Latin America
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Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion
$15.00 Read moreMexico City is a place of superlatives. The oldest city in the Americas, it is now the world’s largest urban area. Formerly the center of the Aztec and Spanish empires, this vast modern metropolis is … [more below]
- Series: Cities of the Imagination
- Author: Caistor, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1566563496
- Language: English
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Mama and Papa Have a Store
$11.95 Read moreA young girl describes what a typical day is like in her parents’ Chinese store in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor in 2000.
From the clip, clop of the mil
- Author: Lau Carling, Amelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1620143089
- Language: English
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Nicaragua: A History of Us Intervention & Resistance
$29.95 Read moreThis book explores the pernicious nature of US engagement with Nicaragua from the mid-19th century to the present in pursuit of control and domination rather than in defense of democracy as it has inc… [more below]
- Author: Kovalik, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1949762602
- Language: English
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Tragicomedia Mexicana 1: La Vida En México de 1940 a 1970 / Tragicomedy 1
$13.95 Read moreLa radiografÃa de un paÃs hecha por uno de sus más conocidos autores.
En este primer volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos polÃticos… [more below]- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820682
- Language: Spanish
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El Rey del Cash: El Saqueo Oculto del Presidente Y Su Equipo Cercano / The King of Cash
$17.95 Read more«El rey del cash es una cr?nica n?tida y sin concesiones a trav?s de la cual se reconstruye la historia secreta pol?tica, personal y financiera de AMLO y su c?rculo m?s cercano, indispensable pa… [more below]
- Author: Ch?vez, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 6073820658
- Language: Spanish
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
$40.83 Add to cartRevised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup–“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortiet- Author: Kornbluh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589120
- Language: English
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Salvador
$17.00 Add to cart“Terror is the given of the place.” The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion “brings the country to life” (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a parti… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751831
- Language: English
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Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas
$26.95 Read moreAn in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of C?dice Maya de M?xico, the oldest surviving book of the Americas.
- Author: Turner, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1606067885
- Language: English
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México, Manual de Usuario / Mexico, User Manual
$17.95 Read morePor qué eres asÃ, México? Quién te hizo tanto daño? Preguntas de esta naturaleza requieren delicados estudios socio-antropológicos para perfilar respuestas adecuadas. Pero como en el paÃs nad… [more below]
- Author: Torres, Chumel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 6073811152
- Language: Spanish
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Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
$17.00 Read moreIn this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but … [more below]
- Author: Chapman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1838857877
- Language: English
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
$21.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail)
A Globe and Mail Best Book 2011]
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year 2011]
A National Post Best Book 2011]
A BBC Radio Book of the Week October 2011]
One of … [more below]- Author: Aguirre, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0345813820
- Language: English
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
$15.95 Read moreThe term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role- Author: Boullosa, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1944869123
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
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La Plata, La Espada Y La Piedra: Tres Pilares Cruciales En La Historia de Améric a / Silver, Sword, and Stone: The Story of Latin America
$28.94 Read moreUna lectura necesaria para comprender el tumultuoso pasado de América Latina y la complejidad de su identidad.
«Trazar el alma de un continente es una hazaña extraordinaria, y Marie Arana lo h… [more below]- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8418006218
- Language: Spanish
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Motherland: A Memoir
$28.99 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-ri
- Author: Ramón, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036909
- Language: English
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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
$16.95 Read moreMexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused ove
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Gibler, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865177
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo Contada Para Niños
$9.70 Read moreUna niña muy curiosa descubre en su tablet una obra de Frida Kahlo. A partir de ese hallazgo comenzará a googlear para investigar y conocer la vida y la obra de una artista que se convertirá en su … [more below]
- Series: Brujula y la Veleta
- Author: Rimondino, Juli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9877186500
- Language: Spanish
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La Caimana
$21.99 Read moreBased on a true story and written by someone who witnessed it, this touching picture book is set in Venezuela. A man named Faoro found an orphaned, newborn caiman and brought her home. The bond they f… [more below]
- Author: Manrique, Maria Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 8494885987
- Language: Spanish
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Into the Amazon: The Life of C?ndido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
$19.99 Read moreC?ndido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked hi
- Author: Rohter, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076208
- Language: English
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The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
$25.95 Read moreFrom their remote origins as migrating tribes to their rise as builders of empire, the Aztecs were among the most dynamic and feared peoples of ancient Mexico, with a belief system that was one of the
- Series: Myths #6
- Author: Townsend, Camilla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0500025533
- Language: English
