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      • Trusted Partner
        February 2003

        Die albanische Braut

        Roman

        by Kongoli, Fatos

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        March 2002

        Christoph Schlingensiefs »Nazis rein«

        by Christoph Schlingensief, Thekla Heineke, Sandra Umathum, Markus Boestfleisch, Jens Roselt, Alexander Kluge, Christoph Schlingensief, Boris Groys, Carl G. Hegemann, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Zürich Express, Blick, Peter Kern, Uwe Mattheiss, Matthias Ehlert, Sebastian Rudolph, Helmut Schödel, Georg Diez, Diedrich Diederichsen, Cem Özdemir, Melanie Dittmer, Bodo Jentzsch, Torsten Lemmer, Ellen Ringier, Antje Vollmer, Jan Zobel, Michael Hug, Ralph Pöhner, Ernst Corinth, Franz Wille, Pierre Briegert

        Im Frühjahr 2001 hat Christoph Schlingensief mit seiner Hamlet-Inszenierung am Zürcher Schauspielhaus für öffentliches Aufsehen gesorgt - weil er aussteigewillige Neonazis in seine Theaterarbeit integrierte, weil er bei seinen Straßenaktionen unter anderem zum Verbot der Schweizerischen Volkspartei aufrief, weil er den deutschen Innenminister Otto Schily dazu aufforderte, die Mehrheitsanteile von Torsten Lemmer, dem Produzent und Teilhaber des weltgrößten Vertriebes für rechtsradikale Musik, zu kaufen, und zuletzt, weil er zusammen mit dem Ensemble den Verein „REIN e.V.“ für weitere aussteigewillige Neonazis gründete.

      • My Grandfather Is A Goldfish

        by Işıl Şahin, İnci Özdemir Illustrator: Pelin Turgut

        Think about it, even if Einstein or my grandpa forgot himself, who could forget them? I have a lot more to live with him before my grandpa completely forgets me! Mete is ten years old. A little lazy, a little mischievous, like every kid. He finds it both confusing and frightening that his grandpa, forgets him every time. When he starts to spend more time with his grandpa during one of his visits, the bond between them gets stronger as Mete witness his grandpa perspective on the world. Mete starts to leave notes for his grandpa and prepare a dictionary, so that his grandpa will be able to remember things he forgets with these notes and the dictionary. On the other hand, he has to do a project homework for school. Even though doing homework and being with his grandpa may be a bit difficult for him, the solution he finds will both bring him closer to his grandpa and enable him to successfully complete his project assignment. This is the story of Mete and his grandpa who has dementia. Işıl Şahin and İnci Özdemir tells the story of a grandpa who has dementia from the eyes of his grandson. Their touching story with the beautiful illustrations of Pelin Turgut will warm your heart.

      • The Pearl

        by Gulsah Ozdemir Koryurek / Selin Saygılı

        Gülşah Özdemir Koryürek completes the journey which she has started with The Trip of the Small Pebble Stone to the Sea by emphasizing the power of experience to change our lives. The curious pebble's journey to the sea gives way to a fascinating transformation, and the small pebble stone now metamorphoses into a pearl. Will this change make it happy? Is the curious peeble aware of its own worth? How is its life going to change? As the big old stone says: "Everything we learn changes us, no matter we want it or not."

      • The Oyster Tells Fables

        by Gulsah Ozdemir Koryurek / Mujde Baskale

        Gülşah Özdemir Koryürek's second children's book, The Oyster Tells Fables, appears as a story of awareness. Living in a deep blue sea alone for a long time, Oyster the Storyteller couldn't tell a fable to anyone. When The Oyster sees the pebble stone soaring from top to the bottom of the sea, spreads its shell, puts the pebble stone into its belly, and starts telling him a fable. The Oyster's fable is about a seahorse having physical disabilities. Because of these obstacles, the seahorse cannot speak properly, has a tilted tail and big lips, and can neither make friends nor build a home for itself. One day when the seahorse is wandering unhappily in the sea comes across an algue. The algue discerns the gorgeous ability of the seahorse, and suddenly, the life of the seahorse gets better; it makes lots of friends and has a loving house. The story, which tells that life's obstacles can be overcome with patience and acceptance, meets the readers with a review by pedagogue Necla Çağlayan.

      • Nature, the natural world (Children's/YA)
        October 2019

        The Water's Way

        by Nalan Özdemir Erem - Gökçe İrten

        Real life is a surreal story where real heroes take roles. The water tells the story of the world, and the human kind. The myths about the Creation of the World starts with the saying “In the beginning there was water.”  “What Water Disremembers” is a contemporary fairytale which honors the wisdomof  the water and healing power of remembering.

      • Fiction

        Tutte le Furie

        by Pietro Nicolaucich

        Hatred can sometimes turn into addiction. What happens when this feeling is so ingrained that you want your nemesis to die? After decades of unsolved duels, the eternal feud between two sworn enemies ends with an unexpected suicide. The legacy of this decision is a mysterious book, containing enigmatic stories that revolve around the themes of Fate, Cyclicity and Death, leading back to personal experiences. ---  L'odio talvolta può trasformarsi in una dipendenza.Cosa accade quando questo sentimento è talmente radicato da far desiderare la morte della propria nemesi? Dopo decenni di duelli irrisolti, l’eterna faida tra due nemici giurati trova la conclusione in un inatteso suicidio. L’eredità di questo gesto è un libro misterioso il cui contenuto ne cela le motivazioni. Un biglietto scritto prima di togliersi la vita, evidenzia la centralità del testo per la scelta fatta. Le storie fantastiche, dai contenuti neri, nascondono un significato che deve essere scoperto. Un albero che sanguina, un’isola che sorge sulle acque di un naufragio, un uomo che vive in due direzioni temporali opposte sono solo alcuni dei racconti enigmatici che ruotano attorno ai temi del Fato, della Ciclicità e della Morte, riconducendo a vissuti personali.Pietro Nicolaucich, in una struttura narrativa a scatole cinesi fra thriller, realismo magico, orrore, avventura, nostalgia e memoria, sa tenere alto l’interesse con uno stile narrativo onirico che sconfina nell’assurdo, estendendo il suo linguaggio come tentacoli rampicanti che tutto avvolgono, generati dall’inconscio più recondito.

      • March 2020

        Women, empowerment and legacy

        by Silvana Mello

        Woman, empowerment and legacy, offers the possibility to discuss woman in a brazilian and overall scenario, their challenges, particularities, difficulties and the reflection and analysis of the unequal society that we face everyday. Through the choose of a strong theme like this, the author Silvana Mello, searches to contribute and leaves a positive mark for the future female generations.

      • Haunted Tales

        by Edson Gabriel Garcia

        Stories that make your spine tingle! Jorginho’s girlfriend has disappeared for a week when he suddenly gets an invitation to meet her at the cemetery. A mannequin with eyes that appear to be alive strangely gains power over her creator. A young man is overwhelmed by the desire to own the most beautiful leather jacket he has ever seen – and will bitterly regret it . . . Edson Gabriel Garcia’s stories carry his readers away and leave them behind with goosebumps and a strange sensation.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2019

        MUTATIONS: DISSONANCES OF PROGRESS

        by Adauto Novates (editor)

        The eleventh book in the series Mutations, Dissonances of progress discusses how the progress of technology brought undeniable benefits to humanity – such as advances in medicine and communication –, improving our daily life. On the other hand, it brought speed and superficiality to the relations of the human being with its surroundings, and degraded several aspects of current life with the exacerbation of individualism, the substitution of moral values, the overestimation of religious beliefs, the economy as the utmost referential of life in common, the knowledge of specialists to the detriment of thinkers. The essays in this volume analyze this situation and indicate paths for reflection.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2019

        The black book of communism in Brazil

        by Gustavo Marques

        Inspired by 'The Black Book of Communism', published by Stéphane Courtois in France in 1997, this book written by the diplomat Gustavo Henrique Marques Bezerra, deals with the history of the communist movement and its influence on political and cultural life Brazilian since the advent anarchism and Marxism, in the late nineteenth century until the early 1990s, with the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe. The book, which has monumental characteristics - it is the result of over 10 years of intense historical extensive and thorough research on more than 400 titles from primary sources (interviews, memoirs, interviews, documents) and secondary, domestic and foreign. It is divided into six chapters with almost 900 pages and thousands of notes - places emphasis on generally omitted facts and / or little explored by Brazilian historiography, mostly on the left, revealing the "dark side" of the Communists and their allies in Brazil over the twentieth century.

      • Sagas
        August 2017

        O Onironauta

        Devaneio - Livro 01

        by Otaviano Lacet

        “Between reality and Dreaming, a third force emerged... capable of destroying both!” Allow yourself to embark on an epic journey through a universe hidden in the dreams of human consciousness. Endowed with incredible worlds and beings, heroes unlikely and powerful forces in the midst of the outbreak of war, this combination explosive promises to give the reader a unique experience to be lived in one breath! Together with Aziz Mandral, a frustrated and bankrupt young journalist, unveil dreamlike secrets of a reality that can only be seen with closed eyes. Travel with him through ‘lucid dreams’ showered with a lot of rock n ’roll, confusions and selfdiscoveries, all mixed with a dose of frank humor that will captivate from start to finish. Live a world where time is nothing more than a piece to be shaped by skillful hands, like Kazuo's - The Cartographer of Dreams. And if you still with your eyes closed, get drunk on Seiji's confused adventures Miura: a mercenary and warrior monk from the forests of Mt. Ōmine will drive through trails, at least, mindblowing! But don't be fooled by the charms of the dream world and don't whistle so loudly carefree songs, my dear Onironaut... for here you never know what that lurks behind the blackness of the night. Know that where the grass scorching sands are on the rise - and the term ‘nightmare’ gets new Meanings... Yes, a lifetime in one night ... this is the proposal, no less. But you're not a coward, are you? So sleep now: you are challenged to be won over!

      • The Flight of the Blue Macaw

        by Maria José Silveira

        A moving coming of age story about a first love and political resistance during the military regime in Brazil, putting up some universal questions about the individual’s role in a dictatorship. André, aged thirteen, is absolutely charmed by Lia, his new neighbour. The young woman recently moved into the house next door together with her husband and her uncle. During their long conversations, the young nurse tells him that it’s her dream to study and become a barefoot doctor. Then one day, André e finds out that Lia an her husband are involved into a clandestine resistance group against the military regime. To save Lia and her comrades from being caught by the military police, André takes a very high risk. When the police comes during the night to hunt the neighbours’ house, they have already gone . . . The narration is completed by the comic strips André had drawn in his teenage days and an authentic political pamphlet that plays a crucial role in the story. By choosing a teenager’s perspective, Maria José Silveira poses some very important questions about dictatorship in general and makes them accessible for young people.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2020

        AMAZON MOUTH

        Society and culture in Dalcidio Jurandir

        by Willi Bolle

        This book presents an overview of Amazonian history and analyzes the novel Cycle of the Far North, by Dalcidio Jurandir, a work that represents the social inequality and exclusion inherent to Amazonian society. Willi Bolle rescues the work of this important, albeit unknown, author, emphasizing Dalcidio Jurandir’s contribution to our understanding of Amazonian culture. In his work, Jurandir describes the quotidian of those living in the periphery of society, and advocates, quite emphatically, quality education for the poor. He also registers the social dialect of the inhabitants of the Amazon, in a document of the cultural memory of the region.

      • Photography & photographs
        July 2013

        GERALDO DE BARROS: THAT’S IT

        by Fabiana de Barros (author)

        Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) was one of the most important representatives of Brazilian’s Modernism. He learned the principles of the Ulm Superior School of Design (Germany), brought them to South America and encouraged many of his colleagues to join the movement of concrete art. He cultivated contacts with the European artistic avant-garde and, in Brazil, was a pioneer in developing and experiencing new trends such as pop art and happening. This book presents an overview of his life and work, chrono-logically arranged and covering all aspects of his production with an emphasis in photography.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2020

        Dissident identity

        themes for a new Brazilian history

        by Edgard Leite

        In ‘Dissident identity: themes for a new Brazilian History’, Edgard Leite continues the work done in 'Predators', which addresses the Brazilian history from the other side, rescuing facts, contradictions and ideas that, over the years and because of a historiography often biased, remained forgotten. A thorough job and an arduous task which the author is not exempt, but faces; as well as facing certain tradition in historical studies. With a concise writing, the author develops his argument from the idea that, since the Copernican revolution, mankind turned to quantity over quality. It is precisely this world that will emerge from Brazil, since the arrival of Europeans will just at a time when the effects of the Copernican turning shall introduce into Europe. Another important point for understanding the history of Brazil will be the secularization of the state, which is strengthened by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution is, above all, its most acute event. Understanding the relationship between state and religion and, especially, the understanding of the concept of mind, will be central to a discussion of the values that shape - or fail to shape - a society. The book ends with the 1964 event, and the reader will wait that the author addresses in forthcoming books, the continuation of Brazilian history. Always with his provocative and powerful bias.

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