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  • Black into White

    Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought

    by Thomas E. Skidmore ...
    Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition has been updated to include a new preface and bibliography that surveys recent scholarship in the field. Black into White is a broad-ranging study of what the leading Brazilian intellectuals thought and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985

    by Thomas E. Skidmore ...
    The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil, offers the first analysis of more than two decades of military rule, from the overthrow of João ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Moondrive

    by Thomas R. Skidmore ...
    They never knew the battle that was coming would be ALL OUT WAR!In the distant star system of Gerandra, the Dark Queen named Syrinx plots her ultimate ambition: the annexation of the Solar System, and the systematic subjugation of all humanity. To this end, she commands her team of specialists known as the Science Guild to devise a means involving not one, but two moons. Unknown to her, however, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850–1930

    by E. Bradford Burns, Thomas E. Skidmore ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of viewpoints on the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and the Europeanized and the traditional of Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.E. Bradford Burns ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • International Political Economy

    The Struggle for Power and Wealth in a Globalizing World

    by David Skidmore, Thomas Lairson ...
    This text offers a rethinking of the field of international political economy in an era of growing but uneven globalization. Even as global integration advances, states play central roles as partners with the largest of global firms, as the catalysts of competitiveness and economic growth, as the creators of global institutions, and in promoting and responding to global interdependence. Indeed, ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

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    Series Book 417 - Mammoth Books
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  • Economics: The User's Guide

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    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    What is economics?What can - and can't - it explain about the world?Why does it matter?Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a no.1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the W... ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Samba

    Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

    by Hermano Vianna, John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country’s African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity ... Read more

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  • Soldier of the Legion

    a military science fiction adventure

    by Marshall S. Thomas ...
    Series series Soldier of the Legion
    I have burnt the Book of Laws, to serve the Deadman's cause, as a soldier of the LegionA rough truce divides the known galaxy between the System — the despotic slave empire that rules the inner systems — and the Confederation of Free Worlds, claiming the awesome infinity of the Outvac frontier.Fresh out of basic training, the young troopers of ConFree Legion's Squad Beta are dropped onto the ... Read more

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    A Cure for Capitalism

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
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    It began with a terrible vision of the future. Compelled by her precognitive abilities, Ia must somehow save her home galaxy long after she’s gone. Now Jean Johnson presents the long-awaited epic conclusion to her national bestselling military science fiction series…With their new ship claimed and new crewmembers being collected, Ia’s Damned are ready and willing to re-enter the fight against the ... Read more

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