Pedro: 1170 books

Book cover of The Seduction of Brazil

The Seduction of Brazil

The Americanization of Brazil during World War II

by Antonio Pedro Tota
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010

Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign soon replaced the Brazilian tradition of touching the earlobe to indicate...
Book cover of The European Fundamental Freedoms

The European Fundamental Freedoms

A Contextual Approach

by Pedro Caro de Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015

Contextual approaches take into account not only the internal legal perspective reflected in the official discourse supporting legal decisions, but also an external dimension related to the institutional environment in which the law is applied. This external dimension - which can be understood by...
Book cover of Grandeza de los Incas
by Pedro Cieza de León
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2019

Pedro Cieza de León, al igual que Bernal Díaz del Castillo, fue un joven soldado español que escribió una crónica histórica de los acontecimientos que vivió. En estas páginas se recogen los capítulos más significativos de su Crónica del Perú, donde describe costumbres, personajes y paisajes que enmarcaron al gran Imperio Inca.
Book cover of Naw Much of a Talker
by Pedro Lenz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

An award-winning comic novel about truth, lies, and storytelling, with an unforgettably unreliable narrator, translated from its innovative Swiss vernacular back into the Glaswegian that was its original inspiration Known only as "the goalie," the novel's narrator is always taking...
Book cover of The Imagined Island

The Imagined Island

History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola

by Pedro L. San Miguel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006

In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these...
Book cover of Life Is A Dream
by Pedro Calderon de La Barca
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014

Life Is A Dream by Pedro Calderon de La Barca.
Book cover of Life is a Dream (Annotated)
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

Life Is a Dream is a Spanish-language drama by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. First published in 1635 (or possibly early in 1636), it is a philosophical allegory regarding the human situation and the mystery of life.  The play has been described as "the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age...
Book cover of Moros y Cristianos
by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 6, 2017

Pertenece a una serie de relatos, Narraciones inverosímiles, Que se caracterizan por la fantasía o el exotismo. En la realidad Alarcón exalta la convivencia entere moros y cristianos de edades pretéritas, en donde el idealismo y la fe dirige las acciones humanas y cada cual propende por el derecho a la inmortalidad. La obra tiene como fin sostener un discurso en favor de la tolerancia.
Book cover of La última calaverada
by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2017

Tengo la seguridad (dijo el Marqués, encendiendo otro cigarro) de que, si se examinara la vida de todos los grandes calaveras arrepentidos, se encontraría que perdieron su última batalla; quiero decir, que su última calaverada fue un chasco, una derrota, un Waterlóo…
Book cover of Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
by Pedro Iacobelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017

Placing a distinct focus on the role of the sending state, this book examines the history of postwar Japan's migration policy, linking it to the larger question of statehood and nation-building in the postwar era. Pedro Iacobelli delves into the role of states in shaping migration flows by exploring...
Book cover of El Bautismo en Agua
by PEDRO MONTOYA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 16, 2017

El bautismo, o inmersión en agua, que nosotros practicamos no siempre fue de la misma forma como lo conocemos actualmente. Fue establecido y promovido por Juan el Bautista y conocido como el bautismo de Juan,[1] También se le conoció como bautismo de arrepentimiento.[2] Posteriormente se estableció...
Book cover of Rock Art of the Caribbean
by Divaldo Antonio Gutierrez Calvache, Racso Fernandez Ortega, Pedro A. Alvarado Layos
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the...
Book cover of Gerações em ebulição

Gerações em ebulição

O passado do futuro e o futuro do passado

by Mario Sergio Cortella, Pedro Bial
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 5, 2018

Vivemos dias velozes, em que parece não haver lugar para o passado, apenas para o futuro. "O futuro é agora", dizem. No entanto, numa aparente contradição, como se estivesse fora de seu tempo, vemos a juventude se aproximando e se apropriando de referências e comportamentos de gerações...
Book cover of Os Americanos
by Antonio Pedro Tota
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 1, 2015

Quem são os verdadeiros americanos? Sofisticados moradores de Nova York ou jecas da "América profunda"? Intelectuais vencedores do prêmio Nobel ou truculentos senhores da guerra? Para uns, os Estados Unidos da América são um paradigma da modernidade, para outros, um monstro tentacular...
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