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Its Derivation From Central Asia With The American Languages In General And With The Turanian And Iberian Languages Of The Old World. Including Basque, The Lycian, And The Pre-Aryan Language Of Etruria. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on January 27, 2000. The length of the article is 1344 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NICARAGUA: PRESIDENT ARNOLDO ALEMAN IS UNDER INVESTIGATION IN NEW BATTLE WITH COMPTROLLER GENERAL.
Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs (Newsletter)
Date: January 27, 2000
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This digital document is an article from NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on January 13, 2000. The length of the article is 1071 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NICARAGUA: APPEALS COURT FREES COMPTROLLER GENERAL.
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Date: January 13, 2000
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This digital document is an article from NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on August 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1250 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EL SALVADOR: TORTURE VICTIMS WIN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT AGAINST SALVADORAN GENERALS.
Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs (Newsletter)
Date: August 22, 2002
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Publisher: World Peace FoundationPublication date: 1917Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on June 9, 2005. The length of the article is 1710 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: STATES SHOW NEW INDEPENDENCE AT OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
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Its Derivation From Central Asia With The American Languages In General And With The Turanian And Iberian Languages Of The Old World. Including Basque, The Lycian, And The Pre-Aryan Language Of Etruria. ... Read more

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Its Derivation From Central Asia With The American Languages In General And With The Turanian And Iberian Languages Of The Old World. Including Basque, The Lycian, And The Pre-Aryan Language Of Etruria. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2-6; Original Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis; Publication date: 1892; Subjects: Jews; Rabbis; ... Read more

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Cooking the Central American Way serves up tantalizing recipes for yucca fritters, bean soup, tres leches cake and more! ... Read more

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Not worth the money
I expected more recipes, more variety, and definitely a bigger "cook book".I felt that this was a very juvenile type cookbook... maybe for a 13 year old just learning how to use the kitchen.Like someone else said, most of the recipes you can get off the internet for free.

I would love to rate the item if I would have only received it!
I am extremely upset because I paid for this book and as of today, I have not received it.I will not be ordering from Amazon again!

not worth the money
This book is not worth the money,not a lot of recipes,You can get the same recipes free from the web...

Cooking The Central American Way: Culturally Authentic Foods...
This book has few recipes of each country of Central America, Caribean, and some recipes from South America,the most popular. Has pictures of the menu. Easy menu.

A Pleasing Cook!
My husband and i have visited Costa Rica and couple of times and have actually purchased property there for retirement.The kind people, flora fauna and, of course, the fresh foods are magical for us.

This little book has helped me to get the real flavor of these countries cuisine and has definitely widened my cooking skills.Some of the receipes are a little overwhelming, but not actually that difficult once you get into it and have the ingredients.This is the reason for 4 instead of 5 star rating.

The plantains, bean soup and seviche camarones (although i used a variety of white fish) are all time favorites around our house.Get ready for lot's of compliments! ... Read more

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"They had been massacred, assassinated. [The death squad] had pulled off their nails. They had been burned with acid ... shot in the head." In a provoking account of the horrors of war and political persecution, Salvadoran refugee and community leader Carlos Vaquerano remembers the day that his brother Marcial and seven others were brutally murdered by the death squads supported by his country's violent right-wing government.

Like the more than one million Central American refugees fleeing the atrocities of war, Carlos made the difficult journey through Mexico and into the United States. He would go on to establish the Salvadoran-American Leadership and Educational Fund, one of the nation's leading Central American organizations.

Each of the eight people whose interviews form the basis for this landmark collection--Carmen Alegria, Isabel Beltran, Juan Ramon Cardona, Eduardo Gonzalez, Javier Huete, Alicia Mendoza, Rossana Perez, and Carlos Vaquerano--is a leader in the Salvadoran / Central American refugee movement. Consequently, this book offers insight into the early philosophy and framework of the movement as revealed by some of its pioneers.

Published as part of the Hispanic Civil Rights Series, this compelling and historically significant volume collects the narratives of Central American refugees who fled the violence in their homelands and became leading community advocates at the forefront of social justice. ... Read more

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Don't take this book on short trips to two or three countries
We took this guidebook with us on a three week trip through Belize, Guatemala and the Yucatan and Chiapas Mexico. This guidebook covers too large of an area, with very little info about each place. It gives no historical background info. It only tells you the basics like where to sleep, eat and catch the bus. Our biggest gripe is the info on Semuc Champey National Monument in Guatelmala, one of the most beautiful sites there. The book makes the journey up there from the town of Lanquin sound like an impossible endeavor unless you take a tour, and state that there is nothing up there. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! We were able to get a ride up there on Christmas day and low and behold there were some great budget lodging options right near the site! I was so disappointed that we could have spent the night in the jungle instead of in town where people went crazy with fireworks on Xmas eve!
I bought this book after skimming it in the library. It does have a wide range of lodging options, but such bare bones info on the whole. Near the end of our trip I was tearing out specific pages so I didn't have to carry the entire thing around. Not a good choice for a short trip I believe.

good travel guide
This is a very good book, written British style.This is especially good for those going to Mexico and Central America.

For those just visiting Mexico, who want in-depth coverage, Lonely Planet is the best guide.

This one is a bit difficult because it puts pertinent data in other locations, making it a bit tricky.

The guide is very compact, has good basic info, and is in hard cover.

Excellent for independent travelers
Footprint does a great job covering this region of Latin America in a single volume.The pages are thin enough to pack a comparable amount of information as found in 5 different Lonely Planet guidebooks.The accommodation listings are succint but helpful, and the descriptions of the attractions are intelligently described.It would definitely be the book to bring for someone traveling in multiple countries.I have been disappointed with some of the Footprint guides for other regions of the world, but I loved their guide for Mexico and Central America. ... Read more

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In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways. This juncture also set the conditions for the creation of the Transisthmus--a material, cultural, and symbolic site of vast intersections of people, products, and narratives.

Taking 1899 as her point of departure, Ana Patricia Rodríguez offers a comprehensive, comparative, and meticulously researched book covering more than one hundred years, between 1899 and 2007, of modern cultural and literary production and modern empire-building in Central America. She examines the grand narratives of (anti)imperialism, revolution, subalternity, globalization, impunity, transnational migration, and diaspora, as well as other discursive, historical, and material configurations of the region beyond its geophysical and political confines.

Focusing in particular on how the material productions and symbolic tropes of cacao, coffee, indigo, bananas, canals, waste, and transmigrant labor have shaped the transisthmian cultural and literary imaginaries, Rodríguez develops new methodological approaches for studying cultural production in Central America and its diasporas.

Monumental in scope and relentlessly impassioned, this work offers new critical readings of Central American narratives and contributes to the growing field of Central American studies.

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Find the nations from your region and use these books to add depth and interest to your collection. The history and lifestyles are respectfully presented, showing how these rich, impressive cultures have endured. ... Read more

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To mark Central Park's 150th anniversary, this is a history of America's first urban park, a masterpiece of 19th-century landscape design. Sara Cedar Miller, official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Period photographs, plans and drawings combine with an authoritative text and contemporary photographs, which show the restored park's glory. ... Read more

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An Aesthetic Pleasure
An Aesthetic Pleasure.

For anyone who uses Central Park and appreciates its open naturalistic,not natural, landscape as Ms. Miller points out in her beautifully written highly informative text, this is a masterpiece about "The Masterpiece" that is Central Park.The Park as I didn't know way back when, is the result of a successful artistic collaboration between its two designers and nature. In fact it is completely man made. Ms. Miller who has been C.P's official historian and photographer for over twenty years has captured with love and a keen eye in her photographs the essence of what Central Park means to New Yorkers of all ages, backgrounds, nationalities: Relief from the 'concreteness' of the city surrounding it.

In addition, to the aesthetic pleasure her exquisite photographs provide, the book answers questions many of us have while breathing deeply and getting lost in Central Park. This chance to get lost through careful design was one of many visionary choices the original designers made 150 years ago when Central Park certainly wasn't "central" to a city thatonly eventually caught up with it.

Ever since I discovered Ms. Miller's book I've given it many times as a present because there are so many of uswho have criss-crossed the park andwho certainly'know' ityet might want to know more about it.

A fantastic book for a very much loved park
Did you know that the elm lined mall leading to the Bethesda fountain and the view of the ramble are actually based on the layout of a church? Or that all of the lakes in Central Park are manmade. This and many other very interesting facts are interspersed with lovingly taken photographs of the park which were taken by the author of the book as well. Miller starts decribing how the park came to be and the leading ideas and ideals that lead to its creation by Olmsted and Vaux. She proceeds to describe systematically the various sections of the park providing historical information as well. She delves into the some of the controversies and compromises that Olmsted and Vaux encountered in the creation of one of the finest examples of 19th Century art but it is not a comprehensive history of the park. There is a 2 page map of the park at the of the book with a legend identifying each of the features discussed in the book. If you are first time visitor to the city wishing to explore the park in detail or a life long New Yorker this book will delight and surprise you.

Definitive Review of the Finest Work of Art in NYC
As an avid fan of Central Park who has been exploring it and studying the books on it for decades, I was amazed at what there was still to learn about it from Miller's book. For example,other historians allude to a connection between Central Park's design and the Hudson River School of landscape art: Miller provides actual sources of the designer's inspiration and shows the results explicitly in the photos. And all in a way that is not at all "bookish" but instead makes you want to go right in and see for yourself the scenes she shows so well in the book's illustrations. The beautiful photos and fascinating stories and the well chosen historical prints all work together in such a compelling and entertaining way that one might never realize one is being educated by a superb textbook in the field of art.
With her emphasis on the past of the park, and its present restored beauty, it is understandable that the author does not use very much of the book's valuable space on the remaining present-day problems, but she might at least have alluded to the incongruity of the city's insistence on using this artistic matepiece as a through route for motor traffic during the majority of daylight weekday hours. In effect, the city's Dept. of Traffic is providing a refuge from the chaos of the surrounding streets during rush hours - but for the cars, not for the people. If you want to appreciate the park shown in this book, go during the times when the traffic noise does not drown out the wind in the trees, the birdsong, and the happy voices of children!

New York's Oasis
Central Park is breath taking and this book does a fine job of giving the reader a feel for what makes this 850 acre masterpiece so special.The book is quite thorough and does an commendable job of disecting various sections of the park.The color photos are vivid and well thought out and the text is highly informative.The author has a real love for the park and it comes out in her writing.If you have never visited Central Park or have visited and fell in love with it like so many others, you will love this book.This oasis really is the heart of New York City and to understand New York you have to understand the parks historyand its vast importantance to the city.Central Parks importance to New York and New Yorkers cannot be overstated, I can't imagine the city without it.

A Gorgeous Book Commemorating America's 1st Public Park
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Central Park, photographer and historian Sara Cedar Miller celebrates the aesthetic, cultural and historic significance of America's first public park with the book "Central Park, An American Masterpiece." This is the park's definitive illustrated history, and offers some of the most gorgeous photographs I have seen on the subject - a difficult task given the number of pictures that have been drawn, painted and photographed of the Manhattan landmark. The book includes over 200 color illustrations, original plans and drawings alongside modern photos, giving the viewer/reader an historical perspective.

Accompanying Ms. Miller's work, portraying the park throughout the seasons, is a well written text which highlights the conception and creation of the park and its art and architecture. This is a big, beautiful picture book that would make a wonderful addition to any home or library. It's a wonderful gift idea. I know as I have given it numerous times.

Ms. Miller is the parks official historian and photographer and has been since the mid-1980s.
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Since Fidel Castro's victory in Cuba in January 1959 the United States had been concerned that any change of government in a Central American country should not usher in a similar Soviet-backed communist regime; and to prevent this it has developed a range of responses, from direct military intervention, through support of local armies, to diplomatic isolation and economic blockade. For the foreseeable future Central America and the Caribbean will remain a powder keg. Carlos Caballero Jurado's engaging text examines the Central American Wars from 1959-89. ... Read more

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Useful Overview
This is a snapshot view of all the principal nations of Central America with Haiti, Cuba, and Mexico added for boot. There is enough detail and background of twentieth century events to set the stage for the situation as it was in the eighties. The period covers the victory of Castro and the subsequent events.
There is nothing on South America, Venezuela, Colombia, etc. A good subject for another volume in this series. Drug Wars of the Jungle.
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