eBooks de , página 96 de 516

Fascinating and timely JOHN BANVILLEDegenerate Art was the end of the first act of Hitlers Reich, the cultural and spiritual "coordination" of the German people.The Nazi exhibition of Degenerate Art in 1937 was meant to show all that had gone wrong with Germany. Yet it was, ironically, one of the first great retrospectives of modern European art. More than a million people flocked to the show to catch a glimpse of the insane, the criminal, the Jewish and the Bolshevist: the primitive international scratchings of un-German artists, in the words of Adolf Hitler. While some came to sneer or mock, others were there to admire or to pay their final respects. Within a few years, many of the works on display would be destroyed or lost in the chaos of war. John-Paul Stonard leads a tour of the crowded vaults of the Hofgarten arcade to discover the wonders of Dada, reveal hidden jewels of German Expressionism and the innovations of Bauhaus and to demonstrate how the worst that Germany had to offer made one of the most fascinating shows of all time.

Un anno imprecisato. Una citta qualunque. Una squadra viola che, contro ogni previsione, sta riscrivendo la propria storia. Poi, un corpo in un albergo. Amina. Da quel momento, tutto cambia. Le indagini, affidate a "Colonnello" uomo senza nome, come molti in questa vicenda si muovono in un territorio ambiguo, dove il confine tra verita e convenienza si fa sempre piu sottile. Un sospettato, unombra nelle immagini, e infine lui: il Campione, idolo della citta, simbolo di un sogno collettivo che nessuno e disposto a mettere in discussione. Ma quanto vale una vittoria? E cosa si e disposti a sacrificare per difenderla?Tra pressioni invisibili, silenzi imposti e verita manipolate, la giustizia si piega mentre la folla esulta. Solo anni dopo, lontano da tutto, nel silenzio del deserto, emergera cio che davvero si nasconde dietro quellomicidio. Un noir teso e potente, dove il calcio e solo la superficie di una storia piu oscura, fatta di potere, identita e segreti impossibili da seppellire.

A linguagem simbólica do coração através do baralho cigano!André Mantovanni, autor do best-seller Baralho Cigano – Tradição, Teoria e Prática, amplia sua jornada oracular com um olhar cuidadoso sobre

Hans é um ex-policial vivendo numa casa de repouso em Joanesburgo, assombrado pelas lembranças dos crimes que cometeu a serviço do governo. Já Zoe, enfermeira designada para cuidar dele, é uma mulher que cresceu enfrentando a desigualdade e o racismo, consequencias da violencia politica de seu pais. A medida que ambos partilham suas memorias e remorsos, um improvavel vinculo se estabelece, trazendo a tona mais de um seculo da historia da Africa do Sul.

Durante oito meses, Tamara Klink viveu sozinha num pequeno veleiro preso no mar congelado do Ártico Groenlandês. Depois de uma longa preparação e de atravessar o oceano desviando de icebergs, ela anc

O mapa para a maturidade masculina autêntica.Muitos homens vivem hoje entre o isolamento e estereótipos vazios. O "puxa-saco" corporativo e o pai distante compartilham um traço: são meninos fingindo

Copacabana, 2020. Depois da morte da mãe e de perder o emprego e a bolsa de mestrado, Nerissa se vê confinada num apartamento que já não pode mais bancar. A situação piora quando cai nas mãos do sínd

A escolha definitiva entre a essencia humana e a inteligencia artificialVivemos um momento decisivo em que a biotecnologia e a IA desafiam a nossa soberania interior. Em Unicamente Humanos, Gregg Braden conduz uma investigaço provocadora sobre o risco de nos tornarmos a ultima geraço de humanos puros. O autor alerta que a fuso homem-maquina e o uso de chips podem limitar nossa capacidade de amar, sentir empatia e perdoar. Longe de ser um manifesto contra a tecnologia, a obra e um chamado para recuperar o potencial inato e a conexo emocional que nos define. Braden desafia dogmas e prope uma reflexo profunda sobre a preservaço das qualidades extraordinarias da nossa especie. Esta jornada revela habilidades ocultas por seculos e nos convida a viver de forma integral em um mundo em constante transformaço.

A love letter to the lives, loves, losses, and other mysteries that lay at the heart of our history.Angela Alaimo ODonnell, grandchild of Italian immigrants, granddaughter of coal miners, and author of twelve published poetry collections and thousands of poems, offers her most personal collection to date. These are poems that speak to people, for all of us come from somewheresome world we have necessarily left behind but that still lives within us and makes us who we are.This book is for lovers of stories, told through artful poems and vivid prose, as it invites us all to reflect, laugh, smile, shed a tear, re-live, and perhaps even make sense of our own childhood experiences. Dip into it while sitting by the fire or gathered with friends and family in a shared celebration of our personal histories and the bonds that connect us to one another."The childhood belonging to each of us is unique, as is each human beingyet there are some things that remain constant. We all have a mother and father, and, if we are lucky, sisters and brothers. We all have a place that we come from that has helped shape us into who we are. We all have memories that stay with us, bring us joy, and haunt us, and we all face the daily decision of what to do with those memoriesto preserve them or to let them fade. My vocation, as a poet, compels me to turn them into story and song. These poems tell my stories, and I also hope they, in some way, tell yours." -Angela Alaimo ODonnell

The book of Exodus blazes with glory, liberation, and redemption. In displays of miraculous deliverance, God ushers his people from slavery into a relationship with himself and personally leads them toward the promised land.Exodus showcases Yahwehs power over human empires of oppression and confirms his loving, relational heart. In the wilderness, his guidance and provision prove he is a savior and deliverer we can trust. Yahweh demonstrates his passionate desire to live among us by revealing to the Israelites his holy name, his law, and detailed instructions for building the dwelling place.Nothing can limit the dynamic nature of Yahweh. As we witness his compassion and power to save, we feel the reality of his living presence with his peopleboth then and now."Yahweh! Yahweh, the mighty God, the gracious God, full of tender mercy. I am slow to anger, and I overflow with unchanging love. You can trust me, for my faithful love will endure for thousands of generations."Exodus 34:67

Uma visita ao Chile se transforma em jornada existencial para Afonso Cruz. Além de escapar por um triz de um cerco policial a manifestantes e de sofrer um acidente quase fatal, ele descobre o céu do deserto do Atacama e a historia de um homem indigena levado a força da Patagonia chilena. Entre tantas experiencias, um ponto em comum se ilumina, refletido nas paginas deste livro: o de que tudo carrega a sua propria finitude.

The story of the Saab 9-3 is full of twists and turns, from its origins before the 9-3 name even existed to its unexpected rebirth as an electric vehicle decades later. Bizarrely, the first-generation 9-3 was in essence the same car as the Saab 900 built between 1994 and 1998. Equally as bizarre, the second-generation 9-3 lived on well beyond the General Motors era, reappearing in 201314 and again from 2019 to 2022. In these later years its familiar Gen2 silhouette concealed an all-electric powertrain, now wearing the badge of new owner NEVS (National Electric Vehicle Sweden) in place of the hallowed Saab Griffin. From 1998 to 2011, the Saab 9-3 was manufactured at the Trollhattan factory in Sweden, carrying the brands distinctive character into a new era. This book charts the 9-3s evolution under General Motors stewardship, from the outgoing Saab 900 to the fundamentally similar first-generation 9-3, and on to the redesigned Gen2 model of 2002, this new model being built on GMs Epsilon platform and featuring far more GM-supplied componentry. The Gen1 9-3 came in three guises: four-door Saloon (sedan), two-door Cabriolet convertible and five-door Hatchback. Its Gen2 successor offered Saloon, Cabriolet and SportCombi estate car formats, powered by engines ranging from the 2.0-litre petrol Turbo and 1.9 TiD diesel to the 2.6-litre petrol V6 and the 1.9 TTiD twin-turbo diesel. Stunningly illustrated with over 250 images many previously unseen Saab 9-3 includes specially commissioned photography of the high-performance Viggen model, factory archive images, an interview with heroic rallycross legend Per Eklund and a Foreword by Saab insider and photojournalist Kenneth Olausson. It recounts Saabs final decade as a car manufacturer through the development of the 9-3 until its abandonment in 2011 by General Motors, and its brief rebirth as an electric vehicle under NEVS (National Electric Vehicle Sweden), which lingered intermittently until 2022.

Marty Waters is a computer support specialist and history buff whose main hobby is working at the local historical society. When a boy goes missing, Marty offers his tech skills to aid the police in finding him. Enter Officer Hottie and his K-9 partner, Dexter. Grant Webster works as a K-9 officer with the Carlisle PD, and hes been assigned to the recent kidnapping case. He could do without the assistance of the computer geek who insists on helping, though, no matter how cute he is.It turns out, Martys historical knowledge and research skills are more useful than Grant expected, and together theyre able to recognize the kidnappers pattern, but the long hours bring an intense attraction neither of them has ever experienced. Is the interest real or just a reaction to the excitement and danger? As more children are taken, they will have to set aside their attraction and rely on each other, and Dexter, to find the kids in time.

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk.When a peacocks days are over, theyre over.Oliver is precocious, black and gay. He reads Baudelaire, plays with his pet peacock, eats smoked oysters and fends off the maid Della Mae whenever she gets the Nasties. He lives in rural Michigan with two elderly ladies: the white, wealthy Etta and her devoted housekeeper, Harry, his aunt. When a psychic warlock named Maurice LeFleur comes to stay, however, promising to contact the ghost of Ettas dead son, their eccentric household starts to fall apart.First published in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this sparklingly witty debut novel is a radically hopeful vision of racial integration and sexual acceptance that was years ahead of its time.

Dercy Gonçalves foi taxada de pornográfica, imoral e imprópria para menores. Mas quem foi, de fato, a mulher que tanto trabalhou para conquistar fama, dinheiro e audiência? Mais do que uma biografia,

Um dos maiores clássicos da literatura afro-americana, elogiado por W.E.B. Du Bois como um dos romances que melhor traduz o drama do colorismo no pós-abolição dos Estados Unidos, De passagem inaugura

Um grupo de conhecidos se junta para praticar pequenos atos de "terrorismo arquitetônico". São intervenções em igrejas, ataques a políticos corruptos, rituais que combinam magia, arte e sexo. Eles sã

Da vencedora do Nobel, um romance que revisita A montanha mágica para criar uma história sem igual que mescla horror, ironia, comédia e parábola feminista. Görbensdorf, Baixa Silésia, 1913. O jovem p

Once part of a dying species, one wolf now harnesses supernatural and godlike abilities as it fights for survival, in this grimdark fantasy adventure.Its been nearly a millennium since wolves prowled the earth. Theyre only spoken of as mythical destroyers of life. But one solitary wolf, born a simple, primal beast, is becoming the very monster of legend feared by both humans and otherworldly creatures. A multilimbed shapeshifter, it slaughters anything that threatens it or the pack of companions it has sworn to protect, including Emhreeil; her human friend, Katherine; and a goblin known as Scruffy.All three are grateful for the wolfs guidance but frightened of its growing power. And as the team navigates warring factions battling for control of a dungeon labyrinth, they discover one of those factions wants to ally themselves with their party. This partnership would allow them the means to telepathically communicate with their savage leaderand access a ritual blood spell to make the wounded Emhreeil whole once more, an offer they cant refuse.As the two groups join forces, Emhreeil undergoes a physical transformation as uncanny as the wolfs: now shes a winged elven vampire, consumed with bloodlust and evolving into an immortal being. Although powerful, her healing comes at the cost of her humanity. With each victory won against monsters and hunters living in the dungeon, she descends further into madness. And as she and the wolf prove themselves as apex predators, they begin to reach toward a godhood that Katherine and Scruffy dontand cantshare.But their enemies still stalk them. The dungeon lord Baron Manos Ironheart will stop at nothing to make the wolf his personal weapon, and Emhreeils volatile mother, Marquess Irythiel, has massacred a dungeon nobles family in a quest to find her daughter. As these threats and more close in, the wolf and his pack know they must break out of the underground labyrinth . . . and take the fight to the surface once and for all.The third volume of the hit LitRPG adventure serieswith more than a million views on Royal Roadnow available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!Tropes include: found family and fight to survive.

Novo romance de uma das mais celebradas escritoras brasileiras de hoje.Um jovem magistrado, em resposta a uma representaço por excesso de prazo, precisa prestar contas de sua lentido em um caso sensivel que o acompanha ha meses. Aos seus superiores, dirige uma especie de defesa-autobiografia em que revisita os anos de carreira nas pequenas comarcas de Claudia, Vera e Feliz Natal, no interior do Mato Grosso. Entre audiencias, despachos e tentativas de conciliaço, acumulam-se historias extravagantes que expem a afetaço e o ridiculo de todo um sistema que se quer solene, revelando as fissuras do universo de servidores que orbitam os foruns, figuras tragicomicas como o proprio juiz, unidas pela contingencia do cargo e quase nada mais. E enquanto sela o destino dos outros, o jovem juiz ve o seu lhe escapar.Transferido de cidade em cidade, cercado de relaçes provisorias e com dificuldade de construir laços duradouros amigos, companheira, uma familia possivel , enfrenta a experiencia de ter autoridade sobre tudo, exceto a propria solido. Em Claudia Vera Feliz Natal, Mariana Salomo Carrara confirma a singularidade de um projeto literario que se reinventa a cada obra.Com arquitetura narrativa ousada e dominio cada vez mais surpreendente da linguagem, a autora transforma o universo juridico em materia de ficço de alta voltagem e escancara o desconcerto comico de quem acredita que a lei pode dar forma ao mundo apenas para descobrir que o mundo insiste em escapar.