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Beyond Machismo
Intersectional Latino Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo—a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior—is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals...
Perdidas
Histórias para crianças que não têm vez
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Contos e poemas para as meninas e meninos mortos por bala perdida no Rio de Janeiro, por escritores consagrados. Projeto originalmente publicado, de forma anônima, na São Paulo Review. Parte da receita desta edição será revertida para ações de educação e atendimento de jovens em comunidades cariocas.
by Jose Braz Pereira da Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
The Prince Henry may be taken as a symbol of wishes and efforts of anonymous navigators, cartographers, of cosmographers, merchants and adventurers who helped modern man to build new dimensions to the perspective of the world. A prince of remarkable qualities that worked in favor of the Kingdom and...
Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce
A Socioeconomic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
James Joyce's Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world's literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of the city's bona fide...
by DA TOP Books, John Prost
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
2012 Wall Calendar, eBook Edition. The name says it all: our most romantic 2012 calendar, illustrated by the world famous artist and writer John Prost. Flowers as you've never seen them before, seasons like you've never imagined them to be.
Everything about Every@ne
Digital Networks, Privacy and the Personal Data Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
Viewing cybernetic technologies as technologies of communication but also of control, the sociologist and professor Sergio Amadeu da Silveira addresses in this book the implications of the growth of digital networks and the establishment of a market for personal data collection and sale that encroaches...
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil
From Racial Democracy to Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil examines Black Brazilian political struggle and the predicaments it faces in a time characterized by the increasing institutionalization of ethno-racial policies and black participation in policy orchestration. Greater public debate and policy attention...
Giulietta e Romeo
La novella originale
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Edizione ottocentesca della novella di Luigi Da Porto che nel XVI secolo, contemporaneamente alla versione di Matteo Bandello, divenne famosa in Europa e ispirò la tragedia omonima di William Shakespeare.
by Maria da Glória Gohn
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 20, 2016
A obra destaca dois tempos históricos distintos no campo da sociologia dos movimentos sociais: 2011/2012 e 1968. Primavera Árabe, Indignados na Europa e Occupy Wall Street, são analisados inicialmente; as mobilizações no Brasil atual são tratadas na segunda parte; e na terceira, aborda-se o...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
by Ruan Ives Ferreira Da Silva
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Esta obra é uma pesquisa realizada com o intuito de entender a forma como os espanhóis entendiam a religião inca no período da colonização do Novo Mundo. De maneira mais específica, a obra trata das visões acerca do curandeirismo incaico, prática comum entre os povos nativos e que fora demonizada...
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
Libretto, Background and Photos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Today Mozart's exquisite Le Nozze di Figaro delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumultuous times. The original Beaumarchais play raised a firestorm in France, then on the brink of revolution, with its dangerous commentary on class relations. However, Lorenzo Da...
Don Giovanni
Einführung und Kommentar
Language: German
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Mozarts "Don Giovanni", seit der Prager Uraufführung 1787 eine der meistgespielten und -geliebten Opern, liegt die altbekannte, uralte Figur des "Frauenverführers" zu Grunde. Der Charakter des triebhaften Don Juan ist zu allen Zeiten Stoff von Untersuchungen und Diskussionen gewesen. Die Identifikation...
by Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpine
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Sono trascorsi appena tre anni dalla tremenda invasione dell'Orda d'oro nell'Europa centrorientale e ne mancano ancora ventisette al meraviglioso viaggio di Marco Polo, quando papa Innocenzo IV decide di inviare una legazione di frati francescani alla corte degli eredi di Gengis Khan per scongiurare...