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“odeen ishmael”

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  • The Flying Canoes

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    This novella is based to some extent on historical facts. It tells the Arawak's story of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in October 1492 at his first American landfall on the tiny island of Guanahani in the Bahamas archipelago. This Arawak island was renamed San Salvador by the European navigator and explorer when he took possession of it in the name of the Spanish crown. This tale of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Guyana Story

    From Earliest Times to Independence

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    The Guyana StoryFrom Earliest Times to Independence traces the countrys history from thousands of years ago when the first Amerindian groups began to settle on the Guyana territory. It examines the period of early European exploration leading to Dutch colonization, the forcible introduction of African slaves to work on cotton and sugar plantations, the effects of European wars, and the final ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Trail of Diplomacy -- Volume Three

    The Guyana-Venezuela Border Issue--United Nations Involvement and Active Bilateral Relations (1982-2015)

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    This volume, the third of a three-part documentary, continues the history of the Guyana-Venezuela border issue from where Volume Two left off. It deals with the involvement of the office of the secretary general of United Nations ever since the termination of the Protocol of Port of Spain in 1982 in the efforts to settle the controversy. While this process did not make any progress as was ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Trail of Diplomacy

    The Guyana-Venezuela Border Issue (Volume Two)

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    This volume, the second of a three-part documentary, continues the history of the Guyana-Venezuela border issue from where Volume One left off. It describes Venezuelas dissatisfaction over the territorial and boundary award issued in 1899 by the international arbitral tribunal, subsequently leading to that countrys government unilaterally declaring it in 1962 as being null and void. The volume ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Magic Pot

    Nansi Stories from the Caribbean

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    This book comprises a collection of popular folk stories from Guyana and other countries of the Caribbean region. The starring character in all of them is Nansi whose exploits form part of the folklore of these countries. Nansi, the starring character in all the stories, is also popularly known as Anansi. But in Guyana and some other Caribbean countries, Nansi, the shortened form of this name, is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Democracy Perspective in the Americas

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    The Democracy Perspective in the Americas presents the author's views on the evolution of democracy in the American hemisphere and the challenges confronting this form of governance. It comprises a collection of his statements and published commentaries on the perspective of democracy from 1993 to 2008, while serving as Guyana's Ambassador to the United States at the Organization of American ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    A History of Mexican Migration to the United States

    by Timothy J. Henderson ...
    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 to the present day.Considers the issues from the perspectives of both the United States and MexicoOffers a reasoned assessment of the factors that ... Read more

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  • South Africa: History in an Hour

    by Anthony Holmes ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led the country to unite ‘for the freedom of us all’ as the country’s first ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

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  • A Country for All

    An Immigrant Manifesto

    by Jorge Ramos ...
    For decades, fixing the United States’ broken immigration system has been one of the most urgent challenges facing our country, and time and time again, politicians have passed the buck. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising around the country, and presidential elections on the horizon, it’s no surprise immigration reform is on every candidate’s agenda. While some candidates offer viable solutions, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Memories at Low Altitude

    The Autobiography of a Mozambican Security Chief

    by Jacinto Veloso ...
    A story of war and peace in Mozambique and beyond, Memories at Low Altitude spans four decades of southern African history, from the point of view of one of its main protagonists. Jacinto Veloso fought in the Mozambican liberation struggle and served as a Minister in Samora Machel’s cabinet after independence, when the region was dominated by civil war and the conflict between East and West. ... Read more

    $9.09 USD

  • Latino America

    How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation

    by Matt Barreto, Gary M Segura ...
    Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican province of Alta California into the United States, Latinos once again became the largest population in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil

    by Barry Ames ...
    Series series Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics
    Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD