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A clear-eyed, haunting story of an ordinary woman struggling to survive captivity, and its aftermath, in the volatile world of 1970s Argentina “Infused with the intensity of a thriller and with such poetic force, The Call is a masterclass. A hundred years from now, we’ll still be talking...

Bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist Sandy Tolan exposes the bitter history behind the powerful, secretive sugar industry, and the Fanjuls, the Succession-like family who owns Domino Sugar and profits from it the most. For well over a century—going back to the slave...

Gold has a powerful hold over our civilization. The precious metal first attracted the Spanish conquistadors to the new world. For the Incas, only royalty could wear gold. Louis XIV covered Versailles from floor to ceiling in gold. It is excess, wealth, domination and power. In this gripping investigation into the murky origins of gold, journalist Dan Collyns explores the world of gold mining in South America.

A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare...

El experto, periodista, y editor de Caracas Chronicles Rafael Osío Cabrices nos ofrece una crónica imprescindible de la historia moderna de su país, desde el ascenso de Chávez y la lenta degradación de la democracia, hasta la incursión militar y la captura de Maduro por parte de los...

Expert journalist and editor-in-chief of Caracas Chronicles Rafael Osío Cabrices offers a riveting, rigorous, and deeply personal account of the modern history of his country, from the rise of Chávez and the slow erosion of democracy, to the U.S. invasion and capture of Maduro. In this...

A riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood—AM radio, conspiracy theories...

太陽神につつがなく運行してもらうためには、生贄を捧げなければならないーー。生贄制度が残り、王と神官が絶対権力を持っていたマヤ文明。父と母を殺され、姉を生贄にされ、自らも生贄として殺されかけた少年・スレイは、ウェラス族のヘルマスに救われなんとか命をつなぐ。

A highly illustrated history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521, an epic clash of civilisations that saw the destruction of the Aztec Empire. In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory...

A fiercely poetic, tenderly observed portrait of young women’s travels on the fringes of Mexico and the United States, by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer In this new collection of genre-defying stories by Cristina Rivera Garza, a woman visits what she thinks...

La galardonada cineasta y prolífica conferencista Denise Soler Cox expone diez tabúes culturales comunes entre la comunidad Latinx de los que nadie se atreve a hablar y comparte sus consejos comprobados para superarlos y reclamar tu poder. La población latina en Estados Unidos supera hoy los...

A parenting guide that speaks directly to Latinx families with language, history, and lived experience that honors and celebrates our cultura—while helping readers unlearn violence and shame as tools of discipline. For many in the Latinx community, “la Chancla”—what we learn to see as...

"Revelatory." —Sarah Weinman "Eye-opening, compulsively readable." —Jon Lee Anderson "Remarkable." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review Four electrifying and hopeful accounts of feminist uprising that have swept through Latin America and Spain in the wake of #MeToo—and what we can learn...

A New Yorker and an Economist Best Book of the Year In 1818, a curious root arrived in a small English village, tucked―seemingly by accident―in a packing case mailed from Brazil. The amateur botanist who cultivated it soon realized that he had something remarkable on his hands: an...

Il 9 giugno 1956 i generali Tanco e Valle si ribellano alla giunta militare che aveva deposto il presidente Perón. La loro rivolta viene brutalmente e illegalmente repressa e, in una discarica alla periferia della capitale, un gruppo di civili viene fucilato ancor prima che venga dichiarata la legge marziale. Insieme alla collega Enriqueta Muñiz, Walsh comincia a seguire piste, scova i sopravvissuti, ma anche vedove, orfani, rifugiati politici, fuggitivi, presunti informatori ed eroi anonimi, per scoprire cosa è successo davvero quella notte.

Este libro forma parte de un proyecto que inicié hace algunos años y se propone responder una pregunta: ¿cómo y cuándo se construyó la Argentina? Pero ¿de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Argentina? ¿De un Estado? ¿De un territorio determinado? ¿De una identidad cultural? ¿De un espacio económico y social? Hablamos de todo eso al mismo tiempo. Argentina es, a esta altura del siglo XXI, todas esas cosas, pero a principios del siglo XIX no era ninguna de esas cosas, sencillamente porque no existía.

Un audaz periodista de investigación se adentra en el laberinto de influencias de la dinastía más poderosa de México para revelar cómo un sistema de favores y privatizaciones moldeó el destino de una nación entera. En La fórmula Salinas: Las redes del poder en México, el reconocido...

O livro "Tratados da Terra e Gente do Brasil", de Fernão Cardim, é sem dúvida um dos grandes clássicos da literatura colonial brasileira. O autor, viajante, tem um olhar arguto sobre aquilo que vê, e bem transfere essa visão para estas páginas de redação pitoresca, das quais foram aqui selecionadas, entre outras: "Do conhecimento que tem do criador", "Dos casamentos", "Do mundo que têm em seu comer e beber", "Do modo que têm em dormir", "Do modo que têm em se vestir", "Das casas", "Da criação dos filhos".

Dom Phillips estava escrevendo Como salvar a Amazônia quando foi morto no vale do Javari com o indigenista Bruno Pereira em 5 de junho de 2022. Um grupo de amigos tomou para si a missão de dar continuidade ao projeto, preservando a intenção do autor: mostrar por que é do interesse de todos nós salvar a Amazônia e como a resposta reside justamente na própria floresta.

“Pancho Villa,” people whispered at the beginning of the 20th century, "can march 100 miles without stopping, live 100 days without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and kill 100 men without remorse." The legend of Francisco Villa is full of heroism, tragedy and romance, a story about how a poor farmer boy became a bandit after avenging an injustice on his family and transformed into a military genius who fled from an oppressive government to lead the largest revolutionary army in his country's history.