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Andrew K Scherer
As the Gods Kill

An exploration of war, violence, and sacrifice in precolonial Maya culture and its importance in religious practices.

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Jeffrey T Manuel, Thomas D Rogers
Ethanol

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years--good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon or boondoggle?--its use goes back more than a cen…

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José Iriarte
The Archaeology of Amazonia

"This open access book looks at the archaeology of Amazonia. Reaching back to the earliest colonization of the Amazon basin during the last Ice Age, this book demonstrates how its current diversity o…

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Larry Rohter
Into the Amazon

Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his wa…

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Christopher Bell
Walking East Harlem

East Harlem native Christopher Bell takes you on three separate walking tours of his beloved neighborhood, sharing fascinating stories about its theatres, museums, art spaces, schools, churches, mosques, …

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Deborah E Kanter
Pioneers of Latino Ministry

Traces the history of the Claretian Missionaries and their far-reaching influence on Latino CatholicsPioneers of Latino Ministry tells the story of the Claretian Missionaries, a male Catholic congregation…

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Nicole C Bourbonnais
The Gospel of Family Planning

"Over the course of the twentieth century, family planning took the world by storm. Starting in the 1930s, activists, international aid organizations, and government agencies embraced the notion that lowe…

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Amanda Bellows
The Explorers

"A ... history of America told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary--and often overlooked--adventurers, from Sacagawea to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and …

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

"Sagâas examines the multi-faceted historical experience of Latinxs in Colorado from the 19th century to the present and their fight for social and legal equality, shedding light on a historically ma…

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Amanda Bellows
The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

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Richard Ivan Jobs, Steven Van Wolputte, Manuel Bolom Pale
In the Land of the Lacandón

In the mid-1930s Bernard de Colmont ventured into the borderlands of Mexico to study the Lacandón people, considered to be the closest living relatives of the Maya. In the Land of the Lacandón transforms …

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Jesús Salvador Treviño
The Chicano Documentary

Filmmaker, director and producer Jesús Salvador Treviño writes that motion pictures made by Latinos over the past 50 years are crucial in understanding the American experience. Without them, people "…

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Pacharee Sudhinaraset
Worlds at the End

"This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers for whom…

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Pacharee Sudhinaraset
Worlds at the End

"This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers for whom…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all co…

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Latinas/OS in New Jersey

"Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state's rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all co…

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¡Somos Tejanas!

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.

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Keith Thomson
Paradise of the Damned

"A rollicking ... romp that tells the true story of an obsessive quest [by the English courtier and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh] to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political i…

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Somos Tejanas!

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.

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Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America

This book provides an inclusive and intersectional look into television from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Each of the essays, written by international scholars across various disciplines, offe…

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