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O Daime e a Santa Maria
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 141

O Daime e a Santa Maria

O leitor e a leitora têm em mãos um belíssimo e essencial livro, em que o autor, além de realizar uma importante pesquisa, traduz e informa ao público leigo e também aos/às iniciados/as da doutrina daimista importantes aspectos sobre a trajetória formativa das religiões de matriz daimistas/ayahuasqueiras presentes no Acre e que, aos poucos, foram se espalhando por outros estados e países. Seu foco mais geral é nas trajetórias dos Mestres fundadores Irineu Serra e padrinho Sebastião Mota e, em paralelo ao do Alto Santo e da Colônia Cinco Mil, em que o autor, nesta última, se demora com mais fôlego, pois é onde se desenrola seu foco de estudo mais apurado. É nessa localidade que o autor vai buscar e detalhar como outra planta sagrada chegou e foi sendo agregada às outras duas que são a essência da bebida: a Cannabis, ou Santa Maria, que se junta às folhas da Rainha e do cipó Jagube como plantas ensinadoras e reveladoras à comunidade. Este é um livro necessário e ousado, por tratar de uma temática sensível e ainda carregada de preconceitos e silenciamentos. Francisco Bento da Silva (Universidade Federal do Acre)

Tvx'15
  • Language: en

Tvx'15

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

TVX'15: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video Jun 03, 2015-Jun 05, 2015 Brussels, Belgium. You can view more information about this proceeding and all of ACM�s other published conference proceedings from the ACM Digital Library: http://www.acm.org/dl.

My Documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

My Documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-27
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  • Publisher: Penguin

The landmark first story collection from internationally acclaimed author Alejandro Zambra, now featuring five additional stories and an introduction by his longtime collaborator, Megan McDowell An early desktop computer becomes the third partner in a doomed relationship; an older brother figure whose father lives in exile imparts hilarious life lessons to his young protégé. A man attempts to quit smoking despite the fact that he’s very good at it; another masquerades as the family man he'll never be. Throughout, Pinochet’s dictatorship casts a long shadow, and men in relationships exhibit their profound capacity for both love and harm. In these unforgettable stories—which span religion, romance, technology, soccer, solitude, and more—Alejandro Zambra unfolds a radical literary reflection on life, relationships, and the tender and brutal dimensions of masculinity in Chile from the 1980s to the present. Intimate and playful, provocative and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award winning translator Megan McDowell, My Documents a testament to the necessity of literature even—and especially—in times of political and personal crisis.

Business Data Communications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 667

Business Data Communications

Business Data Communications, 6/e,covers the fundamentals of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security. Stallings presents these concepts in a way that relates specifically to the business environment and the concerns of business management and staff, structuring his text around requirements, ingredients, and applications.All of the material has been updated for the latest technologies and developments in the field, including: specifications of WiFi/IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, including 802.11n. IP; performance metrics and service level agreements (SLAs); Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gbps Ethernet standards; New unified communications concepts; expanded, enhanced security material; New online animations illustrate key functions and algorithms in OS design.Appropriate for professionals interested in business data communications.

Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts

Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new machine every 1-3 years, which adds up to mountains of waste computers. How should societies respond to manage these environmental impacts? This volume addresses the environmental impacts and management of computers through a set of analyses on issues ranging from environmental assessment, technologies for recycling, consumer behaviour, strategies of computer manufacturing firms, and government policies. One conclusion is that extending the lifespan of computers (e.g. through reselling) is an environmentally and economically effective strategy that deserves more attention from governments, firms and the general public.

Core Java for the Impatient
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Core Java for the Impatient

The release of Java SE 8 introduced significant enhancements that impact the Core Java technologies and APIs at the heart of the Java platform. Many old Java idioms are no longer required and new features like lambda expressions will increase programmer productivity, but navigating these changes can be challenging. Core Java® for the Impatient is a complete but concise guide to Java SE 8. Written by Cay Horstmann—the author of Java SE 8 for the Really Impatient and Core Java™, the classic, two-volume introduction to the Java language—this indispensable new tutorial offers a faster, easier pathway for learning the language and libraries. Given the size of the language and the scope of ...

Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 818

Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are increasingly appreciated as down-stream effectors of cellular damage and dysfunction under natural and anthropogenic stress scenarios in aquatic systems. This comprehensive volume describes oxidative stress phenomena in different climatic zones and groups of organisms, taking into account specific habitat conditions and how they affect susceptibility to ROS damage. A comprehensive and detailed methods section is included which supplies complete protocols for analyzing ROS production, oxidative damage, and antioxidant systems. Methods are also evaluated with respect to applicability and constraints for different types of research. The authors are all internationally recognized experts in particular fields of oxidative stress research. This comprehensive reference volume is essential for students, researchers, and technicians in the field of ROS research, and also contains information useful for veterinarians, environmental health professionals, and decision makers.

Singularity Rising
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Singularity Rising

In Ray Kurzweil's New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine. The Singularity is triggered by the tremendous growth of human and computing intelligence that is an almost inevitable outcome of Moore's Law. Since the book's publication, the coming of the Singularity is now eagerly anticipated by many of the leading thinkers in Silicon Valley, from PayPal mastermind Peter Thiel to Google co-founder Larry Page. The formation of the Singularity University, and the huge popularity of the Singularity website kurzweilai.com, speak to the importance of this intellectual move...

Soil Emission of Nitrous Oxide and its Mitigation
  • Language: en

Soil Emission of Nitrous Oxide and its Mitigation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

Nitrous oxide gas is a long-lived relatively active greenhouse gas (GHG) with an atmospheric lifetime of approximately 120 years, and heat trapping effects about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide per molecule basis. It contributes about 6% of observed global warming. Nitrous oxide is not only a potent GHG, but it also plays a significant role in the depletion of stratospheric ozone. This book describes the anthropogenic sources of N2O with major emphasis on agricultural activities. It summarizes an overview of global cycling of N and the role of nitrous oxide on global warming and ozone depletion, and then focus on major source, soil borne nitrous oxide emissions. The spatial-temporal variation of soil nitrous oxide fluxes and underlying biogeochemical processes are described, as well as approaches to quantify fluxes of N2O from soils. Mitigation strategies to reduce the emissions, especially from agricultural soils, and fertilizer nitrogen sources are described in detail in the latter part of the book.