Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil, Paperback - Benjamin Junge

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Journey through hope, despair, and forgiveness Leaders cannot predict the complex challenges they are called on to face. Veteran consultants Joan M...

An ultimate travel book, combining exquisite writing on food with history, culture and politics, to create an intelligent and enthralling portrait ...

Democratic practices - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development. The book uncovers how local democr...

Highlights the work of contemporary Brazilian photographers with an emphasis on images which reflect the dynamism and eclecticism of Brazilian soci...

Reducere. If you think that UFOs are not real or that only crazy people believe in aliens, think again. This story was originally reported in the Wall Street...

Reducere. Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the ...

This book amounts to a series of stories about my experience of living and working in Brazil over a period of thirty-three years. The aim of the bo...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Massimo SciarrettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 142 x 2...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Suely RolnikTranslator: Brian HolmesNumber of pages: 496Collection: Semiotext(e) / Foreign AgentsPublication dat...

This book opens up contemporary and novel practices of Brazil's democracy for examination, including responses to global food security, the purchas...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): M CondeNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 16Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...

Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their ...

Reducere. This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressNumber of pages: 205Publication date: 2001Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism's combined but uneven development as ...

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Christen A. SmithNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 20Cover type: ...

In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured b...

DescriptionBrazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the bl...

By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

Experiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their cruc...

A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum singer-songwrit...

Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy - James Williams

With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and ...

What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, 'do'? This book draws on original collaborative research that brings toget...

Reducere. Timothy Ryan had an ideal upbringing. He was born into a loving family, had many friends, grew up in a nice neighborhood, and received a good educa...

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): Benjamin Carter HettNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 192 x 123 x 19Cover type: Paperback / so...

Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil.Publisher: Taylor & Francis ...

There was much popular support for Hitler's regime in Nazi Germany, and little widespread domestic opposition or resistance. However, a number of i...

Reducere. Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement is a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jam...

Reducere. Prologue1. A Five-year Project: 3, 000 Nights2.The Israelis and My Home: Under the Rubble (1983) and Children of Fire (1989)3.The Green Line: War G...

In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Maga a considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcu...

Overcome the twin giants of cynicism and despair and find hope for life by learning who you really are and who God really is.Publisher: Thomas Nels...

Reducere. This is a daily reading of poems by convict poets of the Inside Circle at Folsom Prison - edited and compiled by inmate Bernard Gordon. Forwards by...

I have had the privilege of being one of God's chosen vessels to pour forth His love, His comfort, and His peace through this book, Praise in the V...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richard YoungsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 17Cover type: Paperb...

DescriptionFrom the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the ...

Presents the work of Guaman Poma, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas, who protested against Spanish rule.

Reducere. DescriptionThe wind was gusting around the Golden Gate Bridge on a March afternoon in 2005 when a 22-year-old man climbed the railing, convinced he...

This book examines the constructions and representations of male and female Sikhs in Indian and diasporic literature and culture through the consid...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Roland PhilippsNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 28Cover type: Paperback / ...

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, par...

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, par...

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the sur...

A memoir of an escape to freedom during the Second World WarPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Tytus Sas KomarnickiIllustration(s): 59 black and...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Jodie AvoIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 506Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 50Cove...