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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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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award 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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene Publisher Comments A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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World of Music #1: Latin America by Andrew Solway Synopsis Take a comprehensive look at the musical styles and instruments of Mexico and the countries of Central and South America, as well as the islands of the Caribbean. Discuss how the music of other cultures and countries influenced the regions music and vice... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments In his 2003 National Book Award-winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: 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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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone Publisher Comments "Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 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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Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (Native American) by Diego De Landa Publisher Comments Only significant account done of Yucatan in post-Conquest era. Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest and its effects, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Andes: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination) by Jason Wilson Publisher Comments The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco--the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world--the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone temples, roads, palaces... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bolivarian Revolution (Revolutions) by Simon Bolivar Publisher Comments Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez... (read more) List Price $14.95 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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Incidents of Travel in Central Amer Volume 1 by John Lloyd Stephens Publisher Comments Stephens' two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. The books in this two-volume set relate his archeological discoveries and exploration of ruined cities... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Guerrilla Strategy, Politics and Revolution by Che Guevara Publisher Comments This reader is the bestselling, most comprehensive selection of Che Guevara's writings, letters and speeches available in English. This volume covers Che's writings on the Cuban revolutionary war, the first years of the revolution in Cuba and his vision... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bolivian Diary Authorized Edition by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART TWO” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO This is Che Guevara’s last diary, compiled from notebooks found in his backpack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara (Che Guevara Publishing Project) by Ernesto Guevara Publisher Comments The book of the new, two-part epic movie on Che Guevara starring Benicio Del Toro as the legendary revolutionary. Director Steven Soderbergh has based his two-part movie "Che" (Part 1: The Argentine and Part 2: Guerrilla) on two classic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che: A Graphic Biography by Spain Rodriguez Publisher Comments Since his death in 1967, Ernesto “Che” Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.07 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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