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Mexico Inside Out provides an introduction to the country for the student and traveller alike, people who want to know more about the real Mexico than is found in an ordinary guidebook.

Mexico Inside Out provides an introduction to the country for the student and traveller alike, people who want to know more about the real Mexico than is found in an ordinary guidebook.

Picking Up the Pieces is a definitive book on contemporary Peruvian politics.

Argentina in Focus is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country.

Once a byword for military repression and human rights abuses, Chile's image is now that of a dynamic success story. The "Chilean Miracle", based on radical free-market reform and export-led growth, has been presented as a model for all developing countries. Yet this transition has also created its own social problems, challenging the traditional values with the advent of extreme materialism. Famed for its landscapes which range from glaciers ...

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L'architetto Le Corbusier definì Buenos Aires "la capitale di un impero immaginario". A partire dalla sua fondazione nel XVI secolo, la principale città argentina è stata tanto un luogo dell'immaginazione quanto lo scenario di numerosi eventi storici cruciali. Dalle invasioni straniere del passato ai più recenti colpi di stato e dittature militari, parallelamente alla storia della città si è sviluppata una vibrante cultura popolare generata da...

The oldest city in the Americas, Mexico City is now the world's largest urban area. Formerly the centre of the Aztec and Spanish empires, it is home to over 15 million people. This text explores this city of extremes, revealing its turbulent past and chaotic present through it urban landscape.

A new, non-partisan biography of the Cuban leader, giving new insight into his life.

The architect Le Corbusier once called Buenos Aires "the capital of an imaginary empire." From its foundation in the sixteenth century, Argentina's main city has been a place of the imagination as well as the scene of many striking historical events. From foreign invasions to more modern-day coups d'état and dictatorships, the city's turbulent history has been paralleled by a vibrant popular culture born out of the hardships of immigration and...

An accessible and well-researched biography that explores the life and ideas of an iconic revolutionary "At Last, at last, a biography of Che Guevara for grown-ups! Nick Caistor, well-known for years as a commentator on Latin America for the BBC, has produced a study of a man who is all too often treated either as a plaster saint incapable of doing wrong or as some devil from the deepest pit of Marxism-Leninism. Caistor portrays him with sympa...

This authoritative and up-to-date guide to Nicaragua explores the land, history, politics, economy, society and people. Maps. Photos.

An authoritative and up-to-date guide to to the artistic and fascinating country of Chile, this colorful handbook explores the land, history, politics, economy, society and people. Maps. Photos.

Caistor explores this city of extremes, revealing its turbulent past and chaotic present through its urban landscape. Looking at Aztec ruins and modernistic complexes, he traces the history of a volatile city, where conquest, revolution and natural disasters have left their marks. Maps and illustrations.