San Antonio College Library

The Latin American studies collections at colleges and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, or incomplete to be useful to patrons. Until now, librarians simply have not had a good resource guide to help in locating better materials. Designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges and libraries, this annotated bibliography includes approximately 1,400 recommended books published from 1986 through...

Belize, until recently undeveloped, underpopulated, and unknown, has become a star destination for ecotourism, a crossroads for the international drug trade, a sanctuary for persecuted people, and a giant nature reserve. This postmodern, multicultural nation in the margins is now being made, or remade, in a globalized, deterritorialized world that rewards social and cultural creativity. Theories of globalization that pain marginal areas as losers...

Offers a deeper understanding of Mexico's history, institutions, religion, cultural output, leisure, and social customs.

Brazilians are noted for city building- flamboyant, primitive, exciting, stylish cities. This book captures the spirit of the building process well as its results in Brazil's old and new capital cities. The romantic magic of Rio de Janeiro's dramatic setting, and the different vision of Brasilia's dramatic, white buildings, rising above a vast, empty plain. Through a methodical, historically sequenced narrative, one is enticed to understand what really...

"Introduction to Brazil by a law professor who has been an engaged visitor since the 1960s. Themes of race, political power, violence, environment, religious diversity, and popular culture are made accessible through biographical profiles. Balances exuberance and indignation better than most recent introductions, but at a length that may exhaust the general reader. See Levine's work (item #bi 00006099#) or Eakin's (item #bi 00006100#) for more succinct...