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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Participles usefully combine characteristics of both verbs and adjectives. Learn the rules for forming Latin participles, and investigate some of their many applications. Close by translating the Latin from the Great Seal of the United States, which includes the perfect passive participle coeptus (having been begun).
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A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur.
Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new translation captures all the hilarious, maddening, and utterly compelling idiosyncrasies of one of Machado's...Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Chomsky shows how direct participation in action in the United States, Latin America, Bolivia, and Haiti in particular has put into practice a different model of democracy that could portend more far-reaching, badly needed changes.
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English
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"What use is Latin? It's a question we're often asked by those who see the language of Cicero as no more than a cumbersome heap of ruins, something to remove from the curriculum. In this sustained meditation, Gardini gives us his sincere and brilliant reply: Latin is, quite simply, the means of expression that made us-and continues to make us-who we are. In Latin, the rigorous and inventive thinker Lucretius examined the nature of our world; the poet...
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English
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"Spanning four seasons, ten countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road : A Year Alone Through Latin America chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women for whom travel is not a path to love but a route to meaningful work, rare inspiration, and profound self-discovery. Following the...
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Publisher
Ocean Press]
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1. ed.
Language
Español
Description
Che's diary describes a United States-inspired coup in Guatemala and his first encounter with Fidel Castro, in an edition of Guevara's diary from his second journey through Latin America that also includes his letters from that time.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"...this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms and meditations. Reflecting the intellectual development of the writer himself, these essays distill the great events of Latin America?s recent history, analyze political groups like FARC and Sendero Luminoso, and evaluate the legacies of infamous leaders such as Papa Doc Duvalier and Fidel Castro. Arranged by theme, they trace Vargas Llosa?s unwavering...
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English
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"'The Motorcycle Diaries' is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures, arugably as much as any book ever written, the joy of one person's youthful belief in the possibilities of humankind tending toward justice, peace, and happiness. After the release in 2004 of the...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, she decided to challenge her word-loving brain through studying Latin at local colleges. Her study opened unexpected windows into her life, and along the way, she met an impassioned group of professors, students and classicists outside of academia who keep Latin very much alive. Written with humor, heart, and an infectious enthusiasm for...
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Publisher
Ocean Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Español
Description
This anthology is the most comprehensive collection of Che Guevara's writings on Latin America ever to be published in any language. It ranges from his early travel writings known as the "Motorcycle diaries" up until the diary he was writing at the time of his death: the "Bolivian diaries". It includes his major and most famous speeches and essays regarding Latin America, as well as poetry, philosophy, literary criticism and political economy, with...
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Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Rudy Pérez, el ganador del premio Grammy en cinco ocasiones e icónico productor musical latino, comparte su cautivante proceso de ser un niño refugiado cubano a crear algunas de las producciones musicales más maravillosas del siglo veintuno.
19) Cemetery boys
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Steeped in Hispanic folklore since childhood, middle schooler Charlie Hernández learns the stories are true when, shortly after his parents disappearance, he grows horns and feathers and finds himself at the heart of a battle to save the world.
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