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      • Geography
        October 2020

        Geografía Gastronómica Venezolana; Edición Especial Siglo XXI

        Con recetas de 79 excelentes chefs venezolanos

        by Ramón David León, Author; Daniel León, Editor; Julio León, Editor

        New edition of the history classic and culinary book, which was written by Ramón David León in 1954, whose original title is: “Gastronomic Geography of Venezuela”, by adapting it to the twenty-first century. The third volume, which gathers the original work of the 93 biographies with their 79 illustrated recipes, is still under development and is expected to be published in July 2020. This volume will also include five Venezuelan songs on MP3 format, from several Venezuelan musicians, and 60 panoramic 360º photographs.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2016

        DaViD I Art and Poetry: El Artista

        Art and Poetry

        by David Guerra, Author, Ann A. Guerra, Editor

        This is a compilation of my poems and art work.  Art live within us and we must insist in sharing them to the world.  The world is our canvas and, we are every bit of the colours paint into it.  Our final conclusion and master piece is our imagination.  It is infinite.....

      • September 2019

        A busca: memórias da resistência

        by Vieira, Liszt

        A vida clandestina de um militante da luta armada contra a ditadura militar brasileira nos anos 1970. Ações armadas, congressos clandestinos, viagens sigilosas, prisão, tortura, seqüestro de diplomata, banimento, exílio. Dez anos de exílio em diversos países, Argélia, Cuba, Chile de Allende até o golpe de Pinochet, Argentina de Perón antes do golpe militar de 1976, França, Portugal. Emoção a cada página nesta biografia em que o real e o imaginário se mesclam. Muitas vezes, a realidade parece ficção, e a ficção, realidade, formando o que poderia ser chamado de autoficção histórica. Um livro fundamental para o conhecimento da resistência contra a ditadura militar no Brasil.

      • 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.

      • Architecture
        July 2018

        LATIN AMERICAN COLONIAL HERITAGE

        Urbanism, architecture, sacred art

        by Percival Tirapeli (author)

        The fruit of an extensive research by Professor Percival Tirapeli, this richly illustrated work covers three centuries of Colonial and Baroque art, and is divided in three parts: “Colonial Urbanism”, “Ecclesiastical Architecture” and “Sacred Art – Furniture and Ornamentation”. “Colonial Urbanism” explains the differences and approximations of the layout and planned urbanism between Hispano-American and Portuguese-Brazilian cities. “Ecclesiastical Architecture” analyzes the cathedrals of the viceroyalties, the audiences and the Brazilian sees. The section “Sacred Art – Furniture and Ornamentation” completes the analysis of churches, examining their retable façades, the furniture of the altars and their ornamental complements, such as sculptures and paintings.

      • Biography & True Stories
        July 2018

        TARSILA DO AMARAL, THE MODERNIST

        by Nádia Battella Gotlib

        In this engaging and reader-friendly biography, the professor and essayist Nádia Batista Gotlib recreates the libertarian trajectory of Tarsila do Amaral, focusing on her private life, her training in art, the modernist circuit and the Pau-brasil and Anthropophagic movements, detailing the painter’s active commitment to defending the diversity of both her art and her affective and personal life. A paradigm of rupture in visual arts and literature, Tarsila do Amaral influenced Brazilian art production and played a leading role in the social mobility of women. This book offers readers a full picture of her intense life and work, deciphering their complexity, originality and worldview.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        Assesta's Short Stories - Water

        by Assesta

        In this second volume of short stories by the authors of Assesta (Writers Association of Alentejo), water was the chosen theme to bring to life the imagination of writers and illustrators of Assesta.Short stories or poetic prose wanderings, the reader will find everything in these small texts followed by marvellous illustrations, all made in Alentejo.

      • Biography & True Stories
        June 2019

        I cancelli del cielo. Lughe de Chelu

        by I cancelli del cielo. Lughe de Chelu

        Questo romanzo, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 2003 col titolo “Lughe de chelu (e jenna de bentu)” e arrivato in terza edizione negli Stati Uniti, è un’autobiografia in chiave di romanzo, manifesto dell’Autrice contro la violenza sulle donne. Le è valso una prima candidatura per l’Italia al Premio Nobel per la Letteratura. Giona Demura, divenuta da anni Suor Maria dell’Eucarestia, era un tempo una scrittrice di grande successo e pluripremiata, la cui esistenza è stata sconvolta quando, dopo il divorzio, l’ex marito ha tentato di ucciderla. La notizia che il suo più grande amore del passato, mai dimenticato, è in punto di morte la spinge a correre al capezzale dell’uomo e a ritrovare i propri figli. Tra la magia e la realtà di un'isola selvaggia e dolce come la Sardegna, la storia di un passero con le ali d'aquila destinato a morire “dentro” per rinascere, finalmente, alla vera vita.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2020

        En tus manos

        Acompañar en la enfermedad y preparar una buena muerte

        by Jose Mª Avendaño

        Lo grande, lo importante, se esconde en lo pequeño, en la simplicidad, en el abandono. Así lo repite el autor, de una u otra manera, en su canto, porque este libro es un canto.Estas páginas nos hacen descubrir, en la memoria filial y creyente, la belleza de la creación y de la salvación encarnada en un pueblo de La Mancha, en la vida de un hombre sencillo, bueno, un campesino honrado y creyente sincero, en el escenario de una familia rural y piadosa.Unas memorias cristianas llenas de agradecimiento, de profundidad, de sentido. La historia que cuenta este libro no es fantasía, no es ficción, sino una historia real, la historia de Cándido.Nos encontramos con temas fundamentales de nuestra existencia: la vida, la familia, el sufrimiento, la muerte, el duelo, la orfandad, el acompañamiento de los que sufren, etc.El mejor camino para la aceptación del sufrimiento y de la muerte, para superar el duelo, es asumirlo, hacerlo parte de nuestra vida, comulgar con él con la certeza de que hemos vencido en el Aquel que murió y resucitó por nosotros.

      • The Arts
        August 2019

        SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES AS CULTURAL ARENAS

        by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and Adrián Gorelik (editors)

        Organized by Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo, and Adrián Gorelik, professor at the University of Quilmes, this book is the result of a collective research project about the cultural urban history in South America, which was developed by a group of South American researchers. Using as a compass the notion of “cultural arena”, this work performs a reflection on the city as a place of cultural germination, experimentation and resistance. Some cities – Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Montevideo, among others – are studied in order to capture the intimate and inextricable relations between city and culture.

      • Biography & True Stories

        Kurt Tank II. La verdadera historia del constructor del Pulqui II. Tomo II

        by Mauricio Bossa

        La Segunda Guerra Mundial ha terminado y Kurt Tank se encuentra a merced de los británicos. Solo podrá continuar en la industria aeronáutica si trabaja para ellos. Además, está bajo sospecha y sus movimientos han sido restringidos. El futuro parece ominoso. Pero sus aviones lo han convertido en una celebridad y son muchos los poderosos que necesitan de sus servicios. Algunos muestran sus cartas y lo obligan a tomar decisiones peligrosas en las narices de los Aliados. Si acierta, volverá al vuelo y al diseño de aeronaves de avanzada; de lo contrario, las consecuencias podrían ser irreparables.Este segundo tomo de Kurt Tank, la verdadera historia del constructor del Pulqui II se sumerge de lleno en el torbellino de acontecimientos que rodean al protagonista desde 1945 y que lo llevarán tan lejos como a la Argentina o la India, luego de que Joseph Stalin intentara reclutarlo para servir en la Unión Soviética. Espionaje, tecnología y aventuras se entrelazan en un vívido relato que recurre a fuentes hasta hoy desconocidas y que develan una personalidad tan fascinante como polémica, convertida en referencia de la aviación mundial por derecho propio.

      • June 2020

        Isabel del Castillo Arista

        El don de saber estar

        by María Encarnación González

        Isabel del Castillo Arista (1890-1932) y su prima Antonia López Arista son las dos únicas personas que, en el Libro Registro de Asociadas de la Institución Teresiana, consta que “desde su fundación” acompañaron a san Pedro Poveda en el proceso constitutivo de esta Obra. A la muerte de Antonia (1918), Isabel fue miembro del Directorio de la Institución; desde 1922, Vicedirectora general y, a partir de 1928, también Administradora general, actividad que venía ejerciendo desde hacía algunos años, además de estar siempre dispuesta a salir al paso de cualquier necesidad.Isabel sabía estar. Le tocó ejercer serias responsabilidades; establecer múltiples relaciones en la Institución Teresiana, la Iglesia y la sociedad civil. Pero supo estar sin hacer sombra a nadie y sin atribuirse logros ni escatimar esfuerzos. Tuvo que armonizar a muchas personas, requerir lo mejor a cada una, gestionar las sedes de las actividades y, en suma, construir desde dentro la Institución Teresiana. Esta fue la aportación a la historia de la figura serena, simpática, entrañable y cordial de Isabel del Castillo.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2017

        Crows Snakes Jackals

        by António Carlos Cortez

        Crows Snakes Jackals - was born of an extended sequence of prose poems and was a participant chapter of the anthology 'The concrete pain' (Tinta da China publisher) of the poet Antonio Carlos Cortez. Pedro Mexia praises the book, shortlisted for Oceanos Prize (2018 edition). In 'Crows Snakes Jackals', Cortez handling the poetic form to speak in an unforgettable way, indelible, what most amazes us: the cruelty of life and passivity of men.

      • History
        April 2016

        The Calling

        Stories of Jesuits in the 16th and 17th Centuries

        by Adriano Prosperi

        This book explains not who the Jesuits were, but how their awareness of having become Jesuits was constructed. It does so on the basis of a collection of documents which have often been referred to as ‘autobiographies’, in fact individual members’ accounts of how they received their calling. Each Jesuit had to describe in writing how the divine call had come to him, what signs had preceded it and how he had broken away from his ‘fleshly’ family to become a member of the Company. Their acute awareness of the definitive nature of the close pact they had established with God by becoming members of the army of the Lord, made the Jesuits new, unusual figures, unprecedented in the history of Christian religious orders: men trained to carry out arduous missions into the most distant countries of the world, in contact with unknown cultures, without any weakening of their ties with the Company; a classic case is Matteo Ricci. Accepting their calling meant adopting a special life, characterized by a modern form of asceticism: a total break with the past and their families, a readiness to go wherever they were sent, as new apostles.

      • Geography
        May 2020

        Geografía Gastronómica Venezolana: Edición Especial Siglo XXI

        Con recetas de 49 excelentes chefs venezolanos en la diáspora.

        by Ramón David León Author: Ramón David León; Daniel León; Editor; Julio León, Editor

        This book first came out in 1954 and it’s considered one of the pioneers in trying to paint a picture of our cuisine. The second volume boasts the other 63, and 49 remaining recipes, prepared by several Venezuelan chefs that are in exile. It wasn’t possible to write down the recipes for all biographies, since some include entries about the tabaco del guácharo, coffee, white rum, and pollo cañero (a type of toad eaten in the Orinoco Delta), among others. The new edition of Geografía gastronómica venezolana also includes a photographic journey with panoramic images from emblematic Venezuelan locations.

      • 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.

      • Etica dell'acquario

        by Ilaria Gaspari

        Gaia is beautiful, self-centred and unhappy. One day in November she returns to the city where she studied, after an absence of ten years. Nothing seems to have changed in Pisa, but everything has. Gaia meets up again with her old friends and the love of her university days, but now they are divided by the years they spent apart and the loss of a fellow student, Virginia, who died in obscure circumstances. The investigation into the mysterious suicide winds its way through the streets of the city and the colleges of the Scuola Normale, amidst buried memories and obsessions that come to light.

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