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A Edifes lançou o e-book “Práticas Organizacionais Contemporâneas – Coletânea do Grupo de Estudos em Simbolismos e Práticas Cotidianas no Organizar do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo”, organizado por Sâmela Pedrada Cardoso. O livro apresenta uma coletânea de estudos realizados no GESIP– Grupo de Estudos em Simbolismos e Práticas Cotidianas no Organizar do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. O livro aborda temas como o organizar da família, o teto de vidro, o poder e o afeto sobre a prática, gestão do parto, arranjos socioprodutivos, relações humano-caninas e...
Fiction. African & African American Studies. Short Stories. New Edition with an introduction by M G Vassanji. The place is white-ruled Rhodesia of the seventies (now Zimbabwe), the exile the African in his or her own land. Young men and women flee from their villages to join the freedom fighters in the forests. These stories, set during the years of the armed struggle, tell of the other struggle, that of survival of those who stayed behind. Told essentially from the women's point of view, in lyrical but unaffected prose, the stories recreate the dark atmosphere of those months full of fear and hope.
Hogan's memoir chronicles not only her vivid struggles with hunger and extraordinary resilience and determination to get an education but also the cost of poverty on her family and community. The narrative goes beyond the "me-moir." It is an agent of a collective memory that demands to be told; it brings to light the blunt reality of inequality and social injustice in Brazil, displaying the pitfalls of poverty and showing what it is like to go hungry for days, to go to school without shoes or books, and to tutor well-fed students while hungry in order to buy food and books.
Becoming a big brother or sister is one of the most exciting things that can happen in a child's life. Bernardo thought so too, but his little brother, Gustavo, is not exactly the example of a cute, calm and well behaved baby. Gustavo is a chaser, a drone, a bodyguard? He's practically Bernardo's shadow! Is it possible to live with a brother like that?Told through the eyes of a child, in a poetic and fun way, MY BROTHER, MY SHADOW exposes the anxieties and joys of becoming a big brother. The heartwarming writing by Fabiana Rocha and lovely illustrations by Bruna Assis Brasil show how challenging and exciting building a fraternal relationship can be, filled with small conflicts and lots of love.
A Brazilian keeps a journal as he reads anunpublished novel by a dead writer. The journalrepresents his attempt to understand the novel andthrough it, its author, a woman with whom he was havingan affair. By the author of Avalovara.
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Are we alone in the universe?This is a question that we are unable to answer today, however, in the past, the answer to this question was "no". We had brothers that were not extraterrestrials, but instead Neanderthals. Contrary to the image that we commonly have of them, they were just as human as us, the Homo sapiens, but they were stronger and had larger brains. Their extinction is still a mystery. This book tells the story of Wallace Vidal, a young librarian who, lost in his own existence, accidentally travels through time and is caught - in the future - by Neanderthals.Now, his objectives are to escape and to understand what caused our society to collapse, all while desperately trying to...
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