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  • The Silence and the Scorpion

    The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela

    On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chavez. Led by Pedro Carmona and Carlos Ortega, the opposition represented a cross-section of society furious with Chavez's economic policies, specifically his mishandling of the Venezuelan oil industry. But as the day progressed the march turned violent, sparking a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Last Days of the Incas

    The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Relato de un náufrago

    El 28 de febrero de 1955 el destructor Caldas, que viajaba de Estados Unidos a Colombia, sufrió un accidente. Con la finalidad de rescatar a los náufragos, las fuerzas norteamericanas del canal de Panamá peinaron la zona cercana al siniestro. Después de cuatro días de búsqueda no encontraron ningún sobreviviente y se desistió de la búsqueda. Una semana más tarde apareció Luis Alejandro Velasco, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Price of Gold: Mechanical mining in El Chocó, Colombia

    This book tells a story about artisanal gold mining in a rainforest region of Colombia, and what happened when mechanized mining came to the region. While traditional panning for gold did no damage to rivers or forests, the new machines have created serious environmental and social problems. El Chocó is one of many places around the world where extractive technology threatens the sustainability of ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Children

    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    One day, as she enters her local supermarket, Laura Romero has a startling encounter with a beggar, who seems to offer her a child. A short while later, in the middle of the night, she discovers a mysterious young boy on the pavement outside her apartment building: Fidel, who is six years old, a child with seemingly no origins or meaning. With few clues to guide her as she tries to discover his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ancient Civilizations of Central and South America: An Enthralling Introduction to the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs, Aztecs, and Incas

    If you want to discover the enthralling history of ancient civilizations of Central and South America, then keep reading…Central and South America were full of great civilizations. This book discusses five of the most famous: the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs, Incas, and Maya. These civilizations first showed up in Central and South America over one thousand years ago, and some descendants of these ... Read more

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  • Fordlandia

    The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

    by Greg Grandin ...
    From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the AmazonIn 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Needle in a Haystack

    by Ernesto Mallo ...
    Translated by Jethro Soutar ...
    Series series An Inspector Lascano Mystery
    "This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."-Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize"This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. . . . But above all he knows how to narrate."-Ana María Shua, author of El peso de la tentaciónSuperintendent Lascano is a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 33 Men

    Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners

    Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010.A resident of Chile since 1994, award-winning investigative reporter Jonathan Franklin gained access to the miners, their families, rescuers, and government officials that other journalists could only dream of. He developed such a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • House of Rain

    Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest

    by Craig Childs ...
    A "beautifully written travelogue" that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest (Entertainment Weekly).The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alive

    The Story of the Andes Survivors

    The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hold Life Has

    Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

    This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • America's First Civilization

    Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At the Devil's Table

    The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel

    In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherous Cali crime syndicate.Colombia in the 1990s is a country in chaos, as a weak government battles ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brazil on the Rise

    The Story of a Country Transformed

    by Larry Rohter ...
    In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest--and how a complex and vibrant people defy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Empire's Workshop

    Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

    by Greg Grandin ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    An eye-opening examination of Latin America**'s role as proving ground for** U.S. imperial strategies and tacticsIn recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy. In their search for precedents, they invoke the Roman and British empires as well as postwar reconstructions of Germany and Japan. Yet they consistently ignore ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Real Odessa

    How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

    by Uki Goñi ...
    The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals—now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands.As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goni unravels the complex international network that led them ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Motorcycle Diaries

    Notes on a Latin American Journey

    Series series The Che Guevara Library
    A New York Times bestsellerWith a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che.The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mujeres que dejaron huella

    La Fundación Global concreta proyectos. Lo hace gracias al esfuerzo de sus colaboradores y de quienes ayudan con sus aportes. Fue así como, hace tres años, fue posible crear GPS Mujer, un espacio de investigación y difusión cuyo propósito es visibilizar los ejes de la problemática de las mujeres. Aquí presentamos a "Mujeres que dejaron Huella", Florentina, María Luisa y Carmen.Elegimos a estas ... Read more

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  • Savages

    by Joe Kane ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Pinochet File

    A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

    Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neruda

    The Biography of a Poet

    by Mark Eisner ...
    A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyThe most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Scorpion's Sweet Venom

    The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl

    "If I'm going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one."Known to her clients as "Bruna the Surfer Girl," Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilian suburb. Her candid and explicit entries on life as a high-class call girl caught the attention of millions and set off ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Missionaries

    God Against the Indians

    by Norman Lewis ...
    The renowned travel writer delivers “a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls” (Library Journal).Acclaimed travel essayist Norman Lewis spent his life traversing the globe and offering thoughtful commentary on the cultures he visited. In The Missionaries, he turns his critical lens on those missionaries who embed themselves ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus