Fernandes: 180 books
by Millôr Fernandes
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Neste livro, você lerá 167 poemas de Millôr Fernandes. Falar de poemas de Millôr Fernandes é o mesmo que falar dos textos de Millôr Fernandes (de humor ou não), do teatro de Millôr Fernandes, das letras de música (!) de Millôr Fernandes, das caricaturas, dos desenhos, das pinturas... Nos...
Flying High
My Story: From AirAsia to QPR
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
'What a life. Tony Fernandes has accomplished amazing things - and who's to say what he can go on to achieve?' Sir Richard Branson
The inspiring story of business hero and Apprentice Asia star Tony Fernandes
As a boy, Tony Fernandes wanted to be a pilot, a footballer or a racing driver....
Who Can Stop the Drums?
Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements...
Yesterday in Paradise
1950-1974
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Author Cyprian Fernandes was born a war baby in 1943 in Kenya. Forced to leave school at the age of thirteen because he would not drop his pants for a caning, Fernandes experienced a wild and epic childhood. In Yesterday in Paradise, he tells his story growing up in colonial British East Africa.
With...
by Millôr Fernandes
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 15, 2011
No início dos anos 80, a L Editores editou uma revista cultural em formato de livro que teve grande repercussăo, a Oitenta. Pelos nove números publicados, passaram os mais influentes intelectuais da época. Alguns deles: Frederico Fellini, Georges Simenon, Josué Guimarăes, Woody Allen e... Millôr...
by Raoul Fernandes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Debut talent Raoul Fernandes’s first offering is Transmitter and Receiver, a masterful and carefully depicted exploration of one’s relationships with oneself, friends, memories, strangers and technology.
The three parts of this collection are variations building on a theme-at times lonely,...
Curiosity Killed the Craving
Quit smoking without the fuss
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Quitting smoking doesn’t have to be intimidating.Having smoked for over 40 years, I had tried all sorts of methods of quitting. But no matter what I tried, the cravings would always return to haunt me. All attempts to overcome cravings failed until I discovered a simple technique that helped...
Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute...
emerge 16
The Writer's Studio Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
In his foreword to emerge 16, Raoul Fernandes, author of Transmitter and Receiver, says: “The writers in this anthology show such bravery and risk-taking. Sometimes it’s the courage to have a character commit a tragic irreversible act with a gun in a forest. Or... asking a simple question in a...
Close to the Edge
In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
“Fernandes brilliantly captures the moment when a global generation curved toward a unifying language and culture and found something that was both much more and much less than what it was searching for. Close to the Edge is a beautifully told tale of the collective and the personal, the cultural...
Curated Stories
The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. Heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle may move us deeply. But what do they move us to do? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of...
Cuba Represent!
Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
In Cuba something curious has happened over the past fifteen years. The government has allowed vocal criticism of its policies to be expressed within the arts. Filmmakers, rappers, and visual and performance artists have addressed sensitive issues including bureaucracy, racial and gender discrimination,...
Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed
TEN REMINDERS
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Have you lost your job or are out of work? Are you down in the doldrums wondering how God let this happen to you? Have you been questioning your faith? In Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed, Dr. Pamela Q. Fernandes talks about staying optimistic as a Christian.
A practicing doctor, Pamela...
Challenging Euro-America's Politics of Identity
The Return of the Native
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
In this fascinating book, Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes critically examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers.
It considers how ‘outsiders’ are part of the construction of the ‘native’ identity of the nation-state,...