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Hardback. Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Editor(s): Brightman, Marc; Grotti, Vanessa Elisa; Fausto, Carlos. Num Pages: 278 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785330834
- ISBN
- 9781785330834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.52
€ 155.52
Paperback. This title tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFS; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736930
- ISBN
- 9780804736930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.73
€ 43.99
€ 38.73
Hardback. This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country's image as an "agrarian democracy" and investigates why latifundios (large unproductive or under-utilized estates) still dominate much of Latin America. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 33. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720441
- ISBN
- 9780804720441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.46
€ 113.46
Hardback. This title tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734011
- ISBN
- 9780804734011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.73
€ 183.73
Paperback. Provides a fresh interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. This title shows how the Iberian populations and cultures - both European and American - merged and evolved. Translator(s): Giammanco Frongia, Rosanna M. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267497
- ISBN
- 9780520267497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; JFSL4; JPA; KFFD1; LNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271035628
- ISBN
- 9780271035628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.39€ 65.82
€ 78.39
€ 65.82
Paperback. Examines the question of how crime and crime fighting impact the consolidation of democracy and the rule of law in Latin America. This book evaluates broadly a relative dearth of hard data about the Latin American security situation. It is suitable for those in the fields of Latin American and comparative law, political science, and sociology. Editor(s): Bergman, Marcelo; Whitehead, Laurence. Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKV; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022136
- ISBN
- 9780268022136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.57
€ 43.99
€ 38.57
Paperback. A cross-disciplinary collection of 12 essays by scholars of the Mexican immigration to the United States. "Crossings" theorizes aspects of recent Mexican immigration that are new and that demarcate this wave of immigration from earlier experiences of the 20th century. Editor(s): Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674177673
- ISBN
- 9780674177673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.59
€ 23.99
€ 20.59
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583683
- ISBN
- 9781905583683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 179
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319005171
- ISBN
- 9783319005171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.74€ 46.59
€ 130.74
€ 46.59
paperback. Rancheros hold a distinct place in the culture and social hierarchy of Mexico. This work provides insight into the lives of rancheros, as seen from their own perspectives. It focuses on three culturally salient styles of speaking that characterize rancheros: franqueza; respeto; and relajo. Num Pages: 342 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 maps, 4 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 663.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714830
- ISBN
- 9780292714830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.96
€ 34.99
€ 31.96
Hardback. Considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of transformistas and beauty pageant contestants. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 293 pages, 20 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JFSJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356110
- ISBN
- 9780822356110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.16
€ 110.16
Paperback. In an international geopolitical panorama where Northern countries are increasingly in crisis and where the most interesting alternatives to sustainable development are coming from the South, the Latin American small producers, represented by the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Small Fair Trade Producers (CLAC), are assuming a more protagon Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; KCLT1; KJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552666562
- ISBN
- 9781552666562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.48
€ 25.99
€ 22.48
Paperback. Presents a history of Colombia's "long twentieth century," from the civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. This book explains Colombia's political history, discussing key leaders, laws, parties, and ideologies; corruption and inefficiency; and the paradoxical nature of government institutions. Translator(s): Stoller, Richard. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337676
- ISBN
- 9780822337676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Hardback. This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015. It looks at how to make public policies more conducive to support sustained growth and reduce the still widespread poverty and inequality in the region Editor(s): Lofgren, Hans; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina; Sanchez, Marco; Vos, Rob; Ganuza, Enrique. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 604. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America. 424 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Lofgren, Hans; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina; Sanchez, Marco; Vos, Rob; Ganuza, Enrique. This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015. It looks at how to make public policies more conducive to support sustained growth and reduce the still widespread poverty and inequality in the region. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKS; KCM. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 28. Weight: 604.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230247765
- ISBN
- 9780230247765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.74€ 20.49
€ 130.74
€ 20.49
Hardback. This book provides a quantitative, applied guide to the offshore and onshore Brazilian markets, with a focus on the financial instruments unique to the region. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 black & white tables, 87 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; KFFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 159. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137477262
- ISBN
- 9781137477262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.81
€ 121.81
Paperback. This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine. Series: New Approaches to the Americas. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107633018
- ISBN
- 9781107633018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.00
€ 46.00
Paperback. Following the story through the dwindling campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cueto raises questions relevant to today's international health campaigns against malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; MBN; MBX; MJCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781421415567
- ISBN
- 9781421415567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.39
€ 35.99
€ 30.39
Paperback. Focuses on the development of Mexican colonial painting and its relationship with European art and civilization and the contributions of its indigenous peoples. Num Pages: 176 pages, 60 colour plates & 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890133583
- ISBN
- 9780890133583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.01
€ 41.99
€ 30.01
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- PM Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604867947
- ISBN
- 9781604867947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.92
€ 36.99
€ 31.92
Num Pages: 336 pages, 65 charts & 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JKVG; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556529498
- ISBN
- 9781556529498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.10
€ 29.99
€ 26.10
hardcover. Unprecedented in the historiography of post-independence Mexico for its combination of rich archival detail and chronological scope, this book focuses on the wealthy men and women of the state of Michoacan from the last decades of colonial rule to the 1930 Revolution. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrationsmaps,ports. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734288
- ISBN
- 9780804734288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.49
€ 107.49
Paperback. A diagnosis of cancer leads to healing and transformation in the Amazon jungle. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition, First Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594774621
- ISBN
- 9781594774621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. Deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLC; BM; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780292729087
- ISBN
- 9780292729087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.48
€ 31.99
€ 28.48