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Greg GrandinPublication Details
Book1st edMetropolitan Books2009Links
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Fordlandia : The Rise And Fall Of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
Errant Modernism : The Ethos Of Photography In Mexico And Brazil
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Esther GabaraPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2008Links
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Oscar Niemeyer : Curves Of Irreverence
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Styliane PhilippouPublication Details
BookYale University Press2008Description
Providing the first comprehensive analysis of Niemeyer?s radical work and dissident perspective, Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence sheds new light on the route the architect has followed as well as on Brazilian Modernism as a non-conformist project informed by a nationalist and anti-colonialist stance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA859.N5 P52 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
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FilmDallas Pictures ; HB Filmes ; Sugarloaf Films, Inc. ; Independent Cinema Restoration Archive presents a film by Hector Babenco ; produced by David Weisman ; produced by Francisco Ramalho, Jr. ; written by Leonard Schrader ; directed by Hector BabencoPublication Details
Video2-disc collector’s edCity Lights Home Entertainment2008Availability
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Brazilian National Cinema
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Lisa Shaw and Stephanie DennisonPublication Details
BookRoutledge2007Links
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Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as Central Station (1998) and City of God (2002). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
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Spirits With Scalpels : The Culturalbiology Of Religious Healing In Brazil
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Sidney M. GreenfieldPublication Details
BookLeft Coast Press2008Description
?The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN564.B6 G74 2008 AVAILABLE
Visions Of Savage Paradise : Albert Eckhout, Court Painter In Colonial Dutch Brazil
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Rebecca Parker BrienenPublication Details
BookAmsterdam University Press2006Links
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Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ND653.E3 B75 2006 AVAILABLE
Walking The Forest With Chico Mendes : Struggle For Justice In The Amazon
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Gomercindo Rodrigues ; edited and translated by Linda Rabben ; introduction by Biorn Maybury-LewisPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Texas Press2007Links
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A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between Brazil’s rubber tappers and local ranchers?a struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Now, Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes makes this important work available to new audiences, capturing the events and trends that shaped the lives of both men and the fragile system of public security and justice within which they lived and worked. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
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The Comparative Histories Of Slavery In Brazil, Cuba, And The United States
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Laird W. BergadPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2007Links
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This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT1126 .B47 2007 AVAILABLE
Brasyl
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Ian McDonaldPublication Details
BookPyr2007Links
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Three separate stories follow three main characters: Edson is a self-made talent impressario one step up from the slums in a near future São Paulo of astonishing riches and poverty. Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality in a hugely ambitious story that will challenge the way you think about everything. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR6063.C38 B73 2007 AVAILABLE
The Greatest Gift : The Courageous Life And Death Of Sister Dorothy Stang
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Binka Le BretonPublication Details
Book1st edDoubleday2007Links
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In 1966, Sister Dorothy Stang went to Brazil as a missionary, and in 1982 she moved to a small town in the Amazon to work with an organization to protect poor farmers and their land from loggers and land-developers who stop at nothing—including murder—in pursuit of profits. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BX4705.S7938 L4 2007 AVAILABLE
The Shape Of Water
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director, Kum-Kum Bhavnani ; producer, Kum-Kum Bhavnani ; narration written by Edwidge Danticat … [et al.] ; story, Kum-Kum Bhavnani … [et al.]Publication Details
VideoStandard formatKum-Kum Bhavnani2006Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) HQ1236 .S53 2006 AVAILABLE
Chasing The Flame : Sergio Vieira De Mello And The Fight To Save The World
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Samantha PowerPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Description
From Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, an epic tale-part thriller, part tragedy-for our age, the political career and tragic death of the incomparable humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello If there is a single individual who can be said to have been at center stage through all of the most significant humanitarian and geopolitical crises of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, it was Sergio Vieira de Mello. In this exquisitely reasoned and imagined book, Samantha Power reveals Sergio Vieira de Mello’s powerful legacy of humanity and ideological strength in an age sorely in need of both. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) D839.7.M45 P68 2008 AVAILABLE
Exercise Of Power: The Art Of Ana Maria Pacheco
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George SzirtesPublication Details
BookLund Humphries2001Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N6659.P27 S98 2001 AVAILABLE
Duos II
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Luciana SouzaPublication Details
AudioSunnyside2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: CD (MAIN) MZ600.S689 D8 AVAILABLE
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