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Porous City
A timely and original cultural history of Rio de Janeiro.
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God
Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes: from Carnaval's hedonistic delights, to the poverty of the favelas, to the softly seductive samba beat. But there's a dark side to this beautiful city: for years, Rio was ravaged by inflation, drug wars, and crooked leaders, and the legacy of decades of corruption can be seen in the very real struggles the city faces today. Now, Rio is ready to remake itself, this time into a global, modern capital ready for its turn on the world stage with the Olympics in 2016. But at what price? Armed with sharp prose and a reporter's instinct, Rio-born journalist Juliana Barbassa brings a firsthand glimpse of what's really happening in Rio (the good, the bad, and the maddening). She paints a fascinating picture of this city "on the brink," explaining how Rio will succeed (or fail) based on the choices its leaders and citizens make today. But through it all, she never loses sight of the human face of Rio.--Adapted from book jacket.
Historical Aspects of Printing and Publishing in Languages of the Middle East
Print culture, in both its material and cognitive aspects, has been a somewhat neglected field of Middle Eastern intellectual and social history. The essays in this volume aim to make significant contributions to remedying this neglect, by advancing our knowledge and understanding of how and why the development of printing both affected, and was affected by, historical, social and intellectual currents in the areas considered. These range geographically from Iran to Latin America, via Kurdistan, Turkey, Egypt, the Maghrib and Germany, temporally from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and linguistically through Arabic, Judæo-Arabic, Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish and Persian.
Crescent Over Another Horizon
Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as “minorities” obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Ib...
Transimperial Anxieties
José D. Najar analyzes how overlapping transimperial processes of migration and return, community conflicts, and social adaption shaped the gendered, racial, and ethnic identity politics surrounding Arab Ottoman subjects and their descendants in Brazil.
Luminar
Como será o final do mundo? Segundo a crença cristã, Jesus Cristo voltará? E os instantes finais de um moribundo? A vida de uma criança abandonada? Esses e outros dilemas exteriorizam-se nas poesias de Luminar. Apresentam-se incorporados em espíritos dinâmicos com mensagens, consequências e reflexões, os quais transpõem o íntimo do leitor. Conjuntamente coexistem poesias antigas do autor que resgatam partes vividas, sensações consumadas pelo tempo, todavia, continuam independentes e atemporais.
Além Da Televisão
A história se passa em duas paisagens distintas: urbano e rural. Porém todo o enredo e sobre Carolina uma menina de nove anos, que se depara diante de uma inesperada situação. Condição que a põe num conflito doméstico causando preocupação aos seus pais.
Recomeço
O cotidiano de um poeta e sua vida, suas leituras e escritas.
Lugares & Pessoas
Todos à sua maneira: direta e indireta têm conexões com determinados espaços e semelhantes. É impossível viver de outro modo. É uma relação que começa no nascimento e perdura até a morte. Resume-se na inerente História de cada indivíduo. Deste modo ao longo deste tempo de existência esses vínculos são recheados de momentos felizes ou tristes. Contradições que moldam nossas personalidades. O autor é unicamente um expoente nestas narrativas. Promove o despertar de outras pessoas a redescobrir seus exclusivos: LUGARES E PESSOAS.
