South America category: 2208 books

Pack up your bags, and let’s go to Brazil! This wonderful book creatively presents facts on Brazil’s people, and culture. Virtual explorations are beneficial because they help a child understand geography and it also opens his/her eyes to the fact that diversity is the reality. This book comes complete with brightly-colored pictures and select texts, too. Start reading today!

“Brazil is not Europe or the USA and can seem like a foreign planet to the visitor, so be prepared”! This unique book has important information not detailed in other Guides to Rio and Brazil It tells you how to remain safe and healthy, avoiding disease, and at the same time enjoy a fantastic holiday....

The Key Facts on China provides readers with essential statistics and business information on the rapidly growing country, including: -General Background of China -Geography of China -People and Society of China -Government of China -Economy of China -Energy Resources of China -Communications in China -Transportation in China -Military of China -Transnational Issues in China

Sportsmen and women will descend on the Brazil in search of glory in both the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympics Games and, like its sporting counterpart, business networking events will not all take place in Brazil's capital city, hundreds of business summits, conferences will...

Have you ever wondered how Brazil does it? The country has become one of the leading tourist paradises making big money.This humouristic tourism guide makes an excellent reading for anyone visiting Brazil or similar highly popular tourist destination. Have a peek behind the scenes!

Welcome to the Internationalist Business Guides series: The key to a successful business is knowing the markets. MAKING MONEY IN BRAZIL BRAZIL BUSINESS GUIDE AND CONTACTS offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business in Brazil. ...

"In the latest entry to this globetrotting series, a man goes for a tarot reading and winds up poisoned by the daughter he never knew he had. And that’s just one story in a collection that takes us down the mysterious alleys and mazy favelas of Rio, just in time for the Olympic Games." --O,...

The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church...

One minute you’re relaxing by the pool in a luxury Thai resort and the next you’re a gringo with a donkey on an isolated island off Brazil! When Tony and his wife Sue were caught in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated hundreds of thousands of lives, they wanted more than to return...

Ruy Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air - the feeling of a city on fire. In this spellbinding fifth entry in Bloomsbury's The Writer and the City series, Rio de Janeiro's vibrant history unfolds....

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Iguacu Falls. One of the great natural wonders of the world, the Iguaçu Falls are situated near the border of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. The area is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Access to the waterfalls...

This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Buenos Aires. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable....

"Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence...

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Curitiba : (Brazil) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.