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      • Editora Fiocruz/ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

        Founded in 1993, Editora Fiocruz emerged from the need to make public and expand access to scientific knowledge in subjects regarding health topics, creating a space to give visibility to the results of research. Since its first launch in 1994, it has always aimed to disseminate books on public health, biological and biomedical sciences, clinical research, social and human sciences in health. Today, with more than 25 years of experience, Editora Fiocruz has published more than 450 titles. These publications disseminate not only the academic production of Fiocruz, but also any study of importance and impact for health on a national and international level.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2015

        Surviving Kinsale

        Irish emigration and identity formation in early modern Spain, 1601–40

        by Ciaran O'Scea, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        In the aftermath of the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 as many as 10,000 Irish emigrated from Ireland to Galicia in the north-west of Spain. Between 1601 and 1608 the brunt of this immigration fell on the city of La Coruña, which became a virtual encampment of starving homeless Irish nobles, soldiers, women, children, elderly and poor. This is the story of that community and how its members adapted to their new circumstances, and how they themselves, their social structures and beliefs were transformed by their immigrant experience. Through an examination of the community across a broad range of social cultural aspects such as family, literacy, material culture, the acquisition of honours, religious sentiment, and social ascent, important new insights into Irish socio-cultural history have been uncovered. ;

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        Biography & True Stories
        2016

        The Universe behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs and Reflections of a Dissident

        by Myroslav Marynovych

        The author of the book served 10 years in prison in a concentration camp and was in exile in Brezhnev times for participating in the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Group (UHG). It was the first legal, not underground, group of the Resistance Movement, which, acting for a long time, revealed to the whole world the situation with the human rights in Ukraine under the Soviet rule. Born in Galicia after the World War 2 and brought up in a Soviet school, the author shows in his memoirs the role of the Galician family in shaping the position of resistance to the totalitarian regime. He tells vigorously, interestingly and frankly about life in Kiev under the Soviets in the era of the Helsinki movement, about the activities of the UHG and its members, about unjust arrests, and Soviet crooked justice. He recounts in detail the life of political prisoners in a concentration camp, describes the circumstances of his exile in Kazakhstan. He pays great attention to the spiritual growth of a person, shares his reflections on dissidence and the nature of totalitarianism. And conclusively, he condemns the communist system.

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        Crime & mystery
        2019

        The Great Prussia Hotel

        by Bohdan Kolomiychuk

        It’s 1905 in Europe. Russia is losing the war with Japan and is now concentrating its forces in the West. Specifically, hundreds of Russian entrepreneurs head to Austria-Hungary and Prussia to establish business relationships, agents of the Russian Okhranka secret police and members of Russia’s criminal underworld disguised among them. Meanwhile, in the Austrian city of Lviv, the career of Criminal Police Commissar Adam Wistowicz advances. He’s one of the best investigators in Halychyna (Galicia), whose reputation is well known even in the empire’s capital, Vienna. Wistowicz’s ex-wife Anna Kalisch, an actress of the Berlin Shauspielhaus, unexpectedly finds herself in the middle of the ruthless whirlpool. In despair, she sends the commissar a telegram, begging for help. Between two fires, in foreign Prussia, Wistowicz takes on the most dangerous case of his life. He finds himself in the Royal Opera House, among communists in a German pub, in the luxury Great Prussia Hotel in Posen, then one on one with a maniac in the middle of an empty square… Teetering at knifepoint between life and death, winning crazy amounts of money and subsequently losing it, and confronting a powerful enemy with only intelligence and adroitness, the commissar from faraway Halychyna brilliantly brings the case to a close… and proves victorious.

      • Fiction

        Adicción a ver muertos

        by Oswaldo Buendía Galicia

        This novel is the first installment of a fantastic trilogy, it narrates the adventures of two weird detectives (a man with "age problems" and a ghost dwarf ... yes, ghost dwarf) who are dedicated to solve the strangest cases of a city called Ciudeath. Everything in this novel is a transgression of genres that, paradoxically, serves to honor them.The black and sly humor, politically incorrect, is obvious: his author has a perfect rhythm to release dialogues that are linked to the action. In addition, the environment in which the episodes take place is dark, gothic. A novel that comes out of the ordinary within the so-called 'Mexican Noir'.

      • September 2022

        Literary Travel Guide Galicia

        On the road in Poland and Ukraine

        by Marcin Wiatr

        Galicia is an integral part of the Habsburg myth and the epitome of worldly seclusion, Eastern Jewish cultural traditions, the Kakan way of life and indescribable poverty. Even if the supranational entity called the Habsburg Monarchy, to which Galicia belonged between 1772 and 1918, no longer exists, the region lives on in literature. In addition to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Iwan Franko and Karl Emil Franzos, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Mascha Kaléko, Stanisław Vincenz, Józef Wittlin, Hnat Chotkevych, Zygmunt Haupt, Stanisław Lem, and Isaak Babel dealt with Galician themes. Today, Sophia and Juri Andrukhovych, Andrzej Stasiuk, Olga Tokarczuk, Martin Pollack, Tanya Maljartschuk, Taras and Jurko Prochasko, Ziemowit Szczerek, Natalka Sniadanko, Maxim Biller among others, do so. The book takes you to places of European history in the Southeast of Poland and in the West of Ukraine - from Krakow via Tarnow to Brody and from Lviv via Drohobych, Stanislau/Iwano-Frankiwsk and Boryslau to Zakopane. Marcin Wiatr reminds us that Galicia has historical lessons to teach us all in Europe.

      • Fiction

        Strokes of Light

        by Ledicia Costas

        A tender and humorous novel about the secrets that mark the lives of three generations of a family in rural Galicia.Julia is a journalist and has just divorced, so that she decides to leave Madrid and return to her village, in Galicia, with her son Sebas, so as get a change of scene and care of her mother.Sebas is ten years old and is convinced that his grandmother Luz is Thor. The woman always has her hammer by her side, even sleeps with it under her pillow and sometimes hugs it, as if it were her son. Sebas adores his grandmother. Although she hides shortbread cookies in her stockings, drinks Samson till she sees double and constantly tells lies. She is a goddess, and has turned her garden into a temple. But Julia does not think the same. For her, returning to the family home is to face a past full of secrets and the disappearance of her father, who more than thirty years earlier left without saying goodbye.The heroin trade in Galicia in the nineties, the world of care and the search for the truth permeate this novel, full of hu-mor and with unforgettable characters.

      • Literary Fiction
        May 2021

        Outside of time

        by Silvia Bardelás

        "Destiempo is a song to the fight for internal revolutions and the desire to free ourselves from the vital ropes that bind us." - Armando Requeixo. Diario cultural. Radio Galega   Destiempo illuminates the we as the truly human space. An older woman asks her grandson to come back to Galicia from the United States to spend the summer with her. She wants him to attend a kind of social fight that she is carrying out with her friends. They look for action as the only thing that can give meaning to their lives. Silvia Bardelás mixes different generations that share the same problem: the weight of a standardized world, full of discourses, oblivious to vitality. The possibility of feeling alive and real again makes everything move in an unstoppable way. The story is a coming and going of past and present, of ideas and actions that reveal the silent social power and the inner need to feel free. Destiempo (Outside of time) is a community novel. Beyond individuality, beyond the group is the we, which can only emerge genuinely when individuals become singular beings, when they become aware of the myths, the ideology, the discourses that have dominated their lives and those of their ancestors.   The narrator puts the focus on the interrelation. He lights up scenes where the characters discover themselves through others.

      • Cruel Sky

        by Maritza M. Buendía

        Cruel Sky tells the love stories of three generations of women living in the little town Cielo cruel. Grandma Belén was a young teacher influenced by José Vasconcelos. Years later, she married Severino, but she could only find any sexual pleasure with him, fantasizing about violent scenes. Gloria, the mother, married Fernando and migrated to the USA. Once they came back to Cielo cruel, she reconnects with Soledad, an old friend of her, which Gloria will strive to include as part of her sex life with Fernando. Finally, Mar, the daughter, who will grow up traumatized by a self-inflected guilt. Her life is a journey from the desert to sea, a girl’s metamorphosis into a woman, a seek for a man who doesn’t close his eyes while making love.

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        El bosque de los cuatro vientos

        by Maria Oruña

        THE FOREST OF THE FOUR WINDS Jon Bécquer is an anthropologist whose job is to locate and uncover lost historical objects. In an old monastery in Ourense he begins to investigate the curious disappearance of centuries-old relics which are part of The Legend of Nine Rings. So, when the corpse of a man in a Benedictine habit worn two centuries before unexpectedly appears, Bécquer and sergeant Xocas will venture deep into the legendary forests of Galicia in search of an explanation. As they move back in time, they will come across a singular story of doctor Vallejo and his daughter Marina, who, at the beginning of the 19th century travelled from Valladolid to the former Principality of Galicia to dedicate themselves to monastic life. There they will witness the fall of the Church after centuries in power and the final demise of the Anciene Régime, brought about by political upheaval and the Enlightenment. Interested in medicine and botany but not allowed to study, Marina will break the rules of knowledge, love and liberty that will change forever the course of life of the future generations.

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        Il Benefattore di Emozioni

        by Luca Platini

        Una coppia di ladruncoli in tour per le periferie di mezzo continente. Un imprenditore cui è stato rapito l'unico erede. Un investigatore alle prese con una precoce arteriosclerosi. Un oste incapace di credere all'anima gemella. Un pittore sulla via dell'ispirazione perduta. Due sposini in viaggio di nozze. Una vedova in cerca di un nuovo legame con il figlio. Un commissario cui la fortuna volta improvvisamente le spalle. Quattro universitari in trasferta per un addio al celibato. Tante storie normali dentro una grande storia, piccole strade destinate a incrociarsi. Nelle "notti magiche" dei Mondiali di calcio di Italia '90 , un piccolo centro all'estremo sud della Spagna diventa il teatro di un bestiario di vite sospese, che si interseca pagina dopo pagina.Nel frattempo giornali, radio e televisioni si interrogano su un crescendo di azioni eclatanti che avvengono in tutta Europa, rivendicate da un gruppo capeggiato da un individuo che si firma “Il Benefattore di Emozioni”. Una follia oscura che sembra lontana anni luce. Ma in un lampo le distanze possono azzerarsi e solo allora, troppo tardi, si realizza di essere tutti in pericolo.

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        La foresta fossile

        by Cristina Converso

        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

      • Culiacán, culiacanes, culiacanazos

        Thirteen culichis writings / Trece escritos culichis

        by Ronaldo González Valdés

        This collection of thirteen writings is an analytical journey of one of the most relevant cities in northern Mexico. It would not be inaccurate to say that Ronaldo is a contemporary Virgil, but the itinerary he proposes is not only a descent into the proverbial hell. He guides us through the lateral findings of his home studio in the midst of the pandemic, to some corner of cherished historical value while the bullets of military operatives whiz by, along with the gaze of his students stunned by terrible and false news, between the literary genealogy that imagined the city throughout the 20th century, to the tenderness of feeding stray cats while reading George Steiner and listening to corridos outside in the street.A professor, researcher and columnist who wrote early versions of this book in Nexos magazine, Ronaldo joins the acute interpretation of Mexican reality by Carlos Monsivaís, Roger Bartra and Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, among others, with his essay on Sinaloa, a lt;>. The essays that Ronaldo dedicates to the two evets know as >, are of utmost importance to the radical resignation they've triggered. Between chronicle, journal entries and academic analysis, Ronaldo builds a personal view of different narrative genres all converging to dismantle the erratic readings that the violence in the streets on October 17, 2019, and then on January 5, 2023, provked. Also known as > due to the coincidence of that day of the week, these episodes generated a state of siege that left deep emotional scars on the population. Oswaldo Zavala   Sinopsis    Esta colección de trece “escritos culichis” es un viaje iniciático a una de las ciudades más relevantes del norte de Mexico. No sería impreciso decir que Ronaldo es un Virgilio contemporáneo, pero el itinerario que propone no es solamente un descenso hacia el proverbial infierno. Nos guía por los hallazgos laterales del estudio de su casa en medio de la pandemia, hacia alguna esquina de apreciado valor histórico mientras zumban las balas de los operativos militares, junto a la mirada de sus alumnos atónitos ante terribles y falsas noticias, entre la genealogía literaria que imaginó la urbe a lo largo del siglo XX, hasta la ternura de alimentar gatos callejeros mientras se lee a George Steiner y se escuchan corridos.Profesor, investigador y articulista que ensayó primeras versiones de este libro en la revista nexos, Ronaldo se suma a la aguda interpretación de la realidad mexicana de Carlos Monsiváis, Roger Bartra y Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, entre otros, con su examen de Sinaloa como una “sociedad demediada”.Son centrales los ensayos que Ronaldo dedica a los dos “Culiacanazos”, detonadores radicales de re-signaciones. Entre la crónica, la entrada de diario y el análisis académico, Ronaldo construye una mirada personal de géneros narrativos en convergencia para desmontar las lecturas erráticas que suscitó la violencia en las calles el 17 de octubre de 2019 y luego el 5 de enero de 2023. También llamados los “jueves negros” por la coincidencia de ese día de la semana, estos episodios generaron un estado de sitio que dejó hondas secuelas emocionales en la población. Oswaldo Zavala

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The Ukrainian Icon

        by Liudmila Miliayeva

        Icon painting, the ultimate expression of Othodox Christian art, reachedrits zenith in the Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries.This book spans the entire period, showing the developpement of the style.The Ukrainian icon is a surprising synthesis of the traditions of eastern Byzantine art and the stylistic characteristics of Russian icon-painting.The introduction of this book explains the stages of developpement of icon-painting over five centuries in the Ukraine’s major Centers of art - Kiev, Chernigov, Transcarpathia, Galicia, and Volhynia - and discusses the life and work of the masters of icon-painting.Despite the strict stylistic considerations imposed by the genre, Ukrainian icons display a striking range and variety of background and context. The author has been awarded the Ukrainian Medal of Arts, the Order of Princess Olga.

      • Biography: arts & entertainment
        January 2021

        The One and Only

        Maria Casarès

        by Anne Plantagenet

        The little-known story of Maria Casarès, a Spanish exile in France, actress, free spirit and Albert Camus’s lover. With her monstrous appetite, raucous laugh and scorching sensuality, Maria Casarès was born and grew up in Galicia, fled Franco in 1936, and came to Paris at 14. She very soon wanted to learn the unforgiving French language, become an actress, express herself physically, dance, love… Nothing could stop her, not rejection from the Conservatoire, nor Paris etiquette. Her talent swiftly earned recognition, and she became one of the greatest tragedians of the second half of the Twentieth Century. She was also Albert Camus’ “One and only”. They had a sixteen-year relationship, a tormented love kept in the shadows, but it flourished through a fascinating correspondence.

      • March 2020

        Dobrudja

        German Settlers between the Danube and the Black Sea

        by Josef Sallanz

        The historical region between the Danube delta and the mountainous landscape Ludogorie today is structured as a result of the demarcation of 1940 which divided the region into the North Dobrudja in Romania and the South Dobrudja in Bulgaria. Since ancient times, people have roamed the steppes at the Black Sea towards the south and left a mixture of languages, denominations and everyday culture. From the 7th century BC Greek sailors founded trading colonies on the coast such as Tomis, the present day Constanta, Romanian Constanţa. After 500 years under Ottoman rule in the middle of the 19th century the first Germans came from Bessarabia, bordering the Danube to the north, from the governorate Kherson, from Poland, Volhynia, Galicia and the Caucasus. Reasons were land scarcity, loss of privileges and a intensified russification policy. Today in the Dobrudja live Tatars, Bulgarians, Turks, Lipovans, Ukrainians, Greeks, Germans and Roma next to more than ninety percent Romanians. The historian Josef Sallanz shows which cultural traditions still today shape the region.

      • Biography: general
        October 2022

        Ghosts in a Photograph

        A Chronicle

        by Myrna Kostash

        In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering a packet of family mementos, Kostash begins questioning what she knows about her extended families’ pasts and whose narrative is allowed to prevail in Canada.   This memoir, however, is not just a personal story, but a public one of immigration, partisan allegiance, and the stark differences in how two sets of families survive in a new country: one as homesteaders, the other as working-class Edmontonians. Working within the gaps in history—including the unsolved murder in Ukraine of her great uncle—Kostash uses her remarkable acumen as a writer and researcher to craft a probable narrative to interrogate the idea of straightforward and singular-voiced pasts and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from.   Rich in detail and propelled by vital curiosity, Ghosts in a Photograph is a determined, compelling, and multifaceted family chronicle.

      • Historical fiction
        February 2021

        Like the Autum Wind

        by Teresa Cameselle

        The hopes and fears of a resilient woman in the Spanish Second Republic —and the facts that would become history. October 1934, Madrid. Twenty-five-year-old Enma de Cas- tro is a qualified teacher in search of a job. But finding em- ployment in Madrid is not easy, so she accepts a teaching position at a village school in far-flung rural Galicia where she educates her pupils using novel methods that arouse the parents’ misgivings. She also starts an adult school, which wins her the friendship and confidence of the village women. Her subsequent close friendship with Elias Doval, a learned and sophisticated local union leader, gives rise to idle talk. An encounter with Miguel Figueirido, a rough, widowed peasant who worships his daughter, makes Enma reconsider her decision not to start a family of her own. Meanwhile, the Second Republic is teetering on the brink, and no-one is pre- pared for what is coming. Will Emma overcome her troubles and become the teacher she dreamt of being?

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2019

        MUTATIONS: DISSONANCES OF PROGRESS

        by Adauto Novates (editor)

        The eleventh book in the series Mutations, Dissonances of progress discusses how the progress of technology brought undeniable benefits to humanity – such as advances in medicine and communication –, improving our daily life. On the other hand, it brought speed and superficiality to the relations of the human being with its surroundings, and degraded several aspects of current life with the exacerbation of individualism, the substitution of moral values, the overestimation of religious beliefs, the economy as the utmost referential of life in common, the knowledge of specialists to the detriment of thinkers. The essays in this volume analyze this situation and indicate paths for reflection.

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