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"Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"--
"Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a master traveler and observer. The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 305 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation....
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 437 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity-in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city's history through the rise of...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What’s it like to live without running water? In Peru’s sprawling capital, Lima, this is the everyday reality for 1.5 million children and adults, forced to pay up to a week’s salary for just one day’s water. And the problem isn’t confined to the capital, across the country, the shortage of water is putting lives in danger and provoking conflict, as it displaces communities and threatens their agricultural livelihoods...Climate change is...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leo Litwak was a university student when he joined the Army to fight in World War II, "a na've, callow eighteen-year-old son prepared to join other soldier boys being hauled off to war." In 1944 he found himself in Belgium, in the middle of the waning European war, a medic trained to save lives but often powerless to do much more than watch life slip away. It was hard fighting that took Litwak and his rifle company into the heart of Germany at the...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 462 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources.
Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated...
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Regan Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
xv, 288 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New York City's thirtieth Fire Commissioner shares his personal experiences during and after the September 11 attacks, from his work beside the mayor and police commissioner to his remembrance of lost colleagues and friends.
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Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
US edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 392 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese, living in small-town Japan. He has two talents: playing guitar and picking fights. When his dream of being a rock star fails to materialize, he turns to the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer performance, loyalty, and brute force the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed Tsunami, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. This fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope...
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Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andes, the dragon's back: With glaciers, volcanoes, snow-capped peaks, enormous deserts, tropical rainforests, caustic salt pans, and cloud forests, the Andes are an extraordinary world of diverse terrains, extreme temperatures, and a staggering array of wildlife. Five thousand miles long and extending over seven countries, this high mountain range boasts some of the highest, saltiest, wettest and driest terrains on the planet.
Life in Death Valley:...
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Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are examined from many perspectives in The Ecuador Reader. Spanning the years before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s to the present, this rich anthology addresses colonialism, independence, the nation's integration into the world economy, and...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world. Editors Cecilia Vicuna and Ernesto Livon-Grosman present a fresh and expansive selection of Latin American poetry, from the indigenous responses to the European conquest, through early feminist poetry of the 19th century, the...
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