A compact, practical and comprehensive mini dictionary, which provides full coverage of the core vocabularies of Latin and English. New Latin words have been added from the writings of Plautus and Ter...
This is a major new edition of the "Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary", offering essential coverage of Latin words and grammar, as well as extra information on Roman history and culture. It has been upda...
For over three hundred years, from the era of Christopher Columbus to the struggles for independence around 1820, Latin America witnessed an artistic flowering of enormous creativity and originality. ...
A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present examines the diverse and interlocking experiences of people of indigenous, African, and European backgrounds from the onset of independence until...
This volume examines the interaction between private and public institutions in the trade policy-making process of eight Latin American countries and trade bargaining in sub-regional, hemispheric and ...
Addressed mostly to students, this Encyclopedia is derived from Scribner's popular Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, and is enriched with new art and coverage of current events and i...
A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culturereflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the 20th century. Written by more than...
The Rough Guide First-Time Latin America tells you everything you need to know before you go to Latin America, from visas and vaccinations to budgets and packing. It will help you plan the best possib...
Now, in The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories , editor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria brings together fifty-three stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the mo...
Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that a...
Until the 1990s, the main users of safeguards and antidumping laws were Australia, Canada, the European Union and the United States. Since then, many countries have implemented such laws, leading to a...
The problem of quickly mounting CO2 emissions in the fast-developing Latin American region was addressed in a symposium held in Piracicaba, Brazil, in June 2004. "Carbon Sequestration in Soils of Lati...
This is the first comprehensive survey of an important and increasingly popular field. Because each of the contributors is an expert on his or her own national art, it is also the first to present a g...
Provides access to the current state of expert knowledge about Latin America's economic past from the Spanish conquest to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It includes work from diverse persp...
Marketing in the Emerging Markets of Latin America provides a much needed analysis of business and marketing in Latin America. The book highlights the diverse characteristics of the Latin American bus...
Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Port...
The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are w...
This is a survey of religious and political developments in Latin American Christianity, especially in the rapidly growing Pentecostal churches and in Catholicism. Pentecostalism and Catholicism have ...
Maxime mei paenitet, vendidi uxorem tua in agora eBay. Im really sorry, I sold your wife on eBay. (Shouted into a mobile phone) Sum in longus quadrigarus! Im on the train! Nuntiis meis non respondebat...
Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there f...
Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment of changes in socio-economic conditions ...
This volume focuses on Ibn Sina - the Avicenna of the Latin West - and the enormous impact of his philosophy in both the Islamic and Christian worlds. Jules Janssens opens with a new introductory arti...