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La Vie d'une vache
Quoi de tel pour comprendre un pays que d'en épouser les passions ? Lorsqu'il arrive en Argentine, Juan Pablo Meneses découvre le rituel de l'asado, la grillade, et de toute la culture carnivore qui l'entoure. Pour s'immerger au plus profond de ce pays, l'auteur-journaliste se lance dans l'industrie de la viande en achetant... une vache. La Negra. Avec cette jeune génisse, il convainc un producteur bovin de devenir son associé, il se rend dans les abattoirs et les chambres froides du pays, et arrive à être invité sur des plateaux de télé. Toute son enquête au pas lent et calme d'une vache, pour cerner l'âme d'un pays fou de viande, mais aussi pour interroger ses modes de production, de consommation et sur son avenir de plus en plus remis en cause.
The EU as a Children’s Rights Actor
This edited collection critiques, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the growing body of EU children’s rights activities in the light of broader political, economic and legal processes. Specifically, it interrogates whether EU intervention effectively responds to what are perceived as violations of children’s rights and the extent to which EU efforts to uphold children’s rights complement and reinforce parallel national and international pursuits. Moreover, it scrutinises the compatibility of EU children’s rights measures with the principles and provisions enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
To What Extent?
The athlete as a commodity to be bought or sold to make a profit and the athlete as a machine, from which the maximum possible performance is expected. It is in these two metaphors that the phenomenon known internationally as football trafficking has its roots, a definition that includes both cases of trafficking and human trafficking in football. The problem, which affects thousands of young people from economically poor areas, is also widespread in other sports. The most popular narrative attributes the blame to self-styled agents and intermediaries, who take advantage of the lack of education of young people who see football and sport as their only possibility of social mobility. However, the reality is much more complex, with responsibilities shared by all the players in the system - clubs, the media, federations and national and international political institutions and, sometimes, even the families of the children involved.
Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality
In this concise and detailed work, Salim Lamrani addresses questions of media concentration and corporate bias by examining a perennially controversial topic: Cuba. Lamrani argues that the tiny island nation is forced to contend not only with economic isolation and a U.S. blockade, but with misleading or downright hostile media coverage. He takes as his case study El País, the most widely distributed Spanish daily. El País (a property of Grupo Prisa, the largest Spanish media conglomerate), has editions aimed at Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., making it is a global opinion leader. Lamrani wades through a swamp of reporting and uses the paper as an example of how media conglomerates distort and misrepresent life in Cuba and the activities of its government. By focusing on eight key areas, including human development, internal opposition, and migration, Lamrani shows how the media systematically shapes our understanding of Cuban reality. This book, with a preface by Eduardo Galeano, provides an alternative view, combining a scholar’s eye for complexity with a journalist’s hunger for the facts.
Hooper's Revolution
It's 1976 and the United States is home to The Giganticos, a football super squad led by the one and only Pearl of Brazil, and more or less the only reason AASSA (American All-Star Soccer Association) exists. Enter Danny Hooper, a third-division English footballer from East Southwhich Albion, whose thuggish reputation limits him to playing the role of enforcer on the pitch, despite his admiration for the artistry of world-class football from Latin America and the Continent. After Danny takes his frustrations out on an unfortunate opponent's tibia, he finds himself sold to the Rose City Revolution of Portland. But there is more to the trade than a shocked Danny could ever imagine: turns out,he's going to America not just to introduce soccer to its skeptical masses, but to help foil a communist plot. What is the plot exactly? What could Danny possibly do to stop it? The future of America's soccer league, not to mention the life of the world's greatest soccer player, hangs in the balance; but it is author Dennie Wendt's pure love of the game, and his poetic sideline accounting of the Revolution's season, match by match, that will leave you cheering at the end.
Le Prodige
Juan Pablo Meneses part à la recherche du prochain Lionel Messi et pour cela il est prêt à mettre la main à la poche. Au cours de sa quête, il rencontre des parents prêts à vendre leur enfant de 9 ans, des agents malhonnêtes, des équipes de foot au succès international qui viennent briser les guiboles de jeunes prétendants. Ce livre, à l'aspect d'un manuel de manageur, raconte l'histoire des jeunes footballeurs qui souffrent sur le terrain, malmenés par une industrie sans pitié. Menses approfondit sa démarche par l'absurde qui pointe les travers de notre monde consumériste.
Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies
This book includes a selection of papers from the 2018 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'18), held in Naples, Italy on March27-29, 2018. WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and the challenges of modern information systems and technologies research together with their technological development and applications. The main topics covered are: A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.
Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in November 2016. The 18 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 186 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; and knowledge management and information sharing.
Una vuelta al tercer mundo
Una vuelta al tercer mundo es un deslumbrante, doloroso, profundo y divertido recorrido por ese lado salvaje que nunca vende la gran industria del turismo. ¿Por qué hay países que nunca están incluidos en las vueltas almundo? ¿Qué hay en las zonas más sombrías de la aldea global? ¿Cómo es la trastienda del consumo multinacional? Juan Pablo Meneses, que antes atravesó América Latina buscando comprar un niño futbolista para vender a Europa, ahora arma una ruta alrededor del planeta con las sobras que va dejando el progreso primermundista. En un apasionante viaje por esa grieta que divide al planeta, recorre la ciudad de Dakar después de que le quitaron el rally; consume chatarra ...
