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Postnormal Conservation
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Since their inception in the sixteenth century, botanic gardens have been embroiled with matters of governance. In Postnormal Conservation, Katja Grötzner Neves reveals that, throughout its long history, the botanical garden institution has been both a product and an enabler of modernity and the Westphalian nation-state. Initially intertwined with projects of colonialism and empire building, contemporary botanic gardens have reinvented themselves as environmental governance actors. They are now at the forefront of emerging forms of networked transnational governance. Building on social studies of science that reveal the politicization of science as the producer of contingent, high-stakes, and uncertain knowledge, and the concomitant politicization of previously taken-for-granted science-policy interfaces, Neves contends that institutions like botanic gardens have discursively deployed postnormal science and posthuman precepts to justify their growing involvement with biodiversity conservation governance within the Anthropocene.
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Experiments in Financial Democracy
A detailed historical description of the evolution of corporate governance and stock markets in Brazil in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Laws of Chance
Chronicles the first decades of an informal lottery called the jogo do bicho, or animal game, which originated in Rio de Janeiro in 1892, and remains popular in Brazil today.
Vovoh
Stories of a boy in his early teens and of a family deeply involved in Brazilian politics.
Opera in the Tropics
Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s. Author Rogério Budasz delves into the practices of the actors, singers, poets, and composers who created and performed Jesuit moral plays, Spanish comedias, and Portuguese vernacular operas and entremezes during the colonial period, as well as the Italian operas that celebrated the new independent nation in 1822. A Brazilian producer claimed in 1825 that the goal of music-theater was to instruct, entertain, and distract the population. Budasz argues that this threefold goal had in fact been present throughout the colonial period, in different combinations and with different...
Série Medalhas Da Polícia Militar Da Bahia
Através do Livro Medalha Conselheiro Almeida Couto, o leitor tomará conhecimento de parte da história do Corpo de Bombeiros da Polícia Militar da Bahia. A obra traz o decreto de criação da medalha, sua descrição e a Biografia do Conselheiro Almeida Couto, que foi Presidente da Província da Bahia.
Caetano José Munhoz
Este livro aborda a vida do ervateiro paranaense Caetano José Munhoz (1817-1877), investiga as suas origens familiares e refere-se aos seus descendentes, dentre os quais incluem-se ex-governadores do Paraná e outras figuras importantes da sociedade local. Durante mais de cem anos, a partir da terceira década do século XIX, essa sociedade teve no mate a sua principal fonte de riqueza. Caetano ocupou um lugar de relevo nas fases iniciais dessa atividade econômica. Ele foi o segundo a implantar engenho de erva mate no planalto curitibano. E o primeiro, em Curitiba, a utilizar o vapor como fonte de energia. Além de ervateiro, foi tenente-coronel da Guarda Nacional, exerceu por duas vezes o...
Domingos Caldas Barbosa
Precursor da música popular brasileira, o mulato Domingos Caldas Barbosa nasceu no Rio de Janeiro em 1740, serviu no Exército e estudou na Universidade de Coimbra. Em Portugal, destacou-se nos salões com seu estilo musical inovador, que incorporava ritmos trazidos do Brasil. Tinhorão rastreou exaustivamente vida e obra do autor, encontrando novos dados biográficos e escritos inéditos desta figura-chave da nossa cultura.
