Title: SOUTH AMERICA’S NATURAL WONDERS (Geologic Tours of the World)
Author: Gary Prost
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN-13: 978-0815348047
Starting in the glacial landscapes of southern Patagonia, this field trip guidebook examines the foothills of the Andes of western Argentina and Chile to understand its foreland deformation. This volume is an inviting text that gives individuals with no background in geology the opportunity to understand key geologic aspects of local landscapes. It also serves as a guide to undergraduate and graduate-level students taking courses in earth science programs, such as geology, geophysics, geochemistry, mining engineering, and petroleum engineering. Teachers of these courses can also use this book to better understand their local geologic environment and geography.
Title: LONELY PLANET CENTRAL AMERICA
Authors: Rlbert Isenber, Ray Bartlett & 5 more
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN-13: 978-1788684347
Discover Central America's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from gazing into the magma-churning Volcán Masaya in Nicaragua; to swimming through near-transparent Caribbean waters around the teensy island of Caye Caukler in Belize; and people-watching in the Parque Central of Granada before strolling its 500-year-old streets. This volume offers fresh takes on must-visit sights from Semuc Champey, to Lamanai, and Parque Nacional Los Volcanes covering Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico's Yucatán and Chiapas. Create a trip that is uniquely yours by delving deep into local life, history and traditions.
Title: THE SOUTH AMERICA HANDBOOK (Regional Handbooks of Economy and Development)
Editors: Patrick Heenan & Monique Lamontagne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1579583330
First published in 2002, The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their broader domestic and international contexts, emphasizing relations among regions as they confront twenty-first-century challenges. Designed for non-specialist students, the series explores social, political, and economic factors shaping growth in developing regions across Asia, Europe, and South America. Each volume includes an overview of historical and political conditions, plus expert essays analyzing population, natural resources, trade, labor, inequality, and other key issues. Support materials include chronologies, glossaries, biographical entries, annotated bibliographies, and a comprehensive analytical index.
Title: CENTRAL AMERICA (Footprint Handbooks)
Author: Richard Arghiris
Publisher: Footprint
ISBN-13: 978-1907263477
Formerly part of the legendary 'Travellers' Bible', this new edition of Footprint's guide to Central America has been extensively researched and updated. Taking you along the Ruta Maya, through beautiful colonial cities and sleepy villages, to deserted beaches and lush rainforests, it provides recommendations for all budgets on where to eat and sleep, as well as the low-down on the region's best fiestas and adventure activities. With activities galore, ruins aplenty, year round sunshine and amazing food and drink there is something for everyone and Footprint's Handbook will help you see and experience the real Central America.
Title: LATIN AMERICA AT THE END OF POLITCS
Author: Forrest D. Colburn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 9780691091815
After decades of ideological struggle, much of it in the service of an elusive socialist ideal, Latin America has embraced liberalism—democracy and unfettered markets. Yet liberalism has triumphed more by default than through exuberance, and the region’s democracies remain fragile and lethargic. Latin America at the End of Politics explores this period of circumscribed political passions through portrayals of crucial political, economic, social, and cultural issues: governance, entrepreneurs and markets, urban bias, poverty, women’s equality, consumerism, crime, environmental degradation, art, and migration of the poor. This provocative framework offers a compelling interpretation of the region’s future.
Title: FROM ECONOMIC CRISIS TO REFORM: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Author: Gregory Pop-Eleches
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0691139524
Grigore Pop-Eleches explains that the IMF’s response to economic crises reflects the changing priorities of major countries. He argues that the IMF gives greater attention and favorable treatment to crises in key countries. The book shows how, during the 1990s neoliberal consensus, crises triggered IMF-style reforms across the ideological spectrum, compatible with democratic politics. By contrast, during the Latin American debt crisis, IMF programs reflected Cold War rivalries, producing divergent policy responses where democracy was at odds with economic adjustment. Reforms emerged only when governments and the IMF agreed on the crisis’s roots and severity.
Title: LATINO CATHOLICISM: Transformation in America’s Largest Church
Author: Timothy Matovina
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 9780691163574
Most histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates. Latino Catholicism provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the sixteenth century to today, and offers an in-depth examination of the ways the U.S. Catholic Church, its evolving Latino majority, and American culture are transforming one another. This volume highlights the vital contributions of Latinos to American religious and social life, showing how their engagement with the U.S. cultural milieu shapes their ecclesial and societal impact.
Title: DEMOCRACY AND THE PUBLIC SPACE IN LATIN AMERICA
Author: Leonardo Avritzer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 9780691090887
This bold study examines the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer argues that traditional theories of democratization fail to explain this development. Many scholars have claimed that postwar Western Europe proved restricted democracy, or “democratic elitism,” was the only realistic safeguard against destabilizing mass mobilization. Avritzer challenges this view. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas, he contends that democracy can be more inclusive, grounded in autonomous citizen association and public argument. He supports this claim by showing how democratic collective action has opened a new “public space” for popular participation in Latin American politics.
