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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Anderson Synopsis 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 injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Andersons... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon by Trisha Ziff Publisher Comments Ziff offers a revealing look at the incredibly varied ways a 1960s photo and Che Guevara have been appropriated. The image has become an ideal of abstraction, and this text vividly demonstrates the diverse ways in which it has been used.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Los Llanos--the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia--are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon by Trisha Ziff Publisher Comments This book brings together photography, posters, film, fine art, clothing and artefacts from the world over to trace Che's transformation from heroic guerilla, through pop celebrity to symbol of radical chic.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments "Should be on the required reading lists of the Chiefs of Staff and (the President's) advisers." --"The Western Political Quarterly Startlingly relevant to our own time, Che's essays in this manifesto on asymmetrical warfare established the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman Synopsis Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemalas 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson 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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Our America and Theirs: Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress--The Debate at Punta del Este by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments To check the spread of revolution in Latin America in 1961, Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress-a program for free trade and development in the Americas. Che Guevara , described by Timemagazine as "Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar,"condemned... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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68 by Paco Ignacio Ii Taibo Publisher Comments On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che: Self Portrait by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments A PHOTOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY MEMOIR At last, Che in his own words, beyond the icon Discover the personal side of the legendary Che Guevara in this photographic and literary memoir that includes unpublished short stories, letters and poems written to his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Recollection of a Provincial Past: Recuerdos de Provincia (Library of Latin America) by Sarmiento Publisher Comments Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che: A Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson Publisher Comments A symbol of counterculture worldwide, Ernesto “Che” Guevara is one of the most, if not the most, recognizable and influential revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. From the pages of history textbooks to silk-screened T-shirts at... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments National Book Award-winning memoir of exile from a tangerine-colored paradise: “Eire has done a splendid job….Masterfully written, bursting with wonderful details and images and populated by characters so well described that they seem to be... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Psywar on Cuba: The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-Castro Propaganda by Jon Elliston Publisher Comments This book brings to light nearly 40 years of Washington's pyschological warfare against Cuba since the revolution in 1959, tracing the use of clandestine radio stations, disinformation campaigns, and many other methods that often bordered on the absurd.... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now by Amy Wilentz Publisher Comments The earthquake has unleashed a desperation I recognize from my long education in Haiti as the desperation of extreme poverty. A few blocks away, I heard an elderly Haitian arguing with an officer of the 82nd over a piece of rope or bungee cord the man... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Revelations: Latin American Wisdom for Every Day (Offerings for Humanity) 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: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones Publisher Comments In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self... (read more) List Price $74.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Che Guevara: A Manga Biography by Chie Shimano Publisher Comments An extraordinary illustrated graphic novel about the legendary political figure Che Guevara. His name is equated with rebellion, revolution, and socialism. His face is on tee-shirts all over the world. Che Guevara's life has been explored and portrayed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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