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In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon—where rivers boil and legends come to life. When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend...

This is a history of the Cuban Revolution as viewed from its dungeons. Armando Valladares describes his 22 years of torment and triumph in Castro's prison. Arrested at the age of 22 for being philosophically opposed to communism, he gives a dramatic and harrowing account of the regular beatings, the hunger, the humiliation, and the psychological "experimentation" to which the Cuban Revolution subjected its unrepentant enemies.

Brought to you by Penguin. He became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a social philosopher, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an...

The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy One of today?s most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of government no longer operate as intended by the Constitution? Stepping back to assess three decades...

Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing...

The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States. Born in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil...

Brought to you by Penguin. Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story...

The acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the...

"I began to daydream about the jungle...." On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras...

Escrito durante el siglo XVI y conservadas por el fraile Francisco Ximénez, las historias contenidas en el Popol Vuh (en lengua quiché, «libro de la comunidad») han trascendido el tiempo y han dado al mundo una luz sobre las costumbres mayas y el pueblo quiché, hoy Guatemala. Pero el Popol Vuh va más allá de las narraciones míticas y contiene valiosas enseñanzas y lecciones morales.

Nestes trechos selecionados de Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros, o historiador Moreira de Azevedo retrata a Batalha de Tuiuti, considerada o confronto mais sangrento da Guerra do Paraguai. Realizada em terreno hostil e pantanoso no sudoeste do país, a batalha reuniu mais de 55 mil combatentes e marcou profundamente o curso da guerra.

"Já passou o tempo em que ninguém se atrevia a entrar em um hospital de doidos, receoso de penetrar em enxovias, em gaiolas de ferro, onde eram encarcerados os míseros, como se fossem feras." Nestes trechos, Moreira de Azevedo revela os bastidores da fundação do Hospício de Pedro II, primeiro centro especializado em saúde mental do Brasil, inaugurando uma nova era no tratamento da loucura.

Neste trecho selecionado de "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", Moreira de Azevedo apresenta um relato marcante da Batalha do Riachuelo, um dos episódios mais decisivos e simbólicos da Guerra do Paraguai. Ocorrido em junho de 1865, às margens do arroio Riachuelo, afluente do rio Paraná, o confronto naval consagrou a supremacia brasileira nas águas do conflito e alterou o rumo da guerra.

Os quilombos são muito mais do que histórias de resistência do passado; eles são a alma viva de uma luta por justiça que atravessa séculos e reverbera nos dias de hoje. Atualmente, segundo o Censo do IBGE de 2022, o Brasil abriga cerca de 7.666 comunidades quilombolas – e, com elas, um movimento que sustenta séculos de luta. Quilombolas estão na linha de frente em pautas essenciais como as mudanças climáticas, a educação e a justiça social, transformando diálogos sobre igualdade e antirracismo no país e no cenário internacional.

From acclaimed and prizewinning historian Paul Gillingham, the rich and fascinating history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically groundbreaking, and influential of countries From its outset, “Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else in the prior history of...

As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. But it wasn't until they moved to an extraordinarily dangerous neighborhood in Honduras that they came to a radical conclusion: The charity world was combating poverty incorrectly. In gripping prose, journalist Ross Halperin chronicles how these two best friends became quasi vigilantes and charged into a series of life-and-death battles.

Drawing on a vast array of archival sources from around the hemisphere and world, The Fate of the Americas demonstrates that even at the brink of destruction, Latin Americans played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.

Nestes trechos de "A Retirada da Laguna", Visconde de Taunay apresenta um relato histórico sobre os primeiros movimentos do exército brasileiro rumo ao território paraguaio durante a Guerra do Paraguai. Guiadas por locais, as tropas avançam pela fronteira, enfrentando terrenos difíceis, rios cheios, alagadiços e o calor intenso. O autor descreve com precisão as cidades abandonadas e os escombros deixados pela guerra, revelando também o cansaço, o medo e o abatimento moral que acompanhavam cada passo da marcha.

Nestes trechos de "A Retirada da Laguna", Visconde de Taunay apresenta uma crônica histórica impactante sobre os primeiros momentos da campanha brasileira na Guerra do Paraguai. O texto descreve a formação de um corpo militar destinado a marchar sobre o alto Paraguai, narrando com precisão as longas distâncias percorridas, as imensidões da fronteira e as dificuldades impostas pelo terreno, pelo clima hostil e pela falta de preparo logístico.

The next-true life NCIS story from New York Times bestselling authors Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. Read by the author. Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the...