O quarto volume da série de sucesso Lendari® Creepypastas vai abordar uma das lendas urbanas brasileiras mais conhecidas de todos os tempos: Setealém. O que é? Um lugar? Uma cidade? Junte-se à experiência real vivida pelo escritor Luciano Milici para, quem sabe, acharmos uma resposta. O mistério do lugar que está em todo lugar e em lugar nenhum!

Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas are finding new ways to sustain themselves. This involves a new emphasis on environmental protection, a...

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With research that spans numerous countries and several continents, the chapters in this volume add broadly to knowledg...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on l...

This book presents recent advances, challenges, and trends in modern microalgal biotechnology. It covers microalgae genetics, bioreactors, modeling, massive scale and industrial cultivation, and environmental, social, and economic aspects of microalgal biotechnology. The book also explores the emerging knowledge about high-value bioproducts from microalgae, e.g., biofuels, biosurfactants, bioremediation, bioplastics/biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, antioxidants (anti-aging), fatty acids, poly...

É com imensa satisfação que o Instituto Brasileiro de Política e Direito do Consumidor – BRASILCON traz aos leitores a obra coletiva 'Direito do consumidor aplicado: garantias do consumo', como resultado das publicações havidas no sítio jurídico CONJUR (conjur.com.br) no período compreendido entre dezembro de 2020 a agosto de 2022. O BRASILCON mantém na festejada e distinta estrutura digital a (re)conhecida coluna semanal "garantias do consumo', através da qual infindáveis temas relacionad...

"Estamos diante de projeto legislativo significativamente propositivo e que se soma (e coordena-se em diálogo) com as demais legislações que regulam as intrincadas e complexas atividades digitais, como o Marco Civil da Internet (MCI), a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) e, mesmo que em lege ferenda, o Marco Legal da Inteligência Artificial (PL 2338/2023), revelando-se conjunto normativo de extraordinária conquista aos cyberconsumidores no Brasil. A obra coletiva que agora vai a público...