On the day of the wedding between Luís Duarte and Carlota Lemos, Machado de Assis invites the reader to take an ironic look behind the scenes of the ceremony and the social machinery of Rio's bourgeoisie. Among vain guests, protocol speeches and theatrical gestures, the story reveals, with subtle humor, the predefined roles that men and women play on this great stage called society.

Las piezas de mi puzzle es un paseo por algunas de mis aventuras eróticas más sugerentes. De cómo me convertí casualmente en una dómina, viéndome envuelta en la situación más extravagante y ardiente que jamás habría imaginado, a cómo disfruté manejando la fusta con soltura en una tórrida experiencia en el mundo del fetichismo. También incluyo la ocasión en la que jugué a ser observada por mi voyeur particular hasta que conseguí arrastrarlo a una irrefrenable obsesión por mi cuerpo. Y, fina...

Starred Review Julieta’s parents work in the world of art museums, and she is eager to accompany her father to Paris’ Louvre as he arranges the loan of art pieces for an exhibition in Boston. When the famed Regent Diamond is stolen, Julieta is in the middle of a high stakes mystery. With a bilingual family and international travel, the full cast portrays a range of accents, as well as phrases in Spanish and French, with panache. ... Underpinning the mystery are facts about...

Our relationship with time is the extract of rotation and translation of the Earth - 1 day or 12 months, it is an astronomical point of view.But when our memory and understanding of life fails to perceive this proportion of time, what does life become? How does a person with Alzheimer's understand time?“About Time” is a short tale that leads us to reflect on how we manage our existence, always projecting an “after” that, in fact, we have no guarantee that will come.

This book examines the use of norms by British and Brazilian actors in aid/cooperation in the 21st century, unveiling the politics behind norm circulation. Inspired by a constructivist approach, this research analyses actors’ agency in asymmetric international and domestic environments, in which different norms, dissimilar identities, and opposing interests coexist. Regardless of the discourses and theories surrounding the differentiation between North-South and South-South aid/cooperation...

Um casal se conhece no Exterior para aprenderem a conviver em seu País, experimentando situações de Conflito por julgarem-se apaixonados.

Since its political independence in 1961, Kuwait’s rapid modernization has driven an aggressive building race transforming the city-state while fracturing the delicate balance between material growth and social preservation. This critical journalistic compilation centers on Dr. George Saba Shiber, a visionary Palestinian-American urban planner who arrived in 1960 and became a foundational voice in Pan-Arab urban studies. Shiber resisted the homogenizing, tabula rasa approach of Western con...

This book imagines how Europe might re-organise and re-group after the COVID-19 crisis by assessing its effectiveness when responding to it. For this purpose, it directs its focus on: i) sovereignty challenges; ii) technological challenges and iii) governance challenges. These three challenges do not present hermetic legal problems, they intersect and connect on many levels. The book shows this by examining the relationship between public and private power, and illustrating how the rise of...

Biochar: Fueling a New Economy in the Developing World reveals how biochar is emerging as a powerful tool for climate change mitigation, economic resilience, and sustainable development. Written for entrepreneurs, project developers, policymakers, farmers, and sustainability leaders, this book bridges peer-reviewed science with real-world industry experience. Across agriculture, carbon markets, policy, and innovation, it presents practical pathways to turn biochar into scalable, f...

This edited volume focuses on the South Atlantic regional and national issues with maritime implications: naval policy, security, transnational organized crime, and Europe's legacy and current influence. The work analyzes the positions in favor and against NATO’s extended role in the South Atlantic, the historical and current issues related to the Falklands War, the African national deficits, and initiatives to attend the regional maritime problems. Including contributions from Angolan, Br...

This edited volume analyzes national security issues with maritime implications, and, specifically, naval projects and postures of main South Atlantic countries: Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, and South Africa. Additionally, it provides comprehensive and multi-level analysis of the interplay among national interests in the processes of demarcation of limits of the continental shelf and contention among Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, and the United Kingdom in the Southern Atlantic and the Antarcti...

School counseling that makes a difference—for all students!As an elementary school counselor, you’re implementing a comprehensive program to promote academic and social-emotional development for all students. You’re planting seeds of college and career readiness, which means creating core curriculum classroom lessons, delivering engaging content to students and parents, managing classroom behaviors, providing assessments, and sharing the results.