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Book Antonio Vieira and the Luso Brazilian Baroque

Download or read book Antonio Vieira and the Luso Brazilian Baroque written by Thomas Cohen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preacher, politician, natural law theorist, administrator, diplomat, polemicist, prophetic thinker: Vieira was all of these things, but nothing was more central to his self-definition than his role as missionary and pastor. Articles in this issue were originally presented at a conference, “The Baroque World of Padre António Vieira: Religion, Culture and History in the Luso-Brazilian World,” Yale University, November 7–8, 1997, commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of Vieira’s death.

Book Vieira

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Vieira
  • Publisher : Orion
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780752877815
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Vieira written by Patrick Vieira and published by Orion. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited autobiography of the former Arsenal and France football star Patrick Vieira

Book Vieira s Supermarket

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric de Brabander
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2021-01-21
  • ISBN : 1649131437
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Vieira s Supermarket written by Eric de Brabander and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vieira's Supermarket By: Eric de Brabander Curaçao, 1961. The Portuguese steamship Santa Maria has barely sailed out of the harbor of Willemstad when it is hijacked. The hijackers, freedom fighters, have only one demand: the departure of the dictators Franco and Salazar, from Spain and Portugal, respectively. Salazar’s reign of terror and the resulting economic stagnation prompted an exodus of Portuguese citizens to Latin America during this time, up until the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Fifty years after the hijacking of the Santa Maria, grocery store owner Francisco Vieira of Curaçao discovers after a mysterious phone call that one of the hijackers is his presumed long-lost father who has been living in Brazil all these years. He decides to go visit him but is confronted with the brutal family history. A history weighed down with guilt and shame, hidden for decades from the world after the hijacking of the Santa Maria. And for good reason.

Book Ant  nio Vieira

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-03-01
  • ISBN : 0190858575
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Ant nio Vieira written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first English translation and annotation of the sermons of António Vieira, a major cultural figure in the Portuguese-speaking world. Born in Lisbon in 1608, Vieira was a Jesuit who lived and worked in both Europe and Brazil in the service of the church and the Portuguese crown. His sermons are among the most renowned pieces of baroque oratory in the Portuguese language. These carefully selected sermons offer insight into Vieira's visionary thought on social and spiritual matters. In the Sermon for the Success of Portuguese Arms against the Dutch, Vieira inveighs against God for His apparent abandonment of the Portuguese and begs for divine intervention. His Sermon of St. Anthony is an allegory that addresses the inequities that he witnessed in Brazil. The Sexagesima Sermon parodies literary clichés from his time while prescribing a more effective, if harsher, style of preaching. The Sermon of the Good Thief is a rebuke to the imperial officials who used their positions for personal enrichment, and a warning to kings against complicity with corruption. Vieira's Sermon XXVII addresses African slaves and their Brazilian masters, attempting to comfort the first group in their trials and to admonish the second for their brutality. Finally, the Sermon called Arm tells the story of the relic of Francis Xavier's arm sent from India to Italy in 1614, and pays tribute to the obedience of Vieira's Jesuit predecessor.

Book Irving Thalberg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark A. Vieira
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2009-11-05
  • ISBN : 0520945115
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Irving Thalberg written by Mark A. Vieira and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and opportunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and make stars of Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow. Known as Hollywood's "Boy Wonder," Thalberg created classics such as Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Freaks, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth, but died tragically at thirty-seven. His place in the pantheon should have been assured, yet his films were not reissued for thirty years, spurring critics to question his legend and diminish his achievements. In this definitive biography, illustrated with rare photographs, Mark A. Vieira sets the record straight, using unpublished production files, financial records, and correspondence to confirm the genius of Thalberg's methods. In addition, this is the first Thalberg biography to utilize both his recorded conversations and the unpublished memoirs of his wife, Norma Shearer. Irving Thalberg is a compelling narrative of power and idealism, revealing for the first time the human being behind the legend.

Book Giants on Record

Download or read book Giants on Record written by Jim Vieira and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Glastonbury, Somerset, UK: Avalon Rising Publications, 2015.

Book The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain

Download or read book The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain written by Hugh Newman and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did giants really exist in the British Isles? Do the legends of them building Stonehenge hold any reality? Why does the establishment deny they ever existed? Hugh Newman and Jim Vieira, best selling authors of Giants On Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files (2015), and stars of History Channel's Search for the Lost Giants, investigate these claims and take a deep dive into obscure newspaper accounts, antiquarian diaries, archaeological reports, local history records, newly-translated ancient texts, academic papers, new scientific reports and written evidence from hundreds of sources going back over a 4,000-year period to uncover the truth. Over 250 accounts of the remains of giant human skeletons ranging from 7 feet to 21 feet have been found in the archaeological and historical record, often measured and commented on by famous scientists, scholars and writers at the time. A wealth of folklore from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland talks about sophisticated cultures of giants with supernatural powers and advanced technology who had control over thunder and lightning, as witnessed when their tombs were disturbed by later generations. They were often high kings and queens who were master geomancers, surveyors, architects and astronomers who ruled from their mountaintop fortresses--whilst others were cannibals with violent tendencies who enjoyed throwing gigantic rocks across the landscape! The authors take a close look at these age-old stories and the remarkable skeletal discoveries to reveal for the first time an important lost chapter of British history. Includes an 8-page color section.

Book Vieira Da Silva  1908 1992

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gisela Rosenthal
  • Publisher : Taschen
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9783822839539
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Vieira Da Silva 1908 1992 written by Gisela Rosenthal and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Elena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) is widely considered the greatest Portuguese artist of the 20th century, though she spent most of her life in France and became a French citizen in 1956. Influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne and the Cubists, she developed a unique, semiabstract style featuring architectural forms and limited use of color.

Book Writing for Love and Money

Download or read book Writing for Love and Money written by Kate Vieira and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on research with transnational families in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and North America, Writing for Love and Money tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money"--

Book When I Go Low

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ginger Vieira
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-12-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book When I Go Low written by Ginger Vieira and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jax the Cat likes to play soccer, eat sandwiches, and ride his bike with his friends -- oh, and he also has type 1 diabetes! For Jax, one of the hardest parts of living with type 1 diabetes is noticing how he feels when his blood sugar is low. One day, he goes on a walk to find other kids with type 1 and learns a few new things about low blood sugars along the way!

Book The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals

Download or read book The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals written by Janet Leonard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of “primary” sexual characters. A third approach to the evolution of reproductive interactions after copulation or insemination has been to consider the process one of sexual conflict. That is, the reproductive processes of a species may reflect, as does the mating system, evolution acting on males and on females, but in different directions. In this volume, authors explore a wide variety of primary sexual characters and selective pressures that have shaped them, from natural selection for offspring survival to species-isolating mechanisms, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sexual arms races. Exploring diverse reproductive adaptations from a theoretical and practical perspective, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters will provide an unparalleled overview of sexual diversity in many taxa and an introduction to the issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.

Book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forbidden Hollywood  The Pre Code Era  1930 1934   Turner Classic Movies

Download or read book Forbidden Hollywood The Pre Code Era 1930 1934 Turner Classic Movies written by Mark A. Vieira and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies. Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none otherA name=_Hlk518256457: you will eavesdrop on production conferences, read nervous telegrams from executives to censors, and hear Americans argue about "immoral" movies. /aYou will see decisions artfully wrought, so as to fool some of the people long enough to get films into theaters. You will read what theater managers thought of such craftiness, and hear from fans as they applauded creativity or condemned crassness. You will see how these films caused a grass-roots movement to gain control of Hollywood-and why they were "forbidden" for fifty years. The book spotlights the twenty-two films that led to the strict new Code of 1934, including Red-Headed Woman, Call Her Savage, and She Done Him Wrong. You'll see Paul Muni shoot a path to power in the original Scarface; Barbara Stanwyck climb the corporate ladder on her own terms in Baby Face; and misfits seek revenge in Freaks. More than 200 newly restored (and some never-before-published) photographs illustrate pivotal moments in the careers of Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, and Greta Garbo; and the pre-Code stardom of Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Mae West. This is the definitive portrait of an unforgettable era in filmmaking.

Book Electrochemical Sensor Analysis

Download or read book Electrochemical Sensor Analysis written by Salvador Alegret and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electrochemical Sensor Analysis (ECSA) presents the recent advances in electrochemical (bio)sensors and their practical applications in real clinical, environment, food and industry related samples, as well as in the safety and security arena. In a single source, it covers the entire field of electrochemical (bio)sensor designs and characterizations. The 38 chapters are grouped in seven sections: 1) Potentiometric sensors, 2) Voltammetric sensors, 3) Electrochemical gas sensors 4) Enzyme-based sensors 5) Affinity biosensors 6) Thick and thin film biosensors and 7) Novel trends. Written by experts working in the diverse technological and scientific fields related to electrochemical sensors, each section provides an overview of a specific class of electrochemical sensors and their applications. This interdisciplinary text will be useful for researchers and professionals alike. Covers applications and problem solving (sensitivity, interferences) in real sample analysis Details procedures to construct and characterize electrochemical (bio)sensors

Book California  Court of Appeal  2nd Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 2nd Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received document entitled: EXHIBITS TO PETITION FOR WRIT