Latin America
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Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built
$18.99 Read moreA gorgeous and inspiring picture book based on the life of Jos? Alberto Guti?rrez, a garbage collector in Bogot?, Colombia who started a library with a single discarded book found on his route.
In the- Author: Kunkel, Angela Burke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1984892630
- Language: English
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Bolivar: American Liberator
$23.00 Add to cartA brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American ge… [more below]
- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1439110204
- Language: English
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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “masterful chronicle” of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets.
Featuring a history and description of the maj
- Author: Carlsen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0062407406
- Language: English
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Brazil – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights―get to know the people.
For many people, Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval, and fine coffee, but it’s much more than beaches and bossa nova. If we had to
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Branco, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1787023397
- Language: English
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The Little School
$18.95 Add to cartOne of Argentina’s 30,000 “disappeared”, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were… [more below]
- Author: Partnoy, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 1998
- ISBN10: 1573440299
- Language: English
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Historia de México: Una guÃa fascinante de la historia de México y la Revolución Mexicana
$19.97 Add to cart2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro
- La historia de México: Una GuÃa Fascinante de la Historia Mexicana, Desde el Ascenso de Tenochtitlan y el Imperio de Maximiliano hasta la Revolución Mexicana y el
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160232
- Language: Spanish
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The Last Days of the Incas
$22.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vil… [more below]
- Author: MacQuarrie, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0743260503
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Mexico, Third Edition
$32.00 Add to cartThis concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico’s struggle to break out of the colonial past and assert its viability as a sovereign state i… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Hamnett, Brian R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 570
- Publish Date: January 31 2019
- ISBN10: 131662661X
- Language: English
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The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Mexico Their Thoughts about Life Death and the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned bestselling author Carlos Castaneda’s selection of his writings on the shamans of ancient Mexico.
Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of m- Author: Castaneda, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 074341280X
- Language: English
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Down & Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
$19.00 Add to cartMEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misund… [more below]
- Author: Hernandez, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1416577033
- Language: English
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I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975
$27.00 Add to cartIn September 1973 a CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, ushering in the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer fr
- Author: Osberger, Kathleen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1626985472
- Language: English
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
$28.00 Add to cartA dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cort s that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquista
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 006242727X
- Language: English
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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
$17.95 Add to cartOn the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Fi
- Author: Denton, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324094087
- Language: English
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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
$16.95 Add to cartThis bilingual collection of Neruda’s most essential poems is indispensable.
Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that dr
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 199
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0872864286
- Language: Spanish
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
$7.95 Add to cartA powerful and gripping memoir depicting the harsh realities of life in the favelas of Brazil in the 1950s, and one woman’s resilience in the face of poverty, racism, and social inequality.
Living … [more below]- Author: de Jesus, Carolina Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0451529103
- Language: English
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)
$22.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the year.
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and
- Author: Anderson, Jon Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 080214411X
- Language: English
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Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” –Adam Gopnik, The New Y- Author: Sedgewick, Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110748
- Language: English
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The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras
$28.95 Read moreA fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston’s life that reimagines her complicated legacy.
Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes
- Author: Green, Sharony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1421446669
- Language: English
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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
$20.00 Add to cartIn this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center … [more below]
- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0553384716
- Language: English
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The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$33.95 Add to cartThe Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos M騙icos-the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the … [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Joseph, Gilbert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: September 9, 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018364
- Language: English
