Describes the sights, museums, restaurants, and accommodations of Brazil, with sections on history, geography, and language
Little Brazil is not an insentient statistical portrait of this population writ large, but a nuanced account that captures what it is like to be a new immigrant in this most cosmopolitan of world cities.
Focuses on the events and cultural forces which have shaped Brazil's history from its discovery by the Portuguese.
They_ll learn Brazil_s history, discover what it_s like to grow up there, and learn about its booming economy. (One out of every ten bananas comes from Brazil!) Vivid photographs and interesting text, including sidebars and fact boxes, ...
Suggested Reading Eakin, Marshall C. British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John D'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989. Gurrnendi, Alfredo C., Frederico Lopes Meira ...
Brazilian Medicine (Durham NC, 1999), Nancy Stepan, Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research, and Policy, 18901920 (New York, 1981), and Robin L. Anderson, 'Public health and public healthiness, São Paulo, Brazil, ...
Brazil is depicted as a land of global superlatives, boasting the best football, the largest rainforest, and the world's worst social and economic inequality. It's vibrant culture is best known...
In 1939, Brazil seemed a world away from the chaos overtaking Europe.
Trista+a1o, an African-Brazilian street kid, and Isabel, an upper-class teen fresh from convent school, fall in love and flee from her rich father and the toughs he has sent in pursuit of them. Simultaneous.
They show that the path of integration has been more influential than is generally known. Ultimately, this book demonstrates the complexity around policy-making, debates on foreign policy, and the history of shaping the Brazilian self.
Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil...