Now available in paperback, Tongues of Fire deals with one of the most extraordinary developments in the world today - the rapid spread of Evangelical Protestantism in vast areas of the underdeveloped societies, notable Latin America. The growth of Evangelical Protestantism since the 1960's from its epicentre in the United States has been a religious and social phenomenon of ex...(展开全部)

Now thoroughly updated in its seventh edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of the region over the past 150 years. Modern Latin America, Seventh Edition, will continue to be an exceptional text for underg...(展开全部)

阎连科，1958年出生于河南嵩县，1978年应征入伍，1985年毕业于河南大学政教系、1991年毕业于解放军艺术学院文学系。1979年开始写作，主要作品有长篇小说《情感狱》、《日光流年》、《坚硬如水》、《受活》、《风雅颂》、《四书》等十部，中、短篇小说集《年月日》、《黄金洞》、《耙耧天歌》、《朝着东南走》等十余部，散文、言论集十二部；另有《阎连科文集》十六卷。曾先后获第一、第二届鲁迅文学奖，第三届老舍文学奖和其他国内外文学奖项20余次。 入围2013年度英国曼布克奖短名单，并获得第十二届马来西亚“花踪世界华文文学奖”。其作品被译为日、韩、越、法、英、德、意大利、荷兰、挪威、以色列、西班牙、塞尔维亚等20种语言，在20多个国家和地区出版。现供职于中国人民大学文学院，为教授、驻校作家。

This best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A History of Latin America, encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which stresses the economic relationsh...(展开全部)

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America , beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a ...(展开全部)

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America , beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a ...(展开全部)

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred origi...(展开全部)

Edited and Further Revised by Sir James Mountford

Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish and Portu...(展开全部)

【美】托马斯·E.斯基德莫尔是美国布朗大学拉美现代史教授和该校拉美研究中心前任主任； 【美】彼得•H.史密斯则是美国加州大学圣迭戈分校的政治学教授和该校伊比利亚和拉美研究中心的前任主任； 【美】詹姆斯·N.格林则是美国布朗大学拉美研究中心的前任主任和巴西研究会的前主席。 张森根，1937年12月生于上海市。中国社科院拉丁美洲研究所研究员，中国社科院研究生院拉美系主任、博士生导师。常年从事拉美经济和拉美经济史研究。主要论著和译著有：《战后拉美地区经济结构的变化和特点》（1981年）、《小农制和拉美农业资本主义发展》（1988年）和《拉丁美洲历史词典》（合编，1993年）以及中文版《剑桥拉美史》（项目主持人兼校订者之一，1991—2013年共出10卷11册）。 岳云霞，中国社会科学院拉丁美洲研究所研究员，主要研究方向为拉美经济、贸易和投资。主要代表作包括...(展开全部)