The question of rationality and modernity has played a key role in defining the West’sunderstanding of itself in relation to “the other.” Much of this self-defining was done in a waythat privileged a western model of rationality, which itself was…

This chapter narrates Ricardo Piglia’s intellectual and literary formation in the less than serene Argentine sixties and seventies. Arriving back in his home country from Paris where he had studied with Roland Barthes, Piglia seemed set to carry on the…

This chapter narrates Ricardo Piglia’s intellectual and literary formation in the less than serene Argentine sixties and seventies. Arriving back in his home country from Paris where he had studied with Roland Barthes, Piglia seemed set to carry on the…

This chapter narrates Ricardo Piglia’s intellectual and literary formation in the less than serene Argentine sixties and seventies. Arriving back in his home country from Paris where he had studied with Roland Barthes, Piglia seemed set to carry on the…

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Concept maps are graphical representations of relationships among concepts that can be an effective tool for teaching, designing, and organizing information in a variety of library settings. Concept maps can be used wherever training or formal teaching occurs as a…

This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through the Renaissance invention of the terrestrial globe.…

In June 2008, the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) and the Indian NGO SAHARA submitted a joint pre-grant opposition to the patent application of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in India. This joint action provides a pertinent case model of the potential…

In this article we study the retrospective inverse problem. The retrospective inverse problem consists of in the reconstruction of a priori unknown initial condition of the dynamic system from its known final condition. Existence and uniqueness of the solution is…

With the increasing demand for composite materials by the industry, the adhesive joints emer ge as an attractive alternative to traditional mechanical joints. The latter require as a preliminary step, the drilling of the laminates with consequent damage to the…