Temples of the Earthbound Gods

Temples of the Earthbound Gods
Author: Christopher Thomas Gaffney
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0292781857

In Rio de Janeiro, the spiritual home of world football, and Buenos Aires, where a popular soccer club president was recently elected mayor, the game is an integral part of national identity. Using the football stadium as an illuminating cultural lens, Temples of the Earthbound Gods examines many aspects of urban culture that play out within these monumental architectural forms, including spirituality, violence, rigid social norms, anarchy, and also expressions of sexuality and gender. Tracing the history of the game in Brazil and Argentina through colonial influences as well as indigenous ball courts in Mayan, Aztec, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Olmec societies, Christopher Gaffney's study spans both ancient and contemporary worlds, linking the development of stadiums to urbanization and the consolidation of nation building in two of Latin America's most intriguing megacities.

Como ganhar sua eleição para vereador

Como ganhar sua eleição para vereador
Author: Carlos Manhanelli
Publisher: Manhanelli Editorial
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8564763125

O cargo de vereador é o mais importante da democracia brasileira, mais que presidente ou prefeito, mais que governador, deputados ou senadores. Como dizia Robert Elza Park, da Escola de Chicago, uma das únicas escolas de pensamento sociológico da história, a vizinhança é a unidade política da cidade, e é na cidade, institucionalizada como município, em que a vida social acontece, o resto é abstração; estado, país, são constructos mentais abstratos, a vida real se dá nas ruas que se convive e caminha todos os dias. Claramente existem outras bases para a representação de um vereador, principalmente com a intensificação da comunicação com o avanço da tecnologia que não se referem diretamente ao continuum geográfico, mas ainda são quase a totalidade os vereadores eleitos com votos concentrados na representação geográfica mais que social. A campanha de vereador também é a mais difícil, diz um adágio muito repetido no mundo hispânico, "pueblo chico, infierno grande", quanto menor a comunidade, maior a dificuldade, pois mais intensa é a vida social e a integração do universo de eleitores contigo, mais próximo estão. Por isso mesmo é o cargo mais importante da democracia. O vereador, em cidades menores principalmente, é a realização objetiva da representação democrática. Por isso mesmo o Marketing Político se torna mais importante, não só na campanha, mas principalmente no dia-a-dia. Se o que você precisa é de uma ajuda para organizar sua ideia de candidatura para vereador, ou para revisar seu método de trabalho político para as próximas eleições municipais, este é o livro indicado, primeiro porque é simples, sem segredos e metódico, segundo porque não é obra de aventureiro, é escrito por um professor, que antes mesmo de títulos tem a sabedoria e a perspicácia de transformar seu método exitoso de trabalho em campanhas eleitorais em uma linha de raciocínio coerente e lógico. Aproveite, somos um dos poucos países no mundo em que um dos mestres da área é tão acessível. Caio Araújo Manhanelli Consultor Político, Sociólogo com especialização em Antropologia Política e Mestrando em Comunicação Social.

Veja

Veja
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Brazil
ISBN:

Studia

Studia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 794
Release: 1974
Genre: Portugal
ISBN:

Mean Baby

Mean Baby
Author: Selma Blair
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 059308277X

Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. "Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer."—Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Founder of Together Rising The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went on to become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks, and she secretly drank to escape. Over the course of this beautiful and, at times, devasting memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair’s Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.

Governance.com

Governance.com
Author: Elaine C. Kamarck
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2004-05-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780815798613

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publication Advances in information technology are transforming democratic governance. Power over information has become decentralized, fostering new types of community and different roles for government. This volume—developed by the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government—explores the ways in which the information revolution is changing our institutions of governance. Contributors examine the impact of technology on our basic institutions and processes of governance, including representation, community, politics, bureaucracy, and sovereignty. Their essays illuminate many of the promises and challenges of twenty-first century government. The contributors (all from Harvard unless otherwise indicated) include Joseph S. Nye Jr., Arthur Isak Applbaum, Dennis Thompson, William A. Galston (University of Maryland), L. Jean Camp, Pippa Norris, Anna Greenberg, Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, David C. King, Jane Fountain, Jerry Mechling, and Robert O. Keohane (Duke University).

Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Author: Carolina Maria De Jesus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-05-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317475852

Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations and sexual intimidation.

BALASARENSES

BALASARENSES
Author: José Ferreira
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 176
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1291684840

Numbers

Numbers
Author: John Rechy
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 1314
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781555847302

An aging male hustler wages an obsessive battle against the passing of his youth in this darkly compelling follow-up to the cult hit City of Night. Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Like a retired boxer—an undefeated champion—who refuses to accept the possible ravages of time, Johnny is led by some unfathomable force to return to combat once again. Combat, for him, takes place in the dark balconies and dismal bathrooms of LA’s all-night movie theaters and on the hot sands of the city’s gay beaches. But these are only warm up bouts. The real test, Johnny soon learns, will be in the shaded glens of a rambling park on the outskirts of the city. Through those alcoves, as a gallery of sexhunters emerges, he sets out to discover whether the passage of time—as terrifying to the male hustler as to the dancer or ingenue—has diminished the allure that was the source of his pride. For Johnny, the final proof resides in numbers. So he sets himself a rigorous time-table—ten days—and goal: thirty “numbers” to prove is mettle. But through all the sexual episodes, the self-indulgence which comprises Johnny’s tawdry world, there resounds the universal cry of a human being’s desperate need to be loved.