Maira

Darcy Ribeiro

Literature & Fiction

Picador

<p>Major Nonato dos Anjos, a cavalry officer, is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a pregnant white woman near the village of some Brazilian Indians</p>

MAÍRA

Vintage Library

The Baby's Bedtime Book celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. Together with The Baby's Lap Book, continuously in print since 1977, they defined a genre of books: the beautiful lavish gift book for babies. These are classic compilations of nursery rhymes, poems, and lullabies, embellished with darling babies, children, imaginary characters, and animals. Now with exquisite new jackets by the ever-popular Chorao, these classics have a fresh look that is joyful, charming, and warm

The Americas and Civilization

Dutton

<p>Dennis Potter was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean- a 'strange and beautiful place', as he described it in the last interview before his death, 'rather ugly villages in beautiful landscape, a heart- shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from the rest of England... with a people as warm as anywhere else, but they seemed warmer to me.' It was a childhood which informed all his television work, from his first documentary to such classic dramas as The Singing Detective.The Changing Forest, first published in 1962, is Potter's deeply personal study of that small area- its people, traditions, ceremonies and institutions- at a time of profound cultural and social change in the late 1950s and early '60s. With extraordinary precision and feeling he describes the fabric of a world whose old ways are yielding to the habits altering; expectations growing; work, leisure, language itself changing under the impact of the new television, of commercial jingles and the early Elvis. And, with powerful sympathy and wit, he asks whether the gains of modernity have, for the individuals and society he so marvellously evokes, been worth the loss.Part autobiography of one of this century's greatest writers, part elegy for a vanishing way of life, part testament to the abiding humanity that underlies all Potter's work, this exquisite, passionate and brillinat book is a classic of its kind.</p>

Changing Forest

Dennis Potter

Biographies & Memoirs

Minerva

The Brazilian People

translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa

As Americas E A Civilizacao - Processo De Formacao E Causas Do Desenvolvimento Desigual Dos Povos Americanos (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Publisher

O Povo Brasileiro - A Formacao e o Sentido do Brasil (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Global

Por que o Brasil ainda nao deu certo? Quando chegou ao exilio no Uruguai, em abril de 1964, Darcy Ribeiro queria responder a essa pergunta na forma de um livro-painel sobre a formacao do povo brasileiro e sobre as configuracoes que ele foi tomando ao longo dos seculos. A resposta veio com este que e o seu livro mais ambicioso. Trata-se de uma tentativa de tornar compreensivel, por meio de uma explanacao historico-antropologica, como os brasileiros se vieram fazendo a si mesmos para serem o que hoje somos. Uma nova Roma, lavada em sangue negro e sangue indio, destinada a criar uma esplendida civilizacao, mestica e tropical, mais alegre, porque mais sofrida, e melhor, porque assentada na mais bela provincia da Terra

Povo Brasileiro (Edicao de Bolso) (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Companhia de Bolso

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