Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most ...
Thought provoking: Maverick is the story of Semco, an medium size Brazilian company who has set free their employees. The owner, Richardo Semler has been on a journey to continuously improve and innovate their employee related practices. Maverick [... more]
$14.99
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Brazil in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
This book is for children.: Apparently this book is for ages 9 - 12. That apparently is correct. Don't buy for an adult. Author: Thomas Streissguth Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 981 EAN: 9780822519591 Edition: Rev Exp ISBN: 0822519593 Number [... more]
$29.27
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The Rough Guide Brazil 5th Ed (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Book Description: INTRODUCTION Brazilians often say they live in a continent rather than a country, and that's an excusable exaggeration. The landmass is bigger than the United States if you exclude Alaska; the journey from Recife in the east to the [... more]
$24.95
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Tristes Tropiques
Parrot Flambee: One way to gauge who's in among fashionable academics is to read the catalog for the "Writers and Readers' Documentary Comic Book" series. Sartre has an entry, and so does Derrida, and Lacan. Thirty years ago, you would have [... more]
$20.00
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The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942
Haunting photos of Brazililans during early 1940s: The photographer, Genevieve Naylor, went to Brazil after working for the Associated Press and the Roosevelt administration's photographic corps. She brought to her assignment a wonderful eye for [... more]
$29.95
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Brazil: The Once and Future Country
Excellent Overview: Such a pleasure to read a book by an academic. Eakin is a historian who understands Brazil. The book is not perfect, but it is solid, useful, and interesting. First, it is well-organized: before offering thematic chapters of deeper [... more]
$19.95
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Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Download Description: Cherrie and Miller had secured a little owl a month before in the Chaco, and it was travelling with them in a basket. It was a dear little bird, very tame and affectionate. It liked to be handled and petted; and when Miller, its [... more]
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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Lewis & Clark go down the Amazon...: ... but told in a much more stylish and readable manner. I bought this book on the strength of reading about Capt. Herndon's sacrifice in Gary Kinder's "Ship of Gold...". He seemed to epitomise the old- [... more]
$14.00
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Witch Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants ...
Witch-Doctor's Apprentice : Hunting for Medicinal Plants in: This was a great read for me back in '94 when it was presented as a gift and I have often recommended it. Nicole shares her life story when she is in her 80s. One needs to keep in mind the [... more]
$9.98
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Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
Book Description: "Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new tributary to a tributary to a tributary of the Amazon, nothing of importance [... more]
$16.95
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My Last Chance to Be a Boy: Theodore Roosevelt's South ...
Brilliant portrayal of TR as man, not legend.: TR's 1913-1914 expedition down the River of Doubt (subsequently renamed Rio Teodoro in his honor, and later Rio Roosevelt) is an astonishing piece of history - one often refered to in passing by other TR [... more]
$29.95
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Rio de Janeiro (Writer and the City)
An inspired view of the carioca soul: As a lover of Rio de Janeiro (like every carioca), I was amazed by Ruy Castro's inspired view of Rio. He manages to make this book as interesting for someone looking just for a travel guide as for the most serious [... more]
$16.95
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