Author: Douglas Preston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788554126087
Category : Fiction
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uma lenda de quinhentos anos e uma jornada ao coração desconhecido da selva mais densa do mundo. Bem-vindo à selva impenetrável de Mosquitia, nordeste de Honduras. Este é o lugar onde o escritor e jornalista Douglas Preston se aventurou ao lado de uma equipe de cientistas para investigar um dos últimos mistérios do nosso tempo: a famosa Cidade Branca, ou Cidade do Deus Macaco, cuja existência o conquistador espanhol Hernán Cortès anunciou no século XVI, mas desde então ninguém foi capaz de localizá-la. Maldições ancestrais, onças e cobras mortais, parasitas devoradores de carne e embates científicos... Esta história real, digna dos filmes de Indiana Jones e repleta de lições sobre a mais importante descoberta arqueológica deste início de século XXI, reconfigura o que pensávamos saber sobre as civilizações pré-hispânicas, numa época em que a globalização e o aquecimento global ameaçam condenar nosso mundo ao trágico destino dessa cidade misteriosamente desaparecida.
A Cidade Perdida do Deus Macaco
Author: Douglas Preston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788554126087
Category : Fiction
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uma lenda de quinhentos anos e uma jornada ao coração desconhecido da selva mais densa do mundo. Bem-vindo à selva impenetrável de Mosquitia, nordeste de Honduras. Este é o lugar onde o escritor e jornalista Douglas Preston se aventurou ao lado de uma equipe de cientistas para investigar um dos últimos mistérios do nosso tempo: a famosa Cidade Branca, ou Cidade do Deus Macaco, cuja existência o conquistador espanhol Hernán Cortès anunciou no século XVI, mas desde então ninguém foi capaz de localizá-la. Maldições ancestrais, onças e cobras mortais, parasitas devoradores de carne e embates científicos... Esta história real, digna dos filmes de Indiana Jones e repleta de lições sobre a mais importante descoberta arqueológica deste início de século XXI, reconfigura o que pensávamos saber sobre as civilizações pré-hispânicas, numa época em que a globalização e o aquecimento global ameaçam condenar nosso mundo ao trágico destino dessa cidade misteriosamente desaparecida.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788554126087
Category : Fiction
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uma lenda de quinhentos anos e uma jornada ao coração desconhecido da selva mais densa do mundo. Bem-vindo à selva impenetrável de Mosquitia, nordeste de Honduras. Este é o lugar onde o escritor e jornalista Douglas Preston se aventurou ao lado de uma equipe de cientistas para investigar um dos últimos mistérios do nosso tempo: a famosa Cidade Branca, ou Cidade do Deus Macaco, cuja existência o conquistador espanhol Hernán Cortès anunciou no século XVI, mas desde então ninguém foi capaz de localizá-la. Maldições ancestrais, onças e cobras mortais, parasitas devoradores de carne e embates científicos... Esta história real, digna dos filmes de Indiana Jones e repleta de lições sobre a mais importante descoberta arqueológica deste início de século XXI, reconfigura o que pensávamos saber sobre as civilizações pré-hispânicas, numa época em que a globalização e o aquecimento global ameaçam condenar nosso mundo ao trágico destino dessa cidade misteriosamente desaparecida.
A General Theory of Oblivion
Author: José Eduardo Agualusa
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448191548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird’s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448191548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird’s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace.
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Author: Douglas Preston
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455540021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455540021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia In Brazilian Gangster Funk
Author: Paul Sneed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788952128331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788952128331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Portuguese Conversation-grammar
Author: Luise Ey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portuguese language
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portuguese language
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Author: Mark Davies
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113411091X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113411091X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.
An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America
Author: Richard W. Merritt
Publisher: Kendall Hunt
ISBN: 9780787232412
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher: Kendall Hunt
ISBN: 9780787232412
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Myths in Adventism
Author: George R. Knight
Publisher: Review & Herald Publishing
ISBN: 9780828024518
Category : Seventh-Day Adventists
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Was Ellen White as inflexible as some of her followers? Are the sacred and the secular two realms or one? How is ignorance related to godliness? Just how evil (or good) are human beings? Are big schools more effective than small ones? Was Ellen White really 100 years ahead on her time? George R. Knight examines these and many other provocative questions in this insightful book. Book jacket.
Publisher: Review & Herald Publishing
ISBN: 9780828024518
Category : Seventh-Day Adventists
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Was Ellen White as inflexible as some of her followers? Are the sacred and the secular two realms or one? How is ignorance related to godliness? Just how evil (or good) are human beings? Are big schools more effective than small ones? Was Ellen White really 100 years ahead on her time? George R. Knight examines these and many other provocative questions in this insightful book. Book jacket.
The Primal Scream
Author: Arthur Janov
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 9780349118437
Category : Primal therapy
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 9780349118437
Category : Primal therapy
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology;
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781340064174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781340064174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.