South America category: 2208 books
by Joanna Page
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by critics in Argentina and elsewhere. What makes this boom all the more extraordinary is its coinciding...
Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922
'A Great Disobedience Against the People'
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new 'world situation' left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the...
Futebol
Soccer, The Brazilian Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A new and updated edition of bestselling author Alex Bellos's classic book on soccer, unforgettably capturing the game at the heart of the Brazilian national identity.
Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians...
by Elio Gaspari
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
A obra de Elio Gaspari ganha versão digital com apresentação de documentosCOLEÇÃO DITADURAElio GaspariDurante os últimos trinta anos, o jornalista Elio Gaspari reuniu documentos até então inéditos e fez uma exaustiva pesquisa sobre o governo militar no Brasil. O resultado desse meticuloso...
by Elio Gaspari
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
A obra de Elio Gaspari ganha versão digital com apresentação de documentosCOLEÇÃO DITADURAElio GaspariDurante os últimos trinta anos, o jornalista Elio Gaspari reuniu documentos até então inéditos e fez uma exaustiva pesquisa sobre o governo militar no Brasil. O resultado desse meticuloso...
by Elio Gaspari
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 19, 2014
A obra de Elio Gaspari ganha versão digital com apresentação de documentosCOLEÇÃO DITADURAElio GaspariDurante os últimos trinta anos, o jornalista Elio Gaspari reuniu documentos até então inéditos e fez uma exaustiva pesquisa sobre o governo militar no Brasil. O resultado desse meticuloso...
by Juan Bautista Alberdi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
En Peregrinación de Luz del Día (1871), Juan Bautista Alberdi se pregunta sobre la dicotomía civilización-barbarie planteada por Domingo Faustino Sarmiento e ironiza, a través del viaje alegórico de su personaje hermafrodita Luz del Día. El relato constituye un esfuerzo intelectual para modernizar...
The Third Bank of the River
Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
During the 2014 World Cup, an isolated Amazonian tribe emerged from the jungle on the misty border of Peru and Brazil, escaping massacre at the hands of illegal loggers. A year later, in the jungle capital of Manaus, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflames a drug war that blurs the line between...
by Elio Gaspari
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A mais aclamada obra sobre o regime militar no Brasil chega à conclusão com o livro A ditadura acabada. No quinto volume da Coleção Ditadura, o jornalista Elio Gaspari examina com riqueza de detalhes o período de 1978 a 1985, desde o final do governo do presidente Ernesto Geisel e a posse de...
by Isidoro J. Ruiz Moreno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El presente volumen comienza por describir y analizar la larga, difícil y sangrienta guerra librada contra el Presidente López de Paraguay, esclareciendo varios temas controvertidos hasta ahora. Las fuentes bibliográficas que sustentan el relato provienen de los cuatro países involucrados en el conflicto,...
by Bartolomé Mitre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
7 Obras de Bartolomé Mitre Político, militar, historiador, hombre de letras y Presidente de la Nación Argentina entre 1862 y 1868 (1821-1906)
Este libro electrónico presenta una colección de 7 Obras de Bartolomé Mitre en texto completo. Un índice...
by Luis Rojas Nuñez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Recorrer las páginas de este libro es encontrarse con una parte de la historia del Partido Comunista chileno en los años de la dictadura militar y descubrir datos inéditos, detalles determinantes y múltiples contradicciones en la lucha contra el régimen del general Pinochet. En él tiene particular...
Prehistoria de la costa extremo-sur del Perú
Los pescadores arcaicos de la Quebrada de los Burros (10000-7000 a. P.)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Las excavaciones conducidas en la Quebrada de los Burros (dpto. de Tacna) entre 1995 y 2009, han descubierto un campamento de pescadores-recolectores (QLB) ocupado entre 10000 y 7000 a. P. durante el Holoceno temprano y medio. Seis niveles sucesivos de ocupación han sido excavados por decapado, cada...