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Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society
by Kathryn Hochstetler  Publisher Comments ""Greening Brazil" is an extremely interesting, insightful, and important book. It is important precisely because it fills a huge gap in outsiders' understanding of Brazil's internal politics on environmental issues, providing insights into an often...
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History of a Voyage to Land of Brazil Otherwise Called AME
by Jean De Lery Publisher Comments When the famous anthropologist Claude Lé vi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Lé ry's "History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil," Lé ry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous...
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Modern Brazil: Elites and Masses in Historical Perspective (Latin American Studies Series)
by Michael Conniff Publisher Comments Modern Brazil, a collection of original essays, views the largest country in South America through the multiple lenses of political science, economics, telecommunications, and religion. The editors, Michael L. Conniff and Frank D. McCann, have provided a...
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The History of Brazil (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)
by Robert M Levine Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far
by Richard Bourne Publisher Comments Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and his progressive politics have brought hope and excitement to Brazil--and the world. This compelling work is the first major English-language biography of the...
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Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon
by Gomercind Rodrigues Publisher Comments A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between Brazil's rubber tappers and local ranchers--a struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Rodrigues's memoir of his years with Mendes has never before been translated...
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Resisting Brazil's Military Regime: An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto
by John W F Dulles Publisher Comments Praised by his many admirers as a courageous and fearless defender of human rights, Heraclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled...
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Brazil Through the Eyes of William James: Diaries, Letters, and Drawings, 1865-1866 (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies)
by Maria Helen Machado Publisher Comments In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies at the Harvard Medical School. When he learned that one of his most esteemed professors, Louis Agassiz, then director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology, was preparing...
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Human Tradition Around the World #7: The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil
by Peter M Beattie Publisher Comments The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil makes the last two centuries of Brazilian history come alive through the stories of mostly non-elite individuals. The pieces in this lively collection address how people experienced historical continuities and changes...
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Engendering Latin America #6: Class Mates: Male Student Culture and and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
by Andrew J Kirkendall Publisher Comments This innovative study considers how approximately seven thousand male graduates of law came to understand themselves as having a legitimate claim to authority over nineteenth-century Brazilian society during their transition from boyhood to manhood.<P&...
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Laughter Out of Place : Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (03 Edition)
by Donna M. Goldstein Publisher Comments Laughter Out of Place provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among women living in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s....
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Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indigenous Resurgence in Brazil (Latin America Otherwise)
by Jonathan W Warren Publisher Comments "This is an original work that will be welcomed by all those interested in Brazil and in the Indian question in Latin America. Very well written, engaging, and successful in conveying the world and the voices of the actors, "Racial Revolutions" is indeed...
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Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil
by James Inciardi Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Brazil ranked second only to the United States in the number of reported cases of AIDS. Because Brazil's extensive poverty and inequality, its fragile economic situation, and its limited network of health...
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At Home in the Street Street Children Of
by Tobias Hecht Publisher Comments Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why...
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Brazilians (95 Edition)
by Joseph A. Page Publisher Comments A country warmly hospitable and surprisingly violent, physically beautiful, yet appallingly poor—these are the contrasts Joseph Page explores in The Brazilians, a monumental book on one of the most colorful and paradoxical places on earth.Once one...
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Natural Resource Valuation and Policy in Brazil: Methods and Cases (Methods and Cases in Conservation Science)
by Peter Herman May Publisher Comments Brazil's environmental problems, especially Amazon deforestation, have attracted considerable attention, particularly in the developed world. Peter May brings a sharper and more critical focus to bear on this topic by offering a general overview and...
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Order & Progress: A Political History of Brazil
by Ronald Schneider About the Author Ronald M. Schneider is professor of political science at Queens College, City University of New York....
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Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800
by Joao Capistra Abreu Publisher Comments In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the...
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Brazil: The Forging of a Nation, 1798-1852
by Roderick J Barman Publisher Comments A systematic account of Brazil's historical development from 1798 to 1852, this book analyses the process that brought the sprawling Portuguese colonies of the New World into the confines of a single nation-state....
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The world is burning
by Alex Shoumatoff Book News Annotation Chico Mendes, internationally renowned "ecomartyr," was killed in the backlands of Brazil, on December 22, 1988, by a shotgun blast to the chest as he stepped out of his house. There has been no trial of the accused murderers. Two weeks after the...
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