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Social Representations for the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives
The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in everyday life and is an effective way to deal with systemic crises based on common sense. This book assembles key contributions by Latin American scholars working with social representations in the social sciences that are of conceptual relevance to the study of the Anthropocene and that investigate the societal consequences of complex interrelations between common sense and topics of global relevance, such asthe contradiction...
Always You
If you love You've Got Mail and To Sir, With Love you'll love this sweet twist on a romantic classic! Always You is a sweet secret identity romance with a cinnamon roll hero, a reluctant heroine, and their long penpal relationship! It can be read as a standalone story and has a guaranteed happy ending! She longs for the man who’s been writing to her for fifteen years. He wishes he could tell her it’s him. Can they come to the truth before it’s too late? Simon Ackerley arrives in Lisbon for his temporary job as a consultant, not expecting to find his secret penpal easily. After all, he doesn’t know what she looks like or what her real name is. But when a biking accident reveals that S...
Coisas da Vida - II Volume
Quando é expectável que eu diga a minha idade, respondo lentamente: 162 anos. As pessoas riem. Explico que em cada dia da minha vida vivenciei o dobro do tempo. Além de intensas actividades profissionais, tenho tido um percurso de fusão com as letras em Paixão perene. Escrever no Jornal da Marinha Grande é honroso e gratificante, porque espero chegar a vós, todas as semanas. Gosto de reflectir, de me esforçar por encontrar temas do vosso interesse, de vos dar a conhecer renovadas atitudes mentais e comportamentos mais saudáveis. Para atingir este desiderato o texto semanal é volátil no espaço, efémero no tempo. Assim, editar este livro corresponde ao meu desejo de comunicar convosco de forma palpável e disponível, com a vantagem de ser um objecto de partilha para mostrar e para discutir. Aqui vos deixo este fruto do meu Amor, de todo o coração. A Autora, Isabel Antunes
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constit...
Geochronology
Chronology is the backbone of history, and there is a wise saying stating there is no history without a chronology. Earths evolutionary history is built up by geochronology, i.e. time benchmarks upon which the geological history is built up step by step over its total time period of about 4.5 billion years. The first marker in this history is the Jack Hills zircon from Australia dated at about 4.4 GA. The most detailed records come from seasonal changes within annual varves. Stratigraphy provides the basic chronological ordering of layers by layers, units by units, fossil assemblage by assemblage, varves by varves, growth zone by growth zone, etc. The radiometric techniques implied the introduction of absolute age determinations. This book includes a combination of methodological presentations and related case studies, from where we learn about practical problems and achievements. Therefore, the book should be of basic interest both for scientists in their practical in field and laboratory, as well as for general educational purpose.
The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross
Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, Mello e Souza reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and magical religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on sorcery, the author argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians and African slaves to form a uniquely Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the colony. Her work shows how the In...
One Small Chance
One city of two million people and only three months to find her. What are his chances?When Isabel Antunes is hit by a man on a bike, she's glad she won't be seeing him again. Then she learns he boss just hired him. Despite the guy's repeated assurances to the contrary, Isabel believes he's after her position, but she won't hand it over without a fight. As if that's not enough, he's a member of the same church she joined a few months ago and she can't get away from him on the weekends either. Simon Ackerley is in Lisbon, Portugal, as a consultant for an English-only private academy. He doesn't speak any Portuguese but he's enjoying the city and his new job, despite a co-worker who's bent on treating him as the enemy. But when he discovers a clue to her identity, Simon realizes there is so much more at stake than just a pleasant working environment. If only he could tell her the real reason why he's come, he's sure Isabel would treat him differently. But he knows she's not ready for the truth.
Swimming the Christian Atlantic
Drawing heavily on Inquisition sources, this book rereads the the nexus of politics, race and religion among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth-century Iberian Atlantic world: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians.
