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Happy Old Year
Memoir. Marcelo Rubens Paiva's lively memoir HAPPY OLD YEAR tells the story of a young man who suffered the dual tragedy of his father's 'disappearance' and apparent death at the hands of the Brazilian military, and his own permanent paralysis as the result of a subsequent diving accident. This inspiring, and sometimes humorous account, appeared in 1982 and was an immediate bestseller in Brazil. A prizewinning stage adaptation premiered in 1984 and ran for five years, touring internationally. HAPPY OLD YEAR was filmed in 1988 and swept most of the awards at the annual Gramado Festival of Brazilian Cinema. -- Back cover.
A Exclusão Social dos Idosos
O envelhecimento continua a ser visto como uma condição de profunda degradação, os idosos são infantilizados, desvalorizados e, muitas vezes, excluídos da sociedade. À medida que a pirâmide do envelhecimento se transforma num rectângulo deve-se compreender que a faixa etária dos 65 aos 80 anos engloba um número cada vez maior de pessoas, cujas qualidades e competências se mantêm suficientemente activas para serem cidadãos tão válidos como quaisquer outros. A presente obra constitui um instrumento de referência precioso e guia de orientação para a família angolana, fundamentalmente, as autoridades e todos aqueles intervenientes que de perto ou a distância se interessam pela gerontologia e o papel do idoso na família. Engloba temas distintos que interessam as ciências da saúde, direito, psicologia, sociologia, história, Filosofia, antropologia etc. Em suma, a sua compreensão reflete um sentido transdisciplinar a todas as áreas do saber. Neste livro, serão encontradas diversas temáticas que compreendem uma vasta área conceptual e um extenso palco de intervenientes, revelando-se de difícil gestão.
Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter
Using the Null Subject Parameter theory in cross linguistic variation, Brazilian Portuguese is studied in this book from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, and from the language acquisition point of view.
Soulstorm
The twenty-none stories in Soulstorm were originally published in two separate volumes in 1974--A Via Crucis do Corpo (The Stations of the Body) and Onde Estivestes de Noite (Where You Were at Night)--and are now combined and sensitively translated into English by Alexis Levitan.
Voices of the Desert
In exquisite prose, Pinon tells the story of "One Thousand and One Nights" told from Scheherezade's perspective, giving readers the full depth and breadth of her jealousies and resentments, her longings and desires.
Gravidez na adolescência e os desafios da maternidade
Em Gravidez na adolescência e os desafios da maternidade – um retrato de Angola, trás um conjunto de reflexões sobre actualidade das mães adolescentes de Angola. A obra trata do tema, dentro e fora dos limites da estrutura familiar das adolescentes em Angola, permitindo uma abordagem corajosa sobre a sexualidade na adolescência, as expectativas dos pais em relação às filhas(os) e uma nova visão da sexualidade. O tema perpassa várias áreas do saber: Educação, Sociologia, Direito, Psicologia, Antropologia, Análise Clínica e Saúde Pública, Enfermagem, Medicina Geral, Farmácia e outros ramos das Ciências da Saúde.
Functionalism and Grammar
This book is Prof. Givon's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function' and 'structure'. Ideological hand-waving, however fervent and right-thinking, is seldom an adequate substitute for analytic rigor and empirical responsibility. If the reductionist extremism of the various structuralist schools is to be challenged on solid intellectual grounds, the challenge cannot itself be equally extreme in its reductionism. The book is divided into nine chapters: 1. Prospectus, somewhat...
Every Man is a Race
'A man's story is always badly told. That's because a person never stops being born. Nobody leads one sole life, we are all multiplied into different and ever-changeable men.' So it is with all the stories in this collection, which never make a definitive judgement on the individual life, but only suggest its possibilities. Set in Mozambique, the stories reflect the legacy of Portuguese colonialism and the tragedy of the subsequent civil war. Mia Couto's first collection, Voices Made Night, was described as 'lyrical', 'magical' and 'compassionate' by the reviewers, who were unanimous in identifying a significant new talent from the continent. This volume confirms that judgement.
Natural Syntax
The view that language is in some way 'arbitrary', that there is no formal relationship between a linguistic message and the thought it is meant to convey, is long established and pervasive. The goal of John Haiman's study is to challenge the monopoly of arbitrariness, which he believes has affected in significant ways many models of linguistic description and analysis, notably those proposed by Saussure and more recently by Chomsky and his associates. Linguistic structures, Dr Hainian claims, may be compared to (non-linguistic) diagrams of our thoughts, and deviate from iconicity in many of the same ways and for much the same reasons as do diagrams in general. Arbitrariness develops as a result of the relatively familiar principles of economy, generalization and association. In relation to this thesis, Dr Haiman considers a wide variety of constructions, including conditionals and interrogatives, gapping, causative structures, auxiliaries and reflexives, and provides a wealth of exemplification from different languages that also points to typological differences in respect of iconicity.
Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum
After a variety of animals get stuck one by one in bubble gum melting in the road, they must survive encounters with a big blue truck and a burly black bear.
