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  • Chicano Manifesto

    Chicano Manifesto appeared in 1971 as the first book written by a Chicano to give expression to the spirit of a cultural revolution. The text is largely biographical because much of the history recorded in its pages was actually observed by the author. Many persons and events depicted here were captured only because the author was there as the movement evolved.Perhaps the most disturbing truth ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Up to Earth

    An Ecopoesy Chapbook

    Armando Rendn, a son of the Westside barrio of San Antonio, Texas, now lives in Kensington, California, a little hamlet in the Berkeley hills facing San Francisco Bay, with his wife and their two gardens, front and back. A non-avid gardener, he has nevetheless learned much from digging and observing the world of plants, flowers, bonsai and weeds.Retiring in 2004 after serving as a writer/editor ... Read more

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    **The Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (**Gabriel García Márquez)."In his work a continent awakens to consciousness," wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered ... Read more

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  • Manana Forever?

    Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but also love victims? And why, though the Mexican people traditionally avoid conflict, is there so much violence in a country where many leaders have died by assassination?In this shrewd and fascinating book, the ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of Brazil

    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Fausto, a prominent ... Read more

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  • sulphurtongue

    An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALISTPAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD, SHORTLISTJ. M. ABRAHAM ATLANTIC POETRY AWARD, SHORTLISTGERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD, LONGLISTThe poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Colombia

    A Nation in Spite of Itself

    Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a ... Read more

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  • A Direct and Clear Response

    Series Book 4 - Proxima Alliance
    There will always be big, wealthy organizations which promise to sell certain things to small, remote outposts. And which, once the ink on the contract has been dry for a while, will start to change the terms. A little here. A bit there. After all, they are a vast entity of astonishing power and reach. What is some petty, dirty, little base on an obscure out of the way moon in a position to do but ... Read more

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  • Distant Neighbors

    A Portrait of the Mexicans

    by Alan Riding ...
    A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being. ... Read more

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  • Saving Daylight

    by Jim Harrison ...
    Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association.“Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—The Times (London)“This is [Harrison’s] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date.”—BooklistJim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his poetry “the true bones of my life.” Although he is best ... Read more

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  • Venezuela

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and relations have been strained ever since. In this concise, accessible addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know® series, ... Read more

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  • Jim Harrison: Complete Poems

    by Jim Harrison ...
    Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet's work... [a] landmark collection."From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are ... Read more

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