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Latin America

Results 1881 - 1900 of 1936

Latin America

Hardcover. Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. The author uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide a coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; JFSL4; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532684
ISBN
9780226532684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 79.10

Paperback. A powerful and persuasive look at Latin America past and present Num Pages: 464 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 376. How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century. 464 pages, maps. A powerful and persuasive look at Latin America past and present. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KL; JPS. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight: 318.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408809778
ISBN
9781408809778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Testimonial text by a Mapuche woman, with commentary and other ethnographic interventions by a US historian. Editor(s): Mallon, Florencia E. Num Pages: 392 pages, 36 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; BG; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329626
ISBN
9780822329626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. In this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico from the barrio to Brooklyn to high honors at Harvard Series: A Merloyd Lawrence Book. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; AFC; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306814525
ISBN
9780306814525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.49

Paperback. Examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narco-trafficking along the US - Mexico border. This book explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers: those living at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of "the war on drugs." Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JHMC; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
255
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276789
ISBN
9780520276789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHM; KNDP; RNC; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691095578
ISBN
9780691095578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. This title includes essays that addresses the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in a variety of ways. Editor(s): Menjivar, Cecilia; Rodriguez, Nestor P. Num Pages: 388 pages, 1 graph, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JKV; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292706798
ISBN
9780292706798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. This title examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what the author calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JFC; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520255845
ISBN
9780520255845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPA; RNK; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439909317
ISBN
9781439909317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. Where the River Ends examines the response of the Cucapa people of Mexico's northwest coast to the state's claim that they are not "indigenous enough" to merit the special fishing rights which would allow them to subsist during environmental crisis. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL9; RNFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354451
ISBN
9780822354451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

Paperback. In this volume, Gorden MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew and "dangerous savages". Num Pages: 356 pages, 40 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; BG; JHMC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226500188
ISBN
9780226500188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.10

Paperback. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2AB; 3JM; DSBH; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479858538
ISBN
9781479858538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. A vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Venezuela. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JHB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346777
ISBN
9780822346777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

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

€ 115.81

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. Since its early beginnings peace and conflict research has focused on causes of phenomena such as civil war, terrorism, and state failure. The author merges this approach with a peace causes perspective and asks why civil war happened in Peru (1980-1995) though not in Bolivia, Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSR; GTJ; JPB; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 147. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Verlag Barbara Budrich
Condition
New
SKU
V9783863887360
ISBN
9783863887360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 41.16

Paperback. Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Beautiful and occasionally brutal, it is one of the great forgotten corners of the Earth: the Wild Coast. The author sets off along this coast, gathering up its story. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSF; 1KLSG; 1KLSS; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 326.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846682537
ISBN
9781846682537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. Series: WCS Birds of Brazil Field Guides. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 857.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501704536
ISBN
9781501704536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. The islands of the Galapagos, situated off the coast of Ecuador in South America, are home to some of the world's most fascinating wildlife and are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Series: Traveller's Guide. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSEG; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 115. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008156732
ISBN
9780008156732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. Tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies - a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 472 pages, 109 halftones. 5 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHMC; JKS; JPQB; LNTM; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1050.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143859
ISBN
9780691143859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 46.67

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