Wednesday, January 19 2022
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class Joel Kotkin Encounter Books, 2020 Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are...
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Tuesday, January 11 2022
By Santiago Castro-Gómez · Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the...
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Tuesday, January 11 2022
By Carlo Patti Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. The first comprehensive and definitive history of Brazil's decision to give up the nuclear weapon option. Why do countries capable of...
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Tuesday, January 11 2022
By Michael Strevens Liveright, 2020 During the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, a small handful of radical thinkers, among them Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, hit upon a way of...
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Tuesday, January 11 2022
Diego Armus, Pablo F. Gómez University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin...
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Monday, January 10 2022
Alberto Varillas Montenegro Lima : Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú : Instituto Riva-Agüero : Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019 Primera parte: José Gregorio Paredes, hombre de...
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Monday, January 10 2022
William Jiménez Escobar Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2020 Colección: Cuadernos Coloniales Páginas: 203 A partir de un recorrido por colecciones bibliográficas de una...
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Thursday, January 6 2022
Science and Society in Latin America. Peripheral Modernities, by P. Kreimer, New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 270 p., $48.95 (pbk)/$160 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-03209326-0 There has been a renewed...
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