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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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Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti by Michael Deibert Publisher Comments Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous... (read more) List Price $22.95 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 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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Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara by Andrew Sinclair Publisher Comments These features, which are fully complemented with posters, intimate photographs and other ephemera, will ensure that this is an essential purchase for anyone interested in this enduring icon, and the legacy he left behind.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus by Mirta Ojito Publisher Comments Finding Maandntilde;ana is a vibrant, moving memoir of one family's life in Cuba and their wrenching departure. Mirta Ojito was born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, one teenager... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mexico Through Foreign Eyes: Visto Por Ojos Extranjeros, 1850-1990 by Carole Naggar Publisher Comments For the wandering photographer perhaps no country, over photography's century-and-a-half history, has had the consistent allure and been the site of so many artistic breakthroughs as Mexico. From Henri Cartier-Bresson, who flowered as a masterful... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cuba: The Sights, Sounds, Flavors, and Faces by Francois Missen Publisher Comments The people, architecture, cuisine, and natural beauty of Cuba come to life in this gorgeous, one-of-a-kind tribute to this fascinating island country This rich, visually stunning book gives a full and unprecedented look at the once forbidden island of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Aztec City-State Capitals (Ancient Cities of the New World) by Michael E. Smith Publisher Comments The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the thirteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1521. Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, various urban centers ruled the numerous city-states that covered the central Mexican landscape. Aztec... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $26.00 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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Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber Publisher Comments This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Hugo Chavez by Cristina Marcano Publisher Comments This major new biography of the controversial Chvez is an in-depth profile of a new kind of South American leader--a man who is taking a daring place on the global stage with the grassroots socialist movement that is sweeping his native Venezuela. 16... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History by Robert H Holden Publisher Comments Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History brings together the most important documents on the history of the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. In addition to the standard... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do by Andres Oppenheimer Publisher Comments “Once again, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Andres Oppenheimer shows his deep understanding of the dramatic changes in Latin America, and the impact of Americas ongoing indifference to the region. For anyone seeking to understand Latin Americas... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Sale - Hardcover
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What Was Communism? #02: The Cuban Drumbeat: Castro's Worldview: Cuban Foreign Policy in a Hostile World by Piero Gleijeses Publisher Comments Reflecting on Cubas unique foreign policy—both its meaning and its legacy—and how Cuba has adjusted to a world dominated by the United States, Piero Gleijeses asserts in The Cuban Drumbeat that it has been a policy without equal in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Hardcover
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People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru by Noble David Cook Publisher Comments While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba, 19591965 by Don Bohning Publisher Comments New revelations about the secret war against... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.77 Sale - Trade Paper
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Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission by Richard L Harris Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fidel Castro: The Declarations of Havana (Revolutions) by Fidel Castro Publisher Comments 'Revolutions: classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today’s radical writers. This essential series features classic texts by key figures who took center stage during a period of insurrection. Each book is introduced by a major contemporary... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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