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  • Nuestra América

    My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

    by Claudio Lomnitz ...
    **NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSA riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller.**In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Earthquake Disasters in Latin America

    A Holistic Approach

    by Heriberta Castaños, Cinna Lomnitz ...
    series SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
    This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters. Six major earthquakes in Latin America are used as an example: the general idea is to place disasters in a broad social and regional context. Understanding disasters is a way of understanding the social system. The idea is to show that every major disaster is unique and different. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980

    Kinship, Class Culture

    by Larissa Adler Lomnitz, Marisol Pérez-Lizaur ...
    This book presents the history of the Gomez, an elite family of Mexico that today includes several hundred individuals, plus their spouses and the families of their spouses, all living in Mexico City. Tracing the family from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico through its rise under the Porfirio Diaz regime and focusing especially on the last three generations, the work shows how the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards

    Preparedness Studies

    Edited by Srinivasan Venkatesh, Cinna Lomnitz, Mohammed I. El-Sabh, Tad S. Murty ...
    Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996. The Symposium was very timely, given the large number of natural disasters that have occurred in various parts of the world during the 1990s, the United Nations' International ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Hms Centurion 1733–1769 an Historic Biographical-Travelogue of One of Britain's Most Famous Warships and the Capture of the Nuestra Senora De Covadonga Treasure Galleon.

    by Shirley Fish ...
    When the Centurion and a squadron of six vessels and 1,959 men and boys set out from England in 1740, on a round-the-world expedition, they were unaware of the terrifying events that awaited them in the days ahead. The squadron, under the command of Commodore George Anson, had departed from England with every hope of a successful mission to harass and take prizes in the Spanish possessions of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Nuestra América

    30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States

    by Sabrina Vourvoulias ...
    Illustrated by Gloria Félix ...
    Celebrate 30 influential Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs in U.S. history with Nuestra América, a fully-illustrated anthology from the Smithsonian Latino Center.Nuestra América highlights the inspiring stories of thirty Latina/o/xs throughout history and their incredible contributions to the cultural, social, and political character of the United States.The stories in this book cover each figure's cultural ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza

    A Wild Cards Story

    by Carrie Vaughn ...
    series Wild Cards
    The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. In Carrie Vaughn's "Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza," ace Ana Cortez discovers that sometimes to be truly healed, you must return to your roots.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Blood in the Fields

    Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang

    by Julia Reynolds ...
    The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in the United States. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state, and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • All the Colors We Are/Todos los colores de nuestra piel

    The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color/La historia de por qué tenemos diferentes colores de piel

    by Katie Kissinger ...
    Colorful photographs and engaging English/Spanish text showcase the beautiful diversity of skin color. This twentieth anniversary edition offers young children a simple, scientifically accurate explanation for how we get our skin color. Understanding melanin frees children from myths and stereotypes and helps celebrate one of the ways we are special and different from one another—our skin color. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Inmigración y el futuro de Estados Unidos de América

    Renovando el alma de nuestra nación

    by Archbishop José H. Gomez ...
    En este libro el Arzobispo José Gomez ofrece algunas ideas prácticas, personales y llenas de entusiasmo al debate nacional sobre inmigración, señalando el camino a la recuperación de los grandes ideales de Estados Unidos de América. La inmigración es uno de los grandes retos de los derechos humanos en nuestra generación. Es también un momento histórico decisivo para Estados Unidos, en el cual ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nuestra fe

    Una introducción a la teología cristiana, segunda edición revisada

    by Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Guillermo Hansen ...
    En esta segunda edición revisada y aumentada Nancy Bedford y Guillermo Hansen recorren en diez capítulos los temas centrales de la teología cristiana desde una perspectiva protestante y latina. La adoración y la praxis de fe ofrecen puntos de partida que ubican a la tarea teológica en estrecha relación con la vida de las comunidades y las experiencias cotidianas. Temas clásicos de la teología como ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Los grandes Conflictos Sociales y Económicos de Nuestra Historia- Tomo II

    by Indalecio Liévano Aguirre ...
    Book 2 - Historia de los países latinoamericanos
    Este el es el segundo y último de dos sobresalientes tomos de la historia de Colombia escritos por el jurista, diplomático, académico e historiador colombiano Indalecio Liévano Aguirre. En los últimos 16 capítulos de su formidable obra, Liévano Aguirre describió las luchas intestinas entre los avarientos españoles inclinados a continuar expoliando los recursos de la Nueva Granada y las insaciables ... Read more

    $6.99 USD