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馬雅人神祕地淡出了世人的視線，但是他們留下來的遺跡卻能讓人深深感受到這段古老智慧民族的無窮魅力。雖然經過數百年的風吹日曬，雨水沖刷，塵土掩埋，這些鐫刻在石頭上、凝結在石頭中的歷史印證仍然佇立於創造者……続きを見る

In Neoliberalism from Belowーfirst published in Argentina in 2014ーVerónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, an……続きを見る

A family’s flight from Nazi terror to an unexpected refuge in Chile. Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical cont……続きを見る

The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants……続きを見る

The story is about a Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana, and his companions who were the first Europeans to navigate the Amazon River. A priest went with them, and the major part of this bo……続きを見る

Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrati……続きを見る

The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history ……続きを見る

One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until t……続きを見る

In the village of the ghost bells, the church chimes ringーeven though the church has no bells. One of the neighbors wants to buy dreamsーor is she a dream that someone else is dreaming? Where and w……続きを見る

Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known a……続きを見る

Ao voltarem de uma noite de diversão, dois amigos deparam-se com um moribundo, ao tentarem socorrê-lo acabam por se verem acusados da morte do infeliz. São julgados e condenados à pena de morte. Mas……続きを見る

A critical look at the Chavez regime from a leftist Venezuelan perspective, this account debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the regime is antidemocratic and dictatorial. Inste……続きを見る

Among the most exclusive ebooks on American History this book gives you surefire facts that your textbook got wrong about Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, ……続きを見る

All societies around the world and through time value beauty highly. Tracing the evolutions of the Colombian standards of beauty since 1845, Michael Edward Stanfield explores their significance to a……続きを見る

In the eight pieces that make up Land Without History, first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia, and the consolidation of South Ame……続きを見る

Hugo Ch?vez passed away in March 2013 after a two-year battle with cancer, prompting much speculation about the impact of his death. What will a post-Ch?vez future look like, not only in Venezuela b……続きを見る

The Whole Armour of God examines and reassesses the role of the Anglican army chaplains in the Great War. The tensions and ambiguities of their role in the trenches resulted in criticism of their ac……続きを見る

By blending personal memoir and critical analysis, Voices of the Survivors explores cultural and human responses to the violence of political repression and social disintegration perpetrated in Arge……続きを見る

In April 1982, Argentina's military Junta sent its armed forces to attack and occupy two British territories in the South Atlantic - the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Within days, Britain ha……続きを見る

Not every world culture that has battled colonization has suffered or died. In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the indigenous culture has stayed true to itself and its surroundings for cen……続きを見る

Though the law and courts of nineteenth-century Peru were institutions created by and for the ruling elite, women of all classes used the system to negotiate the complexities of property rights, chi……続きを見る

This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World. 続きを見る

Beatriz, bela e sedutora virgem, atrai o chefe indígena de uma tribo rebelde no Brasil. A paixão é arrebatadora mas o que o nativo não sabe é que a deslumbrante po……続きを見る

Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad. Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana (a fictional nation) which has a long history of tyranny, revoluti……続きを見る

Apasionante novela, que nos relata parte de los acontecimientos mas importantes del pueblo de Cotija Michoacán, 1918, cuando Inés Chávez el Indio y sus hordas devastaron gran parte del estado y sobr……続きを見る

The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violation of human rights, union busting, and regressive ……続きを見る

A collection of three accounts of Peril, Adventure and Captivity in the 18th and 19th century : "The Sufferings of the Picard Family after the Shipwreck of the Medusa in the Year 1816" ……続きを見る

In this volume distinguished historian Kenneth Maxwell collects some of his most significant writings, following Portugal's imperial journey from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the coast ……続きを見る

______________________ 'Erotica has been languishing on the top shelf for years, but a new generation of woman writers is moving it from the fringes to the literary mainstream' - Observer Magazine '……続きを見る

Robert Burke, is kidnapped in the trunk of a rental car in the middle of a shanty-town gunfight. Brazilian Scrub is the story of how he got there as well as the story of the tragic mayhem of urban v……続きを見る