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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458893803321

Autore

Kirkendall Andrew J

Titolo

Paulo Freire and the Cold War politics of literacy [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew J. Kirkendall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0630-5

0-8078-9953-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

302.2/244

Soggetti

Literacy - Political aspects

Literacy - Political aspects - Latin America

Cold War

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Paulo Freire and the Twentieth-Century Drive for Development; 1 Entering History; 2 The Revolution that Wasn't and the Revolution that Was in Brazil, 1961-1964; 3 Reformist Chile, Peasant Consciousness, and the Meaning of Christian Democracy, 1964-1969; 4 Paulo Freire and the World Council of Churches in the First and Third Worlds, 1969-1980; 5 The Sandinistas and the Last Utopian Experiment of the Cold War, 1979-1980; 6 The Long, Slow Transition to Democracy in Brazil and the End(?) of Utopia, 1980-1997

Epilogue: Legacies of a Cold War Intellectual in a Post-Cold War World Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970's), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire (1921-97), who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War.A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire



developed adult

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454862803321

Autore

Blumberg Mark Samuel <1961->

Titolo

Body heat [[electronic resource] ] : temperature and life on earth / / Mark S. Blumberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-674-02376-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

571.46

Soggetti

Body temperature - Regulation

Animal heat

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction 1. Temperature: A User's Guide 2. Behave Yourself 3. Then Bake at 98.6&deg;F for 400,000 Minutes 4. Everything in Its Place 5. Cold New World 6. Fever All through the Night 7. The Heat of Passion 8. Livin' off the Fat 9. The Light Goes Out Epilogue Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this illuminating book, biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals. In the process Blumberg tells wonderful stories of evolutionary and scientific ingenuity.