Cultural Region/Latin America
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Transpoethicalbody: A Book of Black Trans* Erotic Poetry
$14.99 Add to cartA Book of Black Trans* Erotic Poetry, is a sensorial invitation. Through its poetry, we are transported to non-normative erotic dimensions through the dissident perspective of the author. Tiely calls
- Author: Santos, Tiely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987277607
- Language: English
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Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose
$29.95 Add to cart2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, finalist. First book in English showcasing the life and writings of Bolivia’s most celebrated writer and educator, Adela Zamudio (1854-1928). Her birthday is
- Author: Yetter, Lynette M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0984375678
- Language: English
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The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition
$17.95 Read moreThe first bilingual edition of this radically original work
Aim? C?saire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem wa
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Césaire, Aimé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500666
- Language: English
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- Language: English
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Samba
$20.00 Add to cartTo the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain–a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diam… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Guillermoprieto, Alma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 1991
- ISBN10: 067973256X
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica
$45.99 Add to cartAt the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry trop… [more below]
- Author: Gargiullo, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 07 2008
- ISBN10: 019518825X
- Language: English
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For Such a Time as This: Flavors and Recipes from My Honduras
$25.00 Add to cartWhen Heidy was just a little girl, she started learning about baking from her grandmother Andrea.Her bread was legendary in the small village and Heidy would go door-to-door selling it.
If Heidy closes
- Author: Kohnle, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: February 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1942168322
- Language: English
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Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/O Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
$31.99 Add to cartForeword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist
Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new.
For five hundred years, Latina
- Author: Romero, Robert Chao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0830852859
- Language: English
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
$24.95 Add to cartA Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering “a fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people” (The … [more below]
- Author: Menchu, Rigoberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844674185
- Language: English
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Aire Encantado (Enchanted Air): DOS Culturas, DOS Alas: Una Memoria
$11.99 Read moreEn este poético libro de memorias–ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers–la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recre… [more below]
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 1534404279
- Language: Spanish
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The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas.
This book is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt’s Good
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168802
- Language: English
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Chinese-English/English-Chinese (Mandarin) Practical Dictionary
$29.95 Add to cartThe essential Mandarin Chinese resource!
This bestselling bilingual Chinese dictionary features over 14,000 word-for-word entries that cover essential vocabulary for study, business, and travel.
This co
- Author: Ho, Yong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 487
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0781812364
- Language: English
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A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America: Second Edition
$39.95 Read moreA groundbreaking photographic field guide to almost all of Mexico’s butterfly species and many of Central America’s
This is a revised second edition of a groundbreaking photographic field guide to the- Author: Glassberg, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0691176485
- Language: English
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Riding Toward Everywhere
$18.00 Add to cartArelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Ste
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0061256765
- Language: English
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One Impossible Step: Selected Poems
$17.95 Read moreA selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by one of the most unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poets.
In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted a
- Author: Fontela, Orides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621556
- Language: English
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Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
$26.99 Read moreJenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the
- Author: Hager, Jenna Bush
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062960628
- Language: English
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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartNo gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus’s ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 – an event that paved the way for the conquest of a ‘New World’. The accounts … [more below]
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1607966182
- Language: English
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Eating Clean in Costa Rica: Simple, Easy Recipes from the Kitchen of Blue Osa and Chef Marie
$24.95 Add to cartEating Clean in Costa Rica is a celebration of food and the tradition of providing nutritious and delicious farm-to-table meals daily.
Eating is essential. We do it every day. Additionally, eating cl
- Author: Marie, Chef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1504335961
- Language: English
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Amphibians of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
$35.00 Add to cartAmphibians of Costa Rica is the first in-depth field guide to all 206 species of amphibians known to occur in Costa Rica or within walking distance of its borders. A diminutive nation with abundant na
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Leenders, Twan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1501700626
- Language: English
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Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76
$23.00 Read moreA Cold War-era study of Latin American anarchism in action.
Araiza Kokinis’s study of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) broadens our understanding of the Cold War-era political landscape beyond- Author: Araiza Kokinis, Troy Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355002
- Language: English
