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Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture

In this exploration of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how Escobar's legacy inspired the development of narcocultura--television, music, liter…

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Ernesto Che Guevara
The Awakening of Latin America

"In a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, "The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed." In …

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Jeffrey T Manuel, Thomas D Rogers
Ethanol

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years--good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon or boondoggle?--its use goes back more than a cen…

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José Iriarte
The Archaeology of Amazonia

"This open access book looks at the archaeology of Amazonia. Reaching back to the earliest colonization of the Amazon basin during the last Ice Age, this book demonstrates how its current diversity o…

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Larry Rohter
Into the Amazon

Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his wa…

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Dan Collyns
Blood Gold

A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world's biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse.

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Christopher Bell
Walking East Harlem

East Harlem native Christopher Bell takes you on three separate walking tours of his beloved neighborhood, sharing fascinating stories about its theatres, museums, art spaces, schools, churches, mosques, …

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Deborah E Kanter
Pioneers of Latino Ministry

Traces the history of the Claretian Missionaries and their far-reaching influence on Latino Catholics Pioneers of Latino Ministry tells the story of the Claretian Missionaries, a male Catholic congregatio…

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Amanda Bellows
The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

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Nicole C Bourbonnais
The Gospel of Family Planning

"Over the course of the twentieth century, family planning took the world by storm. Starting in the 1930s, activists, international aid organizations, and government agencies embraced the notion that…

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Richard Ivan Jobs, Steven Van Wolputte, Manuel Bolom Pale
In the Land of the Lacandón

In the mid-1930s Bernard de Colmont ventured into the borderlands of Mexico to study the Lacandón people, considered to be the closest living relatives of the Maya. In the Land of the Lacandón transforms …

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Jesús Salvador Treviño
The Chicano Documentary

Filmmaker, director and producer Jesús Salvador Treviño writes that motion pictures made by Latinos over the past 50 years are crucial in understanding the American experience. Without them, people "…

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Pacharee Sudhinaraset
Worlds at the End

"This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers for whom…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all co…

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Pacharee Sudhinaraset
Worlds at the End

"This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers for whom…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all co…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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