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Books about Brazil (in English)

The Art of Brazilian Cookery
By: Dolores Botafogo
Publisher: Hippocrene
Estimated price: $11.95

Brasil/Brazil
Publisher: S.P. : Manole, s.d.
ISBN 85-204-0713-7
Estimated price: $29.95

Brazil
By: Carlos de Sa Moreira
Publisher: Rio: Record
Estimated price: $ 73.75

Brazil in Focus: A guide to the people, politics and culture
By: Jan Rocha
Publisher: Interlink Books
Estimated price: $ 12.95

Brazil: The Once and Future Country
By: Marshall C. Eakin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Estimated price: $35

Brazilian Legacies
By: Robert M. Levin
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Estimated price: $ 21.95

Brazilian Mosaic: Portraits of a diverse people and culture
By: G. Harvey Summ
Publisher: Scholarly Resources
Estimated price: $ 17.95

The Brazilian Puzzle: Culture on the Borderline of the Western World
By: David J. Hess and Roberto A. Da Matta
Publisher: Columbia Univ Press
Estimated price: $22.95

The Brazilians
By: Joseph A. Page
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Estimated price: $ 27.50

The Brazil Reader: history, culture, politics
By: Robert M. Levine / John I. Crocitti
Publisher: Durham: Duke University Press, 1999
ISBN 0-8223-2290-0 527
Estimated price: $21.95

The Confederados: old south immigrants in Brazil
By: Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey
Forward by Michael L. Conniff (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1998)
ISBN 0-8173-0944-6 288
Estimated price: $19.95

A Concise History of Brazil
By: Boris Fausto
Publisher: Cambridge U. Press
Estimated price: $16.95

In Defense of Honor: sexual morality, modernity and nation in early twentieth-century Brazil
By: Sueann Caulfield
Publisher:Durham: Duke Univ. Press. 2000
ISBN 0-8223-2398-2
Estimated price: $19.95

Eat Smart in Brazil: How to decipher the menu. know the marketfoods and embark on a tasting adventure
By: Joan and David Peterson
Publisher: Ginkgo Press
Estimated price: $13.95

The Films from Brazil / O Cinema Brasileiro
By: Amir Labaki
Publisher: S.P.: PubliFolha, 1998
ISBN 85-7402-057-5
Estimated price: $39.95

Frontier Expansion in Amazonia
By: Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Estimated price: $8.95

A History of Brazil
By: E. Bradford Burns
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Estimated price: $26.95

House and Street: The domestic world of servants and masters in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
By: Janet Graham Lauderdale
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Estimated price: $12.95

How to be a Carioca
By: Priscilla Ann Goslin
Illus. by Carlos Cameiro
Publisher: Livros Twocan
Estimated price: $12.95

An Invisible Minority: BRAZILIANS IN NEW YORK CITY
By: Maxine L. Margolis
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
Estimated price: $19.95

The Little Capoeira Book
By: Nestor Capoeira
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Translated by Alex Ladd
Estimated price: $13.95

Capoeira: a Brazilian an form -history, philosophy and practice
By: Bira Almeida
Publisher: Berkeley: North Atlantic Books
Estimated price: $14.95

Order and Progress: Brazil from monarch to republic
By: Gilberto Freyre
Publisher: Univ. of Calif. Press
Translated by Rod W. Horton
Estimated price: $7.95

Samba: Resistance in motion
By: Barbara Browning
Publisher: Indiana U. Press
Estimated price: $17.95

Sáo Paulo: 70 coloifotos
Publisher: Rio: Alpina
Estimated price: $19.95

Women in Brazil
By: Caipora Women's Group
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Estimated price: $12.95

Xuxa: The mega-marketing of gender, race and modernity
By: Amelia Simpson
Publisher: Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press
Estimated price: $8.95