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Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels
Biofuels are currently in the middle of a heated academic and public policy debate. Biofuel production has increased fivefold in the past decade and is expected to further double by 2020. Most of this expansion will happen in developing nations. This volume is the first of its kind, providing a comprehensive overview of the biofuel debate in developing countries. The chapters are written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, exposing the key drivers and impacts of biofuel production and use. The book covers impacts as diverse as air pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, energy security, food security, greenhouse gas emissions, land use change, rural development, water consumption and other socioeconomic issues. Its wide focus accommodates examples from countries in Africa, America and Asia. As such, this book will become an indispensable companion to academics, practitioners and policy makers who wish to know more about biofuel issues in the developing world.
The Good Earth Trilogy
The Pulitzer Prize–winning classic novel of China, together with its two sequels—by the Nobel Prize winner. The Good Earth is Buck’s classic, Pulitzer Prize–winning story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—the very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wang’s family cherish the estate after he’s gone? The family’s story continues in Sons and A House Divided, when the Revolution sweeping through China further unsettles Wang Lung’s family in this rich and unforgettable portrait of a family and a country in the throes of widespread national change.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Empire in Transition
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the m...
A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji’s new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast distances to argue that this leap was preceded by a long era of distinct “commercial capitalism”, which reorganised labor and production on a world scale to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated. Rather than a picture centred solely on Europe, we enter a diverse and vibrant world. Banaji reveals the cantons of Muslim merchants trading in Guangzhou since the eighth century, the 3,000 European traders recorded in Alexandria in 1216, the Genoese, Venetians and Spanish Jews battling for commercial dominance of Constantinople and later Istanbul. We are left with a rich and global portrait of a world constantly in motion, tied together and increasingly dominated by a pre-industrial capitalism. The rise of Europe to world domination, in this view, has nothing to do with any unique genius, but rather a distinct fusion of commercial capitalism with state power.
O mo(n)struário de João do Rio
João Paulo Emílio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, ou “João do Rio”, publica em 1911 uma coletânea de contos, intitulada Dentro da noite, que revela uma clara inclinação de natureza estética aos trabalhos de escritores icônicos do decadentismo europeu, contendo vasto grupo de tipos e arquétipos comuns à cultura finissecular carioca. Através das histórias descontínuas e de aspecto fragmentário de Dentro da noite, busca-se compreender as indagações, expectativas, frustrações e agonias do burguês moderno, peça ícone da Belle Époque do Rio de Janeiro, indivíduo que não encontra em lugar algum uma alma solidária disposta a dividir o peso sufocante da existência...
O papel do professor para uma sociedade inclusiva
Este livro apresenta uma coletânea de textos que discutem o papel do professor em face do processo educacional inclusivo, apontando os desafios e as perspectivas para a equidade social. Para tanto, em uma abordagem híbrida, as discussões estão estruturadas a partir de concepções teóricas, filosóficas e metodológicas de corpo, sociedade, arte, língua e cultura, que, centradas no papel e na formação dos educadores, defendem a urgência de se pensar a valorização da diversidade humana no cotidiano educacional. Nessa perspectiva, os autores tecem reflexões sobre a atuação do professor para uma sociedade inclusiva no âmbito da educação do campo; da expressão artística e corp...
