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  • The Desert World

    by Arthur Mangin, William Henry Freeman, Illustrator, W.H. Adams, Translator ...
    This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSBOOK I.THE DESERTS OF EUROPE AND ASIA:—THE LANDES, THE DUNES, AND THE STEPPES.I. THE DESERT IN FRANCE:—THE LANDES OF BRITTANY,II. THE LANDES OF GASCONY,III. THE DUNES, OR SAND-HILLS,IV. WILD SCENES OF ENGLAND:—DARTMOOR AND THE FEN COUNTRY,V. THE STEPPES:—THE DESERT IN RUSSIA, SIBERIA, AND TARTARY,VI. ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Vicos and Beyond

    A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru

    by Clifford Barnett, Paul L. Doughty, Jorge Flores Ochoa, Billie Jean Isbell, William Mangin, Enrique Mayer, William P. Mitchell, Karsten Paerregaard, Jason Pribilsky, Eric B. Ross ...
    In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of the ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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    Natural history of a town in England, first published in 1790. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 26 June 1793) was a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist… White is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). This was a compilation of his letters to Thomas Pennant, the leading British zoologist of the day, and the Hon. Daines ... Read more

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  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    by Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Read more

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  • The Voyage of the Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N..While the expedition was originally planned to last two years ... Read more

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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

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  • El Alto, Rebel City

    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
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    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

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  • Malay Archipelago

    by Alfred Russell Wallace ...
    This is one the first and most important books about 18th century Malaysia and covers a wide array of topics from Malaysian culture and history to nature and wildlife. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Malaysia.A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel—perhaps the greatest. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 ... Read more

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  • Black Women against the Land Grab

    The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

    by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry ...
    In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how urban policies are established. Focusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador’s city center, Black Women against the Land Grab ... Read more

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  • The Natural History of Selborne (Complete)

    by Gilbert White ...
    See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round The varied valley, and the mountain ground, Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride, Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?— Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, Compared with Nature's rude magnificenee. Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste; The unfinish'd farm awaits your forming taste: Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true; ... Read more

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  • Race in Cuba

    Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

    by Esteban Morales Domínguez, Gary Prevost, August Nimtz ...
    As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Domínguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post ... Read more

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  • Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - The Original Classic Edition

    by Livingstone David ...
    Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by David Livingstone, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Missionary Travels ... Read more

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