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No limiar de completar 100 anos do nascimento do filósofo e educador Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (1921-1997), tem uma vasta bibliografia com reflexões direcionadas ao campo educacional brasileiro. A editora Bagai apresenta aos seus leitores em comemoração do seu centenário a obra “100 ANOS DE PAULO FREIRE: A PEDAGOGIA FREIREANA NO ENSINO-APRENDIZAGEM DA EDUCAÇÃO BRASILEIRA”, dedicada em apresentar produções científicas de pesquisadores de importantes universidades privadas e públicas do Brasil, estes propuseram em seus escritos evidenciar às contribuições teóricas da pedagogia freireana direcionadas ao processo de ensino e aprendizagem para educação brasileira em todos os níveis e modalidades de ensino. Os textos tiveram como ponto de convergência a proposta de uma educação contra-hegemônica, libertadora, emancipadora, crítica, reflexiva e dialógica, vislumbrando assim a emancipação intelectual de todos alunos.
&Lsquo;The Powerless Must Have A Dream Or Two, Dreams That Break Walls, Dreams That Go Through Walls As If They Are Powerless.&Rsquo; A Magical Tour De Force By A Writer At The Height Of Her Powers, When Dreams Travel Weaves Round Scheherazade&Mdash;Or Shahrzad Of The Thousand And One Nights&Mdash;A Vibrant, Inventive Story About That Old Game That&Rsquo;S Never Played Out: The Quest For Love And Power. The Curtain Opens On Four Figures, Two Men And Two Women. There Is The Sultan Who Wants A Virgin Every Night; There Is His Brother, Who Makes An Enemy Of Darkness And Tries To Banish It; And There Are Their Ambitious Brides, The Sisters Shahrzad And Dunyazad, Aspiring To Be Heroines&Mdash;Or Martyrs. Travelling In And Out Of These Lives To Spellbinding Effect Is A Range Of Stories, Dark, Poetic And Witty By Turns, Spanning Medieval To Contemporary Times. With Its Sharp And Lively Blend Of Past And Present, Its Skilful Reworking Of The Historical Tradition, And Its Controlled Use Of Evocative Language, Githa Hariharan&Rsquo;S Multi-Voiced Narrative Assumes The Significance Of Modern Myth.
This book explains the pharmacological relationships between the various systems in the human body. It offers a comprehensive overview of the pharmacology concerning the autonomic, central, and peripheral nervous systems. Presenting up-to-date information on chemical mediators and their significance, it highlights the therapeutic aspects of several diseases affecting the cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrinal, and hematopoietic systems. The book also includes drug therapy for microbial and neoplastic diseases. It also comprises sections on immunopharmacology, dermatological, and ocular pharmacology providing valuable insights into these emerging and recent topics. C...
At eleven years old a young boy is told that God has chosen him to become a Catholic missionary monk and priest; the choice is not his to make. He joins the Redemptorist Order and spends the next 11 years being schooled in the way he is expected to live for the rest of his life. He must leave his family to lead a secluded monastic life, making no close friendships and taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.When doubts arise in his mind he strives to overcome them, studying all the harder, but eventually he realises that he is not happy in the only life he knows. When he spends time in hospital and falls in love his thoughts crystallise. Only then is he able to make his final decision about the life he wants to live.This autobiographical work brings Stephen's story to life and its moving narrative comes to a truly emotional conclusion.
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The latest novel from a rising star of Brazilian literature, Crow Blue spins a far-reaching story of the search for one's roots.
Marilene Felinto is one of a new wave of young Brazilian writers, and her work is among the very best. Born in 1957 in the northeast of Brazil, she moved to São Paulo in early adolescence and completed her university education there. Her fiction connects the striking contrasts of a young woman's experience and the cross-purposes of modern Brazil. In The Women of Tijucopapo nothing can be taken for granted since everything might be taken away. Risia is a heroine little interested in being heroic All she wants is for her life "to have a happy ending." To find it she must go back to Tijucopapo, where her mother was born. One moonlit night her grandmother gave away a baby, and that baby was Ris...
Thriller of two women caught up in Latin America's hell of the Dirty War. Authentic writing from the period.
When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Peru, standing before an alter where the Incas had sacrifced their female virgins, the daughter asked, "Are there any good men?" South American Mi Hija is Sharon Doubiago's reply.Set amidst the mysteries and tragedies of South American culture, this book-length narrative poem is both an account of their journey and a feminist exploration of the struggle between the sexes.
In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her...