexican society and introduces readers to a more participatory reading of texts. D'Lugo traces defining moments in the development of Mexican fiction and the role fragmentation plays in each. Some of the topics she covers are nationalist literature of the 1930s and 1940s, self-referential novels of...