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The updated edition of Alex Bellos's modern classic about Brazilian football, published to coincide with the 2014 World Cup
When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution in information technologies. In an exploration of these themes the collection provides insight into academic studies of football in Portugal, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA. At examining football-related phenomena under the headings of nations and migration, myths and business, the city and the dream, it shows how modernised fo...
Berlin, 30 April, 1945 As the Russian Army closes in on the war-torn City, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun take their own lives. Their bodies are burned and buried in the Reich Chancellery garden, above the Führer's bunker. Buenos Aires, 9 January, 2012 Three audacious thieves carry out the biggest safe depository heist in Argentine history, escaping with more than one hundred million dollars' worth of valuables. Within hours, an encrypted phone call to America triggers a blood-soaked manhunt as the thieves are tracked down, systematically tortured, then murdered. San Francisco, 18 January, 2012 Senator John Franklin, hailed as the 'Great Unifier', secures the Republican Presidential nomination and seems destined for the Oval Office. Despite the sixty-seven year interval and a span of thirteen thousand miles, these events are indelibly linked. Chief Inspector Nicolas Vargas of the Buenos Aires Police Department and Lieutenant Troy Hembury of the LAPD are sucked into a dark political conspiracy concealing an incredible historical truth stretching from the infamous Berlin bunker to Buenos Aires and to Washington, which threatens the very heart and soul of American democracy.
Ao longo do século XX os Jogos Olímpicos se transformaram em um dos principais eventos culturais do planeta e sua oranização demanda envolvimento direto do poder público e da iniciativa privada. Neste livro "Megaeventos esportivos : legado e reponsabilidade social", um dos frutos do II seminário de estudos Olímpicos, temos a oportunidade de discutir os custos materiais e sociais do processo de candidatura e realização de um megaevento esportivo na atualidade.
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A Lei n.o 14.597/2023 revogou o Estatuto de Defesa do Torcedor, reunindo parte deste diploma legal com outros conjuntos normativos concernentes à temática. Além de dificultar a compreensão do povo dada a confluência de várias normas, eliminou importantíssimos dispositivos no que tange à proteção da incolumidade dos espectadores e do direito de se inteirar de relevantes aspectos das competições. Conflita a Lei Geral do Esporte com a Lei n.o 8.078/90, cuja essência assenta-se na prevenção de vícios, que possam causar acidentes, e na transparência. Destina-se a presente obra a contribuir para a efetiva proteção de todos aqueles que sejam destinatários finais das competiçõe...
Apresenta o contexto histórico, as inovações tecnológicas e da sociedade que resultam em impactos no marketing.
"Thomas Seeley has spent his career unraveling the mysteries of honey bee behavior. His goal has been to understand how the 30,000 or so bees in a colony work together as a unit to accomplish such things as finding and occupying a snug nest cavity, furnishing it with beeswax combs, filling these combs with brood and food, and keeping themselves well nourished, comfortably warm, and safe from intruders. In this book, Seeley's goal is to illuminate these and other mysteries about the workings of honey bee colonies and explore how those mysteries were solved. Seeley's aim, as he says, is to review how and what he and his colleagues have learned about honey bees and to share some things that are...
This dissertation has as its central focus the study of hyperspatial dynamics and as such makes use of mathematics in such an understanding and also the MAXYMA artificial intelligence computer simulation and programming language. As such, it will both discuss the use of MAXYMA in the understanding of hyperspatial dynamics and also include MAXYMA programs as well. This dissertation will conclude with a discussion of hyperspace and how one can travel through hyperspace and why one would want to travel through hyperspace.