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Paperback. This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices. Editor(s): Stanton, Anthony. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADSL; DNF; HBJK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719048746
ISBN
9780719048746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.18

Paperback. "Gato's head snapped back.. We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn't look back." Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton was no mule or dupe. He had planned and organised everything. The consequence.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; BM; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Ebury Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785035616
ISBN
9781785035616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Hardcover. This is the Spanish edition of "The Unbroken Thread". It details the efforts to conserve an important collection of traditional garments created by indigenous weavers in the Oaxaca region of Mexico and documents the use of the textiles in daily life and ceremony. Num Pages: 176 pages, 158ill.(145col.). BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ABC; AFW; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 274 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1202.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892363827
ISBN
9780892363827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. The search for gold and for the mythical El Dorado gripped the imagination of the conquistadors from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Crossing over the Andes, they explored the unknown eastern forests and jungles, launching expeditions that were often disastrous and always disappointing. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 1KLSX; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745645520
ISBN
9780745645520
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Paperback. The search for gold and for the mythical El Dorado gripped the imagination of the conquistadors from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Crossing over the Andes, they explored the unknown eastern forests and jungles, launching expeditions that were often disastrous and always disappointing. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 1KLSX; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745645537
ISBN
9780745645537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.68

Paperback. El Alto, Rebel City combines ethnography and political theory to explore the astonishing political power exercised by the indigenous citizens of El Alto, Bolivia in the past decade. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 344 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341543
ISBN
9780822341543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.66

Paperback. A fascinating tale of extreme travelling on foot and by mule in the high Andes. Num Pages: 320 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212. 302pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Murray Dublin
Edition
New
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
9780719565168
ISBN
9780719565168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as 'Manager of the Holocaust', he was able to portray himself, from the defendant's box in Jerusalem in 1960. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784700010
ISBN
9781784700010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Schwartzman, Simon. Series Editor(s): Brock, Colin. Series: Education Around the World. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JNA; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 40. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474270632
ISBN
9781474270632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.09
€ 48.47

Paperback. Focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, this book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo's autonomist projects. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 maps, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTM; JPA; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285163
ISBN
9780520285163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. Comprehensive and carefully researched, Edge of Crisis explains the broad array of factors that led up to the French invasion of Spain in early 1808. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1021.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890468
ISBN
9780801890468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.30
€ 74.49

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Footprint Travel Guides United Kingdom
Edition
Seventh Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906098674
ISBN
9781906098674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.76

Hardcover. Editor(s): Nicholls, Jane A. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JP; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612097800
ISBN
9781612097800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.82
€ 101.01

Hardback. Series: NWSA / UIP First Book Prize. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBTB; JFFK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252040542
ISBN
9780252040542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631131
ISBN
9780816631131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356172
ISBN
9780822356172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices. Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Num Pages: 368 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359630
ISBN
9780822359630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Focuses on the "animal game," a kind of popular gambling entertainment or lottery originated in 1882 within Brazil, in which locals bet on a list of twenty-five animals. Written in English, this work moves smoothly between comprehensive analysis and field observations of specific behaviors and practices. Translator(s): Landers, Clifford E. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHMC; WDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268025809
ISBN
9780268025809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, 130 colour & 20 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 231 x 7. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764333378
ISBN
9780764333378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. This book will interest scholars of Latin American politics, democratization studies, market reform, and comparative politics and international relations. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSH; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801888007
ISBN
9780801888007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KLCM; GTB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816643066
ISBN
9780816643066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. This book presents an analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas. It assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; APT; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Edition
1st PB Edition
SKU
V9780292717121
ISBN
9780292717121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. An anthropological study of drug trafficking and anti-drug law enforcement efforts on the US-Mexico border. It uses an ethnographic perspective to chronicle the Mexican drug war, focusing on people and events in the El Paso/Juarez area. Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 310 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292721791
ISBN
9780292721791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Although the author was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. This title shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 page colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; BM; CF; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846680403
ISBN
9781846680403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.23

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