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By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "underdeveloped" status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America. It...

Pre-Hispanic man accorded food a central place and a vital importance in his culture. Products such as maize, beans, squash, cacao, and chili have their origins in Mesoamerica and form part of the cultural heritage of humanity. This catalogue, published in connection with the exhibition Eating and Being:...

Sin saber bien cómo ni por qué, Carvalho anda desgarrado entre Barcelona y Madrid. En Barcelona le quedan los restos de su tribu y el despacho en el que sigue trabajando. En Madrid anda perdido en el laberinto de una mujer casada con un prohombre de la política nacional, y que le ha desestabilizado...

Seja isto uma virtude ou um defeito, desde sempre o Rio Grande do Sul esteve dividido. Chamam-se amavelmente de adversários os opostos, num eufemismo cavalheiresco para não designar "inimigos" aqueles que estão do outro lado. Grêmio e Internacional, Internacional e Grêmio, fazem parte...

El retrato de uno de los hombres más poderosos y más desconocidos del mundo. El ex miembro de la KGB, oficial de un régimen comunista, se ha convertido, para muchos, en un mito, en un lienzo en blanco en el que se proyectan todos los deseos y temores de la intelectualidad liberal, pero también...

El Infonavit es una institución del Estado mexicano enfocada en proveer bienestar social a través de la dotación de vivienda para el trabajador mexicano. Sin embargo, desde los años ochenta, esta institución ha experimentado reformas y transformaciones importantes ante el cambio del modelo económico,...

During the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Not only was the truth about God at stake, but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth. In this book,...

Una joven modelo aparece ahogada en la costa gallega, junto con algunos restos del yate en el que viajaba con el presidente de uno de los más importantes grupos empresariales del mundo de la moda, la publicidad y los negocios inmobiliarios, que se da por desaparecido. El cabo de la Guardia Civil...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Middle Ages is often viewed as a period of low intellectual achievement. The name itself refers to the time between the high philosophical and literary accomplishments of the Greco-Roman world and the technological advances that were achieved and philosophical and theological alternatives that...

The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science...

This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes...

Amparado en la tradición caciquil del país, Saturnino Cedillo mantuvo bajo su control el estado de San Luis Potosí: contaba con el apoyo del gobierno central y, a su vez, le ofrecía el apoyo de su región. Su poder se sustentó en sus bases campesinas a quienes concedió las colonias agrícolas...

During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla organization that challenged the government. The broadcast provided a vital link between combatants in the mountains and the outside world,...