Jo Jo: 4296 books

"João Barreiros nesta colectânea de contos de ficção Científica portuguesa descreve-nos lugares imaginários, que se aproximam muito dos reais, onde tudo é negativo. O seu imaginário é sempre fracturante, onde a maior parte das vezes o herói ou o próprio mundo estão condenados à partida....

A guy’s got to make a living. He can do it the conventional way—by selling cars, scooping ice cream, or delivering sandwiches—or he can earn his money as a spy, a historical interpreter, or the host of a myth-busting television show. Whether the men in this anthology are working hard to build...

Sobre o autor João Manuel Rosado Barreiros (n. 1952), é um escritor, editor, tradutor e crítico português de ficção científica, sendo um dos poucos exemplos de um autor de ficção fantástica com uma carreira longa e activa. As suas obras encontram-se traduzidas para Francês, Espanhol,...

In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reappraise women's literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. Through comparative case studies, including Natalie Barney, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and Gertrude Stein, the authors examine the ways in...

In 1798—more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes—William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him...

Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this...

Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories...

The whole world paid attention to Korea once again in 2009 when the Royal Tombs of Joseon Dynasty that have a history of 500 years became the 9th Cultural Heritage of Korea to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Among the 40 royal tombs in South Korea, besides two more located in North...

* The Deoksugung Palace is the smallest palace among the five palaces of Joseon Dynasty. Yet, it is a place that remembers the most turbulent history of Joseon. In modern times of Joseon when the greed of Japan and the veiled enmity among foreign embassies reached a boiling point, Emperor Gojong endured...

Com a experiência de um veterano, João Anzanello Carrascoza consegue sintetizar, de forma sensível e inteligente, boas histórias em uma única linha, transformando a leitura de microcontos em uma experiência ricamente literária. A espessura do papel e o projeto gráfico do livro foram pensados...

Contos e poemas para as meninas e meninos mortos por bala perdida no Rio de Janeiro, por escritores consagrados. Projeto originalmente publicado, de forma anônima, na São Paulo Review. Parte da receita desta edição será revertida para ações de educação e atendimento de jovens em comunidades cariocas.

There must be something between the retirement party and buying a zimmer frame. JO CARROLL decided this was the time to revive her teenage dreams and go round the world. So she packed her rucksack, a round-the-world ticket, and a notebook. Not prepared, then, for being marooned on a beach in Australia...

Todos conhecem o Barone dos Paralamas. O que poucos sabem é que ele é um grande estudioso da Segunda Guerra Mundial, além de filho de um pracinha. Nesta empolgante narrativa, João Barone - que atravessou o Atlântico com seu jipe original da Segunda Guerra e, como um pracinha da Paz, participou...

Mary Jo Salter’s sparkling new collection, Open Shutters, leads us into a world where things are often not what they seem. In the first poem, “Trompe l’Oeil,” the shadow-casting shutters on Genoese houses are made of paint only, an “open lie.” And yet “Who needs to be correct / more...