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  • Nicaragua, 1961–1990

    Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship

    by David Francois ...
    Series Book 10 - Latin America at War
    A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.In the wake of the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the country came under the rule of the Somoza family, which imposed a brutal, corrupt military dictatorship. A low-scale insurgency of students, supported by peasants and other anti-Somoza elements of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Salvador

    Volume 2: Conflagration, 1984–1992

    by David Francois ...
    Series Book 34 - Latin America@War
    A severe social and political crisis in El Salvador during the 1970s resulted in widespread disturbance of daily life, political violence, repression and the outbreak of an insurgency. In March 1981, the government ran a large sweep operation along the border with Honduras in the north, accompanied by the use of scorched earth tactics and indiscriminate killing of anyone captured. A second ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Salvador

    Volume 1: Crisis, Coup and Uprising 1970-1983

    by David Francois ...
    Series Book 32 - Latin America@War
    A severe social and political crisis in El Salvador during politicians, religious figures and activists through strikes but organized the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL) and launched an armed insurrection against the government in early 1981.Within months, the FMLN established itself in control over two departments – which it was to guerrilla’s support base in the countryside. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nicaragua 1961-1990

    Volume 2 - Contra War

    by David Francois ...
    Series Book 15 - Latin America@War
    In 1979, the Sandinista government established itself in power in Managua, the capitol of Nicaragua. It found the country ruined by the long war against the Somosa dictatorship and natural disasters alike, and nearly half of the population either homeless or living in exile. Attempting to restructure and recover the underdeveloped economy, Sandinisas introduced a wide range of reforms and a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chile 1973. The Other 9/11

    The Downfall of Salvador Allende

    by David Francois ...
    Series Book 7 - Latin America at War
    A history of the build-up and the ultimate clash during the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, featuring over 100 color photos, profiles, and maps.In 1970, Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens, a physician and leftist politician, was elected the President of Chile. Involved in political life for nearly 40 years, Allende adopted a policy of nationalization of industries and collectivization—measures ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Testing the Limit

    Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition

    by François-David Sebbah ...
    Translated by Stephen Barker ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered from textual practices that transgress—or hover around and therefore within—the threshold of phenomenologial discourse? ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Formalisms of Quantum Mechanics

    An Introduction

    by Francois David ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    These lecture notes present a concise and introductory, yet as far as possible coherent, view of the main formalizations of quantum mechanics and of quantum field theories, their interrelations and their theoretical foundations.The “standard” formulation of quantum mechanics (involving the Hilbert space of pure states, self-adjoint operators as physical observables, and the probabilistic ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Che Guevara

    A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)

    by Jon Lee Anderson ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Chaco War 1932–35

    South America’s greatest modern conflict

    by Alejandro de Quesada ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The Chaco War was massive territorial war between Bolivia and Paraguay, which cost almost a 100,000 lives.An old fashioned territorial dispute, the contested area was the Gran Chaco Boreal, a 100,000-square mile region of swamp, jungle and pampas with isolated fortified towns. The wilderness terrain made operations difficult and costly as the war see-sawed between the two sides.Bolivian troops, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Diary of Che Guevara

    by Ernesto Che Guevara ...
    This is Che Guevara's last diary, compiled from notebooks found in his backpack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and subsequently executed.This is the definitive account of the attempt to spark a continent-wide revolution in Latin America. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Flechas

    Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965–1974

    by John P. Cann ...
    Series Book 11 - Africa@War
    In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the uprisings of March of 1961 in the north of Angola, Portugal poured troops into the colony as fast as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Salvador

    Dance of the Death Squads, 1980–1992

    by Al J. Venter ...
    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus