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The ArtsJanuary 2019Postcolonial African cinema
Ten directors
by David Murphy, Patrick Williams
This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines - film studies, African cultural studies, and, in particular, postcolonial studies - in order to combine the in-depth analysis of individual films and bodies of work by individual directors with a sustained interrogation of these films in relation to important theoretical concepts. Structurally, the book is straightforward, though the aim is to incorporate diversity and complexity of approach within the overall simplicity of format. Chapters provide both an overview of the director's output to date, and the necessary background - personal or national, cultural or political - to enable readers to achieve a better understanding of the director's choice of subject matter, aesthetic or formal strategies, or ideological stance. They also offer a particular reading of one or more films, in which the authors aim to situate African cinema in relation to important critical and theoretical debates. This book thus constitutes a new departure in African film studies, recognising the maturity of the field, and the need for complex yet accessible approaches to it, which move beyond the purely descriptive while refusing to get bogged down in theoretical jargon. Consequently, the volume should be of interest not only to specialists but also to the general reader.
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VOLVER A MASADA
by Amnon Ben-Tor
VOLVER A MASADA por Amnon Ben-Tor Este libro resume los ocho volúmenes de la serie de Informes finales de Masada que se han publicado hasta la fecha. Las excavaciones en el sitio bajo la dirección de Yigael Yadin en la década de 1960 revelaron el palacio-fortaleza herodiano, que fue el último bastión de los rebeldes judíos en su revuelta contra las poderosas legiones romanas entre los años 66 a 73 de la era cristiana. Según el testimonio del historiador contemporáneo Flavio Josefo, los defensores optaron por suicidarse antes que rendirse. Cientos de voluntarios de todo el mundo participaron en dichas excavaciones. Los capítulos cubren los restos arquitectónicos y pequeños hallazgos de la época de Herodes, de los celotes y del período romano, las obras romanas durante el sitio y restos del período bizantino. En las excavaciones se encontraron miles de objetos, incluidos manuscritos. Masada no es solo un sitio arqueológico, sino también un símbolo, principalmente, pero no exclusivamente para los modernos israelíes. Esto se refleja en los cientos de miles de visitantes que acuden cada año de todos los rincones del mundo. En 2001, Masada fue declarado por la UNESCO como Patrimonio de la Humanidad. El capítulo final del libro examina el así llamado "mito de Masada" a la luz de la evidencia arqueológica y evalúa las recientes críticas de la metodología y de las conclusiones históricas de los excavadores de Masada en vista de sus resultados reales. Amnon Ben-Tor, profesor emérito de la Cátedra Yigael Yadin de Arqueología de la Tierra de Israel en el Instituto de Arqueología de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, fue miembro del equipo de Yadin en las excavaciones de Masada. Estudió arqueología e historia judía en la Universidad Hebrea, donde se doctoró en 1968 y enseñó hasta 2004. Paralelamente, participó en excavaciones en diversos sitios en Israel, incluido un estudio regional del área occidental del Valle de Jezreel, en los sitios de Tel Kiri, Tel Kashish y Yokneam. Desde 1990 dirige las excavaciones en Hatzor de la Fundación Selz en memoria de Yigael Yadin. 25×19 cm, 320 páginas, edición en tapas duras, muchas fotos e ilustraciones.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2018Royals on tour
by Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery, Andrew Thompson, Jean Gelman Taylor, Cindy McCreery, Jes Fabricius Moller, Charles Reed, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Robert Aldrich, Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Ines Vieira Gomes, Guy Vanthemsche, Mark Seymour, Susie Protschky, Hilary Sapire, Caroline Keen
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureOrgy for coloring in
by Bebel Abreu (editor) / Alex Vieira (author) / André Valente (author) / Feppa Rodrigues (author) / Flavio Zerloti (author) / Indio San (author) / Janara Lopes (author) / João Montanaro (author) / Kiko Dinucci (author) / Laerte (author) / Luciana Bastos (author) / Luciano Feijão (author) /Marcelo Araújo (author) / Max Kisman (author) / Oga Mendonca (author) / Orlando Pedroso (author) / Samuel Rodrigues (author) / Tiago Elcerdo (author) / Adão Iturrusgarai (author) / Ale Kalko (author) / Alejandro Magallanes (author) / Christiano Mascaro (author) / Diego Sanches (author) / Eduardo Belga (author) / Gabriel Goés (author) / Fabio Zimbres (author) / Fernanda Guedes (author) / Flávio Flock (author) / Guma (author) / Maël Boutin (author) / Renata Miwa (author) / Rogerio Nunes (author) / Santiago Mourão (author) / Sen Hesse (aka Carlo Giovani) (author) / Thais dos Anjos (author) / Zé Otavio (author)
The first coloring book for adults only! 34 drawings of orgies in fun and naughty variations: marine, idyllic, somber, poetic and much more. Drawn by 35 different artists especially for this publication. The kit contains 2 sets with 17 different orgies each + crayons + sticker of the orgy drawn by the great cartoonist Laerte, wrapped in a special (and discreet) package.
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FictionApril 2018Two cigarettes
by Flavio Gomes
“It is late afternoon. You get in the car without saying anything and ask: shall we? You say yes with a gesture and show me the way. After half an hour I ask if you brought your clothes and your toothbrush. The brush does answer me. ” So, without a pre-existing history, a lonely forty-something architect and a mysterious young woman with big green eyes who never spoke about the past meet for the first time for a journey with no destination. Chance, which unites and separates two lives, leads the characters in the debut novel by journalist Flavio Gomes on a journey that passes through the interior of Minas, small German cities, São Paulo, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Itacaré, Budapest, Prague and Strasbourg , without one ever knowing enough of the other to imagine a possible end.
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FictionMarch 2021Krumholz
Roman
by Flavio Steimann
A masterful novel about a girl and her murderer – based on a true story from Switzerland just before the First World War. In May 1914, a young woman was found murdered in a wood near Krumbach, in Switzerland. The murderer, a homeless man living in the woods, was the last person executed by the guillotine in the canton of Lucerne. Inspired by this true case, Flavio Steimann tells the story of Agatha and Zenz: Her mother died while giving birth to Agatha. Her father, grief-stricken, sets his broken-down farm on fire some years later and hangs himself, but only after bringing the deaf child to a safe place in the woods. Agatha‘s world is a silent one, making her an even more careful observer. She grows up in an institution “for the poor and the lunatic”, surrounded by mean nuns, where she learns embroidery and sewing and later finds work in a cloth factory. Her first blooming is put to an end abruptly as Agatha is diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to the countryside for a cure. Every day she goes into the forest with her embroidery frame – until one day, she doesn‘t come back. Zenz also comes from the poorest of backgrounds. Beaten and neglected, he makes a living by lying and stealing from early age. A better life seems within reach as he is taken to artistic circles Paris by a painter friend. But finally he has to turn back to Switzerland, where he lives in the woods, homeless. One day, he sees Agatha there … In his artfully composed novel, Flavio Steimann intertwines the fate of two people who could not escape their destiny.
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April 2020Mommy's father
by Cristiana Gomes and Odilon Moraes
“Grandpa, mommy told me her father had brown hair" This is how a little girl starts an interesting conversation with her grandfather. They go to the beach together and she tells him some memories her mother shared with her: her dad's characteristics, what would make him happy (or angry), the things she learned from him. The grandfather listens to her and witnesses the day his granddaughter makes an important discovery regarding time and family love.
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October 2018Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
On Brazil and Global Cinema
by Maite Conde and Stephanie Dennison
As well as offering an in-depth analysis of Brazilian film culture, this book engages with well-known international films and directors and sheds light on cinematic traditions that are less familiar to the non-specialist.
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Children's & YAThe Useless Heroes League
by Alexandre de Castro Gomes and Luiz Antonio Aguiar
Typical feelings from a teenager´s everyday such as bullying, abandonment, anxiety and rejection are found in this plot which engages with the comic book and superheroes world, with text and illustrations that are in perfect sync. Something that enhances the Reading is that the story is told in the first person and alternates voices in each chapter: each character is different from “normal” people and undergoes a period of physical transformation. This is a breathtaking adventure that will transport you into another universe.
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Biblical studies & exegesisSeptember 2019El amigo del novio ("The Friend of the Bridegroom")
Juan el Bautista: historia y teología ("John the Baptist: History")
by Roberto Martínez Rivera
A pesar de la frecuencia con la que muchas personas escuchan mencionar a Juan Bautista en las liturgias y otras celebraciones, su figura permanece siendo un tanto desconocida o resulta enigmática. Sin embargo, su importancia en el Nuevo Testamento es incuestionable. Jesús le dedica el mayor halago que persona alguna haya recibido: "Les aseguro que, entre los nacidos de mujer, no ha aparecido uno mayor que Juan el Bautista…" (Mt 11,11); y el historiador Flavio Josefo emplea más espacio en el Bautista que en el propio Jesús. Pero, ¿quién fue verdaderamente Juan? ¿Fueron él y Jesús primos, como popularmente se dice, o solo parientes, como expresamente indica el evangelio de Lucas (1,36)? ¿Por qué se dejó bautizar Jesús por Juan con "un bautismo para el perdón de los pecados" (Mc 1,4) si él no tenía pecado? El presente estudio aborda estas y muchas otras interrogantes de carácter histórico pero también teológico sobre Juan Bautista, todavía hoy venerado en numerosos templos y liturgias alrededor del mundo como "el amigo del novio" (Jn 3,29). Despite the frequency with which many people listen to the mention of John the Baptist in liturgies and other celebrations, his figure remains largely unknown or proves enigmatic. Nevertheless, his importance in the New Testament is unquestionable. Jesus dedicates to him the highest praise anyone has ever been given: “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist…” (Matthew 11:11); and the historian Flavius Josephus dedicates more space in the Baptist than in Jesus himself. But who really was John? Were he and Jesus cousins, as it is popularly said, or just relatives, as the Gospel of Luke 1:36) clearly states? Why did Jesus allow himself to be baptised by John with “a baptism for the forgiveness of sins” (Mark 1:4) if he was free from sin?
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Food & DrinkJune 2013Kitchen under pressure
First gastronomy books printed in Venice from 1469 to 1600
by Flavio Birri
In the fifteenth century, Venice was the first Italian centre to produce and disseminate books printed using mobile printing presses throughout Europe, thanks to the resourcefulness of many printer-publishers - such as Giovanni da Spira and Aldo Manuzio - and the prudence of the Veneto Senate, which immediately realised the importance (also commercial) of this new means of disseminating ideas. The Serenissima also played an important role in forming a different way of understanding gastronomy through the publication of cookbooks - some of which were famous, such as those by Cristoforo Messisbugo, Bartolomeo Scappi, Platina and Panunto - which introduced chefs and lovers of good food to the elaborate dishes that were served at the sumptuous court banquets of the major Italian princes: unusual recipes, faithful to the taste of the time, such as salt cod with black butter, capon in French fracassea, dried merlucce and eel cake from Lent... but also practical advice on how to order the dishes with grace and perfection or how to chop the meat by playing acrobatic games to leave the diners amazed.
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November 2020Sotto il cielo del mondo (Under the sky of this world)
by Flavio Stroppini
Alvaro Giacometti has always lived a quiet, secure life in the mountain village of his childhood. One day he hears about the death of his father, whom he has not seen in decades: apparently, the man who left him to sail the seas had returned some time before, and came to live not far away from Alvaro’s village. The son decides to go and visit his late father’s house, only to find the huge model of a cargo ship – twelve meters of iron and shipyard material.What is the meaning of that?Alvaro has no choice: he needs to put together the pieces of his father’s past, one step after the other. He finds a clue that leads him to Gdansk – the first of the many harbours that he will wander through in his adventurous travel.
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August 2017Fashion Illustration and Design
Methods & Techniques for Achieving Professional Designs
by Manuela Brambatti and Cosimo Vinci
A design tutorial by Manuela Brambatti, Versace's chief design illustrator, the book is an idea of couturier Flavio Marconi who, impressed by her drawing style, her unique taste designing fashion collections and the precision with which she captures the flow of fabric over the body, convinced her to put it into print. Here Brambatti reveals her fresh and innovative style, not better than others, as she writes, but orginal and distinctive for Versace’s workshop, halfway between fashion sketching and illustration.
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December 2018Lluvia oblicua
Poesía portuguesa actual
by Varios autores
Aparecen en este volumen los autores que contruyen el día a día de la poesía portuguesa. Escribe Lamas: "Esmerados en producir un lenguaje nuevo para su poesía, los poetas nacidos entre 1967 y 1992 en Portugal, más que ser subsidiarios de sus mayores, han sabido asimilar, no sin un sesgo irónico, todos los momentos brillantes del llamado "Siglo de Oro" de la poesía portuguesa, pero a su vez han incorporado con mayor naturalidad que sus predecesores, nociones de otras coordenadas líricas, donde destacan las estrategias discursivas de la poesía norteamericana: el objetivismo, el confesionalismo o el tono narrativo/conversacional de los poetas beat. Además de una más radical asimilación del pathos irracional destilado del dadaismo y el surrealismo. Aparecen antologados en este volumen Joao Luis Barreto Guimaraes, Luis Quintais, Luis Felipe Parrado, Alexandre Sarrazola, Manuel de Freitas, Daniel Jonas, Rui Lage, Miguel Manso, Nuno Brito, Cláudia R. Sampaio, Andreia C. Faria, Breatriz Hierro Lopes, Sara F. Costa, Francisca Camelo, Bruno M Silva, Mafalda Sofía Gomes, J. Carlos Taixera y David Teles Pereira.
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FictionMay 2021EVE-0
by Danielle Gomes (author); Moira Todd (audiobook narrator)
When a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub “the evolution gene”, they realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, this team heads to the Amazon for one last chance to save humanity.
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Abecemotions
by Susanna Isern
A curious album, starring animals, with which children will learn simultaneously the alphabet and all the emotions they can experience. Through the different animals, children will learn not only to write them but also to identify, understand and deal with them in a positive way.
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The ArtsApril 2018NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA II
by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)
This second volume of New History of Brazilian Cinema covers Brazilian cinema from the postwar period up to the present, discussing the Cinema Novo and Cinema Marginal movements, the state-owned producer Embrafilme, pornochanchada (soft-core sex comedies) and the crisis and revival of Brazilian film production from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, ending with an overview of experimental filmmaking, documentary film and contemporary film fiction up to 2016. Ebook version brings additional texts: “Brazilian New Cinema (1960-1972)”, by Bertrand Ficamos, and the extensive filmography “Brazilian films released from 1969 to 2016”, by Luiz Felipe Miranda
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Children's & YAThe Boy and The Maestro
by Ana Maria Machado
The award-winning Brazilian author Ana Maria Machado, winner of countless national and international prizes, includes a selection for the White Ravens Catalogue, reappears in our catalogue with a jewel in the form of a book. Remember that book that captivates us, when it addresses a delicate issue in a sensitive and surprising way? The Boy and the Maestro is an exciting story of the friendship between a boy who lives in a low-income community in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and a conductor who, When he recognizes the boy´s talent, starts encouraging him to develop his musical gift. Themes such as child labor, a child´s abandonment by his father, the discovery of individual talents and basic musical concepts are all treated with great care in the text and portrayed with an incredible mix of colors and perspective in Vinicius Sabato´s illustrations.
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November 2019Bible City
A guide in which to delve, lose and find oneself in the biblical books
by Xabier Pikaza Ibarrondo
BIBLE CITY is infinite, unforeseen, unique, eternal, surprising, inexhaustible, vital. God willing, this biblical adventure will make the reader repeat those impassionedwords of Saint John Chrysostom: «I hold the Scripture in my hands: this is my staff, my safety, my quiet harbour».
