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  • No Rain in the Amazon

    How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet

    Series series MacSci
    Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists ... Leer más

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  • Revolution!

    South America and the Rise of the New Left

    In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and Michelle Bachelet, the first woman president in Chile, the faces of South American politics are changing rapidly and radically.In this timely and ... Leer más

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  • Hugo Chávez

    Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.

    Audacious, provocative, and bombastic, few world politicians are as colorful as Hugo Chávez, now making international news for his plans to nationalize U.S. owned businesses and his bold opposition to Washington's economic and trade policies. As Venezuela gains importance as the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, this firebrand leader is quickly moving to the public spotlight by uniting much ... Leer más

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  • Dancing with Dynamite

    Social Movements and States in Latin America

    Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere. ... Leer más

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  • Collapse

    How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

    de Jared Diamond ...
    In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilizationEnvironmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some ... Leer más

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  • Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America

    de Michael Reid ...
    The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America—now fully revised and updated.Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's bestselling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid suggests that ... Leer más

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  • Central America's Forgotten History

    Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

    de Aviva Chomsky ...
    Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten ... Leer más

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  • Drug War Mexico

    Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

    Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug ... Leer más

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  • More Good News

    Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis

    In this edition of their bestseller, the sequel to the best-selling Good News for a Change, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel provide the latest inspiring stories about individuals, groups, and businesses that are making real change in the world. More Good News features the most up-to-date information about critical subjects, such as energy and the economy, not covered in the previous edition ... Leer más

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  • The Rights of Nature

    A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

    de David R. Boyd ...
    Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.“Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” — ... Leer más

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  • Colombia and the United States

    War, Unrest and Destabilization

    Series series Open Media Series
    Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia. Beginning with a brief history of Colombia, Murillo analyzes the complex forces driving Colombia's current ... Leer más

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  • The Economic War Against Cuba

    A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade

    de Salim Lamrani ...
    It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understandingthe economic sanctions levied against it by the UnitedStates. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld byevery presidential administration, and at times intensified by individualpresidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part ofthe U.S. government’s ongoing campaign to undermine the CubanRevolution, and ... Leer más

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