Latin America
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Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land
$31.99 Add to cartThe vast majority of Hondurans would have never dared to set foot in Nueva Suyapa, a mountainside barrio that was under the thumb of a gang whose bravado and cruelty were the stuff of legend. But that… [more below]
- Author: Halperin, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324090782
- Language: English
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El Pa?s de Las Mil Caras: Escritos Sobre El Per? / A Country of a Thousand Faces: Writings about Peru
$31.95 Add to cart«El Per? es para m? una especie de enfermedad incurable y mi relaci?n con ?l es intensa, ?spera, llena de la violencia que caracteriza a la pasi?n .
Las m?s de cinco d?cadas durante las que se… [more below]- Series: Obra Period?stica
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 8420460400
- Language: Spanish
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
$30.00 Add to cartFor readers of Say Nothing and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the epic true story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo–grandmothers who fought to find their stolen grandchildren during Argentina’s … [more below]
- Author: Gilliland, Haley Cohen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1668017148
- Language: English
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100 Mitos de la Historia de M?xico 1 / 100 Myths of the History of Mexico 1
$15.95 Add to cartLa historia de M?xico no es como te la contaron…
Con la pluma filosa y espl?ndidamente documentada que lo caracteriza, Francisco Mart?n Moreno indaga en la deslumbrante historia de M?xico y sus zo… [more below]- Author: Mart?n Moreno, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 6073848447
- Language: Spanish
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Tequila Wars: Jos? Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
$31.99 Add to cartAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Jos? Cuervo inherited his family’s humble distillery, La Roje?a, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise
- Author: Genoways, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0393292592
- Language: English
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.98 Add to cart- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Duany, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0197782124
- Language: English
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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure
$30.00 Add to cartThe riveting account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease
In the 1980s, a neurologist named Franci- Author: Smith, Jennie Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0525536078
- Language: English
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Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
$41.58 Add to cart2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next … [more below]
- Author: Wright, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365485
- Language: English
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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Florentine Codex: Book 1: Book 1: The Gods Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartTwo of the world’s leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahag?’s monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This imme
- Author: De Sahagun, Bernardino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 160781157X
- Language: English
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The Maya
$31.95 Add to cartThe Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by dis
- Author: Coe, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 050029514X
- Language: English
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
$21.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller – A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 – Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker – One of Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List Picks – Named a Notable Book by New York Time… [more below]
- Author: Blitzer, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1984880829
- Language: English
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Historia Maya: Una guÃa fascinante de la civilización, cultura y mitologÃa mayas, y del impacto de los pueblos mayas en la historia d
$16.97 Add to cartSab as que los mayas usaban las saunas con fines curativos?
En la ltima d cada o dos, ha habido un aumento de inter s en la historia maya. Esto fue en parte alimentado por la m tica predicci n maya d
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: March 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1647486491
- Language: Spanish
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
$19.99 Add to cartThe “superbly entertaining and well-researched” (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico–and faced bloody consequences.
In the- Author: Shawcross, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541674200
- Language: English
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The Inca: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Add to cartFrom their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca.
In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the lar- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Lane, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145465
- Language: English
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A History of America in 100 Maps
$38.00 Add to cartThroughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meani… [more below]
- Author: Schulten, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2018
- ISBN10: 022645861X
- Language: English
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When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon
$32.00 Add to cartIn this “remarkable” true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston).
Growing up in a remote corne- Author: Cuadros, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1538701502
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
$29.99 Add to cartPanama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a ri
- Author: Harmon, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1400248604
- Language: English
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El Infierno Tan Temido: El Secuestro En México / The Hell We Dread: Kidnapping I N Mexico
$17.95 Read moreEl libro ofrece una contraparte no menos amarga con la voz de las vÃctimas para develar cómo fue su dÃa a dÃa durante el secuestro, qué secuelas fÃsicas y mentales quedaron en su vida, cómo fue… [more below]
- Author: Niño de Rivera, Saskia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 607381206X
- Language: Spanish
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
$22.00 Add to cart“A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It’s a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unforgettable.” –Salmon Rushdie
An electrifying memoir- Author: Belli, Gioconda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032164
- Language: English
