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Amazon Past Present & Future
by Alain Gheerbrant  Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Lima Peru: Featuring the Work of Over 100 Peruvian Artists
by Mario Testino Publisher Comments Even as Mario Testino has become a royal image-maker in England and in Hollywood, where his portraits define the new glamour for a generation of stars, models and celebrities, he has cherished visions of the elegance and endless beaches of Lima, the city...
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Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
by Candace Slater Publisher Comments Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of...
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Walker Evans: Cuba
by Walker Evans Publisher Comments In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship...
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Shabono
by Florinda Donner Publisher Comments Shabano -- the name for the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live -- recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologists Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tribe in the...
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Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies)
by William M Denevan Publisher Comments Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted...
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Penlake: Reflections on Peninsula Lake
by Boston Mills Press Publisher Comments Welcome to Penlake! Here lies the fascinating story of pioneer life and early cottaging on one of Muskoka's most beautiful and pristine lakes. In its 150 historical photographs and lovingly researched text, "Penlake" captures the essence of cottage...
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Port Carling: The Hub of the Muskoka Lakes
by Richard Tatley Publisher Comments This delightful illustrated book examines how the village evolved into today's charming community....
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Cuba: The Land, the People
by Rick Graetz Publisher Comments Landscapes and people of contemporary Cuba. Bilingual captions. 150 color photographs....
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Sons of the moon :a journey in the Andes
by Henry Shukman Book News Annotation A well-observed and well-written traveler's tale centering an the Aymara, the native people of the Altiplano, the austere highlands of the Bolivian Andes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation & Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination
by Candace Slater Publisher Comments In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are encantados, or Enchanted Beings, capable of...
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Yesterday's Soldiers: European Military Professionalism in South America, 1890-1940
by Frederick M Nunn Publisher Comments Between 1980 and World War II, South America experienced the unsettling first stages of modernization. During this half-century of economic, political, and social change, the armies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru underwent a process of...
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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 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 surrealist in Mexico in the 1930s, to the American Paul...
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Postcard-Mexico
by Browntrout Publishers Synopsis BrownTrout postcard books are first and foremost beautiful little books. There are over 120 subjects ranging from the sublime (Desert Light) to the slightly ridiculous (Outhouses). Each card is a token which reflects two directions: upon the addressee...
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Portrait of the Caribbean
by Bob Krist Synopsis A turquoise sea, exotic flowers and fruits, verdant forests, colorful markets, and lively cities: this is the Caribbean that comes through in the brilliant photos of Bob Krist....
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Patagonia: Land of Giants
by Daniel Rivademar Publisher Comments Patagonia: Land of Giants captures the wonders of the Patagonian landscape in hundreds of stunning color photographs by famed Argentine nature photographer Daniel...
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The Uttermost Part of the Earth
by E Lucas Bridges
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Modernization & Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics
by Guillermo Odonnell
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Out of the Shadows
by Jo Fisher
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Desires and Disguises: Latin American Women Photographers
by Amanda Hopkinson TOC Preface -- Image hunters / Elena Poniatowska -- Portobelo, Panama / Sandra Eleta -- Chilean disguises / Paz Errâazuriz -- Ways of the cross in Guatemala / Marâia Cristina Orive -- The streets of Buenos Aires / Sara Facio -- Mexican street gangs of Los...
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