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Visit product page →Author Kathryn Stockett translated to Portuguese by Fernanda Semedo
Skeeter tem 22 anos e acaba de regressar da universidade. Pode ter uma licenciatura, mas estamos em 1962, no Mississípi, e a sua mãe só a deixará em paz quando a vir com uma aliança no dedo.
Aibileen é uma empregada negra que criou 17 crianças brancas. Mas, desde que o seu fi lho morreu, algo mudou dentro de si. Minny, a sua melhor amiga, é a mulher com a língua mais afi ada do Mississípi.
Cozinha divinamente, mas tem sérias difi culdades em manter o emprego… até ao momento em que encontra uma nova e insólita patroa.
Estas três personagens extraordinárias vão cruzar-se e iniciar um projeto que mudará a sua cidade e as vidas de todas as mulheres de Jackson.
São as suas vozes que nos contam esta história inesquecível, cheia de humor, esperança e tristeza.
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Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. The Help is her first novel.
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Visit product page →Lawton brings interested home cooks along on a journey through the landscape of Azorean cooking with dozens of home-cooked recipes.
Whether you're looking to explore new dishes or reconnect with your roots, this cookbook offers a delightful blend of authentic recipes and heartwarming stories that will make your kitchen the heart of your home. Join Maria in celebrating the beauty of Portuguese cuisine and create lasting memories with every meal.
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Visit product page →Author: Helena Magalhães. Language: Portuguese,
O romance de estreia de Glória Brito foi aclamado pela crítica e adorado pelos leitores. O sucesso, porém, não se repetiu. A escritora está agora perto dos quarenta anos e começa a questionar o seu talento e o seu lugar no mundo. O medo instala-se. Viver era mais simples no bairro onde cresceu, um tempo em que se sentia livre e a sua família ainda estava completa. Já não é assim. Glória abandonou o bairro, embora a sua memória teime em levá-la para lá. A liberdade não cumpriu a sua promessa de plenitude. A destruição da família alterou a sua relação com os outros e consigo mesma. A única constante na sua vida é Lúcia, uma amiga que insiste em arrancá-la à solidão, mesmo quando Glória resiste. Serão as palavras crípticas de uma voz do seu passado a abalar essa resistência. Quem sabe, talvez o livro que precisa de escrever já esteja escrito. "Atos de Desobediência" explora a intimidade feminina, as relações entre mulheres e homens, entre gerações e classes sociais, numa celebração tão apaixonada quanto crítica da literatura e da arte.
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Helena Magalhães trabalhou em política social, em projetos de igualdade de género e em jornalismo, e dedica-se à escrita desde 2017, entre romances e autoficção. É fundadora do "Book Gang", um clube do livro de incentivo à leitura no feminino que detém a maior subscrição de livros em Portugal. Vive e trabalha em Lisboa, entre gatos e livros.
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Glória Brito's debut novel was acclaimed by critics and loved by readers. The success, however, was not repeated. The writer is now close to forty years old and begins to question her talent and her place in the world. Fear sets in.
Living was simpler in the neighborhood where she grew up, a time when she felt free and her family was still complete. It's not like that anymore. Gloria left the neighbourhood, although her memories insist on taking her there. Freedom did not fulfill its promise of completeness. The destruction of the family changed her relationship with others and with herself.
The only constant in her life is Lúcia, a friend who insists on pulling her out of loneliness, even when Gloria resists. Who knows, maybe the book to write is already written.
Acts of Disobedience explores female intimacy, the relationships between women and men, between generations and social classes, in a celebration as passionate as it is critical of literature and art.
Format352 pages, PaperbackPublishedSeptember 9, 2025 by Edições AsaISBN9789892366678 (ISBN10: 9892366670)LanguagePortuguese -
Sold outVisit product page →Author Carlos Enes and Translated to English by Diniz Borges,
“Azorean History Themes: Islands of Struggle and Resilience” is a powerful and engaging journey through the often-overlooked History of the Azores. In this compelling collection, historian Carlos Enes explores pivotal moments of resistance, mythmaking, and identity formation in the archipelago — from the heroic stand of Terceira Island against Spanish domination in the 16th century to the long fight against fascism and the shaping of Azorean autonomy in the 20th.
These essays shine a light on the voices of the “minors” — artisans, workers, and everyday citizens — who helped forge a rebellious, democratic, and resilient Azorean spirit. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the deep roots and dynamic evolution of the Azorean identity across time».Autor
Carlos Enes
Born (1951) in Vila Nova, Terceira Island. He graduated in History from the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon (1979) and has been a secondary school teacher since 1978. He also taught at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (1981-84), Maputo, and at the Universidade Aberta (1996-2003), Lisbon. Pedagogical supervisor of the Educational Branch of the History Department of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, 1988-89.
He has a master’s degree in Contemporary History (1993) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has been studying Azorean History for several years. With two dozen books and articles published, he has taken part in colloquia and forums (around 40) at a wide variety of institutions. He has collaborated extensively in the Enciclopédia Açoriana (online edition), the História dos Açores (History of the Azores), published by the IAC, and the Dicionário de Educadores Portugueses (Dictionary of Portuguese Educators).
In the field of ethnography, he has studied Carnival and the Holy Spirit festivities in Terceira. In the field of culture, he curated several exhibitions, participated in juries for the selection of works to be subsidised by the DRAC, and was a member of the Regional Council for Culture.
He is the author of the novel “Terra do Bravo” (2005), out of print, “Cicatriz da Chuva”, poetry (2016), “A Oposição Democrática em Ponta Delgada – Das eleições de 1969 à Cooperativa Sextante” (2020), out of print, “A Galope numa Noite de Búzios” (2023), “Infinito sem Nome” (2024), “As danças do Entrudo” (1980), “A economia Açoriana entre as duas guerras mundiais” (1994); Luís da Silva Ribeiro, Obras, vol. IV, “Escritos Político-administrativos” (introductory study and organisation) (1995); “A Casa dos Açores em Lisboa” (1996); “A Memória Liberal na Ilha Terceira” (2001); “Vila Nova – pelos caminhos da sua história” (2011); “A fotografia nos Açores” (2011); “Álbum Terceirense”, 4 volumes (2007-18); “Angra do Heroísmo – Alma e Memória” (2019).
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Diniz Borges
Diniz Borges was born in 1958 on the island of Terceira. At age ten, he emigrated with his family to the United States. He has a BA in Social Science and an MA in the humanities with a thesis exploring the past’s role in American ethnic literature. He has taught Portuguese language and culture at Tulare Union High School, College of the Sequoias, and California State University, Fresno. He is the founding director of the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at Fresno State. He has published ten books in Portuguese and translated or co-translated seven different books. He has also organized several anthologies.
DIMENSÕES (C X L X A) 21 × 14 × 1,6 cm ISBN 9789897356049
EDIÇÃO Junho de 2025
IDIOMA Inglês
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Visit product page →Author Euclide Da Cunha translated to English by Elizabeth Lowe.
An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature
Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society.
Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the foremost scholars of Latin America, this is sure to remain one of the best chronicles of war ever penned.Language English Print length 560 pages ISBN-10 9780143106074 ISBN-13 978-0143106074 -
Sold outVisit product page →Written by Jose Saramago, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
International Bestseller | A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
"This is a shattering work by a literary master.”—Boston Globe
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing.
A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit.
"This is an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."—Washington Post
About Author
JOSE SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Giovanni Pontiero (10 February 1932 - 10 February 1996) was a British scholar and translator of Portuguese fiction, most notably the works of José Saramago. His translation of the Saramago work The Gospel According to Jesus Christ was awarded the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for Portuguese translation.
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Sold outVisit product page →de Helena Ales Pereira; Fotografia: Inês Subtil
Fotografias, entrevistas e os bastidores da série Portuguesa mais vista de sempre.
No dia 26 de maio de 2023, estreava, na Netflix, Rabo de Peixe. Dois dias depois, a série portuguesa era número 1 no top nacional da Netflix, onde se manteve ao longo de mais de dois meses, tornando-se assim a série mais vista de sempre em Portugal.
Além-fronteiras, chegou a mais de 190 países e, em mais 38, a história de quatro amigos que tentam escapar ao seu destino alcançou o top das séries mais vistas, acumulando mais de 45 milhões de horas de visualizações, segundo dados divulgados pela empresa em junho deste ano.Hardcover
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Visit product page →From José Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. Portugal, 1711: an amorous friar is pursued naked through the rubble-strewn streets of Lisbon; an enthusiastic procession of flagellants roars with pleasure over the damnation of adultery; a royal prince uses hapless sailors for target practice; and women dressed in colorful finery watch as lapsed converts and sorcerers are put to death by flames. In the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discover the wonders of love. This poetic tale, graced with exquisite historical details and full of magic and adventure, is a tapestry of human folly and human will.
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Visit product page →Barnacle Love, Paperback, By Anthony De Sa
Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience.
At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portuguese village and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations to build a future for himself in a terra nova. Manuel struggles to shed the traditions of a village frozen in time and to silence the brutal voice of Maria Theresa da Conceicao Rebelo, but embracing the promise of his adopted land is not as simple as he had hoped.
Manuel’s son, Antonio, is born into Toronto’s little Portugal, a world of colourful houses and labyrinthine back alleys. In the Rebelo home the Church looms large, men and women inhabit sharply divided space, pigs are slaughtered in the garage, and a family lives in the shadow cast by a father’s failures. Most days Antonio and his friends take to their bikes, pushing the boundaries of their neighbourhood street by street, but when they finally break through to the city beyond they confront dangers of a new sort. -
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a narrative photo expedition about finding kinship in a faraway land.
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Sold outVisit product page →A vibrant tour of Portugal, featuring more than 200 photographs that bring to life one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
In this gorgeous book, writer and photographer Christine Chitnis invites you to celebrate the unique, timeless beauty of Portugal through the stunning designs and hues that define Portugal’s countryside, coast, small towns, and cosmopolitan cities.
This collection features over 200 stunning photographs that illustrate the ways that color and pattern are woven into the very fabric of the country’s culture, history, architecture, and traditions. Each section features insightful essays that explore the artistry of azulejos, the colorful ceramic tiles covering much of Portugal’s architecture; the intricately embroidered details of traditional lavradeira costumes; the rich flavors of Portuguese cuisine, and so much more.
Throughout these vibrant pages, you’ll discover the vivid stories behind each color and pattern, transporting you to the gorgeous fields of Alentejo, the sparkling waters of the Algarve, the busy streets of Lisbon, the lush valleys of the Douro, and beyond. -
Sold outVisit product page →Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.
Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius.
Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa’s imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms’ writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal.
Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa’s adolescence—when the first heteronyms emerged—and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa’s bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet’s unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa’s posthumous literary achievements—especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet.
A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa’s work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world.
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Sold outPenguin Random House
Book - Portuguese Cooking - The Authentic and Robust Cuisine of Portugal
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Book - Portuguese Cooking - The Authentic and Robust Cuisine of Portugal
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Visit product page →Carol Robertson shares her fascination with the country and its cuisine in lively journal entries and delightful drawings, while David Robertson's evocative photographs provide a look at the wonders of the Portuguese landscape and culture. The result is a personal travel book for lovers of good food. Portugal is blessed with a flavorful and complex cuisine that brings together influences from Europe, Africa, and the Muslim world. The simple-to-prepare dishes rely on pork and seafood of all kinds, as well as tomatoes, olives, kale, hot and sweet peppers, garlic, mint, and the silken magic of virgin olive oil. Treat yourself to a true taste of Portugal.
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Visit product page →E se a verdadeira história de Rabo de Peixe for ainda mais rocambolesca do que aquela que é contada na série da Netflix?
No dia 6 de junho de 2001, Antonino Giuseppe Quinci, o protagonista da história que mudou o destino de várias gerações de rabopeixenses, aportou na vila, depois de ter escondido, pela costa de São Miguel, mais de 700 quilos de cocaína.
O açoriano Rúben Pacheco Correia empreendeu uma longa viagem à procura da verdade dos factos, assim como dos protagonistas de carne e osso, da história que inspirou a série. Sem saber até onde o iria levar a investigação a que se dedicou durante quase dois anos e que o fez viajar até à Itália e ao Brasil, o autor, conhecido gastrónomo e comentador televisivo, partiu com o desígnio de fazer justiça à verdade e também à vila onde nasceu em 1997.
Passados mais de vinte anos, o país e o mundo podem, finalmente, conhecer o rosto dos protagonistas reais e as suas histórias, inéditas e peculiares, que se desenrolaram naquele trágico ano e que mudaram, para sempre, o destino de Rabo de Peixe.
Será que, realmente, as pessoas panaram peixe com a cocaína do traficante italiano? Fizeram linhas de campo de futebol com a droga? Houve, de facto, algum padre que sofreu uma overdose? E, afinal, quem era e onde está o protagonista de todo este desastre? Como fugiu da prisão? E quem são os demais envolvidos nesta história?
Neste livro, Rúben Pacheco Correia leva o leitor a sentir-se parte da investigação, fá-lo vibrar a cada pista conseguida, levantar voo a cada viagem, e concluir que, nesta história, a realidade supera mesmo a ficção. -
Sold outVisit product page →A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists.
Paulo Honório is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate São Bernardo, where once upon a time he toiled. He is ruthless in his exploitation of his fellow man, but when he makes a match with a fine young woman, he is surprised to discover that this latest acquisition, as he sees it, may be somewhat harder to handle. It is in Paulo Honório’s own rough-hewn voice that the great Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, often compared to William Faulkner, tells this gritty and dryly funny story of triumph and comeuppance, a tour de force of the writer’s art that is beautifully captured in Padma Viswanathan’s new translation.Paperback
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Visit product page →From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist comes an inspiring story about a young man seeking wisdom from an elder, and the teachings imparted along the way.In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, the challenger who comes searching for him, and the boy who observes their competition. Afterwards, the boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life.
Paulo Coelho's story is a powerful reminder that action and the soul are inextricably connected, and that a life constricted by fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living. Instead one must take risks, build up patience and courage, and embrace the many unexpected turns fate has to offer.
With the wisdom, generosity, and grace that have made him an internationally best-selling writer, Paulo Coelho provides the framework for a rewarding life: hard work, passion, thoughtfulness, the willingness to fail, and the urge to make a difference. -
Sold outVisit product page →With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.
The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together.
Beautiful, witty and engaging, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels.Paperback Edition
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Based on a True StoryVisit product page →The Portuguese Immigrant: Atlantic Heritage Story is a narrative non-fiction book about the author’s family history—particularly the lives of their paternal ancestors from Sao Miguel Island in Portugal. The story begins with their great-grandparents before shifting focus to their paternal grandparents and their unconditional love for each other. Their relationship overcame many obstacles of the time and they were physically separated for nearly three years after leaving the homeland. They became immigrants in Canada—a place where the author found themselves born and raised, being something that they are grateful for yet fascinated to reflect on the history of how it happened.Weaving a wonderful tale of the struggles and triumphs as well as the rich Portuguese culture of their ancestry, the book follows their grandfather, Vovô, who was the impetus for life in the New World. Embarking on the journey of lifetime, they carried out a mission guided by true love to carve out a fighting chance for the future of his family.The author speaks on various characteristics embodied and behavioural traits that have shaped their sense of self today while forging a deep connection with their ancestors. Understanding more about themselves than anticipated along the way to show that it really is all in the family. The history that behooves us has been set out for those with the privilege to continue down the path—a sentiment that the author draws out with great detail. Their descriptions of events set the scene that take the reader back in time. -
Visit product page →HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.
As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men.
But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
Told in Mata Hari’s voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultimate price.hardcover
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Sold outVisit product page →A conceituada «História de Portugal» de A.H. de Oliveira Marques, numa versão abreviada, há décadas ausente das livrarias.
Edição simultânea em português, inglês e francês.
A história de Portugal é longa e complexa, e por isso o próprio de Oliveira Marques começou por fixá-la em três volumes que se tornaram um clássico da historiografia nacional. Mas foi também ele, um dos mais eminentes historiadores portugueses, a preparar a partir daí esta versão brevíssima, com todas as linhas essenciais concentradas em apenas 250 páginas, num pequeno formato raro, há muito esgotado. Uma versão que conserva todo o rigor e alcance histórico das edições mais alargadas, privilegiando uma relação mais directa, clara e certeira com o leitor, útil tanto para estudiosos como para curiosos. -
An indispensable, fully up-to-date phrasebook for travellers to both Portugal and Brazil, in a pocket-size format and beautiful cover design This newly revised and updated Portuguese Phrase Book contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers in both Portugal and Brazil, with a particular emphasis on Brazilian Portuguese. The book includes basic grammar, a pronunciation guide, additional vocabulary and phrases to suit every place, event and situation. Clearly presented and easy to use, it is the perfect pocket-sized travelling companion. - Essential phrases for travel, eating out, shopping, sightseeing - Numbers, times and dates - Pronunciation given - Grammar basics and vocabulary list - Designed for use in both Brazil and Portugal - Particular emphasis on Brazilian PortugueseVisit product page → -
Visit product page →Author: Sharon Vilches and Translated to Portuguese by Joana Vicente,Resumo«O que aconteceu é um aviso. Esquecê-lo é um crime. Foi possível que tudo aquilo acontecesse e continua a ser possível que, em qualquer altura, tudo volte a acontecer.» Karl Theodor Jaspers
História da Gestapo, de Sharon Vilches, é um estudo abrangente e preciso das origens, dos crimes e legado da organização mais temida do século XX.
Em Berlim, o edifício da Prinze-Alberch-Straße ainda provoca um arrepio na espinha a quem por ali passa. Atrás da sua porta robusta, encontrava-se a sede da Geheime Staatspolizei, ou Gestapo, acrónimo pelo qual era conhecida.
Símbolo de coerção, controlo e terrorismo de Estado, a Gestapo foi um dos mais importantes instrumentos repressivos do discurso que sustentou a violência e a cultura do medo durante o Terceiro Reich.Contudo, a historiografia recente demonstra que a desumana repressão levada a cabo pela temível organização não teria sido possível sem a ajuda de grande parte da população. E é a partir do debate sobre a participação activa da sociedade alemã nos crimes da Gestapo que parte este livro.
Sharon Vilches constrói uma investigação actualíssima sobre a polícia política mais letal do seu tempo, desde a sua fundação até à sua extinção.
Inclui fotografias de registos policiais e centros de detenção, ilustrações, mapas e diagramas.
Sobre O Autor
Sharon Vilches licenciou-se em História pela Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, em 2012, e concluiu, no ano seguinte, um mestrado interuniversitário em História Contemporânea. A sua área de estudo centra-se nos sistemas repressivos e nas suas aplicações, com particular enfoque no século XX.
Desde fevereiro de 2014, integra o Comité de Redação da revista História Autónoma, sendo responsável pela secção de recensões. Paralelamente, colabora com diversas publicações online, onde assina artigos de divulgação histórica, debruçando-se sobre os fenómenos violentos do século XX.English Summary
History of the Gestapo, by Sharon Vilches, is a comprehensive and accurate study of the origins, crimes and legacy of the most feared organization of the 20th century.
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Visit product page →Uma pesquisa digna de um mamute, anos de investigação e como resultado... O Big Bang, os dinossauros, o aquecimento global, geologia, Einstein, os Curies, a teoria da evolução, a gasolina com chumbo, a teoria atómica, os quarks, os vulcões, os cromossomas, o carbono, os organismos edicarianos, a descontinuidade de Moho, o ADN, o Charles Darwin e um zilião de outras coisas. Em linguagem não demasiado científica, sempre clara e com as devidas anotações, o leitor é conduzido, por este autor extremamente divertido e bem informado, numa viagem através do tempo e do espaço, cujo prato forte é também revelar-nos algumas ironias do desenvolvimento científico. Esta é verdadeiramente uma obra que nos dá a sensação de ter o mundo na palma da mão.
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Bill Bryson nasceu em Des Moines, no Iowa, em 1951. A vida levou-o até Inglaterra onde viveu longos anos, antes de se mudar com a mulher e os quatro filhos para os Estados Unidos, mudança esta que não foi permanente, tendo regressado ao Reino Unido. Conhecido pelos seus livros de viagens, humorísticos e enternecedores, tais como "Crónicas de uma Pequena Ilha", e pelo sucesso internacional "Breve História de Quase Tudo" (2005) – ganhou o Prémio Aventis, o Prémio Descartes e foi o livro de não-ficção mais vendido nessa década no Reino Unido – Bryson é ainda o autor de "Shakespeare", "Made in America", "Regresso à Pequena Ilha", "Por Aqui e Por Ali", "Nem Aqui nem Ali", "Em Casa: Breve História da Vida Privada" e "Aquele Verão".
About the Author
Bill Bryson is a bestselling American-British author known for his witty and accessible nonfiction books spanning travel, science, and language. He rose to prominence with Notes from a Small Island (1995), an affectionate portrait of Britain, and solidified his global reputation with A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), a popular science book that won the Aventis and Descartes Prizes. Raised in Iowa, Bryson lived most of his adult life in the UK, working as a journalist before turning to writing full-time. His other notable works include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and The Mother Tongue. Bryson served as Chancellor of Durham University (2005–2011) and received numerous honorary degrees and awards, including an honorary OBE and election as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. Though he announced his retirement from writing in 2020, he remains one of the most beloved voices in contemporary nonfiction, with over 16 million books sold worldwide.
Língua:
Português
Capa:
Capa Mole
Temática:
História e Política
Editora:
11x17
Nº de Páginas:
752
ISBN:
9789722522335
