Books on Brazil
Below is a general bibliography on Brazil. Click on the subject headings on the left to see a list of titles:

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0714842923 ANDREOLI, Elisabetta
Brazil's Modern Architecture
Phaidon Press
2004

0415231787 DECKKER, Zilah
Brazil Built
Spon Press
2000

2843233445 SALVAING, Matthieu
Oscar Niemeyer
Editions Assouline
2002

0500512868 SILVA, Roberto
New Brazilian Gardens: The Legacy of Burle Marx
Thames & Hudson
2006

0847827984 WEINTRAUB, Alan
Oscar Niemeyer Houses
Rizzoli International Publications
2006
3866090021 BERNDTSON
Brasil Map
Berndtson & Berndtson
2005

1588341356 GOULDING, M
The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon
Smithsonian Books
2003

0843719508 HAMMOND
Country Maps: Brazil
Hammond Incorporated
2005

1845370678 TINGAY, Paul
Rio de Janeiro Globetrotter Travel Map
Globetrotter
2006

9895560591 TURINTA
Brazil World Series Road Map
Turismo Internacional - Turinta
2008
0810841495 APPLEBY, David
Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Life (1887-1959)
Scarecrow Press
2002

0007114370 ARIAS, Juan
Paulo Coelho: Confessions of a Pilgrim
Harper Collins
2001

1586483242 CARDOSO, Fernando Henrique
The Accidental President of Brazil
Public Affairs
2006

0935028706 DA SILVA, Benedita
Benedita Da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian Woman's Story of Politics and Love
Institute for Food and Development Policy
1997

1844250962 HILTON, Christopher
Ayrton Senna: The Whole Story
Haynes Group
2004

038560520X WHITAKER, Robert
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
Doubleday
2004
0719064996 DENNISON, Stephanie
Popular Cinema in Brazil
Manchester University Press
2004

0292725108 FOSTER, David William
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
University of Texas Press
1999

0231102674 JOHNSON, Randall
Brazilian Cinema
Columbia University Press
1995

1845114485 NAGIB, Lúcia
Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema and Utopia
Tauris
2007

1860649289 NAGIB, Lúcia
The New Brazilian Cinema
Tauris
2003

0826414850 SHAW, Deborah
Contemporary Cinema of Latin America
Continuum International Publishing
2003

0822320487 STAM, Robert
Tropical Multiculturalism: Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema
Duke University Press
1997
022404074X CAMPBELL, David
A Land of Ghosts
Jonathan Cape
2004

1851494545 MEE, Margaret
Margaret Mee's Amazon: The Diaries of an Artist Explorer
Antique Collectors' Club Ltd
2004

0231120427 OLIVEIRA, Paulo
The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savannah
Columbia University Press
2002

0125480520 PEARSON, David
Brazil: Amazon and Pantanal (Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guides)
Academic Press Inc
2001

1559630892 REVKIN, Andrew
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
Shearwater Books
2004

0520226429 SLATER, Candace
Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
University of California Press
2003

081302465X WOOD, Charles
Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon
University Press of Florida
2002
0553374400 AMADO, Jorge
The War of the Saints
Dial Press Trade Paperback
1995

0299186547 AMADO, Jorge
Tieta
University of Wisconsin Press
2003

0802117821 BUARQUE, Chico
Budapest
Bloomsbury
2004

0007166028 COELHO, Paulo
Eleven Minutes
Thorsons
2004

0747588023 HATOUM, Milton
Ashes of the Amazon
Bloomsbury Publishing
2008

0747594619 MACHADO DE ASSIS, Joaquim Maria
A Chapter of Hats and Other Stories
Bloomsbury Publishing
2008

0195101707 MACHADO DE ASSIS, Joaquim Maria
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Oxford University Press
1999
1840924896 BARBOZA PINTO, Carla
Brazilian Cooking: Exotic, Tropical Recipes from South America
Apple Press
2004

0822541114 BEHNKE, Alison
Cooking the Brazilian Way
Lerner Pub Co
2004

0781810809 HAMILTON, Cherie
Brazil: A Culinary Journey
Hippocrene Books Inc
2005

0517595559 IDONE, Christopher
Brazil: A Cook's Tour
Clarkson Potter
1995
0521694108 BERGAD, Laird
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
Cambridge University Press
2007

0521368375 BETHELL, Leslie
Brazil: Empire and Republic (1822-1930)
Cambridge University Press
1989

0521349257 BETHELL, Leslie
Colonial Brazil
Cambridge University Press
1987

0813511550 DE QUEIRÓS, Kátia
To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888
Rutgers University Press
1987

052156526X FAUSTO, Boris
A Concise History of Brazil
Cambridge University Press
1999

0954407032 GUENTHER, Louise
British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies
2004

0747556725 WILCKEN, Patrick
Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro (1808-21)
Bloomsbury
2004
1864503807 BALLA, Mark
Brazilian Portuguese (Lonely Planet Phrasebook)
Lonely Planet Publications
2003

0471787388 KELLER, Karen
Portuguese for Dummies
Hungry Minds Inc
2006

0812090349 NITTI, John
501 Portuguese Verbs
Barron's Educational Series
1995

B00006L4H6 LINGUAPHONE
Linguaphone In Action Brazilian Portuguese
Linguaphone CD-ROM
2002

0340860340 TYSON-WARD, Sue
Teach Yourself Brazilian Portuguese
Teach Yourself Publisher
2003
0954407016 BETHELL, Leslie
Brazil by British and Irish Authors
Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies
2003

0954407059 DAVID JACKSON, K
Haroldo De Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet
Centre for Brazilian Studies
2005

0521410355 GONZALEZ ECHEVERRIA, Roberto (Editor)
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature: Volume 3, Brazilian Literature
Cambridge University Press
1996

0313278032 MARTING, Diane
Clarice Lispector: A Bio-bibliography
Greenwood Press
1993
1556524943 CASTRO, Ruy
Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World
A Cappella Books
2003

1576072878 CROOK, Larry
Brazilian Music: Northeastern Traditions and the Heartbeat of a Modern Nation
ABC-CLIO
2005

1566395453 McGOWAN, Chris
The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil
Temple University Press
1998

0813018218 PERRONE, Charles (Editor)
Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization
University Press of Florida
2001

0747568014 VELOSO, Caetano
Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
Bloomsbury
2003

0253344751 VERHAALEN, Marion
Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian Composer
Indiana University Press
2005

0807847666 VIANNA, Hermano
The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
University of North Carolina Press
1999
1565848667 BRANFORD, Sue
Lula and the Workers' Party in Brazil
New Press
2003

1848130112 BOURNE, Richard
Lula of Brazil: The Story so far
Zed Books Ltd
2008

military HUNTER, Wendy
Eroding Military Influence in Brazil: Politicians against Soldiers
University of North Carolina Press
1997

0822960044 KINGSTONE, Peter & POWER, Timothy (Editors)
Democratic Brazil Revisited
University of Pittsburgh Press
2008

0745633617 MONTERO, Alfred
Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World
Polity Press
2006

0747573166 ROBB, Peter
A Death in Brazil
Picador
2005

0195058100 SKIDMORE, Thomas
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
Oxford University Press
1999

1859846890 WAINWRIGHT, Hilary
Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy
Verso Books
2003
0801886244 BASTIDE, Roger
The African Religions of Brazil
John Hopkins University Press
2007

0415912601 BURDICK, John
Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Christianity in Brazil
Routledge
2007

0754615502 BURDICK, John
Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil
Ashgate
2004

8585853018 DO NASCIMENTO, Abdias
Orishas: Living Gods of Africa in Brazil
Temple University Press
1997

0847688526 GREENFIELD, Sidney (Editor)
Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
2000
1906165041 BURKE, Peter & PALLARES-BURKE, Maria Lucia
Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics
Peter Lang Ltd
2008

159213338X GAY, Robert
Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman
Temple University Press
2005

0520235975 GOLDSTEIN, Donna
Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
University of California Press
2003

1899365397 LEVINE, Robert (Editor)
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Latin America Bureau
1999

0520075374 SCHEPER-HUGHES, Nancy
Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
University of California Press
1993

0807853593 SMALLMAN, Shawn
Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954
University of North Carolina Press
2002
0897335309 CHENEY, Glenn
Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil
Chicago Publishers
2004

1843536595 CLEARY, David & JENKINS, Dilwyn
The Rough Guide to Brazil
Rough Guides
2006

0684834960 DAVIS, Wade
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Simon & Schuster
1997

1841576840 EGGINTON, Jane & MACINTYRE, Iain
Brazil Travellers
Thomas Cook Publishing
2007

1840243503 MALATHRONAS, John
Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul
Summersdale Publishers
2003

1741040213 ST LOUIS, Regis
Lonely Planet Country Guide: Brazil
Lonely Planet Publications
2008

1740599101 ST LOUIS, Regis
Lonely Planet City Guide: Rio de Janeiro
Lonely Planet Publications
2006