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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s. Fifty years after her death, she continues to deeply influence artists of the present...
by LONELY PLANET FR
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Lonely Planet : un guide de référence, à la fois pratique et culturel, pour découvrir le Guatemala
Un guide spécialement conçu pour les voyages en profondeur avec une sélection très pratique d'itinéraires pour bien préparer son voyage, quel que soit le temps ou le budget disponible.
Une...
by Njord Kane
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Definitively tracing the evolution and history of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. A span of some thousands of years are concisely covered in one volume in a thorough...
by Ludmer Larry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
I read the appropriate chapter before each port of call. The author gives you hints on problems you may face as well as encouraging you to see the important sights. I felt that with his guidance we didn't miss anything and enjoyed the vacation spots much
Breakfast for Alligators
Quests, Showdowns, and Revelations in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
A sharp-shooting SWAT team, a Venezuelan producer of alcoholic love potions, and an audacious subway rat are among the cast of characters award-winning author Darrin DuFord encounters in Breakfast for Alligators: Quests, Showdowns, and Revelations in the Americas. Through such mediums as public transit,...
by Michael D. Coe
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our time—the first great decipherment of an ancient script—now revised and updated.
In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international...
Chicana/o Remix
Art and Errata Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Rewrites our understanding of the last 50 years of Chicana/o cultural production.
Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artists—such as Sandra de la Loza, Judy Baca, and David Botello, among others—but on the exhibitions that feature their work, and the collectors, curators, critics,...
Cuba Roundtrip
A Photo Travel Guide to Photo Shot Spots Using Google Maps Locating
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Blurb: Cuba is a fascinating country that is very different from the other countries in Latin America. Many people who think of Cuba, spontaneously have sugar cane, palm trees, salsa, coffee, rum, cigars, orchids, sun and crystal clear water in front of their eyes. But the island offers much more....
Appropriating Theory
Angel Rama's Critical Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, José Eduardo González focuses on Rama’s response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg...
Rutilio Grande
A Table for All
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
In Rutilio Grande: A Table for All, veteran journalist Rhina Guidos explores the inspiring life and ministry of the Salvadoran priest whose killing changed the church in El Salvador and the life of his close friend, the country’s most prominent church member, Archbishop Oscar Romero. Born in a...
The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora
Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Long before the concept of “globalization,” the Portuguese constructed a vast empire that extended into Africa, India, Brazil, and mid-Atlantic territories, as well as parts of China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Using this empire as its starting point and spanning seven centuries and four continents,...
by Maud Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Youth in Postwar Guatemala
Education and Civic Identity in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In the aftermath of armed conflict, how do new generations of young people learn about peace, justice, and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how, following Guatemala’s civil war, adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities learn about their country’s history of authoritarianism...
Out of Context
Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 1993
In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's...