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Há três elementos significativos para entender o sentido missão de que Moniz se julgava investido: o ter nascido nobre, na condição do que se chamava à época um "fidalgo de província" apesar de conceder displicentemente que havia "prosápias de fidalguia" na sua família, o acrescento identitário que consistiu no "suplemento baptismal" tomado ao aio do 1º rei de Portugal, de quem o seu tio abade afirmava descender, e a ideia generalizada entre o...

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Living in a household consisting of her father and three brothers, Feather often gets the short end of the stick, meaning the laundry, cooking, and grocery shopping. One afternoon, she gets a black eye and all her plans change. Full color.

Featuring detailed drawings, this history of military trains and railways from 1853 through 1953 describes how the railroad transformed the nature of warfare. Transport and logistics are discussed for armoured trains, rail-borne artillery and armoured combat vehicles, medical evacuation trains and draisines. The railroad's role in establishing European colonial empires in Asia and Africa is alos examined.

Helps readers to translate and interpret Horace's first book of Satires in the light of recent scholarship.

John Hobson reveals international theory as grounded in Eurocentrism and argues that its prime purpose has been to promote the idea of Western civilization. This book will interest researchers in international relations and all those interested in understanding Eurocentrism across cultural studies and social sciences.

Liberalism has been one of the leading incarnations of political thought for the past two centuries and it was also the first form of political theory to acquire a truly global reach. This volume examines the work of the most pivotal thinkers in the liberal tradition, starting with Montesquieu and proceeding to a wide range of authors from the French Revolution to the present. The book is distinctive in encompassing the wide spectrum of views ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Homely, ubiquitous, simple: the sock is such an everyday part of our lives, we tend to overlook its importance--unless there's a problem. Without socks, our feet are vulnerable to cold, infection, and discomfort. Put on a pair that's too thin, too thick, too itchy, holey, or damp and suddenly socks are maddeningly preoccupying. At their mo...

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Holl...

Published to accompany a major traveling exhibition, this small volume presents the 34 drawings Rauschenberg made for each canto of Dante's Inferno. Between 1958 and 1960, Robert Rauschenberg made drawings for each of the thirtyfour cantos, or sections, of Dante's fourteenth-century poem Inferno by using a novel technique to transfer photographic reproductions from magazines or newspapers onto paper. Acquired by The Museum of Modern Art soon a...

Create media-rich client applications using JavaFX 9 and the Java 9 platform. Learn to create GUI-based applications for mobile devices, desktop PCs, and even the web. Incorporate media such as audio and video into your applications. Interface with hardware devices such as Arduino and Leap Motion. Respond to gesture control through devices such as the Leap Motion Controller. Take advantage of the new HTTP2 API to make RESTful web requests and ...

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JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General

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This collection of short comics by an up-and-coming cartoonist examines relationships spatially and existentially.

Das Gedankengut des Menschen drückt sich in einer doppelten Ursprünglichkeit aus. Teilweise wird es als sehr persönlich erfahren - teilweise als konditioniertes Erbe von zeit- und kulturgebundenen Einflüssen, die den Wert des Inhalts festlegen und bestätigen. Moderner ausgedrückt: Es kann als Gemeinschaftssinn beschrieben werden, inspiriert durch ein "Trendsetting" eines scheinbar sich stets erneuernden und suchenden Geistes. Der eigentliche E...

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Applies the insights of the Michael Chekhov technique to the realities of directing a theatrical production.