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  • ALA EH?!

    Ang Buhay Canadian

    by MARIA ANDREA DE LUNA ...
    A book compiling the author's "newbie" misfortunes, funny stories, and crazy antics when she first moved to Canada and other funny anecdotes from Filipinos in Canada. ... Read more

    $3.63 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America

    by Andreas E. Feldmann, Juan Pablo Luna ...
    Series series Elements in the Politics of Development
    This Element investigates the relationship between the narcotics industry and politics and assesses how it influences domestic political dynamics, including economic development prospects in Latin America. It argues that links between criminal organizations, politicians, and state agents give rise to criminal politics (i.e., the interrelated activity of politicians, organized crime actors, and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Crossing the Borders

    New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean

    by William F. Keegan, Gareth R. Davies, Christy de Mille, Benoit Berard, Mathijs A. Booden, Iris Briels, Jago Cooper, Fernando Luna Calderon, Alfredo Coppa, Andrea Cucina, Roberto Rodriguez Suarez, Jaime R Pagan-Jimenez, Charlene Dixon Hutcheson, A. J. Daan Isendoorn, Loe Jacobs, Sebastiaan Knippenberg, Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers, Michaela Lucci, Marcos Martinon-Torres, Channah Nieuwenhuis, Raphael Panhuysen, Glenis Tavarez Maria, Michael Turney, Rita Vargiu, Tamara L Varney, Johannes Zijlstra, José R. Oliver, Harold J Kelly, Dr. Lee A. Newsom, Dr. Hylke de Jong, Dr. Roberto Valcarcel Rojas ...
    Series series Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniquesDuring the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The aim of earlier research in the Caribbean was mainly to define typologies on the basis of pottery and lithic assemblages ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

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    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Read more

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  • Sacrificing Families

    Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders

    by Leisy J. Abrego ...
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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

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  • Migration Between Mexico and the United States

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Agustín Escobar Latapí, Claudia Masferrer ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the ... Read more

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  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

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  • Evo's Bolivia

    Continuity and Change

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl ...
    In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere’s first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all readers, Evo’s Bolivia not only charts Evo’s rise to power but also offers a history of and context ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Drug Violence

    Criminals, Cops and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico

    by Angelica Duran-Martinez ...
    Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the ... Read more

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  • Making Peace in Drug Wars

    Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America

    by Benjamin Lessing ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state's monopoly on force. Instead, cartels fought back - with bullets and bribes - driving spirals of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    by Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Read more

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