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ISBN: 9780292745278 - Our House in the Clouds Our House in the Clouds
Judy Blankenship

ISBN10: 0292745273  ISBN13: 9780292745278
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 May 2013
Vividly describes an American couple's experience of making a second home in a rural Andean community in which they are the only outsiders While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy... More

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ISBN: 9781780323763 - Bolivia: Processes of Change Bolivia: Processes of Change
John Crabtree, Ann Chaplin

ISBN10: 178032376X  ISBN13: 9781780323763
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Based on a wealth of interview material and original reportage, the book enters the terrain of grass-roots politics, identifying how Bolivians work within the country's social movements and how they view the effects that this participation has... More

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ISBN: 9780199274574 - Black Milk Black Milk
Marcus Wood

ISBN10: 0199274576  ISBN13: 9780199274574
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Black Milk is the first in-depth analysis of the visual arts that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exploring prints, photographs, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and ephemera... More

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ISBN: 9780822354215 - Sustaining Activism Sustaining Activism
Jeffrey W Rubin, Emma Sokoloff-Rubin

ISBN10: 0822354217  ISBN13: 9780822354215
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
In Sustaining Activism, Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of Brazil's women's movement of 1986. In 1986, a group of young Brazilian women started a movement to secure economic rights for rural women and... More

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ISBN: 9781137286055 - The Sociable Sciences The Sociable Sciences
Patience A Schell

ISBN10: 1137286059  ISBN13: 9781137286055
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Apr 2013
This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and... More

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ISBN: 9780292739505 - A Future for Amazonia A Future for Amazonia
Michael Cepek

ISBN10: 0292739508  ISBN13: 9780292739505
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Mar 2013
A remarkable story of empowerment, tracing the efforts of Randy Borman, the "gringo chief " who stemmed the tide of dispossession and rainforest destruction beginning in the 1990s and helped the Cofan of Amazonian Ecuador flourish as the result of... More

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ISBN: 9780199967759 - Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica
John E Staller

ISBN10: 019996775X  ISBN13: 9780199967759
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 Mar 2013
Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica is the first ever study to explore the symbolic elements surrounding lightning in Pre-Columbian religious ideologies. Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and... More

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ISBN: 9780857861511 - Comandante Comandante
Rory Carroll

ISBN10: 0857861514  ISBN13: 9780857861511
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Mar 2013
Hugo Chavez was a true phenomenon. On his death in March 2013 tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets and honoured a seven-day period of national mourning. Chavez has been compared to Napoleon, Nasser, Peron and Castro but the truth... More

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ISBN: 9780822352686 - The Paraguay Reader The Paraguay Reader
Peter Lambert, Andrew Nickson

ISBN10: 0822352680  ISBN13: 9780822352686
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Feb 2013
The Paraguay Reader is a lively compilation of testimonies, journalism, scholarship, political tracts, literature, and illustrations, including maps, photographs, paintings, drawings, and advertisements. Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the... More

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ISBN: 9781607321965 - Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia
Alf Hornborg, Jonathan David Hill

ISBN10: 1607321963  ISBN13: 9781607321965
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Feb 2013
A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, 'Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia' traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill argue that the... More