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by Conner Gorry
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
This complete guide to Guatemala includes special sections on family travel, Mayan history and culture, and detailed itineraries.
Guatemala delivers what adventurous travelers dream of: exotic birds and wildlife, world-class caving, whitewater rafting, zip-lining through the jungle, fascinating...
Adiós Muchachos
A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After...
The Tropics Bite Back
Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
The ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writing—from folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatises—signals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the present day. The Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response...
New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family, The
African American Missionaries to the Garifuna of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from 1898 to 2008 builds upon their already distinguished work, through the Archdiocese of New Orleans,...
by Anel Anivac
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Cuba è un paese che evoca un notevole fascino e ricco di una complessa storia militare. Una guida veloce ed esauriente, che approfondisce le tattiche e le strategie militari degli eserciti cubani dalle origini fino ai giorni nostri. Con una lunga cavalcata attraverso le gesta dei pirati, delle...
Tropical Idolatry
A Theological History of Catholic Colonialism in the Pacific World, 1568–1700
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
In Tropical Idolatry, R.L. Green examines how thinkers within the Society of Jesus attempted to convert indigenous peoples of New Spain, the Philippine Islands, and the Mariana Islands to Catholicism during the early modern period. Through the close readings of Jesuit authored theological treatises...
by Marcello Anglana
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Si può attraversare il continente più grande, l’Asia, per 25.000 km e 40 giorni, percorrendo strade spesso in condizioni disastrose con una moto prettamente stradale di undici anni e con 600.000 km sotto le ruote? Da soli, senza assistenza al seguito, con un solo treno di gomme, arrivando fino...
by Nicholas Roerich
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known first and foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter....
Imperio e información Funciones del saber en el dominio colonial español
Funciones del saber en el dominio colonial español.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Aunque la "entera noticia" era el lema que encabezó las reformas políticas españolas durante el reinado de Felipe II, hubo frecuentes quejas que alertaban de lo insuficiente del conocimiento que se tenía de los territorios americanos. Partiendo de esta contradicción, el presente libro...
Lima fundida
Épica y nación criolla en el Perú
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Más que sobre Lima, este libro trata de una formación social específica, los criollos, particularmente los "beneméritos" o descendientes de conquistadores cuyo estudio ha quedado casi siempre relegado al de un pasado colonial que supuestamente se borró y se superó durante la República....
by Jim Nicol
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Golf resorts--it's a specialized niche for a savvy group that knows what it wants. What they want is golf, so the Nicols have devoted pages of attention to yardage and par, green fees, and special course features for hundreds of golf courses in Mexico. Included are Cancún, Yucatan, Baja Sur, Cabo...
Guatemala
A Cruisers' Guide to Rio Dulce
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 13, 2017
FULLY REVISED SECOND EDITION
Rio Dulce nestles at the heart of the northwest Caribbean and is much more than just a safe haven for your boat during the hurricane season. From there, you can set off on a voyage of discovery and explore waters that are as yet unspoilt by the nautical tourism...
by Roman Plesky
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
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. Here is...
The Quality of Democracy
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
The primary goal of this collection is to present the rationale and methodology for implementing a citizen audit of democracy. This book is an expression of a growing concern among policy experts and academics that the recent emergence of numerous democratic regimes, particularly in Latin America,...