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O Grampus era o veleiro mais importante do período imperial, responsável por transportar cargas e passageiros entre Brasil e Portugal, sendo comandado com mão de ferro pelo capitão Nelson Barnard. Contudo, em setembro de 1853, o navio simplesmente desapareceu em pleno Atlântico, levando consigo dezenas de almas para o fundo do oceano. Os poucos sobreviventes parecem ter sido acometidos por uma espécie de loucura coletiva, pois os seus relatos envolvem criaturas com olhos em brasas e presas compridas, que vagavam à noite em busca de sangue humano. Falam também sobre desaparecimentos, assassinatos, corpos desmembrados, um fantasma vermelho e um corvo escarlate, mas ninguém sabe o que ...
Era o ano da graça de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo de 1850. A noite estava tempestuosa e São Paulo era uma cidadezinha pacata, com cerca de 20.000 habitantes. Em uma taverna suspeita, um grupo de homens bêbados confessa os seus crimes entre doses de conhaque e baforadas de charuto. Na Academia de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais, os rapazes descobrem os prazeres da vida estudantil: amizades, bailes, festas, serenatas, passeios e as delícias e agruras do amor. Maneco de Azevedo – um jovem brilhante, sensível e um tanto macabro – divide o tempo entre os poemas, os códigos legais, os amigos e a paixão pela rainha dos bailes paulistanos, a irresistível Laurita. Porém uma onda de assassin...
Um romance ficcional ambientado em 1944, durante os eventos da Segunda Guerra Mundial, com personagens que fazem parte da resistência francesa e lutam bravamente para conseguir ajudar as forças aliadas a alcançarem os objetivos de desocupação das áreas dominadas pelo exército alemão na França, assim como em outros países. Jovens como Jásper, Josefine, Elliot e Loui, que se arriscam para não serem presos e, entre suas dificuldades, ainda vivem as experiências de sua juventude, como o despertar do amor, laços de amizade que os unem e se fortificam, além da esperança viva de um futuro de paz com o fim da guerra.
This engaging and clearly written textbook/reference provides a must-have introduction to the rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of data science. It focuses on the principles fundamental to becoming a good data scientist and the key skills needed to build systems for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. The Data Science Design Manual is a source of practical insights that highlights what really matters in analyzing data, and provides an intuitive understanding of how these core concepts can be used. The book does not emphasize any particular programming language or suite of data-analysis tools, focusing instead on high-level discussion of important design principles. This easy...
This handbook addresses various topics on clinical toxinology such as the epidemiology and management of snake and insect bites in Australia and different countries in Europe and the Americas. Chapters will be written by experts currently working in the subspecialty, many of whom have first-hand experience in the relevant research fields. In virtually all the topics, appropriate illustrations are provided to simplify comprehension including tables, figures and pictures. Clinical toxinologic conditions are becoming increasingly frequent, more so than is generally recognized. The conditions comprise of clinical aspects such as the diagnosis, management, and prevention of snakebite envenoming, ...
This is a compilation of bibliographic (historical and descriptive) information for the minerals first described from Brazil; it includes both valid and invalid, discredited species, unnamed, unidentified, problematic minerals, and so on. This work brings together as much data as possible concerning type mineral species. It will save future researchers a lot of work because it contains data from many publications that are difficult to obtain.
This brand new comprehensive text and reference book is designed to cover all the essential elements of food science and technology, including all core aspects of major food science and technology degree programs being taught worldwide. Food Science and Technology, supported by the International Union of Food Science and Technology comprises 21 chapters, carefully written in a user-friendly style by 30 eminent industry experts, teachers and researchers from across the world. All authors are recognised experts in their respective fields, and together represent some of the world’s leading universities and international food science and technology organisations. Expertly drawn together, produ...
This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Méditerranée in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York’s Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 Documenta11 in Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014 Explores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene Uses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art
This comprehensive handbook provides a unique resource covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective. It covers both natural and managed forests, from boreal, temperate, sub-tropical and tropical regions of the world. The book is divided into seven parts, addressing the following themes: forest types forest dynamics forest flora and fauna energy and nutrients forest conservation and management forests and climate change human impacts on forest ecology. While each chapter can stand alone as a suitable resource for a lecture or seminar, the complete book provides an essential reference text for a wide range of students of ecology, environmental science, forestry, geography and natural resource management. Contributors include leading authorities from all parts of the world.
Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has been well known since Aristotle, Kant and Peirce. But the context that is relevant to the pragmatics of sociality and communication is a highly specific mental operation the mental modeling of the interlocutor's current, rapidly shifting belief-and-intention states. The construed context of social interaction and communication is thus a mental representation of other minds. Following a condensed ...