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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
by John Phillip Santos  Synopsis In this beautifully wrought memoir, an award-winning writer weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the soul of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people....
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The Labyrinth of Solitude
by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y...
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Waiting for Fidel
by Christopher Hunt Synopsis The New York Times says, "Christopher Hunt makes a lively travel companion." This time he has set his sights on Cuba, where crumbling but elegant facades overlook shady street activities, where vintage Ford Fairlanes rumble past Soviet Ladas in the fast...
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Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Eva Peron
by John Barnes Publisher Comments Eva Peron was a star and a legend during her lifetime, one of the most alluring women of the twentieth century. Through the hit Broadway musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, her story became famous, and with the release of the film starring Madonna as...
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Footsteps in the jungle :adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics
by Jonathan Eva Maslow Publisher Comments Adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics, related by the prize-winning naturalist writer....
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Eva Peron: A Biography
by Alicia Dujovn Ortiz Publisher Comments This bestselling biography of Eva Peron reveals the true story behind Madonna's film portrayal of the fascinating woman known as "Evita". No other female political leader in the twentieth century is surrounded by more mythology and more romantic lore...
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The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History
by David Sinclair Publisher Comments Once upon a time, in the heart of Central America, there was a country named Poyais. It was exceptionally rich in resources, civilization, and culture and was ruled by the brave and enlightened Scottish soldier, Sir Gregor MacGregor, who became its ruler...
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Charreria Mexicana: An Equestrian Folk Tradition
by Kathleen Sands Synopsis Charreria celebrates an equestrian tradition whose roots are in sixteenth-century Spain but which developed into a unique form of horsemanship in the physical and cultural landscapes of the New World. It is an enormously popular tradition in Mexico...
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The Rebel Radio Diary
by Rupert Mould Publisher Comments Beautifully evocative of the music, people, and culture of one of the most fascinating countries in the world, this book is essential reading for Cuba's growing band of supporters and visitors. A travelogue detailing two separate missions for musician...
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Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas
by Auro Levins Morales Publisher Comments Full of medical folklore and healing tales, Remedios presents the history of the many women-and cultures-who have met at the crossroads of the islands of Puerto Rico. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago...
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Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca
by Michael Jam Higgins Publisher Comments Diversity characterizes the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within this city of half a million, residents are rising against traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles, and expanding access for the disabled. In this rich ethnography of...
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Bolivia (Oxfam Country Profiles)
by Marcela Lopez Levy Synopsis More rural people live below the poverty line in Bolivia than in any other country in the world. While the country's rich natural resources are controlled and exploited by a privileged minority, the indigenous majority struggle to subsist on the poorest...
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Selected Writings of Andres Bello (Library of Latin America)
by Fran Lopez-morillas Publisher Comments Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major...
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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
by Stephen G Bunker Publisher Comments Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that...
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Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman
by J M Taylor Publisher Comments Eva Perón, one of the most powerful women in the world at the time of her death in 1952, rose from humble origins to international renown as First Lady of Argentina and the force behind the throne of her husband Juan Perón. Despite her immense...
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Leonora: The Buried Story of Guadeloupe (CARAF Books)
by Dany Bebel Gisler Synopsis Leonora is very important text that, as it follows the different stages of Leonora's development, introduces the reader to the political, social, and personal struggles of a segment of Guadeloupean society whose story is seldom told....
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The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Twentieth Century: The Twentieth Century
by William H Beezley Synopsis This unique collection emphasizes the human element in the study of Latin American history by focusing on the lives of twenty-three men, women, and children. Though they differ widely from each other in background and circumstance, these individuals...
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Revolution in the Americas
by Barry H Barlow Publisher Comments Tracing the emergence of modern revolutions to the early 1500s and setting the stage by comparing and contrasting the main revolutionary movements from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, this book examines modern revolutionary movements in Latin...
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Answered Prayers: Miracles and Milagros Along the Border (Southwest Center)
by Eileen Oktavec Synopsis When Catholics in the Southwest ask God or a saint for help, many of them do not merely pray. They also promise or present a gift - a tiny metal object known as a milagro. A milagro, which means "miracle" in Spanish, depicts the object for which a...
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A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile (Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's)
by Marjorie Agosin Synopsis In this unique memoir, renowned poet, fiction writer, critic, and activist Marjorie Agosin writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, the daughter of European Jewish immigrants, living in Chile in the years before, during, and after World War II. Frida...
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