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A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson
The twelve essays in A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson’s work, treating this prolific but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker, and social philosopher. From The Man Without a Face and Braveheart to The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge, this interdisciplinary collection mines Gibson’s life and oeuvre for insight into existential problems, Aristotelian virtues, the politics of film, interreligious dialogue, adaptation issues, and much more.
The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms
This edited collection provides a comprehensive and empirically informed discussion on affordances and their role in studying goal-directed behavior, covering philosophical, experimental psychological, neuroscientific, and applied perspectives. Showcasing the work of expert contributors from different backgrounds, the book inspires new directions for future research in affordances. Chapters address questions relating to the definition and perception of affordances, their advantages over stimuli, the relationship between affordances and behavior, and how systems engage with affordances in different tasks and intentions. This question-based format provides a distinctive perspective that allows...
Além do Rosa e do Azul
À medida que o homem se desenvolve, intelectualmente, vai desvendando e compreendendo as leis divinas que regem a vida dos seres humanos, e vai sendo obrigado a modificar os diversos conceitos que foram criados para dar sentido à sua vida e às normas estabelecidas para garantir sua sobrevivência, por reconhecer que tais regras ou normas são injustas e incapazes de promover a felicidade da maioria.No campo da sexualidade, os padrões de normalidade estabelecidos para o homem e para a mulher a partir das diferenças biológicas e do caráter reprodutor que lhe é inerente, já não são parâmetros capazes de criar normas que garantam, a todos os seres, as condições básicas para que el...
Classics in Total Synthesis
K.C. Nicolaou - Winner of the Nemitsas Prize 2014 in Chemistry This book is a must for every synthetic chemist. With didactic skill and clarity, K. C. Nicolaou and E. Sorensen present the most remarkable and ingenious total syntheses from outstanding synthetic organic chemists. To make the complex strategies more accessible, especially to the novice, each total synthesis is analyzed retrosynthetically. The authors then carefully explain each synthetic step and give hints on alternative methods and potential pitfalls. Numerous references to useful reviews and the original literature make this book an indispensable source of further information. Special emphasis is placed on the skillful use of graphics and schemes: Retrosynthetic analyses, reaction sequences, and stereochemically crucial steps are presented in boxed sections within the text. For easy reference, key intermediates are also shown in the margins. Graduate students and researchers alike will find this book a gold mine of useful information essential for their daily work. Every synthetic organic chemist will want to have a copy on his or her desk.
Apesar de tudo
A cidadezinha de Heras, perdida no interior do Rio Grande do Sul, movida pelos negócios agropecuários da família Fonseca, torna-se o cenário de uma história que atravessa vidas. O amor que surgiu entre Apolo e Ícaro no inicio do século XXI, outrora fora a tragédia de Heitor e Aquiles no passado. Duas histórias idênticas teriam o mesmo fim? Como a espiritualidade pode explicar a sexualidade e amores homoafetivos? Embarque agora para Heras e Alfazemas e venha montar a cronologia dessa história de amor emocionante, que apesar de tudo, venceu todos os preconceitos. "Apesar de Tudo" surgiu da busca do autor Daniel Guedes por respostas sobre a própria sexualidade. É errado ser gay com...
Cinema and Sacrifice
Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. It is on screen that the new grand narratives are sketched, the new myths rehearsed, and the old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalypses and the birth of new worlds. The contributors to this volume are not just scholars of film but also students of religion and literature, philosophers, ethicists, and political scientists, thus offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between cinema and sacrifice. They explore how cinema engages with sacrifice in its many forms and under different guises, and examine how the filmic constructions, reconstructions and misconstructions of sacrifice affect society, including its sacrificial practices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities.
HOMOSSEXUALIDADE
Como compreender o papel e significado dessa orientação sexual na vida dos homossexuais, de suas famílias e comunidades, numa perspectiva evolucionista?
Carbohydrate Chemistry
The understanding of the structure, recognition, and function of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates remains crucial in diverse areas at the interface of biology, chemistry and biotechnology and is driving innovation in biomedical and material sciences. This new volume contains original work and critical reviews covering the current state-of-the-art and scientific advances in carbohydrate research and demonstrates cross-disciplinary areas within the field of glycosciences. Most of the chapters are contributions from speakers of the 14th International Meeting of the Portuguese Carbohydrate Group – GLUPOR 14, held in Caparica, Lisbon in January 2023. GLUPOR international meetings have a long h...
