A member of Brazil's avant-garde in its heyday. Patricia Galvao (or to use her nickname, Pagu) was extraordinary. Not only was her work among the most exciting and innovative published in the 1930s, it was unique in portraying an avant-garde woman's view of women in Sao Paulo during that audacious period.Industrial Park, first published in 1933, is Galvao's most notable literary achieve-ment. Like Doblin's portrayal of Berlin in Alexanderplatz or Biely's St Petersburg, it is a book about the voices, clashes, and traffic of a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes...
A member of Brazil's avant-garde in its heyday. Patricia Galvao (or to use her nickname, Pagu) was extraordinary. Not only was her work among the most...
This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era.
This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita ...
Bom Dia, Brasil is a completely revised and updated edition of the popular beginning Portuguese text Portugues Basico para Estrangeiros. It aims to teach the Portuguese language in a fast, interesting, and efficient way. The method employed engages students' interest by exploring personal, social, professional, and cultural topics, while providing them with the basic concepts needed to communicate effectively in Portuguese.
Thirty-six thematic units in the book explore personal, social, professional, and cultural topics. Music, poetry, and other authentic materials...
Bom Dia, Brasil is a completely revised and updated edition of the popular beginning Portuguese text Portugues Basico para Estrangeiros
Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." Yet, deprived of his sight, the photographer now must reconstruct his experiences as a series of affective snapshots, a diary of his emotions as they were frozen on this or that day. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes. Joao Almino here gives us a trenchant portrait of an artist trying to close the gap between objective vision and...
Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures onl...
'This original book shows the crucial importance of personal philosophies of mathematics. Using current research it guides us to reflect on our attitudes and beliefs. Essential reading for anybody interested in mathematics and its teaching.' Paul Ernest, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Exeter Teaching mathematics can be challenging, and returning to a mathematics classroom yourself may not inspire you with confidence. This book can help you to become an assured teacher who can give young learners the high quality mathematics...
'This original book shows the crucial importance of personal philosophies of mathematics. Using current research it guides us to reflect on our attitu...
