epub |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:Alex Bellos

Catholicism in Brazil is as old as the discovery of South America. Four days after Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral stumbled across an idyllic coastline on his way to India, ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Gordon Kerr [Kerr, Gordon]

6 The Vargas Era 1930 to 1954 Population and Industry in the Nineteen-Thirties Between 1920 and 1940, Brazil’s population increased by slightly more than 25 per cent, from 30,600,000 to ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Mitch Weiss & Kevin Maurer

* * * On a Sunday night in late August, Mario Salazar was getting ready for the dance. Every weekend, the Bolivian men gathered around a small band in the ...

mobi |es | 2009-07-22 | Author:Isaac Asimov

El organizador Darío era un hombre capaz, y, pese a los métodos quizá dudosos por los que llegó al trono, fue el mejor gobernante que iba a tener nunca el ...

mobi |es | 2005-12-31 | Author:Nando Parrado

La ventisca perdió finalmente fuerza y la mañana del 17 de noviembre nos levantamos con un día despejado y calmado. Sin demasiado bombo, Roberto, Tintín y yo recogimos nuestras cosas ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Jonathan Franklin

DAY 27: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 From a distance the rescue site at the San José copper mine looked like a construction site gone mad. Huge cranes rattled twenty-four hours a ...

mobi |es | 2011-01-21 | Author:David Grann

17. El mundo entero está loco Fawcett había acotado la ubicación. Estaba seguro de que había encontrado pruebas de restos arqueológicos, entre ellos pasos elevados y cerámica, dispersos por el ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Leech, Garry

The Oil Factor US support for Uribe was evident not only in the rhetoric of Bush administration officials, but also in the provision of counter-terrorism aid. In the same manner ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Héctor Tobar [Tobar, Héctor]

PART II SEEING THE DEVIL 10 THE SPEED OF SOUND For the first few minutes after the breakthrough of drill 10B, the men keep pounding at its shaft. They take ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Open Veins of Latin America [America, Open Veins of Latin]

Part II ~ Development Is a Voyage With More Shipwrecks Than Novigators 171 172 4. Tales of Premature Death A DECL.ARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HAILED BY BRITISH WARSHIPS When George Canning, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Hugh Thomas

* * * IThe first naval vessel to be copper-sheathed was the frigate Alarm in 1761, and the second the discovery ship Dolphin. IISee page 162. IIIThe publication of these ...

epub, pdf | | 2012-01-17 | Author:Levi-Strauss, Claude [Levi-Strauss, Claude]

Fig. 23. — Arcs ornés d’anneaux d’écorce disposés de manière caractéristique selon le clan du propriétaire. La richesse statutaire des clans est d’une autre nature. Chacun possède un capital de ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Candice Millard

THAT NIGHT, after the men, now numbering only twenty-one, had finished their portage around the last waterfall, they retired to their tents and hammocks. Hunched over his small table, Roosevelt ...

epub, mobi |por | 2011-09-22 | Author:Laurentino Gomes [Gomes, Laurentino]

19 O CHEFE DA POLÍCIA Uma bomba populacional abalou o Rio de Janeiro nos treze anos em que a corte portuguesa esteve no Brasil. O número de habitantes, que era ...

epub |por | 2011-05-18 | Author:Laurentino Gomes [Gomes, Laurentino]

3 Brian Vale, prefácio de Cochrane, Memoirs of a Fighting Captain, p. XI. 4 Brian Vale, prefácio de Cochrane, Memoirs of a Fighting Captain, p. XVIII. 5 Brian Vale, The ...