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De verde a Maduro
El sucesor de Hugo Chavez
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.00
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
El sucesor de Hugo Chavez
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.00
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
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De verde a Maduro
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.99
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.99
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
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A MIRACLE, A UNIVERSE
SETTLIN
Written by Lawrence Weschler
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $18.99
In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority... Read more >
SETTLIN
Written by Lawrence Weschler
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $18.99
In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority... Read more >
Redentores
Ideas y poder en latinoamerica
Written by Enrique Krauze
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $6.99
Desde José Martí hasta Octavio Paz, Eva Perón hasta Gabriel García Márquez, los países latinoamericanos han producido algunos de los escritores, revolucionarios, pensadores y lideres más influyentes del mundo, cuyas vidas han contribuido colectivamente a las ideas centrales que dominan la política, filosofía y literatura de la región. Esas ideas son... Read more >
Ideas y poder en latinoamerica
Written by Enrique Krauze
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $6.99
Desde José Martí hasta Octavio Paz, Eva Perón hasta Gabriel García Márquez, los países latinoamericanos han producido algunos de los escritores, revolucionarios, pensadores y lideres más influyentes del mundo, cuyas vidas han contribuido colectivamente a las ideas centrales que dominan la política, filosofía y literatura de la región. Esas ideas son... Read more >
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Basta de historias!
La obsesion latinoamericana con el pasado y las 12 claves del futuro
Written by Andres Oppenheimer
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $9.99
Periodista cardinal y siempre dispuesto a desafiar las modas políticas del momento con inteligencia y humor, Andrés Oppenheimer demuestra en este libro que mejorar sustancialmente la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación no es tarea imposible. Pero sí tremendamente necesaria. La razón es simple: el XXI será el siglo de... Read more >
La obsesion latinoamericana con el pasado y las 12 claves del futuro
Written by Andres Oppenheimer
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $9.99
Periodista cardinal y siempre dispuesto a desafiar las modas políticas del momento con inteligencia y humor, Andrés Oppenheimer demuestra en este libro que mejorar sustancialmente la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación no es tarea imposible. Pero sí tremendamente necesaria. La razón es simple: el XXI será el siglo de... Read more >
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Panama 1989-90
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.95
In December 1989 US Army forces, supported by the US Air Force and US Navy, participated in Operation 'Just Cause'--the invasion of Panama. A combination of airborne, helicopter and ground assaults quickly secured key objectives and eliminated organized resistance. Beginning with a brief history of US-Panama relations and the development of... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.95
In December 1989 US Army forces, supported by the US Air Force and US Navy, participated in Operation 'Just Cause'--the invasion of Panama. A combination of airborne, helicopter and ground assaults quickly secured key objectives and eliminated organized resistance. Beginning with a brief history of US-Panama relations and the development of... Read more >
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TEN KEYS LAT AMER V312
Written by Frank Tannenbaum
Format: eBook, 180 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99
"A solid background review of contemporary Latin America by an expert who has spent forty years during the region and writing and lecturing about it."
- Foreign Policy Association
"Anything Frank Tannenbaum writes about Latin America is required reading."
- Rex. D. Hopper, American Sociological Review
"Professor Tannenbaum has given us ten keys... Read more >
Written by Frank Tannenbaum
Format: eBook, 180 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99
"A solid background review of contemporary Latin America by an expert who has spent forty years during the region and writing and lecturing about it."
- Foreign Policy Association
"Anything Frank Tannenbaum writes about Latin America is required reading."
- Rex. D. Hopper, American Sociological Review
"Professor Tannenbaum has given us ten keys... Read more >
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Utopia Unarmed
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Written by Jorge G. Castaneda
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $14.99
Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they... Read more >
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Written by Jorge G. Castaneda
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $14.99
Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they... Read more >
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Che's Afterlife
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Redentores
Ideas y poder en latinoamerica
Written by Enrique Krauze
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $17.00
Desde José Martí hasta Octavio Paz, Eva Perón hasta Gabriel García Márquez, los países latinoamericanos han producido algunos de los escritores, revolucionarios, pensadores y lideres más influyentes del mundo, cuyas vidas han contribuido colectivamente a las ideas centrales que dominan la política, filosofía y literatura de la región. Esas ideas son... Read more >
Ideas y poder en latinoamerica
Written by Enrique Krauze
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $17.00
Desde José Martí hasta Octavio Paz, Eva Perón hasta Gabriel García Márquez, los países latinoamericanos han producido algunos de los escritores, revolucionarios, pensadores y lideres más influyentes del mundo, cuyas vidas han contribuido colectivamente a las ideas centrales que dominan la política, filosofía y literatura de la región. Esas ideas son... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Manana Forever?
Mexico and the Mexicans
Written by Jorge G. Castaneda
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $16.95
Mexico and the Mexicans
Written by Jorge G. Castaneda
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $16.95
In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of politics and culture of modern Mexico.
Here’s a nation of 110 million that has an ambivalent and complicated relationship with the United States yet is host to more...
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Perla
Written by Carolina De Robertis
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.95
A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced... Read more >
Written by Carolina De Robertis
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.95
A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced... Read more >
Perla
Written by Carolina De Robertis
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced... Read more >
Written by Carolina De Robertis
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced... Read more >
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Perla
Written by Carolina De Robertis
Read by Carolina De Robertis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $20.00
A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced... Read more >
Written by Carolina De Robertis
Read by Carolina De Robertis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $20.00
A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced... Read more >
My Name is Victoria
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $12.99
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $12.99
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the...
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My Name is Victoria
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Translated by Magda Bolin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.95
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the... Read more >
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Translated by Magda Bolin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.95
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the... Read more >
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eBook.
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Rescate La Historia de los 33
Written by Andrew Chernin
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $15.00
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Written by Andrew Chernin
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $15.00
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River of Darkness
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $27.00
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $27.00
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
River of Darkness
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $15.99
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $15.99
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Death of Ben Linder
The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua
Written by Joan Kruckewitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story.
In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American... Read more >
The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua
Written by Joan Kruckewitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story.
In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American... Read more >
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
Written by William H. Prescott
Introduction by James Lockhart
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $17.99
"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view... Read more >
Written by William H. Prescott
Introduction by James Lockhart
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $17.99
"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Basta de historias!
La obsesión latinoamericana con el pasado y las 12 claves del futuro
Written by Andres Oppenheimer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.95
Periodista cardinal y siempre dispuesto a desafiar las modas políticas del momento con inteligencia y humor, Andrés Oppenheimer demuestra en este libro que mejorar sustancialmente la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación no es tarea imposible. Pero sí tremendamente necesaria. La razón es simple: el XXI será el siglo de... Read more >
La obsesión latinoamericana con el pasado y las 12 claves del futuro
Written by Andres Oppenheimer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.95
Periodista cardinal y siempre dispuesto a desafiar las modas políticas del momento con inteligencia y humor, Andrés Oppenheimer demuestra en este libro que mejorar sustancialmente la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación no es tarea imposible. Pero sí tremendamente necesaria. La razón es simple: el XXI será el siglo de... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Che's Afterlife
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.95
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael J. Casey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.95
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile
Written by Patrick Symmes
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.95
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement... Read more >
Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile
Written by Patrick Symmes
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.95
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement... Read more >
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Cuba Confidential
Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
Written by Ann Louise Bardach
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
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 political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring... Read more >
Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
Written by Ann Louise Bardach
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
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 political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring... Read more >
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