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Entangled Coercion

African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th–17th Century)

By: Paola A. Revilla Orías

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Entangled Coercion

African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th–17th Century)

By: Paola A. Revilla Orías

This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bolivia) in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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363

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110681080

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9783110681086

Ethics in Professional and Corporate Discourse

Linguistic Perspectives

By: Giuliana Elena Garzone,Paola Catenaccio

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Ethics in Professional and Corporate Discourse

Linguistic Perspectives

By: Giuliana Elena Garzone,Paola Catenaccio

Ethics. Whether explicit or implicit, it plays a key role in our lives, guiding our decisions and shaping our view of what the world – including the world of business – is or ought to be like. This volume provides a thorough description of the language that is used to encode ethics, to deal with ethical issues, and to express ethical values in business and professional discourses. It explores the relationship between ethics and ethos in a variety of professional and corporate texts and genres, and investigates the role and positioning of ethics in today’s cultural environment, shedding light on how it is negotiated vis-à-vis other values in the pursuit of business and professional goals. Thanks to its rigorous linguistic approach, the analysis fills a significant gap in the burgeoning scholarship on ethics in discourse, laying the ground for a better understanding of what ethical pronouncements do, linguistically and pragmatically.

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202

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Frank & Timme GmbH

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3732908062

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9783732908066

Jerusalem without God

Portrait of a Cruel City

By: Paola Caridi

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Jerusalem without God

Portrait of a Cruel City

By: Paola Caridi

There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large over the city's complex urban landscape and the diurnal rhythms and struggles that make up its earthbound existence. Nonetheless, writes Paola Caridi, in this intimate and hard-hitting portrayal of the city, it is possible to close one's eyes and, "like the blind listening to sounds," discern the conflict and plurality of belonging that mark out the city' secular character. Jerusalem without God leads the reader through the streets, malls, suburbs, traffic jams, and squares of Jerusalem's present moment, into the daily lives of the men and women who inhabit it. Caridi brings contemporary Jerusalem alive by describing it as a place of sights and senses, sounds and smells, but she also shows us a city riven by the harsh asymmetry of power and control embodied in its lines, limits, walls, and borders. She explores a cruel city, where Israeli and Palestinian civilians sometimes spend hours in the same supermarkets, only to return to the confines of their respective districts, invisible to each other; a city memorable for its ancient stones and shimmering sunsets but dotted with Israeli checkpoints, "postmodern drawbridges," that control the movement of people, ideas, and potential attackers. Describing Jerusalem through the lenses of urban planners and politicians, anthropologists and archaeologists, advertisers and scholars, Jerusalem without God reveals a city that is as diverse as it is complex, and ultimately, argues its author, one whose destiny cannot be tied to any single religious faith, tradition, or political ideology.

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179

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American University in Cairo Press

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1617977993

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9781617977992

La patria que viene

conversaciones sobre la libertad en Venezuela

By: Julio Borges,Paola Bautista de Alemán

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La patria que viene

conversaciones sobre la libertad en Venezuela

By: Julio Borges,Paola Bautista de Alemán

¿Cómo luce el país que estamos construyendo? Paola Bautista de Alemán y Julio Borges conversan sobre el tema a lo largo de 30 horas de entrevista. La experiencia de confrontarse al diario con el mal. Las ofertas de soborno político que traía desde el campo chavista José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. El ambiente verdadero de las negociaciones tras las puertas cerradas. El reto de explicarle a cuatro niños que se tienen que exiliar junto con sus padres. Las historias detrás de la inédita experiencia del gobierno interino. Julio Borges tiene muchas cosas que contar, y las cuenta en este libro derivado de 30 horas de diálogo con la profesora Paola Bautista de Alemán. Quien fuera hasta hace poco líder nacional de Primero Justicia, presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, negociador de la oposición y canciller del gobierno interno reflexiona sobre los cinco años en los que pasamos de una enorme ola de protestas a una falsa constituyente, la anulación de un revocatorio, el comienzo de un régimen ilegítimo y la inédita experiencia de un gobierno transitorio con representación pero sin poder. Un ciclo de eventos que serían demasiado para cualquier clase política, más si se encuentra sometida a persecución, cárcel y exilio. Sobre la política y la situación venezolana, aún queda mucha tela por cortar. Hay muchos libros sobre lo que ha ocurrido en Venezuela, pero muy pocos contienen un conocimiento directo de la situación política, y menos aún un testimonio desde el ojo del huracán como el que trae aquí Julio Borges. Un texto imprescindible para entender el país del presente y para pensar en su reconstrucción democrática. Otros títulos relacionados en Editorial Dahbar: Venezuela fracturada de Iván Darío Jiménez y Doble Crimen, de Linda Loayza López y Luisa Kislinger.

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191

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Dahbar

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9804250926

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9789804250927

Basketball Data Science

With Applications in R

By: Paola Zuccolotto,Marica Manisera

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Basketball Data Science

With Applications in R

By: Paola Zuccolotto,Marica Manisera

Using data from one season of NBA games, Basketball Data Science: With Applications in R is the perfect book for anyone interested in learning and applying data analytics in basketball. Whether assessing the spatial performance of an NBA player's shots or doing an analysis of the impact of high pressure game situations on the probability of scoring, this book discusses a variety of case studies and hands-on examples using a custom R package. The codes are supplied so readers can reproduce the analyses themselves or create their own. Assuming a basic statistical knowledge, Basketball Data Science with R is suitable for students, technicians, coaches, data analysts and applied researchers. Features: One of the first books to provide statistical and data mining methods for the growing field of analytics in basketball Presents tools for modelling graphs and figures to visualize the data Includes real world case studies and examples, such as estimations of scoring probability using the Golden State Warriors as a test case Provides the source code and data so readers can do their own analyses on NBA teams and players

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245

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CRC Press

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0429894260

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9780429894268

University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

By: Ole Skovsmose,Paola Valero,Ole Ravn Christensen

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University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

By: Ole Skovsmose,Paola Valero,Ole Ravn Christensen

More than ever, our time is characterised by rapid changes in the organisation and the production of knowledge. This movement is deeply rooted in the evolution of the scientific endeavour, as well as in the transformation of the political, economic and cultural organisation of society. In other words, the production of scientific knowledge is changing both with regard to the internal development of science and technology, and with regard to the function and role science and technology fulfill in society. This general social context in which universities and knowledge production are placed has been given different names: the informational society, the knowledge society, the learning society, the post-industrial society, the risk society, or even the post-modern society. A common feature of different characterisations of this historic time is the fact that it is a period in construction. Parts of the world, not only of the First World but also chunks of the Developing World, are involved in these transformations. There is a movement from former social, political and cultural forms of organisation which impact knowledge production into new forms. These forms drive us into forms of organisation that are unknown and that, for their very same complexity, do not show a clear ending stage. Somehow the utopias that guided the ideas of development and progress in the past are not present anymore, and therefore the transitions in the knowledge society generate a new uncertain world. We find ourselves and our universities to be in a transitional period in time. In this context, it is difficult to avoid considering seriously the challenges that such a complex and uncertain social configuration poses to scientific knowledge, to universities and especially to education in mathematics and science. It is clear that the transformation of knowledge outside universities has implied a change in the routes that research in mathematics, science and technology has taken in the last decades. It is also clear that in different parts of the world these changes have happened at different points in time. While universities in the "New World" (the American Continent, Africa, Asia and Oceania) have accommodated their operation to the challenges of the construction in the new world, in many European countries universities with a longer existence and tradition have moved more slowly into this time of transformation and have been responding at a less rapid pace to environmental challenges. The process of tuning universities, together with their forms of knowledge production and their provision of education in science and mathematics, with the demands of the informational society has been a complex process, as complex as the general transformation undergoing in society. Therefore an understanding of the current transitions in science and mathematics education has to consider different dimensions involved in such a change. Traditionally, educational studies in mathematics and science education have looked at changes in education from within the scientific disciplines and in the closed context of the classroom. Although educational change in the very end is implemented in everyday teaching and learning situations, other parallel dimensions influencing these situations cannot be forgotten. An understanding of the actual potentialities and limitations of educational transformations are highly dependent on the network of educational, cultural, administrative and ideological views and practices that permeate and constitute science and mathematics education in universities today. This book contributes to understanding some of the multiple aspects and dimensions of the transition of science and mathematics education in the current informational society. Such an understanding is necessary for finding possibilities to improve science and mathematics education in universities all around the world. Such a broad approach to the transitions happening in these fields has not been addressed yet by existing books in the market.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387098291

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9780387098296

Book's by Paola Valero

Entangled Coercion

Entangled Coercion

Ethics in Professional and Corporate Discourse

Ethics in Professional and Corporate Discourse

Jerusalem without God

Jerusalem without God

La patria que viene

La patria que viene

Basketball Data Science

Basketball Data Science

University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

University Science and Mathematics Education in Transition

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