Bernardo: 240 books
Brief Peeks Beyond
Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
This book is a multi-faceted exploration and critique of the human condition as it is presently manifested. It addresses science and philosophy, explores the underlying nature of reality, the state of our society and culture, the influence of the mainstream media, the nature of free will and a number...
Bala perdida
A violência policial no Brasil e os desafios para sua superação
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A Boitempo Editorial, que completa 20 anos de atividade em 2015, publica em parceria com o portal Carta Maior a coletânea Bala perdida: a violência policial no Brasil e os desafios para sua superação, quarto volume da coleção Tinta Vermelha. Ao longo de 16 artigos, a obra incita o debate público...
Lichtenstein in New York
A Pop Art Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Pop Art - an entirely new and defiantly American style of painting and sculpture - was all the rage among the cultural cognoscenti in the turbulent 1960s, and New York City was the unquestioned epicenter of Pop Art. No artist embodies this groundbreaking movement more than Roy Lichtenstein, the only...
by Mara Balestrini, Matías Bianchi, Pablo Collada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Within the framework of “political experimentation”, a perspective from which to observe the vibrant development of political innovation in Latin America – and also in Spain -, we have published the serie of The ecosystem of an open democracy article. This is a Democracia Abierta initiative...
The Nature of Consciousness
Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
“I’ve gained deeper understanding listening to Rupert Spira than I have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Reality is sending us a message we desperately need to hear, and at this moment no messenger surpasses Spira and the transformative words in his essays.”
—Deepak Chopra,...
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Confronting Inequality in the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources associated with information and communication technology between countries and within societies. We will explore how one factor, in this case information technology, can potentially support contradictory tendencies:...
Junho de 2013
A sociedade enfrenta o Estado
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Os movimentos de junho de 2013 foram uma das mais importantes manifestações populares da história brasileira. Além disso, apresentaram um caráter absolutamente inédito. Não tiveram uma causa, como nas diretas‑já e no impeachment de Collor. Não foram convocados por instituições representativas...
by Pablo Escalante, Bernardo García Martínez, Luis Jáuregui
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 12, 2013
A New Compact History of Mexico es una versión no sólo nueva sino innovadora, ya que sus textos fueron preparados especialmente para esta edición por siete académicos distintos de los autores que escribieron A Compact History of Mexico. Esta obra conserva la intención de ofrecer conocimiento...
by Bernardo García Martínez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Utilizando los materiales más recientes de la arqueología y la antropología, describe las características principales de cada una de estas formaciones y discute las causas de las grandes transformaciones para mostrar un panorama por demás singular y dinámico de este largo periodo histórico.
by Bernardo Ajzenberg
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Aos 50 anos, Enzo, um engenheiro civil desempregado, optou pelo autoexílio. Espelhando-se em um jovem conhecido que havia desaparecido misteriosamente, abandonou a família enquanto todos dormiam. Antes visto como um homem sóbrio, fino e educado, agora ele cria enigmas particulares e ameaça levar...
by Bernardo Atxaga
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Irene is 37 years old and just out of prison after serving time for terrorist activities. Deciding to return home to Bilbao, she takes a bus journey across Spain, striking up conversations with the passengers who include two plainclothes policemen. As the journey progresses, so the tension builds.
Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy
The Struggle for Recognition and Self-Reliance under Karimov
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Uzbekistan’s foreign policy from 1991 to 2016, starting from independence right up to the death of its first president, Islam Karimov, is one of the more distinctive approaches to international politics since the end of the Cold War. This distinctiveness rests on the republic’s gradual struggle...
by Bernardo Guimarães
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 14, 2015
O Ermitão de Muquém é o primeiro romance regionalista brasileiro, escrito em 1858 e publicado em 1864, conta-nos a história da fundação da romaria de Muquém na Província de Goiás.
by Bernardo Guimarães
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Este romance de fama internacional foi publicado em 1875, época em que as campanhas abolicionistas ganhavam cada vez mais força no mundo. Por meio de uma narrativa romântica, a obra retrata as lutas que Isaura, escrava que teve acesso a uma educação erudita, trava entre o amor e o ódio, a privação...