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“tom hauser”

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    by Tom Hauser ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–nominated book that served as the basis for the Oscar–winning movie starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.Charles Horman was an American freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who had traveled to Chile in the early 1970s to explore a country that was undergoing significant changes under the then-Marxist President Salvador Allende. In the course of his research, Horman ... Read more

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  • Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

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  • Exorcising Terror

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  • The Amazon

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  • La Patria del Criollo

    An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala

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  • Demanding Justice and Security

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    by Rachel Sieder, Adriana Terven Salinas, Emma Cervone, Cristina Cucuri, Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt, Leonor Lozano, Mariana Mora, Morna Macleod, Natalia De Marinis, Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo0, Maria Teresa Sierra1 ...
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  • The São Paulo Law School and the Anti-Vargas Resistance (1938-1945)

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