An account of the cup and ring markings on the sculptured stones of the Old and New Worlds. Contents: varieties...

Capoeira, a Brazilian Art Form: History, Philosophy, and Practice...

The Rainbow of Desire is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals...

From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with...

How did tigers get their stripes? Why is the sea salty? From Burma to Brazil, a collection of tales from...

This classic study of the ancient Maya reveals a culture as rich as the ancient civilizations of Europe, the Middle...

Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil...

Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the...

The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business offers a special relevance in its twenty-fourth volume, providing a special section on...

Through this colorfully illustrated series of books, you will travel through 13 countries, from giant Brazil to small Suriname. On...

Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil. Free Shipping....

Carl Degler's 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback...

This book uses comparisons of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil to reveal patterns about race, nation, state and...

For weeks the people of the Brazilian town of Olinda have been sewing costumes, painting masks, and creating giant puppets...

Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game covers a broad range of topics -- philosophy, history, training -- related to the increasingly...

Many believe that there are no alternatives to globalization as we know it--with its world of giant corporations in the...

land people and culture series - culture and history of Brazil...

Who should read this book? I can?t imagine anyone who would not enjoy and benefit from this insightful overview. Obviously,...

This book will delight any cook or history buff, with its various medieval recipes....

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of such unusually disguised animals as the Malayan leaf insect, the stonefish, the Brazilian...

In this work, Professors Stopford and Strange explore the mutual interdependence of states and firms. They show how global structural...

DeBiaggi focuses on recent Brazilian immigrant families. There are over 600,000 Brazilians in the U.S., the majority in metropolitan New...

Lerman, a young artists with autism, seized the attention of the art world at the 2002 Outsider Art Fair. This...

In each volume of this series, a youngster from the highlighted country introduces the reader to his or her family,...

Nathan Brazil had been the guardian of the Well of Souls, where the Well World's master control lay. But now...

Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his...

The four contributors to this volume examine the eugenics movements in Germany, France, Brazil, and the Soviet Union, and describe...

Walking west on 46th Street in Manhattan, just three blocks from Rockefeller Center, one passes Brazilian restaurants, the office of...

South America is home to about one-third of the world's bird species and twice as many endemic families of birds...

Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Free Shipping....

This book is the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English. In his quest to understand the largest country...

This book features When This You See..., a 1996-99 series of thirty-one embroidered samplers by contemporary American artist Elaine Reichek....

This virtually unknown, insightful account by a highly intelligent, observant and forthright Frenchwoman of her decade-long stay in Brazil during...

Based on eighteen months of intensive participant-observation, Ring of Liberation offers both an in-depth description of capoeira--a complex Afro-Brazilian martial...

The first anthology of its kind, Manifesto features over two hundred artistic and cultural manifestos from a wide range of...

Snow Watcher, Chase Twichell's fifth book, is a sequence of poems that asks a single obsessive question: what is the...

The best early writings--long unavailable--by the author of The Last Ivory Hunter. Capstick recounts elephant charges at night, the excitement...

Brazil: An Adventure: On the Threshold of the 19th Century...

Brazilian born, French educated, Alberto Santos-Dumont was probably one of only a few aviation pioneers who could claim significant accomplishments...

During the last decade, the martial arts world has looked to innovative mixed martial arts competitions such as the Ultimate...

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

The author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes offers a new tale about one man's journey to...

An American artist of Brazilian origin, Vik Muniz has come to stand out as one of the most articulate and...

Introduces fourteen countries, including Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, describes an experiment related to some basic food ingredient typical for each...

Slocum's first book about his trip from Brazil to America on the Liberadade, a 35-foot cross between a dory and...

Sexuality, Politics and AIDS in Brazil. Free Shipping....

- Vocabulary & Pronunciation Guide- Maps- Charts- Statistics- Timeline- Safe websites at www.FactHound.com- Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Expectations of...

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

Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is...

The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: Memoir of a Brazilian Call Girl. This is a Pre-Order item....

The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871. Free Shipping....

In this classic work, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff examines the relevance of St. Francis to contemporary spirituality and to the...

The present list is the second to be published in this series. Many legume specimens from Bahia are deposited at...

Beautifully illustrates the botanical work of Marg aret Mee, the premier female explorer of the Brazilian rainforest, depicting many of...

Stacy offers her story--the story of a middle-aged nurse who accepted the call to minister in Brazil, a country that...

The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis...

The author looks at the economic and political motivations behind Brazil's industrialization policy and their prohibition of car imports in...

Fodor's Brazil, 4th Edition...

This startling book is based on conversations between the Cuban leader and a Brazilian priest. The talk is informal and...

A miraculous fish appears to an old woman in a small town in Northeast Brazil -- and so begins a...

Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whose book A Question of Survival played such a significant role in bringing the plight of Brazil's Indians...

A simple jeep accident and the end to a military career, enough to send a man into a permanent funk....

Presenting the history of coffee from its discovery on an ancient Ethiopian hillside to its role as an elixir in...

Social Movements and State Power: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador. Free Shipping....

There are more active practitioners and teachers of psychodrama in Brazil than anywhere else in the world, with their own...

Enduring the threat of being overrun by monkeys, pitiful living conditions, and being alone and friendless, Daniela Waters, a rich,...

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of...

The Book of Mev is the story of Mev Puleo, an American photojournalist and young Catholic who actively confronted a...

If you think that UFOs are not real or that only crazy people believe in aliens, think again. This story...

1911. By Way of Potosi With notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru and 80 illustrations and maps. Contents:...

This guide for jiu-jitsu practitioners offers 100 lethal positions of striking and grappling combination moves that will give fighters the...

Memoirs of Bronzeville...

Beautifully illustrated ecotraveller's guide to the Amazon's lush tropical forests and the Pantanal's immense wetland....

The Heart of the Jaguar is a novel set in the jungle of Brazil, notably in the wilderness of the...

One's life can be easy or not. What guides one's destiny depends on where one was born, one's education skills,...

I think of the start of our trip as a spring evening in Mussoorie in North India when the grownups...

A romance novel about missionary life in South America Dani Austin may be young, but she's one incredibly talented artist....

This is a biographical account of the Author Bruce Vaughan's experiences working for a British meat company in the interior...

Number ten in the Mel Bay/Warner collaboration contains a collection of beginning to intermediate arrangements for Brazilian Guitar. All tunes...

Theater, in a variety of forms and contexts, can make, and indeed has made, positive political and social interventions in...

Television studies has come of age as the rapid expansion in media and communications courses shows. The Television Studies Book...

Four years rolled away, and during this time Martin, having failed to obtain his aunt's consent to his going to...

A Woman's Journey Round the World from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and A...

As one of the official languages of Paraguay and with roughly six million total speakers, Guarani is one of the...

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English, originally published in 1985 by the English Language Research unit in Birmingham and...

1921. Hamilton's anecdotal record of years spent in diplomatic life, particularly at Petrograd. Partial Contents: Special Mission to Rome; Easygoing...

This new volume documents the golden period of Latin American architecture that was inaugurated in September 1929, when Le Corbusier...

This is a great collection by two leading thinkers that will certainly add to the current debate on deliberative democracy....

- Americans consume 600 liters of water per day, Europeans 250, and Africans 30.- Just 9 countries possess 60 percent...

Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some...

Enliven your Wiccan and Magical practices with a dose of Brazilian magic. Call on the powers of the Orixas, the...

Soups that simmer for minutes, not hours, and salads that know no season: 75 inviting recipes revolutionize this familiar hot-and-cold...

In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or dark shamanism. Anthropological...

Renowned garden photographer Mick Hales has traveled around the globe to capture some of the greatest gardens in the world....

This new and definitive guide to what is, perhaps, the world's most enticing continent for travellers, covers all thirteen of...

Complete language courses that span the globe!From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are...

Complete language courses that span the globe!From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are...

Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions and Processes...