Latin America

Based on the highly-regarded Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management and part of the Manual of Emergency Medicine series envisioned by leading authority in emergency medicine, Dr. Ron M. Walls, Manual of Neurologic Emergencies provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037666838Author DahmaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Edition SkylightPublisher Edition SkylightWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975169190Author EgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Wolters Kluwer HealthPublisher Wolters Kluwer Health

The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the poet discovered an incised potsherd: 'Was that the day...

We all share the same world, but do we experience it in the same way? A Different World gives children the opportunity to see the world through others' eyes. Readers will understand what challenges other people face on a daily basis and be provided with...

First Coding introduces children to the basic principles of programming and computing, from being safe on the internet to their first steps in computer logic. This series uses easy-to-read text and colourful images, as well as real examples of code.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190822149Author Howchung LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oxford University Press,China LtdPublisher Oxford University Press,China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190821456Author Howchung LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oxford University Press,China LtdPublisher Oxford University Press,China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190823085Author Howchung LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oxford University Press,China LtdPublisher Oxford University Press,China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190823672Author Howchung LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oxford University Press,China LtdPublisher Oxford University Press,China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190823191Author Howchung LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oxford University Press,China LtdPublisher Oxford University Press,China...

An eyewitness account of idealism, self-discovery, and loss under one of the twentieth-century's most repressive political regimes Set against a backdrop of world-changing events during the headiest years of the Cuban Revolution, Goodbye, My Havana...

Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and an odd Indian drink, these two commodities came to conquer Europe on a scale unsurpassed by any other...

Many treatments of the twentieth-century Latin American left assume a movement populated mainly by affluent urban youth whose naive dreams of revolution collapsed under the weight of their own elitism, racism, sexism, and sectarian dogmas. However, this...

In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195382228Author Mark Overmyer-Vel zquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826319067Author Lyman L. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico.More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of...

This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Through the stories of five women and one radio station, this study makes a substantial theoretical...

On March 24, 1980, the assassination of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero rocked that nation and the world. Despite the efforts of many in El Salvador and beyond, those responsible for Romero's murder remained unpunished for their heinous crime...

Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that...

Violence In Colombia provides students with a deeper understanding of the crisis facing Colombia today. The book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the oldest and largest guerrilla insurgency in the Americas and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947631Author Gabriel PaquetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history...

A systematic account of Brazil's historical development from 1798 to 1852, this book analyses the process that brought the sprawling Portuguese colonies of the New World into the confines of a single nation-state.Reviews"The author's selection of...

This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. Alignment is taken to include both basic...

These five letters by the Spanish conqueror, Hernando Cortes, were written to the Emperor Charles V of Spain between 1519 and 1526. They describe the earliest discoveries of the mainland, the perilous trek into hostile country, the capture of the Aztec...

The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of...

Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. These publicly owned and operated markets supplied households with everyday...

Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid detail the three indigenous rebellions that threatened Spanish control of its South American colonies more...

Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up...

Peter Wade focuses on the 'racial democracy' of Colombia-- specifically the black population of the Choco province--to explore the significance of culture and class in a racially mixed population.Wade's insistence on analytic issues throughout makes it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403962584Author J. Burton KirkwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Drawing on understudied archives, this pathbreaking work unearths a new history of...

In the aftermath of major violent events that affect many, we seek to know the 'truth' of what happened. Whatever 'truth' emerges relies heavily on the extent to which any text about a given event can stir our emotions - whether such texts are official...

Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual Practice and Activism explores how Evo Morales's victory in the 2005 Bolivian presidential elections led to indigeneity as the core of decolonization politics. Anders Burman analyzes how...

Economic and social development is a major topic of discussion in courses across the social sciences, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment...

This is a new view of cocaine's expansive history.Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine.Gootenberg...

Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788742552476Author Anne Sofie SternbergPage Count 10Imprint GlobePublisher GlobeWeight(grams) 210g