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Bollati Boringhieri editore S.r.l. a socio unico
Our publishing company was founded in 1957 by Paolo Boringhieri focusing on science, mythology and ethnology. In 1987 Giulio Bollati joined the company, taking with him his expertise in history, philosophy , and literary fiction.Since then , the two souls of the publisher scientific studies and humanities have followed intertwined paths. In 2009 Bollati Boringhieri was a cquired by Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol (GeMS) a group including 11 publishing companiesand 20 imprints. On the non fiction side, we are strongly interested in every project that shows human comprehensive history. Gems of our list include, among others Edmund de Waal , Jim Al Khalili, Nick Bostrom, Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry,Jonathan Gottschall , Frank Close, Max Tegmark.
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The twilight of simple things. Hopeful readings and critical perspectives for a south in pandemic
by Nelson Specchia, José Emilio Ortega.
“The twilight of simple things” is an effort shared by more than thirty Latin American voices. This book does not pretend to be a calm evaluative work, it is rushed by the pulse of the situation, its writing emerges in the heat of the moment, set on a reality that moves and jumps, without a clear direction, but with the need to contribute to the emergence of that clarity. And it is also an attempt to help, rehearsing answers, the unexpected needs of this unexpected time of ours. Because a community, totally and unprecedentedly confined in its private environments, with social distance, areas surrounded by sanitary barriers, and communication methodologies mediated almost exclusively by computer screens and cell phones, requires propositional ideas and critical reflections that collaborate in its understanding of a universal problem, and in the ways and modalities in which we will emerge from it to a new normal. The uncertainty that comes with that necessary but painful social isolation, has also brought with it the longing for guiding readings and reflections on the variables that are profoundly, and perhaps forever, altering our daily lives and our environment.
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January 2017Educação vegana
Perspectivas no ensino de direitos animais
by Organizador Denis, Leon
Educação Vegana: Perspectivas no Ensino de Direitos Animais Como nós, seres humanos, nos relacionamos com as outras espécies? Por que nos relacionamos desta maneira? Como construímos ou aprendemos estas formas de relação? Em Educação Vegana, os autores apresentam estas relações na perspectiva do modo de vida vegano, propondo maneiras de trabalhar a problemática da ética animal e dos direitos animais nas aulas de Filosofia, Sociologia, Matemática e Literatura. É um livro para quem se interessa pelo estudo sobre relações humanas com outras espécies e, principalmente, para professores que queiram introduzir tais questões em suas aulas. Vegan Education: Perspectives in Animal Rights Teaching How do we, human beings, relate to other species? Why do we relate this way? How do we build or learn these forms of relationship? In Vegan Education, the authors present these relationships from the perspective of the vegan way of life, proposing ways to work on the issue of animal ethics and animal rights in Philosophy, Sociology, Mathematics and Literature classes. It is a book for anyone interested in studying human relations with other species and, especially, for teachers who want to introduce such questions into their classes
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The ArtsAugust 2019SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES AS CULTURAL ARENAS
by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and Adrián Gorelik (editors)
Organized by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo, and Adrián Gorelik, professor at the University of Quilmes, this book is the result of a collective research project about the cultural urban history in South America, which was developed by a group of South American researchers. Using as a compass the notion of “cultural arena”, this work performs a reflection on the city as a place of cultural germination, experimentation and resistance. Some cities – Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Montevideo, among others – are studied in order to capture the intimate and inextricable relations between city and culture.
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Marta e Kin: salvare la Terra!
by Nicola Bennati
The Space Confederation has gathered all the Nations who have reached civilization around the Universe and culturally elevated themselves, overcoming the limits of the profit system. Earth, on the other hand, is populated by barbarian hordes, still worshipping the money and destroying themselves day after day. The Confederation puts researchers Marta and Kin on a mission to save the Humans and help them make the transition towards civilization. A novel at the turn of science fiction and sociology, whose message is aimed at safeguarding our own, beloved planet. --- La Confederazione Spaziale ha raccolto i popoli del cosmo che hanno raggiunto la civiltà, elevandosi culturalmente e superando i limiti del sistema del profitto. Sulla Terra abita invece un popolo barbaro, ancora legato al denaro, che si sta autodistruggendo giorno dopo giorno. La Confederazione ha deciso di provare a salvare gli Umani e aiutarli a compiere il passaggio verso la civiltà, attraverso una missione condotta dalle ricercatrici Marta e Kin le quali, una volta giunte nella base lunare da cui organizzeranno l'approccio con i terrestri, troveranno ad aiutarle due curiosi personaggi. Il primo contatto con i governanti dei paesi più potenti condurrà a risvolti lontani dalle aspettative iniziali, a causa della mentalità gretta e retrograda degli Umani. La Confederazione non si dà per vinta, i terrestri sono dotati di un talento musicale che non si può lasciar disperdere. Un romanzo a cavallo tra la fantascienza e la sociologia, dove il cuore del messaggio che l'autore cerca di trasmettere volge a salvaguardare il nostro caro pianeta, che lentamente volge al declino a causa della mano troppo pesante dei suoi abitanti più evoluti.Un bel messaggio da leggere tutto d'un fiato per sensibilizzare adulti e ragazzi: Salvare la Terra!
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July 2015Sociología de la imagen
Miradas Ch'ixi desde la historia andina
by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Muestro aquí los detalles, los acontecimientos y hasta los cálculos numéricos para reproducir el tajín -el sarnaqawi- que me lleva de la historia oral a la sociología de la imagen. La visualización alude a una forma de memoria que condensa otros sentidos. Sin embargo, la mediación del lenguaje y la sobreinterpretación de los datos que aporta la mirada, hace que los otros sentidos -el tacto, el olfato, el gusto, el movimiento, el oído- se vean disminuídos o borrados en la memoria. La descolonización de la mirada consistiría en liberar la visualización de las ataduras del lenguaje, y en reactualizar la memoria de la experiencia como un todo indisoluble, en el que se funden los sentidos corporales y mentales. Me inspira que la sociología de la imagen sea una especie de “arte del hacer”, una práctica teórica, estética y ética que no reconozca fronteras entre la creación artística y la reflexión conceptual y política.
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April 2019Migrazioni e modernità
Una lettura generativa
by Emanuele, Iula
This book starts with an upside down turn of perspective. If a sense must be searched and found in the phenomenon of human mobility, we cannot content ourselves with the knowledge of a possible future for migrants in their country of arrival. We could rather ask whether these people give a future and open up new understandings to the societies they come to. This turn is the cornerstone offered by a “generative thinking” to the debate on migration.
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September 2017Every food has a history
by Joana Monteleone
A delicious piece of work. Several essays, all of them told with pleasure of a historian who, at this moment, is not making History, but telling stories. Such storytelling, however, demands culture and talent, and Joana has extra talent and culture: she is a cook, that is, a first-rate storyeller, who moves through several times and through several dishes. The book, indicated for readers of any age, shows how much eacha meal we make is full of stories to be told and to tell us.
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January 2019La città post-secolare
Il nuovo dibattito sulla secolarizzazione
by Paolo Costa
The secularization debate went through a big change during the last fifty years. Could this change be described as a paradigm shift? The volume, after an introduction that deeply analyses the “secularization” concept, picks up and discusses in eight chapters several exemplary figures in the recent debate (H. Blumenberg, D. Martin, C. Taylor, H. Joas, T. Asad, M. Gauchet, J. Habermas, G. Vattimo).Thus, the Author gives for the very first time, a systematic reconstruction of the changes and developments in this debate, ending in a real paradigm shift. The conclusion is however hesitant. It is unclear, Costa claims, whether this concept is still helpful to understand what is going on around us now and is in store for us in the near future. Winner of the Book Prize of the European Society for Catholic Theology (category: senior scholar)
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2020AMAZON MOUTH
Society and culture in Dalcidio Jurandir
by Willi Bolle
This book presents an overview of Amazonian history and analyzes the novel Cycle of the Far North, by Dalcidio Jurandir, a work that represents the social inequality and exclusion inherent to Amazonian society. Willi Bolle rescues the work of this important, albeit unknown, author, emphasizing Dalcidio Jurandir’s contribution to our understanding of Amazonian culture. In his work, Jurandir describes the quotidian of those living in the periphery of society, and advocates, quite emphatically, quality education for the poor. He also registers the social dialect of the inhabitants of the Amazon, in a document of the cultural memory of the region.
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Sociología(s) del arte y de las políticas culturales
by Tomás Peters
The proposal elaborated by Tomás Peters in Sociología(s) del arte y de las políticas culturales seeks to show the transformation of the analytical models of the sociology of art. The first one is to follow some theoretical clues that will allow us to find the meaning of art in modernity. Based on Luhmann, he elaborates a macro-historical explanation of the differentiation that goes from the art system to the formation of a specific system in modernity. Subsequently, the Adorno-Benjamin dialectic allows him to concentrate on the contradictions of artistic experience in the modern world. The reflection continues with Howard S. Becker and Pierre Bourdieu to introduce us to the artistic field itself and the current conditions of art in a world of ultra-technology and artistic post-autonomy. However, the most relevant contribution of this book is the dialogue it establishes between the sociology of art and cultural policies. The confrontation between the two would have constituted a virtuous circle, resulting in a sociological work that considers the work of art “as a critical-cultural device that intervenes in the social sphere and that is possible to make it productive from contemporary cultural policies,” and that ends up synthesizing this search for new ways of thinking about the social field in cooperation with the critical work of art. Tomás Peters (Santiago, 1982) is a sociologist, has a MA in Theory and History of Art and a PhD in Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. He is an assistant professor at the Institute of Communication and Image of the University of Chile and a member of the MA in Cultural Management at the same institution. He has been a visiting researcher at the Ibero-American Institute, the Autonomous Metropolitan University Iztapalapa Unit and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research fields are cultural theory, sociology of art and social history of cultural policies in Latin America.
