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      • Editora Jaguatirica

        The independent publisher Jaguatirica works since 2012 in the Brazilian market and has spread its wings to Portugal and USA, with Gato-Bravo Publishing and Felis Press Books labels. Today, the group has more than 400 titles in humanities, social sciences, fiction and literature, every one of them availableindigital formats. The company is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, with offices inLisbon and New York. Jaguatirica has already sold rights to Sweden, Mexico and Portugal andwe'relooking for more partners primarily at Great Britain, France, Spain, Mexico, USA and United Arab Emirates. For license requests please contact:editora@editorajaguatirica.com.br

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      • Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2019

        Poetry authors in Brazil

        16 Brazilian poets to read today

        by António Carlos Cortez

        The book 'Poetics with Diction - 16 Brazilian poets to read today' is a sublime encounter between Portugal and Brazil, governed by the poet, literary critic, teacher and essayist Portuguese Antonio Carlos Cortez, as previously reported by Jaguatirica in Brazil, with the anthology "The Exact time" and the poetry book "Crows, Snakes, Jackals", shortlisted for the Oceans Award. In this book of essays, Cortez focuses such conductor on a symphony of contemporary Brazilian authors and their poetic diction, which makes a point of mentioning specific as compared to the Lusitanian. Alexandra Maia, Ana Cristina Cesar, Antonio Cicero, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Carlos Nejar, Chico Buarque, Eucanaã Ferraz, José Paulo Paes, Ledo Ivo, Louis Maffei, Manoel de Barros, Paulo Henriques Britto, Renato Russo, Sergio Nazar David, Simone Brantes and Vinicius de Moraes are sixteen colleagues chosen to serve as inspiration to fill the pages of this book with bright notes of Antonio Carlos Cortez, besides the part specially reserved for the work of Clarice Lispector.

      • 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.

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        The 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.'

      • Fiction
        December 2019

        Under the guardian

        by Juca Serrado

        A secret that the Catholic Church wants to protect at all costs, the true story of Mary Magdalene, his followers and his beloved master Jesus, rage, murder, danger, passion and time travel. A mystery protected by the Knights of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, better known as the Knights Templar, which involves the story of the Christ the Redeemer statue building, in Rio de Janeiro. A long journey begins with investigations in Brazil and runs through Paris and Israel, a narrative full of adrenaline, unimaginable scenes in "a real cocktail of emotions." The Brazilian writer Juca Serrado leads us seductively at the beginning of the Templars time and embraces us in an exciting contemporary novel, a work of painstaking and fascinating fiction.

      • 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.

      • April 2016

        Autocoaching and getting fit

        by André Percia

        The book 'Autocoaching and getting fit’, André Percia, is intended to help its readers to get thin through an internal working mental order. The book seeks to complement, but with no claim to replace the necessary interventions for medical treatment and / or psychological need. Not seeks a commitment which player will lose weight, but give the participant of the program autocoaching great tools power to transform your life. Each person should find a way to make the program work with regularity and discipline, building deep unconscious and a lean and healthy pattern. The engagement that the program requires to be full, which means read, understand and do the exercises as directed in each case, because only then you can modify the patterns of thought, even at the conscious level, enabling a deep transformation and lasting.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2020

        Dissident identity

        themes for a new Brazilian history

        by Edgard Leite

        In ‘Dissident identity: themes for a new Brazilian History’, Edgard Leite continues the work done in 'Predators', which addresses the Brazilian history from the other side, rescuing facts, contradictions and ideas that, over the years and because of a historiography often biased, remained forgotten. A thorough job and an arduous task which the author is not exempt, but faces; as well as facing certain tradition in historical studies. With a concise writing, the author develops his argument from the idea that, since the Copernican revolution, mankind turned to quantity over quality. It is precisely this world that will emerge from Brazil, since the arrival of Europeans will just at a time when the effects of the Copernican turning shall introduce into Europe. Another important point for understanding the history of Brazil will be the secularization of the state, which is strengthened by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution is, above all, its most acute event. Understanding the relationship between state and religion and, especially, the understanding of the concept of mind, will be central to a discussion of the values that shape - or fail to shape - a society. The book ends with the 1964 event, and the reader will wait that the author addresses in forthcoming books, the continuation of Brazilian history. Always with his provocative and powerful bias.

      • Health & Personal Development
        August 2020

        Beauty from inside out

        Health, balance and well-being

        by Juliana Garcia Dias

        Health, lifestyle, healthy recipes, balance of body and soul. The book endocrinologist Juliana Garcia Dias gathers tips, technical information and his clinical experience. Praised by Peter Neville journalist and prefaced by doctor Cynthia Valerio, the text of the author of the idea that "everything is interconnected and our body listens to what our mind, our thoughts and our energy speech." Beauty from the inside out - provides us with essential alerts off, weightings and contributions so that you can live in the best way: with quality. Expert in their field of knowledge, Juliana Garcia Dias preaches a Medicine "integrated and increasingly modern technology and precise is the prevention, control, treatment and cure of diseases." The author focuses on the observation of individuals, shows us how some simple daily choices can "change the path of our healthy life," reveals myths and truths, presents issues of the feminine universe. According to the author: "in the ancient language, care of our emotions leading us to enlightenment. In contemporary language, care of our emotions means more well-being and quality of life."

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        My old guerrilla

        by Álvaro Filho

        A narrative full of time, memories on the shoulders, rusty bodies smelling of sea air, a testimony of uncertain memories of stories. The novel 'My old guerrilla' tells the story of a exiled writer abroad who returns to hometown (Olinda), mother's request, to try to dissuade the father of the idea of ​​killing the president, who took power after a coup. Alvaro Filho teaches us that we must "silence to hear the wind," time to understand the affection of places and things, calmly swallowing discomfort, and wisdom to understand our ancestry. 'My old guerrilla' is like a reef solid melts into air, and the wind sweeping "flesh, bone, blood, paper and ink."

      • Children's & YA
        December 2019

        Imperfect 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.

      • Fiction
        October 2015

        Rio in six times

        by Alexandre Kostolias

        "Rio in six days" is an immersion in the city's life through "times" in reality moments through time, bringing to light a period spanning almost two centuries. Six stories with as liaison the essence of being and feeling carioca. Stories that portray the Rio de Janeiro's past, present and future, including a raid by Rio 2065, the year of the Fifth Centenary of the city. In this book of short stories that celebrates and honors the 450th anniversary of his hometown, Alexandre Kostolias out in a light and humorous language - although sometimes critical and sarcastic - its uniqueness, the exceptional and eternal character of the spirit of Rio de Janeiro and of its inhabitants.

      • Health & Personal Development
        April 2019

        The physiognomy book

        by Abderraman Bel-Haddad

        This book, part of the giant intellectual heritage left by the Arab-Islamic civilization, was written in the twelfth century of the Christian calendar. Its author assigns characters and behaviors, linking man to animals. The author is based on ancient medicine and knowledge acquired by several ancient cultures. It assigns other specific characters to age, gender and climate conditions.

      • Fiction
        July 2018

        The governor of the sertão

        by Anatole Jelihovschi

        A tiny apartment or a desert plain covered with "mandacarus"? Between bar tales and cases of life, the Savior, the protagonist, compares his life to that of his idol Lampião. Invasions, the struggles against death, death itself - hard and cruel - the exploits narrative a "stripped crowd closed in a collective hell," is in the hinterland of the past, whether in the urban of this environment, embedded in episodes that carry disappointments and suffering and the will of a freedom never before felt.

      • Fiction
        July 2020

        Men who talks with stars

        by João Torcato Justa

        In this novel by John Torcato Justa, a narrator witnesses the history of their ancestry through the protagonist, mother and best friend uncle, recreating a line of magical time crossing the border of Alto Alentejo and reaches the neighboring plain Extremadura, in Spain. Anthony, known in the small Alentejo village by Lobo, is an adventurous young bohemian, fearless and womanizer. The day that your heart is taken away by the unmistakable beauty of the Spanish Soledad, wife of one of the most powerful men in Spain, marks the beginning of a journey defined by Destiny, the Stars and the courage of men and women who make miracles. As background, a rural Alentejo marked by the customs of a Portugal, in the times of Salazar, and the neighboring Spanish province of Extremadura, in a terrible process of healing wounds of the Civil War. John, a participant narrator, invites us to the family memories that turned his family and region, revealing the amazing dramatic density of his characters and an unconventional plot affective links and metaphysical touch with reality.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        The libertists

        by Diana Correia Brígida

        It all began in Paris in the year 1980. Communities who defended philosophical theories began to exist only in France, after the death of Jean-Paule Sartre. It did not take long to spread themselves throughout Europe, with a goal to defend them, but in the worst way. "We are condemned to freedom" is Jean-Paul Sartre's phrase that advertised in a brochure, the Community Libertista. In these communities, spread-philosophical theories that defend the hard way. When Nicole and Matilde suggest to friends join one of the Communities, which everyone accepts, begins the first day of the most difficult phase of their lives. Every time your freedom will be slipping through fingers that are increasingly arrested and linked to the rigor of an army. It is ahead moments of great tension, to call for a major decision of the group.

      • Religious buildings
        July 2019

        LINA BO BARDI COLLECTION

        by Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz

        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

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