South America category: 2208 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. As the United States continues to recover from the greatest recession since the Great Depression, the U.S. government must find cost savings. Therefore, this project aimed to find efficiencies...
Costa Rica - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Costa Rica is renowned for its tropical beauty, the warmth and charm of the "Ticos"—its people's own name for themselves—and its political stability. This "Switzerland of the Americas" is widely regarded as an oasis of democracy in turbulent Central America. Since the first...
Venezuela - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
An influential oil producer with a colorful and charismatic president at its helm since 1999, Venezuela is a vast, sometimes frustrating, but never dull country. It is one of the most complex countries in Latin America and one of the least understood. An ambitious attempt to benefit the poor and redistribute...
A Risk Taker's Journey
From Trials to Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
At the age of five, Manuel Donoso rode a wooden horse and pretended he was a cowboy. Two years later, he saddled a real horse and became a real “cowboy”. As a teenager, he found himself conscripted into the Chilean Army. While there, he experienced many abuses of power. The witnessing of the crushing...
by Kenneth Coates
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the beautiful island of Grenada.
Making Out In Spanish
(Spanish Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Making Out in Spanish is a fun, accessible and thorough Spanish phrase book and guide to the Spanish language as it's really spoken.
Te adoro! Cuando puedo volver a verte?—(I adore you! When can I see you next time?) Answer this correctly in Spanish, and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly,...
Poor People's Politics
Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“Political clientelism” is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People’s Politics to analyze the political...
Brazil's Steel City
Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century. It focuses on the role the steelworkers played in Brazil's social and economic development under the country's import...
The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide
A Dictionary of Over 3,000 Slang Expressions, Proverbs, Idioms, and Other Tricky English and Spanish Words and Phrases Translated and Explained
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
If you were dropped into the middle of Managua, Mexico City, or Miami, would you know how to speak not only the language, but also the lingo? In The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide, the reader who is already familiar with Spanish will discover the banter and metaphor (both polite and rude) that...
by Collectif Ulysse
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Idée d’itinéraire - Le tour de l’Équateur est un court extrait en format numérique tiré du beau livre Ulysse « Amérique latine et Caraïbes – 50 itinéraires de rêve ». Il suggère brièvement un itinéraire de 11 jours à travers les principales régions touristiques du pays depuis...
by Collectif Ulysse
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Idée d’itinéraire - Le Panamá, du Pacifique aux Caraïbes est un court extrait en format numérique tiré du beau livre Ulysse « Amérique latine et Caraïbes – 50 itinéraires de rêve ». Il suggère brièvement un itinéraire de 7 jours dans les superbes régions naturelles de l’ouest du pays, depuis le Golfo de Chiriquí jusqu’à Silico Creek, en passant par le volcan Barú.
by Walter Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Cuba having lately become a prominent object of attention, both to Europe and America, I venture to think that any trustworthy information that can be given respecting it, may prove acceptable to the reader. I approach my task with no great pretensions, but yet with an experience acquired by many years'...
by Patricia Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Santiago de Chile. Santiago de Chile is the capital and economic centre of Chile. The city has many museums, theaters, restaurants, bars and other entertainment and cultural opportunities. Its central location within Chile make it a great base for visiting...
Cuba Travel Guide
Culture - Sightseeing - Activities - Hotels - Nightlife - Restaurants - Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
(approx. 223 pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
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