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The Saga of a Shy Fellow

By: Ruy Miranda

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Joman, the shy fellow, is both a victim and beneficiary of life's circumstances. The reasons for his becoming a painfully shy child begin even before he is born. The overindulgent tolerance of his father, a Portuguese immigrant, and the excessive repression of his mother, a Brazilian, create an ambiguous family environment that represses the child's outgoing nature. As a result of his crippling shyness, he experiences a great deal of suffering throughout his childhood, adolescence, and into early adulthood. After getting involved in the diamond business, Joman manages to achieve a relative stability in his own family life. However, the sudden appearance of a life-threatening disease threatens to cut him down in his prime. In his last year of life, he finally decides to overcome his shyness and savor the taste of real freedom. Opening himself up to life, he braves numerous challenges, has several close brushes with death, and even enjoys a few serendipitous moments, such as the discovery of a 59- carats diamond at a prospecting site. Other unexpected events give Joman's life a completely new sense of direction and contribute to a profound personal transformation.

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Virtualbookworm Publishing

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1589396855

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9781589396852

Bossa Nova

The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World

By: Ruy Castro

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Bossa Nova

The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World

By: Ruy Castro

Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), “The Waters of March,” and “Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova—a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de Saudade—is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jo+o Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro’s wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto’s singular vision into the sound of a generation.

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399

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Chicago Review Press

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1613745745

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9781613745748

The Dialectics of Dependency

By: Ruy Mauro Marini

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The Dialectics of Dependency

By: Ruy Mauro Marini

A foundational essay of class struggle published in English for the first time Considered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought, Ruy Mauro Marini demonstrated that underdevelopment and development are the result of relations between economies in the world market, and the class relations they engender. In The Dialectics of Dependency, the Brazilian sociologist and revolutionary showed that, as Latin America came to specialize in the production of raw materials and foodstuffs while importing manufactured goods, a process of unequal exchange took shape that created a transfer of value to the imperialist centers. This encouraged capitalists in the periphery to resort to the superexploitation of workers – harsh working conditions where wages fall below what is needed to reproduce their labor power. In this way, the economies of Latin America, which played a fundamental role in facilitating a new phase of the industrial revolution in western Europe, passed from the colonial condition only to be rendered economically “dependent,” or subordinated to imperialist economies. This unbalanced relationship, which nonetheless allows capitalists of both imperialist and dependent regions to profit, has been reproduced in successive international divisions of labor of world economy, and continues to inform the day-to-day life of Latin American workers and their struggles. Written during an upsurge of class struggle in the region in the 1970s, and published here in English for the first time, the revelations inscribed in this foundational essay are proving more relevant than ever. The Dialectics of Dependency is an internationalist contribution from one Latin American Marxist to dispossessed and oppressed people struggling the world over, and a gift to those who struggle from within the recesses of present-day imperialist centers—nourishing today’s efforts to think through the definition of “revolution” on a global scale.

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117

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NYU Press

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1583679847

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9781583679845

Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada

By: Ruy Freyre de Andrada

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Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada

By: Ruy Freyre de Andrada

Copies of the original are very rare yet the work covers an historically significant period, describing the operations leading up to the capture from the Portuguese of Ormuz, in the Persian Gulf, by an Anglo-Persian force.

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416

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Psychology Press

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0415344697

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9780415344692

Rio de Janeiro

A City on Fire

By: Ruy Castro

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Rio de Janeiro

A City on Fire

By: Ruy Castro

Ruy Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air - the feeling of a city on fire. In this spellbinding fifth entry in Bloomsbury's The Writer and the City series, Rio de Janeiro's vibrant history unfolds. While stiff-collared poets flirted with prim young ladies in coffeehouses during the belle époque, revolts were being plotted that almost destroyed the city. We learn how the iconic wave-patterned mosaics of Copacabana pavements were baptized with blood, and how more than a hundred years before the girl from Ipanema passed by, the girls from Ouvidor Street adopted French chic - and never really gave it up. From what is arguably the most breathtakingly beautiful city in the world, the people of Rio - the Cariocas - tell their stories: of cannibals charming European intellectuals; of elegant slaves and their shabby masters; of how a casual chat between two people drinking coffee on Avenida Rio Branco could affect world coffee markets; of an awe-inspiring beach life; of favelas, drugs, police, carnival, football, and music. With his own Carioca good humor and great storytelling gifts, Ruy Castro brings the reader thrillingly close to the flames.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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159691985X

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9781596919853

Bible Quote in Crystal Land

By: Ruy Miranda

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Bible Quote in Crystal Land

By: Ruy Miranda

In the midst of a fascinating plot-involving crystal mines, hope, passion, ambition, and pain-lie exciting parallels between Biblical passages and science. A young woman is guided to an exotic region of Brazil and receives these revelations from a mysterious source.

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252

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Aeon Pub Incorporated

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159526504X

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9781595265043

Garrincha

The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil's Forgotten Footballing Hero

By: Ruy Castro

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Garrincha

The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil's Forgotten Footballing Hero

By: Ruy Castro

Garrincha was the unlikeliest of footballers - with a ruight leg that turned inwards and a left that turned out, he looked as if he could barely walk, but with a ball at his feet he had the poise of an angel. He played for the loove of the game, uninterested in money, and ignoring tactical advice. And he was as wild off the pitch as he was mesmerizing on it - mischievous, audacious and dripping with sex appeal. It was his affair and subsequent marriage to the singer Elza Soares that caught the imagination of a nation and samba made them the toast of 1960s Rio. But by the age of forty-nine, Garrincha was dead, destropyed by the excessesn that made him so compelling."--Back cover.

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Random House

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0224092197

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9780224092197

Book's by Ruy Miranda

The Saga of a Shy Fellow

The Saga of a Shy Fellow

Bossa Nova

Bossa Nova

The Dialectics of Dependency

The Dialectics of Dependency

Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada

Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Bible Quote in Crystal Land

Bible Quote in Crystal Land

Garrincha

Garrincha

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