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Quilombola Communities and Land Overlapping Challenges in Brazil

by Jéssica Painkow Rosa Cavalcante ...

"Quilombola Communities and Land Overlapping Challenges in Brazil" delves into the complexities of quilombola communities in the Brazilian context. The author explores the struggles and challenges faced by these traditional communities, especially those located in the Jalapão region, Tocantins. The book examines issues of territory, identity, and memory, offering a profound analysis of the legal, ... Read more

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"Quilombola Communities and Land Overlapping Challenges in Brazil" delves into the complexities of quilombola communities in the Brazilian context. The author explores the struggles and challenges faced by these traditional communities, especially those located in the Jalapão region, Tocantins. The book examines issues of territory, identity, and memory, offering a profound analysis of the legal,
... Read more
World Christianity as Public Religion

by Ronaldo Cavalcante, Wanderley Pereira da Rosa, Raimundo C. Barreto ...

Series series World Christianity and Public Religion
In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts. Scholars have gradually become aware that world Christianity has a public face, voice, and ... Read more

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In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts. Scholars have gradually become aware that world Christianity has a public face, voice, and
... Read more
Social Work in Mental Health Settings

International Perspectives on Practice

by Fan Wu, Miao Jian, Shuting Yuan, Jim Campbell, Bodil Irene Høyer, Christos Panagiotpoulos, Jeanette Copperman, Anna Sklair, Laura Tucker, Hannah Jobling, Martin Webber, Ippokratis Efstathiou, Bill Penson, Darren Hill, Patricia Carlisle, Danielle McIlroy, Lorna Montgomery, Paul Best, Gloria Kirwan, Calvin Swords, Tali-Noy Hindi, Ayelet Gur, Cristina Tilli, Barbara Rosina, Maria Patrizia Favali, Alan Maddock, Jean Pierre Wilken, Simona Karbouniaris, Svetlana Kolpakova, Vicky Soutar, Damien Taylor, Lyndon Joel Gumbs, Yu-Ching Liu, Stefan Sjöström, Maria Lúcia T. Garcia, Rita C. Cavalcante Lima, Eduardo Mourão Vasconcelos, Fabiola Xavier Leal, Gary Spolander, Dagny Adriaenssen Johannessen, Joakim Finne ...

Series series Research in Social Work
Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case ... Read more

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Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case
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First Steps to Stop Being a Gambler and Become a Sports Investor

Learn how to turn betting into a serious investment strategy

by James Cavalcante ...

Tired of losing money on sports betting?This book is your wake-up call.Forget about luck. Forget about tips. Forget about chasing wins.If you're serious about turning betting into a real investment strategy, this is where it starts.In First Steps to Stop Being a Gambler and Become a Sports Investor, James Cavalcante — with over 13 years of experience in the sports trading market — breaks down the ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Tired of losing money on sports betting?This book is your wake-up call.Forget about luck. Forget about tips. Forget about chasing wins.If you're serious about turning betting into a real investment strategy, this is where it starts.In First Steps to Stop Being a Gambler and Become a Sports Investor, James Cavalcante — with over 13 years of experience in the sports trading market — breaks down the
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The Fascism of Ambiguity

A Conceptual Essay

by Dr. Marcia Cavalcante Schuback ...

Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ...

Series series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
This book contributes to the work of elucidating the new forms of fascism and authoritarianism that arise today in intimate relation with new mediatic and information technologies. It presents elements of the connection between capitalism and fascism and makes clear how fascism today uses the ambiguity of senses and meanings as its most efficient way of infiltrating our reality and thereby ... Read more

$33.19 USD

This book contributes to the work of elucidating the new forms of fascism and authoritarianism that arise today in intimate relation with new mediatic and information technologies. It presents elements of the connection between capitalism and fascism and makes clear how fascism today uses the ambiguity of senses and meanings as its most efficient way of infiltrating our reality and thereby
... Read more
Through the Eyes of Descartes

Seeing, Thinking, Writing

by Cecilia Sjöholm, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback ...

Series series Studies in Continental Thought
"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images.Cecilia Sjöholm and ... Read more

$40.49 USD

"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images.Cecilia Sjöholm and
... Read more
Struggling for Ordinary

Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life

by Andre Cavalcante ...

Series Book 1 - Critical Cultural Communication
An in-depth look at the role of media in the struggle for transgender inclusionFrom television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live as a transgender person in a media environment before this transgender boom in television? While pop culture ... Read more

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An in-depth look at the role of media in the struggle for transgender inclusionFrom television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live as a transgender person in a media environment before this transgender boom in television? While pop culture
... Read more
Dis-orientations

Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity

Edited by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, Tora Lane ...

This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves rather how modernity is disorienting itself.The book brings together ... Read more

$48.99 USD

This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves rather how modernity is disorienting itself.The book brings together
... Read more
Peacebuilding in the United Nations

Coming into Life

by Fernando Cavalcante ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s. It analyses how that concept gained life in a particular context and the implications of this process for the Organisation’s support to societies affected by armed conflict in general and for peace operations in particular. Departing from tenets about the influence of ... Read more

$80.09 USD

This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s. It analyses how that concept gained life in a particular context and the implications of this process for the Organisation’s support to societies affected by armed conflict in general and for peace operations in particular. Departing from tenets about the influence of
... Read more
Time in Exile

In Conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot, and Lispector

by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback ...

Series series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time.This book is a philosophical reflection on the experience of time from within exile. Its focus on temporality is unique, as most literature on exile focuses on the experience of space, as exile involves dislocation, and moods of nostalgia and utopia. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback proposes that in exile, time is ... Read more

$32.39 USD

Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time.This book is a philosophical reflection on the experience of time from within exile. Its focus on temporality is unique, as most literature on exile focuses on the experience of space, as exile involves dislocation, and moods of nostalgia and utopia. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback proposes that in exile, time is
... Read more
Locating Queerness in the Media

A New Look

by Jane Campbell, Theresa Carilli, Simone Cavalcante Da Silva, Ali E. Erol, Judy L. Isaksen, Jamie A. Lee, Colette Morrow, Erika M. Thomas, Melvin L. Williams0, Verdell A. Wright1, Stephanie L. Young2, Bruce E. Drushel3, Lori L. Montalbano4 ...

Series series Media, Culture, and the Arts
Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that marginalizes the LGBTQ community. It examines what a queer sensibility means and how the queer ... Read more

$42.99 USD

Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that marginalizes the LGBTQ community. It examines what a queer sensibility means and how the queer
... Read more
Frequently Asked Questions About Financial Analysis of Companies

by Cavalcante ...

Series series Your eBook in Finance
Your eBook in Finance collection: the most discussed topics in finance detailed in a didactic manner. - For any professional who needs to learn the essentials about corporate finance. - For the ones who want to improve knowledge in finance. Here you will find the main questions about Financial of Companies that you would ask to an expert with answers in simple language, covering ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Your eBook in Finance collection: the most discussed topics in finance detailed in a didactic manner. - For any professional who needs to learn the essentials about corporate finance. - For the ones who want to improve knowledge in finance. Here you will find the main questions about Financial of Companies that you would ask to an expert with answers in simple language, covering
... Read more

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