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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman  Publisher Comments The eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia, known as the llanos, are among the most brutal environments on Earth, an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, more than twenty-five years ago, an intrepid...
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Sim-N Bol'var: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator
by Lester Langley Synopsis In this volume of essays on the life and legacy of Sim-n Bol'var, a distinguished group of historians takes a fresh look at the impact of the Liberator as warrior, political thinker and leader, internationalist, continentlist, reformer, and revolutionary....
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The Conquest of New Spain
by Bernal Diaz Publisher Comments Fifty years after the startling defeat of the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a magnificent account on his experience as a soldier in CortésÆs army....
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Hugo!: The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
by Bart Jones Publisher Comments Bart Jones knows Venezuela intimately and was an eyewitness to President Hugo Chavez's rise to power. In Hugo he tells the story of Chavez's impoverished childhood, his military career and the decade of clandestine political activity that ended in a...
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Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World
by Paul D. Stewart Publisher Comments Rocky, fragile, beautiful, strange: the Galápagos archipelago is unlike any other place on earth. Its geology, its unique flora and fauna, and its striking role in human history intersect in surprising and dynamic ways. This book is the most wide...
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El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar (Library of Latin America)
by Simon Bolivar Publisher Comments General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia...
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The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985
by Thomas E Skidmore Publisher Comments The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on...
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To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil
by Angus Lindsay Wright Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-357) and index....
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The History of Chile
by John L Rector Publisher Comments Within Chile is the driest desert in the world, the highest mountain range in the hemisphere, temperate rainforests, and a piece of Antarctica. In all these areas Chileans have created unique communities and, together, a vibrant nation. Chile's history...
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A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Boris Fausto Publisher Comments A comprehensive and readable account of 500 years of Brazilian history....
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A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile
by Mario I. Aguilar Book News Annotation The title leads readers to expect a continuation of the story where the first volume left off, in 1980. In fact, this is a biography of Henr...
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The Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation
by Research Coun National Research Council Synopsis In an age when society often believes "newer" is better, what happens when something "new" on the market is actually almost five centuries old? That is exactly the case with dozens of tasty, fascinating fruits, vegetables, and tubers that were once grown...
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The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000 (Ohio Ris Latin America)
by R. S. Rose Publisher Comments Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped an estimated four million slaves to Brazil?in contrast to the 500,000 slaves that English vessels brought to America. With such a vast number in servitude in Brazil, controlling them became of primary...
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Cowboy in Caracsa (07 Edition)
by Hardy Publisher Comments No president today is more controversial than Venezuela's Hugo Chvez Fras. Elected in a landslide in 1998, he promised a peaceful revolution. That peaceful dream became a nightmare when Chvez was overthrown in a coup d'tat in 2002. Surprisingly, he was...
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Brazil : Five Centuries of Change (99 Edition)
by Thomas E. Skidmore Publisher Comments With a land mass larger than the continental United States, a unique culture that is part European, African, and indigenous, and the largest economy in Latin America, Brazil is one of the most important--yet one of the least understood--nations in the...
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Memory of Fire Trilogy #01: Genesis
by Eduardo H. Galeano Synopsis From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to modern times, Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy offers an outstanding Latin-American eye view of the makings of the New World, presenting "nothing less than a...
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Latin America : Interpretive History (8TH 07 Edition)
by Bradford E. Burns Publisher Comments For courses in Modern Latin America. Organized thematically, this text offers a clear narrative that weaves together the story of an entire region, with coverage of broad themes and regional diffences. Despite the great diversity within the Latin America,...
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The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
by John Dinges Publisher Comments Behind the covert, international anti-terrorist network responsible for South America's worst human rights abuses. President Nixon had decided that an Allende regime was not acceptable to the United States. The President asked the agency to prevent...
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The Last Days of the Incas
by Kim MacQuarrie Publisher Comments In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the...
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An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
by Titu Cusi Yupanqui Synopsis Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui?the penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty?to a Spanish missionary and...
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