Latin America category: 3090 books
Peru - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Peru is associated with ancient civilizations, awe-inspiring Inca cities, ruthless conquistadores, spectacular Andean scenery, astonishing biodiversity, and colorful woven textiles. All true—but visitors will find a great deal more to Peru than this. The two distinctive cultures that first encountered...
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...
CultureShock! Chile
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
CultureShock! Chile is your one-stop guide to settling in the country and adapting to life in a new land. Learn from the authors’ experience as they share insights into the Chilean work etiquette, navigating the class system, setting up home and using the estufa and califont as well as what generally...
CultureShock! Bolivia
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
CultureShock! Bolivia provides readers with a thorough understanding of this South American country, a nation steeped in history, culture, and tradition. Containing pages of useful information, advice, tips and resources, this book will guide you through the social and psychic adjustment necessary when...
Vamos a Brasil!
Recollections of a Volunteer Attempting to Teach English in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This is the story of a visit to Brazil by Mike and his wife, Sylvia, in January 2008. Sylvia is a trained and experienced teacher; Mike is not, but he knows a smattering of Portuguese. They were invited to teach English in a mission school in the industrial city of Belo Horizonte, and the story covers...
The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This...
Agents of Orthodoxy
Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this...
by Fran Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
In Brazil, you can commune with spirits and dance with gods. In Brazil, you can learn a lot about life’s possibilities.
Seven years of travel in Brazil saw Fran Bryson’s fascination with the country develop into something of an obsession with its culture, religions, and history. During...
The Extractive Zone
Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority...
Visions of Solidarity
U.S. Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women's Activism and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Visions of Solidarity is currently the only study of peace activist's transformation from an anti-war struggle to an anti-globalization struggle. It explores the power dynamics between citizen activists in the Global North and South, examining efforts at reframing issues of social justice over time,...
Cholas in Bowlers
Journey to Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
With two grown-up sons, a satisfying job as a journalist, great friends and plenty of interests, life for Jane Mundy was humming along nicely when, out of the blue and in the most unlikely of places, she met Graham. In no time at all she had abandoned her comfortable life and run away with him to...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Jaboatao Dos Guarapes : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Jaboatao Dos Guarapes : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Jaboatao Dos Guarapes : (Brazil) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Duque De Caxias : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Duque De Caxias : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Duque De Caxias : (Brazil) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.