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Hardback. The vicuna is a small camelid that lives in the high alpine areas of the Andes. This book tells the story of the vicuna, portraying the graceful animal in its natural habitat, underscoring its aura of legend and its role in the life and economy of the local communities, and focusing on the complexities of its existence and the efforts to save it. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations (colour). BIC Classification: 1KLSX; AJC; AKTX; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 289 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1664.
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First edition.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857213866
- ISBN
- 9788857213866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.29€ 65.28
€ 71.29
€ 65.28
Hardcover. In 1799, the authors set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. This title brings together drawings and detailed texts to achieve multifaceted views of cultures and landscapes across the Americas. Editor(s): Kutzinski, Vera M.; Ette, Ottmar. Series: Alexander von Humboldt in English. Num Pages: 576 pages, 30 colour plates, 41 halftones, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Critical
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226865065
- ISBN
- 9780226865065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.29€ 65.28
€ 77.29
€ 65.28
Hardcover. Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships examines the lives of Afro-Brazilian lesbian women in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFE; JFSK1; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137498519
- ISBN
- 9781137498519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Paperback. Offers students with an understanding of the crisis in Colombia. This book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the guerrilla insurgency in the Americas. Editor(s): Bergquist, Charles; Penaranda, Ricardo; Sanchez, Gonzalo. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 288 pages, chronology, glossary, index, charts. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JFFE; JPS; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S.
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842028707
- ISBN
- 9780842028707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.04
€ 68.04
Hardback. Violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of the nature of state-making itself. Editor(s): Pansters, Wil G. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804781589
- ISBN
- 9780804781589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346388
- ISBN
- 9780822346388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardcover. This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization. Translator(s): Rosenberg, Andrea. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH; JFFH2; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394989
- ISBN
- 9781137394989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468314
- ISBN
- 9781137468314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Hardback. This book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ1; JHM; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747554
- ISBN
- 9780804747554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.45
€ 133.45
paperback. This book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ1; JHM; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804747561
- ISBN
- 9780804747561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816633487
- ISBN
- 9780816633487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
paperback. Offers an analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced "modernity" during the lengthy "Order and Progress" dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. This book describes how Oaxacans, both elites and commoners, crafted and manipulated practices of tradition and modernity to define themselves and their city as integral parts of a modern Mexico. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 b&w photos, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337904
- ISBN
- 9780822337904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.63
€ 27.99
€ 26.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, map,ports. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404. 320 pages, map,ports. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 21. Weight: 400.
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871873
- ISBN
- 9780907871873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLCM; ABA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719056789
- ISBN
- 9780719056789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.71
€ 156.71
Hardcover. Silvia Borzutzky offers a counter-argument to privatization and to traditional interpretations of Chilean politics. She analyzes the intimate connections between politics, policies, and the distributation of socioeconomic resources in Chile. Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; HBT; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043568
- ISBN
- 9780268043568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Paperback. Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, this work offers a fresh approach to the study of slavery based on the notion of 'political economy of life'. Num Pages: 316 pages, 40 halftones in section, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; HB; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292719132
- ISBN
- 9780292719132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about the continent. Num Pages: 480 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349141299
- ISBN
- 9780349141299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Examines the Independence holiday, exploring how this most important public festival in the civic calendar has given Mexicans a rich tradition of national celebration that is part creation myth, part official pomp, and part popular merrymaking. This work looks at how Independence Day festivities have provided a medium for informal education. Editor(s): Beezley, William H.; Lorey, David E. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 261 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ASZP; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842029155
- ISBN
- 9780842029155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 51.09
€ 52.99
€ 51.09
Paperback. This book investigates a recent Peruvian decentralization reform that is considered to be one of the most participatory in Latin America. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JM; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804773980
- ISBN
- 9780804773980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Looks behind the generalities of debates about globalization to explore the personal impact of global forces on the Peruvian poor. This ethnography offers insight into how the people have coped with extreme poverty and rapid population growth - and their creation of lives and customs in the process. Num Pages: 280 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292713000
- ISBN
- 9780292713000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. This work explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as Folias de Reis (companions of kings).Focusing on urban folias, Suzel Ana Reily shows how participants use the ritual journeys and musical performance to create sacred spheres set apart from the everyday. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19 halftones, 6 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVGD; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226709413
- ISBN
- 9780226709413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardback. Real Mexican food is the hot new cookery trend - and Thomasina Miers has led the revolution with Wahaca. Num Pages: 256 pages, Full colour throughout. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 940.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444722390
- ISBN
- 9781444722390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.46
€ 37.99
€ 25.46
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition, 1st Printing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152158
- ISBN
- 9780691152158
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
hardcover. Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality - the flow of moment-to-moment existence - and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages.. Num Pages: 221 pages, 29 ills. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781845455552
- ISBN
- 9781845455552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.35
€ 162.35