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  • When Rains Became Floods

    A Child Soldier's Story

    by Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez ...
    Translated by Margaret Randall ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military. After escaping the conflict, he became a Franciscan priest and is now an anthropologist. Gavilán Sánchez's words mark otherwise forgotten acts of brutality and kindness, moments of misery and despair as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Molly, The Drummer Boy (Unabridged)

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    by Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK ...
    Narrated by Marlene Farnum, Randall Sanchez, Sandra Flaherty, Christopher Keyt ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 34 min

    In the heart of the American Revolution, where the fight for freedom burns bright, lives a young girl with a secret. Molly longs to join the Continental Army, but girls are forbidden from the battlefield. Yet, Molly possesses a hidden talent – a thunderous drumming that stirs the soul. Disguised as a boy, she dares to defy expectations and march alongside the brave soldiers. Will Molly's drumming ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The True Story of the Chilean Mining Disaster and the Extraordinary Rescue at Camp Hope

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    The inside story of the thirty-three Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet underground that captivated the worldOn August 5, 2010, a tunnel in the gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed, with all of its miners trapped underground. For days, the families waited breathlessly as percussion drills searched out signs of life. Finally, a note came back from below--the miners were ... Read more

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    Confronting Inequality in the Information Society

    by Bernardo Sorj ...
    The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources associated with information and communication technology between countries and within societies. We will explore how one factor, in this case information technology, can potentially support contradictory tendencies: towards greater freedom and social participation and to deeper social inequality and new ... Read more

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  • Brazil in Transition

    Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    by Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Hotel Trópico

    Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980

    by Jerry Dávila ...
    In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled ... Read more

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  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hard Times in the Marvelous City

    From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

    by Bryan McCann ...
    Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions—such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment—that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ... Read more

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  • Other Septembers, Many Americas

    Selected Provocations, 1980-2004

    by Ariel Dorfman ...
    "Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup in which the U.S. government was complicit. "Beware the plague of victimhood, America . . . Nothing is more ... Read more

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  • Imposing Harmony

    Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

    by Geoffrey Baker ...
    Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco’s musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions ... Read more

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  • Aurality

    Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

    by Ana María Ochoa Gautier ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her "acoustically tuned" analysis of a ... Read more

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  • The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War

    by Gustavo Morello, SJ ...
    On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for "subversive fighters." The seminarians were jailed and tortured for two months before eventually being exiled to the United States. The perpetrators were part of the ... Read more

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