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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin Publisher Comments Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu Publisher Comments Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo Publisher Comments The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller. This new, expanded... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) by Peter Wade Publisher Comments Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of blackness and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts -- from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Global Perspectives #1: Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation by Philip Scher Publisher Comments Presenting a broad understanding of the complex region of the Caribbean, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, a[HG1] nd Representation provides a variety of viewpoints on the rich spectrum of Caribbean culture. Essays... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 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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Ay, Cuba!: A Socio-Erotic Journey by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments Sensuous, exotic, gritty, contradictory -- Cuba in all its glory In Ay,Cuba!, Andrei Codrescu and David Graham seek the heart and soul of this island ninety miles off the Florida coast and yet a world away. Carousing with Cuban prostitutes, intellectuals,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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