by Jon Lee Anderson  
Powells.com Staff Pick Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies 
by Tony Cohan Publisher Comments We walk the dimly lit town, along its Moorish walls of roseate hues. In the small, thronged central plaza, we sit on an iron bench gazing up at a quirky dripcastle church, its spires embedded in full complement of stars. Drop it, something whispers. Just... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Francisco Goldman Publisher Comments Acclaimed novelist Goldman tells the story of the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemalas leading human rights activist, who had been bludgeoned to death in 1998, after releasing a church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Danielle Follmi Publisher Comments In the latest installment in the Offerings for Humanity series, the author draws nuggets of written wisdom from the Andean plains to the Mexican desert. Set against the stunning visual backdrop of 365 photographs, these quotations come from both world... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your Price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments A fully updated edition of this fiery polemic on Latin America's challenge to US-led neoliberalism. The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chávez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American... (read more) Your Price $17.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Migue Leon Portilla Publisher Comments 'In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments This is Che Guevara's last diary, compiled from the notebooks found in his knapsack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and subsequently executed. It is the basis of a new biopic directed by Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
|
|
|
|
by Mark Danner Publisher Comments In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Brian Winter Publisher Comments In a book that is part travelogue, part history, a young American reporter moves to Argentina and struggles to learn the tango. He discovers that the tango, with its tales of jealousy, melodrama, and lost glory, may hold the secret to the country that is... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Gioconda Belli
Publisher Comments Nicaraguan poet tells of her life as a Sandanista rebel and romantic.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by David McCullough
Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nanc Scheper Hughes Synopsis Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Steven Palmer Publisher Comments Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictatorship and revolution; the ecological mecca of a biosphere laid waste by deforestation and urban blight... (read more) Your Price $23.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
