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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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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Nation of Enemies by Pamela Constable Publisher Comments How Chile, once South America's most stable democracy, gave way to a culture of fear. The authors explain and illuminate the rift in Chilean society that widened dramatically during the Pinochet era.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments On February 29, 2004, the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The president was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, by American soldiers and flown to the isolated Central... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments National Book Award-winning memoir of exile from a tangerine-colored paradise: “Eire has done a splendid job….Masterfully written, bursting with wonderful details and images and populated by characters so well described that they seem to be... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Invented Country : a Memoir (03 Edition) by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the most important voices coming out of Latin America," the best-selling author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for the first time his profound and provocative journey as an exile... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings 2001-2007 (City Lights Open Media) by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos Publisher Comments Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon—which Publishers Weekly described as “strong as dignity and as subtle as love”—Mexico’s enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cuba 3RD Edition Between Reform & Revolution by Louis A Perez Publisher Comments Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy Publisher Comments At one gilded moment, his fame was so great that he was recognized all over the world simply by his nickname: Rubi. Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. The gigantic peppermills brandished... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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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) List Price $25.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T J English Publisher Comments To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob—with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin America in the Middle Period, 1750-1929 (Latin American Silhouettes) by Stuart F Voss Publisher Comments The customary division of Latin American history into colonial and modern periods has come into question recently. This new book demonstrates that there was a middle period in Latin America's historical evolution since the European Conquest-one no... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century by David Bushnell Publisher Comments Here for the first time is a comprehensive yet compact history of Latin America in the formative period from independence to 1880. Covering all the major countries, The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century combines a review of the issues... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C L R James Publisher Comments A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers) by Gilbert M Joseph Publisher Comments The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolutionary Horizons : Popular Struggle in Bolivia (07 Edition) by Forrest Hylton Publisher Comments Praise for Forrest Hylton's Evil Hour in Colombia: "A brilliant navigation of a complex and tragic history." Mike Davis Praise for Sinclair Thomson's We Alone Will Rule: "One of the most brilliant books written on colonial Andean history in years." Steve... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Mary Prince (Penguin Classics) by Mary Prince Publisher Comments The first (1831) life of a black woman to be published in Britain. New in Penguin Classics.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara (Sutton Pocket Biographies) by Andrew Sinclair Publisher Comments 'I was born in Argentina. I fought in Cuba, and I began to be a revolutionary in Guatemala.' Che Guevara was the most admired and beloved revolutionary of his time, the first man since Simon Bolivar seriously to plan to unite the countries of Latin... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Columbian Exchange Biological by A W Crosby Synopsis "The best thing about this book is its overarching thesis, the concept of a Columbian exchange. This provocative device permits Crosby to shape a lot of familiar and seemingly unrelated data into a fresh synthesis. . . . The implications of this... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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