Acknowledgments

First and foremost we express our greatest gratitude to all participating Authors of this book. We thank them for accepting the invitation, for their hard work, time, diligence and patience during the internal review process.

It was a great pleasure and honour for us to work with (in alphabetical order):

Agnieszka Bartocha, Alejandro de las Heras, Alvaro Iribarrem, Amy Duchelle, Bernardo BN Strassburg, Claudio de Sassi, Dariusz Latawiec, Farida Hassan, Felipe Barros, George N Morara, Helena Nery Alves Pinto, Jamila Haider, Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto Sansevero, Jolanta Królczyk, Kemel Kalif, Márcio Rangel, Marina Islas-Espinoza, Mário Luís Garbin, Martin Herold, Melckzedeck K Osore, Rachael Garrett, Rafael Feltran and Toby Gardner.

Very special thanks to Jolanta Królczyk who introduced us to deGruyter Open publishing.

We also specially thank Toby Gardner for his time and invaluable help during internal review process.

We thank Ana Hardman de Castro, Felipe Barros, Helena Nery Alves Pinto and Luisa Lemgruber for their tedious and thorough work on chapters´ review and formatting, it was an enormous help.

We gratefully acknowledge Magdalena Golachowska, Agata Morka and Agnieszka Topolska from deGruyter Open for their help and support throughout the production process of this book, their understanding and useful comments.

This work was also inspired by projects supported by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation whose financial support for those projects is gratefully acknowledged by: Agnieszka Latawiec, Alvaro Iribarrem, Ana Hardman de Castro, Bernardo Strassburg, Felipe Barros, Helena Nery, Jerônimo Boelsums, Kemel Kalif, Luisa Lemgruber, Márcio Rangel and Rafael Feltran.

Agnieszka Latawiec expresses her deepest gratitude to her professional and personal partner, Bernardo Strassburg, for his interesting insights, support and encouragement throughout the write up of this book.

Agnieszka Latawiec and Dorice Agol, November 2015.