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""Sociedades Em Commandita Segundo O Codigo Commercial Do Imperio Do Brazil"" is a book written by Francisco Jose Da Rocha in 1884. The book is written in Portuguese and focuses on the legal concept of ""commandita"" partnerships in Brazil during the time of the Brazilian Empire. The author provides a comprehensive overview of the legal framework and regulations surrounding these types of partnerships, including their formation, management, and dissolution. The book is aimed at legal professionals, business owners, and anyone interested in understanding the intricacies of commercial law in Brazil during the 19th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A classic adventure book in the spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Heart of...

Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn't have much to go on. When the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed "witness"--the wife of a high-ranking government official--becomes obsessed with the case, and with Espinosa. Nothing is quite as it first appears as Espinosa finds himself in his old haunts of Leme and Copacabana, and in the all-too-familiar terrain of corruption, greed, and fear.

A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerChief of the Copacabana precinct Espinosa is more than happy to interrupt his paperwork when a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story. A psychic has predicted that he would commit a murder, it seems, and the prediction has become fact in the young man's mind. As the weather changes and the southwesterly wind-always a sign of dramatic change-starts up, what at first seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur, and their only link is the lonely, clever man who had sought Espinosa out a few days earlier for help.In Southwesterly Wind, the third in this atmospheric, erotic series featuring the inimitable Inspector Espinosa, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza once again "breathes fresh air into the crime novel genre." (Los Angeles Times)

A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerA retired policeman spends a typically alcohol-filled evening with his girlfriend, a prostitute. When he wakes up the next morning, his wallet and car key are missing, his girlfriend has been murdered, and he can remember none of the events of the previous night. Inspector Espinosa, veteran detective and friend of the ex-cop, is convinced there's more here than meets the eye, and when other bodies begin turning up, he finds himself not only racing after a killer but falling in love.

A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerIn a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive Ricardo Carvalho is found dead in his car, a bullet in his head, his wallet and briefcase missing. Inspector Espinosa is called in to investigate the apparent robbery and murder, but the world-weary Espinosa knows that things are not always as they seem. Carvalho's recently acquired one-million-dollar life insurance policy and the subsequent disappearance of his secretary Rose complicate matters-as does Espinosa's attraction to Carvalho's beautiful widow, one of the suspects. And when two more people turn up dead, Espinosa must speed up his investigation before anyone else becomes a casualty.

Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and has become widely recognized by dancers and martial artists. The author discusses capoeira's evolution from Brazilian street play into a way of life. The philosophy of capoeira, and the practical and spiritual benefits of this philosophy, are also discussed. Instructions and exercises in intermediate and advanced skills take up where the author's previous book left off. The book includes 100 black-and-white photos and illustrations.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux's train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp observations, Theroux goes out of his way to talk to as many locals as possible along the way.Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But, with Theroux, the view along the way is what matters: the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the celebrated writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

Flussdeltas kennen wir meist aus der Vogelperspektive: als faszinierende Luftbilder von verästelten Flussarmen oder als beunruhigende Landkarten, die vom Klimawandel bedrohte Landschaften zeigen. Dieser Bildband dreht die Perspektive um: Wir begegnen den Bewohner:innen von Deltas in Brasilien, Kanada, Myanmar und Senegal auf Augenhöhe. Wir erfahren von ihrem täglichen Leben, ihren Sorgen, Hoffnungen und den Herausforderungen, denen sie begegnen, sowie ihrem Erfindungsreichtum.Anhand zahlreicher Bilder und kurzer Texte wird gezeigt, dass das Leben dieser Menschen nicht nur von abstrakten Prozessen wie Klimawandel, Wirtschaftskrisen und Bevölkerungswachstum bestimmt ist. Vielmehr sind diese Prozesse Teil von anderen - und oft wichtigeren - Dynamiken in den Deltas. Basierend auf ihren ethnographischen Forschungen erzählen die Autor:innen, wie sich koloniale Schatten, unstetes Terrain und flexible Traditionen im Alltag der Menschen widerspiegeln. Das Buch gewährt Einblick in die verschiedenen - aber oft auch ganz ähnlichen - Formen von Zusammenleben in Flussdeltas.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Musicology - Ethnomusicology, grade: 1+, University of East London, language: English, abstract: Music brings people together, is spiritually uplifting and empowering. Among the 5000 languages that are spoken on planet earth, music is the only one that everyone understands.Despite its very rich music culture, Brazil¿s inequality remains one of the highest in the world and poverty levels in the Northeast are the highest in all of Latin America. This work suggests that the overall wellbeing and social development of northeastern Brazils poor population can be forged through improving investment and infrastructure of the cultural sector. Establishing a greater network of music schools and increasing access to ICT centers can fuel social change and transform poor people¿s lives.The project¿s main objectives will be to analyze the youth¿s present access to IT, which can be linked to music production skills and facilities, contact to independent labels, online networks and the creation of a fan and financial support base. This paper suggests that the Brazilian government underestimates young musicians and denies that they are a potential motor of increasing chances for socio-economic development in the Northeast of Brazil. A critical aspect of this work is the supposition that the government does not sufficiently address their services to the local needs of the poor.The first section of this paper introduces the reader to the major facts and figures on Brazil. The second section presents Brazilian music, in particular the music scene from the Northeast. Moreover the impacts that the process of globalization has on music are examined aiming to understand the present shift cultural industries are undergoing.The third section introduces latest trends in technology, particularly highlighting the importance of the Internet for sustainable development. A good ICT infrastructure has proven to play a crucial role for developing and emerging countries¿ development endeavors, thus this section places Brazil¿s fairly unevenly distributed national ICT network and unsatisfying access to computers into spotlight.Finally, the fourth section presents four role models for successful implementations of social and digital inclusion projects by the means of music and technology from Recife, Caracas and Rio de Janeiro. These case studies highlight the impact music and technology can have on the livelihood of the poor, outlining the capability of transforming the lives of thousands of individuals, their families and their communities in developing/emerging countries.

Paulo Coelho's essential collection in one sleek boxed set. Includes six classic books: The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, Warrior of the Light, The Valkyries,Veronika Decides to Die, and Eleven Minutes.

Manual del Guerrero de la Luz es el nuevo libro de inspiración del autor de El Alquimista, el bestseller internacional que ha fascinado a millones de lectores en el mundo entero.Cada breve pasaje nos invita a vivir nuestros sueños, aceptar la incertidumbre de la vida y a alzarnos ante nuestro propio destino. Con su inconfundible estilo, Paulo Coelho nos ayuda a descubrir el guerrero de la luz que se encuentra en cada uno de nosotros. En inspiradores textos breves, invita al lector a seguir el camino del guerrero; el camino de aquel que sabe valorar el milagro de la vida, aceptar la derrota y cuya búsqueda lo lleva a convertirse en quién quiere ser.Paulo Coelho es uno de los escritores más apreciados de nuestra época. Ahora, en el muy esperado Manual del Guerrero de la Luz, nos presenta una colección de pensamientos filosóficos e historias que fascinarán a sus lectores del mundo entero.

A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil?In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living.The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.

"Stor prosa" Berlingske"Ustyrlig og gudsbenådet læsning" Kulturen.nu"I særklasse" Ks Bognoter"Galdens bæger et et stykke glødende kul ... presser mere saft og kraft ind på sine 94 sider end de fleste gør på fem eller ti gange så mange" The GuardianRaduan Nassar (f. 1935 i Pinadorma, São Paulo, af libanesiske emigranter) er en af Brasiliens allerhøjst respekterede forfattere, trods det at han kun har skrevet to romaner, Arkaisk jordbrug (1975) og Galdens bæger (1978). I 1984 lagde Raduan Nassar litteraturen på hylden for helt at hellige sig landbruget og i 2011 forærede han sin jord til São Carlos’ universitet med den klausul, at den skulle bruges til campus for studerende fra landområderne.I Galdens bæger får en misantropisk mand bosat på et afsidesliggende landsted i Brasilien besøg af sin kæreste, en yngre journalist. De krøller lagner, bader og betragter haven træde frem af disen. Alt imens et eksplosivt skænderi af nærmest rituelle proportioner trækker op.

Peter trådte ind i hulen. Han havde faklen i hånden. Der var som i et feslot. Krystaller lyste. Drypsten lignede trolde. Så kikkede han ned. Han stod på et tykt lag af knogler og kranier.Peter Wilhelm Lund var videnskabsmand. En af 1800-tallets berømte. Han udforskede skjulte huler i Brasilien. Han ville kende jordens historie. Havde hele verden været oversvømmet? Var alt liv blevet udslettet? Og havde livet måttet starte på ny?Han ledte blandt millioner af forstenede knogler. Og han fandt nogle overraskende svar.Bibliotekerne (DBC) skriver: "En fin og velskrevet bog, som levendegør historien. Det er en god idé at fortælle om de knap så kendte danskere i lettere fagbøger, som ligner skønlitterære fortællinger. Historien vil fange de nysgerrige børn, som kan lide de virkelighedsnære bøger."

This study sheds new light on the Brazilian communist movement and how the specter of the USSR influenced mid-twentieth century Brazilian foreign policy. Between 1918 and 1961, Brazil and the USSR maintained formal diplomatic ties for only thirty-one months, at the end of World War II. Yet, despite the official distance, the USSR is the only external actor whose behavior, real or imagined, influenced the structure of the Brazilian state in the twentieth century. In Brazil and the Soviet Challenge, 19171947, Stanley Hilton examines Brazilian policy toward the Soviet Union during this period. Drawing on American, British, and German diplomatic archives and unprecedented access to official and private Brazilian records, Hilton elucidates the connection between the Brazilian elite's perception of a communist threat and the creation of the authoritarian Estado Novo (19371945), the forerunner of the post-1964 national security state. Hilton shows how the 1935 communist revolt generated irresistible pressure for an authoritarian government to contain the Soviet threat; details the Brazilian government's secret cooperation with the Gestapo during the 1930s and its concomitant efforts to forge an anti-Soviet front in the Southern Cone; and uncovers Brazil's attempt to build counterintelligence capabilities in neighboring countries.

I Kannibalens lov følger vi en ung dansker, som efter sine forældres død beslutter sig for at rejse til Brasilien. Hans fars ungdomsven, forretningsmanden Viktor Holbrandt, er blevet en indflydelsesrig og magtfuld spiller i det brasilianske samfund, og fortælleren søger tjeneste i hans virksomhed SPARTA. Gradvis kommer fortælleren dybere og dybere ind bag facaden på militærdiktaturet, og da det endelig går op for ham, hvem det er, han selv arbejder for, må han træffe et skæbnesvangert valg.

Macunaíma hedder helten, der i denne fabulerende røverhistorie af en roman, drager Brasilien rundt i jagten på et vigtigt mirakelmiddel."Macunaíma" er en roman om brasiliansk identitet og en på en gang kærlig og kritisk beskrivelse af brasilianernes overtro, letfærdighed, erotik og kynisme.Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) er en af Brasiliens største digtere. Hans bog "Paulistiansk delirium" fra 1922 anses som startskuddet til den moderne brasilianske poesi, og hans værker har haft enorm indflydelse på brasiliansk litteratur. Udover at være digter var Mário de Andrade musikolog, fotograf, forfatter samt kunsthistoriker og –kritiker.

';Parker has used recently declassified American materials and interviews... to reconstruct the steps that led to the creation of Operation Brother Sam.' The American Historical Review When the Brazilian military overthrew President Joo Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a ';100 percent Brazilian movement.' It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United States had an invisible but pervasive part in the coup. Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and Kennedy presidential libraries, Phyllis Parker unravels the events of the coup in fascinating detail. The evidence she presents is corroborated by interviews with key participants. US interference in the Goulart regime began when normal diplomatic pressure failed to produce the desired enthusiasm from him for the Alliance of Progress. Political and economic manipulations also proving ineffective, the United States stood ready to back a military takeover of Brazil's constitutional democracy. US operation ';Brother Sam' involved shipments of petroleum, a naval task force, and tons of arms and ammunition in preparation for intervention during the 1964 coup. When the Brazilian military gained control without calling on the ready assistance, U.S. policy makers immediately accorded recognition to the new government and set in motion plans for economic support.

Examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry during a period of national regeneration, demonstrating how sociopolitical negotiations can shape psychiatric professionalizationReasoning against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944 examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry, looking at how its practitioners fashioned themselves as the key architects in the project ofnational regeneration. The book's narrative involves a cast of varied characters in an unstable context: psychiatrists, Catholic representatives, spiritist leaders, state officials, and the mentally ill, all caught in the shiftinglandscape of modern state formation. Manuella Meyer investigates the key junctures at which psychiatrists sought to establish their authority and the ways in which their adversaries challenged this authority. These moments serve as productive points from which to explore the moral and political economies of mental health, demonstrating how sociopolitical negotiations shape psychiatric professionalization. Meyer argues that the gradual adoptionof punitive configurations of insanity helped sanction socioeconomic and political inequalities during a time of rapid socioeconomic, political, and cultural transformation. Manuella Meyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond.

A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant. The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy. Frederick Rauscher isassociate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil.

Den unge dansker Frederik Jersild er mellem jobs. Da en gammel ven forærer ham en ferierejse til Rio de Janeiro, slår han til. Første aften i Rio bliver han overfaldet. Historien gentager sig dagen efter. Jersild er bekymret. Han tør ikke længere udelukke, at han bliver forfulgt. Dette er den første bog i serien om ulykkesfuglen Frederik Jersild. "Falddato" er den anden, serien vil blive fortsat i 2020. Endvidere "gæsteoptræder" Jersild i Thieles serie om detektiven Frants Hjejle, nemlig i "Blackjack" og i "Jeg testamenterer". Bøgerne kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden. Jan Thiele, dansk forfatter, født 1957. Har udover bøgerne i Jersild-serien og Hjejle-serien udgivet romanen "Luftindånderne".

Fattigdom sætter altid spor. Hos Zé er det øjnene. Han er en dygtig politimand, smuk som en gud, men født af fattige forældre. Bag sine Ray Ban-solbriller, som han bærer døgnet rundt, skjuler Zé et blik, der vidner om fattigdom og elendighed. I et Brasilien, hvor de sociale og etniske fordomme stadig er fremherskende, vil alting altid være sværere for ham. Hver eneste dag må han bevise, at han er den bedste, for ingen giver en politimand fra favelaen en chance. Som ny tilflytter i Brasilia, en surrealistisk by midt på en gold højslette, bevæger han sig ud i minefyldt terræn allerede i sin første efterforskning. Liget af en prostitueret kvinde bliver fundet på et bordel i udkanten af byen. Både hans overordnede, en uhæderlig politimand med kropsbygning som en okse, og retsmedicineren fastholder, at pigen er død af en overdosis. Men liget bærer tegn på mishandling, vidneudsagnene stemmer ikke overens, og en mystisk limousine er blevet set køre væk fra gerningsstedet, så Zé nægter at skrinlægge sagen. Hans eneste hjælp kommer fra vidnet Carmelita, rengøringskonen fra bordellet. Hun er en kvinde, der ligesom Zé bærer sporene fra et liv i rendestenen på sin sublime krop. Zé er det første bind i trilogien Stenbukkens blod. Med sin lidenskabelighed, voldsomhed og hallucinatoriske realisme løftede den Bernard Mathieu op blandt de allerstørste franske krimiforfattere.

Jeg læser om lande er en serie bøger til selvstændig faglig læsning for 2. til 5. klasse. Velegnet til læsekurser og supplerende læsning ved klassearbejde med geografiske emner. Bøgerne indeholder enkle og overskuelige informationer om landet som geografi, biologi, historie, hverdag og traditioner.