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  • Brazil

    A Century of Change

    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil’s development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert ... Read more

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  • Fax

    Messages from a near future

    by Jorge Wilheim ...
    Series series Environmentalism and Politics Set
    'THIS SHORT BOOK IS A REVELATION AND AN INSPIRATION. USING THE SIMPLE BUT BRILLIANT DEVICE OF AN EXCHANGE OF FAXES FROM ACROSS TIME. IT REVEALS TO US WHAT THE FUTURE MAY HOLD'FROM THE FOREWORD BY SIR RICHARD ROGERSOriginally published in 1996 ... Read more

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  • Indoctrination U

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    In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses. Take No Prisoners is a riveting account of the reaction to Horowitz's campaign by professor unions and academic associations ... Read more

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  • Quilombo dos Palmares

    Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves

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  • American History Book

    This Mind-Opening Guide Reveals Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong About Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John F. Kennedy and More

    Among the most exclusive ebooks on American History this book gives you surefire facts that your textbook got wrong about Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John F. Kennedy and much more that you'll love. ... Read more

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  • The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

    Series series Chronicles of the New World Encounter
    Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s ... Read more

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  • Christian Citizenship in the Middle East

    Divided Allegiance or Dual Belonging?

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