E S Maria: 42 books

I was plagued by the ghosts of my past, too broken to be worthy of a happily ever after. But then I met Magnus Grant. He broke through the walls I've built and filled that missing piece of my fractured soul. I fell for him, and I fell hard. Until I realized it was all a lie. Because of him, my terrible...

My life was perfect. Well it was, until my perfect world was turned upside down, leaving me with no option but to run away and leave it all behind. I even changed my name so my past wouldn't catch up to me. Now years later, I still live with scars... scars so deep that I avoid any chance at love....

Hannah Mackenzie is perfection. She's effortlessly beautiful, intelligent, and popular, and is about to head to the big city to pursue a law degree at one of Sydney's best universities. Joining her is boyfriend Paul, aka Mr. Perfect.  Yes, Hannah has it all.  A perfect life. A perfect love. ...

Os artigos do livro Cinema, representação e relações de gênerorefletem o boom das pesquisas de gênero e sexualidade no campo da Comunicação e especificamente do cinema. O objetivo desta publicação, produzida pelo Grupo de Pesquisa de Cinema da Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares...

A presente coletânea reúne os textos das palestras ocorridas nas mesas-redondas da II Jornada do Histedbr, realizada no estado do Paraná, entre os dias 8 e 11 de outubro de 2002. O evento teve por tema geral "A produção em história da educação na região Sul do Brasil" e oportunizou...

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...

O meu amigo Jacintho nasceu n'um palacio, com cento e nove contos de renda em terras de semeadura, de vinhedo, de cortiça e d'olival. No Alemtejo, pela Extremadura, atravez das duas Beiras, densas sebes ondulando por collina e valle, muros altos de boa pedra, ribeiras, estradas, delimitavam os campos...

Amaro Vieira nascera em Lisboa em casa da senhora marqueza d'Alegros. Seu pai era criado do marquez; a mãi era criada de quarto, quasi uma amiga da senhora marqueza. Amaro conservava ainda um livro, o Menino das selvas, com barbaras imagens coloridas, que tinha escripto na primeira pagina branca: Á...

A casa que os Maias vieram habitar em Lisboa, no outono de 1875, era conhecida na visinhança da rua de S. Francisco de Paula, e em todo o bairro das Janellas Verdes, pela casa do Ramalhete ou simplesmente oRamalhete. Apesar d'este fresco nome de vivenda campestre, oRamalhete, sombrio...

"José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845 — 1900) é um dos mais importantes escritores lusos. Foi autor, entre outros romances de reconhecida importância, de Os Maias e O crime do Padre Amaro; este último é considerado por muitos o melhor romance realista português do século XIX."--Wikipedia

"José Matias," the tale of a madly romantic man of leisure who is going to his grave accompanied by a very brief procession of carriages, highlights the gentle irony—equal parts affection and sarcasm—that makes the work of the great nineteenth-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de...

A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and...

An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture. Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...