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by Jean Piel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Estudio sobre la historia de San Andrés Sajcabajá, un pueblo indígena quiché del altiplano guatemalteco, desde su fundación por los españoles en el siglo XVI hasta 1964, para situarlo en sus relaciones con el medio geográfico, étnico, lingüístico, sociológico y político y así establecer...
by Marianne Bélard, Philippe Verrier
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Acervo de ex votos recopilados en San Juan de Los Lagos, que nos muestran el valor histórico, el aprecio y el agradecimiento a la divinidad, en cumplimiento de una promesa hecha con el fin de obtener un beneficio más allá de los medios naturales.
Radical Sabbatical
A Hilarious Journey From a Stifling Rut to a Life Without Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
An Amazon Kindle Bestseller and Hot New Release about a true adventure in the jungles of Costa Rica! Two cubicle convicts. One jungle village. A life without boundaries. In this real-life comedic memoir, Laura Berger and Glen Tibaldeo expose the blessings and ironic struggles...
Panama - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
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 The Staff and Contributors at A.M. Costa Rica, James J. Brodell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Every weekday for 16 years English-speaking expats and readers all over the world welcome A.M. Costa Rica to their computer to find out the latest about this country. The original news reports compiled here are geared to the needs of foreigners living here and those elsewhere with personal or business...
by Leonardo Padura
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are...
Annapurna
14 treks including the Annapurna Circuit and Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This guidebook describes 14 multi-day treks in Nepal's captivating Annapurna region, among the foothills of the mighty Himalaya. Routes range between 24km and 200km (15-124 miles) and between 4 and 23 days, with maximum altitudes from 1750m to 5416m. With accommodation options including a mixture...
Violence in Caribbean Literature
Stories of Stones and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an examination of the turmoil of history in the Caribbean, the colonial education imposed on Caribbean populations, the gendered...
by Dervla Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Accompanied by her daughter Rachel and a loveable horse named Egbert, Dervla Murphy journeys across Cameroon, discovering a land of astonishing natural beauty and friendliness. Dervla and Rachel are frequently mistaken by the locals for husband and wife during their time in the country, leading on...
Paper Cadavers
The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996),...
by Michael Fleet, Brian H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Recent changes imposed by the Vatican may redefine the Chilean and Peruvian Church's involvement in politics and social issues. Fleet and Smith argue that the Vatican has been moving to restrict the Chilean and Peruvian Church's social and political activities. Fleet and Smith have gathered documentary...
by Marco Morra
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Il viaggio in treno lungo la storica linea ferroviaria, da Mosca a Pechino, attraverso al Siberia, la Mongolia e la Cina, per oltre novemila chilometri.
Da un caffè di piazza Barberini, dove nasce l’Idea del Viaggio, alla stazione Yaroslavskij di Mosca, l’autore descrive minuziosamente la quotidianità,...
An American Teacher in Argentina
Mary Gorman’s Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical actor whose life only sometimes enters...
The Mythmaker
A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study...