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Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good life in the context of large-scale infrastructure proj……続きを見る

A New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks Named a Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune a……続きを見る

"A beautiful book featuring intimate portrayals of a diverse group of Guatemalan artists and their works . . . [a] compelling presentation style." ー Library Journal Against the backdrop of Guatemal……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." ーAnchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial’s ex……続きを見る

Making sense of our universe...It's an age-old practice that transcends cultures and generations. From our vantage point, the larger than life Maya civilization grappled with the urge in a grand sca……続きを見る

A New York Times Notable Book of the year. Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty an……続きを見る

The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt him……続きを見る

Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean’s depths, creating one of the world’s most productive marine ecosystems: the Humboldt Current. When th……続きを見る

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas ー and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities wit……続きを見る

Rudyard Kipling's 'The Irish Guards in the Great War' is a comprehensive look at the experiences of the Irish Guards during World War I. This complete edition, comprising of two volumes, provides a ……続きを見る

This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. T……続きを見る

Esta es una recopilación de escritos testimoniales de los siguientes autores: GUSTAVO ALEMÁN BOLAÑOS, escritor, autor de varios libros sobre Sandino. PABLO EMILIO BARRETO, periodista, antiguo report……続きを見る

Este libro busca intervenir en el debate sobre formas del pensamiento latinoamericano, más allá de la historia de las ideas, el poscolonialismo/decolonialismo, y la filosofía de la liberación. Utili……続きを見る

By tracing the complex relationship between the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan business elite, this book examines the shifting mix of alliances and oppositions that shaped the Sandinista r……続きを見る

By 1700, Guatemala's capital was a mixed-race "city of women." As in many other cities across colonial Spanish America, labor and migration patterns in Guatemala produced an urban female majority an……続きを見る

Reseña Crítica: El Ocaso de los Reinos del Caribe En Leyendas Americanas, José Güell y Renté despliega una narrativa épica y elegíaca que rescata las voces silenciadas de la conquista en Kiskeya, Ay……続きを見る

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams sh……続きを見る

To many observers, Anastasio Somoza, who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956, personified the worst features of a dictator. While not dismissing these characteristics, Knut Wal……続きを見る

El Salvador’s civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of……続きを見る

Situated at the intersection of cultural heritage and local community, this book enlarges our understanding of the Indigenous peoples of southern México and northern Central America who became detac……続きを見る

Honduras: una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo. Honduras no es Irak, pero en algún momento, Alberto Arce ーúnico corresponsal extranjero en Tegucigalpa de 2012 a 2014ー lo vivió……続きを見る

The History of the Maya definitively traces the cultural evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the ……続きを見る

The Mystery of Maya Math Code is solved and simplified! Presented in a manner that is not long winded by explaining centuries of theories regarding ancient mathematics, Maya philosophy, and history.……続きを見る

In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an established field of research. This period also spans ……続きを見る

Suriname werd in 1975 onafhankelijk. Nog geen vijf jaar later pleegden militairen een staatsgreep. Daarna bepaalden de Decembermoorden, drugshandel, een binnenlandse oorlog en economische teloorgang……続きを見る

Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with……続きを見る

This reexamination of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution is a must-read for today's activistsーor anyone longing to fight for a better world. Fifty years after ……続きを見る

SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer 2003 de Obras Dramáticas “Extraordinaria y evocativa. La estelar Ana en el trópico es una obra de arte.” –Christine Dolen, Miami Herald “Ana en ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires. The light of stars. The light that reflects off rivers. Light that penetrates through cracks. Th……続きを見る

"Tom Diaz has worn out some shoe leather, much like a good detective, in gathering facts, not myths or urban legends. As a result he has produced an accurate and comprehensive look at a grave and pr……続きを見る