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Everything You Ever Wanted
Read along with Florence Welch this February and March as part of the Between Two Books book club 'Wry, beautiful, surprising and deeply moving' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian 'Captures so excellently the low level anxiety that hums through everyday life' Daily Telegraph ____________________________________________ You wake up. You go to work. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you get so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up next to your colleague. The next day you stay in bed, scrolling through your social media feeds and wondering why everyone else seems to be achieving so much. Then you hear about Life on Nyx, a progr...
Flesh and Bone and Water
Brazilian-born doctor André Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about. The letter prompts André to remember the days of his youth - torrid afternoons on Ipanema beach with his listless teenage friends, parties in elegant Rio apartments, his after-school job at his father's plastic surgery practice - and, above all, his secret infatuation with the daughter of his family's maid, the intoxicating Luana. Unable to resist the pull of the letter, André embarks on a journey back to Brazil to rediscover his past.
Mãe Luíza: Building Optimism
On the transformation of a favela--an urban success story on the Brazilian coast This illustrated volume documents the transformation of the favela Mãe Luíza, as an example of how to build community, create citizenship and identity, and promote initiative and participation. Alongside a story by Brazilian author Paulo Lins, short articles and essays trace the history of Mãe Luíza from the point of view of local activists, as well as invited authors from various fields. With roughly 15,000 inhabitants, Mãe Luíza, located near the ocean in the Brazilian city of Natal, is a favela with all the familiar grievances. In 1984, Italian transplant Padre Sabino Gentili founded the Centro Sócio. With community participation, the Centro created much-needed social infrastructure. After Padre Sabino's death, the Ameropa Foundation further invested in the infrastructure--efforts that culminated in the construction of a sports arena and a music school designed by Swiss architects, facilities usually lacking on the Brazilian peripheries.
Luiza Helena – Mulher do Brasil
"Luiza Helena desenvolveu ideias originais e surpreendentes, mas elas não teriam repercutido e funcionado se fosse outra a pessoa a comunicá-las. Quando Luiza Helena fala, todo mundo escuta." – Pedro Bial Refazendo a trajetória não só de Luiza Helena, mas também de sua inspiradora família, particularmente da querida Tia Luiza, Pedro Bial conquista o leitor com esta envolvente biografia de uma das mulheres mais influentes do Brasil. Natural de Franca, interior de São Paulo, Luiza Helena Trajano carrega o trabalho em seu DNA e tem em sua tia, irmã de sua mãe, uma mentora e conselheira. É a partir dessa relação que ela inicia sua carreira profissional no negócio da família e, aos poucos, vai se tornando o sucesso que é hoje. De linguagem simples, a biografia desta mulher poderosa que é Luiza Helena vai sendo construída em meio a depoimentos, relatos, diálogos, fotos e outros registros pessoais que contribuem para tornar o percurso desta leitura tão prazeroso. Que a história dessa corajosa mulher inspire brasileiras e brasileiros de todos os cantos a arregaçarem as mangas e trabalharem por suas famílias, por seu bairro, por sua cidade e por seu país.
Convex Surfaces
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Memórias de Luiza
Memórias de Luiza é um romance, no qual a adolescente Luiza consegue viajar para o mundo Quântico, nessas viagens ela descreve fenômenos físicos como: Efeito Fotoelétrico, Princípio da Incerteza, Dualidade Onda Partícula, o novo Modelo Atômico, como também algumas aplicações dessa ciência para o cotidiano. A autora também apresenta algumas das características Quânticas do Universo e estabelece uma relação com a cientista Marie Curie, homenageando todas as mulheres que fazem e estudam Ciências. O livro vem com ilustrações descrevendo uma perspectiva da Física que não é visível, correlacionando com os temas que são descritos durante o romance, permitindo dessa forma u...
New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship on unfree labour in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds during the past two decades. The essays included here revisit some of the persistent problems posed by the traditional comparative literature on slavery and indentured labour and identify new and exciting areas for future research. This book is intended for a broad audience, including scholars, students as well as for a general readership who have specific interests in the history of the slave trade, slavery and imperial history. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.
From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion
This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into the financial lives of poor and lower-middle-class Brazilians. More broadly, this volume examines how ethnic difference is created in a context where fixed and collective structures supporting ethnic identity are missing. It is important reading for economic anthropologists, cultural economists and all those interested in processes of financialisation from a local perspective, as well as those fascinated by informal economies, how exchange and debt relate to social and political marginality, and how financial credit becomes 'domesticated' by communities.
The Blind Girl and the Cold Mafioso 1
After an accident where her mother dies and she goes blind for protecting her sister, Ingrid has her wedding cancelled, her fiancé decides to marry Helena, her younger sister. Desperate and without knowing what else to do she tries to take her own life, but is saved by her father. Helena, wanting to get rid of her sister, tells her father about a mysterious man who is looking for a replacement wife since his wife died before the wedding and he pays very well to anyone who accepts, her father sees this as an opportunity to receive a fortune that will help boost his company and force Ingrid to get married without even knowing what her fiancé looks like. Sebastian is looking for a bride to use as leverage in his shady business as he hides his identity as a mobster. When he finds out that Ingrid is blind he is furious and wants to cancel the wedding but Ingrid says she will marry him and do whatever he needs her to do as long as he makes everyone who stepped on her pay!
The Formation of Candomble
Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil"
