From: walter@psg.com (Walter Morales)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.brazil
Subject: livros/books
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:01:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: psg.1992Dec16.000131.6214
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US

You can find your copy of macunaima here:

A voce, caro bras-neteiro/a que esta atras de bons livros
Brasileiros, eis aqui o endereco:

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                DICTIONARIES
               LANGUAGE TEXTS



APRENDENDO PORGUES DO BRASIL (um curso
para estrageiros)
 (Pontes, 1992)

Maria Nazare de Carvalho Laroca/Nadime Barra/
  Sonia Maria da Cunha Pereira

Set forth in fairly large print and with introductions in
English, French, Italian, German and Portuguese, tllis
manua] of instruction in basic Brazilian Portuguese is
complemented by a teacher's guide, exercise book, and
cassette tape, The basic manual is divided into 13
units, each consisting of an initial comic-strip dialogue
from the "Monica" series, a grammatical explanation,
exercises, a section of "expansion vocabulary" and
supplementary reading, along with suggestions for
practical application activities. 185 pp. $24.95

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE - Your questions answerered
Daniele M.G. Rodrigues et al.
(Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 1992) 101 pp.

A handy reference work especially targeting English
speakers using Portuguese. The eight chapters deal
with common doubts concerning level, appropriate-
ness, and correctness of various alternate forms of
speech and grammar, referring specifically to (1) social
interaction, (2) pronouns and personal address, (3)
nouns and adjectives, (4) expressions of location, (5)
ser vs. estar, (6) por vs. para (7)ir/vir, levar trazer, etc.,
and (8) perfeito vs. imperfeito. A short bibliography is
included.  $15.95

PORTUGUES COMO SEGUNDA LINGUA

 MarilU Almeida/Lucia GuimarAes
 (Ao Livro Tecnico, 1990) 205 pp.

  A  concise grammatical summary of Portuguese suited
  to self-teaching or review. Text consists of lists and
" charts of rules, followed by exercises; no dialogues are
  included, nor is there a correction key for exercises.
 Text, including explanations, is entirely in Portu
  guese.                                           $ 14.95

BRASIL! LINGUA E CULTURA
  Writing manual an language lab manual - trial edition

This trial edition covers the first ten lessons of the
student's textbook, In the Writing Manual, exercises
bear the same number as the structural sections in the
book, and page numbers in the manual refer to tlie
pages that the section occupies in the textbook,
lab program starts with a pronunciatlon exercise, each
one dealing with one major sound responsible for the
typical North American "accent" in Brazilian Portu
guese. There is then a series of grammaticai exercises,
Some are fuliy oral, some are fully written, and some
are half-oral and half-written.                   $9.95

THE OXFORD-DUDEN PICTORIAL PORTUGUESE @ ENGLISH DICTIONARY

(Oxford  University Press, 1992)
The words in this dictionary are listed not in alphabeti
cal order but by groups relating to a particular subject
or field of activity illustrated on the same or opposite
page. The words are linked by numbers to the illustra
tions, thereby enabling the user to check the meaning
of any Portuguese or English word against its pictorial
representation-Some 28,000-objects are defined in
this way. The subjects covered include typical situa
tion, in domestic and everyday life, recreation and
sport, flora and fauna, industry, the arts and technology
 Care has been taken to record differences hoth
between British and American English and hetween
Brazilian and European Portuguese. In addition, there
are full alphabetical indices of English and Portuguese
words which enable the reader to find the relevant
illustration. This wiil be an invaluable supplement to
any Portuguese-English or English-Portuguese dictio-
nary, and will be usefu] not only to students, but also
to a wide range of businessmen and translators
work with Portuguese-language commerce,
AVATLABLE MID-NOVEMBER         $21.50

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Romance negro (Companhia das Letras)
Veja nossa critica na primeira pagina deste boletim.

CHICO BUARQUE
Estorvo (Companhia das Letras)
Nascido classico, o primeiro romance do compositor. $14.93

FREDERICK FORSYTH
Noite sobre as aguas                       (Record)
Historias de espionagem do agente Sam McCreedy do Servico
Secreto britanico.                            $20.95

PAULO COELHO
Brida                                          (Rocco)
A historia de Brida O'Fern, uma irlandesa que conhece a
feiticaria em pleno seculo 20.                $16.95

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O alquimista
Jovem pastor encontra uma alquimista que Ihe ensina como
entrar na "a;ma do mudo"
                  $ 15,95

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