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Entender o papel da mulher da camada popular no processo de modernização da cidade de Aracaju através dos processos de honra da capital (defloramento, estupro, lenocínio, infanticídio e violência) é

Não obstante esta ser uma instituição recente, se comparada à temporalidade das outras instituições que compõem o Ministério da Defesa no Brasil, a ESG também se caracteriza como uma das mais complex

A obra amplamente premiada e que inspirou a série de sucesso da HBO.A história definitiva do acidente de Chernobyl, baseada numa investigação profunda sobre como a propaganda, o secretismo e os mitos

De Constantino a Justiniano, a história da cidade pode ser rapidamente percorrida, pois nenhum grande construtor se colocou entre eles para rivalizar com seu trabalho. Foi em 11 de maio de 330 d.C. que a cidade de Constantino foi dedicada e recebeu o nome de Nova ou Segunda Roma. Trono no Hipodromo, sempre para ser o centro da vida bizantina, Constantino deu graças a Deus pelo nascimento desta bela cidade, a filha (assim escreveu S. Agostinho), por assim dizer, da propria Roma. Grandeza, riqueza, dignidade, ele poderia dar a sua nova cidade: mas antes de morrer, era evidente que ele no podia legar a ela um legado de paz. Ha mais de dois mil e quinhentos e cinquenta anos, uma pequena frota de gales labutava dolorosamente contra a corrente ate o estreito longo do Helesponto, remou atraves do largo Propontis e ancorou-se nas aguas lisas da primeira enseada que corta o rio. Costa europeia do Bosforo. La, um longo riacho em forma de meia-lua, que depois passou a ser conhecido como o Chifre de Ouro, atinge o interior por sete milhas, formando um remanso silencioso do fluxo rapido que passa do lado de fora. No promontorio, cercado por essa enseada e pelo mar aberto, algumas centenas de colonos desembarcaram e se apressaram em se proteger das tribos selvagens do interior, fazendo uma especie de barreira contra o solo, da praia a praia. Os colonos eram gregos da raça dorica, nativos do prospero estado portuario de Megara, a mais empreendedora de todas as cidades de Hellas no tempo de expanso colonial e comercial que estava ento no auge. Onde quer que uma proa grega tenha entrado em aguas desconhecidas, marinheiros megaliacos foram logo encontrados em seu rastro. Uma banda desses comerciantes aventureiros empurrou longe para o Ocidente para plantar colonias na Sicilia, mas a maior parte da atenço de Megara foi voltada para o nascer do sol, em direço a entrada envolta em nevoa do Mar Negro e das terras fabulosas que ficavam alem. La, como lendas contadas, era para ser encontrado o reino do Velocino de Ouro, o Eldorado do mundo antigo, onde reis de riqueza incontavel reinavam sobre as tribos de Colquida; ali moravam, as margens do rio Thermodon, as amazonas, as mulheres guerreiras que outrora atormentaram a Grecia por suas incurses; ali tambem se encontrava, se fosse possivel lutar ate a costa norte, a terra dos hiperboreos, povo abençoado que morava atras do norte.

Num tempo extraordinário, este romance, feito de personagens apaixonantes, leva-nos a um cenário de conspiração e intriga na Lisboa do séc. XVIII. Isabel Stilwell traz-nos a apaixonante história de D

Quem foi o homem por detras do mito? Alvaro Cunhal nasceu em 1913 no seio de uma familia burguesa, mas acabou por aderir ao Partido Comunista Portugues ainda na juventude e cedo se destacou entre os jovens revoluçonarios formados por Bento Goncalves. Como foram as suas relaçes familiares neste periodo? O que representou para os pais a sua converso ao comunismo? Como chegou ao PCP e como se relaçonou com os adversarios politicos? O mergulho na clandestinidade e a disciplina de ferro que demonstrou nas torturas que sofreu depois de regressar da Guerra Civil de Espanha marcaram a sua aura revoluçonaria. Ascendeu a lider dos jovens comunistas portugueses e depois a secretario-geral do PCP numa disputa calada com Julio Fogaca durante os anos de combate ao Estado Novo. O que se passou entre ambos? Quais as raz?es que levaram ao apagamento historico do vencido? Na sequencia da celebre fuga do Forte de Peniche, em 1960, Alvaro Cunhal exilou-se na Uni?o Sovietica, tendo regressado a Portugal apenas depois do 25 de Abril. Este livro tambem retrata em detalhe o seu quotidiano em Moscovo, com testemunhos dos companheiros de exilio e revelaçes ineditas da sua irm? Eugenia Cunhal, da filha Ana Cunhal, e da companheira na clandestinidade, Isaura Moreira. Originalmente publicada em 2010 e incluida no Plano naçonal de Leitura

Os movimentos de conquista do território americano e de formação da elite colonial foram paralelos e complementares e, dado que a necessidade de defesa do território recém-conquistado exigisse o povo

A razão de Portugal, a razão de ser deste país antigo, encontra-se envolta na mais densa bruma. Tornou-se um mistério ou é um mistério? A emergência da nação lusíada, o seu destino inesperadamente fu

The year 2020 is a hugely significant one for the United States of America, marking as it does the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims to the New World and their establishment of a godly colony in (what was for them) the American wilderness. But it is also the year of the next Presidential election, one where the current occupant is expected to stand for re-election.Many millions of Americans will not see this as a random juxtaposition of events, since for them the unlikely person of Donald Trump is the one chosen by God to implement a twenty-first-century programme of godly rule and the restoration of American spiritual exceptionalism that is directly rooted in those far-off times when Puritan settlers (who followed in 1630) first established a semi-theocratic New Jerusalem in the New World.The USA is the home of more Christians than any other nation on earth. In 2014 research revealed that 70.6 per cent of Americans identified as Christians of some form with 25.4% identifying as Evangelicals. Eighty-one per cent of them, around 33.7 million people, voted Trump in 2016. How can it be that self-described Christians of the Evangelical Religious Right see, of all people, Donald Trump as their political representative and thus defender of their cause?Trump and the Puritans argues that while Donald Trump is no Puritan, the long-term influence of these 17th century radicals makes the USA different from any other Western democracy, and that this influence motivates and energizes a key element of his base to an astonishing degree and has played a major part in delivering political power to Trump.

The queen of Portugals correspondence with queen Victoria gives us a fantastic insight into the private life of two powerful women, both married to princes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who are struggling to conciliate motherhood with the responsibility (and pleasure) of power

Um relato magistral de como uma minúscula cidade-estado na Grécia Antiga, com apenas 200 mil habitantes, se tornou uma das civilizações mais influentes da história.Este livro conta como Atenas, em um

E SE FOREM VERDADEIRAS AS NARRATIVAS DAS GRANDES TRADIÇÕES ESPIRITUAIS E RELIGIOSAS DO MUNDO?E se Joana d’Arc foi realmente guiada por anjos quando derrotou os exércitos ingleses? E se Jesus Cristo a

Operation Market Garden, often depicted as one of the most decisive military actions of the Allied campaign, offered an opportunity to conclude hostilities with Hitlers Germany before 1945 but its disastrous failure left the Allies facing another seven months of difficult and costly fighting. In this revised new paperback edition of Arnhem: Myth and Reality, Sebastian Ritchie demonstrates that the operation can only be properly understood if it is considered alongside earlier airborne ventures and reassesses the role of the Allied air forces and the widely held view that they bore a particular responsibility for Market Gardens failure. By placing Market Garden in its correct historical setting and by reassessing Allied air plans and their execution, this groundbreaking book provides a radically different view of the events of September 1944, challenging much of the current orthodoxy in the process.

A improvável — e verídica — história do pai, do filho e do restaurante Mocotó apresentada num livro envolvente e reveladorO Mocotó apresenta uma cozinha nordestina sertaneja clássica, passada de pai

The author aptly characterizes this work as a "series of itineraries" by which the reader is made familiar with much of the history of Manhattan Island by being led to the very spots associated with important historical events. But this book is much more. It is surprising and refreshing to read a defense of the Five Points from the pen of so intelligent a witness. We who are deeply interested in New York history thank the author for the facts which he has collected. There is a unique arrangement of the interesting, instructive, and inspiring matter which makes it a literary work of a high order. And: the book has a distinct purpose - the interesting of the people in the history and historic localities of the city and the awakening in them of civic pride and affection.

Soon after the start of the Great War, work hastily began on a series of hutted camps in Wiltshire for more than 100,000 men, and during the course of the war it became home to troops from Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as Britain. With soldiers forming a third of the population the effect on the businesses, farms, and indeed the morals of the county was dramatic. Even after the Armistice peace did not return, with mutinies and rioting in the camps because of frustration at delays in demobilization. Wiltshire and the Great War describes this turbulent, fascinating period in depth. It describes pre-war training, showing how inappropriate it was to future warfare, outlines the pioneering of military aviation in the county and describes the role of railways in moving tens of thousands of troops. There are accounts of shirkers, spies, escaped prisoners of war, prostitutes, the landship that clanked across the county and the wireless station that pinpointed the position of Zeppelins. Also described are advances in military technology, the camp-building scandals that led to an inquiry by a Royal Commission, press censorship, and the blighting of the Stonehenge landscape.

The stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already wellknown in the West, such as Idwar al-Kharrat, Fuad al-Takarli and Nobel Prize winner Najib Mahfuz, the collection includes stories by key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East. This bilingual reader is ideal for students of Arabic as well as lovers of literature who wish to broaden their appreciation of the work of Middle Eastern writers. The collection features stories in the original Arabic, accompanied by an English translation and a brief author biography, as well as a discussion of context and background. Each story is followed by a glossary and discussion of problematic language points.

Bunch of Five is General Sir Frank Kitsons military autobiography. In it this expert in counter insurgency describes his experiences in Kenya 1953-55, Malaya 1957, Muscat and Oman 1958, as well as his peacekeeping activities during two stints in Cyprus, 1963-64 and 1967-68. He wanted to write about Northern Ireland also but at the time of first publication that was too sensitive. Instead, in keeping with the title, he wrote a fifth part summarizing his conclusions in all the zones he had fought in. This fifth part was used by the United States army for a long time on its own Bunch of Five has been out of print for many years with second-hand copies commanding high prices. This reissue will be welcomed.

The ArabIsraeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle Eastern battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and the Nakba. One side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting a tragedy while denying the tragedies of others.In this path-breaking book, eminent political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores these conflicting narratives and considers their role in todays Middle East dispute. He analyses the various Arab responses to the Holocaust, from the earliest intimations of the genocide, through the creation of Israel and the occupation of Palestine, and up to our own time, critically assessing the political and historical context for these responses.Achcar offers a unique ideological mapping of the Arab world, in the process defusing and international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of ArabWestern understanding.

At Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, the commanders of the Second Corps of the British Expeditionary Force elected to fight the German First Army and, although outnumbered three to one, delivered such a smashing blow to the German invaders that the whole of the BEF was able to continue the Retreat to Compiegne without being seriously threatened. Although the British suffered 1,200 of their men and officers killed, and were forced to leave their dead and many of their wounded on the battlefield, as well as thirty-six of their field guns, they inflicted losses on von Klucks army of nearly 9,000. Yet the architect of this feat of arms, Second Corps commander Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, was sacked soon afterward, while First Corps commander Sir Douglas Haig, who had performed far less impressively, took command of the whole BEF. Antony Bird describes the battle, its aftermath and he examines the men, the weapons and the tactics that made this feat of arms possible.