Showing titles in South America

Resurrect a lost Andean empire and explore the epic archaeological mystery of a civilization predating the mighty Inca. Perfect for your daily commute, this vivid historical journey transports you to the mysterious Ayacucho highlands to discover a massive pre-Columbian powerhouse. Transform your...

Economista e autor dos best-sellers Autoengano e O valor do amanhã, Eduardo Giannetti aborda com inteligência e originalidade o tema da identidade brasileira. Eduardo Giannetti é conhecido por tratar de temas éticos e econômicos com clareza e precisão. A argumentação rigorosa e o texto...

In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.

这部沉浸式拉美叙事史将带你穿梭于安第斯山脉的失落黄金国与硝烟弥漫的独立战争之间，见证一个分裂的国度如何在无尽的纷争与暴力中顽强寻求重生。跟随那些在丛林与街头挣扎求生的普通人脚步，你将亲历一场跨越五百...

Um lugar ermo, distante e de difícil acesso abrigou de churrascos para agentes da repressão a sessões de tiro ao alvo com presos políticos...

Um prostíbulo nos arredores de São Paulo tornou-se o centro de execuções do regime militar no governo Geisel, incorporando torturas com fogo e injeções letais...

Uma fazenda cercada de mato com conexões com o Comando da 10ª Região Militar foi o endereço de interrogatórios e torturas nos arredores de Fortaleza...

"Rio sem Lei", de Hudson Corrêa e Diana Brito, publicado pela Geração Editorial e já nas livrarias, é um trabalho de seis anos de investigação jornalística que relata o surgimento de uma nova facção criminosa. Traficantes de drogas e milicianos, antes inimigos, se uniram em grande...

In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston). Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced...

The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on itIn March of 2017, a team of FBI agents arrested Juan Granda, Samer Barrage, and Renato Rodriguez, or as they called themselves, "the three amigos." The trio--first identified...

A new history of the Renaissance's greatest feat of exploration: Sir Walter Ralegh's search for the legendary city of El Dorado, by New York Times bestselling author David Gibbins. In 1594, English adventurer Sir Walter Ralegh heard the story of a lost city in South America from a Spanish...

Examining over a century of US intervention in Latin America, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin reveals how the region has long served as a laboratory for US foreign policy, providing generations of Washington policy makers with an opportunity to rehearse a broad range of diplomatic and military...

Agosto de 1942: o Brasil declara guerra ao Eixo. O estopim: o ataque a vários navios mercantes e de passageiros brasileiros no litoral do Nordeste por uma ofensiva naval nazista, provocando a morte de centenas de inocentes. Por que os nazistas afundaram navios desarmados de um país...

Read the international sensation already translated into 9 languages! A Brazilian journalists investigation unearths the story of a network of people responsible for hiding "The Angel of Death," the infamous Nazi doctor who fled to South America and escaped justice for over thirty years. Josef...

A literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world...

Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a...

Having had unparalleled access to the Chilean mine disaster, award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of a remarkable story of human endurance, survival, and historic heroism.33 Men is the groundbreaking, authoritative account of the Chilean mine disaster, one of the...

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the...

Now a major motion picture! Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media...

In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and...