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En una resurgente Era de esclavitud mundial con los descalabros experimentados durante tres décadas de codicia, el gran desprecio por el medio ambiente y el cambio climático, las migraciones masivas por las intervenciones en Siria y Libia de Estados Unidos y los nacionalismos de países de la Unión Europa, el latente peligro de guerra creado por raíces de violencia inextricables por Trump, que se plantea, enterrando los valores que construyeron la democracia, destruir el mundo si este crea un orden mundial sin América en el centro, adelanta el viaje programado para 2040 de cientos de seres que, sin encontrar guía de salvación para la humanidad, trabajaron férreamente concentrándose en abandonar la Tierra, por la continuidad y existencia de la especie y crear una sociedad de igualdad y equidad en TRAPPIST-1, siete planetas que quedan a 39 años luz del nuestro.
Poncia Vicencio
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portuguese by Paloma Martinez-Cruz. The story of a young Afro-Brazilian woman's journey from the land of her enslaved ancestors to the emptiness of urban life. However, the generations of creativity, violence and family cannot be so easily left behind as Ponci is heir to a mysterious psychic gift from her grandfather. Does this gift have the power to bring Poncia back from the emotional vacuum and absolute solitude that has overtaken her in the city? Do the elemental forces of earth, air, fire and water mean anything in the barren urban landscape? A mystical story of family, dreams and hope by the most talented chronicler of Afro-Brazilian life writing today.
Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society
The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. Under Spanish and American colonialism, sugar cultivation and export became one of the chief commercial industries in the Philippines. Both the Filipino people and the colonizing forces participated in the sugar industry; a few profited enormously. John Larkin examines how the international sugar market and local culture forged two types of society, one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tenant farming. Larkin investigates the history of the two most important sugar-producing regions, Negros Occidental and Pampanga. He depicts the impact of colonial economic forces on the rise of...
The Mangle of Practice
This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors—social, technological, conceptual, and natural—that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one another—"man...
Esperança contra o Câncer
Ao ser diagnosticada com câncer, a grande maioria dos pacientes tem a sensação de estar sentada sobre um barril de pólvora. E o transtorno se estende a toda a família. Felizmente, no campo da oncologia, as urgências são raras. Normalmente, os pacientes dispõem de períodos de vida normal, quando podem se informar e decidir pela melhor forma de tratamento. Neste livro, o oncologista, professor e pesquisador alemão Dr. Walter Weber lança mão de sua experiência de décadas no acompanhamento de pacientes com câncer justamente para compartilhar o bem mais valioso para quem se encontra nesta situação: informação de qualidade. Para o Dr. Weber, o câncer se origina de um sinal. Um ...
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender campaigns, which emerged around 2010 in Europe, are not a simple continuation of the anti-feminist backlash dating back to the 1970s, but part of a new political configuration. Opposition to "gender" has become a key element of the rise of right-wing populism, which successfully harnesses the anxiety, shame and anger caused by neoliberalism and threatens to destroy liberal democracy. Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment offers a novel conceptualization of the relati...
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Globalizing Family Values
With little fanfare and profound effect, "family values" have gone global, and the influence of the Christian Right is increasingly felt internationally. This is the first comprehensive study of the Christian Right's global reach and its impact on international law and politics. Doris Buss and Didi Herman explore tensions, contradictions, victories, and defeats for the Christian Right's global project, particularly in the United Nations. The authors consult Christian Right materials, from pamphlets to novels; conduct interviews with people in the movement; and provide a firsthand account of the World Congress of Families II in 1999, a key event in formulating Christian Right global policy and strategy. The result is a detailed look at a new global player--its campaigns against women's rights, population policy, and gay and lesbian rights; its efforts to build an alliance of orthodox faiths with non-Christians; and the tensions and strains as it seeks to negotiate a role for conservative Christianity in a changing global order.
