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La femme qui ne pouvait pas parler

By: Maria de Andrade

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La femme qui ne pouvait pas parler

By: Maria de Andrade

Les trois dernières années n’ont pas été faciles pour Monique, une psychologue à la retraite. En premier, il y a eu deux années de COVID-19 qui ont interrompu nos vies. Ensuite, son chien âgé est décédé et elle a dû accepter que ce fut pour le mieux, pour qu’il ne souffre plus. Quand la vie commence à se normaliser, Monique réalise qu’elle est dépressive depuis presque un an. Elle se sent impuissante devant une situation qu’elle réussit à cacher de ses proches mais qu’elle n’arrive pas à maîtriser malgré son expérience professionnelle. Une réunion avec des amis de jeunesse lui permet de retrouver sa joie de vivre et de se libérer rapidement de son état. À présent, elle cherche à comprendre la raison d’un tel mal de vivre sans raison apparente. Monique comprend maintenant qu’elle doit retourner dans le passé, pour revisiter sa vie avec tous ses moments de joie et de chagrin. Pendant ce processus, elle trouve, comprend et se libère de l’énigme cachée depuis longtemps dans sa mémoire. Son histoire nous dit de ne jamais abandonner. Il faut chercher ce dont nous avons besoin pour améliorer notre situation et être vraiment heureux dans la vie.

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1039192874

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While on a Cruise

A Short Story Collection About Life

By: Maria de Andrade

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While on a Cruise

A Short Story Collection About Life

By: Maria de Andrade

While on a Cruise starts with the very moment when the author begins her journey as a writer and finishes with the completion of this as her sixth book. In between these moments are engaging and thought-provoking stories that examine how situations, environments, and relationships shape people and how a person’s attitude and character ultimately shape what they get out of life. Some of the stories in this collection are based on or inspired by the author’s family tales, childhood memories, and her personal experiences. Others, from the fictional tale of young girls in a Catholic school in Lisbon, to a brother supporting a hypochondriac sister in Montreal, to a married couple in a seniors’ home learning to look forward instead of back, introduce multilayered characters struggling to live the best way they know how and reveal the fascinating stories of everyday people.

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Military History of Angola

From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

By: Miguel Júnior,Manuel Maria Difuila

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Military History of Angola

From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

By: Miguel Júnior,Manuel Maria Difuila

This work about the military history of Angola is formed by four parts and eight chapters. The first part covers the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The second part covers the twentieth century and, more concretely, the time from 1900 to 1960. The third part covers the period from 1961 to 1974, and the fourth part covers the period from 1975 to 1991.

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EPZ Pedagogy of Hope

Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire,Ana Maria Araújo Freire

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EPZ Pedagogy of Hope

Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire,Ana Maria Araújo Freire

With Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire established his place in the universal history of education. Pedagogy of Hope represents a chronicle and synthesis of the ongoing social struggles of Latin America and the Third World since the landmark publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Here, Freire once again explores his best-known analytical themes--with even deeper understanding and a greater wisdom. Certainly, all of these themes have to be analyzed as elements of a body of critical, liberationist pedagogy. In this book, we come to understand the author's pedagogical thinking even better, through the critical seriousness, humanistic objectivity, and engaged subjectivity which, in all of Freire's books, are always wedded to a unique creative innovativeness. Pedagogy of Hope is a testimonial to the inner vitality of generations that have not prospered, and to the often silent, generous strength of millions who refuse to let hope be extinguished: people throughout the world who have been empowered by Pedagogy of the Oppressed and all of Paulo Freire's writings.

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A&C Black

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0826477909

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An‡lise de Fatores Subjetivos nas Organiza�›es Colet‰nea de Escritos Cient’ficos

By: Maria da Gl—ria Vitorio Guimar‹es,Charles Ribeiro de Brito

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An‡lise de Fatores Subjetivos nas Organiza�›es Colet‰nea de Escritos Cient’ficos

By: Maria da Gl—ria Vitorio Guimar‹es,Charles Ribeiro de Brito

O estresse começou a ser estudado no início do século XX, todavia foi demorado o processo de percepção da influência do cotidiano e do ambiente de trabalho na saúde do indivíduo, os novos processos, tecnologias de informação, aceleração da produção e o dia a dia das metrópoles têm contribuído para o aparecimento de determinados desequilíbrios orgânicos e psíquicos (SOUSA, OLIVEIRA, DAMASCENO, SILVA, 2012).

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1365845915

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Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol

Volume 2 – Intermediário

By: Ana Cecília Cossi Bizon,Elizabeth Maria Fontão do Patrocínio,Leandro Rodrigues Alves Diniz

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Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol

Volume 2 – Intermediário

By: Ana Cecília Cossi Bizon,Elizabeth Maria Fontão do Patrocínio,Leandro Rodrigues Alves Diniz

Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol vem preencher uma importante lacuna no mercado editorial: a carência de livros didáticos que, considerando as necessidades específicas de falantes de espanhol, favoreçam um desenvolvimento mais rápido de sua proficiência em português. A coleção reúne uma série de características favoráveis à aprendizagem do português em diferentes contextos (ensino médio, universidades, cursos livres): Convida o(a) aluno(a) a desenvolver sua proficiência em português ao mesmo tempo em que forma uma imagem multifacetada do Brasil, em diálogo com suas próprias construções culturais, desconstruindo discursos estabilizados e ampliando seus horizontes; Favorece o trânsito por múltiplas práticas de letramento, em que circulam diferentes gêneros discursivos, oferecendo oportunidades para que o(a) estudante aprimore suas capacidades de linguagem em contextos reais, ou próximos a situações autênticas de interação; Sensibiliza o(a) aluno(a) para diferentes variedades da língua portuguesa; Permite ao(à) estudante desenvolver suas capacidades léxico-gramaticais e fonético-fonológicas de maneira reflexiva e contextualizada, levando em consideração necessidades específicas de falantes de espanhol; Propõe tarefas semelhantes às encontradas no Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (Celpe-Bras), do Ministério da Educação brasileiro; É acompanhado por dois cadernos complementares integrados, com explicações detalhadas referentes a recursos léxico-gramaticais e fonético-fonológicos, além de uma série de atividades; Disponibiliza online os vídeos e áudios de tarefas de compreensão oral e de atividades de pronúncia. Preparado para o desenvolvimento de um curso de até 60 horas em contexto de imersão, ou 90 horas em contexto de não-imersão, Mano a Mano, Volume 2 – Intermediário permite levar falantes de espanhol (como língua materna ou estrangeira/adicional) do início do Intermediário Superior do Celpe-Bras, do início do B1 ao início do B2 do Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para as Línguas, ou do início do Intermediário Médio ao início do Avançado Médio na escala do American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

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1000517438

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Modern Exchange-rate Regimes, Stabilisation Programmes and Co-ordination of Macroeconomic Policies

Recent Experiences of Selected Developing Latin American Economies

By: Maria Luiza Falcão Silva

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Modern Exchange-rate Regimes, Stabilisation Programmes and Co-ordination of Macroeconomic Policies

Recent Experiences of Selected Developing Latin American Economies

By: Maria Luiza Falcão Silva

Published in 1999, this work analyzes the phenomenon of macroeconomic adjustment, with special emphasis on selected Latin American countries facing stabilization programmes. It provides a historical description of the origins, functioning and collapse of exchange-rate regimes from the international classical gold standard period to modern arrangements. The author supports the argument that systemic asymmetries in the worldwide adjustment mechanism are inherent in the international monetary system. The recent theoretical literature dealing with the rules vs discretion debate and its interaction with the credibility issue is reviewed. This topic is intrinsically related to the dispute over the appropriate role of exchange-rate anchors in disinflation programmes. Against a background of academic dispute between advocates of exchange-rate prescriptions and monetary conceptions, the contrasting views of different theorists regarding the choice of exchange rate regimes are presented and assessed. Finally, a comparative analysis of recent experiments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico with exchange-rate based disinflation stabilization programmes is undertaken. The problems that have arisen while establishing new institutional arrangements, such as new currency or a policy rule for monetary base creation, are examined.

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0429837194

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The Silver Bed of the Dukes of Cadaval

By: Celina Bastos,Maria João Ferreira,Inês Ferro,Joan Castaño García,Teresa Leonor M. Vale,Hugo Xavier,Manuel Lemos,Maria João Petisca,Isabel Tissot,Matthias Tissot

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The Silver Bed of the Dukes of Cadaval

By: Celina Bastos,Maria João Ferreira,Inês Ferro,Joan Castaño García,Teresa Leonor M. Vale,Hugo Xavier,Manuel Lemos,Maria João Petisca,Isabel Tissot,Matthias Tissot

Volume 3, "Collections In Focus | National Palaces | Sintra Queluz Pena".

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Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua, S.A.

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9895406185

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Catalogue of the Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria

By: Albena Lapeva-Gjonova,Vera Antonova,Alexander G. Radchenko,Maria Atanasova

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Catalogue of the Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria

By: Albena Lapeva-Gjonova,Vera Antonova,Alexander G. Radchenko,Maria Atanasova

The present catalogue summarizes the information on species composition and distribution of ants in Bulgaria, known until 2010 from literature and museum collections. The authors have worked intensively on Bulgarian myrmecofauna for the last 10 years. The Bulgarian myrmecofauna currently comprises 163 species from 40 genera and 6 subfamilies. The species list accounts synonyms and the respective publications they were used in, as well as all known localities in Bulgaria. Known localities are grouped by geographical regions and maps with concrete localities or regions for each species are provided. The conservation status of threatened ant species is discussed. The catalogue of Bulgarian ants may be of interest to myrmecologists, ecologists, biogeographers, conservationists and any zoological library.

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PenSoft Publishers LTD

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954642563X

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The Ripple Effect

Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature

By: Maria José Somerlate Barbosa

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The Ripple Effect

Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature

By: Maria José Somerlate Barbosa

In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical, cultural, religious, and interactive space of Brazil’s national identity, The Ripple Effect surveys expressive cultures and literary manifestations. It uses the martial art-dance-ritual capoeira as a lynchpin to disclose historical ambiguities and the negotiation of cultural and literary boundaries within the context of the ideological construct of a mestizo nation. The book also examines laws governing gender in Brazil and discusses honor killings and other types of violence against women. The Ripple Effect appraises the contributions that some iconic female figures have made to the development of Brazil’s distinctive cultural and literary production. Drawing on more than fifteen years of field, archival, and scholarly research, this work offers new interpretative venues, and broadens the critical focus and the methodological scope of previous scholarship. It reveals how literature and other arts can be used to document cultural norms, catalog life experiences, and analyze complex constructions of social values, ideas, and belief systems.

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Purdue University Press

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161249854X

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Gilberto Freyre

Social Theory in the Tropics

By: Peter Burke,Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke

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Gilberto Freyre

Social Theory in the Tropics

By: Peter Burke,Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke

List of Abbreviations. Preface and Acknowledgements. The Importance Of Being Gilberto. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Masters and Slaves. A Public Intellectual. Empire and Republic. The Social Theorist. Gilberto Our Contemporary. Chronology. Notes. Further Reading. Index.

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Peter Lang

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1906165041

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Power and Everyday Life

The Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-century Brazil

By: Maria Odila Leite da Silva Dias

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Power and Everyday Life

The Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-century Brazil

By: Maria Odila Leite da Silva Dias

This important new work is a study of the everyday lives of the inhabitants of São Paulo in the nineteenth century. Full of vivid detail, the book concentrates on the lives of working women--black, white, Indian, mulatta, free, freed, and slaves, and their struggles to survive. Drawing on official statistics, and on the accounts of travelers and judicial records, the author paints a lively picture of the jobs, both legal and illegal, that were performed by women. Her research leads to some surprising discoveries, including the fact that many women were the main providers for their families and that their work was crucial to the running of several urban industries. This book, which is a unique record of women's lives across social and race strata in a multicultural society, should be of interest to students and researchers in women's studies, urban studies, historians, geographers, economists, sociologists, and anthropologists.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813522056

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Tectono-metamorphic evolution of the continental units along the edge between Alpine and Hercynian Corsica

Constraints for the exhumation models in the continental collision setting

By: Maria Di Rosa

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Tectono-metamorphic evolution of the continental units along the edge between Alpine and Hercynian Corsica

Constraints for the exhumation models in the continental collision setting

By: Maria Di Rosa

In this work the central area of Corsica island was studied in order to reconstruct the tectono-metamorphic history of the continental and oceanic high pressure units that occupy the structurally deeper levels of the tectonic stacking of Alpine Corsica and their stratigraphic and structural relationship with the European margin (Hercynian Corsica). The study includes the geological mapping, the mesoscale and microscale structural analysis, the acquisition of chemical analyzes and micromaps with the microprobe, thermobarometric estimation through specific methodologies for metapelites, U-Th-Pb dating of zircons and allanites. The results obtained allows to reconstruct the geodynamic model of this sector of the Alpine belt from the Permian to the Burdigalian.

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Firenze University Press

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8855184199

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Ten Myths About the Jews

By: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro

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Ten Myths About the Jews

By: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro

Ten Myths about the Jews analyzes the complex facets of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism in an accessible and easy-to-read format. Based on wide research, Brazilian historian Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro examines different manifestations against Jews and their faith through history and political culture along the centuries. Ten omnipresent accusations were configured by anti-Semites in axioms that became myths: Myth 1: The Jews killed Christ. Myth 2: The Jews are a secret entity. Myth 3: The Jews control the world economy. Myth 4: There are no poor Jews. Myth 5: The Jews are greedy. Myth 6: The Jews have no homeland. Myth 7: The Jews are racists. Myth 8: The Jews are parasites. Myth 9: The Jews control the media. Myth 10: The Jews manipulate the United States. Tucci Carneiro unmasks the roots of anti-Semitism and exposes contemporary prejudices. Her book is an invitation to reflect upon current realities marked by racism and shows how the main myths about the Jews have been vested of a verisimilitude that has persisted for the last 2000 years, all over the world, by means of hatred of the other, political/religious opportunism and economic deceit. The myths are kept alive by means of constant repetition and re-elaboration of a particular narrative, invariably seductive. The author proves each of the ten myths in terms of their historical record, their origins and purposes. Even though Jews are fully integrated into western society in multiple ways (entrepreneurship, medicine, literature, philosophy, the arts), racist myths against the community have been particularly resilient; they attempt to override common sense and their continuous circulation and rehashing through scapegoating and caricature has had profound negative repercussions for society as a whole. Ten Myths, now published in five languages, is an essential tool in the struggle against the discourse of racist hatred.

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Liverpool University Press

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178284676X

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The Mystery and the World

Passion for God in Times of Unbelief

By: Maria Clara Bingemer

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The Mystery and the World

Passion for God in Times of Unbelief

By: Maria Clara Bingemer

In The Mystery and the World, Maria Clara Bingemer explores how the place of religion in society has dramatically shifted since the Enlightenment. The modern era is characterised by a major change in humanity's fundamental desires that means that reason has taken the place of faith. Human beings, in their ongoing search for a scientific understanding of the world, have drifted away from seeking any essence of transcendence in their lives. Bingemer examines this transition and how, especially inthe postmodern era, it has led to technology and superficial happiness becoming all-important as opposed to the more sacred sense of contentment that governed us for centuries prior to the Enlightenment. In her discussion, however, Bingemer demonstrates that we as humans have not lost our innate desire to believe in a higher power and that, even in our world of instant satisfaction, we still need to fill the void left by religion. Through well-researched analysis of the modern era and discussion of some of the mystics of more recent times, she reveals to readers how our religious belief, whilst changed, is not dead and is still an important aspect of our existence.

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Lutterworth Press

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071884453X

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence

International Joint Conference 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI 15th Brazilian Symposium on AI IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000 Atibaia, SP, Brazil, November 19-22, 2000 Proceedings

By: Maria Carolina Monard

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence

International Joint Conference 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI 15th Brazilian Symposium on AI IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000 Atibaia, SP, Brazil, November 19-22, 2000 Proceedings

By: Maria Carolina Monard

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI and the 15th Brazilian Symposium on AI, IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000, held in Atibaia, Brazil in November 2000. The 48 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 156 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge engineering and case-based reasoning, planning and scheduling, distributed AI and multi-agent systems, AI in education and intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning and knowledge acquisition, knowledge discovery and data mining, natural language processing, robotics, computer vision, uncertainty and fuzzy systems, and genetic algorithms and neural networks.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354041276X

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The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts

By: Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha

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The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts

By: Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha

The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s.

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BRILL

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9004429301

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9789004429307

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity

Returning Medusa's Gaze

By: Maria Cristina Fumagalli

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Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity

Returning Medusa's Gaze

By: Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Reflecting a diversity of texts, genres, and media, the chapters focus on sixteenth-century engravings and paintings from the Netherlands and Italy, a scientific romance produced at the turn of the twentieth century by the king of the Caribbean island Redonda, contemporary collections of poetry from the anglophone Caribbean, a historical novel by the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, a Latin epic, a Homeric hymn, ancient Egyptian rites, fairy tales, romances from England and Jamaica, a long narrative poem by the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and paintings by artists from Europe and the Americas spanning the seventeenth century to the present

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University of Virginia Press

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0813928575

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The Portuguese Subjunctive

A Grammar Workbook

By: Luís Gomes,Maria Madalena Gonçalves

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The Portuguese Subjunctive

A Grammar Workbook

By: Luís Gomes,Maria Madalena Gonçalves

The Portuguese Subjunctive: A Grammar Workbook is the first book devoted exclusively to understanding and mastering this challenging area of Portuguese grammar. The clear structure guides students through the six subjunctive tenses, providing them with concise and accurate explanations accompanied by a range of exercises to test and consolidate learning. Each chapter is designed to help students progress from simple to more complex use of the language, with instructions initially set in English before moving to Portuguese, and exercises progressing from simple application to more advanced translation and 'compare and contrast' tasks. This grammar workbook is ideal for intermediate to advanced learners of European or Brazilian Portuguese who wish to master the use of the subjunctive. It can be used as a supplementary in-class text as well as a resource for independent study.

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1000453014

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Inventing a European Nation

Engineers for Portugal, from Baroque to Fascism

By: Maria Paula Diogo,Tiago Saraiva

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Inventing a European Nation

Engineers for Portugal, from Baroque to Fascism

By: Maria Paula Diogo,Tiago Saraiva

This book deals with the simultaneous making of Portuguese engineers and the Portuguese nation-state from the mid seventeenth century to the late twentieth century. It argues that the different meanings of being an engineer were directly dependent of projects of nation building and that one cannot understand the history of engineering in Portugal without detailing such projects. Symmetrically, the authors suggest that the very same ability of collectively imagining a nation relied on large measure on engineers and their practices. National culture was not only enacted through poetry, music, and history, but it demanded as well fortresses, railroads, steam engines, and dams. Portuguese engineers imagined their country in dialogue with Italian, British, French, German or American realities, many times overlapping such references. The book exemplifies how history of engineering makes more salient the transnational dimensions of national history. This is valid beyond the Portuguese case and draws attention to the potential of history of engineering for reshaping national histories and their local specificities into global narratives relevant for readers across different geographies.

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Springer Nature

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3031021290

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While on a Cruise

A Short Story Collection About Life

By: Maria de Andrade

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While on a Cruise

A Short Story Collection About Life

By: Maria de Andrade

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1525552961

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A Patch of Black Ice

By: Maria de Andrade

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A Patch of Black Ice

By: Maria de Andrade

Olivier Lambert is a private detective trying to gather the pieces of his life together after his beloved wife dies in a freak car accident. When he meets Maude, a mysterious woman with a complex case involving a fatal accident, long-lost relatives and dark secrets, his investigation leads him to Stanstead, Quebec, Boston, USA, and Lisbon, Portugal. Along the way, he unravels the painful truth about Maude’s family—and meets a woman who might be the missing piece he’s been waiting for to make him feel whole again. Riveting, thought-provoking and heartwarming, A Patch of Black Ice explores the depths a family will go to stay together even after they’ve lost so much.

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1525512641

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Modeling Steel and Composite Structures

By: Pedro Vellasco,Sebastiao Arthur Lopes de Andrade,Luciano Rodrigues Ornelas de Lima,Marley Maria Bernardes Rebuzzi Vellasco,Luis Alberto Proenca Simoes da Silva

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Modeling Steel and Composite Structures

By: Pedro Vellasco,Sebastiao Arthur Lopes de Andrade,Luciano Rodrigues Ornelas de Lima,Marley Maria Bernardes Rebuzzi Vellasco,Luis Alberto Proenca Simoes da Silva

Modeling Steel and Composite Structures explains the computational tools, methods and procedures used to design steel and composite structures. The reference begins with the main models used to determine structural behavior. This is followed by a detailed description of experimental models and their main requirements and care. Numerous simulations presenting non-linear response are illustrated as are their restrictions in terms of boundary conditions, main difficulties, solution strategies and methods adopted to surpass convergence difficulties. In addition, examples of the use of computational intelligence methods to simulate steel and composite structures response are presented. - Includes numerical models based in the finite element method - Provides numerous simulations, presenting a non-linear response - Contains examples of the use of computational intelligence methods to simulate steel and composite structures

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0128135697

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