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Everyday Revolutions
Zed Books 2012; US$ 26.95In the wake of the global financial crisis, disparate groups of people are coming together to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. But in Argentina such radical transformations have been taking place for years, with workers running factories themselves and people taking over land to build homes and schools. Daring and... more...
Impasse in Bolivia
Zed Books 2006; US$ 32.95Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after country in Latin America - to this currently fashionable,... more...
The Catholic Church
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church?s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms ? between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism ? the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes; and the expansion of a global Church infrastructure. The... 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...
Brazil
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 73.50Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists,... more...
Bolivia
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 34.99Bolivia's challenges with regard to policy are multiple, deep and multifaceted, and as such they require integral proposals. The book tries to cover these challenges in their different dimensions and presents options to grow more and better creating jobs, with benefits for all, and without corruption and with civic participation. The design and... more...
Nago Grandma and White Papa
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 28.95Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Dantas compares the formation of Yoruba (Nago) religious traditions and ethnic... more...
Bolivia - Culture Smart!
Kuperard 2011; US$ 9.95Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will... more...
Paradoxes of Utopia
AK Press 2010; US$ 13.99A social history of revolutionary ideas and lifestyles. more...
Colombia before Independence
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 56.00This book describes and analyses economic and political developments in Colombia during the final century of Spanish rule. more...









