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Gênero
Esta obra reúne um conjunto de ensaios voltados à problematização de diferentes questões em torno da categoria gênero. São privilegiadas discussões que apresentam alguns dos contornos políticos, éticos e sensíveis à abordagem da referida chave de leitura, ao passo que também são introduzidos elementos para o campo das Humanidades.
About Trees
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
Killing the Water
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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2009, held in Corfu, Greece, in September/October 2009. The 28 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 2 panel description, the extended abstracts of 20 revised poster and 16 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 181 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on services, infrastructures, interaction, knowledge organization systems, interfaces, resource discovery, architectures, information retrieval, preservation, and evaluation.
Home Reading Service
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
Minor Detail
From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman.
The Mosquito Bite Author
Originally published in 2011, The Mosquito Bite Author is the seventh novel by the acclaimed Turkish author Barış Bıçakçı. It follows the daily life of an aspiring novelist, Cemil, in the months after he submits his manuscript to a publisher in Istanbul. Living in an unremarkable apartment complex in the outskirts of Ankara, Cemil spends his days going on walks, cooking for his wife, repairing leaks in his neighbor’s bathroom, and having elaborate imaginary conversations in his head with his potential editor about the meaning of life and art. Uncertain of whether his manuscript will be accepted, Cemil wavers between thoughtful meditations on the origin of the universe and the trajectory of political literature in Turkey, panic over his own worth as a writer, and incredulity toward the objects that make up his quiet world in the Ankara suburbs.
Beyond Babylon
"Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--
Comunicação, Cidadania e Movimentos Sociais
A configuração e o fortalecimento dos grupos sociais, a qualidade da democracia e a produção incessante de informação e conhecimento na sociedade contemporânea suscitam novos olhares sobre a dinâmica social, sobretudo, sobre a participação cidadã, a configuração dos movimentos sociais, o ativismo e a atuação dos meios de comunicação. Dividida em dois volumes, esta obra reúne pesquisas que versam sobre a relação Comunicação, Cidadania e Movimentos Sociais, apresentando reflexões teóricas pertinentes a partir da literatura especializada e das análises de casos empíricos. O Volume 1 – Perspectivas contemporâneas da participação cidadã concentra investigações sobre cidadania, formas de participação, formação de identidades e de repertórios estratégicos, modos de protesto dos atores sociais e reflexões sobre as perspectivas e desafios impostos para a participação cidadã, para a atuação dos movimentos sociais e para o ativismo digital a partir da pandemia do Covid-19.
