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International Human Rights Law and Practice
Now in its fourth edition, this well-respected textbook blends the theory of human rights with its context, debates and practice.
Creatures of the Air
An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art’s elemental medium, the air. Often experienced as universal and incorporeal, music seems an innocent art form. The air, the very medium by which music constitutes itself, shares with music a claim to invisibility. In Creatures of the Air, J. Q. Davies interrogates these claims, tracing the history of music’s elemental media system in nineteenth-century Atlantic worlds. He posits that air is a poetic domain, and music is an art of that domain. From West Central African ngombi harps to the European J. S. Bach revival, music expressed elemental truths in the nineteenth century. Creatures of the Air tells these truths through stories about suffocation and breathing, architecture and environmental design, climate strife, and racial turmoil. Contributing to elemental media studies, the energy humanities, and colonial histories, Davies shows how music, no longer just an innocent luxury, is implicated in the struggle for control over air as a precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology of the global nineteenth century and beyond.
Passion for History
The pathbreaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society and culture. She rescues men and women from oblivion using her unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence, and archival sleuthing to uncover the past. Davis brings to life a dazzling cast of extraordinary people, revealing their thoughts, emotions, and choices in the world in which they lived. Thanks to Davis we can meet the impostor Arnaud du Tilh in her classic, The Return of Martin Guerre, follow three remarkable lives in Women on the Margins, and journey alongside a traveler and scholar in Trickster Travels as he moves between the Muslim and Chr...
Made in Brazil
Made in Brazil: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century Brazilian popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of Brazilian music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Brazil. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Brazilian popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Brazil, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: Samba and Choro; History, Memory, and Representations; Scenes and Artists; and Music, Market and New Media.
Bumbás da Amazônia
A obra Bumbás da Amazônia: negritude, intelectuais e folclore (Pará, 1888-1943), de Antonio Maurício Costa, aborda o período que foi marcado por profunda transformação da cultura das classes populares e o modo como os intelectuais a interpretavam, considerando as interações entre sujeitos sociais na Amazônia brasileira. A partir do estudo dessas interações, o livro, em seus três capítulos, trata de um exemplo de história contemporânea da produção de significados acerca da noção de cultura popular, discutindo sobre os usos e as repercussões em torno de manifestações culturais produzidas por agentes das classes trabalhadoras.
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6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
This volume presents the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (MBEC2014), held in Dubrovnik September 7 – 11, 2014. The general theme of MBEC 2014 is "Towards new horizons in biomedical engineering" The scientific discussions in these conference proceedings include the following themes: - Biomedical Signal Processing - Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing - Biosensors and Bioinstrumentation - Bio-Micro/Nano Technologies - Biomaterials - Biomechanics, Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery - Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Endocrine Systems Engineering - Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering - Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Assessment - Health Informatics, E-Health and Telemedicine - Biomedical Engineering Education
Football Suburbano e Festivais Esportivos – Lazer e Sociabilidade Nos Clubes de Subúrbio em Belém do Pará (1920 – 1952)
O livro Football suburbano e festivais esportivos: lazer e sociabilidade nos clubes de subúrbio em Belém do Pará (1920-1952) trata de uma análise sobre a prática e a popularização do futebol a partir dos clubes de subúrbio, na capital paraense, durante os anos de 1920 a 1952. Um fato que se apresentou por meio da quantidade de clubes de futebol e a experiência dos sujeitos que participavam ativamente da construção do lazer e da prática esportiva nesse espaço urbano. O aumento do número de festivais juntamente ao trabalho da imprensa esportiva, a circulação de diversos grupos sociais, proporcionou, ao longo dos anos, a construção de um processo de popularização do football...
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