Tag: Brazil

Free Download Werner Baer Joseph L. Love, "Brazil under Lula: Economy, Politics, and Society under the Worker-President"
English | 2009 | pages: 343 | ISBN: 0230608167 | PDF | 2,6 mb
This collection assesses the performance of Brazil’s Lula da Silva, the only working-class president in Latin American history, in his first term. The contributing scholars deal with Lula’s style of governance; the type of economic and social policies he adopted, in both their positive and negative aspects; the impact on regional inequalities; the administration’s treatment of agriculture and the environment; the nature of Lula’s foreign policy; and the Lula government’s place in the country’s long-term development. This volume is composed of renowned economists and regional scientists, as well as political scientists and historians.

Free Download Herbert S. Klein, "Brazil since 1980"
English | 2006 | pages: 283 | ISBN: 0521820448 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a modern low fertility and mortality one, the economy approached hyper inflation many times, and it abandoned a policy of protected industrialization to an economy opened to world trade. The advances and the failures of these changes are examined for the impact on questions of growth and equality. The book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development in any language.

Free Download Daniela de Carvalho, "Migrants and Identity in Japan and Brazil: The Nikkeijin"
English | 2002 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 0700717056 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the 20th century caused many Japanese to emigrate to Brazil. The situation was reversed in the 1980s as a result of economic downturn in Brazil and labour shortages in Japan. This book examines the construction and reconstruction of the ethnic identities of people of Japanese descent, firstly in the process of emigration to Brazil up to the 1980s, and secondly in the process of return migration to Japan in the 1990s.

Free Download Marco Vieira, Jonathan Grix, "Challenges to Emerging and Established Powers: Brazil, the United Kingdom and Global Order"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138391956 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 0.6 mb
This edited volume explores the analytical possibilities of contrasting Brazil and the United Kingdom as examples of emerging and established powers, respectively. It is organised around several themes focusing on the roles of Brazil and the United Kingdom in the management of global economic governance, international development, international security, the politics of regional integration, global climate change governance, and the political leveraging of sports mega-events. Each chapter explores Brazil’s and/or the UK’s particular foreign policies and their resulting impact on these key areas of global governance and politics. The conceptual focus is on these states’ motivations as either status-seekers (Brazil) or status-maintainers (UK) in the context of a fast moving international landscape. The chapters in this book directly or indirectly indicate that these states wish to draw attention to their aspiring or established positions as key global players through either visible foreign policy action and/or symbolic rhetoric. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Society.

Free Download John Malathronas, "Brazil : Life, Blood, Soul"
English | 2003 | pages: 544 | ISBN: 1840243503 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Brazil is an eclectic nation that evokes images of vibrant carnivals, crowded shanty towns and football on the beach. Shaped by its many cultures, the Portugese, African, Native Indian and European communities have ensured the evolution of a colourful, diverse population. John Malathronas fell prey to Brazil’s seductive allure in the early 1980s, a fascination that continues to this day. His odyssey through the adrenaline-fuelled, chaotic city bars, the extravagant carnival, the lush rainforest and the destitute shanty towns reveals the throbbing heartbeat of the country.

Free Download Destructive Production, Agroecology and Schools of Agroecology in Brazil
by Henrique Tahan Novaes, João Henrique Souza Pires
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004706429 | 264 Pages | True PDF | 23 MB

Free Download Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right
by Georg Wink
English | 2021 | ISBN: 6079934817 | 327 Pages | True PDF | 4 MB

Free Download Julian M. Chacel, "Brazil’s Economic and Political Future"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367156202, 0813302684 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.7 mb
The 1985 elections in Brazil returned South America’s largest country to democratic rule after two decades of military government. But the Sarney administration faces substantial economic and political challenges: over a 250 percent annual inflation rate, a foreign debt of more than $115 billion, and over a 20 percent unemployment rate. This collec

Free Download Pedometrics in Brazil by Waldir de Carvalho Junior, Helena Saraiva Koenow Pinheiro, Marcos Bacis Ceddia, Gustavo Souza Valladares
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 291 Pages | ISBN : 3031645782 | 130.5 MB
In a world expected to reach a population of almost 10 billion inhabitants by 2050 and facing rapid global warming, it is essential to develop studies to better characterize and preserve the existing environmental heritage. Among these assets, soil stands out, which is fundamental for the balance of life on the planet (air quality and composition, temperature regulation, carbon and nutrient cycling, water cycling and quality, natural "waste" (decomposition) treatment and recycling, and habitat for most living things and their food). Due its importance, Soil information is increasing recently in order to attend human demands for land use management and capability, reduce erosion risks and soil security, for example. Particularly in Brazil, advances in soil science are now required to attend the new national systematic soil survey that have as a goal soil sustainability and security. Gathering machine learning tools, pedometrics and pedological concepts is a way to achieve these demands regarding soil data and related products. This book summarizes remarkable insights from the II Pedometrics Brazil Conference providing cutting-edge information to researchers, students and professionals working with soils in tropical countries such as Brazil.

Free Download Mónica Amor, "Theories of the Nonobject: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, 1944-1969"
English | ISBN: 0520286626 | 2016 | 344 pages | PDF | 73 MB
Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. Mónica Amor, a native of Venezuela, presents case studies of specific movements, artists, and critics, tracing their role in the significant reconceptualization of the artwork that Brazilian critic and poet Ferreira Gullar heralded in "Theory of the Nonobject," a seminal essay published in 1959 in the Suplemento Dominical do Jornal do Brasil. Based on deep archival research, this distinctive book brings scholarly attention to a group of major art figures, including Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Gego, whose work proposed engaged forms of spectatorship that dismissed medium-based understandings of art. Exploring the philosophical, economic, and political underpinnings of geometric abstraction in post-World War II South America, Amor highlights the overlapping inquiries of artists and critics who, working on the periphery of European and US modernism, contributed to a sophisticated conversation about the nature of the art object.