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Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon
Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon
by Trisha Ziff
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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)

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
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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)

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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
by John Paul Rathbone
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"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)

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Haiti After the Earthquake
Haiti After the Earthquake
by Paul Farmer
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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)

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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman
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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)

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Che: Self Portrait
Che: Self Portrait
by Ernesto Che Guevara
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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... (read more)

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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
by Jon Anderson
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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)

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World of Music #1: Latin America
World of Music #1: Latin America
by Andrew Solway
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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)

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Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (Native American)
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (Native American)
by Diego De Landa
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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)

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Che: A Graphic Biography
Che: A Graphic Biography
by Sid Jacobson
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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)

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Che Guevara: A Manga Biography
Che Guevara: A Manga Biography
by Chie Shimano
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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)

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Incidents of Travel in Central Amer Volume 1
Incidents of Travel in Central Amer Volume 1
by John Lloyd Stephens
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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)

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The Zapatista Reader
The Zapatista Reader
by Tom Hayden
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The electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year's Day, 1994, has provided inspiration for activists all over the world. A... (read more)

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The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica
The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica
by Ian Thomson
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Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for... (read more)

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Amexica: War Along the Borderline
Amexica: War Along the Borderline
by Ed Vulliamy
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Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—“a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither”—as the narco-war escalates to a fever... (read more)

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Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
by Marc Gonsalves
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On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors--Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell--crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood... (read more)

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Recollection of a Provincial Past: Recuerdos de Provincia (Library of Latin America)
Recollection of a Provincial Past: Recuerdos de Provincia (Library of Latin America)
by Sarmiento
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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)

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Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission
Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission
by Richard L Harris
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Richard L. Harris includes in this updatededition of Death of a Revolutionary new revelations about Che's revolutionary legacy and discusses the renewed interest in hisrevolutionary ideas stimulated by the electionof leftist governments throughout Latin... (read more)

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Che: A Graphic Biography
Che: A Graphic Biography
by Spain Rodriguez
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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 into his story,... (read more)

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Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon
Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon
by Trisha Ziff
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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)

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