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  • Allies

    Spain and the American Revolution

    by Rafael Torres, Jordi Bru, Guillermo Fesser ...
    Jordi Bru, the world's leading photographer of historical reenactments, and Rafael Torres, one of the foremost experts on 18th-century Spain, team up once again in a superb and surprising work: Allies. Through the lens and the pen, they commemorate 250 years of a decisive chapter in History: Spain's indispensable participation in the American Revolution. A book that unfolds a deeply immersive ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Development Goals in Europe

    A Geographical Approach

    Edited by María Luisa De Lázaro Torres, Rafael De Miguel González ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Although the world is strongly interconnected, the majority of the chapters in this volume focus on Europe or the work of European researchers. Each chapter of this book focusses on one of the 17 SDG’s providing in-depth knowledge from a geographical perspective, ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain

    by Rafael Torres Sánchez ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view of the limitations of Spain's absolutist state, and this historical school of thought presents the ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

    Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black ...
    The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. Introductions ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century

    by Rafael Torres Sánchez ...
    Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • My Body is Paper

    Stories and Poems

    by Gil Cuadros, Pablo Alvarez ...
    "Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996, two years after chronicling the disease in City of God, a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles. His belated follow-up takes the same form, with the same bracing urgency."—The New York Times"Without doubt one of the sexiest and most important writers I've ever read."—Justin Torres, author of Blackouts"My Body Is Paper is a testament to the unrelenting ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back

    Memories of an East LA Outlaw

    by Ernie López, Rafael Pérez-Torres ...
    This prison memoir vividly recounts a life of abuse, crime, and incarceration, and reveals the harrowing reality inside America's broken prison system.When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, he would face beatings from his father for not bringing home enough money. When the beatings became unbearable, López took to petty stealing to make up the difference. By ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass, Prentice Onayemi, Allyson Johnson, Vivienne Leheny, Jennifer Ikeda, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Raphael Corkhill, Vikas Adam, various narrators, Justin D. Torres ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 15 min

    Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her thirty-five-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking ... Read more

    $41.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Open Veins of Latin America

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  • Life Is About Losing Everything

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  • Knowledge for Governance

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