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Judasbok
Verraad ter wille van oorlewing
Language: Afrikaans
Release Date: March 23, 2016
In Mei 1985 land ‘n nege-man-span van die Suid-Afrikaanse Spesiale Magte op ‘n strand in die olieryke Cabinda-provinsie van Angola. Hul uitsluitlike doel is die vernietiging van ses massiewe olie-opgaartenks. Die daaropvolgende skietgeveg lei tot die dood van twee soldate en die gevangeneming...
A Mother's Cry
A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil’s dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in São Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured....
Dragon Songs
Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This chronicle of a budding zoologist’s world travels is an “exuberant, intelligent take on the adventure of science” (Publishers Weekly).
When Russian immigrant Vladimir Dinets decided to focus on zoology, he had already lived several lives and undertaken several careers. But the study...
Comandante
Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The inside story of Hugo Chavez’s rule and complex legacy
Few leaders in our time have been as divisive and enigmatic as the late Hugo Chavez. In Comandante, acclaimed journalist Rory Carroll tells the inside story of Chavez’s life, his time as Venezuela’s president, and his legacy. Based...
O Castelo de Papel
Uma história de Isabel de Bragança, princesa imperial do Brasil, e Gastão de Orléans, conde d'Eu
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Conhecida por combinar o rigor da pesquisa historiográfica com uma narrativa fluida e romanceada, a historiadora Mary del Priore narra O castelo de papel, episódios importantes da história recente do Brasil, como a Guerra do Paraguai, a Proclamação da República e a abolição dos escravos, a...
Fordlandia
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon
In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project...
Brazil on the Rise
The Story of a Country Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical...
by John Carlin, Oriol Malet Muria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
El relato ilustrado de un canto a la paz y la libertad, hoy más necesario que nunca.
Cuando Nelson Mandela fue liberado de prisión en febrero de 1990, nadie sabía ni podía imaginar lo que iba a acontecer. Acuciado por las presiones internacionales, el presidente De Klerk inició un acercamiento...
Fidel
An Illustrated Biography of Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare on the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a liberator, some say a dictator. In Fidel, Nestor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present one of the towering figures of the twentieth-century as he is seen by Latin Americans: as the leader...
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As...
by Henry Walter Bates
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in...
by Chris Baker (Translator), Pasuk Phongpaichit (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This outstanding classic of the Thai language is an entertaining folk epic set in the social panorama of traditional Siam. The tale is a spectacular love story rich in romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic, and ending in the tragic and enigmatic death of its heroine.
Written in lively...
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
It’s okay for Thais to believe in ghosts—it’s their birthright. But why is Vincent Calvino seeing ghosts, and why are they so angry? Calvino is haunted by a series of deaths in Rangoon and Bangkok, when he stumbles onto a new murder case—but is it a new case, or an old one returned from the...