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  • Open Veins of Latin America

    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How Soccer Explains the World

    An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

    by Franklin Foer ...
    “An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about. . . . Bristles with anecdotes that are almost impossible to believe.” —New York Times Book Review“Terrific. . . . A travelogue full of important insights into both cultural change and persistence. . . . Foer’s soccer odyssey lends weight to the argument that a humane world order is possible.” — Washington Post Book WorldA ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Havana Nocturne

    How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution

    by T. J. English ...
    In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution & international conflict that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Empire's Crossroads

    A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

    by Carrie Gibson ...
    A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer).Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Memory of Fire Trilogy

    Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

    Series series Memory of Fire
    All three books in the American Book Award–winning Memory of Fire Trilogy available in a single volume for the first time.Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization—or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history of North and South America, from the birth of the continent’s indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. The three ... Read more

    $20.99 USD $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    An American History

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Genesis

    Series series Memory of Fire
    “An epic work of literary creation . . . There could be no greater vindication of the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America than Memory of Fire.” —The Washington PostEduardo Galeano’s monumental three-volume retelling of the history of the New World begins with Genesis, a vast chain of legends sweeping from the birth of creation to the era of savage colonialism. Through lyrical prose ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Malintzin's Choices

    An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

    Series series Diálogos Series
    Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. "Malintzin," at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her doña Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Perla

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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 naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America

    by Michael Reid ...
    The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America—now fully revised and updated.Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s bestselling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the “Forgotten Continent.” The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid suggests that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gangster Warlords

    Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

    by Ioan Grillo ...
    "Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on . . . Americans would do well to read [Gangster Warlords]." --The New York Times Book Review, Editor's ChoiceFrom the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives them, what sustains their power, and how they might be brought down.In a ranch south of Texas, the man ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Penguin History Of Latin America

    New Edition

    Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Silver, Sword, and Stone

    Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

    by Marie Arana ...
    Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult NonfictionLonglisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for ExcellenceAgainst the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • American Tapestry

    The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama

    A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.In this extraordinary feat of genealogical research—in the tradition of The Hemmingses of Monticello and Slaves in the Family—author Swarns, a respected Washington-based reporter for the New York Times, tells the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A History of Violence

    Living and Dying in Central America

    **“A necessary read.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“A chilling portrait of corruption, unimaginable brutality and impunity.” —Financial TimesThis revelatory and heartbreaking immersion into the lives of people enduring extreme violence in Central America is a powerful call for immigration policy reform in the United States.**El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Little School

    Tales of Disappearance and Survival

    One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. The Little School is Alicia Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment in Argentina in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Orange County

    A Personal History

    Bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano returns with Orange County, a seamlessly woven history of California's Orange County with Gustavo's personal narrative of growing up within its neighborhoods.The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather arrived in the United States, only to be met with flying potatoes. They ran, and hid, and then went to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Latino Americans

    The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation

    by Ray Suarez ...
    Chronicling the rich and varied history of Latinos in the United States, this companion to the PBS documentary miniseries vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of our country.Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become, with more than fifty million people, the largest minority in the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Aztec Thought and Culture

    A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind

    Translated by Jack Emory Davis ...
    Series Book 67 - The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems of education, and diverse political and social organization.The rich documentation concerning ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Something Fierce

    Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

    Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At eighteen, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Sum of Our Days

    A Memoir

    Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende."An inspiring and thought-provoking work." –Denver PostIsabel Allende reconstructs the painful ... Read more

    $13.99 USD