The Second World War, Ethiopian riches, and desertion start Expatriate off with a bang, and this is just the beginning....

This book provides the first systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages...

With stories ranging from delightful to funny to cautionary and inspiring, these tales about Brazil explore the many facets of...

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Manipulating the Sacred: Yoruba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble. Free Shipping....

Here is a superb example of the new way of doing theology. C. S. Song tells a charming story of...

IF IT'S RAINING IN BRAZIL, BUY STARBUCKSThe hardcover edition of If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks first introduced investors...

A young man predicts a murder and identifies the perpetrator--himself--in this third entry in the critically acclaimed Brazilian crime series....

Found in this volume is the story of Antonio Conselheiro, the last of the Gnostics, who defied all the Brazilian...

A stunning novel by one of Brazil's greatest writers. Like other great 19th-century novels, Machado de Assis's DOM CASMURRO explores...

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The landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) was one of the foremost American artists of his generation. Born in Newburgh, New...

Judy Hammer, head of the Richmond police, and Andy Brazil, her righthand man, must go after a gang of delinquents...

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Historian Marshall Eakin describes a country defined by paradoxes--immense wealth surrounded by widespread poverty, a modern industrial infrastructure alongside an...

Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, Canudos embodies the...

Three Milan editors, who have spent much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult, decide to have a little fun....

Besides the well-known masters of the 20th century such as Barragan, Niemeyer, and Costa, there is a vibrant and surprisingly...

This guidebook is designed for the fishwatcher; that nontechnical, curious person, whether casual tourist-swimmer, skin or SCUBA diver, fisherman or...

The new, completely revised and redesigned 2nd edition of the highly acclaimed Visual Geography Series reveals the history and government,...

Over the course of history, materials such as concrete and steel revolutionized architecture. Immaterial/Ultramaterial, the second volume in the Millennium...

A travel series unlike any other, Insight Guides go beyond the sights and into reality. Their incomparable photojournalistic approach captures...

Jeannette Lukasse was only six years old when she announced that she would open an orphanage in Brazil when she...

Involving everything from war to playground disputes, narratives generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at levels of social organization. Still,...

Christopher Idone, a pioneer of illustrated cookbooks, takes the reader on a fascinating culinary and cultural journey through the vast...

From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any...

Who doesn't love potatoes?The Ultimate Potato Book joins the other five successful Ultimate books. Organized alphabetically, this handy cookbook offers...

The Oxford Picture Dictionary is the ultimate pictorial reference for everyday vocabulary. There are twelve bilingual editions: Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese,...

The compelling sequel to Thunder Cave vividly portrays the beauty and drama of the Brazilian rainforest in the context of...

The future of Brazilian Amazonia, the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, hangs in the balance. Two decades of destructive...

A woman police officer traces a gun found in the Amazons to the shooting of awell-known Brazilian publicist. She then...

The Bandit King: Lampiao of Brazil...

To the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their...

The exotic charm of Brazil provides the perfect background for one of FletchUs sexiest, most dangerous adventures. Fletch is living...

Visible Love is an irreverent adult satire about the effect of AIDS fears on heterosexuals in the 1980s. Seven friends...

In Shapiro's first work of fiction, readers will take an edge-of-their-seat journey into the religious and political structures of Brazil,...

The tremendous figures presented in this exciting, high-interest new series are some of the wrestling world's greatest heroes. Young teens...

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Unabridged audio cassette Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is...

This inventive novel is a series of questions and confessional answers, an internal dialogue between Josemar, a construction worker, and...

The twentieth-century art of Latin America is art in the western tradition, and its leading figures--Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego...

This fourth volume of Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most important writings on the theory and philosophy of art....

Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With...

Employing a framework that focuses on the actions and choices of elites in creating consolidated democracies, a distinguished group of...

In this volume, international contributors discuss the philosophical basis and history of harm reduction policies and examine their outcomes. They...

This book looks at very high inflations, exemplified by those suffered by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, and Peru in...

Nightfather is a novel about the Holocaust like no other. Written in a deeply affecting style mixing lightness with gravity,...

From the Publisher:A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past....

Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension...

Children will happily embark on these wild word searches featuring creatures from alligators to zebras. Each puzzle contains at least...

The warm, complex aroma of a fresh-baked loaf of bread can be utterly tantalizing; the first bite, a revelation. In...

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THE TITLE FOR MICHAEL MULVIHILL'S SECOND BOOK WAS INSPIRED BY THE BRAZILIAN MOVIE, CENTRAL STATION. UNEARTHING THE INJUSTICES OF THE...

The American landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) was one of the most thoughtful and inventive artists of his generation. George...

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Engines of Growth: The State and Transnational Auto Companies in Brazil. Free Shipping....

Danielle Renee Sciaretta was born in New Jersey in 1980. She obtained her BA in Sociology at the University of...

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New Religions in Global Perspective is the first truly worldwide account of the new religious movements that are currently the...

1928. E. Barrington (the pen name of L. Adams Beck) begins The Empress of Hearts: The most famous necklace of...

Peter Coelho was born in California. His parents were from Brazil. Peter graduated from high school in 1998 and enrolled...

1919. A biography of the 26th President written by Thayer who had known, and corresponded, with Roosevelt over a forty-year...

What is it like to govern one of the world's most notoriously ungovernable, most vibrant countries? Brazil's former president--in office...

The first in a two-volume series on capoeira, Volume One traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance...

This one-volume report offers extensive coverage of Brazil's banking/finance, energy, and labor sectors, as well as in-depth analyses of topics...

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the...

Luiz has just arrived in the United States from Brazil which he misses terribly. But the immigrant has a talent...

A double cross that keeps on giving, a Brazilian ex-mercenary who wants to live in peace, a children's book illustrator...

Marcelo Gleiser refutes the notion that science and spirituality are irreconcilable. The Dancing Universe, he traces mystical, philosophical, and scientific...

In January 2001, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 20,000 activists, students, filmmakers came together to share their experiences and exchange ideas...

Our Daily Lie is the story of a woman's search for her identity that involves politics, religious conflicts, and three...

Author and acclaimed instructor Simco teaches his students that a solid mastery of the fundamentals is essential in creating a...

Burton's travels through war torn Paraguay in 1864, during the war between Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Something of a...

This book examines the phenomenon of the high inflation processes of the 1970s and 1980s as exemplified by Argentina, Brazil,...

Brazil is not for beginners warned Antonio Carlos Jobim. In this book, a pair of young beginners from the US...

Cian and Saxon's meeting in the heart of the Amazon is more than an encounter of two people, it's the...

When droughts hit northeastern Brazil, thousands of rural workers are forced to abandon their homes for the cities in search...

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Ricardo Legorreta is without question Mexico's most famous living architect. Rizzoli published the first volume of his work in 1997,...

Law and Employment analyzes the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets and presents empirically grounded studies...

The public sector's need for new revenues, sparked by political change and economic pressures at home and abroad, has reversed...

The best place to look for the classic authors of tomorrow, Open City is crucial for readers who want to...

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Since the publication of Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World, James Clifford has become one of anthropology's...

The Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization. Leading theorists and...

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New Lower Price. This magnificent volume is a soaring tribute to the harmonious nature of Brazilian art and culture. Juxtaposing...

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Over time, Brazil has evolved into a well-defined nation with a strong sense of identity. From the natural beauty of...