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March 2013»Warum ich meine Schuhe liebe«
by Meret Oppenheim, Christiane Meyer-Thoss
Die Karriere Meret Oppenheims begann Anfang der 1930er Jahre, als sie zur Muse der Surrealisten um André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst und Alberto Giacometti in Paris wurde. Sehr rasch entwickelte sie sich zu einer eigenständigen Künstlerin. Bereits 1936 entstand ihre legendäre »Pelztasse«, die sie weltberühmt machte. Ihr künstlerisches Werk, ihre Gedichte und Traumaufzeichnungen haben über die Jahre an Frische nichts eingebüßt, wie jede Retrospektive, jede Veröffentlichung (zuletzt »Träume«) aufs Neue beweist. »Warum ich meine Schuhe liebe« versammelt Skizzen und Entwürfe für Mode, Schmuck und Accessoires. Ob Knöpfe, Varieté-Wäsche, Gürtel, Ringe, Armreifen, Ohrschmuck, Handschuhe, Halsbänder, Foulards oder Tapetenmuster, immer geht es Meret Oppenheim um die spontan skizzierte Idee – die gelegentlich realisiert wird. In den Pariser Jahre konnte sie einige ihrer Entwürfe an die exzentrische Modeschöpferin Elsa Schiaparelli und an das Modehaus Rochas verkaufen, darunter das Modell eines mit Pelz bezogenen Armreifs und Rings – Vorläufer des »Dejeuner en fourrure«, der Pelztasse. Die Zeichnungen werden von Briefen aus der Pariser Zeit (1932-36) und einigen Gedichten zum Thema begleitet und sachkundig in einem Nachwort der Herausgeberin erläutert, die, eine der besten Kennerinnen von Meret Oppenheims Werk, in den letzten Lebensjahren der Künstlerin mit dieser befreundet war.
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Pest controlJune 2015Biocontrol Agents of Phytonematodes
by Mahfouz Abd-Elgawad, Christian Cumagun, M K Dasgupta, Pedro Luiz Martins Soares, K Devrajan, Masanori Koike, Ioannis Giannakou, E A Tzortzakakis, Fernando da Silva Rocha, Fábio Alves, Ioannis Vagelas, Moussa Lobna, Uri Gerson, A H Wani, C Sankaranarayanan, Anwar L Bilgrami, Mohammad Reza Moosavi, Kamal Kishore Chaudhary.
Highlighting the use of biocontrol agents as an alternative to chemical pesticides in the management of plant parasitic nematodes, this book reviews the current progress and developments in the field. Tactful and successful exploitation of each biocontrol agent, i.e. nematophagous fungi, parasitic bacteria, predaceous mites, rhizobacteria, mycorrhiza and predaceous nematodes, has been described separately. The contributors are 23 eminent nematologists and their information has been compiled in 19 chapters.
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Medical toxicologyMay 2011Poisoning by Plants, Mycotoxins and Related Toxins
by Kip Panter, A C.F Amaral, A P.M Figueiredo, R A Schultz, A G Armién, B T Green, L C.B Fernandes, F Guedes, M C.J.S Lima, L X Mesquita, R C Rocha-e-Silva, I Pacífico da Silva, F M Boabaid, C J Botha, A C.L Câmara, C R Dogo, D R Gardner, James Pfister, K Welch, F B Grecco, P B Pal, B L Stegelmeier, S T Lee, T Z Davis, M B Almeida. Edited by Franklin Riet-Correa, James Pfister, Ana Lucia Schild, Terrie L Wierenga.
This comprehensive collection of up-to-the-minute research in the field of poisonous plants investigates the effects of toxins on animals and humans. It covers the effects of poisonous plants on the liver, the reproductive system, and the nervous system, as well as exploring the field of herbal medicine. In a specialised section devoted to control measures, the book highlights techniques such as vaccination and taste aversion, providing the reader with important information on safeguarding against disaster. This volume is an essential reference for veterinarians, researchers, toxicologists and chemists.
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The Bridge
by Eliandro Rocha
It is not always easy to accept changes, but often if you can manage to, you discover they are for the better. Nestor the rabbit is very happy with his life: He has a beautiful house and garden near the river and, most important of all, silence all around... until the day that someone starts constructing a house on the other side of the river and Nestor starts to get really nervous. How could he and this strange monkey from the other side ever become friends?
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Food & DrinkJuly 2019WOLL Low Pressure Cooker Recipes
by John Rocha
The cooking class instructor John Rocha has designed dozens of dishes cooked with WOLL Low Pressure Cooker. In addition to stews, there are also salt-baked and smoked dishes, which teach you to fully use a low-pressure cooker.
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Philosophical discourse on primitive accumulation
study on the origins of modern thinking
by Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
In his study of the English Renaissance, Pedro Rocha de Oliveira revealed an extremely topical fact: that modernity - which is confused with capitalism, primitive accumulation and progress - is a machine that necessarily needs a peripheral population, external or internal, which is disposable, that is, killable. The “populace” is outside the oligarchic agreement that defines a democracy - which belongs to the experts, the owners, who have a monopoly on rationality. All the nations of the world have done this from the beginning: England, the United States, Germany, Italy, etc. Brazil too, of course, from the beginning, because this is the Colony regime, i.e. the entire killable population administered from outside by a metropolis. Later, the metropolis was internalized, with the same objectives. That's why, to this day, people are killed in the countryside and on the outskirts of this country, with impunity. This is the common denominator of all Brazilian elites, whether left or right: they are all progressive, because that's what progress is. And anyone who doesn't conform to this reality is considered “obscurantist”, “medieval”, “backward”, “pre-modern”, etc. For people who receive these nicknames, the “superior” world of knowledge, science and public administration means nothing. The state is always seen as an enemy of the people. Capitalism, progress and modernity can be summed up as a civil war between citizens and non-citizens. Modernity is the assumption that there is a superior side (civilization, progress, rationality, public administration, critique of superstition), and an inferior side, which are the non-citizens, disposable, killable. The price of progress is the sacrifice of the poor, blacks, Indians, peasants, women, etc.
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January 2016Más allá del Sol
by Rocha, Glafira
Until not long ago there were forbidden topics in the theater for children and young audiences. Fantasies left a mantle of illusion about real life, children and adults lacked scenarios to reflect with freshness, risk and courage, about a world that, inevitably, always ends up overwhelming the child's gaze with its inevitable rawness. Beyond the sun endorses, fortunately, the new paths that the theater for children has taken in our days. If education is a way of teaching a human being to think for himself, this theater more than fulfills a vocation that evidences the problematic relations between real life and the perspective of children. It fulfills an essential function: it creates a space of thought and humor to filter the inevitable daily violence. Should children not think the inexorable? We don't even dare to think about it, but it happens: children die too. In this ghost story, Glafira Rocha's heroes return or, better said, simply don't leave because they are more alive than some "living" ones. The beloved Citrino and Chuy Piscuy teach us to live without fear, but above all to value the counterpoint of death: life.
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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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March 2013La rationalité pénale moderne
Réflexions théoriques et explorations empiriques
by Edited by Richard Dubé, Margarida Garcia, Maíra Rocha Machado
L’ouvrage traite du concept de « rationalité pénale moderne », conçu par le professeur Alvaro Pires comme le système de pensée dominant du droit criminel moderne. Il porte également sur les obstacles liés à l’émergence de pratiques alternatives à l’enfermement, plus sensibles au problème de stigmatisation et d’exclusion sociale du condamné.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2019Lugares, recorridos y sentidos de la memoria histórica: Acercamientos metodológicos
by Laura Fonseca Durán, Diana Vernot, Tatiana Rojas Roa, Laura Giraldo Martínez, Edwin Corena Puentes, David J. Luquetta Cediel
This book is an initiative of the Regional Groups of Historical Memory (GRMH), which, together with the National Center for Historical Memory since 2013, generated proposals for the construction of historical memory in Colombia. The objective of the consolidation of the GRMH has been to recognize local research processes carried out by university professors to build bridges between the country's institutions and communities victimized in the framework of the internal armed conflict in Colombia. Although the participatory social research bets are nourished by multiple edges, disciplines, and schools of thought, there are methodological peculiarities in the investigations that are formulated in the key of historical memory that, on this occasion, are transversal and are deepened in each chapter.
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Travel & TransportMarch 2015México y sus estados
Edición especial
by Kenia Salgado Sánchez, Leticia Dávila Acosta, Ana María Pérez Rocha
This work, which aims be an approach to the plurality of our country, an overview of its natural resources, its men and women, of its vast cultural heritage, and the exciting course of its history, It has been structured in thirty-two chapters - one chapter per federal entity. That are presented alphabetically with the desire to provide the reader with easy reference. The chapters begin with a representative image of each region including: the location of the entity on a map of the country and its essential geographic boundaries, followed by a description precise relief, hydrography, climate, flora and fauna. Likewise, a semblance of the emblematic periods is offered of national history and its impact on development of each of the States. This portrait is complemented with the chronology that appears at the bottom of the pages and, that as a timeline, gives an account of the events past and present most important of the different entities. Based on the last population census, the data is presented outstanding demographics, economic and infrastructure. In the section of tourist attractions they converge in a balanced way archaeological zones, museums, historical sites and monuments; crafts, dishes and traditional festivals; beaches, forests, deserts and other places of interest. Close each chapter, with the mention of the names of those who contributed to forging the destiny of each region. Finally, the selection of photographs deserves a special mention made mostly expressly for this edition, that while illustrating and enriching the text, help the reader to reconfigure the various faces of our country.
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The ArtsApril 2018NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA II
by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)
This second volume of New History of Brazilian Cinema covers Brazilian cinema from the postwar period up to the present, discussing the Cinema Novo and Cinema Marginal movements, the state-owned producer Embrafilme, pornochanchada (soft-core sex comedies) and the crisis and revival of Brazilian film production from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, ending with an overview of experimental filmmaking, documentary film and contemporary film fiction up to 2016. Ebook version brings additional texts: “Brazilian New Cinema (1960-1972)”, by Bertrand Ficamos, and the extensive filmography “Brazilian films released from 1969 to 2016”, by Luiz Felipe Miranda
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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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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2017Crows 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.
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December 2015Lo que saben los wayuu -Tü natüjalakat wayuu
by Alberto Saldarriaga Roa, Leonardo Otálora Cotrino, Guillermo López Acevedo, Carolina Sáchica Moreno.
Tü natüjalakat wayuu: Lo que saben los wayuu es un encuentro de voces en el que confluyen la visión que emerge desde el mundo wayuu y la mirada del blanco (alijuna) respecto a un mismo propósito: destacar la enriquecida cosmovisión de los indígenas wayuu en medio de la realidad a la que se enfrentan como habitantes de uno de los territorios más olvidados de la geografía colombiana, la península de la Guajira.
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FictionJune 2021Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories
by Lynda Clark
Contains ‘Ghillie’s Mum’ – shortlisted for the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award, 2020 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award and regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada. From the award-winning short story author, Lynda Clark, comes this debut collection of sixteen stories, all written in Lynda’s darkly humorous style and playing on themes of multiple realities and dystopian futures. In ‘My Invisible Wife’, a man is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In ‘Dreaming in Quantum’, there’s a murder to be solved with echoes through different dimensions only accessible in dreams. In ‘Ghillie’s Mum’, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form or lose her son. And in ‘Blanks’, people are paying to create clones of themselves so they’ll never die.
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The ArtsApril 2018NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA I
by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)
In this series, a compilation of texts by researchers and specialists seeks to sketch an updated and detailed panorama of Brazilian cinema. In this first volume, Brazilian cinema is analyzed from the 1910s onwards, addressing silent movies, the beginning of sound film, the chanchada (musical comedies) and the independent cinema of Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s-1950s, and the educational role of cinema in Getúlio Vargas’s government. The book concludes with an essay on Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz, an important Brazilian film studio of the 1950s. Ebook version brings aditional texts: “Cinema in Rio Grande do Sul (1918-1934), by Glenio Povoas, and “Massaini, producer and distributor (1935-1992): a lesser known aspect of Brazilian cinema”, by Luciano Ramos.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2019MEMORY OF AMNESIA
Policies of oblivion
by Giselle Beiguelman
Giselle Beiguelman assembles textual and visual essays in the field of the aesthetics of memory that gravitate around experimental works and research conducted in artistic interventions, in order to propose a reflection on the right to memory as opposed to the systematic policies of oblivion.
