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Will To Live - Aids Therapies And The Politics Of Survival

de Joao Biehl

68,90€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies - a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Picturing Personhood - Brain Scans And Biomedical Identity

de Joseph Dumit

59,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, this book analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. It demonstrates how brain scans contribute to our social dependence on scientific authority.
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Insurgent Citizenship - Disjunctions Of Democracy And Modernity In Brazil

de James Holston

53,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. It argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies.
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When Nature Goes Public - The Making And Unmaking Of Bioprospecting In Mexico

de Cori Hayden

53,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property.
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Wild Profusion - Biodiversity Conservation In An Indonesian Archipelago

de Celia Lowe

46,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Tells the story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98 - a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for environmental activists, and the fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations that they were destroying nature.
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Born And Made - An Ethnography Of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

de Celia Roberts e Sarah Franklin

53,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Are reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method.
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More - The Last Soviet Generation

de Alexei Yurchak

46,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. Focusing on the transformation of the 1950's at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, this book traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, and pursuits that this transformation enabled.
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Politics Of Life Itself - Biomedicine, Power, And Subjectivity In The Twenty-First Century

de Nikolas Rose

53,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Examines the developments in life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology. This book analyzes molecular biopolitics, examining developments in genomics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychopharmacology and the ways they have affected racial politics, crime control, and psychiatry.
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Global &Quote;Body Shopping&Quote; - An Indian Labor System In The Information Technology Industry

de Biao Xiang

46,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice.
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Race To The Finish - Identity And Governance In An Age Of Genomics

de Jenny Reardon

53,00€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Argues that the long abeyance of the Diversity Project points to larger, fundamental questions about how to understand knowledge, democracy, and racism in an age when expert claims about genomes increasingly shape the possibilities for being human.
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Anthropos Today - Reflections On Modern Equipment

de Paul Rabinow

46,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. This volume assembles a set of conceptual tools - "modern equipment" - to assess how intellectual work is conducted and how it might change. It offers a discussion of how one might best think about anthropos.
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The Politics Of Life Itself - Biomedicine, Power, And Subjectivity In The Twenty-First Century

de Nikolas Rose

~~54,08€~~ 37,86€ 30% IMEDIATO

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 Examines the developments in life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology. This book analyzes molecular biopolitics, examining developments in genomics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychopharmacology and the ways they have affected racial politics, crime control, and psychiatry.
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Abc London Railway Atlas

de Joe Brown

10,82€

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 Ian Allan's large format London Railway Atlas has been one of our most popular publications - this new pocket sized version will be an essential purchase for all enthusiasts and travellers requiring an easily portable reference
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Isle Of Wight Railways: A New History

de Richard Long

18,03€

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 A fresh look at the history and development of the railways in the Isle of Wight, illustrated with a range of largely unpublished colour photographs
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Race To The Finish - Identity And Governance In An Age Of Genomics

de Jenny Reardon

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 Argues that the long abeyance of the Diversity Project points to larger, fundamental questions about how to understand knowledge, democracy, and racism in an age when expert claims about genomes increasingly shape the possibilities for being human.
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Picturing Personhood - Brain Scans And Biomedical Identity

de Joseph Dumit

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, this book analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. It demonstrates how brain scans contribute to our social dependence on scientific authority.
INGLÊS

When Nature Goes Public - The Making And Unmaking Of Bioprospecting In Mexico

de Cori Hayden

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property.
INGLÊS

Insurgent Citizenship - Disjunctions Of Democracy And Modernity In Brazil

de James Holston

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. It argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies.
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Will To Live - Aids Therapies And The Politics Of Survival

de Joao Biehl

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies - a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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The Shadows And Lights Of Waco - Millennialism Today

de James D. Faubion

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 Reveals millennialism as simultaneously a poetics, a rhetoric, a physics, an approach to history, a course of training, a gnosis, and an ethics.
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Wild Profusion - Biodiversity Conservation In An Indonesian Archipelago

de Celia Lowe

33,12€

portes grátis

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Tells the story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98 - a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for environmental activists, and the fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations that they were destroying nature.
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Global "Body Shopping" - An Indian Labor System In The Information Technology Industry

de Biao Xiang

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice.
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Fiscal Disobedience - An Anthropology Of Economic Regulation In Central Africa

de Janet Roitman

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 Represents a different approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. This book examines the nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. It argues that citizenship is being redefined through a renegotiation of the rights and obligations.
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Born And Made - An Ethnography Of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

de Celia Roberts e Sarah Franklin

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Are reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method.
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