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by Ernesto Che Guevara  
Publisher Comments Special movie tie-in edition of Che Guevara's youthful travel diaries to coincide with the Fall release of Redford and Salles's film of the book. Says director Walter Salles: "If the film reaches a younger audience, I hope it will inspire people to read... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments This is Che Guevara's last diary, compiled from the notebooks found in his knapsack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and subsequently executed. It is the basis of a new biopic directed by Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eduardo Galeano Synopsis A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive expos? which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read.--Choice"Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study."--Library... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francisco Goldman Publisher Comments Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Samuel Truett Publisher Comments Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Ras Publisher Comments Table of Contents Northern Zone: Carmen Naranjo "Believe It or Not" Jose Leon Sanchez "The Girl Who Came from the Moon" Mario Gonzalez Feo "Bucho Vargas, Healer and Medicine Man" San Jose and the Central Valley: Yolanda Oreamuno "The Lizard with the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilda Barrio and Gareth Jenkins Publisher Comments The Che Handbook gives new life to the values and thinking of the Che Guevara behind the legend, a man who was at once sensitive, passionate, and determined to pursue his socialist dreams to their conclusion. A unique collection of intimate photographs... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Cohan Publisher Comments We walk the dimly lit town, along its Moorish walls of roseate hues. In the small, thronged central plaza, we sit on an iron bench gazing up at a quirky dripcastle church, its spires embedded in full complement of stars. Drop it, something whispers. Just... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Danielle Follmi Publisher Comments A cradle of Nobel Prize winners and a font of ancient wisdom, Latin America provides a wealth of sublime source material for the husband-and-wife creative team of Danielle and Olivier Föllmi. In the latest installment in their Offerings for Humanity... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by B Diaz Del Castillo 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.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nikolas Kozloff Publisher Comments In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elisa Burgos Debray Synopsis Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Robb Publisher Comments Combining travel, history, culture, and his own memories of twenty years of Brazilian life, the author of Midnight in Sicily delves into the past and present of a country that affects our imagination like few other places on earth From his own near... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Trisha Ziff Publisher Comments An iconic photo of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was taken in 1960 that is now thought to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography. What comes to mind when you see this picture? Most likely words like “revolution” and “hero... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Phillip Santos Synopsis In this beautifully wrought memoir, an award-winning writer weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the soul of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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