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  • From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba

    An Environmental History since 1492

    by Reinaldo Funes Monzote ...
    Translated by Alex Martin ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island’s landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Intellectual Property Issues In Biotechnology

    by Dhanay M Cadillo Chandler, Kartikay Bisen, Akanksha Singh, Rakesh Pandey, Dr Birinchi Sarma, Ananda M. Chakrabarty, Om Prakash, Poonam C. Singh, Tomas Gabriel Bas, Alan B Bennett, Monica Alandete-Saez, David J Jefferson, Elisabeth Abergel, Kathleen Hefferon, Liliana Mitkova, Xi Wang, Michael Blakeney, Sunil K Dhar, Aabheejeet Pansare, Graham Dutfield, Jiang Li, Cristina Possas, Adelaide Antunes, Flavia Mendes, Reinaldo Martins, Akira Homma, Kanikaram Satyanarayana, Chandra Nautiyal, Vivek Srivastava, Puneet Chauhan, Sankalp Misra, Swati Sharma, Aradhana Mishra, Tzu-Hsun Hung, Jui-Chu Lin, Chien-Te Fan, Seweta Srivastava, Sujit K Yadav, Ravindra Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Vinit Singh, Asha Sinha, Rajendra Kumar ...
    This book integrates a science and business approach to provide an introduction and an insider view of intellectual property issues within the biotech industry, with case studies and examples from developing economy markets. Broad in scope, this book covers key principles in pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural biotechnology within four parts. Part 1 details the principles of intellectual ... Read more

    $171.99 CAD

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    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Incas - Uncovering The Mysteries of Inca

    Forgotten Empires Series, #1

    by Peter Delagio ...
    Series Book 1 - Forgotten Empires Series
    Uncovering The Mysteries of Inca (Forgotten Empires Series)The Incas are one of the most celebrated ancient civilizations. From truths learned by the study of their daily lives to far-fetched tales of unspeakable riches, there is much to be told.In this book you will discover all about the Inca, who they were, how they lived, their financial systems, farming methods and so much more. And the gold… ... Read more

    $4.14 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A City on a Lake

    Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

    by Matthew Vitz ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization and environmental decline stemmed from numerous scientific and social disputes over water policy ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Colombia Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, Ana María Gómez López ...
    Series series The Latin America Readers
    Containing over one hundred selections—most of them published in English for the first time—The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories, government documents, and scholarship to illustrate the changing ways Colombians from all walks of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Mixtecs of Oaxaca

    Ancient Times to the Present

    by Andrew K. Balkansky, Prof. Ronald Spores Sr. ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and a flourishing economy. Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day southern Mexico, and thousands more have migrated to locations throughout Mexico, the United ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Bolivia Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Sinclair Thomson, Rossana Barragán, Xavier Albó, Seemin Qayum, Mark Goodale ...
    Series series The Latin America Readers
    The Bolivia Reader provides a panoramic view, from antiquity to the present, of the history, culture, and politics of a country known for its ethnic and regional diversity, its rich natural resources and dilemmas of economic development, and its political conflict and creativity. Featuring both classic and little-known texts ranging from fiction, memoir, and poetry to government documents, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Fate of the Forest

    Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon

    by Susanna B. Hecht, Alexander Cockburn ...
    The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enduring Legacy

    Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

    by Miguel Tinker Salas, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular ... Read more

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  • Creatures of Fashion

    Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia

    by John Soluri ...
    Series series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
    Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region’s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence ... Read more

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  • Watering the Revolution

    An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

    by Mikael D. Wolfe ...
    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... Read more

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