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Imigração, Trabalho e Gênero (1870-1930)
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 352

Imigração, Trabalho e Gênero (1870-1930)

Esta obra apresenta importantes reflexões acerca das experiências de milhares de sujeitos anônimos, em sua maioria, os que vieram “fazer a América” na Grande Imigração, período que abrange a segunda metade do século XIX até os primeiros decênios do XX. Cruzar o atlântico implicava se desprender de seus territórios rumo a espaços desconhecidos, movidos por imaginários ou por notícias levadas pelos que retornavam, por cartas ou mensagens transportadas pelos mares. As vivências desses homens e mulheres nos seus países de destino foram marcadas pelo gênero, por serem imigrantes e por sua inserção no mundo do trabalho local. Desta maneira, as autoras e os autores lançam múltiplos olhares sob diversos espectros de análise, fazendo que os capítulos, tanto separadamente como na organicidade da obra, tragam importantes contribuições para o campo dos estudos migratórios.

Migration and New International Actors
  • Language: en

Migration and New International Actors

Recent studies on migration have been given a new focus and theoretical framework. This book investigates the so-called "political dimension" of Diasporas, and their action at the international level as agents of para-diplomacy. It also takes us out of the narrow frame of the Nation State.

Minerals and Precious Stones of Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 704

Minerals and Precious Stones of Brazil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Brazil was the leading world producer of gold and of diamonds between the mid-18th century and the mid-19th century. At the present time, it is the leading world producer of iron ore, tin and niobium, and an important producer of manganese, aluminium, silicon, tantalum, rare earths, graphite, magnesite and countless other ores.....Brazil is the leading world producer of tourmaline (of all colors), of quartz (colorless, rutilated, amethyst and agate), of beryl (aquamarine, morganite and heliodore, and the second ranking world producer of emerald), of topaz (imperial, blue and colorless), alexandrite, euclase, phenakite and many others" INTRODUCTION.

Feature Papers ”Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives”
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 646

Feature Papers ”Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives”

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-17
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  • Publisher: MDPI

The "Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: States of the Art and Future Perspectives" publication presents contemporary, innovative, and insightful narratives, debates, and frameworks based on an international collection of papers from scholars spanning the fields of gerontology, social sciences, architecture, computer science, and gerontechnology. This extensive collection of papers aims to move the narrative and debates forward in this interdisciplinary field of age-friendly cities and communities.

Einstein's Greatest Mistake
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Einstein's Greatest Mistake

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-29
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidence served him well as he sought to reveal the universe's structure, but when it came to newer revelations in the field of quantum mechanics, these same traits undermined his quest for the ultimate truth. David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's intellectual development across his professional and personal life, showing how Einstein's confidence in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest strength and his ultimate undoing. He was a fallible genius. An intimate and enlightening biography of the celebrated physicist, Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals how much we owe Einstein today - and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.

Working on Labor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Working on Labor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-09
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Using comparative and long-term perspectives the seventeen essays in this collection discuss the development of labor relations and labor migrations in Europe, Asia and the US from the thirteenth century to the present.

The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement

Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and objectifying, brushing over a much more complex history of violence and resistance. Going beyond Orientalist tropes of the female freedom fighter, and the movement's own narrative of the 'free woman', Isabel Käser looks at personal trajectories and everyday processes of becoming a militant in this movement. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, with women politicians, martyr mothers and female fighters, she looks at how norms around gender and sexuality have been rewritten and how new meanings and practices have been assigned to women in the quest for Kurdish self-determination. Her book complicates prevailing notions of gender and war and creates a more nuanced understanding of the everyday embodied epistemologies of violence, conflict and resistance.

Promoting Health, Preventing Disease The Economic Case
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Promoting Health, Preventing Disease The Economic Case

A growing body of evidence from economic studies shows areas where appropriate policies can generate health and other benefits at an affordable cost, sometimes reducing health expenditure and helping to redress health inequalities at the same time.

In Search of the Amazon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

In Search of the Amazon

Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.

500 Cookies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

500 Cookies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

500 Cookies truly is the only cookie compendium you'll ever need. With this second edition, home cooks will find 150 scrumptious new receipes that are sure to be crowd pleasers. New recipes include tasty ingredient combinations such as Peanut butter amp; Praline Chunk Swirl cookies, Chocolate amp; Lemon Pinwheel Cookies, and Coconut amp; Cherry Macaroons.