“No sistema capitalista, para que a Inglaterra possa viver em relativo conforto, 100 milhões de indianos têm que viver à beira da inanição — um estado de coisas perverso, mas você consente com tudo isso cada vez que entra num táxi ou comemorangos com...

Novo livro de poemas de Sérgio Alcides, 'Píer' tem como cenário recorrente o litoral, a praia, a marinha. Muitos textos são compostos como se fossem paisagens, mas o país que eles retratam não se prende completamente a nenhuma geografia exterior à...

Keely Moreno's foot reflexology courses never taught her how to deal with a corpse. After finally breaking free from her abusive ex-husband, Keely is pursuing a new career in Key West. All goes well until she reports to the home of her wealthy...

This book gives a focused, military biography of Heinz Guderian, perhaps the most highly respected tank commander of World War II. Guderian was a typical product of the Prussian military elite; the son of a general in the army, there was little doubt...

Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936-37, playing a crucial role in the shaping of the service for the coming...

This volume provides a detailed examination on the late-war changes to the German Army Panzer forces and the formation of new units, from the collapse on the Eastern Front, through operations on the Western Front in Normandy and the Ardennes, to the...

This book explores the experiences of the German Afrikakorps soldier during the North Africa campaign, from the Korps' arrival in-theatre in February 1941 to its eventual surrender in Tunisia in May 1943, with a particular focus on the intense period...

Despite the attention paid to the Afrikakorps over the years, it was the numerically far superior forces of the Italian Army that held the line and formed the bulk of the fighting power available to the Axis powers during the War in the Desert from...

On 22 June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and her Panzer divisions were to play a major role in this titanic struggle. Although overwhelmed by Soviet numbers, the superior skill and capability of the German Panzer divisions meant that in...

Italian military historian Pier Paolo Battistelli examines the elite and specialforces units of the Italian Army during World War II. This includes a vast array of troop types, including paratroopers, assault engineers, sea-landing and swimmer units,...

When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level...

A pair of 1980s college sweethearts, separated by their insecurities, meet years later. Can they make it work this time

Nine dazzling stories from the beloved, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.The stories that make up The Pier Falls take many forms—Victorian adventure, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism—but they...

Steel Pier / O.c.r.

An entertaining, abundantly illustrated history of a Chicago landmark, inspired by Daniel Burnham and a feat of engineering, now a grand locale for public recreation.

Vingança também é uma arte. Sim, por incrível que pareça, vingar-se de outrem, de uma forma sórdida e criativa, pode ser uma obra-prima.É caso do personagem principal desta história, Montescu, que preparou uma vingança no mínimo inusitada a um antigo...

In a resort town divided along socioeconomic lines, a waitress tries to hold onto her twenty-year-old son, and the sheriff is convinced that the murderer of three local women is still in town

To save a child, they would sacrifice everything . . . Comfortably settled into his expatriate life in post-war Britain, Headmaster Theodore'apos;s secrets are set to remain deeply buried. Until she breezes in. Tia Bellamy: vivacious, intriguing, a...

A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family.We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on in the world outside, they...

When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.

Affluent but unhappy John Ford is taking yet another lonely stroll around town one night when he sees a mysterious woman toss a bundle into the water from the Chain Pier. The next day, the ghastly contents of the bundle are revealed -- a discovery...

A origem da vida tem sido o foco de muitas pesquisas há décadas, do ponto de vista experimental ou filosófico. Neste livro, Pier Luigi Luisi leva o leitor através de estágios consecutivos da química prebiótica até a biologia sintética, combinando as...

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact...

At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer....

Katie Morag And the New Pier

Stories From the City of God

Panzer Divisions 1944-45

Philip Norman'apos;s family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his...

Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume...

Alcançar longevidade e saúde podem estar à mão, basta escolher o que ingerir – incluindo chocolate todos os dias. Este é o princípio da culturaSmartfood, 'uma bússola para distinguir o bom, o não tão bom e o mau na mesa a partir de informações...

It is the first analytical, serious and uncensored look at Christina's life and her rise to the pinnacle of the pop world. A controversial and elusive figure, Christina Aguilera has polarized and mesmerized audiences since the beginning. While fans...

Ever since Adam Smith, economists have been preoccupied with the puzzle of economic growth. The mainstream neo-classical models of growth that have largely dominated modern growth theory are based around assumptions of diminishing returns on extra...

The Soviet Arctic is the first book to consider Soviet policy in this area from an historian'apos;s point of view. Horensma assesses the importance of historic legacies to current Soviet Arctic policy and their consequences on an international level....

Metalepses. Entorses Au Pacte de La Representation

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles....

Pompoarismo e tantrismo são técnicas que, hoje, estão sendo redescobertas para que as pessoas vivam mais plenamente a sua sexualidade. Esta é a proposta deste livro que, com esclarecimentos explícitos, vem mostrar algo que poucos conhecem, o sexo...

Embora o nome de Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) esteja indiscutível associada ao cinema, este livro nasce em paralelo à retrospectiva completa de seus filmes, no âmbito da Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo, como apresentação da intensa...

Na cara religiosa do manco já estava completamente assinalado o destino próximo: a aurora estragada, o primeiro solzinho mau, a chegada dos meganha, a prisão, ou a tentativa de fuga, ou talvez o tiroteio. Mas nós somos burgueses e temos inato o senso...

A extraordinária poesia de Pier Paolo Pasolini é quase desconhecida no Brasil, tanto pela inexistência de traduções, como por ter ficado conhecido aqui, sobretudo como cineasta. O livro inédito, em edição bilíngue traz introdução, posfácio e notas...

Lucia Píer Eli venceu um concurso para conhecer o astro hollywoodiano mais cobiçado pelas mulheres e pelos paparazzis, o ator inglês Richard Clevehouse. Ela embarca na ânsia de viver em Londres dias inesquecíveis. Lúcia sabe que em breve terá que...

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