What if magic were only the visible part of a far greater reality?Beyond dragons, witches, elves and even the Divinities lies a forgotten truth waiting to be uncovered.The Architects.Invisible, silent and creative beings capable of shaping matter, light... and the destiny of the Whole.As darkness threatens to consume existence itself, two young hybrids must embark on an epic coming-of-age quest across breathtaking fantasy worlds, confront creatures born from...

"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images.Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with...

"Quilombola Communities and Land Overlapping Challenges in Brazil" delves into the complexities of quilombola communities in the Brazilian context. The author explores the struggles and challenges faced by these traditional communities, especially those located in the Jalapão region, Tocantins. The book examines issues of territory, identity, and memory, offering a profound analysis of the legal, territorial, and ethnic-racial conflicts surrounding the constitutional rights of quilombola c...

In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts. Scholars have gradually become aware that world Christianity has a public face, voice, and reason. This volume stresses world Christianity as a form of public religion, identifying areas for...

Tired of losing money on sports betting?This book is your wake-up call.Forget about luck. Forget about tips. Forget about chasing wins.If you're serious about turning betting into a real investment strategy, this is where it starts.In First Steps to Stop Being a Gambler and Become a Sports Investor, James Cavalcante — with over 13 years of experience in the sports trading market — breaks down the exact mindset, strategies, and rules that separate long-term win...

Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case studies – from Brazil and Bosnia and Herzegovina to China and Trinidad and Tobago – the b...

This book contributes to the work of elucidating the new forms of fascism and authoritarianism that arise today in intimate relation with new mediatic and information technologies. It presents elements of the connection between capitalism and fascism and makes clear how fascism today uses the ambiguity of senses and meanings as its most efficient way of infiltrating our reality and thereby becoming unequivocal.The fascism of ambiguity is a fascism that grows the more the ambiguitie...

An in-depth look at the role of media in the struggle for transgender inclusionFrom television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live as a transgender person in a media environment before this transgender boom in television? While pop culture imaginations of transgender identity flourish and shape audience’s pe...

This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves rather how modernity is disorienting itself.The book brings together discussions on the writings of philosophers who treat more systematically the questio...

In an era defined by environmental challenges and the urgent need for sustainable practices, this book emerges as a groundbreaking resource for public and private organizations, practitioners, users of environmental services, and professionals in the fields of environmental sciences, engineering sciences, and business sciences. This thought-provoking book delves into the intricate realm of sustainability, offering profound insights, theoretical frameworks, and practical solutions that can ...

Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time.This book is a philosophical reflection on the experience of time from within exile. Its focus on temporality is unique, as most literature on exile focuses on the experience of space, as exile involves dislocation, and moods of nostalgia and utopia. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback proposes that in exile, time is experienced neither as longing back to the lost past nor as wanting ...

This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s. It analyses how that concept gained life in a particular context and the implications of this process for the Organisation’s support to societies affected by armed conflict in general and for peace operations in particular. Departing from tenets about the influence of ideas in world politics and engaging with the critique of the liberal peace scholarship, the ...