Imagine que você está isolado no deserto, no lugar menos habitado do planeta Terra, correndo contra a sombra do seu passado, a culpa. Agora, imagine acordar desse pesadelo sem fim, sentindo-se seguro por um instante, dizendo para si mesmo que foi apenas um sonho... não foi sonho algum ­– Você ainda está preso no pesadelo! Aquele deserto vazio está vivo, pronto para te engolir. Bom, quase vivo… O último desejo de sua mãe força Marcos Rodrigues, um homem que luta contra seus vícios e culpa, a se reunir com seu irmão egocêntrico, João, em uma longa viagem pelo deserto. Quando presos na cidade fantasma de Esperança, os irmãos Rodrigues reviverão seus piores traumas, sempre questionando o quanto suas memórias influenciam a realidade. A Casa de Poeira é um suspense sobrenatural que desafia a realidade com ecos do passado, confinando o leitor numa eterna prisão de luto.

"Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult learners of Brazilian Portuguese. Short Stories in Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners has been written especially for students from high-beginner to low-intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading. What does this book give you? - Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary - Controlled language at your level to help you progress confidently - Realistic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability - Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way - Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding - Pleasure! Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!' Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including: - A glossary for bolded words in each chapter - Full plot summary - A bilingual word list - Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners will make learning Brazilian Portuguese easy and enjoyable.

Se um jogo simula os seus cinco sentidos, até onde a linha entre a sua realidade e a realidade virtual pode existir? Haverá um momento onde ela se romperá? Cris se sente incomodado pela repentina ausência em sua vida de uma amiga de infância. Então ele resolve investigar, mas o que ele nunca poderia imaginar era que depois desta investigação o seu mundo iria sofrer uma mudança extrema. Eles iriam ser inseridos em um jogo de vida ou morte, onde a única certeza que eles têm é que estão vivos naquele instante. Cris e Amanda lutam contra monstros e pessoas que buscam vingança e dinheiro em um mundo virtual, onde para algumas pessoas o dinheiro está à frente da vida. Cris tem que lutar com todas as suas forças para superar todos os perigos do primeiro dos sete levels e ele tem 24 horas para finalizá-lo.

Roger Sansi is lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. --Book Jacket.

With In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda’s “asphalt frontier”—the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it—and the ways squatters are central to Luanda’s historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating Luanda’s divisions and the sociopolitical forces that shape them. By illustrating how Luanda emerges out of the continual redefinition of its skin, Tomás offers new ways to understand the logic of urbanization in cities across the global South.