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Este livro é uma coletânea de artigos resultantes de pesquisas e de práticas em sala de aula, sobre o ensino da Língua Portuguesa. É uma obra relevante para quem tenha interesse no ensino-aprendizagem da Língua Portuguesa que se transforma cotidianamente em virtude de os falantes estarem, continuamente, interagindo. Os espaços se modificam, o tempo acelera a e surgem tecnologias outras que propiciam o aparecimento de novas palavras, de novas maneiras de utilizá-las, por isso o ensino do idioma também deve seguir paralelamente ao que determina o modo como vivem os falantes de um idioma. Daí a importância de se observar o espaço sala-de -aula que já não pode ser o mesmo de tempos...
Named a Best Book by: The Globe and Mail, Indigo, Out Magazine, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, Writers’ Trust of Canada, Autostraddle, Bitch, and BookRiot. Finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction Nominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Non-Fiction "Cultural rocket fuel." --Vanity Fair "Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mi...
Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture. The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. Trap Door grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnec...
Problem solving is central to the teaching and learning of chemistry at secondary, tertiary and post-tertiary levels of education, opening to students and professional chemists alike a whole new world for analysing data, looking for patterns and making deductions. As an important higher-order thinking skill, problem solving also constitutes a major research field in science education. Relevant education research is an ongoing process, with recent developments occurring not only in the area of quantitative/computational problems, but also in qualitative problem solving. The following situations are considered, some general, others with a focus on specific areas of chemistry: quantitative prob...
'If you're going to talk about women in the 21st century, you MUST read Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex.' - CAITLIN MORAN, author of How to Be a Woman *TIME Top 10 non-fiction books of 2016* *Amazon Best Non-fiction of 2016* A generation gap has emerged between parents and their daughters. Mothers and fathers have little idea about the pressures and expectations they face or how they feel about them. Drawing on in-depth interviews with young women and a wide range of psychologists and experts, renowned journalist and bestselling author Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths and hard lessons of girls’ sex lives in the modern world.
To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care needs, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, to young trans people who struggle to find health-care providers who treat them with dignity and respect. The book also includes essays by health-care providers, activists and leaders with something to say about ...
Taking the reader from their early years working under the old Hollywood studio system, to the final, shattering hours before Natalie Wood's life mysteriously ended, Natalie and R.J. brings the magic and the madness of these legendary lovers brilliantly alive. Natalie, the child star of Miracle on 34th Street, spotted R.J. for the first time when he was a handsome eighteen-year-old whose mentors included Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. Their first marriage was a tempestuous one, torn apart by gossip columnists and Natalie's sensational liaison with Warren Beatty. They were divorced and their subsequent marriages were doomed relationships. They remarried and, amid career jealousies, extramarital affairs and a painful suicide attempt by Natalie, there existed a love that knew no bounds.
This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of nothern Mexico, documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife. It should become the standard source document for the conservation status of species and ecosystems in this region, which is of unusual biological interest because of its high biodiversity and highly varied landscape and biological zonation.