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Unser Wissen über Brasilien beschränkt sich oft auf festgetretene Klischees: Strand, Samba, Fußball und leider auch Abholzung des Regenwalds, Gewalt, Korruption und Rassismus. Dabei hat das "Land der Zukunft" (Stefan Zweig) viel mehr zu bieten. Seit Jahren nehmen die Wirtschaftskraft und das politische Gewicht Brasiliens beständig zu. Andreas Nöthen schreibt über die politische Polarisierung, Bevölkerungsgruppen und Religionsgemeinschaften, über Wirtschaft und Kultur, über das Amazonasgebiet, über Korruptionsbekämpfung, über Milizen und Kriminalität, und über die geschichtlichen Wurzeln der Konflikte. In vierzehn Kapiteln zeichnet er ein gleichermaßen faszinierendes wie fundie...
Adding to a vitally important cycle of publications covering the latest research developments in our understanding of neoplasms affecting the human central nervous system, this edition focuses on numerous aspects of pineal, pituitary, and spinal tumors. As with the previous volumes in the series, this latest work addresses a central imperative in cancer research—the need to standardize classifications, written definitions and investigative guidelines in order to achieve a measure of shared objectivity among academics engaged in one of the most important medical endeavors of our era. It brings together the very latest work by oncologists, neurosurgeons, physicians, research scientists, and ...
The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience brings together the leading developmental cognitive neuroscientists in the field that work on understanding human development, and the complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and brain maturational factors that shape social and cognitive functioning in development. It includes chapters on new, emerging research areas that show promise for understanding both brain and behaviour in development, such as nutrition and the microbiome gut-brain axis and sleep. Looking beyond early developmental changes, this handbook also places importance on the period of adolescence, which is an important developmental juncture. By assuming complex...
Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alli...
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