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Presente no cotidiano, nos sonhos, nas fantasias, nos mitos, nos contos, no folclore e nas artes, o animal é uma das imagens mais poderosas para o ser humano, tanto em seu universo externo quanto no interno. Pela compreensão de suas relações com esse domínio, o leitor terá em suas mãos uma chave para autocompreender-se e entender o mundo em que vive. Perceberá, então, como a relação homem–animal–ambiente compõe uma unidade indissolúvel e indispensável ao equilíbrio, seja ele o do organismo individual, o ecológico ou o das nossas sociedades. Só agora a humanidade desperta para a força dessas ligações e começa a entender seu profundo e rico significado.
Technological innovation continues to be present in all areas of our lives, offering seemingly endless possibilities. As technology is increasingly implemented in healthcare applications, it is necessary to understand whether users respond to a predefined organizational strategy of model of care or whether they will become wholly dependent on the healthcare technology. This understanding is especially crucial when dealing with the possibility of generating inequities, especially with individuals that are elderly. Exploring the Role of ICTs in Healthy Aging is a collection of innovative research that proposes the detailed study of a strategic framework for the development of technological inn...
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
Num momento em que a definição de família sofre diversas transformações, nada mais importante que compreender as novas dinâmicas relacionais e afetivas por que passam seus membros. Refletindo sobre o tema pelo viés da abordagem junguiana, as autoras aqui reunidas – membros do Núcleo de Terapia de Casal e Família da Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia Analítica – produziram uma obra abrangente e multifacetada, fundamental para estudantes e profissionais da área. Dividido em duas partes – "Diferentes olhares sobre os relacionamentos amorosos: encontros e desencontros" e "O casal nos diferentes ciclos de vida" –, o livro trata de assuntos como: a individuação conjugal; os re...
Revista Trip. Um olhar criativo para a diversidade, em reportagens de comportamento, esportes de prancha, cultura pop, viagens, além dos ensaios de Trip Girl e grandes entrevistas
This book by the award-winning team of photographer Geoff Manasse and writer Jean Swallow, portrays a new kind of family formed by gays and lesbians. The authors travelled all over America, talking with gay men and lesbians, those with children and without, young and old, with mixed families and blended families, broken and healed families.In a photojournalistic style, you are introduced to people through family life events, including birth and a birthday celebration, Granny visiting, a wedding, working together, a retirement dinner, quiet moments at home, Christmas at home, getting ready for a dinner for friends, preparing for death and living through mourning.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Gerotechnology, IWoG 2018, held in Cáceres, Spain on December 14, 2018, and in Évora, Portugal, on December 17, 2018. The 24 revised full papers along with 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions.The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge management for health: context, cognition, behavior and user modeling; technologies to increase the quality of life of the elderly population; Internet of Things (IoT); smarts technologies and algorithms for health; monitoring and management of chronic and non-chronic diseases;solutions for active aging, social integration and self-care; health interventions to support caregivers of elderly people; public health initiatives.