Renata: 196 books

The human body is a biological construction founded on the physical manifestation of the biological being, in which its cultural identity is a variable in continuous transformation subjected to the evolution of the intelligences. This article asks and answers a series of questions: what have been...

This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis...

The Totality of Now30 techniques to achieve inner peace and live in the now is a book of psychological techniques to achieve inner peace. Renowned clinical psychologist Dr Melanie OShea shares a broad range of practical, simple techniques to enjoy life now. She reinforces the fact that life is short,...

Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving...

The exhibition entitled “Papi in Posa,” i.e., “Papal Portraiture,” with the highly refined and historically significant Braschi Palace – home of the Museum of Rome – in 2004, and now in Washington, The John Paul II Center, is not offered only as an excellent exposition of masterpieces...

This book is a timely comparison of the divergent worlds of policy implementation and policy ambition, the messy, often contradictory here-and-now reality of languages in schools and the sharp-edged, shiny, future-oriented representation of languages in policy. Two deep rooted tendencies in Australian...

Un quadro ricco, vivace, articolato delle problematiche attuali della formazione degli adulti.Partendo dalla constatazione che la qualità di essa è estremamente disomogenea e spesso deludente, il testo indica i requisiti che la formazione deve avere per orientare i partecipanti a muoversi nella società attuale: una formazione che declini oggi i valori della cultura umanistica.

Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities....

My book From My Soul to Yours with Love is a compilation of poems giving my inspired revelation of Gods perfect love for us. This book contains seven chapters, each of which expresses seven different areas of how our journeys through this time and place are connected. These chapters also reveal my...

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate...

Il volume raccoglie gli atti del VII Convegno Nazionale dell’ARCo “Attualità delle aree archeologiche: esperienze e proposte”, svoltosi dal 24 al 26 ottobre 2013 presso la Facoltà di Architettura Roma Tre. Il Convegno ha posto temi che attengono al restauro, alla conservazione, alle metodologie...

This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet who – while searching for...

Paleomagnetism is the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks. It has been paramount in determining that the continents have drifted over the surface of the Earth throughout geological time. The fossil magnetism preserved in the ocean floor has demonstrated how continental drift takes place through...

The will to succeed is way more powerful than any advanced business knowledge or turnaround strategy. The person you are working with has to want to win in order to win! By this I mean that individual personally has to want the activity to succeed. It won't fly if his primary motivation is someone else wanting it.