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On a Wing and a Prayer
One Woman's Adventure into the Heart of the Rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
As a young child, Sarah Woods imagined going on epic voyages to exotic, illusory lands filled with bizarre creatures, intoxicating rhythms, vibrant colours and other-worldly forests. As soon as she was old enough she packed a bag and set off to see the world for real, leaving friends and family behind...
by Sophie Ibbotson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This new, thoroughly updated second edition of the most practical guide to Central Asia's smallest and least understood country brings to life the 'Roof of the World': Tajikistan. Enhanced trekking details and maps are included, along with more detailed practical information than any other guidebook....
by Sophie Lovell-Hoare, Max Lovell-Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This is the most detailed guide to Central Asia's most populous country and the heart of the historic Silk Road. Strikingly beautiful yet little understood, Uzbekistan finally has a guide to inspire independent travelling, with all the in-depth practical information required, highlighting epic landscapes...
Spaces of Madness
Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure...
Panamanian Spanish
Speak like a Native!
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Don’t settle for generic Spanish! Put away the stale phrase books and learn to speak just like the natives! Join us as we explore the most common expressions used in Panama. Is a pelaito a small bald person? If someone offers you a camarón, is it seafood or an unexpected opportunity? Discover the...
by Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013
En los últimos años, nuevos datos históricos sobre los africanos y afrodescendientes en México y países de América Central han aparecido en las investigaciones del periodo virreinal. Ello ha dado lugar a diversos debates y formas de interpretación sobre el papel que desempeñó la población...
by Joel W. Palka
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Ancient Mesoamerica drew world interest in the 19th century when photographs, drawings, and descriptions of discoveries of ruined cities in exotic locations in Mexico and Central America were published. These accounts from early explorers, archaeologists, and travelers made the cultures and archaeological...
Uruguay, 1968
Student Activism from Global Counterculture to Molotov Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. Though some have argued that these young-radical movements were inspired by the culture and politics of social movements burgeoning in Europe and the United States, youth activism developed...
Toxic Injustice
A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana...
by William J. Jorden
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 were the most significant foreign policy achievement of the Carter administration. Most Latin American nations had regarded the 1903 treaty and its later minor modifications as vestiges of "American colonialism" and obstacles to any long-term, stable relationship with...
Off the Grid
My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventure-driving a Tesla through Central America.
Only a week after the nation’s newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt...
by Richard Arghiris
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
El Salvador’s roads are less travelled compared to other Central American countries, making for a country which retains that elusive quality travellers often look for: adventure. From dramatic volcanic landscapes to blue-green lagoons, from the bustle of San Salvador to the quiet wilderness of El...
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic,...
by Godfrey P. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Once described as the ‘prime minister who wanted to be a priest’, George Price was one of the most enigmatic and secretive leaders of the modern Caribbean and Central American sub-region. Little is known of his personal life and his long political career was often mired in controversy. Now, his...