October 2009
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October 2009Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung für Ahnungslose
Eine Einstiegshilfe für Studierende
by Detert, Yára; Söhl, Christa
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Geography & the EnvironmentJune 2024Gendered urban violence among Brazilians
Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London
by Cathy McIlwaine, Paul Heritage, Miriam Krenzinger Azambuja, Moniza Rizzini Ansari, Eliana Sousa Silva, Yara Evans
This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct forms of gender-based violence across private, public and transnational spheres as interlinked with structural, symbolic and infrastructural violence. The book also explores the embodied and spatialised nature of gendered urban violence, explored through artistic engagements and arts-based methods. In developing a translocational feminist tracing methodological and epistemological approach across the social sciences and the arts, the book argues for the importance of a collaborative approach among academic, civil society organisations, artists and creative researchers with a view to engendering empathetic transformation to address gendered urban violence in the long-term.
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FictionI Rock, But I'm Not Made of Stone
by Yara Monteiro
Vitória was born in Angola, but she was raised by her grandparents in Portugal. To become, perhaps, a "good wife". She's marked by a trauma she never overcame: she's never met her mother, an Angolan revolutionary. A few months before her wedding, she flees to Angola. Looking for her mother and her own sexual identity.She arrives in Luanda at the beginning of the 21st century. She finds it chaotic, filledwith social contrasts, a watercolor where tragedy and comedy dance together. Zacarias Vindu, a general involved in arms trafficking and a poetry lover, and Romena Cambissa, a hurricane-like widow, are, and simultaneously aren't, her main guides around Luanda. But it's in Huambo, in a magical and mystical Angola, that she unearths new clues, when she gets to know Juliana Tijamba, who fought in the civil war alongside her mother, in a meeting that awakens all of Vitória's ghosts. She is then forced to confront her past and to come into herself as an adult. Between satire and tragedy, abandonment and rupture, this is a story of self-discovery. A contemporary, urban, and feminine novel.
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Children's & YAMinimini
by Ricardo Adolfo / Yara Kono
Minimini loved being a good, tiny and cheerful story. One day she was told she had to be very big or very sad to be good story. Between pages filled with surprises, Minimini discovered other ways of telling her adventures. And the best one was hidden right at the end of the book.
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Children's & YAJune 2019Yara's Tawari Tree
by Yossi Lapid (author); Joanna Pasek (illustrator)
Yara lives with her Mama in the lush Amazon jungle. She wants to rescue her beloved but increasingly besieged rainforest home. When Yara falls gravely ill, the forest returns the love and saves Yara's life. This is the first book in the award-winning Yara’s Rainforest series (3 stand-alone volumes).
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October 2020Yara's Spring
by Jamal Saeed & Sharon E. McKay
Crafted through the focused lens of Jamal Saeed’s own experiences in Syria and brought to life with acclaimed author Sharon E. McKay, Yara’s Spring is a story of coming of age against all odds and the many kinds of love that bloom even in the face of war.
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A Dusty Day at the Museum
A small museum guide for children
by Dorothea Blankenhagen
Fuzzy is a cheeky little ball of dust that lives in a corner of the grand museum with her family. One day, a gust of wind comes rushing through the hall and carries her off on a great adventure. An adventure during which she encounters interesting creatures from all over the world: she narrowly escapes a mighty tiger, competes with a friendly antelope from Africa, is thrown out of her picture by an Indian hunting party, flees from an octopus from the coast of South America and lands with a funny Chinese dragon... This picture book not only brings the Humboldt Forum exhibits – and dust bunnies – to life, but it is also a really nice introduction to different kind of art.
