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Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology by Christopher Heaney 9780197542552
RRP: $44.83$38.92When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic... -
Bordering on Chaos: Mexico's Roller-Coaster Journey toward Peace by Andre Oppenheimer 9780316650250
RRP: $48.73$34.40A political examination of contemporary Mexico.Book InformationISBN 9780316650250Author Andre OppenheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 431g -
On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel by Tony Cohan 9780747553656
$33.40When Tony Cohan and his wife visited central Mexico in 1985, they fell under the spell of an irresistible place. Recounting his awakening to needs he didn't know he had, Cohan tells how they returned to California, sold their house, and cast off for a... -
The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past by Julie Lindahl 9781538159613
RRP: $31.18$27.85This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the... -
Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign by John MacDonald
RRP: $25.33$21.35From May 1915 to October 1917 the armies of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian empire were locked into a series of twelve battles along the River Isonzo, a sixty-mile front from the Alps to the Adriatic. The campaign was fought in the most appalling terrain... -
San Carlos to Stanley: 40 Commando in the Falklands War by Peter Jackson-Lee
RRP: $33.05$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070890Author Peter Jackson-LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Silver, Sword and Stone: The Story of Latin America in Three Extraordinary Lives by Marie Arana 9781474600989
RRP: $25.33$17.73The timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation, violence, and religion.Leonor Gonzales, a miner's widow, lives in a tiny community perched... -
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean De Lery
RRP: $52.65$41.07When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil". Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member... -
The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging Sharon Maas 9781909770690
RRP: $17.53$12.09'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the... -
Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639703Author Subcomandante Insurgente MarcosFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 by Juan Jose Ponce Vazquez
RRP: $60.43$44.56Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes... -
A Falkland Islander s Wartime Journal: Surviving the Siege by Bound, Graham 9781399088671
RRP: $48.75$34.36Port Stanley was the tiny capital of a British colony known to few beyond the world of stamp collecting. But then, suddenly, in April 1982, it was the place-name on everyone's lips. The outcome of a war, for which Britain had mobilised its most powerful... -
Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to... -
The Little Capoeira Book, Revised Edition Nestor Capoeira 9781583941980
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583941980Author Nestor CapoeiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Shape of the Ruins: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9780857056610
RRP: $25.33$16.77Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019"Like Don DeLillo's JFK-themed Libra, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction" Glasgow Herald"A masterful writer" Nicole Krauss"Vasquez has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary... -
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations by Merilee Grindle 9780674278332
RRP: $54.50$43.19"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and an original thinker-yet today she's completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep... -
Falklands Gunner: A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War by Tom Martin 9781473881211
RRP: $48.75$35.14The Royal Artillery played a vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces' successful operation to re-capture of the Falkland Islands in 1982. However, the actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which... -
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantu
RRP: $21.43$12.58Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard'Stunningly good... The best thing I've read for ages' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeFrancisco Cantu was a US... -
Silver, Sword and Stone: The Story of Latin America in Three Extraordinary Lives by Marie Arana
RRP: $58.50$52.81SILVER, SWORD AND STONE is a vibrant, sweeping history of Latin America, told through three compelling lenses.The first, precious metal, of which silver is an enormous part, is an obsession that burned brightly in pre-Columbian times, consumed Spain in... -
Patagonia: A Cultural History by Chris Moss 9781904955382
RRP: $29.25$26.62Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of... -
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig 9780226789835
RRP: $44.85$43.15"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 - as well as its caption,... -
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden
$30.79Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In Murder City ,... -
Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena
RRP: $46.78$41.42Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial... -
How To Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America by Neuman
RRP: $23.38$15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060556Author Andres NeumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
A Hero For All Times: Marshall VC in The Great War by Peter Lees 9781399035323
RRP: $48.75$34.36In September 1914 Neville Marshall gave up a successful horse treatment practice to join first the Belgian and then the British Army. His diary, dormant in family archives for 105 years, and letters describe his tumultuous war service. An Irish... -
Beagle Conflict Volume 1: Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War in 1978 by Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia 9781804513736
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513736Author Antonio Luis Sapienza FracchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable 9780393309850
RRP: $44.83$36.25How Chile, once South America's most stable democracy, gave way to a culture of fear. The authors explain and illuminate the rift in Chilean society that widened dramatically during the Pinochet era.About the AuthorPamela Constable is a Deputy Foreign... -
Argentine Fight for the Falklands by Martin Middlebrook 9781844158881
RRP: $33.13$23.95Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart's The Other Side of the Hill in analysing and understanding the military thinking and... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast - Shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize - Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize by Marjoleine Kars
RRP: $39.00$25.55Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' Washington Post '[An] epic history ... a sweeping, thoughtful narrative' Los Angeles Times On Sunday... -
Guyana At 50: Reflection, Celebration And Inspiration by Arif Ali 9781910553572
RRP: $58.50$37.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553572Author Arif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited -
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History by Jose C. Moya 9780195166217
RRP: $101.40$93.93This Oxford Handbook surveys the large and growing field of Latin American history by bringing together the principal themes and approaches over the past three decades. Essays address indigenous peoples of the region, colonial history, independence... -
The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against Time by William Sullivan 9780517888513
$28.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517888513Author William SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 652g -
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $48.73$43.04During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of... -
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism A.M. Gittlitz 9780745340777
RRP: $38.98$26.03Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism. Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J... -
The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism by Sebastian Edwards
RRP: $54.60$41.87How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic... -
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent Into Darkness by Alfredo Corchado 9780143125532
RRP: $46.80$32.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125532Author Alfredo CorchadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
My Life by Sir Ahmadu Bello 9780521092685
RRP: $77.98$64.86Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region of Nigeria, was thought by many to be the most powerful figure in Nigeria. The descendant of the great reformer, Shehu Usuman dan Fodio, the Sardauna grew up in the atmosphere of the Muslim and... -
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the... -
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth. Scaling the Andes and journeying along the... -
Colombia: A Concise Contemporary History by Michael J. LaRosa 9781442275737
$84.22Colombia is at a historic crossroads as its leaders implement peace accords that will end an undeclared but bitter civil war that has raged for more than half a century. Building a nation at peace will require the input and collaboration of both...