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This book provides an in-depth account of military operations against drug gangs and organizations in two of the biggest countries in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico. Recent studies on drug wars have detailed case studies on the war on drugs but do not focus on the role of the army in such policies. Publications that do drive attention to the military in such situations are usually from human rights organizations or the press and are therefore not scholarly works. There are therefore no recent academic books dealing with the role of the military in the fight against drugs in Latin America. This book aims to fill this gap. It also offers an empirical and theoretical examination of the issue of the role of the military (rather than the police) on national soil—the army being generally devoted to interventions abroad, and the police, to law enforcement on the national ground. The book is also the first work to look at high-level negotiations between military and civilian elites that define the conditions for the use of force during military operations. It provides a theoretically informed understanding of contemporary security politics in Brazil and Mexico.
O conhecimento externado nos capítulos desta publicação é oriundo de diferentes perspectivas metodológicas, uma característica marcante e rica da abordagem interdisciplinar. Na primeira seção da obra, são enfocados questionamentos de grande atualidade sobre games e pensamento computacional, sobre o auxílio para o ensino-aprendizagem da linguagem de sinais e sobre a manifestação da transmídia. A segunda parte do livro explora a aplicação de mapas cognitivos e o estudo metódico da acessibilidade a surdos. A terceira seção é reservada a pesquisas com grande potencial de aplicação prática propiciada pelos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. Em seguida, a quarta parte do livro explica diretrizes de acessibilidade para objetos de aprendizagem na Web e apresenta estudos sobre o acesso móvel. Para contribuir com este corpo de estudos, o design de hipermídia e interface é explicado de modo claro e crítico na quinta e última seção.
Esta obra apresenta o resultado de estudos de vanguarda sobre o fenômeno da gamificação no contexto educacional. Cabe recordar que os princípios fundamentais dos jogos vêm sendo aplicados no aprendizado de pessoas desde os primórdios da civilização, muito antes do surgimento das primeiras escolas, como um modo de estimular e comunicar o acerto ou a necessidade de correção em valores e condutas sociais. Esta importante obra converge diferentes perspectivas, porém todas atendendo demandas reais da sociedade brasileira com relação ao aprendizado acessível. Nesse sentido, convido à leitora e ao leitor a perceber a ênfase que é dada à aplicabilidade dos conceitos aqui apresentados. Prof. Dr. Adriano Heemann
This expansive and practical textbook contains organic chemistry experiments for teaching in the laboratory at the undergraduate level covering a range of functional group transformations and key organic reactions.The editorial team have collected contributions from around the world and standardized them for publication. Each experiment will explore a modern chemistry scenario, such as: sustainable chemistry; application in the pharmaceutical industry; catalysis and material sciences, to name a few. All the experiments will be complemented with a set of questions to challenge the students and a section for the instructors, concerning the results obtained and advice on getting the best outcome from the experiment. A section covering practical aspects with tips and advice for the instructors, together with the results obtained in the laboratory by students, has been compiled for each experiment. Targeted at professors and lecturers in chemistry, this useful text will provide up to date experiments putting the science into context for the students.
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
This book is about how the distribution of income changes during the process of income development. Understanding development and the process of poverty reduction requires understanding not only how total income grows but also how its distribution behaves over time. The authors propose a decomposition of differences in entire distributions of household incomes, shedding new light on the powerful, and often conflicting, forces that underpin the changes in poverty and inequality that accompany the process of economic development. This approach is applied to three East Asian countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia, and China -- and to four in Latin America -- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.
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