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by Ariel Dorfman Publisher Comments Acclaimed Chilean novelist, playwright, and poet Ariel Dorfman takes readers on a fascinating trip through the exotic and forbidding desert of Northern Chile, where he seeks out ghost towns, prehistoric human remains, family origins, and even a... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bonnie Hayman Publisher Comments Hayman situates Modotti (1896-1942) profoundly within her social period from her 1913 emigration from Udine, Italy, to San Francisco to a full-fledged member of the intellectual wing of the Mexican Communist Party. She became the lover of Cuban... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Carlos Lechuga Publisher Comments A fascinating insight into one of the most serious episodes of the Cold War written by a key protagonist, Cuba's ambassador to the UN Carlos Lechuga, who for the first time reveals Kennedy's overtures for a dialogue with Castro.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nicholas Fraser Publisher Comments In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alan Riding Publisher Comments A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steve (edt) Striffler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Holligan De Diaz Lim Publisher Comments This new series of country guides is designed for travellers and students who want to understand the wider picture and build up an overall knowledge of a country. Each In Focus guide is a lively and thought-provoking introduction to the country's people,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Sinclair Publisher Comments Once upon a time, in the heart of Central America, there was a country named Poyais. It was exceptionally rich in natural resources, civilization, and culture and was ruled by the brave and enlightened Scottish soldier, Sir Gregor MacGregor, who became... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry B Parkes Publisher Comments The book begins with an examination of Indian Mexico and continues with the Spanish Conquest, New Spain, the War of Independence, the age of Santa Anna, the reform, the reign of Diaz, the revolution, and the period of reconstruction.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Victor Perera Synopsis A journalist and anthropologist describe their stay among a Mexican Indian tribe descended from the Maya and recount what they learned of the Indian's mythology and culture.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Benjamin S Orlove Publisher Comments Part ethnography, part natural history, part memoir, Ben Orlove's book reflects on the changes that have taken place over 30 years in the fishing villages along the shores of Lake Titicaca.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Andrew J Rodriguez Publisher Comments Fueled by love of family, of country, and of each other, a young couple must face the most wrenching of choices: remain in the country they cherish, lose the wealth and position their families strove for generations to attain, and watch their children... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Migue Leon Portilla Publisher Comments 'In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Vijay Prashad Publisher Comments Dispatches charts Latin America's aspirations and challenges. From the laboratory of neoliberalism-popularly known as globalization -Latin America has transformed itself into a launching pad for resistance. As globalization began to spread its... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dave Schaefer Publisher Comments The color, mystique and irrepressible spirit of Cuba come alive as the author sails to the old haunts of his lifelong hero, Ernest Hemmingway.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jan Rogozinski Publisher Comments This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than 500 years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. The superbly written history, revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by C M Mayo Publisher Comments Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Here are writings — many translated... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Barnes Publisher Comments Eva Peron was a star and a legend during her lifetime, one of the most alluring women of the twentieth century. Through the hit Broadway musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, her story became famous, and with the release of the film starring Madonna as... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Wood Publisher Comments An exciting historical journey which follows the Spanish conquistadors through Central and South America.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments At last, Che on Che! Discover the personal side of the legendary Che Guevara in a way never before revealed to the world. This book includes many unpublished short stories and poems written to his wife and children, as well as photos from the Guevara... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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