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...

Mysteriously murdered in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini became famous—and infamous—not only for his groundbreaking films and literary works but also for his homosexuality and criticism of capitalism, colonialism, and Western materialism. In Pier Paolo...

More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is intended to acknowledge the significance of his living memory. His artistic and cultural production continues to be a fundamental reference point in any discourse on...

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...

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

PI Gulliver Dowd rescues a street kid's dog, but when the kid is found badly beaten the next day, Gulliver uncovers a new mystery.

PI Gulliver Dowd rescues a street kid's dog, but when the kid is found badly beaten the next day, Gulliver uncovers a new mystery.

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...

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.

Steel Pier / O.c.r.

Excerpt from The Pier-Glass A simple nosegay l was that much to ask (winter still gloomed, with scarce a bud yet showing). He loved her ill, if he resigned the task. Somewhere, she cried, there must be blossom blowing. It seems my lady wept and the...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

'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 come morangos...

In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English...

'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 come morangos...

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....

The advent of wireless sensor technology and ad-hoc networks has made DSC a major field of interest. Edited and written by the leading players in the field, this book presents the latest theory, algorithms and applications, making it the definitive...

The Emergence of Life

Panzer Divisions 1944-45

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...

In The Venetian Qur'apos;an, Pier Mattia Tommasino uncovers the author, origin, and lasting influence of the Alcorano di Macometto, a book that purported to be the first printed European vernacular translation of the Qur'apos;an.

The social sciences, especially economics, management, and organizational science, are experiencing a tremendous renewed interest for their epistemological and methodological statutes, as witnessed by the many books and specialized journals...

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...

'To live life without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing.' - Pier Giorgio Frassati Enter the heart of a passionate young man, who in his brief life reached the heights of adventure,...

Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt's family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War...

Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight General Meeting of the American Association: Held at Narragansett Pier, R. I., June 29 July 6, 1906 We are following in the footsteps of the development of the school system, with which our...

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...

Esse livro reúne trabalhos de professores e pesquisadores do Brasil e da Itália que atuam no espaço de intersecção entre cultura, comunicação e educação. Eles investigam crianças e jovens na cultura contemporânea, formação docente e usos das...