Cultural Region/Latin America
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Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
$58.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central America
Birds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, H- Series: Princeton Field Guides #1
- Author: Vallely, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0691138028
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
$30.00 Add to cartIn what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) #61
- Author: Clendinnen, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0521527317
- Language: English
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Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
$24.99 Add to cartRebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late ’60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-and in doing… [more below]
- Author: Veloso, Caetano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812819
- Language: English
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Cuban Privilege
$42.00 Add to cartFor over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal r… [more below]
- Author: Eckstein, Susan Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1108830617
- Language: English
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Los Señores del Narco = Narcoland
$17.95 Add to cartLos se?ores del narco es una descarnada cr?nica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos c?rculos pol?ticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado.
Esta segunda edici?n- Author: Hern?ndez, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1644732068
- Language: Spanish
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The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartFernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room,… [more below]
- Author: Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 158648429X
- Language: English
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Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
$35.00 Add to cartReptiles of Costa Rica, the long-awaited companion to Amphibians of Costa Rica, is the first ever comprehensive field guide to the crocodilians, turtles, lizards, and snakes of Costa Rica. A popular d
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Leenders, Twan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1501739530
- Language: English
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Trilce
$25.00 Add to cartTrilce is one of the greatest monuments of twentieth-century poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as The Waste Land and The Cantos in the Anglophone world. Full of neologisms and obscure symbols,
- Author: Vallejo, Cesar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1848618409
- Language: English
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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
$22.99 Add to cartA passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country’s devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history
Even before the devastating- Author: DuBois, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1250002362
- Language: English
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Amerasia
$40.00 Read moreA connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum
America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagin- Author: Horodowich, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 194213083X
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreFrom Venezuelan reporter Paula Ram? comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin.
In the span of a generation, oil-rich
- Author: Ramón, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036917
- Language: English
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Faith and Freedom in Latin America
$19.50 Add to cartFaith and Freedom in Latin America offers a detailed exploration of the stark violations of religious freedom in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. It uncovers the state’s tactics of surveillance, contro
- Author: Babun, Teo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: October 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0976501651
- Language: English
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City of Memory and Other Poems
$21.95 Add to cartThe leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico’s most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied
- Author: Pacheco, José Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0872863247
- Language: Spanish
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High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War ha
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826312012
- Language: English
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Insects and Other Arthropods of Tropical America
$37.95 Add to cartVisitors to tropical forests generally come to see the birds, mammals, and plants. Aside from butterflies, however, insects usually do not make it on the list of things to see. This is a shame. Insect
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Hanson, Paul E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0801456940
- Language: English
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Keeper
$9.99 Read moreIn a refreshed paperback edition with a bold cover, this novel by award-winning author Mal Peet transports readers to a fictional South American country and a world of soccer, celebrity, and strange o… [more below]
- Author: Peet, Mal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0763687464
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
$46.95 Add to cartThis first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian C駸ar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely … [more below]
- Author: Vallejo, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: December 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0520261739
- Language: English
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
$22.99 Add to cartA “vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement”(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWill… [more below]
- Author: Ferriss, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005980
- Language: English
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Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado
$16.99 Add to cart“Here is a voice seldom heard, the voice of Latin America’s majority, those who bear the burdens of society. If we are to understand Honduras, Central America, or, for that matter, Latin America, we m
- Author: Benjamin, Medea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 1989
- ISBN10: 006097205X
- Language: English
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A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship
$18.00 Add to cartIn Ariel Francisco’s Miami, invasive lionfish are sympathetic creatures, the beach succumbs to sea-level rise, and “305 till I die” is a cry for help. The speakers in these hilarious and melancholy po
- Author: Francisco, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1941681514
- Language: English
