Adriana: 416 books

For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive...

Educação e Linguagens é uma coletânea que investiga as mais diversas formas de linguagens. Por meio de diferentes vozes e perspectivas são analisados, de forma fundamentada, os conceitos de linguagem verbal e das linguagens não verbais. Nessa medida, cada enfoque, basicamente, procura refletir...

Daria è una donna felice, che ha trovato una sua dimensione, che vive il sogno del suo amore pienamente realizzato, in uno spazio che non sembra terreno, in un gioco di dare e avere che si concretizza nel reciproco donarsi, completo, totalizzante, senza mai estraniarsi dalla realtà che a sua volta...

Metal Oxide-Based Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Prospects for Application explains the principles and fundamentals of metal oxide-based photocatalysis and the requirements necessary for their use in photocatalysis. It also discusses preparation methods for photocatalysis, and the advantages, disadvantages...

This book examines the remaking of women’s citizenship in the aftermath of conflict and international intervention.  It develops a feminist critique of consociationalism as the dominant model of post-conflict governance by tracking the gendered implications of the Dayton Peace Agreement. It illustrates...

Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore—yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty count of Bram Stoker’s imagination or the romantic hero of popular fiction. The Romanian tradition reflects the norms of peasant life and wisdom embedded in age-old communities....

Esta obra expone la forma en que a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y en el primer decenio del siguiente se conformó una nueva relación entre el Estado y la Iglesia que contribuyó a reforzar la nueva forma estatal sin entrar en conflicto con la Iglesia, permitiendo a esta última encontrar...

In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field...

A new adventure hero is in town: Arrowman and his Magical Arrow fighting against evil and saving the world yet again! This time he goes against his old arch rival Moona from the distant planet Ona. A spoilt beautiful young girl only looking to have fun no matter the cost! Arrowman...

How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on the discoveries of individual explorers,...

The privileged girls of the exclusive Fernleigh Risa Estate, in England, look down with contempt on the residents of shabby Cheyner Close, and wage a secret war of vandalism and harassment against them. But they underestimate the ingenuity and determination of those they so despise. When the residents strike back, the girls find revenge is both sweet and very painful.

The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help...

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institute for Anglistics/American Studies), course: The English Novel, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Virginia...

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.