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Metis list includes both fiction and nonfiction. Some literary authors are Gerbrand Bakker, John Berger, Maurice Blanchot, Anne Carson, Rana Dasgupta, Carlos Fonseca, Georgi Gospodinov, Alasdair Gray, Ursula K. LeGuin, Norman Manea, Javier Marias, Georges Perec, Per Petterson, Andrei Platonov, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Marguerite Yourcenar. Metis nonfiction list -in History Society Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Arts and People, Critical Science, Gender Studies series- features works of prominent authors such as Benedict Anderson, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Walter Benjamin, Wendy Brown, Susan Buck-Morss, Judith Butler, Byung Chul-Han, David Harvey, Kojin Karatani, Tim Parks, Adam Phillips, Jacques Rancière, Edward Said, Renata Salecl, Immanuel Wallerstein, Slavoj Zizek and Alenka Zupancic. World-class literary theorists including Mikhail Bakhtin, Gyorgy Lukacs and Tzvetan Todorov, philosophers such as Roland Barthes, Paul Ricoeur and Ludwig Wittgenstein and psychoanalytic masters including Didier Anzieu, Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan and D.W. Winnicott are amongst the authors Metis has published.
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It all begins with Dr. Duncan who in the year 2518 wakes up from a coma (prolonged period of unconsciousness caused by illness or injury), adrift and off the planet Earth, his only company "the ship in which he worked" . This ship was a laboratory dedicated to Bio-Algorithmy, a science that seeks to program human cells in order to eliminate diseases and in this way achieve that the human being can “evolve” into a disease-free species. However, something goes wrong and Dr. Duncan realizes the results of a tragedy, both he and the ship are completely isolated from the rest of humanity. Using his experience and above all his ingenuity, he has a single and compelling clear goal: Survive.
Today we inhabit a world that has been transformed by digital technologies, allowing effortless connection through social media and access to vast amounts of information. In this socio-cultural space, a form of citizenship emerges that displays its capacities and potentialities; that requires active participation in different moments of encounter and disagreement; that calls for dialogue, decision-making, the creation and consumption of information, and, above all, that aims to the configuration of critical subjects capable of transforming their reality: citizens who are also consumers: gamers, readers of news and people looking for love with their best profile picture. In the emergence of this citizenship, dialogical-discursive relationships arise in the context of mass self-communication, through daily, individual and collective interactions, in which fundamental rights are disputed, such as the rights to communicate, to information, to free expression, to privacy. This setting implies great challenges for the exercise of citizen life. The gaze of this book returns to the practices that in one way or another allow and demand to be assumed as a political subject from everyday life. Without intending to exhaust the contexts and contingencies of the digital, the text calls for interpretation, discussion and search for answers that allow us to understand the emerging citizenship, of which we are already participants, beyond our clicks.
a vida del primer Cosmonauta de la historia en una historia de aprendizaje y crecimiento. El Joven Yuri desde niño demuestra que todas sus experiencias serviran para ser el primero en llegar al espacio.
La scoperta della foresta fossile lungo la Stura di Lanzo è l’inizio di un eco thriller ad altissima tensione.Il prof. Ernesto Meina, lo scopritore, scompare nel nulla, i suoi assistenti, il dottore forestale Giulio Nervi e la geologa Martina Globo, si gettano per strade diverse alla ricerca, svelando così un complesso scenario di crimini ambientali.Nella vicenda si intrecciano storie di padri e di figli, di rancori mai spenti, di passioni e di libri, sullo sfondo di una natura bella e crudele, di un ambiente prezioso che è patrimonio di tutti e deve essere tutelato. Con il patrocinio e la prefazione della Città metropolitana di Torino e i contributi giuridici e scientifici del Prof. Alessandro Crosetti e del Prof. Edoardo Martinetto
A fun trip on Rome’s means of transport that brings a good mood, flavored by the attitudes and habits of the Romans who have to interact with unsuspecting tourists. Meri Jo, with the pleasure of her spontaneity, has given shape to her personal and shareable flow of thought that can be found in the everyday life of those who take the public transport of the city. A different way to live and laugh about the sometimes unthinkable dynamics that characterize commuters and tourists; in particular on the "Metro A” of Rome. --- Un viaggio divertente sui mezzi di trasporto di Roma che coinvolge e mette di buon umore, condito dagli atteggiamenti e dalle abitudini dei romani che si interfacciano con gli ignari turisti. Non a caso la metropolitana della capitale è da sempre al centro dell'opinione pubblica per la sua "alternativa" efficienza (chiamiamola così!).Meri Jo, con il piacere della spontaneità ha dato forma a un suo personale quanto condivisibile flusso di pensiero che lo si potrà riscontrare nella quotidianità di chi prende i mezzi pubblici.Un modo diverso per vivere e ridere sulle dinamiche talvolta impensabili che caratterizzano le persone che viaggiano in particolare sulla metro A di Roma (suo abituale tragitto), sensazioni e impressioni nate da pensieri e riflessioni generate da simpatiche scenette che l'autrice ha realmente riportato sui memo durante i suoi quotidiani e avventurosi spostamenti nella città. Tali post-it sono divenuti libro, riportando avvenimenti unici anche al limite dell'assurdo, accompagnati dai corsi e ricorsi a cui i viaggiatori possono (comodamente?) assistere in qualità di pubblico, alla prima di quel fantastico spettacolo trasmesso dalla Atac Company & Production.
Você Repórter da Periferia: Visões e Vivências do Jornalismo nas Periferias Visões e Vivências do Jornalismo nas Periferias apresenta as experiências vividas pelos quatro integrantes e também de uma ex- integrante do coletivo de comunicação Desenrola e Não Me Enrola, sobre as transformações sociais, políticas e profissionais causadas pela realização do Você Repórter da Periferia, programa dedicado a formação de jovens oriundos de diferentes territórios das periferias e também da religião metropolitana de São Paulo/Brasil. Você Repórter da Periferia: Visions and Experiences of Journalism in the Peripheries Visions and Experiences of Journalism in the Peripheries presents as experiences lived by the four members and also of a former member of the communication collective Desenrola e Não Me Enrola, on the social, political and professional transformations caused by the Você Repórter da Periferia, a program dedicated to training of young people from different peripheral territories and also of the metropolitan religion of São Paulo/Brazil.
This collection presents six of the most remarkable architectural projects by Lina Bo Bardi: Glass House, São Paulo Art Museum (MASP), Sesc Pompeia Factory, Oficina Theater (all in São Paulo), Unhão Manor (Bahia) and Espírito Santo do Cerrado Church (Minas Gerais). Besides texts by the editor Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz, this work features contributions by researchers and professionals who worked with Lina. The six volumes also contain writings by Bardi and a rich iconographic material composed of drawings, building plans and photographs. São Paulo Art Museum | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and Aldo van Eyck | 64 pages Sesc Pompeia Factory | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi, Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz and Cecília Rodrigues dos Santos | 64 pages Oficina Theater | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi, Edson Elito and José Celso Martinez Corrêa | 48 pages Glass House | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz | 48 pages Espírito Santo do Cerrado Church | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and Edmar de Almeida | 48 pages Solar do Unhão | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and André Vainer | 48 pages
Souza lays carpet in apartments and Luiza is an actress; their lives are dominated by precarity, failure, and sacrifice. After a chance meeting they feel a mutual interest. It’s hard to say if they fall for each other because that’s not how they move through the world. Still, this is a story, and Souza and Luiza are the gravitational center of a narrator writing about them while sitting in a crowded cafe; she’s interested in exploring people, feelings, but principally, the art of fiction.Souza is a refreshing work situated between ambiguity and voraciousness, it’s exquisite and subtle, intelligent and poetic, and Nina Avellaneda is an author to keep a close eye on.
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.
Kurt è la rock star più famosa del pianeta. Ha appena ventisette anni, ma ha già vissuto tutto. Adesso è solo, lontano dai riflettori e dai palchi, senza amici, senza più voglia di scrivere e di suonare, blindato tra le pareti dorate della sua reggia di Seattle. Nella detonazione dello sparo Kurt rivive tutta la sua vita: l'infanzia ad Aberdeen, i locali, la nascita dei Nirvana, il primo contratto con la Sub Pop, la droga, il successo planetario e improvviso di Nevermind, il grunge, l'amore disperato per Courtney Love, la dipendenza dall'eroina, le tournée mondiali, la nascita di Frances Bean, In Utero, il policlinico di Roma, le disintossicazioni, Unplugged in New York. Fino a quel maledetto fucile Remington... A fargli immancabile compagnia è la voce di quell’amico misterioso al cui abbraccio mortale non saprà sfuggire.
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.
Welcome to a luminous journey, at times hilarious, that crosses the misery and dissects the hypocrisy of an abandoned society that struggles to emerge from the abyss. In a Buenos Aires besieged by violence and poverty in the worst economic and ethical crisis in contemporary Argentina, the lives of a select few are shipwrecked in a country that is crumbling. Prostitutes, unemployed workers and cartoneros merge in a ravaged city, pierced by anarchic holes of poverty, evictions and unemployment. Thanks to an unknown fate, the protagonist, disenchanted and responsible for his family, advances between the absurdity of the crisis, in a forward flight, without rest or contemplation, to try to recover a destiny torn from the roots. What could be the destination of such a particular transit?
