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Angola in the Front Lineby Wolfers & BergerolISBN 0862321077 (0-86232-107-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Angola: Promises and Liesby Karl MaierISBN 1897959222 (1-897959-22-2)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstructionby Stephen Wright, Inge TvedtenISBN 0813333350 (0-8133-3335-0)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Angolan Women Building the Future: From National Liberation to Women's Emancipationby Organisation of Angolan WomenISBN 0862322634 (0-86232-263-4)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Another Day of Lifeby Ryszard Kapuscinski, William R. Brand, Katarzyna Mroczkowska-BrandISBN 0375726292 (0-375-72629-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Day of Life'Book summary:The chaos, pain, and confusion of the colonial and civil war in Angola are the subject of this powerful new book from the author of The Emporer. [via]
The Baby-Sitter IVby R. L. StineISBN 0590487442 (0-590-48744-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Bay of Tigers: An African Odysseyby Clifford E. Landers, Pedro Rosa MendesISBN 0151006555 (0-15-100655-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bay of Tigers: An African Odyssey'Book summary:When Angola achieved its hard-won independence in 1974, rival rebel factions began to fight for control of the state. As in Latin America, the "liberating" rebel forces were often as brutal as the autocratic, established regime. The result is a country still ravaged by unspeakable violence, corruption, and an ongoing power struggle. Portuguese journalist/author Pedro Rosa Mendes tells the story of modern-day Angola in Bay of Tigers: An Odyssey Through War-Torn Angola. As Mendes's depiction makes clear, this is not the Africa of Elspeth Huxley or Isak Dinesen: "Through the night. There is no scenery, no villages, no people around fires, or elephants silhouetted against the sky. I could speak of such things, I was hoping to, but it would be a lie." Instead, we are presented with an array of stories and observations, often told in the voices of those Mendes interviewed during his 6,000-mile journey from Angola to Mozambique.
Although Mendes is journalist, he sustains a magic-realist tone throughout the book: "It was when the mine smashed into the road that Zeca realized he was dead." However, he punctuates his imagery-laden language and vignettes with chilling facts: "There are more than one hundred million mines buried in seventy countries, close to a tenth of them in Angola." The reader must tread uneven ground in the book. Mendes does not provide an easy-to-follow narrative. History mixes with the present, in this multi-voiced story of shifting alliances, unimaginable devastation and destruction. Mendes provides a glossary that supplies historical context for those who are not familiar with Angola's complex history. Considering the hardships that Mendes endured during the course of his trip, one wonders why he saw it through to the end. Then, one thinks of the long-suffering people of Angola to whom he gives voice and for whom these hardships are an everyday reality that will not soon disappear, and one understands why. --Silvana Tropea [via]
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Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queensby Antonia FraserISBN 0297794868 (0-297-79486-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Borderstrike!: South Africa into Angolaby Willem SteenkampISBN 0409100625 (0-409-10062-5)
Hardcover, Woburn, Mass
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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976by Piero GleijesesISBN 0807854646 (0-8078-5464-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affairby Matthew HartISBN 0452283701 (0-452-28370-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair'Book summary:"Diamonds are forever," goes the familiar refrain, and we take the truth of that statement for granted just as we take for granted the inherent value of the much sought-after object. That phrase, though, was actually coined in the 1950s by a copywriter named Frances Gerety working on an ad campaign for the biggest diamond company in the world. That's just one nugget of information contained in Diamond, Matthew Hart's exploration of diamonds and the industry that has grown up around them. The Toronto-based journalist journeys from the wilds of South American to the barren Arctic landscape of Canada, the jungles of South Africa, and the back streets of India. Stops along the way include geologists' digs, a jeweller's cutting room, dealers' backrooms, and the boardrooms of industry titan De Beers. Some of Diamond, like a chapter in which a group of small-scale miners unearth "a large pink" on the Rio Abaete in Brazil, reads like first-rate airport fiction. Or a passage in which a diamond-cutter goes to work on a 599-carat "top-white" discovered in South Africa: "Gabi Tolkowsky studied the Centenary diamond for a year, discovering the magnitude of the challenge. As he scrutinized the larger cracks with a microscope, he saw, at the deepest point of penetration, networks of much tinier cracks and... a bubble. It was these infinitesimal bubbles that frightened Tolkowsky most." By the time the cutter has finished his examination, made models, and decided on the shape the diamond should be, three years have gone by.
Not all of Diamond glitters--those whose eyes glaze over in the presence of too many numbers and dollar signs may find the backroom shenanigans a challenge, and one dig in particular in the Canadian wilderness seems to go on, well, forever. But the nuts and bolts of locating the mines, the actual cutting and shaping, the ultimate fate of the larger ones, methods of theft, and the creation of a demand for an essentially useless item ("Within three years of Gerety's late-night inspiration, 80 percent of American marriages were starting with a diamond ring") make Diamond a fascinating read for anyone with more than a passing curiosity about these bits of carbon that have become synonymous with both love and money. --Shawn Conner [via]
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From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold Warby Robert M. GatesISBN 1416543368 (1-4165-4336-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In Confidence : Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidentsby Anatoly Dobrynin, Lawrence MalkinISBN 0812923286 (0-8129-2328-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidentsby Anatoliy Fedorovich DobryninISBN 0295980818 (0-295-98081-8)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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In Search of Enemies: A CIA Storyby John StockwellISBN 0393009262 (0-393-00926-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story'Book summary:John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action."As a Marine, Stockwell was a CIA paramilitary intelligence case officer in three wars: the Congo Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Angolan War of Independence. His military rank is Major. Beginning his career in 1964, Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1970, before being transferred to Vietnam to oversee intelligence operations in the Tay Ninh province and was awarded the CIA Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until the last days of the fall of Saigon in 1975. In December 1976 he resigned from the CIA, citing deep concerns for the methods and results of CIA paramilitary operations in third world countries and testified before Congressional committees. Two years later, he wrote the exposé In Search of Enemies, about that experience and its broader implications. He claimed that the CIA was counterproductive to national security, and that its "secret wars" provided no benefit for the United States. The CIA, he stated, had singled out the MPLA to be an enemy in Angola despite the fact that the MPLA wanted relations with the United States and had not committed a single act of aggression against the United States. In 1978 he appeared on the popular American television program 60 Minutes, claiming that CIA Director William Colby and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had systematically lied to Congress about the CIA's operations. [via]
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War IIby William BlumISBN 1567512526 (1-56751-252-6)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast, thenceby David LivingstoneISBN 1589760700 (1-58976-070-0)
Softcover, Narrative Pr
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The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the Worldby Christopher M. Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0713999063 (0-7139-9906-3)
Softcover, Allen Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World'Book summary:In 1992, MI6 exfiltrated Vasili Mitrokhin, the most senior activist in the KGB, who had been responsible for running the KGB archives. He had noted thousands of documents, described by the FBI as the greatest single cache of intelligence ever received by the West.' This archive resulted in many prosecutions, some of which are still ongoing. After his defection, Mitrokhin teamed up with Christopher Andrew, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and the world's leading intelligence scholar. Their first volume, The KGB in Europe and the West, revealed the extent of KGB penetration of what they called The Main Adversary and the existence of a previously unknown nuclear spy, Melita Norwood. The second volume, The KGB and the World, continues the revelations from the sublime to the absurd - which Third World leaders were in the pay of the KGB, precisely how extensive KGB penetration of foreign governments was, and how KGB agents were instructed to assess the spread of the influence of rival Chinese communism (by going round African capitals trying to count the changing number of posters of Mao Tse-tung in shops and public buildings...) [via]
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Modern African Wars (2) : Angola and Mocambique 1961-74by Peter Abbott, M. R. Rodrigues, Ronald B. VolstadISBN 0850458439 (0-85045-843-9)
Softcover, Osprey Publishing, Limited
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Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matambaby Pat McKissackISBN 0439112109 (0-439-11210-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba'Book summary:In 1595, Nzingha is the strong, intelligent daughter of the Ngola (leader) of the Mbundu people of Ndongo (in modern-day Angola), loyal to her people and willing to fight for them. Unfortunately, because she is a girl, her brother is the favored child, in training to become the next Ngola, even though he is whiny, stupid, and slow (according to Nzingha). But Ajala, a respected seer, believes that Nzingha is destined to be the leader of Ndongo, and begins preparing her for this future. Nzingha's father fights to keep the Portuguese from taking over their homeland, yet it is Nzingha, ultimately, who acts as the go-between for her people and the Portuguese, negotiating acceptable relations in order to keep peace and power for the Mbundu.
Based on true historical events, places, people, and customs, this novel portrays the fascinating details of a remarkable young woman's strength and courage in defending her world against subterfuge, spies, and the onslaught of the Portuguese. Historical notes, photos, illustrations, maps, the Ngola family tree, and a glossary and pronunciation guide are included for a comprehensive understanding of a complex era. Patricia McKissack is the well-respected and award-winning author of over 100 children's books and historical novels, including the Newbery Honor book The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural and Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love (from the Dear America series). (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Operation Timber: Pages from the Savimbi Dossierby William MinterISBN 0865431043 (0-86543-104-3)
Softcover, Africa World Pr
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The Origins of the Angolan Civil War: Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflictby Fernando A. GuimaraesISBN 0312175124 (0-312-17512-4)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Origins of the Angolan Civil War : Foreing Intervention and Domestic Political Conflictby Fernando Andresen GuimaraesISBN 0333914805 (0-333-91480-5)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Persistence Of Memoryby Tony EprileISBN 0393327221 (0-393-32722-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 1417687703 (1-4176-8770-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Poisonwood Bible: ISBN 0060786507 (0-06-078650-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Poisonwood Bible: ISBN 0060175400 (0-06-017540-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel: ISBN 0060930535 (0-06-093053-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Poisonwood Bible: ISBN 0783884680 (0-7838-8468-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - Poisonwood Bible: ISBN 0606342397 (0-606-34239-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Poisonwood Bible: ISBN 0783884672 (0-7838-8467-2)
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- Poisonwood Bible: ISBN 1417618760 (1-4176-1876-0)
Portugal and Africaby David BirminghamISBN 0312223196 (0-312-22319-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Portugal's Revolution: Ten Years onby Michael W. Marshall, Hugo Gil FerreiraISBN 0521322049 (0-521-32204-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portugal's Revolution: Ten Years on'Book summary:This 1986 book was written to mark the first decade since a group of young Portuguese army officers ended fifty years of right-wing dictatorship, and is a major socio-political study of the fate of Portugal in the decade since the coup d'état. In over ninety hours of tape-recorded interviews, the authors have endeavoured to maintain their impartiality, and have conducted discussions with officers of both left and right involved in the shaping of Portugal's political evolution. Portugal's Revolution also describes life in the country during the fifty-year dictatorship and contains a wealth of factual material covering the period from the 1920s to the 1980s. It will be of interest to all those concerned with the pre- and post-revolutionary development of Portugal, in addition to scholars of Iberian and comparative politics. [via]
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Portugal's War in Angola, 1961-1974by W. S. Van der WaalsISBN 1874800510 (1-874800-51-0)
Hardcover, Ashanti Pub
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The Return of the Water Spiritby Angola PepetelaISBN 0435912100 (0-435-91210-0)
Softcover, Heinemann
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South of Nowhereby Antonio Lobo AntunesISBN 0394525744 (0-394-52574-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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War in Angolaby Al J. VenterISBN 9623610300 (962-361-030-0)
Hardcover, Concord Publications Co
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War in Angola: The Final South African Phaseby H.-R HeitmanISBN 0620143703 (0-620-14370-3)
Hardcover, Ashanti Pub
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The Warrior Queensby Antonia FraserISBN 0679728163 (0-679-72816-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Warrior Queens'Book summary:In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others. [via]
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World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third Worldby Christopher Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0465003133 (0-465-00313-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World'Book summary:In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source. Renowned historian Christopher Andrew had exclusive access to both Mitrokhin and his archive. In 1999, they published the explosive bestseller The Sword and the Shield, which provided a complete account of KGB operations in Europe and America. In The World Was Going Our Way, Andrew now chronicles the KGBs extensive penetration of governments throughout the Third World-the battlefield on which the U.S.S.R. sought to achieve global supremacy. Andrews definitive account fundamentally revises the history of the Cold War, and sheds new light on the state of the world today. The KGB worked tirelessly for decades to foster anti-Americanism in the developing world, making this book essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the intractable hostility America faces in the ongoing war on terror.[via]More editions of World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World:
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Years of Renewalby Henry KissingerISBN 0684855720 (0-684-85572-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Years of Renewal'Book summary:There is an old joke that Henry Kissinger is so full of himself he once wrote a book called Famous People Who Have Met Me. That strong sense of self is on full display in this third volume of memoirs (the other two are White House Years and Years of Upheaval). Kissinger, a national security advisor and secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, is a foreign-policy maestro fond of describing the difficult subtleties of his job. He is also, at times, generous with his praise--especially with this whopper: "I am certain the time will come when it is recognized that the Cold War could not have been won had not Gerald Ford, at a tragic point of America's history, been there to keep us from losing it." Years of Renewal begins during Nixon's final days, and provides a few key insights into the man Kissinger calls "perhaps [the] most complex President of the twentieth century." One eye opener is the revelation that Nixon ordered the bombing of the Damascus airport in 1969 during a hijacking incident "to impress his pals." (It was called off the next morning.) The bulk of the book (and bulk is the right word--there are nearly 1,100 pages of text before the footnotes) focuses on Ford, who comes across as much more statesmanlike than the popular image of him as a bungling caretaker. The portraits of contemporary world leaders are also valuable. Kissinger combines detail and clarity to deliver an important chronicle of American diplomacy during the 1970s. --John Miller [via]
Yes, Comrade!by Manuel Rui, Ronald W. SousaISBN 0816619662 (0-8166-1966-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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As Duas Faces Da Moeda: As Contribuicoes De JK E Gilberto Freyre Ao Colonialismo Portuguesby Waldir Jose RampinelliISBN 8532803032 (85-328-0303-2)
Hardcover, Editora da UFSC
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Baia Dos Tigresby Pedro Rosa MendesISBN 9722016644 (972-20-1664-4)
Hardcover, Publicacoes Dom Quixote
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Memoria Das Guerras Coloniaisby Joao Paulo GuerraISBN 9723603179 (972-36-0317-9)
Hardcover, Edicoes Afrontamento
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Na Diplomacia, O Traco Todo Da Vidaby Mario Gibson BarbozaISBN 8501040320 (85-01-04032-0)
Hardcover, Editora Record
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O Antigo Regime Nos Tropicos: A Dinamica Imperial Portuguesa, Seculos XVI-XVIIIby Joao Luis Ribeiro Fragoso, Maria Fernanda Bicalho, Maria de Fatima GouveaISBN 8520005640 (85-200-0564-0)
Hardcover, Civilizacao Brasileira
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LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara Kingsolver, Damian AlouISBN 8484530256 (84-8453-025-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Del Bronce
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase. [via]
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Secretos De Generales: Desclasificadoby Luis BaezISBN 9597054116 (959-7054-11-6)
Hardcover, Editorial Si-Mar
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