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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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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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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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Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech Publisher Comments Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia. Unlike other Western reporters, most of whom rarely leave Bogotá, Leech learns the truth about conflicts and the U... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 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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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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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. InMurder City,... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Rastafarians by Leonard E Barrett Publisher Comments The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines by Stephanie El Griest Publisher Comments Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social... (read more) List Price $15.00 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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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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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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A Brief History of Bolivia (Brief History) by Waltraud Queisr Morales Publisher Comments Recent decades have witnessed major reform within Bolivia: an impressive democratic and economic... (read more) List Price $58.50 Your price: $11.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521 by Bernal Del Castillo Publisher Comments Paperback reissue.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of a Revolutionary by Joseph Hart Publisher Comments Ernesto "Che" Guevara—medical doctor, chess player (he played Bobby Fischer by telephone in 1963), motorcycle rider, president of the Cuban National Bank, ruthless killer—would have celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday this June 14, had he... (read more) List Price $18.95 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 $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era by Dennis Gilbert Publisher Comments Mexicos modern middle class emerged in the decades after World War II, a period of spectacular economic growth and social change. Though little studied, the middle class now accounts for one in five Mexican households. This path-breaking book explores... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $16.07 Sale - Hardcover
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Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) by Deborah J Yashar Publisher Comments This book studies the indigenous political movements of Latin America in the twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $119.25 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba by Lois M Smith Publisher Comments The Cuban revolution attempted to make equality in every sphere the basic operating principle of society. Equality among the sexes, it postulated, would resolve the woman issue once and for all. Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba is the first... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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