Ana Maria Ana Maria: 114 books

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...

Prefaciado pela poeta e ensaísta portuguesa Maria Estela Guedes, o livro Mia Couto: uma literatura entre palavras e encantamentos reúne artigos de diversos estudiosos do autor, abordando aspectos distintos de sua produção ficcional. Trata-se de textos que discutem desde a questão da memória...

Owl & Penguin families, funny characters with a name.

For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You�re so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she is also restless. In Uplake she takes road trips, flies to distant cities, fantasizes about other people�s...

For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington�s White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries...

Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society. In a set of talks and interviews shortly before his death, Freire addresses issues not often highlighted in his work, such...

From celestial navigation to sharpening blades, Ana Maria Spagna outlines 100 skills you’ll find indispensable for life after an apocalyptic global catastrophe. She covers obvious needs like first aid and farming, while also providing suggestions on how to build a safe and culturally rich community...

I am a Patchwork Quilt is a compilation of writings of the nouns (names of people, places and things) that touched the life of the author, Ana Maria Ward, formerly an English teacher. While writing her first novel, a biography about her father, Gordon F. Ward, Uncommon Survivor: from Sand to Bronze,...

Mariano and his friends are helping their parents turn an old Brazilian coffee plantation into an inn. The children sleep in a shed, which is being converted into guest rooms. One night they hear crying. Gradually, the ghost of Rosario, a young slave from the late 1800s appears to them and tells the...

After being burnt alive, hanged, shot, beaten with rocks and abandoned by everyone, Jack has isolated himself from society for centuries. But his past comes back to haunt him as he meets Maya, and he finds himself once again in a fight between his feelings and his cursed madness. 

Written by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, apprenticeship and everyday life, through a critical theory of practice. Each chapter explores in different...

Osteoporose ist eine Krankheit, bei der die Knochen immer brüchiger werden. Von der Volkskrankheit, die die Lebensqualität stark einschränkt, sind vor allem Frauen betroffen. Doch steife Knochen, Bänderrisse, Zerrungen und Gelenkschmerzen müssen nicht sein! Ana Maria Lajusticia Bergasa erklärt,...