Books: 'Facies maps'

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Smith, Moira T. Geologic map of the Old Copper Hill-Butcher Mountain area, Stevens County, Washington. [Olympia, Wash.]: Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources, 1991.

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Ketner, Keith Brindley. The nature and timing of tectonism in the western facies terrane of Nevada and California: An outline of evidence and interpretations derived from geologic maps of key areas. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1998.

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Allen, James Paul. Changing faces, changing places: Mapping Southern Californians. Northridge, Calif: Center for Geographical Studies, California State University, 2002.

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Desai, Mira K. Television in India: Many faces. Delhi: Authorspress, 2010.

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Daninos, Marie-Pierre. Paris facile: 54 promenades historiques et insolites. Paris: Hachette jeunesse, 1985.

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A, Douglass William, ed. Terror and taboo: The follies, fables, and faces of terrorism. New York: Routledge, 1996.

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Dagenais, Bernard. La crise d'octobre et les médias: Le miroir à dix faces : essai. Outremont, Qué: VLB, 1990.

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Dagenais, Bernard. La crise d'octobre et les médias: Le miroir à dix faces : essai. Outremont, Québec: VLB, 1990.

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Violette, Michèle. L' école -- facile d'en sortir mais difficile d'y revenir: Enquête auprès des décrocheurs et décrocheuses. [Québec]: Ministère de l'éducation, Direction de la recherche, 1991.

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Arab-American faces and voices: The origins of an immigrant community. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

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Zai sha zi he ying xiong zhi jian: Qun zhong she hui de liang zhang mian kong = Between fools and heroes : the two faces of mass society. Guangzhou Shi: Hua cheng chu ban she, 2010.

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editor, Bailly-Baillière Alfonso, and Milán Jorge editor, eds. Comunicazione della Chiesa: Volti, persone, storie : atti dell'8o Seminario professionale sugli uffici di comunicazione della Chiesa (aprile 2012) = Church communications : faces, people, stories : proceedings of the 8th Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices (April 2012) = Comunicación de la Iglesia : rostros, personas, historias : actas del 8o Seminario Profesional de Oficinas de Comunicación de la Iglesia (abril 2012). Roma: EDUSC, 2014.

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Fantacci, Silvia, ed. Ruggero Jacobbi. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-688-4.

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"Ah, if only I were not so alive and so crowded with things, what a book I would write […] but there's so little time […]. There's lots of time to map them out, that's true, but it's not enough." This is the voice of the protagonist of Convalescenza, one of the stories in this book that – thanks to the painstaking editorial attention of Silvia Fantacci – presents the prose written by Ruggero Jacobbi starting from his precocious youth through to the Sixties. The nine sections, recording fragments of memories, vestiges of mystery and bitter solitude, meander between cinema and theatre, revoke the faces of the war, recall the figures of writers and friends, suggest new approaches to reading. The evocation of Brazil, where Jacobbi spent the most important fifteen years of his life, is not lacking: a country "so big as to drive you crazy" with its magical rites, its rhythm, its culture (the music of Villa-Lobos, Vinícius de Morais and Dorival Caymmi and the poetry of his friend Murilo Mendes). The meticulous notes and the appendix at the end of the book illustrate the history of each text and offer a reconstruction of the projects for novels and stories that were left unfinished and have now finally been transferred from the mind and desk of the writer into book form.

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McPherson, "Green", and COPE. Maps, Places and Faces (Altered Image Publications). Nelson Thornes Ltd, 2000.

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Faces da pandemia de COVID-19 nas relações internacionais e no direito internacional. Editora Amplla, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51859/amplla.fpc368.1121-0.

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Ao ouvir, do jovem e promissor graduando Vinícius Villani, o sonho de organizar uma obra a respeito dos fenômenos sociais, culturais, relacionais e temporais, que a pandemia desencadeou, eu - imediatamente - o incentivei. Lembro de nossa conversa, como se hoje fosse. Eu sabia do potencial que ele tinha de articular pessoas e trazer talentos para perto de si. Ali, naquela conversa, tínhamos a certeza da contribuição que as reflexões, a partir do Direito Internacional e das Relações Internacionais, trariam. Seria uma oportunidade de dar mais concretude a ideias, que, se difundidas, fortaleceriam uma comunidade de pensadores, pesquisadores e profissionais, que privada dos ambientes convencionais de trocas, poderia se ver acolhida, vocalizada e - por que, não - representada. Sabíamos que as reflexões estimulariam pensadores, pesquisadores e profissionais a se movimentarem e gerarem ainda mais conhecimento e ferramentas, de maneira a apoiar e facilitar a travessia desse momento histórico. Seria uma forma de fomentar o novo, com olhos de humanidade e, construir um porvir, com a consciência dos desafios, mas, também, com coragem de mobilização e realização. Este, para mim, é o poder da comunidade que concilia saberes advindos de perspectivas teórico-acadêmicas e de perspectivas práticoprofissionais. (Eis uma das razões e, também, um dos meus intentos ao 12 [co] laborar e colaborar com Vinícius Villani no desenvolvimento do que, hoje, conhecemos como o Direito Internacional Sem Fronteiras.). Pensar e sistematizar temas, como os abordados nesta obra, permite que diversos atores dialoguem, tendo as ideias lançadas neste livro, como pontos de partida. Pontos de partida, esses, que buscam oferecer luz a questões e pautas há muito relativizadas ou, quiçá, invisibilizadas. Eis aí uma chance de enxergá-las de frente, faceá-las. Ao pensar sobre o título desta obra, muitas foram as referências com as quais me deparei, muitas foram as impressões que me sobrevieram. Quantas e quais são as faces da pandemia? Eu me perguntei. Neste momento, convido você, leitora e leitor, a ponderar, também, sobre as faces da pandemia, que transcendem os debates técnicos e os debates teóricos. Pense comigo. Quanto potencial de transformação há, quando olhamos o outro face a face? Quanto potencial de transformação há, quando reconhecemos as diferentes faces que nos cercam e, percebendo-as, construímos espaços de diálogos possíveis? Quanto potencial de transformação há, quando assumimos o olhar de quem reconhece a sua [co] responsabilidade, nas relações que tece? Quanto potencial há em perceber que a dor refletida nas nossas faces da despedida, nesta pandemia, pode trazer alento para o porvir, e, escuta, quando for você vier a sucumbir? Talvez este seja o caráter simbólico desta obra: a convicção de que não há uma única face, um único e uníssono discurso, uma única 13 perspectiva, mas, plúrimas e complexas perspectivas sobre a pandemia e seus impactos nas mais diferentes vidas e realidades. Convido, assim, você a ler esta obra com alma e espírito curiosos e agregadores, de modo que, ao se deparar com estas faces da pandemia, você seja capaz de enxergar - e criar - novos horizontes, novas sinergias. Que esta seja uma oportunidade para você perceber a multiplicidade de cores e perspectivas, que vão além - muito além - de uma das faces da moeda ou de uma das faces do tetraedro [de Platão].

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The Facial Hair Handbook Every Mans Guide To Growing Grooming Great Facial Hair. Jack Passion, LLC, 2009.

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Media Facades. Brand: Avedition Gmbh,Csi, 2009.

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Robert, Rowlands, Musterd Sako, and Kempen Ronald van, eds. Mass housing in Europe: Multiple faces of development, change and response. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Robert, Rowlands, Musterd Sako, and Kempen Ronald van, eds. Mass housing in Europe: Multiple faces of development, change and response. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Prasad, Kiran. Women, Globalization and Mass Media ; International Facets of Emancipation. The Women Press, 2006.

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James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography. University of Texas Press, 2007.

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James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography. University of Texas Press, 2007.

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Watson, Jay. William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849742.001.0001.

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William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism’s foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any scholarly consensus about what those modernist credentials actually entail. Over recent decades, there have been lively debates in modernist studies over the who, what, where, when, and how of the surprisingly elusive phenomena of modernism and modernity. It is the aim of this book to broaden and deepen an understanding of Faulkner’s oeuvre by following some of the guiding questions and insights of new modernism studies scholarship into understudied aspects of Faulkner’s literary modernism and his cultural modernity. William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity explores Faulkner’s rural Mississippians as modernizing subjects in their own right rather than mere objects of modernization; traces the new speed gradients, media formations, and intensifications of sensory and affective experience that the twentieth century brought to the cities and countryside of the US South; maps the fault lines in whiteness as a racial modernity under construction and contestation during the Jim Crow period; resituates Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County within the transnational countermodernities of the black Atlantic; and follows the author’s imaginative engagement with modern biopolitics through his late work A Fable, a novel Faulkner hoped to make his “magnum o.” By returning to the utterly uncontroversial fact of Faulkner’s modernism with a critical sensibility sharpened by new modernism studies, William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity aims to spark further reappraisal of a distinguished and quite dazzling body of fiction. Perhaps even make it new.

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The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism. Routledge, 2005.

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Bowd, Stephen D. Renaissance Mass Murder. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832614.001.0001.

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Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance. In contrast to the picture of balance and harmony usually associated with the Renaissance, it uncovers in forensic detail a world in which sacks of Italian cities and massacres of civilians at the hands of French, German, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian troops were regular occurrences. The arguments presented are based on a wealth of evidence—histories and chronicles, poetry and paintings, sculpture and other objects—which together provide a new and startling history of sixteenth-century Italy and a social history of the Italian Wars. It outlines how massacres happened, how princes, soldiers, lawyers, and writers, justified and explained such events, and how they were represented in contemporary culture. On this basis the book reconstructs the terrifying individual experiences of civilians in the face of war and in doing so offers a story of human tragedy which redresses the balance of the history of the Italian Wars, and of Renaissance warfare, in favour of the civilian and away from the din of the battlefield. This book also places mass murder in a broader historical context and challenges claims that such violence was unusual or in decline in early modern Europe. Finally, it shows that women often suffered disproportionately from this violence and that immunity for them, as for their children, was often partially developed or poorly respected.

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Nuclear Strategy and the Code of The Warrior: Faces of Mars and Shiva in the Crisis of Human Survival. North Atlantic Books, 1993.

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Mason, Peggy. From Movement to Action. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190237493.003.0023.

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Tracts descending from motor control centers in the brainstem and cortex target motor interneurons and in select cases motoneurons. The mechanisms and constraints of postural control are elaborated and the effect of body mass on posture discussed. Feed-forward reflexes that maintain posture during standing and other conditions of self-motion are described. The role of descending tracts in postural control and the pathological posturing is described. Pyramidal (corticospinal and corticobulbar) and extrapyramidal control of body and face movements is contrasted. Special emphasis is placed on cortical regions and tracts involved in deliberate control of facial expression; these pathways are contrasted with mechanisms for generating emotional facial expressions. The signs associated with lesions of either motoneurons or motor control centers are clearly detailed. The mechanisms and presentation of cerebral palsy are described. Finally, understanding how pre-motor cortical regions generate actions is used to introduce apraxia, a disorder of action.

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Fields, Sarah K. Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation. University of Illinois Press, 2016.

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Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation. University of Illinois Press, 2016.

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Sandler, Willeke. Gleichschaltung and the Beginnings of a Mass Movement, 1933–1935. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190697907.003.0003.

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This chapter examines colonialists’ response to the Nazi takeover. Many saw the new Third Reich as fertile ground both ideologically and organizationally, and quickly adapted to their new reality. For these colonialists, the Nazi Party’s ostensible support for overseas colonialism, expressed through the 1920 Party Program, encouraged their belief that the Third Reich would also bring the reclamation of the overseas empire. In order to ensure public support for this goal and facing the Nazi regime’s drive to coordinate society through Gleichschaltung, the colonialist organizations underwent Selbstgleichschaltung (self-coordination) in 1933 and created the Reichskolonialbund as their new umbrella organization.. Between 1933 and 1935, German colonialists also established the organizational structure and goal of a mass movement (Volksbewegung) that would continue throughout the Third Reich.

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Lopes, José Manuel Martins, Ana Paula Pinto, Maria José Ferreira Lopes, Artur Ilharco Galvão, and Paulo C. Dias, eds. Educação em Tempos Incertos. Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17990/axi/2020_9789726973300.

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Num mundo onde tudo parece cada vez mais efémero, onde as incertezas invadem os quotidianos, os riscos se multiplicam e onde tudo parece igual, urge valorizar o único, o autêntico, o identitário, aquilo que nos define enquanto Pessoa. Num mundo de separações, diferenças e desigualdades, importa pugnar por um caminho e compromissos comuns, onde a diferença seja respeitada e até valorizada. A História, a nossa história, que deveria ser um ponto de apoio para encontrarmos caminhos seguros, é tantas vezes ignorada, esquecida, e até, consciente ou inconscientemente, desprezada; tende até a ser construída não a pensar na verdade, mas na ideologia que se defende. Ora, a História não pode ser manietada e muitos menos distorcida. Conscientes da necessidade de olhar para o passado e sua subjetividade, pela interpretação a que está sujeito, devemos procurar a objetividade dos factos, dos acontecimentos, e as nossas raízes. A construção da nossa identidade não se faz apenas no hoje, mas implica a comunhão de um olhar que volta, com o hoje, e a construção de um amanhã, que não desconsidere a herança transmitida. Se no passado as sociedades se construíam na destruição ou reconversão do património recebido dos ancestrais, pelos caminhos da História aprenderam a valorizar esse património como símbolo da sua evolução. E depois, aprenderam a conservá-lo quando se aperceberam que, em nome de um suposto progresso, estavam a destruir os seus marcos identitários. Não nos referimos apenas a um património material, mas igualmente a um património intangível, que deveria ser inalienável.

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J, Strange Jeffrey, Katz Elihu 1926-, and American Academy of Political and Social Science, eds. The future of fact. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.

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Mayer, Colin, and Bruno Roche, eds. Putting Purpose Into Practice. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870708.001.0001.

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The book provides a detailed and practical description of how companies can put purpose into practice in their organizations. Based on a ground-breaking research project on the Economics of Mutuality undertaken jointly by the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and Mars Catalyst, the think tank of Mars Inc., the food and beverages company, over a period of five years, the book describes how purpose promotes business growth and performance. In particular, it gives a highly accessible and readable account of how companies can determine and implement their corporate purposes, and how, by so doing, they address critical issues in their ecosystems, such as rising inequality and environmental degradation, while delivering superior performance and resilience. The book will equip executives, managers, investors, policymakers, academics, and students with tools to understand the way in which companies can build purpose-centric businesses, map and orchestrate stakeholder ecosystems, identify untapped resources, create unconventional partnerships, measure and manage performance beyond financial reporting, and adopt a new definition of profit to promote corporate purposes. The book includes fourteen case studies of companies of varying sizes, sectors, and geographies that sought to put purpose into practice. They provide deep insights into the way in which companies have delivered corporate purpose and the challenges they faced in doing this. The book stresses both the opportunity and obligation on business to reposition itself to address the changing needs of society and the planet in the twenty-first century.

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Yousman, Bill. Challenging the Media-Incarceration Complex through Media Education. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037702.003.0008.

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This chapter argues that the United States faces a crisis of representation, for while crime rates remain stable, the TV and other corporate-controlled mass media bury viewers beneath an avalanche of fear-based spectacles in which crime and violence are portrayed as escalating, even life-threatening crises. It then outlines a new program of media education that enables consumers of mass media to develop more informed and empowering views of the complexities of crime and violence. Focusing on prime-time dramatic television as the most prevalent source of fictional images of violence, crime, and incarceration, the chapter addresses the distorted narratives and images that saturate popular television dramas. Drawing upon interviews with ex-prisoners, it also shows how media representations of imprisonment, though inaccurate and misleading, shape the perceptions even of those who have themselves been incarcerated.

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Anderson, Mark D., and Karl E. Misulis. Neuro-Oncology. Edited by Karl E. Misulis and E. Lee Murray. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190259419.003.0025.

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Cancers require neurologic care for multiple facets of evaluation and diagnosis. Among the most common are diagnosis of a CNS mass lesion, localization and diagnosis of new focal deficits, seizures or encephalopathy in cancer patients, suspected paraneoplastic disorders, and neurologic complications of cancer treatment. This chapter discusses common and important disorders likely to be encountered in a hospital neurology practice.

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Jacquet, Gabrielle, and Lawrence Page. Odontogenic Infections. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199976805.003.0013.

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Odontogenic infections often arise from dental caries (usually the mandibular teeth) or from dental extraction. Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG) is more common in immunocompromised patients. These infections may spread into the parapharyngeal and retropharyngeal spaces, involving the airway and mediastinum. Airway management is critical as odontogenic infections can compromise airways via mass effect. Complications include the following: abscess, facial or orbital cellulitis/abscess, intracranial invasion, Ludwig’s angina, Lemierre syndrome, carotid artery erosion, descending necrotizing mediastinitis, airway compromise, hematogenous dissemination to distant organs, intraoral or dentocutaneous fistula formation, and cardiovascular disease. Antibiotics are not a substitute for definitive airway management. In addition, many cases of odontogenic infection will require surgical drainage, either at the bedside in the emergency department or in the operating room. Prior to this, consider using a nerve block to obtain anesthesia to the affected area of the face. Patients with necrotizing infections need emergent surgery with wide local debridement.

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Johnston, Michael V. Coffin-Lowry Syndrome. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199937837.003.0057.

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Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is a relatively rare (1:50,000-100,000 incidence) sex-linked neurodevelopmental disorder that includes severe intellectual disability, dysmorphic features including facial and digital abnormalities, growth retardation, and skeletal changes. Most cases are sporadic with only 20% to 30% of cases having an additional family member. CLS is caused by variable loss of function mutations in the RPS6KA3 gene that maps to Xp22.2 and codes for the hRSK2 S6 kinase that phosphorylates the transcription factor CREB (cAMP response element binding protein) as well as other nuclear transcription factors. Phosphorylated CREB (pCREB) plays a major role in memory formation in fruit flies and mammals by activating specific genes through epigenetic histone acetylation.

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Pinheiro, Harald Sá Peixoto. Educação e Diversidade Cultural: desafios amazônicos. Editora Diálogos, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52788/9786589932123.

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O E-book “Educação e Diversidade Cultural – Desafios Amazônicos” expressa o desejo de situar as discussões sobre Educação e Cultura para fora dos clichês mais convencionais. Essa tendência mais contemporânea pretende colocar temas da cultura amazônica diante de uma nova relação de tensões interculturais, em confronto com outros modos de subjetividade, novos sujeitos sociais e com outras possíveis racionalidades, em face de um movimento cada vez mais emergente de descolonização e desmoronamento de fronteiras que impedem a visibilidade do Outro. Os processos educacionais se inserem nesse cenário de mudanças e alcançam nos textos aqui trabalhados o esforço de pesquisadores maduros em suas experiências de campo e suas abordagens metodológicas e teóricas.

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Simões, Carlota, Margarida Miranda, and Pedro Casaleiro. Visto de Coimbra, O Colégio de Jesus entre Portugal e o Mundo. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1871-5.

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Este livro resulta em grande parte das contribuições para o Colóquio 'VISTO DE COIMBRA - O Colégio de Jesus entre Portugal e o Mundo' que decorreu na Universidade de Coimbra em Maio de 2017 e culminou com a exposição homónima no Museu da Ciência da UC em Setembro do mesmo ano, mas também do ciclo 'Cultura Ciência Culto' que teve lugar durante todo o ano de 2016. Deste ciclo fizeram parte duas exposições documentais ('Cultura, Ciência e Culto' no Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra e 'A Conimbriga Vrbe Ad Orbem - De Coimbra para o Mundo' na Biblioteca Joanina), além de várias palestras e apresentações de livros. Na capa reproduz-se uma gravura da Lua feita por Cristovão Borri (Collecta Astronomica, 1631), muito provavelmente o mais antigo documento gráfico de uma observação astronómica feita em Portugal e que teve lugar na cidade de Coimbra. Sobre a figura pode ler-se ‘em Coimbra, a exata face da Lua crescente, com idade de seis dias, vista por um tubo ótico em julho de 1627’.

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Bellamy, Alex J. East Asia's Other Miracle. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777939.001.0001.

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East Asia, until recently a boiling pot of massacre and blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around 80 percent of the world’s mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it accounted for less than 5 percent. This book explains East Asia’s “other” miracle and asks whether it is merely a temporary blip in the historical cycle or the dawning of a new, and more peaceful, era for the region. It argues that the decline of mass atrocities in East Asia resulted from four interconnected factors: the consolidation of states and emergence of responsible sovereigns; the prioritization of economic development through trade; the development of norms and habits of multilateralism; and transformations in the practice of power politics. Particular attention is paid to North Korea and Myanmar, countries whose experience has bucked regional trends largely because these states have not succeeded in consolidating themselves to the point where they no longer depend on violence to survive. Although the region faces several significant future challenges, this book argues that the much reduced incidence of mass atrocities in East Asia is likely to be sustained into the foreseeable future.

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Partheymüller, Julia. Agenda-Setting Dynamics during the Campaign Period. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792130.003.0002.

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It is widely believed that the news media have a strong influence on defining what are the most important problems facing the country during election campaigns. Yet, recent research has pointed to several factors that may limit the mass media’s agenda-setting power. Linking news media content to rolling cross-section survey data, the chapter examines the role of three such limiting factors in the context of the 2009 and the 2013 German federal elections: (1) rapid memory decay on the part of voters, (2) advertising by the political parties, and (3) the fragmentation of the media landscape. The results show that the mass media may serve as a powerful agenda setter, but also demonstrate that the media’s influence is strictly limited by voters’ cognitive capacities and the structure of the campaign information environment.

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Pombi, Marco, David Modiano, and Gilberto Corbellini. Malaria eradication in Italy: the story of a first success. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789833.003.0013.

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The Italian experience represents a historical example that education and sociopolitical vision can effectively contribute to the conquest of malaria. Until the end of 19th century, the infection spread mostly in the Central and Southern parts of Italy, with about 7 percent of the population affected and 20,000 annual deaths. Malaria showed different facies, owing to a complex vectorial system with remarkable ecological and behavioral differences. With the involvement of a critical mass of scientists and physicians, the etiology of malaria and the biological and socioeconomics determinants of the transmission dynamics were identified. This provided the opportunity to break the “malaria transmission chain” by an integrated approach. Moreover, Italy was the first country to develop special legislation for the fight against malaria, representing an example of integration between scientific, political, social and economic knowledge. In 1970, after decades of fight, the World Health Organization officially declared Italy free from malaria.

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Schupmann, Benjamin A. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791614.003.0001.

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The Introduction analyzes both how the popular appeal of the Nazi and Communist parties posed a dilemma for Weimar democracy and how Schmitt thought this dilemma illustrated the broader problem mass democracy posed for twentieth-century constitutional democratic states. The dilemma begged the question of whether the will of the people could be legitimately constrained. The Introduction contextualizes Schmitt’s analysis of this dilemma by reconstructing nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates in German jurisprudence about the nature of valid law, arguing that Schmitt’s thought emerged out of an anti-positivist movement. This Introduction also assesses some of the problems facing scholarship of Schmitt, including his occasionalism and anti-Semitism. While acknowledging how damning these charges are, it argues that Schmitt’s state and constitutional theory can be separated from his personal failures and that his thought provides a valuable and original solution to the problems modern mass democracy poses.

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Linglart, Agnès, and Anne-Sophie Lambert. Approach to the patient with hypocalcaemia. Edited by Robert Unwin. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0038.

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Calcium homeostasis is maintained through a fine balance between calcium absorption, parathyroid hormone secretion and action, vitamin D production and action, cellular compartmentalization of calcium ions, and renal function. Although the extracellular calcium level does not vary with age, the maintenance of calcium faces the significant mineral requirement of skeletal growth and bone mass acquisition during childhood. Acquired or genetic defects in any determinants of blood calcium (i.e. vitamin D, parathyroid hormone, calcium absorption, etc.) may manifest as hypocalcaemia, especially during childhood/adolescence. The discovery of hypocalcaemia in a patient should trigger two clinical responses: (1) therapy to restore the calcium level to normal and (2) investigations to determine the cause of hypo/hypercalcaemia.

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de Vignemont, Frédérique. Taxonomies of Body Representations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198735885.003.0009.

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This chapter considers the relationship between body representations, action, and bodily experiences. It first clarifies the conceptual landscape of body representations and stresses the conceptual and empirical difficulties that the current body schema/body image taxonomy faces, difficulties that can be explained by their constant interaction but not only. There is indeed a lack of precise understanding of the functional role of the body schema as opposed to the body image. Instead of these unclear notions, the chapter proposes distinguishing different types of body representations on the basis of their direction of fit and of their spatial organization. On the one hand, there is a purely descriptive body map that represents well-segmented categorical body parts, in which one can localize one’s sensations. On the other hand, there is a body map that is both descriptive and directive (i.e. pushmi-pullyu representation), and that encodes structural bodily affordances for action planning and control.

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M¨uhlherr, Bernhard, Holger P. Petersson, and Richard M. Weiss. Buildings. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166902.003.0001.

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This chapter assembles a few standard definitions, fixes some notation, and reviews a few of the results about buildings and Moufang polygons. It also summarizes the basic facts about Coxeter groups and buildings, including the fundamental properties of roots, residues, apartments, and projection maps. The chapter defines a Moufang building as spherical, thick, irreducible and of rank at least 2, and a Bruhat-Tits building as a thick irreducible affine building whose building at infinity is Moufang. Furthermore, it presents a fundamental result of Tits: that an irreducible thick spherical building of rank at least 3 satisfies the Moufang condition as do all the irreducible residues of rank at least 2 of such a building. Finally, it considers a simplicial complex, the dimension of which is its cardinality minus one.

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Robertson, Lynn C. Balint’s Syndrome and the Study of Attention. Edited by Anna C. (Kia) Nobre and Sabine Kastner. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675111.013.029.

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Balint’s syndrome is the most severe neuropsychological disorder affecting spatial attention that has been observed. In humans, it can be observed after bilateral occipital-parietal damage. The signs and symptoms of this syndrome are first described and then discussed in terms of how research with patients with Balint’s syndrome has helped and/or limited our understanding of object-based attention, visual search, and feature binding in visual perception. The findings have also supported the existence of implicit spatial maps that are available in the face of severely limited conscious spatial awareness. The results of such studies have led to advancements in attentional theory, especially as related to spatial attention and its interaction with object perception.

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Howard M, Holtzmann, and Kristjánsdóttir Edda, eds. Ch.3 Starting the Claims Process. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207442.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses the start of the claims process. Topics covered include how potential claimants are informed of the existence of the claims process, including the methods and extent of outreach; preparation of claim forms; whether there is a deadline for submitting claims and whether, and by whom, deadlines may be extended in special circumstances; whether there is a procedure for initially screening claims in order to eliminate claims that prima facie do not fall within the jurisdiction of the claims process or clearly lack merit; and whether there is a schedule showing the sequence of activities that need to be accomplished to resolve the claims. An Editors’ Commentary and separate Annotations show how each of these Mass Claims Processes has handled the matter.

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Hammer, Espen. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190461454.003.0001.

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Franz Kafka’s The Trial stands as one of the most influential and emblematic novels of the twentieth century. Yet, as the overused adjective “Kafkaesque” suggests, rather than as a work of art in its full complexity, it has all too often been received as an expression of some vaguely felt cultural or psychological malaise—a symbol, perhaps, of all that we do not seem to comprehend, but that nevertheless is felt to haunt and influence us in inexplicable ways. Its plot, however, is both complex and completely unforgettable. A man stands accused of a crime he appears not to have any recollection of having committed and whose nature is never revealed to him. In what may ultimately be described as a tragic quest-narrative, the protagonist’s search for truth and clarity (about himself, his alleged guilt, and the system he is facing) progressively leads to increasing confusion before ending with his execution in an abandoned quarry. Josef K., its famous anti-hero, is an everyman faced with an anonymous, inscrutable yet seemingly omnipotent power. For all its fundamental strangeness, the novel seems to address defining concerns of the modern era: a sense of radical estrangement, the belittling of the individual in a bureaucratically controlled mass society, the rise perhaps of totalitarianism, as well as the fearful nihilism of a world apparently abandoned by God....

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Rohrschneider, Robert, and Jacques Thomassen, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825081.001.0001.

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How can democracies effectively represent citizens? The goal of this Handbook is to evaluate comprehensively how well the interests and preferences of mass publics become represented by institutions in liberal democracies. It first explores how the idea and institutions of liberal democracies were formed over centuries and became enshrined in Western political systems. The contributors to this Handbook, made up of the world’s leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation, examine how well the political elites and parties who are charged with the representation of the public interest meet their duties. Clearly, institutions often fail to live up to their own representation goals. With this in mind, the contributors explore several challenges to the way that the system of representation is organized in modern democracies. For example, actors such as parties and established elites face rising distrust among electorates. Also, the rise of international problems such as migration and environmentalism suggests that the focus of democracies on nation states may have to shift to a more international level. All told, this Handbook illuminates the normative and functional challenges faced by representative institutions in liberal democracies.

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