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  • Conquistadores de la Calle

    Child Street Labor in Guatemala City

    de Thomas A. Offit ...
    The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations are entirely the result of poverty and family breakdown.Documenting the voices and experiences of the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World

    de Garrett W. Cook, Thomas A. Offit, Taube Rhonda ...
    Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil. Focusing on the primary participants in the annual festival in the K’iche’ Maya village of Santiago Momostenango ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Securing the City

    Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala

    de Thomas Offit, Deborah Levenson ...
    Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment is now strikingly evident in the practices and politics of security. Postwar violence has not ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen

    A Memoir

    de Sidney Offit ...
    "Sidney Offit has devised a marvelous mirror of his unique personality as well as a one of a kind tour of the New York literary world in the last half century. Anyone even faintly interested in books will find it impossible to put down."---Thomas Fleming, bestselling author of Liberty! The American RevolutionSidney Offit's charming memoir of a writer's life ingeniously reflects some of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Nothing Personal

    A Novel of Wall Street

    de Mike Offit ...
    Warren Hament is a bright young man who wanders into a career in finance in the early 1980s. Nothing Personal is the extraordinary story of his rapid ascent toward success, painted against a landscape of temptation and personal discovery. Introduced to the seductive, elite bastions of wealth and privilege, and joined by his gorgeous and ambitious girlfriend, he gets a career boost when his mentor ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation

    de Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire, Lauren Walsh, John F Callahan, Carol Friedman, Albert Murray, Greg Thomas, Anne-Katrin Gramberg, Caroline Gebhard, Don Noble, Maurice Pogue, Bert Hitchcock, Sidney Offit, Sanford Pinsker, Paul Devlin, Eugene Holley, Robin DuBlanc, Dr. Barbara A. Baker, PhD, Ms. Jay Lamar, Mr. Gail Buckley, Mr. Elizabeth Mayer Fiedorek ...
    The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert MurrayThis collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • ¡Tequila!

    Distilling the Spirit of Mexico

    de Marie Sarita Gaytán ...
    Italy has grappa, Russia has vodka, Jamaica has rum. Around the world, certain drinks—especially those of the intoxicating kind—are synonymous with their peoples and cultures. For Mexico, this drink is tequila. For many, tequila can conjure up scenes of body shots on Cancún bars and coolly garnished margaritas on sandy beaches. Its power is equally strong within Mexico, though there the drink is ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Chicana Movidas

    New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

    Edición de María Eugenia Cotera, Dionne Espinoza, Maylei Blackwell ...
    Winner, Best Multiauthor Nonfiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2019With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Cuba

    Religion, Social Capital, and Development

    de Adrian H. Hearn ...
    When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritage to encourage tourism, and community welfare initiatives to confront drug use, prostitution, and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • You Sound Like a White Girl

    The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

    de Julissa Arce ...
    **AN INDIE BESTSELLERMost Anticipated by ELLE**•Bustle•Bloomberg•Kirkus•HipLatina•SheReads•BookPage•The Millions•The Mujerista•Ms. Magazine • and more“Unflinching” —Ms. Magazine • “Phe... ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Robert Redford

    The Biography

    de Michael Feeney Callan ...
    **A revelatory biography of Robert Redford, written in close collaboration with the extraordinary actor and director himself, revealing the complex man beneath the Hollywood façade.“As incisive a biography of Redford as there is ever likely to be.” —The New York Times**Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Pros and Cons: A Short Story

    de Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg ...
    Series series Fox and O'Hare
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJanet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg have teamed up for a dynamic new series featuring an FBI agent who’s on the hunt—and a master con artist who’s enjoying the chase. The con is on in this eBook original short story that’s a triumphant prequel to The Heist.**FBI special agent Kate O’Hare has made it her mission to nail international con artist Nicolas Fox. When she ... Leer más

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