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Paperback. The history and development of the Brazilian religion Umbanda are explored in this text. The author describes the defining features of the religion, its practices, followers and beliefs, its dramatic geographical spread across the country, and its relationship to rapid urban growth. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRAX; HRK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231100052
- ISBN
- 9780231100052
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 187 x 37. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307587725
- ISBN
- 9780307587725
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.49
€ 35.99
€ 30.49
Paperback. This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic-change. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPK; DSBH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756631
- ISBN
- 9780804756631
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and the focus of this book is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people. Num Pages: 328 pages, 50 b&w photographs, 14 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSJ; JPFN; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Third
- SKU
- V9780822318682
- ISBN
- 9780822318682
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
paperback. Presents translations of texts by Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work. Editor(s): Taylor, Diana; Constantino, Roselyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 58 b&w photos, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ABM; DD; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332404
- ISBN
- 9780822332404
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.13
€ 41.99
€ 32.13
Hardcover. The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work questions how peace was made and whether it has endured. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; GTJ; HBJK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120945
- ISBN
- 9780230120945
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. This book analyzes in a comparative perspective the causes, the modalities and the prospects of political changes in three regions: Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Editor(s): Ethier, Diane. Series: Macmillan International Political Economy S. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DS; 1FM; 1KLC; 1KLS; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333521281
- ISBN
- 9780333521281
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Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Paperback. The story of crippling overdevelopment in Mexico's economic and social center Num Pages: 422 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566391511
- ISBN
- 9781566391511
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 41.07
€ 44.99
€ 41.07
Paperback. Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as 'a finger in the wound'. This book explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in a study of the civil war and its aftermath. It investigates the notion of Quincentennial Guatemala, which has given focus to the overarching question of Mayan - and Guatemalan - identity. Num Pages: 448 pages, 21 black-and-white illustrations and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520212855
- ISBN
- 9780520212855
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Paperback. An examination of how Guatemalans are reckoning with the aftermath of a civil war that left fundamental assumptions about selves and others in tatters when it officially ended in 1996. Num Pages: 448 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822343240
- ISBN
- 9780822343240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson presents a complex reading of mathematics and the contested and myriad ways it is used by the Guatemalan state to marginalize indigenous populations as well as its use by indigenous peoples to critique systemic inequalities. Num Pages: 328 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359739
- ISBN
- 9780822359739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Paperback. In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson presents a complex reading of mathematics and the contested and myriad ways it is used by the Guatemalan state to marginalize indigenous populations as well as its use by indigenous peoples to critique systemic inequalities. Num Pages: 328 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360056
- ISBN
- 9780822360056
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. Handbook for those countries intent on dealing with problems of insecurity and violence Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; GTF; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 750.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849046282
- ISBN
- 9781849046282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.89
€ 51.89
paperback. Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, this work advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. It provides a look at the research in the history of medicine through essays about how disease was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times. Editor(s): Armus, Diego. Num Pages: 336 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330691
- ISBN
- 9780822330691
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.87
€ 36.99
€ 28.87
Hardcover. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy. Num Pages: 270 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; JH; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618176
- ISBN
- 9780230618176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Paperback. This book promises to become the definitive work on contemporary public policy in Latin America, essential for those who study the area as well as comparative public policy more broadly. Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442610903
- ISBN
- 9781442610903
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Paperback. With its archaeological sites, colonial architecture, pristine beaches, and alluring cities, Mexico has long been an attractive destination for travellers. This book takes a broad historical and geographical look at Mexico, covering a range of tourist destinations from Tijuana and Acapulco, and the development of tourism from the 1840s onwards. Editor(s): Berger, Dina; Wood, Andrew Grant. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345718
- ISBN
- 9780822345718
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. This collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America-within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States-during the past two centuries. Editor(s): Hoerder, Dirk; Faires, Nora. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1 photo, 6 tables, 20 maps, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 1KJ; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JFFN; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350514
- ISBN
- 9780822350514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 31.02
€ 41.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dorling Kindersley Ltd
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241256718
- ISBN
- 9780241256718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.88
€ 20.99
€ 15.88
Hardcover. Traces the emergence of a transnational film tradition. This book incorporates the Latin America/Hollywood and Indiewood vector of filmmaking into its study of the region's transnationalised filmmaking. It uses textual analysis and industrial case studies looking both at the directors who have influenced the trend. Series: Traditions in World Cinema. Num Pages: 24 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748645732
- ISBN
- 9780748645732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.66€ 103.50
€ 111.66
€ 103.50
Hardcover. Brazil is full of energy, creativity and originality. Amid its glamorous beaches and tropical vegetation, a new generation of architects are establishing a global reputation with houses and hotels that combine a bold contemporary aesthetic with a Brazilian sensibility. This book offers a reflection of vitality of Brazil's architecture and design. Num Pages: 256 pages, 303 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; WJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 245 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1592.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500517338
- ISBN
- 9780500517338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.04
€ 33.99
€ 29.04
Hardback. Why do modern agricultural techniques, which are environmentally damaging, continue to be used? This path-breaking book seeks the answer to that question in an understanding of evolution of agricultural research in its cultural context. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JH; KNAC; PSAK; RNP; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333751398
- ISBN
- 9780333751398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Paperback. A critical analysis of the important ways in which La Llorona--the Weeping Woman--has shaped Mexican cultural identity, from folktales to acts of political resistance. Num Pages: 302 pages, 30 halftones, 12 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFCA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292718128
- ISBN
- 9780292718128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Following the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes in Salvador, this text analyzes the ways that they modify their bodies, explores their motivations, examines their complex relationships and discovers how prostitution for most travestis is a positive and affirmative experience. Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226461007
- ISBN
- 9780226461007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.12
€ 33.99
€ 27.12