by Ernesto Che Guevara  
Publisher Comments Special movie tie-in edition of Che Guevara's youthful travel diaries to coincide with the Fall release of Redford and Salles's film of the book. Says director Walter Salles: "If the film reaches a younger audience, I hope it will inspire people to read... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (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 Gabr Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $10.50 (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) List Price $18.00 Your Price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Danielle Follmi Publisher Comments A cradle of Nobel Prize winners and a font of ancient wisdom, Latin America provides a wealth of sublime source material for the husband-and-wife creative team of Danielle and Olivier Föllmi. In the latest installment in their Offerings for Humanity... (read more) Your Price $11.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters-uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used 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 Eduardo Galeano Synopsis A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive expos? which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read.--Choice"Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study."--Library... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bernal Diaz Publisher Comments Fifty years after the startling defeat of the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a magnificent account on his experience as a soldier in CortésÆs army.... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
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-known... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lynn V. Foster Publisher Comments Central America is a tiny region, broken into seven even smaller nations. More than 5 million North Americans visit these countries every year, exploring Mayan ruins in Guatemala and Belize, discovering the rain forests of Nicaragua and Costa Rica... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Francisco Goldman Publisher Comments Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Barbara Ras Publisher Comments Table of Contents Northern Zone: Carmen Naranjo "Believe It or Not" Jose Leon Sanchez "The Girl Who Came from the Moon" Mario Gonzalez Feo "Bucho Vargas, Healer and Medicine Man" San Jose and the Central Valley: Yolanda Oreamuno "The Lizard with the... (read more) Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michael Connors Publisher Comments At a time when more and more travelers are discovering Cuba, which has been locked away from the outside world for more than 40 years, this lavishly illustrated, absorbing volume offers a completely different view of the island from the one seen by most... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your Price $17.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Peter Robb Publisher Comments Combining travel, history, culture, and his own memories of twenty years of Brazilian life, the author of Midnight in Sicily delves into the past and present of a country that affects our imagination like few other places on earth From his own near... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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