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O que um professor brasileiro ou não pensa e faz quando se vê pela primeira vez à frente de um grupo de estudantes “estrangeiros” para falar de literatura brasileira? Aparentemente simples, a pergunta que serve como ponto de partida para os ensaios reunidos neste livro abre caminho para...

The award-winning fictionist’s treasured personal letters to family, acquaintances, students, and friends that continue to tell the story of his life. With black and white photographs.

Getting pissed, getting laid, getting by. The adventures and misadventures of a group of graduates working in a North London call centre: Alice wants to be a singer, Liam wants to travel, Rob wants to make a killing and Sally’s been there too long but it’s okay, it’s not forever, is it?...

¿Por qué razón, en los últimos dos siglos, la epistemología occidental dominante eliminó de la reflexión el contexto cultural y político de producción y reproducción del conocimiento? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias de esta descontextualización? ¿Son hoy posibles otras epistemologías?...

Temas en torno a la privatización energética analizando las políticas económica, fiscal, sindical, petrolera, de medios y debate energético, de soberanía nacional y de derecho constitucional de México.

La autoflagelación es la mala conciencia de la pasividad, y no es fácil superarla en un contexto en el que la pasividad es impuesta. Sin embargo, el reconocimiento pleno de la fuerza avasalladora de las circunstancias no puede paralizar la lucha por la búsqueda de alternativas dignas. Se pretende...

LA COLLECTION DES PROFESSIONNELS ET DES FUTURS PROFESSIONNELS EN COMPTABILITE, FISCALITE, DROIT ET COMMERCE.   Pour être performant, être « Actuel », c’est essentiel ! La collection des professionnels et des futurs professionnels en comptabilité, fiscalité, droit et commerce. Cette synthèse...

Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection...

Este estudio enseña cómo la utilización "camp" de lo "kitsch" y lo cursi (folletines y novelas rosas, radio y telenovelas, tango y bolero, o el cine norteamericano de los años 40 y 50) ha servido para sobrepasar al realismo.

During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A great deal of attention has been...

Neste livro de rimas, a grande vedete é a língua portuguesa, que salpica novos significados quando atravessa de cá pra lá e de lá pra cá as pontes entre o Brasil e Portugal. Dois Josés, um português, outro brasileiro, brincam com os múltiplos sentidos da linguagem e da cultura dos dois países,...

Foi pra Portugal, perdeu o lugar. Errou!! Numa viagem a Portugal, a gente só tem a ganhar: se diverte com os novos significados para as mesmas palavras, deita gostoso no berço da língua-mãe, conhece a terra dos nossos avós. E, de quebra, ganha amigos que moram do outro lado do oceano, mas falam a mesma língua que nós!

Nicci has given up on being a successful musician and is now the hostess of the Savoy, in Harlem, circa 1920s. Men are returning from war. Prohibition causes her to turn her club into a speakeasy. Whats a club without sex, love, murder and the mob? Nicci cant stay away from excitement . Her second...

This is the third diary found by a college student. Nicci is on the run from her life in Harlem. It is now 1940. Setting roots down in Las Vegas, she has become the madam at a new brothel. She also has become involved with another mobster, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel. Naturally, Niccis new life is full...