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The Dragon Hunter and the Mage
Magic will make you invincible. If it doesn't kill you first. In a world where magic is punishable by death, brothers Aric and Fadan stumble upon a mysterious, ancient book - A Manual of Magic. They are faced with a choice: take the book straight to the Emperor or see if one of them has the forbidden magical Talent. A decision that will change their lives, and the Empire itself, forever. The brothers are swept away, sent to opposite ends of the world, one to train as a Dragon Hunter while the other taps into magical powers that could spell his execution. Dark forces are moving in the shadows, and while the nobility whispers of rebellion, an ancient evil, long thought gone, is about to awaken. Can Aric and Fadan save the Empire? Will they survive to ever see each other again?
E a vida continua
O livro é uma iniciativa da Regional 1 (R1) da Associação Brasileira de Ensino de Biologia. A obra reúne 54 trabalhos apresentados durante o V Encontro Regional de Ensino de Biologia da R1 (MT, MS e SP). Os textos refletem uma diversidade de abordagens e um constante fortalecimento do Ensino de Ciências e Biologia em nosso país.
Brazil
Shadows on Development: Inflation, the Public Sector, and Paying the Bills -- External Factors: Debt, Balance of Payments, Investment, and Trade -- 7 SOCIETY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- Workforce, Income Distribution, and Social Mobility -- Social Conditions and Problems -- Education -- Racial Factors and Race Relations -- Religion -- 8 CULTURE AND BRAZILIAN WAYS -- Cultural Traits and the Media -- The Written Word -- Music and Theater -- Cinema and Electronic Media -- Art and Architecture -- 9 BRAZIL IN THE WORLD -- From Object to Actor -- The Once-Special U.S.-Brazilian Relationship -- Brazil's Neighbors Become More Special -- Worldview and Foreign Policy Making -- Notes -- About the Book and Author -- Index
The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan
In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.
Eroding Military Influence in Brazil
Wendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. She documents a marked, and surprising, decline in the political power of the armed forces, even as they have remained involved in national policy making. To account for the success of civilian politicians, Hunter invokes rational-choice theory in arguing that politicians will contest even powerful forces in order to gain widespread electoral support. Many observers expected Brazil's fledgling democracy to remain under the firm direction of the military, which had tightly controlled the transition from authoritarian to civilian rule. Hunter carefully refutes this conventional wisdom by demonstrating the ability of even a weak democratic regime to expand its autonomy relative to a once-powerful military, thanks to the electoral incentives that motivate civilian politicians. Based on interviews with key participants and on extensive archival research, Hunter's analysis of developments in Brazil suggests a more optimistic view of the future of civilian democratic rule in Latin America.
Charting a New Course
For decades F. H. Cardoso has been among the most influential of Latin American scholars, his writings on globalization, dependency, and politics having reached a world-wide audience. This book, the third by Cardoso to appear in English, is the first to incorporate essays written during his tenure as president of Brazil. The transformation of Cardoso's economic and political approach is nowhere better documented than in this broad-ranging collection of writings that span Cardoso's early theoretical work through his pragmatic agenda for Brazil in a rapidly changing world economy. The book also traces the development of one of the world's leading intellectuals, who took theory into the arena of policy when he became head of state.
Brazil in Transition
Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular country has successfully progressed up the economic development ladder. The authors examine the roles of beliefs, leadership, and institutions in the elusive, critical transition to sustainable development. Analyzing the last fifty years of Brazil's history, the authors explain how the nation's beliefs, ...
Grandes Temas do Direito Brasileiro
Prefaciar o primeiro volume da coleção Grandes Temas do Direito Brasileiro, cujo tema central – Compliance – trata da mudança na forma de conduzir empresas e se fazer negócios, é uma grande satisfação. Ainda mais por ser uma obra criada pela somatória de artigos de cinco alunos do Insper/SP, escola que exige uma abordagem que traga resultados e não meras teorias descoladas da realidade. E tal característica é muito clara em todos os artigos, uma vez que os autores possuem como característica base a vivência sobre as matérias que tratam, trazendo ao leitor percepções e questionamentos para aqueles que de fato preveniram, detectaram e reagiram a problemas corporativos.
