Cultural Region/Latin America
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Cuentos Folkloricos Latinoamericanos: Fábulas de Las Tradiciones Hispanas E Indà Genas / Latin American Folktales: Stories from Hispanic and Indian Tr
$21.95 Add to cartExtendiendo a veinte pa ses y quinientos a os, desde los mitos coloniales m s tempranos hasta los cuentos orales coleccionados en el siglo veinte desde el sur de California, Florida, Texas y Nuevo M x… [more below]
- Author: Bierhorst, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375713972
- Language: Spanish
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Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition
$23.00 Add to cartReflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, with English translations and the original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.
While things are settling down,
here I’ve left m- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0374512388
- Language: English
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Unaccompanied
$17.00 Add to cartThis gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings.
- Author: Zamora, Javier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1556595115
- Language: English
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Historias Y Poemas de Una Lucha de Clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
$18.95 Read more“His prolific artistic production, cut off at the age of forty, remains a monumental artifact . . . illustrating his profound conviction that the poet can and must, in his life as well as in his work,… [more below]
- Author: Dalton, Roque
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1644211769
- Language: English
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The Perseverance
$16.95 Add to cartIn the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi’s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoust
- Author: Antrobus, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 195114242X
- Language: English
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The Latin American Cookbook
$54.95 Add to cart“This incredible cookbook is truly extraordinary” – Gordon Ramsay
“An epic tribute to the many beautiful cultures and communities of Latin America” – Jos? Andr?s
A Travel + Leisure Best Fall 2021 Cookbo
- Author: Martinez, Virgilio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1838663126
- Language: English
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
$14.99 Add to cartThis globe-spanning history of sugar is “an epic story on a broad canvas that never loses sight of individual moments of human drama; a historical methodology infused with political, intellectual, cul
- Author: Aronson, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0544582470
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018
A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATIONIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun–
- Series: Seedbank #1
- Author: Bazzett, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1571314687
- Language: English
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The War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742
$18.95 Add to cartFilled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States–and the entire Western Hemisphere.
In the early 18th cen- Author: Gaudi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362967
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$9.50 Add to cartGuerrilla Warfare is an epoch-making book by Che Guevara aimed to inspire thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries worldwide. Guevara believed that in the world of totalitarian regimes, wh… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 03 2022
- ISBN10: 8027343070
- Language: English
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Dream of Xibalba
$18.00 Add to cartDream of Xibalba, Stephanie Adams-Santos’s incantatory long poem, draws the reader into a dreamworld where the barrier between life and death grows porous, populated by ancestors and spirits. The infl
- Author: Adams-Santos, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1949039382
- Language: English
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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
$46.67 Add to cartNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR
An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword b- Author: G?mez, Laura E
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1595589171
- Language: English
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Great Escapes Latin America. the Hotel Book
$70.00 Read moreLatin America is a cradle of ancient civilizations like those of the Incas, Maya and Aztecs, and later became the goal of European explorers and immigrants. It looks back on a long history, often full
- Author: Taschen, Angelika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 14 2022
- ISBN10: 3836584352
- Language: English
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Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico
$27.95 Add to cart“Mexico’s history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and spectacular cultural achievements. A fascinating story.”–Christian Science Monitor
There ha- Author: Fehrenbach, T. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: March 22 1995
- ISBN10: 0306806282
- Language: English
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The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War
$39.95 Add to cartThe Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central q… [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640121528
- Language: English
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.95 Read moreSet in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, fro
- Author: Delgado-Kling, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1682194477
- Language: English
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Mezcal: The History, Craft & Cocktails of the World’s Ultimate Artisanal Spirit
$26.99 Read moreIn Mezcal, two-time James Beard Award-winning author Emma Janzen explores what sets this cousin of tequila apart from the rest of the pack.
*Nominated for the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award in- Author: Janzen, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0760352615
- Language: English
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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mindvolume 67
$29.95 Add to cartFor at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #67
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0806122951
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$28.00 Add to cartThe largest collection of poetry ever assembled in English by “the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes” (Mario Vargas Llosa)
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-e… [more below]- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140587217
- Language: English
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The Story of Spanish
$21.00 Add to cartThe authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe.
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250049040
- Language: English
