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Dysphania ambrosioides as a promising source of bioative compounds
Since antiquity, plants have been known for their medicinal properties, often used as an alternative or complement to conventional treatments. If you are interested in discovering more about the wonders that plants offer for human health, this book is essential reading for you. With detailed and up-to-date information, this practical guide is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to improve their health and well-being in a natural and holistic way. This work is a fascinating journey into chemical Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants (Amaranthaceae), popular as "mastruz" in Brazil, is a medicinal plant traditionally used in herbal medicines to treat diseases in various regions worldwide. The leaves of this plant are especially effective against pain, skin inflammations, kidney affections, coughs, tuberculosis, digestive and diaphoretic disorders, fracture, arterial hypertension, and cardiac diseases. [...]
Modernity in Black and White
"The book provides a deeper understanding of modern art in the Brazilian context, moving the focus away from the self-declared avant-gardes and towards a broad panorama of modernizing tendencies throughout the period, 1890 to 1945. The backdrop of sertão, favelas, carnival and samba - often left out of accounts that restrict readings of modernism to erudite arenas like literature, fine art or architecture - are foregrounded in an attempt to situate artistic discourses within the social and political struggles of the period. Race, class and ideological conflict are given priority as tools for deconstructing complex debates, too often taken at face value or misread as merely reflexive of Euro...
Modernity in Black and White
In his first single-authored English-language work, Rafael Cardoso offers a re-evaluation of modern art and modernism in Brazil.
Empty Wardrobes
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
Design + Craft
The book presents a radiography of the revitalization of Brazilian artisanal objects. It approaches the high quality of products that result from the encounter of artisans and designers; and the initiatives marked by entrepreneurism and social innovation developed in communities throughout the country, bringing a new push to sustainable local development.
"Em aumento de minha fazenda e do bem desses vassalos"
O presente livro trata dos planos para o desenvolvimento econômico da capitania do Maranhão e do Grão-Pará e crescimento da Fazenda Real, de meados do século XVII a meados do século XVIII, em especial a espinhosa questão da fiscalidade examinada principalmente a partir da figura dos contratadores das rendas reais. O principal argumento deste trabalho é o de que a administração e a defesa das rendas reais articularam boa parte das ações da Coroa com relação ao estado do Maranhão e do Pará. Nesse processo intervieram diversos agentes, que revelaram ter múltiplos interesses, quaisquer que fossem os objetivos da própria Coroa ao longo desse período.
Applications and Usability of Interactive TV
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive Television, jAUTI 2018, in Bernal, Argentina, in October 2018. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Contexts of application of the IDTV; Design and Implementation Techniques of IDTV Content and Services; Interaction Techniques, Technologies and Accesibility of IDTV Services; Testing and User Experience of IDTV Services.
