Download or read book The Price of Admiralty written by John Keegan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military historian John Keegan’s gripping history of naval warfare’s evolution. In The Price of Admirality, leading military historian John Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. “The best military historian of our generation.”—Tom Clancy “The Price of Admirality stands alongside Mr. Keegan’s earlier works in its power to impart both the big and little pictures of war.”—The New York Times

Download or read book Ships and Science written by Larrie D. Ferreiro and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and application across the major shipbuilding nations of Europe. "Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a French astronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro at the beginning of this pioneering work on the science of naval architecture. Bouguer's monumental book Traité du navire (Treatise of the Ship) founded a discipline that defined not the rules for building a ship but the theories and tools to predict a ship's characteristics and performance before it was built. In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the Scientific Revolution. Using Bouguer's work as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously untapped primary-source and archival information, he places the development of naval architecture in the contexts of science, navy, and society, across the major shipbuilding nations of Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. Ferreiro describes the formulation of the three major elements of ship theory (the science of explaining the physical behavior of a ship): maneuvering and sail theory, ship resistance and hydrodynamics, and stability theory. He considers the era's influential books on naval architecture and describes the professionalization of ship constructors that is the true legacy of this period. Finally, looking from the viewpoints of both the constructor and the naval administrator, he explains why the development of ship theory was encouraged, financed, and used in naval shipbuilding. A generous selection of rarely seen archival images accompanies the text.

Download or read book Guia de Conversacao Portugues Ingles E Mini Dicionario 250 Palavras written by Andrey Taranov and published by T&p Books. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guia de Conversacao portugues-ingles e mini dicionario 250 palavras A colecao de frases de viagem "Vai tudo correr bem!" publicada pela T&P Books e concebida para pessoas que vao ao estrangeiro em viagens de turismo e negocios. Os livros de frases contem o que e mais importante - o essencial para uma comunicacao basica. Este e um conjunto indispensavel de frases para "sobreviver" no estrangeiro. Este Guia de Conversacao ira ajuda-lo na maioria das situacoes em que precise de perguntar alguma coisa, obter direcoes, saber quanto custa algo, etc. Pode tambem resolver situacoes de dificil comunicacao onde os gestos simplesmente nao ajudam. Alguns dos topicos constantes do Guia de Conversacao sao: perguntar por direcoes, Sinais, Transportes, Compra de bilhetes, Hotel, Restaurante, Shopping, Saudacoes, Conhecidos, Comunicacao, Gratidao, Problemas de saude, Desculpas, Despedidas e muito mais. Este livro contem uma serie de frases que foram agrupadas de acordo com os topicos mais relevantes. Tambem encontrara um mini dicionario com palavras uteis - numeros, tempo, calendario, cores ... Leve consigo para a estrada o Guia de Conversacao "Vai tudo correr bem!" e tera um companheiro de viagem insubstituivel, que ira ajuda-lo a encontrar o seu caminho em qualquer situacao e ensina-lo a nao recear falar com estrangeiros. ingles para viagem, conversacao em ingles, conversa em ingles, palavras em ingles, guia de conversacao em ingles, aprenda ingles, aprender ingles, guia de conversacao para viagens ingles, como falar ingles, falar ingles, como aprender a falar ingles, estudar ingles, dialogos em ingles, frases ingles, ingles para conversacao, frase em ingles, como falar ingles rapido, treinar conversacao em ingles, ingles para viajantes"

Download or read book The Indigenous World 2001 2002 written by Diana Vinding and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document contains the English and Spanish texts of an annual publication which examines political, social, environmental, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples around the world in 2001-02. Part 1 describes current situations and events in 11 world regions: the Arctic; North America; Mexico and Central America; South America; Australia and the Pacific; east and southeast Asia; south Asia; and four sections of Africa. In general, indigenous peoples worldwide were dealing with issues related to land rights, self-determination, relations between central government and indigenous communities, outright oppression and violence, environmental destruction by economic development projects, communal rights, women's rights, access to appropriate education and to health care, and preservation of indigenous cultures and languages. The events of September 11 raised fears that indigenous peoples struggling for self-determination and fundamental rights would be unjustly accused of being terrorists. Items of educational interest in the Arctic and the Americas include ongoing debates in Greenland over the relative status of Danish and Greenlandic in the schools; efforts to protect Saami language and culture in Sweden; inadequate U.S. federal funding for tribal administration of schools and for necessary construction and repair of Bureau of Indian Affairs schools; reforms in indigenous education in Guatemala; the situation of the bilingual intercultural education system in Venezuela; efforts to protect collective intellectual property of indigenous peoples of the Amazon region; and training of indigenous teachers in Brazil. Articles on other regions discuss education as a tool of Chinese repression in Tibet; language issues in East Timor, Nepal, Morocco, Ethiopia, and South Africa; nonformal education initiatives and native language instruction for indigenous Cambodians; and language and cultural maintenance through cultural festivals in Kenya. Part 2 reports on United Nations work on indigenous rights. (SV).

Download or read book Eyewitness written by Seno Gumira Ajidarma and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Colours of the Empire written by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the fifteenth century and would not be dissolved until 1975. This book investigates how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of ‘race’. Colour, for example, an apparently objective criterion of classification, became a synonym or near-synonym for ‘race’, a more abstract notion for which attempts were made to establish scientific credibility. Through her analysis of government documents, colonial propaganda materials and interviews, the author employs an anthropological perspective to examine how the existence of racist theories, originating in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, went on to inform the policy of the Estado Novo (Second Republic, 1933–1974) and the production of academic literature on ‘race’ in Portugal. This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.

Download or read book Imperial Migrations written by E. Morier-Genoud and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

Download or read book Transnational Challenges to National History Writing written by M. Middell and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its time as much as followed the nationalization of the societies in which it was produced.

Download or read book Guia de Conversa o Portugu s Polaco E Mini Dicion rio 250 Palavras written by Andrey Taranov and published by T&p Books. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guia de Conversação portuguès-polaco e mini dicionário 250 palavras A coleção de frases de viagem "Vai tudo correr bem!" publicada pela T&P Books é concebida para pessoas que vão ao estrangeiro em viagens de turismo e negócios. Os livros de frases contèm o que é mais importante - o essencial para uma comunicação básica. Este é um conjunto indispensável de frases para "sobreviver" no estrangeiro. Este Guia de Conversação irá ajudá-lo na maioria das situações em que precise de perguntar alguma coisa, obter direções, saber quanto custa algo, etc. Pode também resolver situações de difícil comunicação onde os gestos simplesmente não ajudam. Alguns dos tópicos constantes do Guia de Conversação são: perguntar por direções, Sinais, Transportes, Compra de bilhetes, Hotel, Restaurante, Shopping, Saudações, Conhecidos, Comunicação, Gratidão, Problemas de saúde, Desculpas, Despedidas e muito mais. Este livro contém uma série de frases que foram agrupadas de acordo com os tópicos mais relevantes. Também encontrará um mini dicionário com palavras úteis - números, tempo, calendário, cores ... Leve consigo para a estrada o Guia de Conversação "Vai tudo correr bem!" e terá um companheiro de viagem insubstituível, que irá ajudá-lo a encontrar o seu caminho em qualquer situação e ensiná-lo a não recear falar com estrangeiros. polaco para viagem, conversação em polaco, conversa em polaco, palavras em polaco, guia de conversação em polaco, aprenda polaco, aprender polaco, guia de conversação para viagens polaco, como falar polaco, falar polaco, como aprender a falar polaco, estudar polaco, dialogos em polaco, frases polaco, polaco para conversação, frase em polaco, como falar polaco rapido, treinar conversação em polaco, polaco para viajantes

Download or read book Guia de Conversacao Portugues Alemao E Mini Dicionario 250 Palavras written by Andrey Taranov and published by T&p Books. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guia de Conversacao portugues-alemao e mini dicionario 250 palavras A colecao de frases de viagem "Vai tudo correr bem " publicada pela T&P Books e concebida para pessoas que vao ao estrangeiro em viagens de turismo e negocios. Os livros de frases contem o que e mais importante - o essencial para uma comunicacao basica. Este e um conjunto indispensavel de frases para "sobreviver" no estrangeiro. Este Guia de Conversacao ira ajuda-lo na maioria das situacoes em que precise de perguntar alguma coisa, obter direcoes, saber quanto custa algo, etc. Pode tambem resolver situacoes de dificil comunicacao onde os gestos simplesmente nao ajudam. Alguns dos topicos constantes do Guia de Conversacao sao: perguntar por direcoes, Sinais, Transportes, Compra de bilhetes, Hotel, Restaurante, Shopping, Saudacoes, Conhecidos, Comunicacao, Gratidao, Problemas de saude, Desculpas, Despedidas e muito mais. Este livro contem uma serie de frases que foram agrupadas de acordo com os topicos mais relevantes. Tambem encontrara um mini dicionario com palavras uteis - numeros, tempo, calendario, cores ... Leve consigo para a estrada o Guia de Conversacao "Vai tudo correr bem " e tera um companheiro de viagem insubstituivel, que ira ajuda-lo a encontrar o seu caminho em qualquer situacao e ensina-lo a nao recear falar com estrangeiros. alemao para viagem, conversacao em alemao, conversa em alemao, palavras em alemao, guia de conversacao em alemao, aprenda alemao, aprender alemao, guia de conversacao para viagens alemao, como falar alemao, falar alemao, como aprender a falar alemao, estudar alemao, dialogos em alemao, frases alemao, alemao para conversacao, frase em alemao, como falar alemao rapido, treinar conversacao em alemao, alemao para viajantes

Download or read book Guia de Conversa o Portugu s Grego E Mini Dicion rio 250 Palavras written by Andrey Taranov and published by T&p Books. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guia de Conversação portuguès-grego e mini dicionário 250 palavras A coleção de frases de viagem "Vai tudo correr bem!" publicada pela T&P Books é concebida para pessoas que vão ao estrangeiro em viagens de turismo e negócios. Os livros de frases contèm o que é mais importante - o essencial para uma comunicação básica. Este é um conjunto indispensável de frases para "sobreviver" no estrangeiro. Este Guia de Conversação irá ajudá-lo na maioria das situações em que precise de perguntar alguma coisa, obter direções, saber quanto custa algo, etc. Pode também resolver situações de difícil comunicação onde os gestos simplesmente não ajudam. Alguns dos tópicos constantes do Guia de Conversação são: perguntar por direções, Sinais, Transportes, Compra de bilhetes, Hotel, Restaurante, Shopping, Saudações, Conhecidos, Comunicação, Gratidão, Problemas de saúde, Desculpas, Despedidas e muito mais. Este livro contém uma série de frases que foram agrupadas de acordo com os tópicos mais relevantes. Também encontrará um mini dicionário com palavras úteis - números, tempo, calendário, cores ... Leve consigo para a estrada o Guia de Conversação "Vai tudo correr bem!" e terá um companheiro de viagem insubstituível, que irá ajudá-lo a encontrar o seu caminho em qualquer situação e ensiná-lo a não recear falar com estrangeiros. grego para viagem, conversação em grego, conversa em grego, palavras em grego, guia de conversação em grego, aprenda grego, aprender grego, guia de conversação para viagens grego, como falar grego, falar grego, como aprender a falar grego, estudar grego, dialogos em grego, frases grego, grego para conversação, frase em grego, como falar grego rapido, treinar conversação em grego, grego para viajantes

Download or read book Terms of Inclusion written by Paulina L. Alberto and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusing on the influential urban centers of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador da Bahia, Alberto traces the shifting terms that black thinkers used to negotiate their citizenship over the course of the century, offering fresh insight into the relationship between ideas of race and nation in modern Brazil. Alberto finds that black intellectuals' ways of engaging with official racial discourses changed as broader historical trends made the possibilities for true inclusion appear to flow and then recede. These distinct political strategies, Alberto argues, were nonetheless part of black thinkers' ongoing attempts to make dominant ideologies of racial harmony meaningful in light of evolving local, national, and international politics and discourse. Terms of Inclusion tells a new history of the role of people of color in shaping and contesting the racialized contours of citizenship in twentieth-century Brazil.

Download or read book Hotel Tr pico written by Jerry Dávila and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil’s behalf. Jerry Dávila analyzes how their actions were shaped by ideas of Brazil as an emerging world power, ready to expand its sphere of influence; of Africa as the natural place to assert that influence, given its historical slave-trade ties to Brazil; and of twentieth-century Brazil as a “racial democracy,” a uniquely harmonious mix of races and cultures. While the experiences of Brazilian policymakers and diplomats in Africa reflected the logic of racial democracy, they also exposed ruptures in this interpretation of Brazilian identity. Did Brazil share a “lusotropical” identity with Portugal and its African colonies, so that it was bound to support Portuguese colonialism at the expense of Brazil’s ties with African nations? Or was Brazil a country of “Africans of every color,” compelled to support decolonization in its role as a natural leader in the South Atlantic? Drawing on interviews with retired Brazilian diplomats and intellectuals, Dávila shows the Brazilian belief in racial democracy to be about not only race but also Portuguese ethnicity.

Download or read book Brazil and Africa written by José Honório Rodrigues and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment of international relations between Brazil and Africa - comprises two parts, (1) covering the historical background (1500-1960) of afro-brazilian relations and the interaction of racial and cultural factors, and (2) dealing with the current situation and its political aspects and with relations with the UN, the EC, the EFTA and the GATT, and including suggestions in regard to foreign policy factors of government policy. 204 references.

Download or read book Thinking about Development written by Bjorn Hettne and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving towards a universal theory. The book will present development as an 'essentially contested concept', that has meant a number of things at various times to different people in different places. Focusing on historical discourses from the initial colonial encounters through to the modern day, Hettne draws the connections between the enlightenment belief in 'progress' through to the more recent focus on the Millennium Development Goals. The first volume in the 'Development Matters' series this book provides the key frame for the series as a whole, enabling readers to locate texts on themes such as environmental justice, technology and development learning within a broader historical, conceptual and political context than the immediate policy and output needs of neoliberalism.

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Download or read book Guia de Conversacao Portugues Chines E Mini Dicionario 250 Palavras written by Andrey Taranov and published by T&p Books. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guia de Conversacao portugues-chines e mini dicionario 250 palavras A colecao de frases de viagem "Vai tudo correr bem!" publicada pela T&P Books e concebida para pessoas que vao ao estrangeiro em viagens de turismo e negocios. Os livros de frases contem o que e mais importante - o essencial para uma comunicacao basica. Este e um conjunto indispensavel de frases para "sobreviver" no estrangeiro. Este Guia de Conversacao ira ajuda-lo na maioria das situacoes em que precise de perguntar alguma coisa, obter direcoes, saber quanto custa algo, etc. Pode tambem resolver situacoes de dificil comunicacao onde os gestos simplesmente nao ajudam. Alguns dos topicos constantes do Guia de Conversacao sao: perguntar por direcoes, Sinais, Transportes, Compra de bilhetes, Hotel, Restaurante, Shopping, Saudacoes, Conhecidos, Comunicacao, Gratidao, Problemas de saude, Desculpas, Despedidas e muito mais. Este livro contem uma serie de frases que foram agrupadas de acordo com os topicos mais relevantes. Tambem encontrara um mini dicionario com palavras uteis - numeros, tempo, calendario, cores ... Leve consigo para a estrada o Guia de Conversacao "Vai tudo correr bem!" e tera um companheiro de viagem insubstituivel, que ira ajuda-lo a encontrar o seu caminho em qualquer situacao e ensina-lo a nao recear falar com estrangeiros. chines para viagem, conversacao em chines, conversa em chines, palavras em chines, guia de conversacao em chines, aprenda chines, aprender chines, guia de conversacao para viagens chines, como falar chines, falar chines, como aprender a falar chines, estudar chines, dialogos em chines, frases chines, chines para conversacao, frase em chines, como falar chines rapido, treinar conversacao em chines, chines para viajantes"