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En el quincuagésimo aniversario de su publicación original, la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española rescatan su edición conmemorativa de esta obra maestra de la literatura del siglo XX. En 2007, coincidiendo con el octogésimo cumpleaños de Gabriel García Márquez, la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española prepararon esta edición conmemorativa de Cien años de soledad...
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477 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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"Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation...
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La casa de los espiritus narra la saga familiar de los Trueba, desde principios del siglo XX hasta nuestra epoca. Magistralmente ambientada en algun lugar de America Latina, la novela sigue paso a paso el dramatico y extravagante destino de unos personajes atrapados en un entorno sorprendente y exotico. Una novela de impecable pulso estilistico y aguda lucidez historica y social.
Translation - The house of the spirits tells the family saga of the...
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Crónicas Anagrama volume 127
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267 pages ; 22 cm.
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"En este libro, que es una radiografía de América Latina, ocho periodistas describen las fisuras que se han abierto en sus territorios en los años recientes"--Back cover.
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50 years of amazing Peace Corps stories volume 2, The Americas
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xxv, 315 pages ; 21 cm.
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303 pages ; 23 cm
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Already struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When the neighborhood's corrupt police force shows no interest, Elder Toronto and Elder Schwartz decide to investigate Marco Aurelio's disappearance themselves. Breaking mission rule after...
36) Conquistadors
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Following in the footsteps of the Spanish adventurers, filmmaker Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernan Cortés, and Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also follows parts of Orellana's extraordinary...
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399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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In his introduction to this passionate history of Spain and the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas, Carlos Fuentes asks the necessary question: What do we really have to celebrate on the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's historic voyage to the New World? After all, the quincentennial of the "discovery of America" finds the Latin American republics in a state of deep crisis, with inflation, unemployment, and excessive foreign debt threatening...
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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Explore the beauty of Hispanic-American culture with these fun crafts. Taken from traditional Aztec, Incan, Mayan, and Mexican art these projects combine fabulous colors and rich design with tons of fun. You can make pottery, piñatas, maracas, and more while learning about Hispanic-American culture with these easy crafts.
39) Ñamérica
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674 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm.
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"The definite chronicle of an endless territory: Spanish America. There is a region in the world where twenty nations and over 400 million people share a language, a history, a culture, worries, and hopes. We know it poorly. Above all, we know its myths, its reflections, its common places. We think of it as in a different time. This region is called or could be called Ñamerica, and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is today. Martín...
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