As meninas que vieram das estrelas um romance fantstico que inclui factos verdicos. O autor construiu uma maravilhosa histria de Amor, fazendo uso dos seus conhecimentos fruto de mais de dez anos de estudo de Parapsicologia e cincias do Paranormal em geral, bem como de importantes informaes que obteve nas investigaes em que participou sobre os raptos de Joana Cipriano e Madeleine McCann. O livro foi escrito em especial memria das trs esplendorosas crianas com as quais e pelas quais mais trabalhou: Francesca Orofino, Joana Cipriano e Madeleine McCann. The little girls that came from the stars is a fantastic adventure book which includes non-fictional facts. The author has created a marvellous Love story, making use of his knowledge of more than ten years of study of Parapsychology and Paranormal sciences in general, as well as of important information gathered during the investigations he has participated concerning the kidnappings of Joana Cipriano and Madeleine McCann. The book was written in special memory of the three wonderful children with whom and for whom the author has worked more: Francesca Orofino, Joana Cipriano and Madeleine McCann.

'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture. The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past.

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Leading actor, producer and director Channing Tatum's picture book debut, The One and Only Sparkella is a charming ode to self-esteem and the love between a father and daughter—illustrated by Kim Barnes. Ella is excited for her first day at a new school. Glimmering pencil case? Check! Shimmering backpack? Check! Glittery ribbons in her hair? Check! She can't wait to meet the other kids and share her sparkly personality. But her first day doesn't go quite as planned: Her new classmates don't like her disco-ball shoes, her PB&J-with-sprinkles sandwich, or her rainbow-y unicorn painting. Ella decides to try to be less sparkly at school the next day so the other kids won't make fun of her. But with a little help from her dad, she soon learns the importance of just being herself, no matter what other people say.

An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.

"De longe o melhor livro sobre os Stones já escrito. O relato mais convincente da vida do lado de dentro do monstro criado pela revolução do rock dos anos 1960." – Richard Williams, The Guardian Stanley Booth, um membro do círculo íntimo dos Rolling Stones, conheceu a banda apenas alguns meses antes de Brian Jones se afogar em uma piscina em 1968. Ele morou com eles durante a turnê de 1969 pelos Estados Unidos, ficando acordado a noite toda ouvindo ao blues, falando sobre música, ingerindo drogas e andando com groupies. Seu emocionante relato culmina com seu último show no Altamont Speedway - um pesadelo de espancamento, esfaqueamento e morte que sinalizaria o fim dos sonhos de paz e liberdade de uma geração. Mas enquanto este livro apresenta em detalhes toda a história dos Stones, prestando atenção especial à tragédia de Brian Jones, trata-se de muito mais do que um escritor e uma banda de rock. Foi considerado - por Harold Brodkey e Robert Stone, entre outros - o melhor livro já escrito sobre a década de 1960. No posfácio de Booth, ele finalmente explica por que levou 15 anos para escrever o livro, relatando uma história surpreendente de drogas, prisões e desastres. Atualizada com um prefácio de Greil Marcus, esta edição é para os fãs dos Rolling Stones em todos os lugares.