4,400円 Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions. Based primarily on interviews with German Jewish ...

0円 Neste livro são analisadas as representações do ayllu da América andina a partir dos dados históricos e etnográficos encontrados nas crônicas indígenas e espanholas do século XVI. O ayllu pré-hispânico era um grupo ligado por sistema de parentesco que mantinha relações de reciprocidade produtiva ...

5,490円 The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is cu...

959円 The story is about a Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana, and his companions who were the first Europeans to navigate the Amazon River. A priest went with them, and the major part of this book is a retelling of his firsthand account of the voyage. It is a story about brave men in a tale o...

9,903円 The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings...

5,812円 One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were discovered in the collection of the Fundacin B...

1,320円 In the village of the ghost bells, the church chimes ringーeven though the church has no bells. One of the neighbors wants to buy dreamsーor is she a dream that someone else is dreaming? Where and why do dreams become nightmares? These are only some of the fascinating questions raised in Village ...

4,106円 Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important too...

526円 Ao voltarem de uma noite de diversão, dois amigos deparam-se com um moribundo, ao tentarem socorrê-lo acabam por se verem acusados da morte do infeliz. São julgados e condenados à pena de morte. Mas a pena é-lhes comutada para degredo perpétuo, e vão parar à frota que irá seguir os passos de Vasc...

737円 A critical look at the Chavez regime from a leftist Venezuelan perspective, this account debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the regime is antidemocratic and dictatorial. Instead, the book argues that the Chavez government is one of a long line of Latin American populist org...

661円 Among the most exclusive ebooks on American History this book gives you surefire facts that your textbook got wrong about Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John F. Kennedy and much more that you'll love.

4,844円 All societies around the world and through time value beauty highly. Tracing the evolutions of the Colombian standards of beauty since 1845, Michael Edward Stanfield explores their significance to and symbiotic relationship with violence and inequality in the country. Arguing that beauty holds no...