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O reino de Akbar era dividido em cinco tribos:Água, Terra, Fogo, Vento e Trovão. Cada tribo tinha seu povo com seus elementos distintos. Todos são governados pela alta autoridade, o rei de Akbar, Stefan. Mas seu reino era desumano, marcado como a era das trevas para seu povo. Um rapaz chamado Adam, que fora capturado por piratas não sabe de onde veio e não memórias de seu passado. Ele é resgatado por outros piratas, que são comandados pelo capitão Samuel. O mais temido de todos os mares, Samuel junto com os rebeldes era a principal oposição a tirania do reinado de Stefan. Um reinado sombrio que precisa ter um fim...
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A visual diary and travel sketchbook chronicles two months of the artist's wanderings through Africa and Europe.
Drawing out her mother's childhood memories of life in southern Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Melfi takes an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing. Italy Revisited serves as a double memoir, told in dialogue between a mother and a daughter. The conversation takes the reader to a medieval town high up in the mountains where time is told by the shadow the sun casts, where wheat and olive oil are the currency of choice (barter is in use), and where marriage is as much about property as it is about love. As they re-create that vanished world, the pair finds greater understanding of the tumultuous relationships that sometimes exist between immigrant mothers and their children.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano, a coalminer’s son, met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame – emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland’s most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell Van Gogh, Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. 'The Singing Butler', Britain's most reproduced painting, fetched a record £744,800 at auction in April 2004. Vettriano’s images have an often...
This reference tool covers the technology and methods of treatment for both types of lacquer and assesses current practices. It describes production technology and decorative techniques and discusses the materials used in Asian lacquer.
In these early 20th century literary essays, Stefan Zweig offers a Central European view of the writers he believed to be the “three greatest novelists” of the 19th century: Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. In Zweig’s view, Balzac set out to emulate his childhood hero Napoleon. Writing 20 hours a day, Balzac’s literary ambition was “tantamount to monomania in its persistence, its intensity, and its concentration.” His characters, each similarly driven by one desperate urge, were more vital to Balzac than people in his daily life. In Zweig’s reading, Dickens embodied Victorian England and its “bourgeois smugness”. His characters aspire to “A few hundred pounds a year, an a...
Adam nunca gostou de cursar direito, mas fez isso por sua mãe que sonhava em vê-lo como um grande advogado. Não aguentando a pressão, Adam decide trabalhar em algo que goste. Mas mal sabe ele que isso resultaria em um emprego pior do que imaginava.