**Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)Evaluation in Today’s World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability** is a timely and comprehensive textbook that guides students, practitioners, and users of evaluations in understanding evaluation purposes, theories, methodologies, and challenges within today’s sociocultural and political context. Veronica G. Thomas and Patricia B. Campb...

This timely textbook focuses on planning and implementing evaluation of public health programs through an equity-focused, socially just and racialized lens. While providing fundamental knowledge, tools, practical skills and theory, the authors challenge the dominant paradigm in planning implementing health evaluation programs, and the impact of power and privilege in evaluation. The text offers a wealth of topics not found in similar texts such as social determinants of health in program p...

Obra mais conhecida da escritora mineira Carolina Maria de Jesus, "Quarto de despejo" reúne entradas dos diários que a autora manteve enquanto vivia na favela do Canindé, em São Paulo. Publicado em 1960, o livro narra o cotidiano de Carolina, a criação de seus filhos, seu trabalho como catadora de papel e escritora, suas preocupações literárias, afetos e a vida com outros moradores do Canindé. "Quarto de despejo" serve como porta de entrada para a escrita de uma autora fundamental, traduzi...

Memórias do subsolo, uma das mais conhecidas obras de Fiódor Dostoiévski, agora disponível em audiolivro, na voz de Emilio de Mello, com direção de Daniela Thomas!Isolado da sociedade e profundamente amargurado, o narrador sem nome deste pequeno romance compõe uma reflexão existencial e filosófica ao mesmo tempo em que apresenta uma confissão tortuosa, mordaz e irônica sobre seu passado. Ex-funcionário público de São Petersburgo, o "homem do subsolo" — com...

From Rob Thomas, the creator of the television series and movie phenomenon Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling mystery series that picks up where the feature film left off.Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She’s traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant c...

Veronica Davis is a woman with a desperate need.If she doesn't bring a date to her big sister's wedding, the L — for loser — that's imprinted on her forehead will become permanent, as far as her family is concerned. And heck, she's started to believe it, herself.Why else would a girl end up at a Los Angeles escort agency with the strange acronym of V.A.M.P. Inc? Where you pick your date from a row of coffins in the agency's basement. Guys who can't meet you at lunch time, du...

In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings of one of Neptune’s most murderous locations.The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside town’s ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and high-profile scandals that seem to follow its elite guests. When a woman claims that she was brutally assaulted in one of its rooms and left for dead by a staff member, the ow...

De uma a outra ilha, poema longe de Ana Martins Marques, na voz da autora, é lançado em audiolivro pela Supersônica em parceria com o Círculo de Poemas.Inteligente e sensível, político e belo, o poema de Ana Martins Marques retorna à Grécia Antiga com olhos e ouvidos atentos para o presente, e compõe um verdadeiro palimpsesto, em que tempos diferentes se deixam ler simultaneamente.Lesbos é a ilha grega onde viveu Safo, a mais céleb...

La lengua es un extenso y diverso territorio por donde atraviesa la cultura toda y en el que se manifiesta casi cualquier faceta de la vida cotidiana. La lengua es patrimonio intangible de los seres humanos y de ella los hablantes somos los únicos dueños y cuidadores y, por eso, con ella, y gracias a ella, los hablantes podemos jugar, crear, recrear e inventar palabras, jugar a escribirlas de muchos modos, mencionarlas o situarlas en nuevas y distintas dimensiones, para encontrarnos con el...

Erlebe die schönsten und atemberaubendsten Tauchplätze Istriens. Dieser Tauchführer präsentiert die Highlights und alles Wissenswerte über die schönsten Tauchplätze Istriens. Der Band ist unterteilt in 5 Hauptgruppen Steilwände u. Riffe Höhlen Wracks Tauchsafaris sowie Insidertipps über die besten Tauchzeiten, Strömungsverhältnisse, Sicherungsmaßnahmen und Empfehlungen zum jeweiligen Tauchplatz. 47 Top Tauch-Spots die jeder Taucher gesehen haben sollte. Über 90 Reportagen, die uns in die F...

THE FAIRER SEX? NOT THESE LADIES…The female of the species is absolutely deadlier than the male in these 14 cunningly-crafted tales of suspense, crimes of passion, and murder, all by women writers. Edited by MWA Grandmaster and bestselling mystery author John D. MacDonald, these bone-chilling stories show the depths that men and women will stoop to in pursuit of what they want. Christianna Brand brings us a story of two sisters who engage in the ultimate c...

Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this volume includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For Augustine himself, ethics was never merely theoretical. Ethical concerns are concrete; and ethical solutions should be practical. Accordingly, this vo...