2018, São Paulo. Trois adolescents paumés, surexcités par le discours du président en devenir, agressent un homosexuel et lui gravent au couteau, sur le torse, le V de la victoire et une croix gammée.
2003. Les inspecteurs Mario Leme et Ricardo Lisboa, de la police civile, enquêtent sur la mort du directeur de la British School. Leur hiérarchie souhaite une conclusion rapide : un cambriolage qui aurait mal tourné sera la version officielle. La police militaire prend le relais, fait une descente dans une favela et arrête un coupable bien commode.
C’est là le début d’une incroyable fresque sociopolicière à laquelle participent une myriade de personnages : un ex-agent de la CIA chargé de blanchir de l’argent, un enfant des rues qui gravit les échelons d’une organisation mafieuse, l’assistante de la maire de gauche et bien d’autres. Tous ces destins sont liés et chacune des intrigues qui irriguent le roman dessine au final un tableau du Brésil dantesque et vertigineux.
Mêlant fiction et réalité, Joe Thomas réussit un tour de force scénaristique et romanesque dans ce roman noir dense et hypnotique.
TRADUIT DE L’ANGLAIS PAR JACQUES COLLIN
Joe Thomas est né à Londres en 1977 et a longtemps vécu au Brésil. Brazilian Psycho est son premier roman traduit en France.
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Von tausendjährigen, als Fruchtbarkeitssymbole verehrten Statuen bis hin zu den Odalisken der modernen Maler erotische Kunst hat immer eine bedeutende Rolle in der Gesellschaft gespielt, unabhängig davon, welche Vorstellung von Kultur oder Moral gerade herrschte. In diesem Werk sind eintausend Bilder erotischer Kunst aus allen Zeiten und von allen Kontinenten zusammengetragen, um darzustellen, wie die Abbildung dieser sinnlichen Freuden Zeugnis von der Entwicklung unterschiedlicher Zivilisationen und ihrer Geschichte ablegt. Während Erotik heutzutage in Werbung und Medien im Überfluss vorhanden ist, erffnet dieses Buch einen außergewhnlichen Blick in die Welt erotischer Bilder und hebt den künstlerischen Wert dieser großen Darstellungen der Sünde hervor.
Different eras and civilisations have treated erotic images with varying acceptance and different concepts of erotica and these tendencies are reflected within the works themselves. From ancient statues devoted to fertility to Renaissance engravings designed to encourage procreation within marriage, erotic art has always held an important place in society. Here, for the first time, 1,000 authentic images of erotic art have been brought together, spanning the centuries and civilisations to demonstrate the evolution of the genre. In an era such as ours when eroticism is abundant in advertising and the media, this book gives a refreshing insight into the background of erotic imagery, highlighting the artistic value of beautiful works of eroticism executed with skill.
Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
1 September 2015
9781454190134
A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the corrosive consequences of both testing and grading in an education system designed to support human agency and democratic principles. This revised edited volume brings together a collection of updated and new essays that confronts the failure of testing and grading. The book explores the historical failure of testing and grading; the theoretical and philosophical arguments against testing and grading; the negative influence of tests and grades on social justice, race, class, and gender; and the role that they play in perpetuating a deficit perspective of children. The chapters fall under two broad sections. Part I, Degrading Learning, Detesting Education: The Failure of High-Stake Accountability in Education, includes essays on the historical, theoretical, and philosophical arguments against testing and grading. Part II, De-Grading and De-Testing in a Time of High-Stakes Education Reform, presents practical experiments in de-testing and de-grading classrooms for authentic learning experiences.
This book analyses how the system of immigration judicial reviews works in practice, as an area which has, for decades, constituted the majority of judicial review cases and is politically controversial. Drawing upon extensive empirical research and unprecedented research access, it explores who brings judicial review challenges against immigration decisions and why, the type of immigration decisions that are challenged, how cases proceed through the judicial review process, how cases are settled out of court, and how judicial review interacts with other legal and non-legal remedies. It also examines the quality of immigration judicial review claims and the quality of the initial administrative decisions being challenged. Through developing a novel account of the operation of the immigration judicial review system in practice and the lived experience of it by judges, representatives, and claimants, this book adds a significant new perspective to the wider understanding of judicial review.
The partnership between India and Taiwan is situated in a virtual maze of complex political factors. Given the core issue of contestation of Taiwan's political status in world affairs and India's adherence to the "One China" policy, the relationship remains a fragile one for both partners. In recent years, Taiwan has signed the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with Mainland China. Increasingly, its political and economic future (including its relationships with countries such as India) will continue to be linked with Mainland China.
This book closely examines the partnership between India and Taiwan within the new post-ECFA setting that Taiwan finds itself in. It explicates the shifts and continuities in Taiwan's economic relationship with Mainland China, discusses how partnership with India could become a crucial pivot of Taiwan's foreign policy in the coming years, and argues why this partnership is vital for the "take-off " of India's own economic growth targets. The book identifies specific avenues for India and Taiwan to benefit from the economic growth success stories that they have come to represent over these years and outlines policy realignments that could allow India and Taiwan to best realize their mutuality of interests.
