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Migration-Trust Networks
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 40.00In an important new application of sociological theories, Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal offers fresh insights into the ways in which social networks function among immigrants who arrive in the United States from Mexico without legal documentation. She asks and examines important questions about the commonalities and differences in networks for this group... more...
César Vallejo
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian César Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, on 16 March 1892 and died in Paris on 15 April 1938. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism. more...
State of Democracy in Latin America
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 170.00The State of Democracy in Latin America presents a critical analysis of the contemporary democratic state in Latin America. In a shift away from the more typical analyses of Latin American political change during the 1990s, this book presents a more state-centric perspective that seeks to explain why transitions to democracy and trends towards better... more...
The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00This comprehensive overview of the post-1978 wave of democratization in Latin America seeks to explain the change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which such regimes are the rare exception and why some countries have achieved striking advances in democratization while others have experienced setbacks. more...
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume 2, The Long Twentieth Century
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 174.00Provides an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America's economic development. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines and methodologies to provide a synthesis of the past two decades of exciting new research on the region's economic past. more...
Internet and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean
International Development Research Centre 2004; US$ 40.00This book presents pioneering research that is designed to show, from a qualitative and ethnographic perspective, how new information and communication technologies, as applied to the school system and to local governance initiatives, merely reproduce traditional pedagogical approaches and the dominant forms by which power is exercised at the local... more...
Ask a Mexican
Scribner 2007; US$ 15.00DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN! ? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent... more...
Science, Technology, and Innovation in Chile
International Development Research Centre 1999; US$ 25.00Chile and Canada are two countries who share the challenge of creating and maintaining a vital ''national system of innovation'' to serve the needs of their resource-based economies. Chile and Canada also have a rich history of research collaboration, largely fostered by the activities of IDRC. With this in mind, and following a conversation between... more...
Batista Unleashed
World Wrestling Entertainment 2007; US$ 16.00People around the world know Dave Batista as World Wrestling Entertainment's "the Animal," the rope-shaking, spine-busting World Heavyweight Champion, one of the most popular Superstars in recent years.The crowd turned Batista from heel to babyface after they were electrified by his awesome physique and physical wrestling style. Few fans, however,... more...
Going to School in Latin America
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 65.00Schooling in Latin American Countries. more...









