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Crow Blue

By: Adriana Lisboa

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After losing her mother at age 13, Vanja leaves Rio de Janeiro to move to Colorado with her stepfather, a former guerrilla with a violent past and begins a journey through America to find her biological father. Original.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620403366

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Crow Blue

A Novel

By: Adriana Lisboa

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Crow Blue

A Novel

By: Adriana Lisboa

I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. In a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions (all very good), wasn't mine. When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Vanja is left with no family and no sense of who she is, where she belongs, and what she should do. Determined to find her biological father in order to fill the void that has so suddenly appeared in her life, Vanja decides to leave Rio de Janeiro to live in Colorado with her stepfather, a former guerrilla notorious for his violent past. From there she goes in search of her biological father, tracing her mother's footsteps and gradually discovering the truth about herself. Rendered in lyrical and passionate prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America, and through dark decades of familial and political history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620403374

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9781620403372

Rio Noir

By: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza,M. V. Bill,Victoria Saramago,Adriana Lisboa,Arthur Dapieve,Arnaldo Bloch

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Rio Noir

By: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza,M. V. Bill,Victoria Saramago,Adriana Lisboa,Arthur Dapieve,Arnaldo Bloch

Explore the darker side of the sunny Brazilian city in this gritty mystery anthology featuring fourteen tales by writers from the region. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respect city. With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir series delver for the first time into South America. With stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, MV Bill, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Guilherme Fiuza, Arthur Dapieve, Victoria Saramago, Arnaldo Bloch, Adriana Lisboa, Alexandre Fraga dos Santos, Marcelo Ferroni, Flávio Carneiro, Raphael Montes, and Luis Fernando Verissimo. All stories translated from Portuguese by Clifford Landers (Coelho’s The Alchemist, etc.). Praise for Rio Noir “In the latest entry to this globetrotting series, a man goes for a tarot reading and winds up poisoned by the daughter he never knew he had. And that’s just one story in a collection that takes us down the mysterious alleys and mazy favelas of Rio.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “A good introduction to writers of the region and to the dark side of a very sunny place.” —Booklist “A solid addition to Akashic's acclaimed noir series.” —Publishers Weekly

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Akashic Books

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1617754625

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9781617754623

Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony

By: Adriana Cardoso

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Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony

By: Adriana Cardoso

This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese-remnant-internal relativization, extraposition of restrictive relative clauses, and appositive relativization-and shows that the changes affecting these structures conspired to reduce the patterns of nominal discontinuity available in the language. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, she additionally shows that this series of changes transformed Portuguese from a 'Germanic-like' language, with a wide range of phrasal discontinuities, to a 'non-Germanic type', with more restricted patterns of discontinuity. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars working on Portuguese syntax, but also to Romance linguists and all those interested in historical and comparative syntax more widely.

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384

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Oxford University Press

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0191035726

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9780191035722

Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

The Water-wheels

By: Adriana de Miranda

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Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

The Water-wheels

By: Adriana de Miranda

This is a study of the water-raising wheels of western Syria from the aspects of sources, terminology, typology, origin, history, technology and architecture, and gives a survey of these installations, discussing their present state of conservation. By making use of historical, architectural and iconographical material, the study shows that Syrian water-wheels constitutes a particular type of water-architecture, which successfully combines the functional with the aesthetic and displays sophisticated forms of construction. These devices are visually impressive, present a variety of shapes and are of great historical, environmental and iconographical importance, being of extraordinarily accurate and detailed design. An attempt is made to present evidence of their ancient origin, and to gain an understanding of how their design evolved over time, the reasons for their significance and uniqueness, and for their great concentration in Syria.

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L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER

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8882654338

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9788882654337

Disparate Regional Development in Brazil

A Monetary Production Approach

By: Adriana Amado

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Disparate Regional Development in Brazil

A Monetary Production Approach

By: Adriana Amado

Published in 1997, an analysis of the regional development problem in Brazil from a monetary perspective. The author deals with the vicious circles generated in a country with strong regional disparities, emphasizing the link between real and financial problems. Some elements of dependency theory and of post-Keynesian monetary theory are adopted to create a new model which can cope with both financial and real problems in the same framework. State policies for the regions are also examined and the study finds that they are inadequate in the prevention of the vicious circles which lead to disparate regional growth.

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Routledge

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0429858825

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9780429858826

Youth Policy in Malta

Report by an International Panel of Experts Appointed by the Council of Europe

By: Adriana Ciorbaru,Council of Europe,Council of Europe. Directorate of Youth and Sport,European Steering Committee for Youth

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Youth Policy in Malta

Report by an International Panel of Experts Appointed by the Council of Europe

By: Adriana Ciorbaru,Council of Europe,Council of Europe. Directorate of Youth and Sport,European Steering Committee for Youth

This publication is part of a series of reviews of national youth policies carried out by the Council of Europe, in collaboration with researchers, non-governmental youth organisations and governmental agencies responsible for the development and implementation of youth policy. The review comprises of a national report produced by the individual country, together with a critical analysis of national policy and practice undertaken by a team of international experts in the subject. This report focuses on national youth policies and programmes in Malta.

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112

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Council of Europe

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9287155976

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9789287155979

Lexical segmentation in Slovak and German

By: Adriana Hanulíková

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Lexical segmentation in Slovak and German

By: Adriana Hanulíková

All humans are equipped with perceptual and articulatory mechanisms which (in healthy humans) allow them to learn to perceive and produce speech. One basic question in psycholinguistics is whether humans share similar underlying processing mechanisms for all languages, or whether these are fundamentally different due to the diversity of languages and speakers. This book provides a cross-linguistic examination of speech comprehension by investigating word recognition in users of different languages. The focus is on how listeners segment the quasi-continuous stream of sounds that they hear into a sequence of discrete words, and how a universal segmentation principle, the Possible Word Constraint, applies in the recognition of Slovak and German.

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128

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Walter de Gruyter

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3050062274

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9783050062273

Sentencing Canudos

Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil

By: Adriana Michele Campos Johnson

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Sentencing Canudos

Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil

By: Adriana Michele Campos Johnson

In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony's residents, primarily disenfranchised former slaves, mestizos, landless farmers, and uprooted Indians, followed a man known as Antonio Conselheiro ("The Counselor"), who promoted a communal existence, free of taxes and oppression. To the fledgling republic of Brazil, the settlement represented a threat to their system of government, which had only recently been freed from monarchy. Estimates of the death toll at Canudos range from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand. Sentencing Canudos offers an original perspective on the hegemonic intellectual discourse surrounding this monumental event in Brazilian history. In her study, Adriana Michele Campos Johnson offers a close examination of nation building and the silencing of "other" voices through the reinvisioning of history. Looking primarily to Euclides da Cunha's Os Sert›es, which has become the defining—and nearly exclusive—account of the conflict, she maintains that the events and people of Canudos have been "sentenced" to history by this work. Johnson investigates other accounts of Canudos such as local oral histories, letters, newspaper articles, and the writings of Cunha's contemporaries, Afonso Arinos and Manoel Benicio, in order to strip away political agendas. She also seeks to place the inhabitants and events of Canudos within the realm of "everydayness" by recalling aspects of daily life that have been left out of official histories. Johnson analyzes the role of intellectuals in the process of culture and state formation and the ensuing sublimation of subaltern histories and populations. She echoes recent scholarship that posits subalternity as the product of discourse that must be disputed in order to recover cultural identities and offers a view of Canudos and postcolonial Latin America as a place to think from, not about.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822977656

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9780822977650

The Acquisition of Italian

Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

By: Adriana Belletti,Maria Teresa Guasti

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The Acquisition of Italian

Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

By: Adriana Belletti,Maria Teresa Guasti

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the acquisition of Italian in different modes (monolingual, early and late L2, SLI, etc.), as well as exploring possible developments for future research. The book focuses on experimental studies which address research questions generated by linguistic theory, providing a detailed illustration of the fruitful interaction between linguistic theorizing and developmental studies. The authors are leading figures in theoretical linguistics and language acquisition; their own work is featured in the research presented here. Students and advanced researchers will benefit from the systematic review offered by this book and the critical assessment of the field that it provides.

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342

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027268533

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9789027268532

Rio Noir

By: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza,M. V. Bill,Victoria Saramago,Adriana Lisboa,Arthur Dapieve,Arnaldo Bloch

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Rio Noir

By: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza,M. V. Bill,Victoria Saramago,Adriana Lisboa,Arthur Dapieve,Arnaldo Bloch

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Akashic Books

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Crow Blue

Crow Blue

Crow Blue

Crow Blue

Rio Noir

Rio Noir

Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony

Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony

Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria

Disparate Regional Development in Brazil

Disparate Regional Development in Brazil

Youth Policy in Malta

Youth Policy in Malta

Lexical segmentation in Slovak and German

Lexical segmentation in Slovak and German

Sentencing Canudos

Sentencing Canudos

The Acquisition of Italian

The Acquisition of Italian

Rio Noir

Rio Noir

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