Author: James Rollins
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: amazonia
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060002492
ISBN-13: 9780060002497

The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world’s most inhospitable rainforest -- a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing . . . and came out with both intact. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable secret world of undreamed-of perils, to follow the trail of his vanished father . . . toward mysteries that must be solved at any cost. But the ni

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Publisher: Not Avail
Keywords: nacional, defesa, amazonia
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2006-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8522505543
ISBN-13: 9788522505548

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Publisher: Abya-Yala
Keywords: spanish, amazonia, retos
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 1993
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9978940774
ISBN-13: 9789978940778

Author: Hugh Raffle
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: history, natural, amazonia
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0691048851
ISBN-13: 9780691048857

The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world’s last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining richly textured ethnographic research and lively historical analysis, Raffles we

Author: Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: amazonia, historicities, histories
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0803248059
ISBN-13: 9780803248052

Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or w

Author: James Marcu
Publisher: New Pre
Keywords: com, juggernaut, dot, epicenter, five, years, amazonia
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1595580247
ISBN-13: 9781595580245

With Amazonia, James Marcus adds to the ever-simmering stew of Amazon.com analysis a new, almost quaint perspective: that of an employee hired for his expertise in literature. Marcus traces the company’s familiar climb, plummet, and re-ascent, but this time we witness the pyrotechnics from the book-strewn hallways of the editorial department. After an abbreviated heydey, editorial talent lost cachet at the burgeoning Internet behemoth, replaced by metrics worship and automated innovations like "truncating widgets." Despite the demoralizing shift, Marcus makes evident the loyalty editors

Author: Commission on Development and Environment for Amaz
Publisher: Books for Business
Keywords: myths, amazonia
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2001-12
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0894991191
ISBN-13: 9780894991196

This report, prepared by the Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia at the initiative of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty and supported by the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, is based on the concept of an Amazonia that exists above and beyond the world of fantasy and myth: an Amazonia of flesh and blood, of human toil, of human history, of human faces and hopes, and future human beings. It is an analysis based not only on the experiences and technologies of today’’s world but also, and with greater emphasis, on the wisdom accumulat