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by Andrew Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
'I was born in Argentina. I fought in Cuba, and I began to be a revolutionary in Guatemala.' Che Guevara was the most admired and beloved revolutionary of his time, the first man since Simon Bolivar seriously to plan to unite the countries of Latin America. This concise biography unravels Che's life,...
by Amerigo Vespucci
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely...
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Filibustering in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement,...
by Tacitus Publius Cornelius
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The book Germania by Tacitus, with Latin-English facing-page translation.
by Tacitus Publius Cornelius
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
The book Agricola by Tacitus, with Latin-English facing-page translation.
A Miracle, a Universe
Settling Accounts with Torturers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible...
Dancing with Cuba
A Memoir of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness....
Pillaging the Empire
Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives...
Chasing Che
A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And...
Aztec Thought and Culture
A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems...
by Gary Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Mexico’s capital city is an ancient gem. The city center is centered on the Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) and the historic Aztec Templo Mayor, can be found here. The Zocalo is the largest square in Latin America and the third largest in the world. As one of the largest cities in...
The United States and Cuba
From Closest Enemies to Distant Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This timely book takes the historic restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States in 2015 as the point of departure for a Cuban perspective on future relations. Tracing the history of the long and contentious relationship, Francisco López Segrera analyzes the pre-revolutionary...
Chile - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north—with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved,...
Life and Death in the Andes
On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains.
The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest...