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  • The Burning Season

    The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest

    by Andrew Revkin ...
    "In the rain forests of the western Amazon," writes author Andrew Revkin, "the threat of violent death hangs in the air like mist after a tropical rain. It is simply a part of the ecosystem, just like the scorpions and snakes cached in the leafy canopy that floats over the forest floor like a seamless green circus tent."Violent death came to Chico Mendes in the Amazon rain forest on December 22, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Weather: An Illustrated History

    From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change

    by Andrew Revkin, Lisa Mechaley ...
    Series series Union Square & Co. Illustrated Histories
    **“Beautifully illustrated . . . Think of this book like dining on tapas, boasting savory flavors, some unexpected, that constitute a satisfying whole.” —**Washington PostAndrew Revkin, strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at the National Geographic Society and former senior climate reporter at ProPublica, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity’s evolving ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Legends and Lore of the Hudson Highlands

    by Jonathan Kruk ...
    Series series
    The Hudson Highlands launched revolutions of independence, industry and creativity, and have long enchanted artists and hikers with countless mysteries that still thrive in the area.Leni-Lenape legend told of an ancient giant slumbering between Storm King and Breakneck Ridge. During the Revolution, George Washington saved the new nation from a military coup by donning glasses. The ghost of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Fake a Moon Landing

    Exposing the Myths of Science Denial

    by Darryl Cunningham ...
    A collection of "lively, plain-language debunkings of seven cases of quack or fraudulent science and . . . antiscientific bias in general" ( Booklist).Is hydro-fracking safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing actually happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Author-illustrator Darryl Cunningham looks at these and other hot-button science topics and presents a fact-based, visual ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small ... Read more

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  • Dragon Ball Z "It's Over 9,000!" When Worldviews Collide

    by Derek Padula ...
    Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball is the world’s most recognized anime and manga series, having entertained millions of fans across the globe. The legendary rivalry of the last two full blooded Saiya-jins, Goku and Vegeta, is the iconic example of a lifelong conflict that inspires fans to burst through their own personal limits.With a foreword by Ryo Horikawa, the Japanese voice of Vegeta, Dragon Ball ... Read more

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  • The Road to El Dorado

    Percy Fawcett and the Lost World of Z

    by Fergus Mason ...
    In 1925, Percy Fawcett left England for Brazil--he would never return.For his entire life, Fawcett had been fascinated with exploration. The child of an explorer, Fawcett had heard countless wild stories of adventure and it did not surprise anyone that he became an explorer himself.In 1906, Fawcett made his first expedition to South America; for over 15 years, he made several more. It was in this ... Read more

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  • Futebol Nation

    The Story of Brazil through Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.Futebol Nation is an ... Read more

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  • The Southern Tiger

    Chile's Fight for a Peaceful and Democratic Future

    by Ricardo Lagos, Blake Hounshell, Elizabeth Dickinson ...
    Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing the dictator, the first of its kind. Revolution soon followed, as Chileans took to the streets to ... Read more

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  • Upriver

    The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People

    by Michael F. Brown ...
    In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms.When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about ... Read more

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  • La Patria del Criollo

    An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala

    Translated by W. George Lovell, Susan M. Neve ...
    by Severo Martínez Peláez ...
    This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemala’s ... Read more

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  • Brazil

    A Century of Change

    Edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro ...
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    Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil’s development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert ... Read more

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