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Fronteiras na História
Este livro apresenta resultados de anos de investigações de um sem-número de trabalhos nos mais diferentes formatos, do diálogo estreito com as mais diversas linhas de pesquisa em programas de pós-graduação no Brasil e no exterior e através de projetos financiados por governos estaduais, nacionais e instituições internacionais, os quais convergem seus esforços em um ponto central: demonstrar a profundidade e a riqueza analítica dos estudos sobre a formação da Fronteira Sul, do final do século XVIII até o século XX. Esta publicação, diante da atualidade, complexidade e necessidade de um esforço coletivo, propõe pensar a fronteira e os limites não como linha a ser meramen...
Pasquines, cartas y enemigos
El objetivo de esta obra es sistematizar los significados de las voces y gestos que mediaron los conflictos ocurridos en Hispanoamérica en los siglos XVI y XVII. Aunque aparentan ser resultado de momentos caóticos, expresan en conjunto, el valor dado en aquella época al privilegio, al honor y al prestigio. El estudio de los lenguajes verbales, simbólicos y de representación, pretende comprender mejor a la sociedad en la que se originaron las diversas formas del insulto, así como las estrategias de que la gente se valía para su manifestación y publicación. La aproximación al problema desde la historia cultural permite a la autora hacer visibles las diversas aristas del poder, la ambición, la sexualidad y las expectativas sociopolíticas de los vasallos americanos de la monarquía española: funcionarios, eclesiásticos y gente común. En los nueve capítulos del libro se exploran las formas que podía asumir el lenguaje de la pasión presente en cartas, grafiti, libelos infamatorios, objetos infamantes y muertes atroces.
“São Miguel, príncipe, guardião e guerreiro”
O livro resulta de um primeiro esforço mais sistemático por desvelar histórica e culturalmente a Festa e Romaria de São Miguel, marcante evento passo-fundense, com o objetivo de contribuir para a valorização progressiva desta manifestação, uma das mais antigas do estado do Rio Grande do Sul e que tem o lastro do local em sua conformação, dinâmicas e existência.
Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought
Space provides the stage for our social lives - social thought evolved and developed in a constant interaction with space. The volume demonstrates how this has led to an astonishing intertwining of spatial and social thought. For the first time, research on language comprehension, metaphors, priming, spatial perception, face perception, art history and other fields is brought together to provide an integrative view. This overview confirms that often, metaphors reveal a deeper truth about how our mind uses spatial information to represent social concepts. Yet, the evidence also goes beyond this insight, showing for instance how flexible our mind operates with spatial metaphors, how the peculi...
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
A comprehensive and self-contained introduction to Gaussian processes, which provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. GPs have received increased attention in the machine-learning community over the past decade, and this book provides a long-needed systematic and unified treatment of theoretical and practical aspects of GPs in machine learning. The treatment is comprehensive and self-contained, targeted at researchers and students in machine learning and applied statistics. The book deals with the supervised-learning problem for both ...
Bolivia Pocket Adventures
Hunter Pocket Adventure Guides contain all the practical travel information you need - places to stay and eat, tourist information resources, travel advice, emergency contacts, and more - plus condensed sections on history and geography that give you good background knowledge of the destination. The author is fascinated with the destination and her passion comes across in the text, which is lively, revealing, and a pleasure to read. Sidebars highlight unusual facts and tell of local legends, adding to your travel experience. Detailed town and regional maps make planning day-trips or city tours easy. Adventures covered range from town sightseeing tours and nature watching to sea kayaking and ...
Strength from the Waters
Strength from the Waters is an environmental and social history that frames economic development, environmental concerns, and Indigenous mobilization within the context of a timeless issue: access to water. Between 1927 and 1970 the Mayo people—an Indigenous group in northwestern Mexico—confronted changing access to the largest freshwater source in the region, the Fuerte River. In Strength from the Waters James V. Mestaz demonstrates how the Mayo people used newly available opportunities such as irrigation laws, land reform, and cooperatives to maintain their connection to their river system and protect their Indigenous identity. By using irrigation technologies to increase crop producti...
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Faces and Masks
“A book as fascinating as the history it relates . . . Galeano is a satirist, realist, and historian.” —Los Angeles Times For centuries, Europe’s imperial powers brutally exploited the peoples and resources of the New World. While soldiers of fortune marched across continents in search of El Dorado, white settlers established plantations and trading posts along the coasts, altering the land and bringing disease and slavery with them. In the midst of a bloody collision of civilizations, the West has birthed new societies out of the old. In the second book of his Memory of Fire trilogy, Eduardo Galeano forges a new understanding of the Americas, history retold from a diverse collection of viewpoints. Spanning the end of empire and the age of revolutions, Faces and Masks brilliantly collects the strands of the past into an iridescent work of literature.
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
