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LIFE Nelson Mandela
A Life of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
From his youth as the leader of rebels to his years as president and elder statesman of South Africa, Nelson Mandela changed the world through his messages of peace and reconciliation. Rediscover the amazing journey of this inspiring leader in LIFE Nelson Mandela—a photographic biography and Special...
by James Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In April 1982, Argentina's military Junta sent its armed forces to attack and occupy two British territories in the South Atlantic - the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Within days, Britain had put in motion its greatest naval operation since the Second World War, to expel the Argentines from...
by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat, James Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for...
Other Roots, The
Wandering Origins in Roots of Brazil and the Impasses of Modernity in Ibero-America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. In The Other Roots,...
Willoughbyland
England's Lost Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.
When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series...
by Jason Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco--the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world--the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone temples, roads, palaces, and forts. The clash between Atahualpa,...
The Wrong Race
In Apartheid-Racist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The persistent trauma of extreme, institutionalized racism can be expected to take its toll on anyone. But resilience, instead, is the main theme of Azra Daniel Francis’s latest book, a raw and deeply personal memoir that details his experience growing up in South Africa. Through vignettes of people,...
A Rainbow in the Night
The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's...
The Last Cannibals
A South American Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society. Drawing on oral documents recorded directly from the native language, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes...
Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879–83
Chile, Peru & Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
The Pacific War was the greatest and bloodiest war ever fought in the Andean region, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. It is also known as the 'Saltpeter War' or the 'Guano War' because the possession of these two highly profitable nitrates was the main cause of...
by John Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades...
The Truth about Crime
Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from...
by Henry Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
A brief biography of an icon like Nelson Mandela is a difficult undertaking. This offering is ideal for someone, not from Africa, who would like to know what motivated a man to give his life to a cause that would see him spend the most productive years of his life in jail.
Inside you will...
Going to the Mountain
Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela's life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.
To the rest of the world, Nelson Mandela was a giant:...