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This comprehensive book portrays the long-overdue recognition of women's work in chemistry, which only materialized with their late access to universities. Besides describing their scientific triumphs, it unveils the human side of the characters involved, providing an intimate perspective, often supported by extracts from their correspondence. By delving into their personal stories, struggles, and successes, this book brings these women to life. Written with simplicity and rigor, it aims to inspire and educate readers of all backgrounds about the extraordinary scientific achievements of these trailblazing women.

This monograph explores the participation of women in alchemy, chemical crafts, and the early stages of modern chemistry. By contextualizing their achievements within the broader social, cultural, and scientific landscapes of their time, this book enables readers to seize the challenges these women confronted and the obstacles they triumphed over. Alongside narrating how they shaped the development of chemistry, including their contributions to the body of chemical literature, it also emphasizes pivotal moments and milestones in the history of women's emancipation. The book's comprehensive and integrative approach, complemented by engaging storytelling, renders it an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and general readers alike.

This book explores the agrifood system transitions in Brazil to provide a new understanding of the trajectory of agriculture and rural development in this country. It accentuates the increasing diversifi cation and hybridization of food production and consumption practices throughout history. With a framework that combines convention theory, neoinstitutional approaches and practice theory, this book suggests the concept of “food orders” which represents different arrangements of practices, institutions and sociotechnical artifacts. By exploring the interrelations between these elements, the book looks at six different food orders: industrial, commercial, domestic, aesthetic, civic and fi nancial, in tandem with examples of practices, sectors and territories to understand the dynamics of each one. This aids in understanding the main tendencies of the agrifood sector in such a vast country that, being a major player in global food markets, also affect production and consumption dynamics in several other countries. Besides, this book also seeks to comprehend the current institutional changes in Brazil that may be critical to interpret the global dissemination of populist and autocratic governments. Offering key insights into the contemporary sociology of agriculture and food, this book demonstrates how strengthening democracy and supporting the organization of civil society are major challenges when we think about transition for sustainable food systems.

This book has been written in sixty days. It is a gentle, lyrical text, full of nuances, some spiritual plots, and other real stories. At the same time, it offers the recipe for a dreamed hope, without forgoing faith and the certainty of better days ahead.

Sinopse Em meio ao turbilhão político de dois mil e dezesseis, um publicitário próximo a presidência da república encontra-se envolvido em denuncias de corrupção, e quando já não suporta mais toda a perseguição da justiça brasileira, dos políticos, da policia federal e principalmente da imprensa, resolve, fugir de tudo viajando para o interior. Nesta viagem, acidentalmente, ele viaja no tempo caindo justamente no ano de mil, novecentos e sessenta e quatro, ano do golpe militar, então se torna um dos membros da resistência à ditadura militar apoiando aos grupos de oposição. Lá descobre também, que esta não foi sua primeira viagem ao tempo, que quando criança viajou no tempo de mil, novecentos e sessenta e seis para mil, novecentos e oitenta e seis. Assim você é convidado a fazer com o personagem esta emocionante viagem ao tempo e a história do Brasil de golpe a golpe. Relembrando momentos importantes da história do Brasil.

The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad examines the German Nazi Party’s actions around the world in the 1930s and 1940s. The book particularly focuses in on the formation and development of the Auslandsorganization der NSDAP (AO) (Nazi Party/Foreign Organization), the party branch charged with the task of connecting with foreign fascist movements and, especially with Germans living abroad. The authors follow the creation of the AO and its development in Germany, along with its actions throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, before finally focusing on Latin America. The Latin American case is then presented in both general and particular aspects, including countries such as Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. The study draws on many primary sources and is extensively referenced; an index with 700 references related to the action of Nazism in the American continent is presented, including the American and Canadian cases. This volume will be of interest to researchers of the history of Nazism and Latin America.

O livro “Natureza do Espaço e o Desenvolvimento” apresenta reflexões conceituais e práticas sobre o Espaço, bem como sobre uma diversidade de conceitos de categorias, a saber: região, território, lugar, paisagem, ambiente e cultura. Buscamos, ao longo do livro, compreender as diferentes visões sociais, antropológicas e do Desenvolvimento Rural, contribuindo para a ampliação dos entendimentos possíveis sobre a prática e os conceitos abordados. Ao elaborarmos esta obra, foi necessário priorizar uma série de iniciativas e perspectivas de trabalho e de pesquisa que não estão apartadas da vida coletiva e de suas realizações. Ao descrevermos o que cada parte deste livro apresenta, ao falarmos sobre cada conceito e categoria de análise, ao trazermos à baila o que determinados grupos sociais, políticos e étnicos reivindicam como direitos, modos de existência e como possibilidade de construção de outros mundos (possíveis), produzimos, em nosso entendimento, outras noções que evocam a urgência em reconhecermos estes direitos, estes povos e grupos, que nos indicam caminhos de pensamento nos quais as diferenças surgem como alternativas aos processos de sedentarização da ciência.