When Fidere finds out that was a murder in Poloni street, he drives straight there to try to solve the mystery. Nevertheless, some victims start to disappear and he can just count on his new friend Inácio to discover who is possibly guilty. Some suspects can be, Renato Lemes, the victim's brother, Regina, neighbor, among others.

For generations, Silva-Lisboa women have defied convention, choosing courage and crafting their own happiness. In these pages, you will meet Ary, a woman of many lives, defined by grit, wit, and fierce self-reliance.She survived Brazil's dictatorship and imprisonment, forging a resilience that would echo through the next generation.At the center of this story is Ariane, a daughter who inherited Ary's legacy and transformed it through her choices. A single mother and barrier...

'Broken: Illness and Disability in Antônio Francisco Lisboa, Camilo Castelo Branco, Clarice Lispector, Victor Willing, Paula Rego and Ana Palma' traces the lives and works of six major artists and writers from Portugal, Brazil, and Britain through the lens of 'being broken'—in body, mind, or both. Spanning from the eighteenth century to the present, the volume explores how sociopolitical and somatic factors such as mental illness, psychological abuse, arthritis, genital mutilation, and mul...

Centuries ago, the world of Hidros was invaded by aliens who enslaved its inhabitants. The slavery lasted until the enemies of these aliens appeared and freed the inhabitants of the planet, expelling the invaders. Now, on a planet that rejects the use of electricity, a survivor of the experiments of these invaders, Atsu Col, intends to establish complete and definitive peace, imposing a single way of thinking. After dominating the devastated kingdom of Morphea, forcing its inhabitants to g...

Learn how to develop modern object-oriented applications with PHP using test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) aided by mature reusable components Key Features • Create clean code based on components' reusability to create large-scale enterprise applications • Make effective use of design patterns in an object-oriented software • Understand the division of a PHP web application structure in layers to build customized websites and apps for various business needs...

In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art.Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist’s work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego...

I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. in a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions (all very good), wasn't mine.When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Vanja is left with no family and no sense of who she is, where she belongs, and what she should do. Deter...

Cannabidiol in Neurology and Psychiatry, Volume 177 in the International Review in Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topic such as Historical perspective on the therapeutic potential of cannabidiol, Cannabidiol: pharmacodynamics pharmacokinetic, Cannabidiol and Alzheimer's disease, Cannabidiol on anxiety disorders, Cannabidiol on psychosis, Cannabidiol on autism spectrum disorders, Cannabidiol in Epilepsy, Can...

Biology, medicine and biochemistry have become data-centric fields for which Deep Learning methods are delivering groundbreaking results. Addressing high impact challenges, Deep Learning in Biology and Medicine provides an accessible and organic collection of Deep Learning essays on bioinformatics and medicine. It caters for a wide readership, ranging from machine learning practitioners and data scientists seeking methodological knowledge to address biomedical applications, to life science...

Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games.This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effo...

Explore the darker side of the sunny Brazilian city in this gritty mystery anthology featuring fourteen tales by writers from the region.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respect city. With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir series delver for the first time into South America.

This title was first published in 2003. The artist Paula Rego was born in Portugal but has lived in Britain since 1951. In this well-illustrated book, Maria Manuel Lisboa explores the background behind Rego's decision to leave the land of her birth and, in doing so, provides fascinating insights into Rego's persistent portrayal of uneasy and predatory relations between men and women. Looking back over the national, religious and sexual politics of Portugal during Rego's childhood under the...