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by Armando Valladares  Publisher Comments Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his deep... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Emily Hatchwell Publisher Comments In its fourth decade of revolution, Cuba is facing massive challenges. "Cuba in Focus" is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country. It explores the land, history and politics, economy, society and people, culture and includes... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kulsum Ahmed Publisher Comments Recognition of the problem of "indoor air pollution" (IAP) and its deleterious effects on health is growing worldwide as efforts increase to understand and articulate the complex health-air pollution linkages. Recent WHO estimates indicate that indoor... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorge Masetti Publisher Comments In this riveting book, Masetti takes the reader inside the war room of the Cuban revolution. His life involved international revolutionary intrigue: smuggling diamonds and ivory; counterfeiting U.S. dollars; trafficking in narcotics. He served in Angola... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leycester Coltman Publisher Comments Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, this timely book, the most intimate and dispassionate biography of Fidel Castro to date, offers a fresh assessment of the revolutionary leader. Written by the British ambassador to Cuba in the early 1990s, it... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M. Carmack Book News Annotation An ethnohistory of the Quiche-Maya Indians, who have lived in the western highlands of Guatemala since prehispanic times, focusing on their struggle to retain their ethnic and cultural identity in the face of relentless external pressures. Carmack... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elisa Burgos Debray Publisher Comments Illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman, I, Rigoberta Menchu recounts experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Craig Roberts Publisher Comments The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sparked considerable interest and speculation on the part of Western observers. Less noted, though hardly... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey T Jackson Publisher Comments In The Globalizers, author Jeffrey T. Jackson studies globalization and development aid in Honduras. While many scholars focus on the transnational corporation, Jackson believes that the international development profession may be even more important for... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Diebel Publisher Comments Despite a note beside her body addressed to other “ sons-of-bitch” human rights lawyers, the Mexican government ruled Digna Ochoa’ s violent death “ probable suicide” and slammed the case shut in July... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Mccoy Synopsis This anthology showcases the work of Cuban and American writers and photographers, offering an insight into life in the island nation. It aims to give a balanced portrayal of the complex realities of modern Cuba, and essays and images are linked to... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Madison Smartt Bell Publisher Comments In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eugenio Bersani Publisher Comments The Countries of the World series brings together top travel writing and beautiful photographs from the four corners of the Earth. Each volume is a snapshot of the country, its landscape, its culture, its people, its architecture and heritage.... (read more) Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Jam Higgins Publisher Comments Together they also wrote "Oigame! Oigame!: Struggle and Social Change in a Nicaraguan Urban Community".... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald L Herman Publisher Comments Venezuela and Columbia both have two-sided structures of democracy. They combine the Liberal Democratic/Anglo-American model and the Latin American model. The first includes the procedural norms of free elections, citizen participation, individual rights,... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by iain maclean Publisher Comments Maclean (Western religious thought, James Madison University) examines Brazilian liberation theology and its understanding of democracy within its ecclesiastical and national political contexts. He contends that the original theoretical paradigm of... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurent Dubois Publisher Comments The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ja Kelly De Escobar Publisher Comments Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray in the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (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 $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy P Appelbaum Publisher Comments Based on cutting-edge research, these 12 essays examine connections between race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-independence era. They reveal how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time and across the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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