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  • Dragon in the Tropics

    Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez

    by Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold ...
    This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • The Story of Che Guevara

    by Lucía Álvarez de Toledo ...
    An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the political map of Latin America and gave hope to those resisting colonialism everywhere. In The Story of Che Guevara Lucía Álvarez de Toledo follows ... Read more

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  • Why Not Socialism?

    by Gerald A. Cohen ...
    A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, for example, ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Patagonia

    A Cultural History

    by Chris Moss ...
    Series Book 8 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    Patagonia 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 place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small ... Read more

    $11.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Souls of China

    The Return of Religion After Mao

    by Ian Johnson ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Communist Manifesto

    A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

    by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels ...
    “What is globalization? Here is one of the best answers. It is the ‘constant revolutionizing of production’ and the ‘endless disturbance of all social conditions.’ It is ‘everlasting uncertainty.’ Everything ‘fixed and frozen’ is ‘swept away,’ and ‘all that is solid melts into air.’ Yes, you have read this before. It is from The Communist Manifesto, by Messrs. Marx and Engels.”—The New York ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Young Che

    Memories of Che Guevara by His Father

    by Ernesto Guevara Lynch ...
    “I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely different type from the one I dreamed of, and when I arrive in a new country it will not be to go to museums and look at ruins, because that still ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret

    by Ondjaki, Stephen Henighan ...
    Series Book 12 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Ondjaki was ranked by The Guardian in 2012 as one of their Top Five African WritersYoung writer (35), already the author of 12 books in 8 languagesKnown for his charming personality and charming young protagonistsLike Mia Couto, he is already a star-figure in Portugal, & Brazil, & his work is well-known in Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy, and GermanyHas spoken at Brown, Rutgers, Stanford, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians. This study focuses on the formation and activities of anarchists and Communists, the two most important radical groups working within ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945

    Repression during World Upheaval

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime.Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regime of Getúlio Vargas ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Mother's Cry

    A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship

    by Lina Sattamini, Marcos P. S. Arruda ...
    Translated by Rex P. Nielson ...
    During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil’s dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in São Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured. A Mother’s Cry is the harrowing story of Marcos’s incarceration and his family’s efforts to locate ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality

    by José Carlos Mariátegui ...
    Translated by Marjory Urquidi ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    "Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the academic techniques of the university."—From the Author's NoteJose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD