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  • For All of Humanity

    Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

    par Martha Few ...
    Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD

  • Centering Animals in Latin American History

    Modifié par Zeb Tortorici, Martha Few, PhD ...
    Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work through the methodological implications of centering animals within historical narratives, seeking ... En savoir plus

    $34.09 CAD

  • Women Who Live Evil Lives

    Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala

    par Martha Few ...
    Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and ... En savoir plus

    $24.79 CAD

  • Baptism Through Incision

    The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire

    Collections series Latin American Originals
    In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the overarching goal was to cleanse the unborn child of original sin and ensure its place in heaven. Baptism ... En savoir plus

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  • Havana Gold

    The Havana Quartet

    par Leonardo Padura ...
    Traduit par Peter Bush ...
    Collections series Mario Conde Investigates
    Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Love, Sweat and Tears

    One woman's incredible journey through grief, fear and loss to a lifelong dream of working with animals

    'All of the love that you put into your animals has come out on screen, on my screen and it will be there forever.' - Steven SpielbergThe inspirational true story of a remarkable young woman who overcame an unconventional childhood, personal tragedy and depression to work as a stunt woman and then as one of the most successful animal trainers in Australia, if not the world. Zelie's love of animals ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • First Stop in the New World

    par David Lida ...
    The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Breaking the Maya Code

    par Michael D. Coe ...
    The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our time—the first great decipherment of an ancient script—now revised and updated.In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North America, Mexico, ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Revolution of Hope

    The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President

    par Vicente Fox ...
    The charismatic former president of Mexico offers a candid and provocative perspective on the state of world affairs.As president of Mexico, Vicente Fox brought true democracy to the country after seven decades of one party rule. Elected as a political outsider with a message of honesty, change, and hope, he is truly a hero of democracy, and this vivid book interweaves his inspiring personal story ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $8.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • Looking for History

    Dispatches from Latin America

    From theesteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Mirabilis

    A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History

    Welcome to a carnival unlike anything that you have ever read about, visited, or even imagined before. Here, before your very eyes, you will encounter bizarre, anomalous creatures of every conceivable (and inconceivable!) kind—a veritable menagerie of cryptozoological mysteries to dazzle and delight, tantalize and terrify. For this is Mirabilis—a realm of marvels, wonders, miracles...and monsters ... En savoir plus

    $9.95 CAD

  • Anna in the Tropics (TCG Edition)

    par Nilo Cruz ...
    Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama. . . there are many kinds of light.The light of fires. The light of stars.The light that reflects off rivers.Light that penetrates through cracks.Then there’s the type of light that reflects off the skin.—Nilo Cruz, Anna in the TropicsThis lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD