Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations and sexual intimidation.
A coming-of-age tale about a student in England trying to deal with his feelings of attraction to both girls and boys while dealing with a new friendship that has the possibility of turning into something more.
A proposition that equality between the sexes will only be achieved through the acknowledgement of their difference without hierarchy. The author sees the task of women to be the full expression of their own history, culture and life experience, thus enabling humankind to regain its richness.
"History of Portugal" encompasses the stretch from her earliest times to her first empire in South America, and to her decline in the early nineteenth century, before the rise of her third empire in Africa.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA'98, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in November 1998. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multi-agent systems, ...
The Gulf of Guinea, on Africa's Atlantic coast, supplies fifteen per cent of America's oil and has recently experienced an immense inflow of investment. But why are American, European, and Asian oil companies enthusiastically committing tens of billions of dollars of long-term investment to the Gulf of Guinea's failing states, which are ...
This book is a thoughtful exposition of the algebra and calculus of differential forms, the Clifford and Spin-Clifford bundles formalisms with emphasis in calculation procedures, and vistas to a formulation of some important concepts of differential geometry necessary for a deep understanding of spacetime physics. The formalism discloses the ...
Conceived of in 1954, Angelica is one of several ambitious projects which were never able to be made because of the strict censorship of the Salazar regime in power at the time in Portugal. Forty-four years later, Oliveira has decided to bring out the previously unpublished screenplay of a film which has always been close to his heart. Based on a ...
Reaffirm your political and spiritual commitment to helping the poor and oppressed!How can teachers and social workers reach the endangered kids who seldom come to school? By going to the streets, where the children live, work, fight, steal, get sick, sell their bodies, and all too often die. Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil is an in ...
Chinese-African relations became an issue of increasing importance leading up to the 2006 China-Africa Summit in Beijing. Nevertheless, academics and policymakers have largely neglected China's expanding relationship with Africa. Scholars have yet to explore the concrete ways in which Chinese actors operate in different parts of Africa, and ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2003, held in Manaus, Brazil, in October 2003.The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers ...
The goal of the volume is twofold: to help engineers to understand the design and development process and the specific techniques utilized for constructing expert systems in engineering and, secondly, to introduce computer specialists to significant applications of knowledge-based techniques in engineering. Among the authors are world famous ...
The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in individuals, for the living world around us. Featuring an interdisciplinary coverage, this research oriented book contains and explains programs. It is based on recent discoveries ...
Covering a wide range of issues relating to the topic, this book examines the experiences and perceptions of indigenous peoples in the context of the national states and political systems that have been externally imposed and implemented upon them. Fascinating and incisive, the text discusses a range of areas such as: indigenous territories ...
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