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The ArtsSeptember 2015Film modernism
by Sam Rohdie
This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects and juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework. The author refers to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, inevitably, thereby to classicism. Jean-Luc Godard's work is at the centre of the book, though it spreads out, evokes and echoes other filmmakers and their work, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, João César Monteiro, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Orson Welles. This innovative and eloquently written text book will be an essential resource for all film students. ;
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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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October 2009Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung für Ahnungslose
Eine Einstiegshilfe für Studierende
by Detert, Yára; Söhl, Christa
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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 & YACaterpillars and Butterflies
by Monteiro Lobato (Original text) and Fernando Paz (Theater adaptation)
Written by Monteiro Lobato, one of the most influential authors in Brazilian literature, Caterpillars and Butterflies tells the story of Mrs. Benta Ranch gang, who have a lot of fun with Viscount Corncob’s invention, the psicocaptor, a device that allows one to read the animals’ minds. Through a playful narrative, the text stimulates the pleasure of reading and inspires us to reflect on the respect for fauna and flora. In the same volume the reader will find a text both in prose and in theatrical form, adapted by playwright Fernando Paz. You can cut out and mount the book’s characters to stage the play on the scenery-book.
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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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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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November 2020Best Friends Aren't Afraid of Anything
by Ingrid and Dieter Schubert
Two little guinea pigs go outside to play.As long as they have each other, they’re not afraid of anything!Anything?Climb the highest mountain? Easy!‘You first.’‘No, you!’They explore the world together. Luckily, they always agree. Always? Almost always. After a long day of discovery they fall asleep in the sun. When they wake up it’s dark outside. There’s something rustling in the bushes... ‘Did you hear that?’‘I’m not scared!’‘Do you wanna look?’‘No, you first!’Fortunately, Daddy always knows where to find hislittle guinea pigs!They ride home on his back.‘I want to sit up front.’‘No, me!’ ◆ Challenges and discoveries, agreeing and disagreeing, recognisable for both children and parents◆ From the authors of Maurits Mouse and Maurits Mouse and Rembrandt
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Business, Economics & LawWell Spent
How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
by Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, Geneviève Verdier
The book covers critical issues such as infrastructure investment and Sustainable Development Goals, controlling corruption, managing fiscal risks, integrating planning and budgeting, and identifying best practices in project appraisal and selection. It also covers emerging areas in infrastructure governance, such as maintaining and managing public infrastructure assets and building resilience against climate change.
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Biography & True StoriesJuly 2018TARSILA DO AMARAL, THE MODERNIST
by Nádia Battella Gotlib
In this engaging and reader-friendly biography, the professor and essayist Nádia Batista Gotlib recreates the libertarian trajectory of Tarsila do Amaral, focusing on her private life, her training in art, the modernist circuit and the Pau-brasil and Anthropophagic movements, detailing the painter’s active commitment to defending the diversity of both her art and her affective and personal life. A paradigm of rupture in visual arts and literature, Tarsila do Amaral influenced Brazilian art production and played a leading role in the social mobility of women. This book offers readers a full picture of her intense life and work, deciphering their complexity, originality and worldview.
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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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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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FictionDecember 2019Under 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.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureAugust 2018Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa
by Prof. Pathmanathan Umaharan, Dr Ranjana Bhattacharjee, Dr Malachy Akoroda, Dr Brigitte Laliberté, Dr Michelle End, Dr Nicholas Cryer, Dr Andrew Daymond, Dr Jan Engels, Dr Albertus Bernardus Eskes, Dr Martin Gilmour, Dr Philippe Lachenaud, Dr Wilbert Phillips-Mora, Dr Chris Turnbull, Prof. Pathmanathan Umaharan, Dr Dapeng Zhang, Dr Stephan Weise, Dr Lambert A. Motilal, Dr Dário Ahnert, Dr Rob Lockwood, Dr Augusto Roberto Sena Gomes, Dr George Andrade Sodré, Dr Mark Guiltinan, Prof. Siela Maximova, Dr Richard Asare, Dr Victor Afari-Sefa, Dr Sander Muilerman, Dr Gilbert J. Anim-Kwapong, Dr Didier Snoeck, Dr Bernard Dubos, Dr Jorge Teodoro De Souza, Dr Fernando Pereira Monteiro, Dr Maria Alves Ferreira, Dr Karina Peres Gramacho, Dr Edna Dora Martins Newman Luz, Dr Ulrike Krauss, Dr David I. Guest, Dr Philip J. Keane, Dr Leila Bagny Beilhe, Dr Régis Babin, Dr Martijn ten Hoopen, Dr Samuel Orisajo, Dr Christian Cilas, Dr Olivier Sounigo, Dr Bruno Efombagn, Dr Salomon Nyassé, Dr Mathias Tahi,
There is a growing demand for cocoa. However, cultivation is dependent on ageing trees with low yields and increasing vulnerability to disease. There is growing concern about the environmental impact of cultivation in areas soil health and biodiversity. There is therefore an urgent need to make cocoa cultivation more efficient and sustainable to ensure a successful future. These challenges are addressed in Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa.Part 1 reviews genetic resources and developments in breeding. Part 2 discusses optimising cultivation techniques to make the most of new varieties. Part 3 summaries the latest research on understanding and combatting the major fungal and viral diseases affecting cocoa. Part 4 covers safety and quality issues whilst the final part of the book looks at ways of improving sustainability, including the role of agro-forestry, organic cultivation and ways of supporting smallholders.With its distinguished editor and international range of expert authors, this collection will be a standard reference for cocoa scientists, growers and processors.
