ECKM2007-Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Knowledge Management
Author: Dan Remenyi
Publisher: Academic Conferences Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 1905305524
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Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture
Author: E. King
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-12
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1137338768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.
O Leviatã e a Coruja: Ciência, Mito e Razão
Author: Arthur Barthelmess
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-09-29
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0557453879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdmitindo tratar-se de uma dualidade estrutural do psiquismo, propõe o Ensaio, fundamentar o entendimento em bases abrangentes que permitam encarar sem escândalo os monstros míticos que assolam nosso âmago mais secreto, para abordar, por fim, sem preconceito - e sem pieguice, o perpétuo problema antropológico quanto ao Sagrado.
Proceedings of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA).
Author: Brazilian Studies Association. Conference
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Burning Answer
Author: Keith Barnham
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0297869647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. Our thirst for energy has led to threats from global warming, nuclear disaster and conflict in oil-rich countries. We are running out of options. Solar power, Keith Barnham argues, is the answer. In this eye-opening book, he shows how a solar revolution is developing based on one of Einstein's lesser known discoveries, one that gave us laptop computers and mobile phones. An accessible guide to renewable technology and a hard-hitting critique of the arguments of solar sceptics, The Burning Answer outlines a future in which the fuel for electric cars will be generated on our rooftops. It is, above all, an impassioned call to arms to join the solar revolution before it's too late.
Kingdoms Come
Author: Rowan Ireland
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0822976811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs scholars continue to explore the political implications of grass roots religions around the world, Kingdoms Come examines the three main popular religions in Brazil—folk Catholicism, Protestant Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian spiritism—to trace the contrasting patterns of acceptance or rejection of political paradigms within these three groups. In spite of these differences, Ireland's close analysis of these movements leads him to the conclusion that all three embrace traditions that foster a deepening of Brazil's nascent democracy.
A Living Past
Author: John Soluri
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2018-02-19
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1785333917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization
Author: Ana Carolina Lot Canellas Cordilha
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-06-26
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9004546863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization, Ana Carolina Cordilha unpacks policy shifts that have transformed public health systems into vehicles for financial speculation and capital accumulation. While it is commonly thought that these systems are being cut back in the period of financialization, the author shows that current changes in public health financing go far beyond budget cuts and privatization measures. She examines how public health systems are adopting financial instruments and participating in financial accumulation strategies, with harmful impacts on transparency, democratic accountability, and health service provision. With an in-depth study of both the French and Brazilian systems, Cordilha explores the different ways in which this process unfolds in central and peripheral countries.
The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation
Author: Leonardo Avritzer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-11-24
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1786436655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book evaluates democratic innovations to allow a full analysis of the different practices that have emerged recently in Latin America. These innovations, often viewed in a positive light by a large section of democratic theorists, engendered the idea that all innovations are democratic and all democratic innovations are able to foster citizenship – a view challenged by this work. The book also evaluates the expansion of innovation to the field of judicial institutions. It will benefit democratic theorists by presenting a realistic analysis of the positive and negative aspects of democratic innovation.
Constellations of Inequality
Author: Sean T. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-12-06
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 022649943X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. Completed in 1990, this vast undertaking in one of Brazil’s poorest regions has provoked decades of conflict and controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells this story of technological aspiration and the stark dynamics of inequality it laid bare. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among descendants of escaped slaves, military-civilian competition in the launch program, and international intrigue. Throughout, he illuminates Brazil’s changing politics of inequality and examines how such inequality is made, reproduced, and challenged. How people conceptualize and act on the unequal conditions in which they find themselves, he shows, is as much a cultural and historical matter as a material one. Deftly broadening our understanding of race, technology, development, and political consciousness on local, national, and global levels, Constellations of Inequality paints a portrait of contemporary Brazil that will interest a broad spectrum of readers.
