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The Latest Tomorrow
José Luiz Pinto Duarte describes in "The latest tomorrow", with fantasy and implacable dream, a future society free from corruption, free from high technologies, free from promiscuity, free from drugs, free from musical idiom, free from addictions of the world. Simply, the universe that this Brazilian novelist animates does not belong, in any way, to our days. It was all just the result of his imagination, or perhaps his delusions of a life of peace, love and human beings close to the ideal. That is, the human being itself is imperfect. The change to a better human being will only be possible with crosses with other animals, the result would be an improved human being: A superhuman being.Th...
Allowing for Exceptions
Within limits, the law allows for exceptions. Or so we tend to think. In fact, the line between rules and exceptions is harder to draw than it seems. How are we to determine what counts as an exception and what as part of the relevant rule? The distinction has important practical implications. But legal theorists have found the notion of an exception surprisingly difficult to explain. This is the longstanding jurisprudential problem that this book seeks to solve.
From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America
This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. With cable, satellite and now streaming TV, that inflow of foreign programming has increased substantially. While many in the audience still prefer national or regional programs for their cultural proximity, an increasing number among the upper-middle and middle classes, particularly the young, are turning to the new foreign services, like Netflix, Amazon and Disney for class distinction, cosmopolitanism or other motives. Among the television industries, global, regional and national actors are creating a variety of programs and channels (broadcast, pay-TV and streaming) to segment and appeal to different parts of the audience.
The Cable Empire Strikes Latin America
In the mid-90s, a host of media companies ventured into Latin America, promoting a boom in the emerging pay-TV industry of the region. Not all companies survived though. What led to this industry expansion and the survivors' secret for success is the topic of this extensive first-hand account by media researcher Luiz G. Duarte, who experienced the ups and downs and lived to tell the story. Beyond an academic review of both the marketing and social sciences theories that could possibly explain the facts, the book also represents a detailed history of this industry trend for anyone interested in doing well in this business.
A capital!
'A Capital' é o segundo volume de uma colecção que inclui as obras de Eça de Queirós, numa nova edição que oferece ao público textos fixados por um estudo comparativo das várias edições existentes. O leitor, terá assim acesso, em edições correntes, ao texto fixado pela edição crítica das obras de Eça de Queirós, levada a cabo pela Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda. O Professor Carlos Reis é o responsável pela coordenação geral, assim como pelas introduções, prefácios e notas ao texto. Obra que Eça deixou inacabada em parte por recear que fosse demasiado escandalosa para a sensibilidade dos seus contemporâneos - A Capital só viria a ser publicada postumamente, numa edição com cortes e acrescentos de autoria de José Maria d'Eça de Queirós, o filho do escritor. Daí o interesse de que se reveste a presente edição, cujo texto é substancialmente diferente do que até agora circulava. Nele o leitor descobre o deslumbramento, mas também a mordacidade queirosiana com que Eça retratou a sua cidade, através da sofisticada frivolidade dos meios sociais e das personagens que ainda hoje povoam o nosso imaginário quando evocamos a Lisboa de Novecentos.
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Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies
This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific communities; scientists and policy-makers; science and the public; scientists and artists; and other situations where science clashes with other socio-cultural domains. The volume includes theoretical proposals of how to deal with intercultural communication related to science and technology, as well as rich case studies that illustrate the challenges and strategies deployed in these situations. Individual studies explore Europe, Latin America, and Africa, thus including diverse Global North and South contexts.
The Uncaged Voice
Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence. Through first-person essays and short stories, the contributors to The Uncaged Voice share their brutal yet heart-rending tales of fleeing the oppressive regimes of their homelands, where freedom of expression and the press is an ideal, not a reality, and where totalitarian forces attempt to subjugate, if not annihilate, all forms of dissention. From war correspondents reporting across dangerous “no-go zones,” to female journalists escaping conservative and patriarchal tyranny, to independent news...
