Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Américas

O Brasil está entre os países que mais lincham no mundo. Nos últimos 60 anos, mais de um milhão de brasileiros participou de ações de justiçamento de rua. Neste audiolivro oportuno e inquietante, o sociólogo José de Souza Martins busca, além dos motivos próximos, as raízes profundas dessa antiga prática, verdadeiro ritual de loucura coletiva.

During the Roaring Twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society.

With piercing insight into the current debates over free speech, censorship, and Big Tech’s responsibilities, Richard L. Hasen proposes legal and social measures to restore Americans’ access to reliable information on which democracy depends. In an era when quack COVID treatments and bizarre QAnon theories have entered mainstream, this book explains how to assure both freedom of ideas and a commitment to truth.

O PT se apresentava como um partido que lutava nas ruas e nas portas das fábricas, nas igrejas e nas universidades pregando ética e justiça social. No que ele se transformou após mais de uma década de exercício contínuo de poder? José de Souza Martins, um dos mais importantes cientistas sociais brasileiros, enfrenta essa questão com coragem e objetividade. O audiolivro vai desvendando o PT por meio de passagens que acompanham a trajetória do partido, do início aos dias de hoje. Audiolivro esclarecedor, apaixonado e apaixonante.

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces.

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together 19 essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on Black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's contributors speak new truths about the Black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of Black queer studies as a rigorous and important field of study.

Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for 25 years, mostly to White people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone. With Teaching Black History to White People, which is “part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to guide”, Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the Black experience in America.

In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal - an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea - as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways.

C'era una volta un'Argentina ricca e felice, quella che fu "Lamerica" per tanti italiani emigrati. Come oggi vadano le cose in quel paese, dopo gli anni di Peron, la dittatura militare e la presidenza di Menem, è davanti agli occhi di tutti. Laura Pariani è andata in Argentina non solo come scrittrice, ma come testimone capace di dar conto del mutamento, o meglio, della catastrofe annunciata. Incontrando argentini ed ex immigrati ricostruisce la storia di un paese che oggi pare senza memoria.

The Steal is an engaging, in-depth report on what happened during those crucial nine weeks and a portrait of the dedicated individuals who did their duty and stood firm against the unprecedented, sustained attack on our election system and ensured that every legal vote was counted and that the will of the people prevailed.

In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the Black church and in Black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define Black girlhood and womanhood. Drawing on writing by medieval thinkers and travelers, Enlightenment theories of race, the commodification of women's bodies under slavery, and the work of Tyler Perry and Bishop T. D. Jakes, Lomax shows how Black women are written into religious and cultural history as sites of sexual deviation.

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now Southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.

President Emerita of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Karen Brooks Hopkins pens BAM... and Then It Hit Me, an inspiring memoir of her 36 years at the iconic cultural institution, America's oldest performing arts center. The book has a sharp focus on concepts such as leadership, innovation, urban revitalization (including the transformation of Brooklyn from Manhattan outpost to the coolest neighborhood on the planet), as highly successful cultural fundraising played critical roles in the colorful evolution of this world-class cultural juggernaut in the performing arts.

"Días de sumisión recoge con mucha agudeza la infiltración comunista, desde La Habana, en Venezuela. También cómo Hugo Chávez se preparó minuciosamente para ser golpista. El libro es un triunfo. Una gran contribución intelectual y ética para Venezuela." (Jaime Bayly, periodista peruano)

La Batalla por Tenochtitlan ofrece una panorámica de los acontecimientos que desencadenaron la caída del Imperio mexica y analiza bajo nueva luz las distintas fuentes historiográficas con las que suele reconstruirse el periodo, a tiempo que va resaltando sus distintos puntos ciegos.

Desde la experiencia de la clase trabajadora, la novela de Gerardo de la Torre introduce a la situación desventurada de la vida de los obreros y de los habitantes de un poblado marcado por la industria petrolera. Al seguir extractos de sus vidas, Los hijos del águila muestra las luchas que los personajes afrontan en la cotidianidad de sus circunstancias.

After covering racial unrest in the remote northwest corner of his home state of Nebraska in 1999, journalist Stew Magnuson returned four years later to consider the larger questions of its peoples, their paths, and the forces that separate them. Examining Raymond Yellow Thunder’s death at the hands of four White men in 1972, Magnuson looks deep into the past that gave rise to the tragedy. Situating long-ranging repercussions within 130 years of context, he also recounts the largely forgotten struggles of American Indian Movement activist Bob Yellow Bird.

Mezcla entre ficción y realidad, Un día de guerra en Ayacucho cuenta la historia de tres icónicas batallas que cambiaron el rumbo de la guerra de emancipación que, en el siglo XIX, Perú libró en contra de España, originada de un ferviente deseo de libertad.

Los nuevos herederos de Zapata: Campesinos en movimiento, 1920-2012, abarca la historia del movimiento campesino en México desde poco antes de la Revolución hasta la primera mitad del sexenio de Enrique Peña Nieto. Traza un mapa del recorrido del movimiento social y registra el resurgimiento del movimiento indígena en el país.

Il Messico è il paese dei contrasti estremi. E all'estremo di tutto, c'è Mahahual: dove finisce la penisola dello Yucatán, sorge questo paesino di mille abitanti, a pochi chilometri dalla frontiera con il Belize. Angolo di paradiso tra palme e mangrovie, di fronte ha la barriera corallina seconda al mondo per estensione, il Mar dei Caraibi e lo scorrere lento del tempo: siamo nello stato del Quintana Roo, che a nord vanta la celebre Cancún, mentre qui c'è l'opposto assoluto, non solo geografico, perché a Mahahual il cemento non ha ancora invaso la vista.