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    The Outline of Science, Vol 4 (Unabridged)

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    by J. Arthur Thomson ...
    Narrated by Betty Ortiz, Lawrence Ruivo, Carlos Mueller, Lana Osborn ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and easily understood prose, this popular science work is largely as relevant today as when first published in 1922. In this fourth volume (of four), we learn about bacteria, luminous ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Brazil in Transition

    Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    by Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

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    Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

    by Marguerite Feitlowitz ...
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  • Capoeira

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    by Nestor Capoeira ...
    Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and has become widely recognized by dancers and martial artists. The author discusses capoeira's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Day the Dollar Dies

    by Willard Cantelon ...
    Originally published in 1973, The Day the Dollar Dies was considered by some to be prophetic, and to many an impossibility.Thirty years later however it reads like today's headlines and digs deeply into the heart of today's financial crisis around the world. Updated with new information that helps the reader see the financial storm that began developing over 35 years ago, and understand what is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Poor People's Politics

    Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita

    by Javier Auyero ...
    “Political clientelism” is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People’s Politics to analyze the political practices of the Peronist Party among shantytown dwellers in contemporary Argentina.Looking closely at ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes

    At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

    Edited by Olivia Harris, Enrique Tandeter, Brooke Larson, PhD ...
    Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective as it explores the dynamic between Andean cultural, social, and economic practices and the market forces of a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tracks in the Amazon

    The Day-to-Day Life of the Workers on the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad

    by Gary Neeleman, Rose Neeleman ...
    When construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad began in 1867, Bolivia had lost its war with Chile, causing it to become landlocked and unable to ship its minerals and other products from the Pacific Coast. Since Bolivia needed to find a way to move products from the Atlantic Coast, the government decided a railroad should be built around the Madeira River—which originates in Bolivia and travels ... Read more

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  • The Stock Market Crash of 1929 - Great Depression for Kids - History Book 5th Grade | Children's History

    by Baby Professor ...
    During the Great Depression of 1929, the stock market crashed. Companies closed, people lost their jobs and life just got a lot more difficult. But what is the stock market and why does it play such a big role in the economy? Know the theories and get some concrete examples in the pages of this history book for fifth graders. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Disappearing Mestizo

    Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

    by Joanne Rappaport ...
    Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from ... Read more

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  • The History of Brazil - History Book 4th Grade | Children's Latin American History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Historical truths help shape the world we live in. Even if these truths affect one country, it doesn't mean they won't affect you. Everything in the world is interlinked so the lessons of one nation can be used to better another nation. That’s the purpose of historical knowledge made available for the world to share. Read this book today! ... Read more

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  • Economic Dynamics and Sustainable Development – Resources, Factors, Structures and Policies

    Proceedings ESPERA 2015 – Part 1 and Part 2

    Edited by Luminita Chivu, Constantin Ciutacu, Valeriu Ioan-Franc, Jean-Vasile Andrei ...
    Um die Hardcover-Version dieses Buches zu bestellen, kontaktieren Sie bitte [email protected]. (Ladenpreis D: 165,90€, Ladenpreis AT: 168,60€, UVP: 190,00CHF).For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact [email protected]. (Retail Price: £126.00, $185.90).The book is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Romanian Academy. It contains the most valuable 100 papers ... Read more

    $204.89 USD