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Aikido has secrets paths. This is a book about a magical journey guided by the secret powers of the martial art Aikido. It tells the story of an encounter, brought about by a mysterious message delivered during a dream, eighteen years earlier. In rural Japan, where the sacred mountains tower over the Pacific Ocean, on the Kii peninsula, the student receives from the master the answers to questions about the meaning of her own life. She learns how to search in her soul for the answers that connect her to other individuals as human beings. The blows and the practices of Aikido training are revealed here in this book as teachings, also mysteriously transmitted, to be used on the tatami mat and far beyond.
Rush Hour is an adrenaline rush. A young anarchist couple is chased by neo-Nazis and, in the end, they face a gut-wrenching dilemma. With references to social injustices, such as the murder of the indigenous man Galdino, the tale plunges readers into an emotional rollercoaster, challenging convictions and prompting profound reflections on ethics and ideology.
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Published in 2011 and its first edition was sold out, "Strange Urban Humans", a book of short stories and free commentaries, was the literary debut of the writer Maria Prado de Oliveira, who is also an actress, a producer and a cultural manager whose academic background is in Philosophy. These short stories give critical and ironic views about the conditions of everyday lives, found in different situations of human behavior within urban life, and the writer's provocative comments about these short stories. However, the sarcastic humor of this work is seasoned with hopeful ideas about the urbanity and the becoming of humankind. Many singularities of human beings with their "weirdness" go through the pages of the book: sexuality and loneliness of a retired woman; a renowned doctor who is addicted to drugs, a notorious journalist whose wife is a senator both posing as impeccable interracial couple but secretly fulfill pedophiliac perversions, a philosopher betrayed by his wife, a famous singer who hides a son from his female fans, among other characters in the 13 short stories of this work, and their caricatures drawn by the illustrator Tielson Santos.
Have you ever wondered what people think about you? And what makes them have that opinion? The image revealed is the description of a method that dissects the content of the image, and as a result offers a personal and professional tool for everyone to know and develop their own image. The method described in the book serves individuals, organizations, institutions, services, products, and provides a path for positioning or repositioning the image. It teaches a new way and looking at events, reading the news, evaluating people and understanding how it is perceived. The image is the way we are all identified or recognized and this defines our personal and professional trajectory. Success and failure are leveraged by the image. After all, what is your image?
An overwhelming declaration of love. Understand the reasons why someone loves or stop loving you are always a mystery. How can we accept that our feelings are not corresponded in the same intensity? What can we do when, suddenly, we discovered that our love has been wasted? This is a text to be said looking directly to the eyes of whom deny love.
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Unnecessary waters, the debut book of the poet, teacher and journalist Cesar Garcia Lima, published in 1997, now comes to the e-book in three versions: Portuguese, English and Spanish. The author goes through several themes and alternates the look on childhood, the impossibility of predicting the future and remedying the past, exposing the conflicts of a forged intimate diary, spiritual quest and cosmopolitan solitude. Short, ironic poems – influenced by Brazilian marginal poetry of the 1970s – were alternated with narrative and other intimate poems, in a movement of approximation and distance from the public and the private. In presenting the work of Cesar Garcia Lima, the writer and screenwriter José Louzeiro emphasizes that "his poetry is made of experience, understanding and reflection". Written under the impact of loss, between Amazon and major Brazilian cities, the book evokes absence, but also discoveries.
No alto, o juiz. Embaixo, os advogados. Todos de toga ou bem vestidos, dizendo palavras difíceis. Num dos lados, o autor. No outro, o réu. Cada qual com a sua história, as suas raivas, os seus medos. Nas paredes pode estar um crucifixo. Na mesa, livros e tablets. As cadeiras seguindo uma ordem. As paredes numa certa cor. A todo instante, olhares se vigiando, dedos se mexendo, sorrisos sinceros e falsos. Máscaras, trejeitos, cacoetes. Cada corpo produzindo um gesto. Cada gesto, uma mensagem. Cada mensagem, um efeito. Qual a função deste cenário? A que serve tudo isto? O que é, afinal, um processo? O que nos dizem os símbolos da Justiça? Pode ela esconder o seu oposto? Quais os segre...