Cultural Region/Latin America
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Guerrilla Warfare
$24.99 Add to cartWritten immediately after the Cuban Revolution and first published in 1961, Guerrilla Warfare soon became a how-to manual for legions of guerrilla fighters around the world-from Latin America to Afric… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1607965682
- Language: English
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Growing Up Yanomamo: Missionary Adventures in the Amazon Rainforest
$19.95 Add to cartAnthropologists surmise that the Yanomam are perhaps the last culture to come in contact with the modern world. Author Mike Dawson’s hair-raising and humorous growing up adventures, from his birth in… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: September 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1602650098
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
$12.95 Add to cartWhen the Spanish took over Central America in the 16th and 17th centuries they made certain to destroy the writings and holy books of the native Mayans in an effort to convert them to Christianity. Fe… [more below]
- Author: Spence, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1585092363
- Language: English
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The Sea and the Bells
$17.00 Add to cartHighly recommended.–Booklist “Deeply personal, expansive and universal… majestic and understated beauty.”–Publishers Weekly
- Series: Kagean Book
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1556591624
- Language: English
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Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater
$17.95 Read moreA story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home.
Nostalgia Doesn’t Flo
- Author: Pineda, Irma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1646052781
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln and Mexico: A History of Courage, Intrigue and Unlikely Friendships
$21.95 Add to cartThis book by a noted Ph.D. historian is one of the best books available about historical relations between the United States and Mexico. It shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in
- Author: Hogan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 12 2016
- ISBN10: 099695547X
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
$33.00 Add to cartA collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career
“He gives us more than himself or ‘a world’; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.” Alon- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537577
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
$19.95 Add to cart- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Maher, Geo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1784782238
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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World’s End
$15.00 Read more“World’s End, like much Neruda, contains bewildering multitudes. Some poems incite, others console, as the poet–maestro of his own response and impresario of ours–Looks inward and out.”–Los Angele… [more below]
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1556592825
- Language: Spanish
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Orange County: A Personal History
$18.99 Add to cartBestselling author of Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano returns with Orange County, a seamlessly woven history of California’s Orange County with Gustavo’s personal narrative of growing up within its n… [more below]
- Author: Arellano, Gustavo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1416540059
- Language: English
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Unaccompanied
$34.99 Add to cartJavier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-fill
- Author: Zamora, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596065
- Language: English
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History of Peru: A Captivating Guide to Peruvian History, Starting from the ChavÃn Civilization and Other Ancient Andean Civilizations
$23.99 Add to cartPeru is a land of majesty and wonder where myth, legend, and history all come together. And this book gives you a front-row seat!
The land of Peru is one that, for many, seems far away and distant. Eve
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168942
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
$37.00 Add to cartDuring the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on… [more below]
- Author: Ferrer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697786
- Language: English
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient May
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Recinos, Adrien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0806122668
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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Without: Poems
$19.99 Add to cartDonald Hall’s poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a hus
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0395957656
- Language: English
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Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope
$9.99 Add to cartAna’s story begins the day she is born with HIV, transmitted from her mother, who dies just a few years later. From then on, Ana’s childhood becomes a blur of secrets–about her illness, her family, a
- Author: Bush Hager, Jenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0061379093
- Language: English
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Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Hager, Jenna Bush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062960652
- Language: English
