(Izdošanas datums: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781951470340)
Elizabeth Lowe charts her journey to becoming a translator through a series of vignettes relating her life as a third-culture kid and living and working abroad in a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages. She lived in Germany as a young child immed...Lasīt vairāk
A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyones Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugals greatest living writer. The year is 2011, and our ag...Lasīt vairāk
António Lobo Antuness twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissćo das Lįgrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a co...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683402015)
Available here for the first time in English, this book is an extended essay on a transformational figure in Venezuelan history who overthrew the ruling military dictatorship in the 1940s and established a modern democratic regime--...Lasīt vairāk
After a quarrel, an ageing lawyer leaves his wife and travels from Brasília to the dry, lawless backlands of Brazil’s northeastern plateau, where he grew up. He has vague plans to start a new life, to buy a ranch and farm cotton, but unresolved...Lasīt vairāk
This translation simultaneously published as The sakura obsession: the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japans cherry blossoms in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, th...Lasīt vairāk
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The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown EnglishmanCollingwood Ingram, known as `Cherry for his defining obsession, was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a f...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2017, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781933227801)
A powerful tale of love, loss, and redemption in post-independence Mozambique Twenty-five years after Mozambiques revolution for independence, Abel Coelho returns to his country from his home in Lisbon to revisit the places where he s...Lasīt vairāk
The Lady of Solitude projects a fresh and daring new voice on to the Brazilian literary scene. These transgressive and highly charged erotic stories are all written from a womans point of view and they offer an unexpected perspective on the world,...Lasīt vairāk
Joćo de Melo, Elizabeth Lowe, Deolinda Adćo, Onésimo T. Almeida
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Jun-2015, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781933227641)
This is perhaps the most important Portuguese Language novel written on the theme of Immigration. It follows the joys and pains, triumphs, and tragedies of an Azorean familys search for a better life in Canada and their changing relationship to the...Lasīt vairāk
Kissed by the spray of the Iguaēś Falls in the lush heart of the Brazilian rain forest, the luminous woman Tamires kneels, searching for answers. The falls have always beckoned her, their pull as mysterious as the fire that burns inside hera fire wh...Lasīt vairāk
This book explains how the authority Thomas Aquinass theological teachings grew out of the doctrinal controversies surrounding it within the Dominican Order. The adoption and eventual promotion of the teachings of Aquinas by the Order of Preachers r...Lasīt vairāk
Gregory M. Fulkerson, Brian Lowe, Alexander R. Thomas, Elizabeth Seale, Alexander R. Thomas, Karen E. Hayden, Stephanie Bennett, Aimee Vieira, Barbara Ching, Gerald Creed...
Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the ways by which rural life comes to be dominated structurally, culturally, and spatially by urban society. Urbanormativity is a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Oct-2013, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781933227542)
Set in Tokyo, in a not-too-distant future, this novel tells the story of Shunsuke, a salaryman, and his complicated relationship with his mad poet father, Mr. Okuda, whose hobby is spying on his son. When Shunsuke falls in love with Iulana, a ma...Lasīt vairāk
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Crystal Lowe, Kris Lemche, Ryan Merriman, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss, Gina Holden, Texas Battle, Chelan Simmons...
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2010, DVD video, Izdevniecība: Warner Home Video, ISBN-13: 9780780655270)
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When a high school student fails to stop the fated roller coaster ride that she predicted would cause the deaths of several of her friends, she teams with a schoolmate, in a race against time to prevent the Grim Reaper from revisiting the survivors o...Lasīt vairāk
Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands: The Canudos Campaign, is Euclides da Cunhas vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazils infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict...Lasīt vairāk
