Examines the life of Che Guevara, including his family's background, childhood, education, and groundbreaking work as a revolutionary fighting against poverty.

This book introduces young readers to the history, instruments, dances, and legends associated with Latin music, with step-by-step instructions on making a cuca.

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.

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...

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities--fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their...

"In a time of terror for Europe's monarchs--imprisoned, exiled, executed--Napoleon's army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his mentally ill mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state apparatus. Thousands made the voyage, but it was no luxury cruise. It took two months in cramped, decrepit...

Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean is the most comprehensive overview to date of the development of modern sports in Latin America. This new book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political, economic, and social life of the region and the repercussions of its role. This highly readable volume is composed of articles on a wide variety of sports-basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, soccer, and equestrian events-in...

Santa Juana es un espacio que da cuenta de cómo se desarrolló el conflicto entre hispanocriollos y los antiguos mapuches del sur y de la transición que se produce desde el siglo XIX al XX de los espacios que fueron de conquista, resistencia y mestizaje a transformarse en ámbitos de resignificación de la vida campesina asociados al desarrollo urbano de localidades como Lota. Subiendo por Tricauco, cruzando la cordillera de la costa, preparados...

En los días de borrascas invita al lector un recorrido por los discursos e imaginarios sociales que se erigieron en la ciudad de Buenos Aires cuando reinó la epidemia de fiebre amarilla durante los fatídicos meses de 1871. Partiendo de fuentes primarias producidas en los ámbitos médico, periodístico, religioso y artístico, estas líneas intentan aproximarse e hilvanar esos constructos que tuvieron lugar en un contexto histórico anterior a...