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Caminhos do pensamento Social Brasileiro
Derivada de debates realizados pelo NETSIB – UFES, a Coleção Pensamento Social Brasileiro reúne textos de pesquisadores interessados nas relações entre intelectuais, cultura e democracia contribuindo decisivamente para a área de estudos do pensamento social brasileiro, em uma rara combinação de linguagem acessível e rigor científico.
Economia, Estado e sociedade
Este livro é fruto dos debates realizados no II Seminário de Pensamento Social Brasileiro – intelectuais, cultura e democracia, cujos autores, gentilmente, se dispuseram a encarar o desafio de compartilhar suas reflexões com público mais amplo, agora em formato de livro.
Globalizations from Below
Globalizations from Below uses a Constructivist International Relations approach that emphasizes the centrality of normative power to analyze and compare the four globalizations ‘from below.’ These are: (1) the counter-hegemonic globalization represented by the ‘movement of movements’ of alter-globalization transnational social activists, who try to put an end to the Neoliberal nature of the Western-centered globalization ‘from above’; (2) the non-hegemonic globalization enacted by ‘ant traders’ that are part of the transnational informal economy; (3) the partially similar Chinese-centered globalization, whose entrepreneurial migrants are strongly influenced and instrumentali...
Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil
Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwi...
Contrarreformas ou revolução
A obra discute a crise capitalista e das medidas que têm sido usadas para recuperá-lo, sob a supremacia do capital financeiro. Evidencia a profunda reforma regressiva e antidemocrática do Estado e seu caráter de classe, desvelando as estratégias ultraliberais que subordinam os países periféricos ao sistema financeiro internacional e atacam os direitos dos trabalhadores. Aborda também as formas contemporâneas de organização e resistência dos setores subalternos em nível nacional e internacional.
Contemporary Advances in Sports Science
Sports are very important and help people increase mobility, optimize performance, and reduce their risk of disease. Sporting activities can have beneficial social, cultural, economic, and psychological effects on health, wellbeing, and the environment. As such, this book discusses a range of principles, methods, techniques, and tools to provide the reader with a clear knowledge of variables improving sports’ performance processes. Over three sections, chapters consider physical, mechanical, physiological, psychological, and biomechanical aspects of sports performance, sports science, human posture, and musculoskeletal disorders.
Cuaderno urbano 18 - Espacio, cultura, sociedad
Cuaderno urbano es una publicación científica con arbitraje internacional dirigida a la difusión de artículos y ensayos que se ocupan desde las disciplinas científicas a la cuestión urbana -en el sentido más amplio del término-, combinando trabajos de caracteres empíricos, teóricos y ensayísticos que den cuenta de problemáticas locales, regionales y universales. La intención de la publicación es favorecer y promover la generación de ensayos y artículos de jóvenes investigadores con las reglas del arbitraje científico, colaborando en la producción editorial de sus ideas; como también divulgar el aporte de científicos ya consagrados en su especialidad disciplinar. Proponem...
Whose Reality Counts?
This book is a sequel to Rural development : putting the last first (AL. 1719, BRN 32006). It explores methods and approaches of participatory rural appraisal (PRA), which, because of its wide application, should, according to the author, be changed to participatory learning and action (PLA).
Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making
This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.Part I is concerned with Decision Making Under Uncertainty. This includes subsections on Arbitrage, Utility Theory, Risk Aversion and Static Portfolio Theory, and Stochastic Dominance. Part II is concerned with Dynamic Modeling that is the transition for static decision making to multiperiod decision making. The analysis starts with Risk Measures and then discusses Dynamic Portfolio Theory, Tactical Asset Allocation and Asset-Liability Manageme...
