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A odisseia da filosofia
"Foi por conta do espanto e do assombro que a humanidade começou a filosofar e o faz até hoje." ― Aristóteles, em Metafísica O espanto foi a reação de nossos antepassados quando começaram a perceber o mundo que os rodeava – um mundo tão lógico, mas ao mesmo tempo tão inexplicável. A estranheza diante dessa incoerente coerência humana fez nascerem os mitos. Mas quando os mitos já não satisfaziam as mentes mais irrequietas, o esforço em decifrar essa estranheza fez surgir a filosofia. Neste livro, você encontrará o espanto e a maravilha que impulsionaram a história do pensamento ocidental – dos tempos de Tales de Mileto até o século 21. Agora em nova edição revisada e ampliada, A odisseia da filosofia dedica cada uma de suas doze partes a uma era da filosofia e seus principais pensadores, debatendo as respostas que cada um apresentou para as perguntas mais elementares: em que consiste este mundo? E o que fazemos nele?
Francisco Botelho
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From Ecology to Brain Development: Bridging Separate Evolutionary Paradigms
The nervous system is the product of biological evolution and is shaped by the interplay between extrinsic factors determining the ecology of animals, and by intrinsic processes that dictate the developmental rules that give rise to adult functional structures. This special topic is oriented to develop an integrative view from behavior and ecology to neurodevelopmental processes. We address questions such as how do sensory systems evolve according to ecological conditions? How do neural networks organize to generate adaptive behavior? How does cognition and brain connectivity evolve? What are the developmental mechanisms that give rise to functional adaptation? Accordingly, the book is divid...
Nix
Autor narra com humor a saga de um protagonista atormentado pelo passado da própria família. Em seu elogiado romance de estreia, Nathan Hill conta o drama tragicômico de Samuel Anderson, um escritor fracassado obrigado a lidar com antigas feridas, reabertas pelo inesperado ressurgimento da mãe, Faye, que abandonou a família quando ele era criança. Faye é acusada de um crime absurdo registrado em um vídeo que viraliza na internet. A surpresa de Samuel é ainda maior ao perceber que, ao contrário da imagem de boa moça que se casou cedo com o namoradinho da escola, a mídia passa a retratá-la como uma hippie radical de passado sórdido. Engraçado e inteligente, Nix apresenta uma trama ao mesmo tempo contemporânea e atemporal, ao abordar, através de gerações, as dores cíclicas de uma família que mal se conhece.
Strangers Within
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin--prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters--between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries The New Christian elite of Jewish origin were at the forefront of early modern globalisation from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Either forced to convert to Christianity or descended from those who were, these Iberian traders, merchants, and bankers with links to the academic world and liberal professions played a pivotal role in intercontinental trade for two centuries--only to decline, and virtually disappear as an ethnic elite, by the mid-1700s. In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt offers a comprehensi...
Satyra
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Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662)
Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662) is a fundamental new contribution to the history of Tangier, a dynamically expanding Moroccan port on the south shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. The book offers a “virtual archaeology” of the Portuguese urban fabric heritage--both vanished and preserved--in Tangier's médina, the walled Old Town. Solidly grounded in archival sources and profoundly revisionist, Portuguese Tangier alters our image of the médina to an unexpected extent. Yet it makes no claim to being "definitive" in any sense -- on the contrary, it is no more than a starting point. The volume stands at a critical intersection of well-known documents, recently located sources, and those that ...
The Making of an Enterprise
Based on more than two decades of research conducted on five continents, this monumental work focuses on the activities of members of the Society of Jesus from its foundation to the eve of its expulsion from the Portuguese world. A second volume will examine the Orders expulsion, the fate of its members, and the disposition of its assets in Portugal and her empire from 1750 to 1808. The present volume begins with the Societys introduction to Portugal and traces its expansion throughout what the Society defined as the Portuguese Assistancy, a vast complex of administrative units that included the kingdom of Portugal and her empire plus portions of the Indian subcontinent, Japan, China, th...
