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October 1999Velázquez. Las Meninas
Essay
by Michel Foucault, Ulrich Köppen, Rainer Marx
Paul-Michel Foucault wurde am 15. Oktober 1926 in Poitiers als Sohn einer angesehenen Arztfamilie geboren und starb am 25. Juni 1984 an den Folgen einer HIV-Infektion. Nach seiner Schulzeit in Poitiers studierte er Philosophie und Psychologie in Paris. 1952 begann seine berufliche Laufbahn als Assistent für Psychologie an der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät in Lille. 1955 war er als Lektor an der Universität Uppsala (Schweden) tätig. Nach Direktorenstellen an Instituten in Warschau und Hamburg (1958/1959) kehrte er 1960 nach Frankreich zurück, wo er bis 1966 als Professor für Psychologie und Philosophie an der Universität Clermont-Ferrand arbeitete. In diesem Zeitraum erschien 1961 seine Dissertationsschrift Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (dt.: Wahnsinn und Gesellschaft). Er thematisierte darin die Geschichte des Wahnsinns und das Zustandekommen einer Abgrenzung von geistiger Gesundheit und Krankheit und die damit einhergehenden sozialen Mechanismen. 1965 und 1966 war er Mitglied der Fouchet-Kommission, die von der Regierung für die Reform des (Hoch-)Schulwesens eingesetzt wurde. 1966 wurde Les mots et les choses – Une archéologie des sciences humaines (dt.: Die Ordnung der Dinge) veröffentlicht, worin er mit seiner diskursanalytischen Methode die Wissenschaftsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis ins 19. Jahrhundert untersuchte. Nach einem Auslandsaufenthalt als Gastprofessor in Tunis (1965-1968) war er an der Reform-Universität von Vincennes tätig (1968-1970). 1970 wurde er als Professor für Geschichte der Denksysteme an das renommierte Collège de France berufen. Gleichzeitig machte er durch sein vielfältiges politisches Engagement auf sich aufmerksam. In diesem Kontext entstand die Studie Surveiller et punir (dt.: Überwachen und Strafen). 1975-1982 unternahm er Reisen nach Berkeley und Japan sowie in den Iran und nach Polen.
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September 2019No oco do mundo
Colectânea de contos traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária 2020
by Sandra Tamele
Um homem encontra e fica obcecado por um buraco, admirando-o busca conhecer-lhe as origens, implicações e acaba apaixonado. Um conto escrito depois dos ataques ao Charlie Ebdo em França… Uma mulher, frustrada por ter estudado filosofia e estar desempregada, para ter a companhia do marido na vida de dona de casa usa a fachola herdada pelo marido para cortá-lo ao meio e fazê-lo em dois, quatro, oito, até ao infinito com resultados inesperados… A meio de uma noite de luar de jade na China um casal é assaltado em casa, a empregada doméstica atada, a mulher, uma cabeleireira, abusada, o homem, sarado e cinturão negro de kung fu não reage e deixa os ladrões escaparem. A polícia investiga, estará a empregada envolvida? Porque não reagiu ele?... As peripécias de Akissi e seus amigos quando a mãe manda a menina ao mercado e uma das referências para encontrar o lugar se perde e gatos roubam o peixe que devia levar e as curiosidades próprias da infância numa África sem meninos barrigudos de fome com olhos chorosos e ramelados… Um casal conversa e fica no ar uma ameaça. Terá ele um(a) amante? Ela desconfia? Ele lê nas entrelinhas do diálogo com a mulher ameaças de morte veladas e trata de certificar-se de não haver armas em casa, partindo até a bengala que usa para se apoiar…
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesOctober 2019Meninas Incríveis
by Organizadora Sefton, Ana Paula
This book collects stories from several amazing girls! They are stories of achievements, overcoming, creating, developing self-esteem and much more! Based on an action on social media on the @meninasincriveis channels, we invited girls from all over Brazil to send us stories that narrated their experiences and focused on female empowerment. And for this network to continue to multiply, with each book sold, one will be donated to schools, organizations and girls directly.
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Educational materialNovember 2019Uma menina, um rio
by Goldfarb, Lúcio; Menezes, Pedro
While following the layout of a river, the girl discovers the world and lives. A poetic and profound narrative about life intertwined with nature.
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Fiction2019A Jorney to the Abyss
by Nikelen Witter
This is the story of advancing deserts that covered cities. The story of a world on the verge of destruction. It is about the people who inhabited that world, their alienation and the violent war in which they lost themselves. This is the story of a young woman, who healed wounds, and her best friend, who ran a brothel, and how they faced all that was thrown at them. It is also the story of a tiger and a little girl. But, when you get to know all of them, you will have to answer the call to look into the future and plunge into the abyss.
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December 2020Why I can't like him/her?
by Anna Claudia Ramos, Antônio Schimeneck
Adolescence is a time of many doubts, anxieties and uncertainties. In this phase, sexuality is unfolding, and we are going through — because everyone has gone, is going or will go through — self-questions about all conditions, all desires, including regarding sexuality. If on the one hand, we see in beautiful social networks beautiful movements of self-acceptance and discovery, on the other hand we live in a time of great obscurantism and attempt to cage the desires and contain the experiences of young people – whether at home or at school, and unfortunately, many times, with public authority initiative. This book asks this of young people, who often find themselves trapped by a cultural need (or family pressure) to create heteronormative bonds, when, in fact, they feel the desire for people of the same sex. But this book also understands that it is necessary to take this issue to the world, so that everyone reflects on otherness, sexuality and, mainly, the many possibilities of affection and desire. Por que não consigo gostar dele/dela? is a book with two sides, two covers, four stories and many testimonials.
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Children's & YAFrontiers
by Marcia Kupstas
An unforgettable journey changes the way the protagonist Maurícia faces life, releasing her from her daily fears and anxieties. The adventures and challenges the youth faces allow the reader to see himself/herself in the reference universe where the characters are inscribed, as well as share their spheres of action. The storyline takes us through the Brazilian Amazon and gets Machu Picchu, the ruins of the Inca city in Peru, involving Archeology and UFOs.
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Children's & YADecember 2019Imperfect knots
by Mayra S. Mayor
With the suggestive title 'Imperfect knots’, Mayra S. Mayor tells the parallel, but at the same time, crisscrossing stories of Lulu, Nana, kill and Sofia. In Rio de Janeiro youth destined to live deep and intimate experiences, the more independent they become, the more are hostages of their own personal conflicts. Vaporous dialogues, the most sweeping statements, draws attention in this work, the writer's ability to begin, develop and create links between the conflicts in the degree that explores the personalities of the four protagonists, weaving the actions of this with their transformations in the future.
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Children's & YA2020Ed & Pierre: the red book mystery
by Lucy Silva, Regina Mara Conrado
Ed and Pierre are inseparable friends. Alicia is a very strange girl. This is the perfect ingredient to spark fear in Pierre, curiosity in Ed, and cause lots of trouble. A mysterious red book, a world full of adventure, magic, action and suspense, as well as a touch of humor.
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March 2020Women, 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.
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Fiction2019Witch, However
by Carol Chiovatto
Ísis Rossetti is a witch. Her job is to monitor crimes involving supernatural activity in the city of São Paulo. And only those crimes. The rules are clear: if there is no magic involved, she is not allowed to intervene. But in the midst of the city’s suffocating chaos , the lives of common people are in constant danger. She can’t just sit there and watch. Everything escalates when, caught between two extraofficial investigations, Ísis receives a mission from a deity. She must then relive personal issues she would much rather leave buried in the past, kept under lock and key by her friends, all while trying to handle the Magistrate and his watchful gaze.
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Fiction2020Pulp Multiverse: sword and sorcery
by Duda Falcão
In this volume, the reader will find 10 short stories that explore the author’s fantasies and creative imaginations. Heroes and villains confront each other in dark sceneries. Swords sink into monsters in faraway places, ruins, temples and arenas. Magic emanates from young to more experienced wizards. Adventure is highlighted in each page of the book. Read it with some magic scrolls next to you, but don’t be mistaken: have a sharp sword with you as well, to attack the most terrible creature in its weakest point. Have fun!
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FictionMay 2019Assesta'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.
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Children's & YAToad Luiz’s True Story
by Luiz Ruffato
Winner of Prêmio Jabuti, the most important Brazilian Literature award, this book brings us an amusing rereading of the princess and the toad story. The innovative fairy tale edition recounts two parallel stories: while the text presents Princess Juliana’s drama, the colorful and unusual illustrations tell the “Toad Luiz’s real story”. No spoiler, but the toad doesn’t become prince after the princess kisses him. This is the first and only children book by Luiz Ruffato. More than just a fairy tale rereading, it invites the reader to reflect on how the unforeseen can be an opportunity for us to widen our worldview.
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March 2019Amal and the most important journey of her life
by Carolina Montenegro and Renato Moriconi (translated by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
“How would it be for a child to cross oceans and borders all alone? “ This is what this surprising book called “AMAL – and The Most Important Journey of Her Life” leads young readers to imagine. For some children, it’s an unthinkable possibility. For hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied refugee children, a harsh reality. The book, published in two formats – app-book and printed edition - has support from UNCHR, the UN Refugee Agency. Written by foreign correspondent Carolina Montenegro and with visual narrative by Renato Moriconi, “Amal” is a tribute to refugee children.
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FictionLast of all, the sky
by Michele Cecchini
Emilio Cacini, known to everyone as ‘Soldo di cacio’ (Shorty) on account of hisdiminutive stature, teaches art at a secondary school. Fat and clumsy, Cacio has a secretinvolving a woman, Ilaria, with whom he had a relationship during the period in whichshe was a member of the Red Brigades. He’d like to confide in someone but in ArdenzaMare - the neighbourhood on the outskirts of Livorno where he lives – no one asks toomany overly personal questions. The fact is that it’s something of an anomalous place,largely because of the magical, enchanted atmosphere in which it’s immersed. From hercage in the middle of the neighbourhood park, the majestic tigress Mirtilla(Blackcurrant) has always been a reassuring presence for the locals.Cacio has a son called Pitore (Pet Chicken), a child who suffers from a developmentalspeech disorder. In practice, Pitore speaks a language all of his own made up of newwords such as folmedína (sea). This would appear to be no big deal for Cacio, who goesout of his way to find alternative forms of communication to words in an attempt toforge an increasingly close relationship with the child, who he’s bringing up by himself.Albeit disoriented, Cacio has a whole world inside himself and goes his own way. He isgentle but, at the same time, strong, capable of passing through solitude and creatingharmony from the disharmony he feels around him. In search of authenticcommunication that goes beyond words, Cacio seems to be saying that the world canexist in many different ways, provided we know how to invent it.Michele Cecchini possesses a unique imagination, a virtue few writers can boast of. Hisis a magical realism marked by a special form of delicacy and wonder. A cross betweenFellini and Soriano, he uses a special lens to look at and speak about the world, which flies lightly by, as if it were enclosed in a soap bubble.
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Religious & spiritual fictionMarch 2020Exu te ama
by Adriano Paciello (author)
Assassinados em decorrência de suas escolhas malditas, Pedro e seu irmão caíram. Cinquenta anos depois, Pedro reencarna e tem uma nova chance de aprender, enquanto seu irmão, torna-se o exu que o acompanha, com a missão de reencontrar Pedro e ajudá-lo a descobrir trajetos mais dignos, tentar mudar-lhe o futuro e dirimir novos enganos.Exu não é inquisidor, mas sim o portador da luz nas trevas, mas só a recebe quem merece. Um dia resgatado, agora cabe a ele resgatar, pois é este seu trabalho: separar espíritos obsessores dos dignos, apontar os espíritos de luz e desencaminhar os mal-intencionados.Exu é tudo isso e muito mais. Laroiê! Exu é mojubá!
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FictionMarch 2020The girl by the bridge
by Diego Mello
Three lives intertwined at random. An orphan of 25 years, a psychiatrist with cancer and the girl by the bridge - a young woman with suicide attempt history - will discover how grievances, absences, anxieties and sorrows can transform us through affection, gratitude and hope after the chaos. 'The girl by the bridge', the writer and psychiatrist Diego Mello, is a novel that deals with the feeling of 'an exaggerated amount of life', even through pain and disappointments. The reader is transported to the movements that develop within the chaotic and turbulent psychological functioning and that question the certainties of life. The arduous task of facing feelings, the author indicates that you need to 'look in the stars some sort of encouragement to pain' and see how the other interferes with our psyche and can save us or condemn us. The work challenges us to walk the path of the characters and the discovery of who we really are, or want to be. In the words of one character, 'You have to get lost to find yourself.'
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Children's & YAThe Useless Heroes League
by Alexandre de Castro Gomes and Luiz Antonio Aguiar
Typical feelings from a teenager´s everyday such as bullying, abandonment, anxiety and rejection are found in this plot which engages with the comic book and superheroes world, with text and illustrations that are in perfect sync. Something that enhances the Reading is that the story is told in the first person and alternates voices in each chapter: each character is different from “normal” people and undergoes a period of physical transformation. This is a breathtaking adventure that will transport you into another universe.
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Children's & YATurning the Page
by Leo Cunha and Tino Freitas
A book written by eight hands. Indeed! Two writers and two illustrators bring to life 11 short stories full of humour, inviting the reader to think about life’s own “turning pages”. The characters are children enduring family, school and personal conflict situations. Amusing illustrations perfectly interact with the text, contributing to a relaxed reading which reveals that, sometimes, we should laugh at ourselves, dust ourselves off, turn the page on and move on.
