This book examines a number of themes relating to social and political life in Late Antiquity. The first part of the book considers how the powers of the emperor, state and civic authorities were expressed in the phyiscal environment, and how coinage and material culture were caught up in the political life of the period. The second part investigates the "middle classes" and "the poor," who are often less visible in archaeological, textual and epigraphic records. Other articles consider such topics as long term social evolution and the definition of time in Late Antiquity. Two extensive bibliographic essays provide an overview of published literature relating to social and political life.

This book surveys a variety of themes relating to the late antique countryside. It covers social and economic life, the archaeology of pilgrimage and the fate of rural temples, villas, monasteries and landscape change. There is a special section on rural survey in Turkey, a region of the Roman empire for which our knowledge of the countryside is poor. A bibliographic essay, on the rural archaeology of the entire empire, provides an excellent introduction to the volume and to the subject as a whole. Essays range from Northern Gaul to Egypt and draw on many sources: from papyrology and epigraphy to field survey and paleobotany. A complex picture of differing regional trajectories emerges, whilst cultural change is everywhere apparent, in phenomena such as Christianisation, settlement nucleation and fortification. Contributors include Beat Brenk, Beatrice Caseau, Douglas Baird, Archie Dunn, Etienne Louis, Fabio Saggioro, John Mitchell, Joseph Patrich, Lynda Mulvin, Carla Sfameni, Marcus Rautman, Peter Sarris, Frank Trombley, Joanita Vroom and Marc Waelkens.

Offers the latest research on poverty in the Graeco-Roman world, and unique insights suitable for social scientists as well as those studying ancient history and classical literature.

This book analyzes how COVID-19 impacted politics and how politics shaped the response to the pandemic in Latin America, the region which has become the epicenter of the global health crisis started in China. The volume brings together studies carried out in eight countries of the region - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay - and show how the impacts and outcomes varied a lot across the region depending on the political processes under way in each country in the years preceding the pandemic and on the political responses adopted by each government to deal with the health crisis. The volume is divided into four parts, each one dedicated to a specific dimension of the relation between politics and COVID-19 in Latin America. The first part is dedicated to denialism, and presents three case studies of governments that denied the importance of the health crisis: Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua. The second part takes Uruguay and Colombia as two opposite examples of successful and failed state action against COVID-19. The third part analyzes how social movements faced the pandemic in Brazil and Chile. Finally, the fourth part analyzes how public opinion reacted to political responses to COVID-19 in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico. COVID-19's Political Challenges in Latin America will be a valuable resource for political scientists, sociologists and other social scientists interested in understanding how the pandemic affected politics and how politics affected the fight against the biggest health crisis faced by humanity in the last hundred years.

Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once glorious imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western Christendom in a process that redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome examines these transformations by focusing on the city's powerful elite, the senatorial aristocracy, and exploring their involvement in a process of urban change that would mark the end of the ancient world and the birth of the Middle Ages in the eyes of contemporaries and modern scholars. It argues that the late antique history of Rome cannot be described as merely a product of decline; instead, it was a product of the dynamic social and cultural forces that made the city relevant at a time of unprecedented historical changes. Combining the city's unique literary, epigraphic, and archaeological record, the volume offers a detailed examination of aspects of city life as diverse as its administration, public building, rituals, housing, and religious life to show how the late Roman aristocracy gave a new shape and meaning to urban space, identifying itself with the largest city in the Mediterranean world to an extent unparalleled since the end of the Republican period.

This book analyzes how COVID-19 impacted politics and how politics shaped the response to the pandemic in Latin America, the region which has become the epicenter of the global health crisis started in China. The volume brings together studies carried out in eight countries of the region - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay - and show how the impacts and outcomes varied a lot across the region depending on the political processes under way in each country in the years preceding the pandemic and on the political responses adopted by each government to deal with the health crisis. The volume is divided into four parts, each one dedicated to a specific dimension of the relation between politics and COVID-19 in Latin America. The first part is dedicated to denialism, and presents three case studies of governments that denied the importance of the health crisis: Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua. The second part takes Uruguay and Colombia as two opposite examples of successful and failed state action against COVID-19. The third part analyzes how social movements faced the pandemic in Brazil and Chile. Finally, the fourth part analyzes how public opinion reacted to political responses to COVID-19 in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico. COVID-19's Political Challenges in Latin America will be a valuable resource for political scientists, sociologists and other social scientists interested in understanding how the pandemic affected politics and how politics affected the fight against the biggest health crisis faced by humanity in the last hundred years.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering (CBEB 2018). The conference was organised by the Brazilian Society on Biomedical Engineering (SBEB) and held in Armacao de Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 21-25 October, 2018. Topics of the proceedings include these 11 tracks: * Bioengineering * Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs * Biomechanics and Rehabilitation * Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation * Biomedical Robotics, Assistive Technologies and Health Informatics * Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Assessment * Metrology, Standardization, Testing and Quality in Health * Biomedical Signal and Image Processing * Neural Engineering * Special Topics * Systems and Technologies for Therapy and Diagnosis

This volume presents the proceedings of the Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering (CBEB 2018). The conference was organised by the Brazilian Society on Biomedical Engineering (SBEB) and held in Armacao de Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 21-25 October, 2018. Topics of the proceedings include these 11 tracks: * Bioengineering * Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs * Biomechanics and Rehabilitation * Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation * Biomedical Robotics, Assistive Technologies and Health Informatics * Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Assessment * Metrology, Standardization, Testing and Quality in Health * Biomedical Signal and Image Processing * Neural Engineering * Special Topics * Systems and Technologies for Therapy and Diagnosis

Quotes are like pieces of experiences, the quotes summarize in a line or two a lesson learned for life. The hope is always to save others from our grief and share with them our joy. Quotes of the same subject almost resemble the layers in an onion. You have to shed them layer by layer until you reach the core. Eternal truths have been said all along yet there is always a way to revisit them. Tailored in our own words and experiences, we express our life through quotes. Quotes often come through inspiration or desperation depending upon which aspect of life we are dealing with. Either side of an experience, good or bad, always stays a part of what we treasure and also what we dread. It is up to us to choose what to remember, what to forget and what to pass on. Out of the randomness of life we pick the pieces up and put them together...Putting the Pieces Together

(Vol 1/3) La Dinastia: 1750-1810 Roberto Carvallo, diligente hacendado, abolicionista impregnado con las ideas del siglo de la ilustracion, es el principal sospechoso de un asesinato, mientras su hermano Lorenzo, en los elegantes salones de Caracas y Madrid busca el titulo de Marques. Maria Antonia, hija de un mason espanol, nacida en Santo Domingo y esposa de Roberto, es el centro de tres generaciones que aun recorriendo parte de Europa y America, tienen su sede en la hacienda: Altagracia. Su apasionado hijo, Carlos Augusto, vinculado al procer Francisco de Miranda, conocera el peso de la justicia espanola y el exilio en Europa. El escenario esta matizado por figuras historicas y sus ideas, entre ellos Miranda, Mirabeau, Fernando VII, Condorcet, Mier y Teran, OHiggins, Pitt, Napoleon, Godoy, Hamilton, Bolivar, Iturbide, Owen, Casa Leon, Paez, Fermin Toro, Vargas, el Conde de Tovar, los hermanos Monagas, Zamora, Falcon y Guzman Blanco. La novela se desarrolla en Venezuela, Espana, Francia, Inglaterra, Colombia, Peru, Curazao, Santo Domingo, Cuba y Estados Unidos.

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Volumen III, "Los herederos" 1828-1863El tercer volumen de la saga cubre el prolongado e inestable nacimiento de la republica tras la separacion de Venezuela de la Gran Colombia. Anos de cambio social, miseria y bandidaje, mientras los caudillos se reparten el poder en una interminable cadena de intrigas y dictaduras. Carlos Augusto se desempena brevemente como diputado. Sus hijos, los nietos de Roberto, tienen intereses diversos: Carlos Roberto, artista frustrado en Londres, se interesa luego por la tecnologia e introduce en Venezuela las primeras maquinas de vapor; Matias abandona la vida monastica en Espana y regresa a Venezuela, y Guillermo lucha para que la hacienda "Altagracia" sobreviva a los bandidos y a la sangrienta guerra civil (1859-1863).
"La Casa de Altagracia" ofrece un retrato fidedigno y valiente de una epoca convulsa y llena de sorprendentes cambios que marcaron para siempre la historia de Venezuela y Latinoamerica. El rigor y la coherencia que sustentan los hechos e ideas que surcan esta saga no solo demuestran la descomunal investigacion que llevo a cabo su autor, sino que atrapan, gracias a la vivacidad de su pluma, aquello que suele quedar fuera de las paginas de los libros de historia: las preocupaciones cotidianas, el amor, el dolor y el olvido, los suenos y desencuentros, las pequenas alegrias y las necesidades y apariencias de una sociedad que se construyo a base de trabajo, rebeldia, sangre y fuego. La trama de esta minuciosa historia, ademas, conduce al lector por distintos paises y lo lleva al encuentro de figuras de la talla de Miranda, Mirabeau, Condorcet, O'Higgins, Napoleon, Godoy, Hamilton, Iturbide, Fermin Toro, Vargas, Paez, Zamora, Guzman Blanco y, por supuesto, Simon Bolivar.

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Volumen II, "Libertad y frustracion": 1810-1828Carlos Augusto se convierte en un joven guerrillero y llegara a ser General de los ejercitos independentistas, agente diplomatico en Europa y luego, junto a su hijo Eduardo, se unira a Bolivar para luchar sin descanso hasta las batallas finales. Los Carvallo se esfuerzan por preservar sus haciendas, en particular "Altagracia," en el marco de una guerra que divide al pais en dos bandos: aquellos que prefieren la firme mano de la corona y los que aspiran a la independencia. Maria Antonia y Mariana, la segunda esposa de Carlos Augusto, testigos de las atrocidades de la guerra, se convierten en los pilares de la vida familiar.
"La Casa de Altagracia" ofrece un retrato fidedigno y valiente de una epoca convulsa y llena de sorprendentes cambios que marcaron para siempre la historia de Venezuela y Latinoamerica. El rigor y la coherencia que sustentan los hechos e ideas que surcan esta saga no solo demuestran la descomunal investigacion que llevo a cabo su autor, sino que atrapan, gracias a la vivacidad de su pluma, aquello que suele quedar fuera de las paginas de los libros de historia: las preocupaciones cotidianas, el amor, el dolor y el olvido, los suenos y desencuentros, las pequenas alegrias y las necesidades y apariencias de una sociedad que se construyo a base de trabajo, rebeldia, sangre y fuego. La trama de esta minuciosa historia, ademas, conduce al lector por distintos paises y lo lleva al encuentro de figuras de la talla de Miranda, Mirabeau, Condorcet, O'Higgins, Napoleon, Godoy, Hamilton, Iturbide, Fermin Toro, Vargas, Paez, Zamora, Guzman Blanco y, por supuesto, Simon Bolivar.