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Benedita Da Silva
A champion of the poor and advocate for women, Afro-Brazilian Senator Benedita de Silva shares the sometimes heart wrenching, always inspiring story of her life. Illustrations & photos.
Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States
This book offers an historical and comparative profile of classical pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view of their migratory beginnings and transnational expansion. Pentecostalism’s inception in the early twentieth century, particularly in its global South permutations, was defined by its grassroots character. In contrast to the top-down, hierarchical structure typical of Western forms of Christianity, the emergence of Latin American Pentecostalism embodied stability from the bottom up—among the common people. While the rise to prominence of the Assemblies of God in Brazil, the Western hemisphere’s largest (non-Catholic) denomination, demanded structure akin to mainline contexts, classical pentecostals such as the Christian Congregation movement cling to their grassroots identity. Comparing the migratory and missional flow of movements with similar European and US roots, this book considers the prospects for classical Brazilian pentecostals with an eye on the problems of church growth and polity, gender, politics, and ethnic identity.
Thinking Like a Parrot
People form enduring emotional bonds with other animal species, such as dogs, cats, and horses. For the most part, these are domesticated animals, with one notable exception: many people form close and supportive relationships with parrots, even though these amusing and curious birds remain thoroughly wild creatures. What enables this unique group of animals to form social bonds with people, and what does this mean for their survival? In Thinking like a Parrot, Alan B. Bond and Judy Diamond look beyond much of the standard work on captive parrots to the mischievous, inquisitive, and astonishingly vocal parrots of the wild. Focusing on the psychology and ecology of wild parrots, Bond and Diam...
Doctor Dolittle's Delusion
Annotation Dr. Dolittle--and many students of animal communication--are wrong: animals cannot use language. This fascinating book explains why. Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book explores communication and cognition in animals and humans from a linguistic point of view and asserts that animals are not capable of acquiring or using human language. Stephen R. Anderson explains what is meant by communication, the difference between communication and language, and the essential characteristics of language. Next he examines a variety...
Frontiers in Natural Product Chemistry
Frontiers in Natural Product Chemistry is a book series devoted to publishing monographs that highlight important advances in natural product chemistry. The series covers all aspects of research in the chemistry and biochemistry of naturally occurring compounds, including research on natural substances derived from plants, microbes and animals. Reviews of structure elucidation, biological activity, organic and experimental synthesis of natural products as well as developments of new methods are also included in the series. The fourth volume of the series brings seven reviews covering these topics: -natural antiamoebic medicines, analgesics and antimalarials -essential oils and cognitive performance -cannabis and drug development -lectins in biosensors -brassinosteroids
A Portuguese Colonial in America, Belmira Nunes Lopes
A rare insight into the life of a Cape Verdean American, this memoir tells of an everyday woman's life of extraordinary measure—the small ways in which she contributed and inspired those around her. Belmira Nunes Lopes worked for equality, for the recognition of her culture, and fought a personal battle of identity. Composed from interviews with her niece, Belmira's story speaks of her upbringing in America without fully understanding her full ethnic and cultural background until adulthood, details how her family immigrated from Cape Verde and struggled to make a life in their new nation, and covers the impact she strove to have on the world during her long and unique life.
Chega 5 (INDONESIA)
Chega! merupakan sebuah kesaksian yang meresahkan. Laporan ini akan menyentak para pembaca Indonesia yang mengira bahwa di bawah rezim Soeharto semuanya berjalan damai di provinsi Indonesia ke-27 saat itu. Halaman demi halaman kita dapat membaca cerita-cerita korban pembantaian, perkosaan, penghilangan paksa, penyiksaan, dan berbagai kejahatan yang tidak terbayangkan. ...[M]asyarakatdi Indonesia dapat belajar dari Chega! Berkat penerbitan Iaporan ini oleh KPG, pembelajaran tersebut menjadi dimungkinkan. Laporan ini adalah suatu kontribusi penting ke arah demokratisasi di Indonesia dan reformasi sektor keamanannya. -- Ifdhal Kasim, Ketua Kornnas HAM Laporan CAVR adalah ensiklopedi sejarah kit...
