Author: Luis Fernando VerissimoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A literary mystery about cooking and gourmands by one of Brazil's most popular authors.
The Club of Angels
Author: Luis Fernando VerissimoPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A literary mystery about cooking and gourmands by one of Brazil's most popular authors.
Media Power in Central America
Author: Rick RockwellPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092287
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Media Power in Central America explores the political and cultural interplay between the media and those in power in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Nicaragua. Highlighting the subtle strangulation of opposition media voices in the region, the authors show how the years since the guerrilla wars have not yielded the free media systems that some had expected. Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus examine the region country by country and deal with the specific conditions of government-sponsored media repression, economic censorship, corruption, and consumer trends that shape the political landscape. Challenging the notion of the media as a democratizing force, Media Power in Central America shows how governments use the media to block democratic reforms and outlines the difficulties of playing watchdog to rulers who use the media as a tool of power.
The Hundreds Lakes
Author: Leonilda GonçallesPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608444120
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Who's who in the United Nations
Author: Christian E. BurckelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Vargas of Brazil
Author: John W. F. DullesPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292771762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954 was a highly contradictory and controversial personality. Getúlio Vargas, from the pampas of the southern frontier state of Rio Grande do Sul, became the dictator who ruled without ever forgetting the lower classes. Vargas was a consummate artist at politics. He climbed the political ladder through seats in the state and national legislatures to the post of federal Finance Minister and to the governorship of Rio Grande do Sul. His career then took him to the National Palace as Provisional President and as Constitutional President, and later as the dictator of his "New State." After his deposition in 1945 and a period of semiretirement, his continuing widespread popularity resulted in his successful come-back campaign in 1950 for the Presidency on the Labor Party ticket. Vargas' contributions to Brazilian political and economic life were many and important. Taking advantage of the power which his political magic provided him, he brought Brazil from a loose confederacy of semifeudal states to a strongly centralized nation. He was a great eclectic, welding into his social, political, and economic policies what he found good in various programs. He was also a great opportunist in the sense that he adroitly took advantage of conditions and circumstances to effect his ends. He was intimately related to the revolutionary changes in Brazilian life after 1930. Vargas, "Father of the Brazilians," attributed achievements such as these to power in his own hands. His foes, however, still feared the political wizard, and they cheered the military when it deposed him. After his return, "on the arms of the people," Vargas saw that the armed forces were determined to repeat history, and in 1954 he chose another path—suicide. All of these exciting events are related in John W. F. Dulles's Vargas of Brazil: A Political Biography. Despite its emphasis on Vargas the politician and statesman, the reader comes to know Vargas the man. For this portrait of Vargas and of Brazil the author has drawn much material from State Department papers in the National Archives and from other public sources, and from interviews with numerous persons who were participants in the events he describes or observers of them. The result is an interesting, revealing, valid account of an important people. Many illustrations supplement the text.
Author: The Forest Frontier
Author: Peter A. FurleyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040030254
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Originally published in 1994, this book analysed land developments, deforestation and pasture substitution, colonisation schemes and spontaneous settlement during the latter part of the 20th Century. In so doing, The Forest Frontier presents an overview of the intrinsic environmental and socio-economic resources of the Roraima, the most northerly of the Brazilian Amazon states. Roraima is of special environmental interest because of its extensive savannas and varied forests – the home of some of the largest and most diverse groups of indigenous Indians. This critical assessment of the nature and pace of agricultural advance into Roraima examines the range of strategies which have been proposed to cope with the inevitable development. With the conflict between preserving the natural environment and development still major issues for Brazil, this book remains as relevant now as when it was first published.
Cotton Literature
Author: Business America
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Includes articles on international business opportunities.
Author: