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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: $5.50 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 Winner of the National Book Award 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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 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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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: $10.50 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 $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - 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 $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. 1 by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements all of which makes... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Survivors in Mexico by Rebecca West Publisher Comments Rebecca Wests never-before-published Survivors in Mexico brings to readers a daring and provocative work by a major twentieth-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art, and culture, it explores the inner lives of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now by Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America by John Charl Chasteen Publisher Comments Drawing on the most current scholarship, this concise text presents a direct, compelling narrative that spans six centuries and twenty countries. Carefully revised in light of recent Latin American history, the Second Edition introduces new maps, helpful... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (06 Edition) by Marina Sitrin Publisher Comments Cultural Writing, Latino/Latina Studies. HORIZONTALISM: VOICES OF POPULAR POWER IN ARGENTINA recounts the birth of the popular rebellion beginning in December 2001 as told by participants. The rebellion-of workers and the unemployed, of the middle class... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter Lafeber Publisher Comments This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. 2 by John L. Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 2 of two-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements all of which makes... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oscar Lopez Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance by Osacar Lopez Rivera Publisher Comments The life story of Puerto Rican freedom fighter and leader Oscar López Rivera, outlined in this book, is one of courage, valor, and sacrifice. In 1981, Oscar was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for which he is still... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone Publisher Comments "Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Death Without Weeping: Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nanc Scheper Hughes Synopsis Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of... (read more) List Price $46.75 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani by Rosita Arvigo Publisher Comments The compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo's quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador (Latin American Silhouettes) by Allen Gerlach Publisher Comments It is indispensable that Ecuador has peace, but to have peace you need freedom and to have freedom you need justice. And the Indian population needs justice.-President Gustavo Noboa, January 23, 2000 For five centuries, the Indians had very little... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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