Narcoleaks
Written by Wilbert Torre
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
A partir de una exhaustiva clasificación de los cables mexicanos de Wikileaks, el análisis de archivos nacionales y documentos clasificados del departamento de Estado norteamericano, esta investigación aborda con gran rigor y detalle uno de los temas más controvertidos de los tiempos recientes: el papel de Estados Unidos en la guerra...
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La Guerra De Los Zetas
Written by Diego Osorno
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
Sin duda, Los Zetas es uno de los grupos más poderosos y sanguinarios del narcotráfico en México. Este libro documenta puntualmente su historia y las complejas redes que lo conforman. Al investigar las particularidades de lo que se podría denominar el «enigma Z», Diego Osorno advierte los riesgos que corre el...
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Los Mitos Que Nos Dieron Traumas
Written by Juan Miguel Zuzunegui
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $12.00
Vamos a mandar a México a unas cuantas sesiones de psicoterapia. Cinco serán suficientes para que, analizando algunos de sus mitos, supere los más perjudiciales de sus traumas; lo acostaremos en el diván y lo enfrentaremos contra sí mismo, para ver si la lógica y la razón logran imponerse contra los dogmas históricos ridículos que...
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MEXICO: The Struggle for Peace and Bread
Written by Frank Tannenbaum
Format: eBook, 293 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
Into this illuminating study of the meaning of Mexico’s recent history Frank Tannenbaum has put the distillation of more than three decades of the familiarity with that country. Having traveled Mexico from the Rio Grande to the Guatemalan border, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and having been friendly with peasants...
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Narcomex
Written by Ricardo Ravelo
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
El libro imprescindible para comprender el fenómeno del narcotráfico en México En esta incisiva y apasionante investigación periodística, Ricardo Ravelo, uno de los mayores expertos en temas de narcotráfico, nos presenta todos los ángulos esenciales para entender la guerra mas sangrienta que ha vivido México desde hace un siglo: las rutas de la...
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Mexico Rebelde
Written by John Gibler
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $14.95
Las crónicas que conforman este libro son el resultado de varios años de trabajo y compenetración del periodista independiente John Gibler con el México de abajo: con la pobreza y la desigualdad, con los presos políticos y las víctimas de la violencia estatal, con el movimiento popular de Oaxaca, con la lucha de los...
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Aztec Warrior
AD 1325-1521
Written by John Pohl
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $14.95
According to one popular image, the Aztec army was a ruthless and efficient war machine, that established an empire by convincingly overwhelming its neighbors, sacrificing thousands to bloodthirsty gods along the way. From a contrasting perspective, its native warriors were no match for the modern warring methods of Cortés' greatly outnumbered...
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Narcomex
Written by Ricardo Ravelo
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.95
El libro imprescindible para comprender el fenómeno del narcotráfico en México En esta incisiva y apasionante investigación periodística, Ricardo Ravelo, uno de los mayores expertos en temas de narcotráfico, nos presenta todos los ángulos esenciales para entender la guerra mas sangrienta que ha vivido México desde hace un siglo: las rutas de la...
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Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
Written by John Womack
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $14.99
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
John Womack, Jr.
". . . It is certainly the definitive study of Emiliano Zapata, and it places him in his proper context."
—Frank Jellinek, The New York Times Book Review
"A feat of historical writing . . . Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely complex strains of...
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Distant Neighbors
A Portrait of the Mexicans
Written by Alan Riding
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $14.99
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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'68
Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse...
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General Jo Shelby's March
Written by Anthony Arthur
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $14.99
Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness...
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Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.
It was a moment unique in human history...
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Flesh Life
Sex in Mexico City
Text by Trisha Ziff
Afterword by Pedro Meyer
Photographed by Joseph Rodriguez
Introduction by Ruben Martinez
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $35.00
“Spirit, flesh: in the end the same quest, born of a crumbling economy and identity. The single most apparent sign is the proliferation in prostitution, an ‘outing’ of what has always existed, but furtively. The government has officially admitted that it is impossible to rein in the sex trade; Mexico City...
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68
Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $12.95
On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse...
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68
Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $12.95
68 es una agarradora narración en primera persona hecha por uno de los más distinguidos y prolíficos escritores mexicanos de todos los tiempos, acerca de la masacre estudiantil de Tlatelolco llevada a cabo en Ciudad de México en 1968. El propósito de Paco Ignacio Taibo II es el de recuperar, a...
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