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Embracing the Past, Designing the Future

Authoritarianism and Economic Development in Brazil Under Getúlio Vargas

By: Luciano Aronne de Abreu,Luis Carlos dos Passos Martins,Geandra Denardi Munareto

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Embracing the Past, Designing the Future

Authoritarianism and Economic Development in Brazil Under Getúlio Vargas

By: Luciano Aronne de Abreu,Luis Carlos dos Passos Martins,Geandra Denardi Munareto

Embracing the Past, Designing the Future provides an historical overview of Brazilian authoritarianism and social/economic development during the political era (1930-45) of Getulio Vargas as viewed and understood by Oliveira Viana and Azevedo Amaral, two of the principal intellectuals and ideologues of the regime at the time. Oliveira Vianna was one of the main authors of the corporatist labour legislation and Azevedo Amaral remained an important publicist who was associated with the regimes propaganda apparatus. the heart of the discussion is the legitimacy of authoritarian modernisation. Brazil's contemporary uncertainty has deep parallels with the earlier period: unruly and un-democratic political debate coupled with economic stagnation. It was during the Vargas era that the power bases and fundamental principals of the construction of modern Brazil were defined in terms of its political administration and its economy and industry. These features may still be perceived in the country today, albeit claimed or rejected by political leaders such as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Linkage between authoritarianism and the economic development of Brazil is strong, whether viewed through the lenses of history, sociology or political science. Both periods of exceptional national economic and social growth were associated exactly to its two governmental authoritarian periods in the twentieth century the Vargas era and the military dictatorship (196485). This volume addresses a complex of ideological difficulties that go to the heart of what the Brazilian nation stands for: its racial construction; its colonial heritage; the fractured nature of the relationship between society and state; the role of corporatism, and its sometime political rejection; and the dangers of political personalisation, to the detriment of the nation.

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Liverpool University Press

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1782846727

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The Syntax of Portuguese

By: Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes

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The Syntax of Portuguese

By: Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes

Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language in the world, and due to recent interest in comparative syntax, the literature on its syntax has increased exponentially, resulting in exciting discoveries of a range of aspects that have hitherto been overlooked. This book provides a theoretically grounded overview of the major syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on the differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese. It shows from a theoretical point of view how different syntactic properties are interconnected by comparing and contrasting the variances between pronominal and agreement systems, null subjects, null complements, and word order. It also highlights how small differences in the specification of syntactic properties may yield quite different dialects. It introduces key theoretical points without technical jargon, making the content accessible to specialist and non-specialists alike. It is essential reading for both academic researchers and students of Portuguese language, comparative syntax, Romance linguistics, and theoretical syntax.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009321692

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Endothelium and Cardiovascular Diseases

Vascular Biology and Clinical Syndromes

By: Protasio L. Da Luz,Peter Libby,Francisco Rafael Martins Laurindo,Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas

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Endothelium and Cardiovascular Diseases

Vascular Biology and Clinical Syndromes

By: Protasio L. Da Luz,Peter Libby,Francisco Rafael Martins Laurindo,Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas

Endothelium and Cardiovascular Diseases: Vascular Biology and Clinical Syndromes provides an in-depth examination of the role of endothelium and endothelial dysfunction in normal vascular function, and in a broad spectrum of clinical syndromes, from atherosclerosis, to cognitive disturbances and eclampsia. The endothelium is a major participant in the pathophysiology of diseases, such as atherosclerosis, diabetes and hypertension, and these entities are responsible for the largest part of cardiovascular mortality and morbidly. Over the last decade major new discoveries and concepts involving the endothelium have come to light. This important reference collects this data in an easy to reference resource. Written by known experts, and covering all aspects of endothelial function in health and disease, this reference represents an assembly of recent knowledge that is essential to both basic investigators and clinicians. - Provides a complete overview of endothelial function in health and diseases, along with an assessment of new information - Includes coverage of groundbreaking areas, including the artificial LDL particle, the development of a new anti-erectile dysfunction agent, a vaccine for atherosclerosis, coronary calcification associated with red wine, and the interplay of endoplasmic reticulum/oxidative stress - Explores the genetic features of endothelium and the interaction between basic knowledge and clinical syndromes

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0128125519

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Insurance Law in Portugal

By: Joana Neto Anjos,Joana Vicente,Gabriela Lacerda Assunção,Geraldo Rocha Ribeiro,Maria Inês de Oliveira Martins

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Insurance Law in Portugal

By: Joana Neto Anjos,Joana Vicente,Gabriela Lacerda Assunção,Geraldo Rocha Ribeiro,Maria Inês de Oliveira Martins

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides valuable practical insight into both public supervisory legislation concerning insurance and private insurance contract law in Portugal. An informative general introduction surveying the legal, political, financial, and commercial background and surroundings of insurance provides a sound foundation for the specific detail that follows. The book covers all essential aspects of the law and regulation governing insurance policies and instruments. Its detailed exposition includes examination of the form of the insurance company and its reserves and investments; the insurance contract; the legal aspects of the various branches of property and liability insurance; motor vehicle insurance schemes; life insurance, health insurance, and workmen’s compensation schemes; reinsurance, co-insurance, and pooling; taxation of insurance; and risk management and prevention. Succinct yet eminently practical, the book will be a valuable resource for lawyers handling cases affecting Portugal. It will be of practical utility to those both in public service and private practice called on to develop and to apply the laws of insurance, and of special interest as a contribution to the much-needed harmonization of insurance law.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403513489

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Biology, Sociology, Geology by Computational Physicists

By: Dietrich Stauffer,Suzana Maria Moss de Oliveira,Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira,Jorge Simoes de Sá Martins

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Biology, Sociology, Geology by Computational Physicists

By: Dietrich Stauffer,Suzana Maria Moss de Oliveira,Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira,Jorge Simoes de Sá Martins

The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in individuals, for the living world around us.* Interdisciplinary coverage* Research oriented* Contains and explains programs* Based on recent discoveries* Little special knowledge required besides programming* Suitable for undergraduate and graduate research projects

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0080462022

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Fundamentals of Hair and Scalp Dermoscopy

By: Isabella Doche,Patricia Damasco,Giselle Martins

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Fundamentals of Hair and Scalp Dermoscopy

By: Isabella Doche,Patricia Damasco,Giselle Martins

Trichoscopy is the dermoscopic imaging of the scalp and hair. The method is based on dermoscopy and videodermoscopy and is used for the evaluation and diagnosis of hair and scalp diseases. This book provides clinicians and trainees with the latest advances in trichoscopy. Divided into seventeen chapters, the text begins with an overview of the normal scalp and devices used in trichoscopy, both handheld and digital. The following chapters examine numerous hair and scalp disorders including alopecia, hair shaft disorders, genetic skin diseases, autoimmune bullous disorders, tumours and much more. Each chapter concludes with a summary of key points from the topic. Edited by recognised experts in the field from the USA and Brazil, this comprehensive guide features more than 1000 clinical images, diagrams and tables to enhance learning. Key points Comprehensive guide to trichoscopy for clinicians and trainees Covers numerous disorders and emphasises key learning points for each topic Recognised editor team from USA and Brazil Includes more than 1000 images, diagrams and tables

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9352705610

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Technopolitcs

charting the unknow

By: Constantino Pereira Martins (Ed.)

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Technopolitcs

charting the unknow

By: Constantino Pereira Martins (Ed.)

Technopolitics is a follow-up book that intends to depart and expand the concept of Cyberpolitics to all the dimensions and effects of technology in our lives but placing politics at the center of debate and thought. Most investigations in the fields of Humanities have highlighted the impact of digitization and social virtualization and mapped the transition from the Industrial Revolution, and mass disciplinary society, to the digital revolution, telework and social atomism. The fusion of disruptive technologies is changing the fundamentals of our world almost roaming on its own towards a near future with unprecedented and unpredictable outcomes. This new technological reason implies a rupture and a paradigm shift in the radical transition from an instrumental reason (auxiliary) to an autonomous reason (essential). This means the impossibility of further sustaining the illusion of technological neutrality. Science, culture and technology appear to be merging and in combat simultaneously. And all fields of knowledge are alert to a main idea: how deep is technology shaping our societies and politics? Regardless of the outcome, an age of instability is also an age of challenges. In our era of uncertainty, and while our civilization moves forward toward a hyper-technological future, we should not forget to discuss and reflect on the values and ethics we would like to survive the ruin of time and to pass on to the next generations.

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Editora Dialética

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6527037384

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The brazilian CFIA model as a mechanism for enhancing protection and respect for socio-economic rights

By: Marina Martins Martes

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The brazilian CFIA model as a mechanism for enhancing protection and respect for socio-economic rights

By: Marina Martins Martes

This research evaluates whether the new model of investment agreement developed by Brazil (CFIA) is a mechanism for enhancing protection and respect for social and economic rights. The research starts by exploring the origins of investment treaties, their development and main characteristics. It examines why investment treaties and socio-economic rights are related, by mapping cases in which investment treaties have already impaired the protection of such rights. The research then analyzes how these two issues shall be jointly handled. It considers international organizations? initiatives to regulate business and human rights and investment treaties? frameworks that foster sustainable development, as well as new investment agreements? models developed by different countries, and then suggests criteria for evaluating whether an investment treaty is adequate from the socio-economic rights standpoint. Finally, this research investigates the CFIA model, brings a brief historical overview, evaluates CFIAs? wording, and examines how some CFIAs? institutional mechanisms consider corporate social responsibility issues. In conclusion, this research asserts that the CFIA model can be a mechanism for enhancing protection and respect for socio-economic rights, but some concerns (particularly related to safeguarding States? regulatory space and providing for stronger obligations to investors and States to protect human rights) need to be addressed.

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6525294614

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Democratic Governance in Sports

By: Fernando Barbalho Martins

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Democratic Governance in Sports

By: Fernando Barbalho Martins

The ability of sports federations to self-regulate is a profession of faith in the governance of global sports, even as a defense measure against attempts at political appropriation of the virtues of sports ideas, especially by autocratic or totalitarian regimes, as seen, for example, in "Nazification" of the aesthetics of the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936, or the use of sport as a piece of propaganda during the Cold War, in the second half of the 20th century. However, the possible hypocrisy of the discourse of an alleged purity of ideals defended by sporting autonomy has been exposed by successive episodes of abuse and corruption by sector leaders, at the most diverse levels, generating government reactions in order to issue norms that allow a greater degree of state intervention in sport. Given this situation, the work proposes governance standards that can preserve sports self-regulation, especially from the point of view of democratization of national and international federations and in light of the regulatory innovations issued by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, in reaction to the episodes that undermine the credibility of global sports governance.

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Lygia Pape

A Multitude of Forms

By: Iria Candela,Glória Ferreira,Sérgio B. Martins,John Rajchman

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Lygia Pape

A Multitude of Forms

By: Iria Candela,Glória Ferreira,Sérgio B. Martins,John Rajchman

Lygia Pape (1927–2004) was one of the most acclaimed and influential Brazilian artists of the twentieth century. As a prominent member of a generation of artists, architects, and designers who embraced the optimistic and constructive spirit of postwar Brazil, she is particularly known for her participation in the experimental art movement Neoconcretism, which sought to rework the legacy of European avant-garde abstraction to suit a new cultural context. Beyond the specific aims of Neoconcretism, however, Pape engaged with a wide range of media painting, drawing, poetry, graphic design and photography, film and performance—constantly experimenting in a quest to confront the canonical and discover unexplored territories in modern art. Following a coup d’etat in 1964, when the establishment of an authoritarian regime shattered dreams of shared prosperity in Brazil, Pape continued to pursue her art against difficult odds. The streets of Rio de Janeiro became her ultimate source of inspiration, as she created participatory works that questioned the space between artist and viewer and the social context of art itself. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} This beautifully illustrated publication accompanies the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to the work of Lygia Pape. Featuring essays by art historians in both North and South America, as well as two previously untranslated interviews with the artist and an illustrated chronology, Lygia Pape is a testament to the artist’s lasting importance to the modern art and culture of Latin America and to her position as a major figure of the international avant-garde.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396169

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The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil

By: Luiz Renato Martins

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The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil

By: Luiz Renato Martins

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’. The grand project of Brasília is the main theme of the first two chapters, which treat the ‘ideal city’ as a case study in the ways in which creative talent in Brazil has been made to serve in the reproduction of social iniquities whose origins can be traced back to the agrarian latifundia. Further chapters scrutinise the socio-historical basis of Brazilian art, and develop, against the grain of the most prominent art historical approaches to modern Brazilian culture, a critical approach to the distinctly Brazilian visual language of geometrical abstraction. The book contends that, from the fifties up to today, formalism in Brazil has expressed the hegemony of the market.

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Frei Betto

The Political-Pastoral Work of a Dominican Friar in Brazil and Beyond

By: Americo Oscar Guichard Freire,Evanize Martins Sydow

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Frei Betto

The Political-Pastoral Work of a Dominican Friar in Brazil and Beyond

By: Americo Oscar Guichard Freire,Evanize Martins Sydow

The Biography includes a Preface by Cuban Commander Fidel Castro Frei Bettos roles as a revolutionary Christian, popular educator, social movement articulator, and journalist/writer provide insight into the political and religious history not only of Brazil, but of Cuba and former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. His lifepath is one of engagement with the revolutionary struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship in favor of social transformation. His arrest in 1969 for coordinating the safe departure of political militants from Brazil, and his concern to eliminate hunger and suffering from the poorer classes, were strong credentials as he promoted dialogue between political bodies, the religious establishment and the population at large. Strongly influenced by the propositions of Liberation Theology, a defining thread of its activities was to seek an understanding, an accommodation, between Christianity and socialism. Friar Betto maintained close relations with former Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolutionary government, and wrote about how the internal dynamics of the Cuban religious universe could be applied to other countries and to different political circumstances. His writings on socialist countries, especially Paradise Lost, are aimed at promoting understanding on several levels: between the Church and the communists; between the military and politicians; between religious leaders and the people. Frei Bettos biography is an invitation to understand five decades of a personal pursuit of revolutionary ideals through the prism of religious tolerance and the pursuit of socialism. The Portuguese edition was a finalist in the biography section of Jabuti the prestigious national literary prize granted by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL).

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Liverpool University Press

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1802071318

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Critical Theory of Coloniality

By: Paulo Henrique Martins

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Critical Theory of Coloniality

By: Paulo Henrique Martins

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North. CTC expresses the emergence and historical actuality of a set of intellectual fields aimed at denouncing domination and promoting emancipatory ideas at the borders of colonial capitalism. The book argues that the actuality of the CTC relies on the importance of valuing theoretical and methodological pluralism in the context of the necessary redefinition of the directions of global society. It reveals a plural reflection of scientific, moral, and aesthetic character in different areas of former planetary colonisation such as Asia, Africa, and America but also on the borders of Europe. This book is aimed at researchers and students in the social sciences as well as in interdisciplinary studies. It is attractive to those who are interested in the plural development of theoretical criticism outside the European universe and who seek to understand how capitalist power has metamorphosed with planetary coloniality. Considering this book implies important reflections on topics such as development, modernity, tradition, imperialism, dependency, and democracy, it is interesting to specialists in development issues, international relations, and policymakers.

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100056956X

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Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola

By: Vasco Martins

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Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola

By: Vasco Martins

Making a fresh contribution to our understanding of the history of Angola, this book explores the impact of social, political and economic change upon the largest ethnic group of the country, the Ovimbundu. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Angola, including oral testimonies and life stories, participant-observation, and archival materials, this book shifts the viewpoint from the colonial enterprise, international politics and ideological alignments to focus on African experiences and responses. The author analyses the transformations introduced by Christianity and colonialisation and how they contributed to politicised modern notions of ethnic identity, creating communal imaginaries that began manifesting during Angolan’s anti-colonial war. He then explains how the weaving of this ethno-political landscape assisted UNITA’s mobilisation of significant parts of the Ovimbundu during the civil-war, essentially deepening popular belief in the axiom Ovimbundu-UNITA, and how the latter created a national imaginary that echoed social anxieties and moral discourses. The book then explores the links between ethnicity, politics and war on the quality of post-war citizenship in Angola, particularly on people’s integration in the citizenry or marginalisation from it. Articulating a reading of ethnicity that connects high politics and elite based explanations with how ordinary people feel and discuss ethnicity, politics and citizenship, this book will be of interest to scholars of African history and politics, as well as ethnicity and nationalism.

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1000224791

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Everyday Acts of Design

Learning in a Time of Emergency

By: Zoy Anastassakis,Marcos Martins

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Everyday Acts of Design

Learning in a Time of Emergency

By: Zoy Anastassakis,Marcos Martins

From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Everyday Acts of Design tells the story of how the university's design school reacted to the crisis: not with despondency or despair, but by promoting a series of radical teaching experiments. Working together, students, alumni, teachers, and staff embraced hope as a method, demonstrating that it is possible to find positive answers even in a situation of imminent collapse. The case histories narrated in the book provide alternatives to conventional forms of design teaching, but also prove that education can be a site for democracy and the practice of freedom. Deprived of the activity of creating for an imagined future, design can still assert a way forward through practices of making and experimenting. Drawing on their personal experience of designing and teaching design at a time of crisis, the authors assert the value of a design attitude which, in refusing to be delimited by the forethought of designing, insists on a radical, experimental practice as a means of survival. Although a multitude of voices, both assenting and dissenting, are present in the text, the authors do not hide their own position, making it clear that their stories are not a balanced mosaic of polyphonic positions. The contemporary attack on free public education, fueled by the growth of far-right regimes all over the globe, relies on a totalizing univocal conception of 'truth' as a means to shut down a plurality of thinking. Against this, this book adopts the partiality of historical and cultural truths as an urgent and explicit counter-attack. Adopting a consciously international approach,the authors connect and compare their own story with those of similar design teaching movements in the Global South, such as the Barefoot School in India, and ZIVA, founded by Saki Mafunkikwa in Zimbabwe.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350162418

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The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg

The History of a Merchant Community in the Seventeenth Century

By: Hugo Martins

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The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg

The History of a Merchant Community in the Seventeenth Century

By: Hugo Martins

The political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its institutional dynamics, in an overall perspective never before conceived. The political, religious, economic, legal, charitable and disciplinary history of the community is thus explored through the analysis of the richly detailed protocol books, written between 1652 and 1682. This is the intimate and fascinating journey of their everyday lives, hopes and challenges, as brought to us by their leaders.

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9004685790

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Consciential Hygiene

Regaining Homeostasis in the Consciential Microuniverse

By: Eduardo Martins

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Consciential Hygiene

Regaining Homeostasis in the Consciential Microuniverse

By: Eduardo Martins

Strictly speakingthere are no sick peoplebut ignorant people. Based on this statementwe see consciential hygiene as a priority. (Waldo Vieira) The author proposes that we regain our homeostatic pattern for intermissive referencewhich is the maximu

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8584771166

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A Luta Continua (The Struggle Goes On) …!

The Life of Ernesto Fernandes Dudu: From FALINTIL Freedom Fighter to the Parliament of Timor-Leste

By: João S. Martins, MD, MPH, PhD,Helen M. Hill, BA (Horns), MA, PhD,Kayli Wild, PhD

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A Luta Continua (The Struggle Goes On) …!

The Life of Ernesto Fernandes Dudu: From FALINTIL Freedom Fighter to the Parliament of Timor-Leste

By: João S. Martins, MD, MPH, PhD,Helen M. Hill, BA (Horns), MA, PhD,Kayli Wild, PhD

Ernesto Fernandes Dudu is currently serving as a member of the National Parliament of Timor-Leste from Partido Democrático (PD). He is originally from Sub-district Hatolia, Municipality of Ermera. He was fi rst elected as a member of the National Parliament in the 2017 General Election and re-elected in the 2018 Early Election. Ernesto Fernandes Dudu is popularly known in Ermera and throughout Timor-Leste by his Nom de Guerre DUDU. Dudu has no formal schooling and is a low-profi le person but he has a very brilliant vision on issues related to politics and socio-cultural development in Timor-Leste and future directions for Timor-Leste. Dudu was a former FALINTIL commander from Region Four (Região Quatro) and one of the respected Commanders in the FALINTIL command structure.

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Airlangga University Press

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6024738854

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Marx, Spinoza and Darwin

Materialism, Subjectivity and Critique of Religion

By: Mauricio Vieira Martins

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Marx, Spinoza and Darwin

Materialism, Subjectivity and Critique of Religion

By: Mauricio Vieira Martins

Marx, Spinoza and Darwin presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors—certainly with differences among themselves—consolidated a field of investigation that does not resort to transcendent or religious premises in approaching the phenomena they analyze. Thus, when Spinoza declared that the “will of God” is the “sanctuary of ignorance,” when Marx provocatively maintained that “criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism,” or when Darwin polemicized against a millennial creationist approach, all were taking a stand that invited us to view our world through a secular and immanent lens. In addition to this common thread, Martins discusses other issues present in the works of these thinkers, for instance the space that exists for human subjectivity from a Marxist perspective (which is not to be confused with philosophical “objectivism”): men and women are encouraged to act in the world. With this conceptual background, the concluding chapters of the book address the proliferation of some less examined Christian fundamentalisms in contemporary world, presenting an explanatory hypothesis for the phenomenon.

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3031130251

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Lawfare

Waging War through Law

By: Cristiano Zanin Martins,Valeska Teixeira Zanin Martins,Rafael Valim

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Lawfare

Waging War through Law

By: Cristiano Zanin Martins,Valeska Teixeira Zanin Martins,Rafael Valim

This book examines one of the most emblematic cases of lawfare today: the criminal prosecution of former Brazilian President Lula. The authors argue that lawfare is not just a slogan or a game at the service of any one political ideology. Rather, it has to do with a complex, multifaceted phenomenon that should be carefully reflected upon in modern constitutional democracies, given that it is able to demolish majority rule and the rule of law. They contend it is the strategic use of the law with the purpose of delegitimizing, harming or annihilating an enemy. The literature specializing in the subject tends to alternate between analysis of only one aspect of the phenomenon or consists of extensive case studies. In order to fill this gap, this book revisits the subject and offers a sophisticated theoretical approach to lawfare, in an unprecedented combination of theory of war and theory of law. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and policy makers working in the areas of public law, international law, procedural law, anthropology of law and sociology of law, as well as political science and international relations.

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1000430685

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Science Education Towards Social and Ecological Justice

Provocations and Conversations

By: Matthew Weinstein,Chantal Pouliot,Isabel Martins,Ralph Levinson,Lyn Carter,Larry Bencze,Ajay Sharma

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Science Education Towards Social and Ecological Justice

Provocations and Conversations

By: Matthew Weinstein,Chantal Pouliot,Isabel Martins,Ralph Levinson,Lyn Carter,Larry Bencze,Ajay Sharma

This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States. The common goal of these educators is to produce more socially/ecologically just models and practices of science education. The book considers and reworks the key-terms of current social justice: agency, realism, justice, and power. Its first section explores re-inhabiting science in the quest for more just worlds including reterritorializing science within emergent theories of critical realism, engaging citizens activists with corporate science, and challenging neoliberalism and the forces that organize (structure) knowledge. The second section redefines praxis of science education itself through nuanced explorations of agency, decolonialism, and justice in ways that emphasize complexity, hybridity, ambivalence, and contradiction. The stories of this international group capture individual and collective efforts, motivated by a persistent sense that science and science education matter for questions of justice.

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3031393309

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STORIES TAKED AWAY BY THE MUD

Tragedy revealed by different views

By: Karen Myrna Castro Mendes Teixeira,Kélita Natália Ferreira,Marcelo Nogueira Londe,Jéssica Caroline Avelino de Souza,Monah Moreira Hilal,Nadia Paloma de Ávila,Tiago Henrique Santos de Oliveira,Daniele Paola Martins de Oliveira,Camila Cristina Azevedo Castro Teixeira,Lais Jardim,Eliana Bedeschi da Siveira e Silva,João Pedro Cita,Hugo Henrique Cardoso de Salis,Gianno Lopes Nepomuceno

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STORIES TAKED AWAY BY THE MUD

Tragedy revealed by different views

INTRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT AND CITIZENSHIP The environmental issues in the contemporary world are no longer limited to the private sector or public sector. Industry, commerce and governments are no longer the only agents interacting within the environment discussion. The current laws are not based on protection and essential attention on environmental issues and require the participation of an agent of paramount importance: the citizen. According to the dictionary, citizen is a person who is a member of a country and has rights or any performance of their duties to a state. The environmental problems that lead every day on our street, neighborhood, city, state, country, world and finally in our universe cannot be considered someone else’s problem. They are problems of each of us. The climate change or the global warming, for example, does not only threaten the planet, as if it were an event far from us. It threatens our own health. It threatens our food sources and sets a tragic scenario for future generations. Therefore, our participation as citizens are indispensable. We must be alert to everything that happens with the environment, our services and our fundamental role, as specialists of how apply the current environment legislation and the agencies who can act to assert this legislation. It is necessary for a consumer society to have aware citizens who require to industries and enterprises an ethical and transparent behavior regarding the environment. And if the citizen are aware of any harmful fact to the environment, that already happened or can potentially happen, so the citizen may denouce and engage in understanding and discussing that fact. It’s not the intention of this study to make a report or a political statement, but the effective participation of citizens that seek a better world. In this way local, regional and occasional actions that bring to the debate the repercussions of events that harm the environment and that provide an articulation of the communities and those involved are a solution to most of the existing problems. These problems, generally, do not still persist due to the absence of laws, but lack of interest and lack of knowledge of the people in a general way. If we discuss the present, it is because we had a past and we want to guarantee a future. Taking care of the environment,means participating. We have never had so many instruments and government agencies to help us in this long-lasting vigil for the environment. However, if due this complexity nothing can be done, so we may see environmental issues closer to us, such as deforestation, water pollution and aggression against fauna and flora. Bento Rodrigues is not only a tragedy to be reported, but an alert of the fragility and even absence of responsibility in the face of the silent and everyday transformations of our environment. Therefore the relevance of this work that seeks, through the indissociable relation between teaching, research and outreach, to give voice, color and text to this responsability. Emerson Luiz de Castro

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Nomos, Kosmos & Dike in Plutarch

By: José Ribeiro Ferreira,Delfim F. Leão,Carlos A. Martins de Jesus

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By: José Ribeiro Ferreira,Delfim F. Leão,Carlos A. Martins de Jesus

In September 2002, the University of Coimbra hosted, for the first time, a conference of the Réseau Thématique Plutarque, a research network created by several European universities in order to promote regular annual meetings of junior and senior scholars who share a common interest in Plutarch's work. The Coimbra meeting of 2002 was devoted to the fragments of Plutarch, and the results of that event were published one year later, in a volume edited by José Ribeiro Ferreira and Delfim Leão, under the title Os fragmentos de Plutarco e a recepção da sua obra (Coimbra, 2003). During the following years, many other universities organized conferences of the Réseau on a rotating basis, until the event came back to Coimbra, where the Portuguese section of the International Plutarch Society (SoPlutarco) hosted, from 16 to 18 June 2011, the twelfth meeting of the network, devoted this time to the subject "Nomos, kosmos and dike in Plutarch". The present volume comprises most of the contributions presented during the Coimbra meeting, after having been submitted to a process of revision, which involved the direct collaboration of the several regional sections of the Réseau. Although the volume kept the multilingual diversity of the participants in the conference, its structuring elements were composed in English, in order to reinforce the coherence of the book and to enlarge the number of potential readers.

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