Buarque, Chico

Chico Buarque speelt met feit en fictie als hij het verhaal vertelt van de zoektocht van de verteller naar de halfbroer die hij nooit heeft ontmoet. D

The narrator is haunted by nostalgia for the places of his childhood set in a city that can only be Rio de Janeiro. A drop-out from the privileged wor

Jose Costa has just attended the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul and is on his way back to Rio when a bomb scare on his flight forces him to sp

Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly reco

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The revered Brazilian songwriter and novelist “has breathed the story of a whole country into a single, unforgettable man with a soul as big as Brazil

Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in São Paulo, a d

How to analyse the economic/financial health of a company? Legal entities have a life and need daily care to keep up in such a competitive market. No

Rio de Janeiro - Berlin. Für Musikliebhaber und Liebhaber verrückter Lebensgeschichten. Der Brasilianer Chico Buarque, heute weltberühmter Samba-Sänge

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self

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This volume addresses, from a Wittgensteinian perspective, the philosophical question of how to understand other cultures. We approach this question i

Advances in human genetics are set to revolutionise the way we think about our health. Within the context of such changing social circumstances, this

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self

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