South America category: 2208 books
Trail of Feathers
In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood are the clues that launch Tahir Shah on his latest journey. Fascinated by the recurring theme of flight in Peruvian folklore, Shah sets out to discover whether the Incas really were able to fly like birds” over the jungle, as a Spanish...
by Don Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Adventures of a First Year Teacher in a Third World Country is a collection of the authors experiences in Bolivia during the 1980s. It describes his encounter with a Nazi war criminal, the surgery he performed on his own foot, and the time a policeman tried to shoot him. Sometimes humorous, sometimes...
by Lawrence Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up, to hitchhike around the world.
The first arc he carved with his thumb stopped a little red pickup that took him over the horizon. Like his mythical hunter companion, Orion, he was on a vision quest, propelled toward the dawn to...
by Mary Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
It was pouring rain and the wind blew the water sideways, the puddles dancing as though they contained invisible little dervishes. It was impossible to see out the taxi window so I kept lowering it and sticking my head out to take in as much as possible before leaving this magical place. There was...
by Oran Burke
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
“The captain had lost control of his spittle, which landed on my face as he spoke. He was also dribbling a bit. Plainclothes-man was trying to shout over the captain while the younger policeman just sat there smiling drunkenly, sporadically pointing at his lapel and saying ‘Politsia’. ...
Guatemala - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Bolivia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
by GradBrazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Ebook Benefits:Find the right university for youHow to draft an English Reference LetterList of professors in BrazilScholarship opportunities for you in BrazilHow to draft a Lattes ProfileHow to draft a Portuguese Research Cover LetterList of universities in BrazilThis is your essential, easy...
Crude Chronicles
Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates....
A Revolution for Our Rights
Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
A Revolution for Our Rights is a critical reassessment of the causes and significance of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Historians have tended to view the revolution as the result of class-based movements that accompanied the rise of peasant leagues, mineworker unions, and reformist political projects...
by Raúl Necochea López
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Adding to the burgeoning study of medicine and science in Latin America, this important book offers a comprehensive historical perspective on the highly contentious issues of sexual and reproductive health in an important Andean nation. Raul Necochea Lopez approaches family planning as a historical...
Art from a Fractured Past
Memory and Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and artists expand on the commission's work, arguing for...
Reckoning with Pinochet
The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
History of Chile, early development and the recent ones, economic situation of Chile, government of Chile, Culture, people, development, Chile economic situationFrom one of the most neglected outposts of the Spanish Empire, Chile developed into one of the most prosperous and democratic nations in...