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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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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico, Reader : History, Culture, Politics (02 Edition) 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 $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Argentina Reader: History, Culture and Society (Latin America Readers) by Gabriela Nouzeilles Publisher Comments Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina?in all its complexity?has often been obscured by variations of the "like Europe and not like the rest of Latin... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Laurent Dubois Publisher Comments This volume details the first slave rebellion to have a successful outcome, leading to the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. Incited by the... (read more) List Price $19.90 Your price: $7.95 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guatemalan Journey by Stephen Benz Publisher Comments Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution by Armando Choy and Gustavo Chui and Moises Sio Wong Synopsis A chapter in the chronicle of the Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong — three young rebels of Chinese-Cuban ancestry — threw themselves into the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (Pitt Latin American) by Kenneth P Serbin Publisher Comments Secret Dialogues uncovers an unexpected development in modern Latin American history: the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship. During the brutal term of Emílio... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin Classics) by Bartolome De Las Casas Publisher Comments No work is a stronger, more exacting, heartbreaking record of the Spanish atrocities in the genocidal enterprise of colonization in the Americas. This account provides an eyewitnessÆs history of the process in the territory of Columbus.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our America and Theirs: Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress--The Debate at Punta del Este by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments To check the spread of revolution in Latin America in 1961, Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress—a program for free trade and development in the Americas. Che Guevara , described by Time magazine as “Cuba’s scraggle-bearded... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments Since Alma Guillermoprieto became The New Yorker's Latin American correspondent a decade ago, she has emerged as the most informed and admired writer on her part of the world. In these superb pieces of reportage and analysis she anatomizes a region we... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Staff Pick Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela by Kurt Weyland Publisher Comments "Kurt Weyland has written an important book. From now on, it will be very hard to write about Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela or about complex political transitions without relying on the findings and insights that he offers here."--Moises Naim... (read more) List Price $45.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Real Venezuela (09 Edition) by Iain Bruce Publisher Comments Venezuela has become a huge source of hope and inspiration for the Left throughout the world. Some see it as a shining example of how to begin building a successful socialist state, but Western leaders see it as a dangerous enemy and accuse Chá... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chvez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chvez, Tariq Ali shows... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad by Frances R. Aparicio and Susana Chavez-Silverman Publisher Comments A new conceptual lexicon challenges the colonizing discourses that traditionally represent Latinas/os.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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