I dreamed of seeing my name on the cover of a book. I wanted it so much that one day… I did it myself!
Many international forums have identified the need for comprehensive, scientific methods for the pre-release testing and post-release monitoring of transgenic plants to ensure their environmental safety and sustainable use. In response to this requirement, a GMO Guidelines Project was established under the aegis of the International Organization for Biological Control, to develop biosafety testing guidelines for transgenic plants. This second volume focuses on transgenic cotton in Brazil and addresses both environmental and agricultural impacts. It draws out some general risk assessment guidelines and demonstrates the need for case-by-case analysis.
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This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct forms of gender-based violence across private, public and transnational spheres as interlinked with structural, symbolic and infrastructural violence. The book also explores the embodied and spatialised nature of gendered urban violence, explored through artistic engagements and arts-based methods. In developing a translocational feminist tracing methodological and epistemological approach across the social sciences and the arts, the book argues for the importance of a collaborative approach among academic, civil society organisations, artists and creative researchers with a view to engendering empathetic transformation to address gendered urban violence in the long-term.
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Der Hund ist der Begleiter des Menschen seit Jahrtausenden. Jan Philipp Reemtsmas Exkursionen zum „Hund in der Malerei“ unterscheiden, gelehrt und unterhaltend die verschiedenen Funktionen, die sie in der Malerei innehaben. »Hunde als Accessoires, die einfach nur das Bild mit einer optischen oder genrespezifischen Auflockerung versehen – und Hunde, die seltsam prominent im Bild erscheinen, ohne daß man, auf den ersten Blick, zu sagen vermöchte, was sie da eigentlich zu suchen haben.« So spannt sich der Bogen von Rembrandt bis Max Liebermann, von Watteau bis Lucian Freud. Vierzig Farbabbildungen illustrieren die Ausführungen. Und der Leser des Buches wird beim nächsten Museumsbesuch nach Hunden Ausschau halten.
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Work that represents a visual testimony of the social outbreak that was presented in Chile in October 2019, without censorship or cuts. Illustrations, vignettes and comics that in an intimate and stark way show the various experiences and points of view of young artists. Visions of social criticism, community, hope, joy, effervescence, violence and pain are presented. In this careful and attractive work, the best 86 works obtained through an open call by RRSS are compiled. It is an eminently visual book (with large, full-color illustrations and comics); trilingual (with translations into English and French); and informative (includes notes with reflections from the artists and comments from the editor). The compilation and production of the book was in charge of the publisher María Eliana Aguayo. Regarding the creation of the book, the editor comments: “We are very happy with the success of the call, we received more than 500 works from more than 150 authors from different parts of the country and abroad (…) The hardest work was selecting, ordering and systematize all this, the works, reflections and notes”.
At the core of this new novel is a boutique, a spacious place full of light where objects and clothes are given new life; the layout and architecture of the space feature both Eastern and Western details. The two owners have very different personalities: Nina, whose husband committed suicide in the aftermath of the US financial crash, is vulnerable and unsettled;Teresa, Jewish and married to a Spanish cello player that gives her confidence and comfort, is balanced and determined. The boutique sees an entire world of people coming and going through its doors, and the relationships that start there soon complicate themselves, showing the signs of a transient and ever changing universe. The boutique also becomes a meeting point for the cast of characters that regularly spends time there – a career woman, a strong-minded housewife, an ex workman, a frustrated father and a cheating gay man –, a place where they can play out affections, jealousy, betrayals, hopes and disappointments.When Ibrahim, an Afghan tailor, attempts to declare his love for high-maintenance Nina, even the most ill matched couple will show a determination to change, a flicker of hope for a better world.
Aquellos días en Varsovia relata la historia de amor que surge entre Eliana, una joven judía, y Eryk, un disidente polaco, en el escenario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La pasión deslumbrante de esa experiencia atravesada por sentimientos contradictorios de vergüenza, ilusión, desesperanza y ensueño, queda grabada de forma indeleble en la subjetividad de Eliana. La ficción entrelaza la Historia política y social, tanto de la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra como de la Argentina de los años 60-70, a través del recorrido en el espacio y en el tiempo. El autoritarismo, la represión, el sufrimiento y la degradación física y moral dejan al descubierto las emociones más profundas. En ese escenario sombrío, los claroscuros de la condición humana revelan el valor de la resistencia por sobre la barbarie mediante la solidaridad, el amor y la entrega.
France, 1577: Louise, the daughter of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, is among the few survivors of St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, in which her father, her husband and many of her closest friends are killed. After that day her life is a constant struggle not to lose her identity, an attempt to live up to the great responsibility of the people who, like her, survived while many others died. In her tireless search for the common good, even through the continued misfortunes of her life, Louise embodies the female roots of modern Europe.
The complete guide to guide children in the reading of the Italian Constitution. Democracy, equality, rights and duties. The principles of the Italian Constitution are explained in prose by the professor Onida, told in verse by the poet Piumini and illustrated by the wonderful tables of the artist Luzzati. After the success of the first edition, with more than 8,000 copies sold, a new version, extended and updated. In The Book of Constitution, The text of the Italian Constitution is proposed in twelve languages - Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, French, English, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, German and Italian - with the comment by the constitutionalist Valerio Onida. Inside, also an originale section focused on teaching, with games, cards and cooperative learning activities, edited by the philosopher Eliana Cocca, along with the precious testimony by Elizabeth Arquinigo Pardo, activist for the Movimento degli Italiani Senza Cittadinanza.
How does spirituality enter the education of an architect? Should it? What do we mean by ‘spirituality’ in the first place? Isn’t architectural education a training ground for professional practice and, therefore, technically and secularly oriented? Is there even room to add something as esoteric if not controversial as spirituality to an already packed university curriculum? The humanistic and artistic roots of architecture certainly invite us to consider dimensions well beyond the instrumental, including spirituality. But how would we teach such a thing? And why, if spirituality is indeed relevant to learning architecture, have we heard so little about it? Spirituality in Architectural Education addresses these and many other important philosophical, disciplinary, pedagogic, and practical questions. Grounded on the twelve-year-old Walton Critic Program at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning, this book offers solid arguments and insightful reflections on the role that “big questions” and spiritual sensibility ought to play in the architectural academy today. Using 11 design studios as stopping grounds, the volume takes the reader into a journey full of meaningful interrogations, pedagogic techniques, challenging realizations, and beautiful designs. Essays from renowned architects Craig W. Hartman, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Campo Baeza, Claudio Silvestrin, Eliana Bórmida, Michael J. Crosbie, Prem Chandavarkar, Rick Joy, Susan Jones, and Daniel Libeskind open new vistas on the impact of spirituality in architectural education and practice. All this work is contextualized within the ongoing discussion of the role of spirituality and religion in higher education at large. The result is an unprecedented volume that starts a long-awaited conversation that will advance architectural schooling. ACSA Distinguished Professor Julio Bermudez, with recognized expertise on spirituality in architecture, will be the guide in this fascinating and contemplative journey.
Adolescence is a time of many doubts, anxieties and uncertainties. In this phase, sexuality is unfolding, and we are going through — because everyone has gone, is going or will go through — self-questions about all conditions, all desires, including regarding sexuality. If on the one hand, we see in beautiful social networks beautiful movements of self-acceptance and discovery, on the other hand we live in a time of great obscurantism and attempt to cage the desires and contain the experiences of young people – whether at home or at school, and unfortunately, many times, with public authority initiative. This book asks this of young people, who often find themselves trapped by a cultural need (or family pressure) to create heteronormative bonds, when, in fact, they feel the desire for people of the same sex. But this book also understands that it is necessary to take this issue to the world, so that everyone reflects on otherness, sexuality and, mainly, the many possibilities of affection and desire. Por que não consigo gostar dele/dela? is a book with two sides, two covers, four stories and many testimonials.
In ‘Dissident identity: themes for a new Brazilian History’, Edgard Leite continues the work done in 'Predators', which addresses the Brazilian history from the other side, rescuing facts, contradictions and ideas that, over the years and because of a historiography often biased, remained forgotten. A thorough job and an arduous task which the author is not exempt, but faces; as well as facing certain tradition in historical studies. With a concise writing, the author develops his argument from the idea that, since the Copernican revolution, mankind turned to quantity over quality. It is precisely this world that will emerge from Brazil, since the arrival of Europeans will just at a time when the effects of the Copernican turning shall introduce into Europe. Another important point for understanding the history of Brazil will be the secularization of the state, which is strengthened by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution is, above all, its most acute event. Understanding the relationship between state and religion and, especially, the understanding of the concept of mind, will be central to a discussion of the values that shape - or fail to shape - a society. The book ends with the 1964 event, and the reader will wait that the author addresses in forthcoming books, the continuation of Brazilian history. Always with his provocative and powerful bias.
In 1988, an exciting and important new program was launched at the Institute of Medicine. Through the generosity of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation, a lecture series was established to bring to greater attention some of the critical health policy issues facing our nation today. Each year a subject of particular relevance is addressed through a lecture presented by experts in the field. The Rosenthal lecture included in this volume captures three exciting presentations, given by Drs. Elliott Fisher, George Isham, and Lucian Leape, and reveals the ensuing discussion on "Next Steps Toward Higher Quality Health Care."
The novel Polifemo, by Erik Del Bufalo, written with fine language and dramatic texture, narrates the inner experience of a modern man, blinded by a clarity that surpasses him, unable to see any depth or mystery. At the turn of this millennium, in the middle of a tropical city, plagued by plague and destruction, Lucian Holzer is suddenly caught up in the plot of a crime, which is also the warp of two loves. The mysterious death of his youthful passion will become a voracious shadow that will not cease to haunt him. Due to a mistake, two feminine presences, one past and the other present, will end up becoming the same ghost eager for dark desires.
"Six hours is enough for the work. The other hours say to man: live! LucianRainer and Totala Zufall have spent their whole life in the gear of the hamster wheel. Through the construction of our monetary system they are - like most people - in an invisible treadmill. A prison from which magnate and capitalist Karl Kulation knows how to profit. Rainer and Totala decide they no longer want to be slaves of the system. They finally want to live financially free and independent! With the instructions in this book, they succeed in gradually freeing themselves from the constraints of the hamster wheel and switch to the track of the winners. This book is a step-by-step guide for all those people who are also longing for a better quality of life, who want to finally leave the treadmill and live as independently and self-sufficiently as family Zufall (chance). Finance-Book for age group 18-40 - part of the most popular finance-book-series in Germany and Amazon Bestseller!
