A Death In Brazil
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A Death In Brazil
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Author : Peter Robb
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-07-08
A Death In Brazil written by Peter Robb and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-08 with Travel categories.
Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a nation of almost unimaginable distance between its wealthy and its poor, a place of extraordinary levels of crime and violence. It is also one of the most beautiful and seductive places on earth. Using the art, food and the books of its great nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, Robb takes us on a journey into a world like Conrad's Nostromo. A world so absurdly dramatic, like the current president Lula's fight for power, that it could have come from one of the country's immensely popular TV soap operas, a world where resolution is often only provided by death. Like all the best travel writing, A Death in Brazil immerses you deep into the heart of a fascinating country.
This I Believe
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Author : Peter Robb
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2004
This I Believe written by Peter Robb and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Authors categories.
'Like everyone I went to Brazil to get away…' So begins this collage of travel, history, culture and personal reminiscence from the author of Midnight in Sicily and M. Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a nation of almost unimaginable distance between its wealthy and its poor, a place of extraordinary levels of crime and violence. It is also one of the most beautiful and seductive places on earth. Using the art and the food, and the books of its great nineteenth century writer, Machado de Assis, Robb takes us on a journey into a world like Conrad's Nostromo. A world so absurdly dramatic, like the current president Lula's fight for power, that it could have come from one of the country's immensely popular TV soap operas, a world where resolution is often only provided by death. Like all the best travel writing, A Death in Brazil immerses you deep into the heart of a fascinating country. Vivid, obsessive and intelligent, this is an utterly enthralling account.
A Death In Brazil
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Author : Peter Robb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
A Death In Brazil written by Peter Robb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Brazil categories.
Combining travel, culture and personal reminiscence, the author explores five hundred years of Brazilian history. He begins with the Portuguese settlers, delves into centuries of slavery and its impact on society and ends with the surprise election of the charismatic Lula, Brazil's first working-class president.
A Death In Brazil
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Author : Peter Robb
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Release Date : 2005
A Death In Brazil written by Peter Robb and has been published by Bloomsbury UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Brazil categories.
Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a hation of almost unimaginable distance between its wealthy and its poor, a place of extraordinary levels of crime and violence. It is also one of the most beautiful and seductive places on earth. Using the art and the food, and the books of its great nineteenth century writer, Machado de Assis, Robb takes us on a journey into a world like Conrad's Nostromo. A world so absurdly dramatic, like the current president Lula's fight for power, that it could have come from one of the country's immensely popular TV soap operas, a world where resolution is often only provided by death. Like all the best travel writing, A Death in Brazil immerses you deep into the heart of a fascinating country. Vivid, obsessive and intelligent, this is an utterly enthralling account.
A Death In Brazil By Peter Robb
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Author : Llewellyn Johns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Death In Brazil By Peter Robb written by Llewellyn Johns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Death Without Weeping
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Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Death Without Weeping written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Social Science categories.
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
Killed In Brazil
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Author : Jimmy Tobin
language : en
Publisher: Hamilcar Publications
Release Date : 2020-06-16
Killed In Brazil written by Jimmy Tobin and has been published by Hamilcar Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with True Crime categories.
"...Tobin astutely looks at the varying possibilities that would have led to Gatti’s death. Such an approach intelligently and respectfully piques interest in a real-life mystery that has left Gatti’s fans and family in need of both solace and satisfactory answers."—Kirkus Reviews "[Tobin is] an intelligent writer and a thoughtful person, tender even, who writes with authority...I know he’s invited me to a place I’d not have accessed without him."—Bart Barry, 15rounds.com Arturo "Thunder" Gatti hung up his gloves in 2007, closing the book on a boxing career that bordered on the mythical. At long last, he seemed ready to leave the business of blood behind for a long, happy life outside the ring. His retirement was celebrated—boxing’s modern gladiator had earned his freedom. Two years later, he was gone—found dead in a hotel in Brazil under mysterious circumstances. He was only thirty-seven years old. Did he commit suicide? Or was he killed by his new wife? In Killed in Brazil?, Jimmy Tobin recounts the dramatic events surrounding Gatti's tragic demise and shines a light on what may have happened on that fateful night. Killed in Brazil is the fourth in the Hamilcar Noir series. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels.
Final Justice
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Author : Ben Penglase
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 1994
Final Justice written by Ben Penglase and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Political Science categories.
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Death Is A Festival
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Author : João José Reis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003
Death Is A Festival written by João José Reis and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popu
Ufo Danger Zone
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Author : Bob Pratt
language : en
Publisher: Horus House Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1996-01
Ufo Danger Zone written by Bob Pratt and has been published by Horus House Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
