Latin America from Books of the World

Signals of War : The Falklands Conflict of 1982
by Lawrence Freedman; Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1991
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691078904
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to edges and corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxvi + 476 pages ; 25 cm.
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Michelin NEOS Guide : Cuba, English Edition
by Michelin Travel Publications
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- As New
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- April 2000
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 2068552019
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Clermont-Ferrand, France: Michelin Travel Publications, April 2000. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. No remainder mark. Not damaged. Not from a library. 340 pages.
Cuba...the name evokes a curl of cigar smoke, the tang of a rum-based cocktail, the throb of salsa in the tropical night. More than four centuries before the Revolution Cuba was Spain's first colony in the… Read more Item Price
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Great Minds)
by Charles Darwin; Francis Darwin (ed); James Birx (intro)
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- November 2000
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- ISBN 10
- 1573928348
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Amherst, New York: Prometheus, November 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight fading. Light reading wear to lower corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxii + 365 pages.
First published in 1892, this autobiography of the great naturalist, compiled and edited by his son Francis, offers fascinating glimpses… Read more Item Price
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice : An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicine s in the Amazon Rain Forest
by Mark J. Plotkin
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- August 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670831379
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New York: Viking, August 1993. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Text unmarked. Gift inscription to FFEP. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clipped and rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 318 pages. 8 pages of plates. An ethnobotanist recounts his experiences in the Amazon rain forest tracking… Read more Item Price
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Paperback Edition
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- October 1978
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671244094
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New York: Simon & Schuster, October 1978. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 698 pages.
The story of the men and women who built an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of… Read more Item Price
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Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
by W. H. Hudson
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1989
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0486259935
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New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Trade Paperback. Unabridged and unaltered republication of the first American edition, published in 1904. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 315 pages. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World.
The curious call of an… Read more Item Price
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Acta de la Sesion Extraordinaria Celebrada el 26 de Octubre de 1983 / Minutes of the Extraordinary Session Held on October 26, 1983 (Considering the Situation in Grenada)
by Consejo Permanente de la Organizacion de los Estados Americanos; Permanent Council of the Organization of American States
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- 1984
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- Unbound Photocopy
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Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 1984. Unbound Photocopy. Very Good. 51 pages.
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Statements by Cuba on the events in Grenada, October 1983
by Fidel Castro Ruz; Patria O. Muerte; Nora Madan (Ed)
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- October 1983
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- Stapled Photocopy
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La Habana: Editora Política, October 1983. Stapled photocopy. Good. 28 pages. Translation of: Declaraciones de Cuba sobre los sucesos de Granada. Contains two official statements issued jointly by the Partido Comunista de Cuba and the Cuban government, and the transcript of a news conference by Fidel Castro Ruz. The contents of this edition have been taken from Granma, official organ… Read more Item Price
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The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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- February 1997
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- 0140262601
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New York: Penguin, February 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Notes inked to last page, otherwise text unmarked. Spine curved but uncreased. Light reading and shelf wear. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 568 pages. A fictionalized account of the War of Canudos, a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the followers of a… Read more Item Price
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The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
by V. S. Naipaul
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- Corrected Edition
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- September 2001
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- ISBN 10
- 0330487078
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London: Pan MacMillan / Picador, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Corrected Edition. Second printing. Very Good. Text block tanned, but unmarked. Foxing to top edge. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 376 pages.
"What I had known of Trinidad as a child had seemed to me ordinary, unplanned, just… Read more Item Price
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The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Studies in Comparative World History)
by Philip D. Curtin
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- January 1990
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- ISBN 10
- 0521376165
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. x + 232 pages.
Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its… Read more Item Price
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Catastrophic Consequences: Civil Wars and American Interests
by Steven R. David
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- First Paperback Edition
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- July 2008
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0801889898
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. New. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Not a remainder. Not damaged. xiv + 204 pages. Contents: Introduction : a new kind of threat -- Saudi Arabia : oil fields ablaze -- Pakistan : loose nukes -- Mexico : a flood of refugees -- China : collapse of a great… Read more Item Price
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The Venezuela-Guyana Border Dispute
by Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner
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- First Edition
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- May 1984
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0865319537
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Boulder: Westview Press, May 1984. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Ex-Library: UK Ministry of Defense, Whitehall Library. Good; Near Fine other than the library markings. 349 pages.
The expiration in 1982 of the Protocol of Port-of-Spain reheated a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that had been frozen since 1970, Almost at once, Venezuelan ultranationalists asserted the need to recover by… Read more Item Price
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Our Man in Belize: A Memoir
by Richard Timothy Conroy
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- November 1997
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- Hardcover
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- 0312169590
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New York: St. Martin's Press, November 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Light foxing to edges, otherwise Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 340 pages. The author's experiences as U.S. vice consul in Belize when it was still British Honduras, including encounters with… Read more Item Price
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Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict
by Chester A. Crocker (ed); Fen Osler Hampson (ed); Pamela Aall (ed)
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- September 1996
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- 1878379585
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Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Cover clean and crisp with light shelf wear, corners sharp. Light dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 642 pages.
A resurgence of ethno-nationalism, the collapse of empires, the outbreak of humanitarian crises, and… Read more Item Price
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Portugal in the Opening of the World
by Luís Filipe Barreto; José Manuel Garcia; Luis Filipe Barreto; Jose Manuel Garcia
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- First Edition
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- 1990
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Lisboa: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1990. Trade Paperback. Fine. Not from a library. No remainder marks. Cover with flaps. 91 pages.
Nice full-colour exhibition catalogue with text in English. Published for the commemorative exhibition "Portugal in the opening of the world" at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, presented by the Organization of American… Read more Item Price
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Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America
by Lars Schoultz
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- Used - Very Good
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- December 1981
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691022046
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, December 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Binding square and tight. Interior unmarked other than the original bookseller's price stamp. Covers clean with mild shelfwear. Foxing to closed edges. Not from a library. 421 pages.
A study of the role of human rights in United States policy toward Latin America from the early 1960s to 1980.… Read more Item Price
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Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista
by Omar Cabezas; foreword by Carlos Fuentes (forward); Kathleen Weaver (trans)
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- July 1985
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517558009
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New York: Crown, July 1985. Hardcover. First English Language Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Original seller's price stamp to FFEP, otherwise interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Rubbing to jacket. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 233 pages. Item Price
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Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti
by Herbert Gold
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- First paperback printing
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- 1992
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671755161
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New York: Touchstone, February 1992. Trade Paperback. First paperback printing / Full number line. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Binding square, tight and uncreased. Cover is clean with light rubbing. Foxing to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 193 pages. A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author… Read more Item Price
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An Introduction to Latin American Politics : The Structure of Conflict
by Martin C. Needler
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- February 1977
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0134860438
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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, February 1977. Hardcover. First Edition / First Printing. Red illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Covers clean. Spine faded. Mild shelfwear and foxing on closed edges. Not from a library. 358 pages.
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Part I: Sources of Cleavage and the Management of Conflict:
1. Demography,… Read more Item Price
$13.95