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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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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Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing by Diana (edt) Paton Publisher Comments In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions—such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería—have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cuba : a Short History (93 Edition) by Leslie (ed.) Bethell Publisher Comments Cuba: A Short History brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 7 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for scholars, students and general readers a concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars in... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Caribbean Discourse (CARAF Books) by Edouard Glissant Publisher Comments Edouard Glissant's Caribbean Discourse is an unflaggingly ambitious attempt to read the Caribbean and the New World experience, not as a response to fixed, univocal meaning imposed by the past, but as an infinitely varied, dauntingly inexhaustible text.... (read more) Your price: $25.50 New - 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna (Caribbean Studies) by Christopher Taylor Publisher Comments The most detailed history of the Black Caribs of St... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Continent of Islands : Searching for the Caribbean Destiny (93 Edition) by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments In this richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean, Mark Kurlansky brings to life a society and culture often kept hidden from foreigners—the arts, history, politics, and economics of the region, as well as the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now by Amy Wilentz Publisher Comments The earthquake has unleashed a desperation I recognize from my long education in Haiti as the desperation of extreme poverty. A few blocks away, I heard an elderly Haitian arguing with an officer of the 82nd over a piece of rope or bungee cord the man... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - 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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Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba by Andres Oppenheimer Publisher Comments Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today by Yoani Sanchez Publisher Comments She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation. Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty Publisher Comments Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Prophet and Power : Jean-bertrand Aristide, Haiti, and the International Community (07 Edition) by Alex Dupuy Publisher Comments This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Swept to power in 1991 as the champion of Haiti's impoverished majority and their... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Power in Bermuda (Contemporary Black History) by Quito Swan Publisher Comments A transnational, pan-African youth movement, Black Power in Bermuda sought freedom for Blacks from the islands White oligarchy and independence from British colonialism. It was spearheaded by activists such as Pauulu Kamarakafego and the Black Beret... (read more) Your price: $36.95 New - Trade Paper
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Latin America and the Caribbean: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues by Kevin Hillstrom Publisher Comments Presents an overview of Latin America's and the Caribbean's present status and future outlook for economic, human, and environmental health.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $57.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Remedy: Being a Sequel to the African Slave Trade (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition) by Thomas Fowell Buxton Publisher Comments Thomas Fowell Buxton, M.P. (1786-1845) was a philanthropist who had many connections with the Quaker movement through the family of his wife, who was the sister of Henry Gurney and Elizabeth Fry. He was a passionate opponent of slavery, and campaigned to... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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Cuban Studies 27 by Jorge Pérez-López Publisher Comments Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $31.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Identity and Secession in the Caribbean: Tobago Versus Trinidad, 1889-1980 by Learie B. Luke Publisher Comments The book chronicles the Tobago movement for autonomy from Trinidad from the time of the union of these two Caribbean islands from 1889 to 1980 when Tobago gained internal self-government. It argues that the problems Tobagonians complained about in the... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet (Cambridge Library Collection - History) by Thomas Fowell Buxton Publisher Comments Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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