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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist
£13.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465897 | ISBN 10: 1608465896
The people of Brazil celebrated when they learned that in the space of two years their country would host the world's two largest sporting events: the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Now they are protesting in numbers the country hasn't s ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909715165 | ISBN 10: 1909715166
The Brazilian game has become synonymous with excellence, success and beautiful, irresistible football. Supporters from every part of the globe are able to recount joyful tales about Brazil’s unmatched achievements, especially ones of World Cup glory ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241969779 | ISBN 10: 0241969778
No nation has so closely aligned its national identity with playing and watching football as Brazil. Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow shirts a delightful amalgam of sport and art, entwined with its cultures of music and re ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408854167 | ISBN 10: 1408854163
The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary names like Pelé, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. But in Latin America’s largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747573166 | ISBN 10: 0747573166
Brazil is one of the world's greatest and strangest countries. Delving into the past and present, Peter Robb describes this vibrant but disturbed society - it is a nation with an almost unimaginable gulf between rich and poor and the most extraordina ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780285636989 | ISBN 10: 0285636987
On its first publication in 1960, 'Beyond All Pity' was not only a sensation but at the time was the bestselling Brazilian book in history, making Carolina Maria de Jesus a spokeswoman for the poor, the dispossessed and the illiterate, and quickly tr ... more
View book details£12.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781853395932 | ISBN 10: 1853395935
Global warming and climate change pose a dire threat to life, demanding urgent global action. The Kyoto Protocol is the United Nations treaty committing signatories to dealing with climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Clean Develo ... more
View book details£17.95 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781899365562 | ISBN 10: 1899365567
The illegal trade in people is surpassed only by that in drugs and arms. 'Trapped' explores some of the life stories behind this scandal and tragedy by looking at one of the regions in the world where debt-bondage is still common - the Brazillian Ama ... more
View book details£24.95 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781899365517 | ISBN 10: 1899365516
Access to land is one of the key issues for developing countries - and Brazil has one of the most inequitable land distributions in the world, with vast tracts of land held by often absentee landowners. Meanwhile thousands of peasants live in margina ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780521893534 | ISBN 10: 0521893534
Here are the true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth century Brazillian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each in her own way sought to have her way; The slave woman struggled to av ... more
View book details£12.95 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781899365371 | ISBN 10: 1899365370
In July 1993, at Haximu, deep in the Amazon rainforest, a fateful meeting between a group of Yanomami Indians and Brazillian gold miners resulted in the massacre of the Yanomami. News of the tragedy shocked Brazil and the world. But the mysteries rem ... more
View book details£22.00 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780226461007 | ISBN 10: 0226461009
In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young ... more
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