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  • The Ends of the World

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Déborah Danowski ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes ...
    The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • From the Enemy's Point of View

    Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Translated by Catherine V. Howard ...
    The Araweté are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon in terms of Araweté social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Araweté—a Tupi-Guarani people of Eastern ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul

    The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-century Brazil

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Series Book 41 - Paradigm ;
    In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to receive the Gospel, they also had a tendency to forget the missionaries’ lessons and “revert” to their natural state of war, cannibalism, and polygamy. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Understanding Urban Metabolism

    A Tool for Urban Planning

    Edited by Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Eduardo Anselmo de Castro, Eddy J. Moors ...
    Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions. Urban metabolism considers a city as a system, and distinguishes between energy and material flows as its components. Based on research from the BRIDGE project, this book deals with how the urban ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Cannibal Metaphysics

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Series series Univocal
    The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in which nature and culture, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Healing Young Brains

    The Neurofeedback Solution

    by Robert W. Hill Ph.D., Eduardo Castro ...
    Neurofeedback is a scientifically proven form of brainwave feedback that trains the child's brain to overcome slow brainwave activity, and increase and maintain its speed permanently. Neurofeedback is quick, noninvasive and cost effective. In fact, 80 percent of the time, neurofeedback is effective without any of the side effects associated with drugs commonly used to such childhood disorders as ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Carbon Composites

    Composites with Nanotubes, Nanomaterials, and Graphene Oxide

    Edited by Eduardo A. Castro, Ann Rose Abraham, A. K. Haghi ...
    This volume demonstrates the unique place in nanotechnology and nanoscience that carbon nanomaterials occupy owing to their exceptional chemical, mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. Carbon nanomaterials have diverse applications in super strong composite materials, smart sensors, energy storage and conversion, super-capacitors, and more. Focusing on materials rather than mechanics, ... Read more

    $247.99 CAD

  • Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Volume 4

    Experimental Techniques and Methodical Developments

    Edited by A. K. Haghi, Lionello Pogliani, Eduardo A. Castro, Devrim Balköse, Omari V. Mukbaniani, Chin Hua Chia ...
    Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Volume 4: Experimental Techniques and Methodical Developments provides a detailed yet easy-to-follow treatment of various techniques useful for characterizing the structure and properties of engineering materials. This timely volume provides an overview of new methods and presents experimental research in applied chemistry using modern approaches. Each ... Read more

    $219.99 CAD

  • The Relative Native

    Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Roy Wagner ...
    Translated by Martin Holbraad, David Rodgers, Julia Sauma ...
    This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, “Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere.”Rounded out with new ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • When Diets Work

    Overcoming Fat Loss Resistance

    by Eduardo Castro, M.D. ...
    When Diets Work: Overcoming Fat Loss Resistance is for people who do not lose weight when they diet, or not much at all. And for those who gain weight when they stop dieting. Dr. Castro calls this inability to lose weight Fat Loss Resistance Syndrome (FLRS), and hedecribes the underlying causes and how to correct them. FLRS usually has several underlying factorsthat can be corrected. • Disruption ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian

    by Alberto Rangel, Jean-Christophe Goddard ...
    A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity.A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy. Both attack the decolonial question with poetic ferocity, ignited by the moment when ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon

    At the Edge of Ecological Collapse?

    by Joana Castro Pereira, Eduardo Viola ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest’s resilience.The authors examine and compare Amazonian politics and policies under different administrations, ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD