Special Offers see all
More at Powell'sLatin America
Used Aisles
|
Latin America
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects by Robert Rotberg Publisher Comments This book provides an agenda for President Prval and his successors, one that examines both Haiti's political culture--its historical legacy and what that means for future reconstruction--and many of its most critical political, economic, and social... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Searching for El Dorado: A Journey Into the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush by Marc Herman Publisher Comments The real land of El Dorado, deep in the Amazon rainforest, is a far cry from the mythical city of gold: though its soil could potentially yield billions of dollars, Guyana is a nation of “gilded paupers,” one of the very poorest countries in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Fontova Publisher Comments An iconic symbol of violent revolution, Ernesto and#147;Cheand#8221; Guevera has gone down in history as one of the most feared revolutionaries of the late twentieth century. But until now, details of his capture and execution have been told with a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective by Peter H Smith Publisher Comments Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective examines processes of democratization in Latin America from 1900 to the present. Organized thematically, with a unique historical perspective, the book provides a widespread view of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by Jonathan Franklin Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010. Franklin, with his renowned eye for detail and dialogue, captures the remarkable... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Fidel and Gabo: A Portrait of the Legendary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Angel Esteban Publisher Comments Few contemporary writers are more revered by Americans than Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. And few political leaders are more reviled than Fidel Castro. Yet these... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacan, 1920-1935 by Christopher R Boyer Publisher Comments “...a well-written and compelling study...”—American Historical Review “...a wonderful and compelling account of the politics of agrarismo in Michoacan.”—The... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Neighborly Adversaries by Michael Larosa Publisher Comments The history of U.S.DLatin American relations has been marked by a complex fusion of tension, misperception, intervention, and cooperation. Providing a balanced and interdisciplinary interpretation, this comprehensive text reader traces the troubled... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
My Early Years by Fidel Castro and Deborah Shnookal Publisher Comments An exclusive collection of Fidel Castro’s own remarkably frank writings about his formative years. This new, expanded edition, featuring a brilliant introductory essay by Gabriel García Márquez, includes previously... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Susan C Stokes Publisher Comments Does it matter when politicians ignore the promises they made and the preferences of their constituents? If politicians want to be reelected or see their party reelected at the end of their term, why would they impose unpopular policies? Susan Stokes... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Sastun : My Apprenticeship With Maya Healer (94 Edition) 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: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Girondins of Chile: Reminiscences of an Eyewitness (Library of Latin America) by Ben Vicuna Mackenna Publisher Comments The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicu�a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant Publisher Comments Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ambos Nogales: Intimate Portraits of the U.S.-Mexico Border by Maeve Hickey Publisher Comments Evoking startling contrasts, brutalities, radiant beauty and resilient people, these astonishing black-and-white photographs and penetrating essays reveal the ironic embrace of Nogales. In Nogales, Arizona, pampered California produce brokers in their... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Engendering Latin America #7: Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904 by Arlene J Diaz Publisher Comments Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela examines the effects that liberalism had on gender relations in the process of state formation in Caracas from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century. The 1811 Venezuelan constitution granted... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Georges Woke Up Laughing- PB by Nina Glick Schiller Publisher Comments Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism, the voicelessness of certain... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Death and the Idea of Mexico by Claud Lomnitz Adler Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to... (read more) List Price $35.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Mexicos Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge by W Dirk Raat Publisher Comments The Tarahumara, "people of the edge," live on the boundaries of civilization, in the mountains and canyonlands of Mexicos Sierra Tarahumara. There, in southwestern Chihuahua, terrain terminates at the edge of canyons; their mountains border the sky. In... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
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
add to wish list |
|
Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela by Sujatha Fernandes Publisher Comments In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
«prev 1 ... 38 39 40 41 42 next»