Daniel Silva: 67 books

The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867, traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival sources from Angola, Brazil, England, and Portugal, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva explores not only...

A antologia "Contatos Imediatos" é uma coletânea de contos organizada por Janaina Storfe. O livro tem como temática encontros, avistamentos e abduções extraterrestres, e os contos foram selecionados através de um concurso literário. O objetivo da obra é dar mais espaço para escritores...

Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures...

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...

This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings...

En 1959 la ONU aprobó la Declaración Universal de los Derechos del Niño. Diez principios que persiguen garantizar a todos los niños y niñas los cuidados, la protección y la educación necesarios. Entre otros, el derecho a ser iguales sin distinción de raza o religión, a recibir protección...

A one-stop Desk Reference, for R&D engineers involved in communications engineering; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. Material covers a wide scope of topics...

Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these...

Século XXI e as diversas linguagens que nos permeiam ainda não foram suficientemente discutidas em suas respectivas esferas. Nas suas atmosferas mais significativas e específicas. Em outras palavras: ainda há muitos resquícios de incompreensão face ao papel e objetivos de cada linguagem. Precisamos...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...