Signum: Estudos da Linguagem is a publication edited by the Graduate Program in Language Studies of the State University of Londrina (UEL). It aims at disseminating original...
Towards Kilimanjaro: Carrying Parkinson’s in my backpack
In 2017, the author went on a 7-day trip to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s seven years before and wanted to...
Give Me a Break
Ballooning government? Millionaire welfare queens? Tort lawyers run amok? A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars? John Stossel says, "Give me a break."When he hit the...
Conviction
When the nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a website, the girl’s father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks for help. But these aren’t unusual...
Murder in Greenwich
Newsflash: Grand Jury just empaneled to investigate the unsolved murder of Martha Moxley!The night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned and stabbed...
Winning Arguments
A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor and bestselling author of How to Write a Sentence.Filled with the wit and...
Gang Leader for a Day
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader...
Born To Kvetch
As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases and expressions paint a comprehensive...
The Mother Tongue
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities,...
Devoured
A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals...
