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Na esteira dos recentes protestos que abalaram o país, a Boitempo lança Cidades rebeldes: Passe Livre e as manifestações que tomaram as ruas do Brasil. Trata-se do primeiro livro impresso inspirado nos megaprotestos que ficaram conhecidos como as Jornadas de Junho, além de ser o principal esforço...

...no clean way to say this, so here goes: for as long as I can remember I have always loved animals, sex and music, especially percussion. In fact, I have been told I jerk harder than Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes when I’m shaking my booty to a decent beat. Anyway, it is therefore no surprise that...

“If you like, I will hot it” April is the cruelest month, they say, and yet, we find it to be the funniest too. For what other month starts with the Fool’s Day and keeps getting warmer and warmer as we laugh winter away? To celebrate this, we decided to publish today the perfect companion...

Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including novel takes...

“One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented...

Ésta es la historia de un resentimiento vivo llamado Don Porfirio; héroe para algunos, villano para otros. Sin duda, el hombre más controversial que haya gobernado México. Del autor de La última sombra del Imperio y Los pecados de la familia Montejo. La novela más esperada por...

"This isn't a village. We've got the largest shopping centre in the area. Now there's somewhere people can go to watch movies, have something to eat, spend money to make sense of their lives." When a rumour spreads like wildfire through a Colombian village, a respectable family start...

This straight-talking book puts the widespread problem of food addiction into clear perspective and points the way to a life free of the obsession with food. Why can't I stop eating? If, like millions of others, you often ask yourself this question, you may be addicted to food. The food you...

Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami A history full circle?

This book paints a detailed picture of the literary tradition of the Dominican Republic and shows its intellectual wealth with abundant bibliographical documentation.

"Moros y Cristianos" es un libro sobre La influencia de la religión en el comportamiento social. Se trata también de la representación del mundo que tienen los personas.

Our skin is one of the parts of our bodies that we should have the most concern for. It is one of the things that is exposed not only to the people around us, but also to all of the harmful things found in our environment. Taking time to practice good skin care should be one of the things we do everyday....

The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. In addition, New Spain's economy and culture were also changing radically....