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  • Rosario Tijeras

    A Novel

    by Jorge Franco ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    Translated by Gregory RabassaWinner of the 2000 Dashiell Hammett Prize"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name—evoking the rosary, and scissors—bespeaks her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Captains of the Sands

    by Jorge Amado ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    **A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaA Penguin Classics**They call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old “Bullet,” the band—including a crafty liar named “Legless,” the intellectual ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Discovery of America by the Turks

    by Jorge Amado ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    A Penguin ClassicPublished here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Balanced Rocks of Southern South America

    Edited by Clifford Ollier, Emilia Yolanda Aguilera, Francisco Ladeira, Jorge Rabassa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Balanced Rocks of Southern South America examines one of the continent’s most striking landforms: rock masses left standing in visibly unstable positions after long histories of weathering and erosion. Bringing together case studies from Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, the book describes how these formations develop across cratonic uplands, volcanic terrains, and desert margins. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Geology, Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Palaeoenvironments and Palaeoclimatology of the South American Pampas

    Edited by Germán M. Gasparini, Jorge Rabassa, Eduardo P. Tonni ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together for the first time different palaeontological and geological aspects (e.g., palaeoecology, biochronostratigraphy, palaeoclimatology, palaeoenvironments, magnetostratigraphy, glaciations) of the Pampean region (Argentina) and neighboring areas from the Late Miocene up to the Holocene. It provides a structural basis for understanding more specific treatments of Late ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

    by Jorge Amado ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    A Penguin ClassicWidely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Quaternary of South America and Antarctica Peninsula 1998

    Edited by Jorge Rabassa, Monica Salemme ...
    This text deals with certain geological aspects of the extreme geographical locations of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Topics include: Brazil - geology and vertebrate paleontology; pleistocene wave-built terraces of Northern Rio de Janeiro state; and holocene coastal evolution. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum

    Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties

    by Nat Rutter, Andrea Coronato, Karin Helmens, Jorge Rabassa, Marcelo Zárate ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing mechanisms, and to compare glaciations with cold periods of the Marine Oxygen Isotope stages and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula 1983

    Edited by Jorge Rabassa ...
    This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach. It is based on contributions presented at the South American Regional Meeting held in Neuquen, Argentina. ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

  • Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula

    Edited by Jorge Rabassa ...
    This volume is a compilation of papers of the final meeting of the IGCP Project 201, Quaternary of South America. The papers deal with a range of topics from quaternary vertebrate palaeontology in Argentina to biostratigraphy and chronological scale of uppermost Cenozoic in the Pampean area. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula

    Edited by Jorge Rabassa ...
    This volume comprises selected papers of the international symposium held in Sio Paulo, 1986. The papers deal with a range of topics from quaternary vertebrate palaeontology in Argentina and biostratigraphy of uppermost Cenozoic in the Pampean area to taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments. ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

  • Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula

    Edited by Jorge Rabassa ...
    This volume is a compilation of papers that deal with palaeoecological aspects of Argentina and Uruguay, and that derive from the special session on the Quaternary of South America at the XIIth INQUA International Congress held in Ottawa in 1987. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD