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  • August

    by Romina Paula ...
    Translated by Jennifer Croft ...
    Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she’s jaded by her studies and discontent with her boyfriend, and apathetic toward the idea of moving on. Despite the admiration she receives for having relocated to Buenos Aires, in reality, cosmopolitanism ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Non-human Animals and People: Interactions, Agents and Materialities

    An Overview From Southern South America

    Edited by Romina Frontini, Paula Escosteguy, Mónica Salemme ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Animals are agency-bearing beings and are able to bond in emotional relationships with people. In these various associations, the boundary between human and nonhuman is permeable according to the degree of human-animal familiarity. Across time and space, humans and nonhuman animals have co-modelled their relationships in diverse interspecific interactions. Throughout human history, animals have ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

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  • The Development of the Inca State

    by Brian S. Bauer ...
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  • El Hierro Island Global Geopark

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    Edited by Javier Dóniz-Páez, Nemesio M. Pérez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book explores El Hierro Island, which is geologically the youngest of the Canary Islands (Spain). Having registered its latest volcanic eruption in 2011-2012, it is an oceanic subtropical island with low population pressure and a largely unchanged natural landscape. Accordingly, a great geodiversity of volcanic morphologies and erosion processes has been preserved. In addition, ... Read more

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  • Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture

    by Izumi Shimada ...
    Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism.This book presents a "biography" of ... Read more

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  • Capybara

    Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species

    Edited by José Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria P.M.B. Ferraz, Emilio A. Herrera, David W. Macdonald ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The capybara is the neotropical mammal with the highest potential for production and domestication. Amongst the favorable characteristics for domestication we can list its high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, a herbivorous diet, social behavior and relative tameness. The genus (with only two species) is found from the Panama Canal to the north of Argentina on the east of the Andes. Chile is the ... Read more

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    Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History

    Edited by Justyna Olko, Cynthia Radding ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and ... Read more

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  • Conservation in Chilean Patagonia

    Assessing the State of Knowledge, Opportunities, and Challenges

    Edited by Juan Carlos Castilla, Juan J. Armesto Zamudio, María José Martínez-Harms, David Tecklin ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, and islands, it has one of the world´s most extensive marine-terrestrial interfaces. Local place-based and Indigenous cultures and management practices are a vital presence ... Read more

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  • The Art and Archaeology of the Moche

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    Edited by Kimberly L. Jones, Steve Bourget ...
    Renowned for their monumental architecture and rich visual culture, the Moche inhabited the north coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-800). Archaeological discoveries over the past century and the dissemination of Moche artifacts to museums around the world have given rise to a widespread and continually increasing fascination with this complex culture, which expressed its ... Read more

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