A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An add...

Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages...

Ten short stories by the Brazilian master, most from his early, formative years. Most have never ...

The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th cen...

A rich collection of newspaper articles, editorial, and opinions published in the days before and...

Accounts of several religions in early 20th century Rio de Janeiro by literary journalist João do...

Rio de Janeiro in 1911 was a venerable city in a new republic just a generation old. The people o...

Collected short essays by Brazilian theologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Rubem Alves. Alves...

Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It's about something that a few dozen survivors did a...

More than 120 brief thoughts from Pope Francis, with lengthy excerpt from his Laudato Si encyclic...

Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains ...

A collection of short essays by Brazil's most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, wr...