Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics, Hardcover - Charlotte Rogers

DescriptionWhat ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues ...

A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author sets a new standard for histories of the American WestIllustrations: 24 Ha...

A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century--from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and S...

Reducere. The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom...

Reducere. 1. Me Enamore by Shakira 3: 46 2. Nada by Shakira 3: 09 3. Chantaje by Shakira feat. Maluma 3: 15 4. When a Woman by Shakira 3: 18 5. Amarillo by S...

Reducere. El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast food poetry. In "Olive Garden, " "Culver's, " "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen, " "Cracker Barrel, " "A...

Reducere. By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the ...

Reducere. What Guns, Germs, and Steel did for colonial history, this book will do for modern anthropology, telling the explosive story of how ruthless journa...

Reducere. Si desea descubrir la influyente y fascinante historia de California siga leyendo... La transformación de California en el estado más poblado de Es...

Reducere. The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and th...

Reducere. DescriptionFlower Power Man is the biography of theater artist George Harris III, aka Hibiscus (1949-1982). On October 21, 1967, at eighteen years ...

DescriptionUse the magic of a story to introduce young children to a foreign language in a natural and relaxed way. These 10 stories each introduce...

This cutting-edge book presents a broad picture of global capitalism and extractivism in contemporary Latin America. Leading scholars examine the c...

Reducere. Cuando Trolero y Hardy llegan a Villa Trigo, no pueden creer lo que ven: la aldea está completamente devastada! No hay trigo, no hay Masa Madre y l...

DescriptionThe long-awaited second edition of this classic textbook expands on the first edition to include advances made in the last four decades,...

Reducere. Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each yea...

Reducere. The history of Charlotte is inseparable from the history of its neighborhoods. From the city's founding until the late 1890s, the four wards create...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes Fawcett's accounts of his own expeditions *Profiles all the theories surrounding the expedition's disappear...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. Sherman RogersWINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTIC ECONOMY: A PRIMER Economists generally agree that the new ...

DescriptionLiving in Paradise brims with the best of tropical residential designs. Architecture and interior design experts Annie Kelly and Tim Str...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6, 000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilma...

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

Reducere. Description"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip,...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Arlie Russell HochschildNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 35Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. In 1971, Claire Lieber experienced a break with reality. After a high school orchestra trip to Texas, Claire began a rapid decline into sleeplessne...

DescriptionFrom popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illnes...

DescriptionFor the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charmingly il...

Reducere. O zi minunata in cartier. Poeziile domnului Rogers e o carte de poezii despre si pentru copii, chiar si pentru copiii din sufletul oamenilor mari. ...

Reducere. DescriptionMexican American Baseball in El Paso chronicles the vibrant and colorful history of baseball in the El Paso-Juarez border region. For mo...

Reducere. Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the...