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MLPA, a Igreja no banco dos réus da ditadura
No coração da Amazônia, um cenário de intensos conflitos políticos e sociais é desvendado em "MLPA, a Igreja no banco dos réus da ditadura". Durante o regime militar brasileiro, a região do Araguaia se tornou um palco de embates entre os posseiros, a Igreja Católica e o governo autoritário. Este livro mergulha nas histórias de resistência e repressão, destacando o papel crucial dos padres católicos que se aliaram aos posseiros em defesa de seus direitos à terra. A narrativa explora a complexa teia de relações de poder na Amazônia, revelando como a Ditadura Militar tentou silenciar vozes dissidentes e controlar os recursos naturais da região. Através de documentos históri...
Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015
The four-volume set LNCS 9296-9299 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015, held in Bamberg, Germany, in September 2015. The 74 full and short papers and 4 organizational overviews, 2 panels, 6 tutorials, and 11 workshops included in the fourth volume are organized in topical sections on tangible and tactile interaction; tools for design; touch and haptic; user and task modelling; visualization; visualization 3D; visualization in virtual spaces; wearable computing; demonstrations; and interactive posters.
Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015
The four-volume set LNCS 9296-9299 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015, held in Bamberg, Germany, in September 2015. The 47 papers included in the second volume are organized in topical sections on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; end-user development; evaluation methods / usability evaluation; eye tracking; gesture interaction; HCI and security; HCI for developing regions and social development; HCI for education.
Race and Human Rights
These essays examine the historical and intellectual context of the debate over human rights in the post-9/11 world. Contributors address the racial implications of the U.S. global war on terror (e.g., damning "The Patriot Act"), immigration policies and affirmative action cases. They argue that dialog about human rights in the U.S. must include equal rights for all residents. One expert on race relations calls for enlisting the Religious Right to the cause of racial justice (harking back to abolitionists)--Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Afro-Atlantic Histories
A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where Afr...
The Jews of Jamaica
Centuries of Jewish Life are revealed in the terse inscriptions recorded in this book, most engraved by local non-Jewish masons. The brief data they present give the story of Jewish settlement in this Caribbean Island at the gateway to the New World. It is the story of brave entrepreneurs who sought to build a fresh life for themselves and their people and to create a bridge between the Old World and the New. The stones are sometimes the only historical source recording the existence of the individuals and their achievements. For this reason these inscriptions are important as a unique historical source for Jewish History.
Jurandy Valença
Carcara Photo Art's Brazilian Photography collection presents Jurandy Valença. In his own words: “I create images, I don’t create photographs. My production comes from everyday references. The main issue in my work is time. The memory.”
Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation
"An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiled conversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet; In this skillful and well-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the Portuguese Jews . . . who settled in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century." —Sixteenth Century Journa Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, and literary works, among other sources, Miriam Bodian tells the moving story of how Portuguese "new Christian" immigrants in 17th-century Amsterdam fashioned a close and cohesive community that recreated a Jewish religious identity while retaining its Iberian heritage.
