It's nineteen fifty-something, in a dark, cramped, smoke-filled room. Everyone's wearing black. And on-stage a tenor is blowing his heart out, a searching, jagged saxophone journey played out against
An A-to-Z handbook of the key words, expressions, and concepts dealing with the environmental movement features definitions for such terms as ecosystem and solar panels. Original. 15,000 first printin
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First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realist
