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Going to School in Latin America
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 65.00Schooling in Latin American Countries. more...
Latino Talent
Wiley 2007; US$ 39.95Praise for Latino Talent "Latino Talent is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in learning about Hispanic Americans in the workplace and in leveraging and maximizing their contributions. This unique book--written by an expert who's deeply respected in this field--provides a practical and compelling perspective on why organizations should... more...
The Market and the Masses in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 28.00Baker argues that a new political economy of consumption has replaced a previously dominant politics of labour and class in Latin America. more...
Brazil
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 22.99Introduction: Why Read About Brazil?. CHAPTER 1. BIRTH AND GROWTH OF COLONIAL BRAZIL: 1500-1750. The Country the Portuguese Created in the New World. The Colonial Economy and Society. Miscegenation: Biological and Cultural. The Beginnings of a Luso-Brazilian Culture. CHAPTER 2. CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM AND EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT BRAZIL: 1790-1830.... more...
Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 32.95This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "democratic elitism," is the only realistic way to... more...
Mexico's Transition to a Knowledge-Based Economy
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 9.99Knowledge and its application are now widely recognized to be key sources of growth in the global economy. Putting knowledge to work allows countries to improve everyday life for their people, opening up new possibilities for small and medium-size enterprises and other less-developed economic groups. This volume examines the challenges and opportunties... more...
Just Like Us
Scribner 2009; US$ 17.00A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just Like Us is their story. A stunning work of in-depth journalism in the tradition of Random Family , Helen Thorpe's Just Like Us takes... more...
Artifacts of Revolution
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 79.99This innovative history utilizes the built environment as a means of tracing the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Patrice Olsen considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments during the critical period from 1920... more...
No Apparent Danger
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99On January 14, 1993, a team of scientists descended into the crater of Galeras, a restless Andean volcano in southern Colombia, for a day of field research. As the group slowly moved across the rocky moonscape of the caldera near the heart of the volcano, Galeras erupted, its crater exploding in a barrage of burning rocks and glowing shrapnel. Nine... more...
Starting from Quirpini
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 21.20The people of Quirpini, a rural community in the Bolivian Andes, are in constant motion. They visit each other's houses, work in their fields, go to nearby towns for school, market, or official transactions, and travel to Buenos Aires for wage labor. In this rich ethnography, Stuart Alexander Rockefeller... more...









