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  • Moving Beyond Borders

    Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies

    by Alberto Lopez Pulido, Alberto Lopez Pulido, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, Carmen Samora, Teresita E Aguilar, Jorge A Bustamante, Gilberto Cárdenas, Miguel A Carranza0, Frank M Castillo1, Anthony J Cortese2, Lydia Espinosa Crafton3, Herman Gallegos4, Phillip Gallegos5, José R Hinojosa6, Delfina Landeros7, Paul López8, Sergio X Madrigal9, Ken Martínez0, Vilma Martínez1, Alberto Mata2, Amelia M Muñoz3, Richard A Navarro4, Jesus "Chuy" Negrete5, Julie Leininger Pycior6, Olga Villa Parra7, Ricardo Parra8, Victor Rios9, Marcos Ronquillo0, Rene Rosenbaum1, Rudy Sandoval2, Alfredo Rodriguez Santos3, Ciro Sepulveda4 ...
    Series series Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
    Moving Beyond Borders examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies. Detailing his distinguished career at the University of Notre Dame from 1959 to 1984, the book documents the history of the Mexican American Graduate Studies program that Samora established at Notre ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Sorrows of Mexico

    by Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernández, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Sergio González Rodríguez, Marcela Turati, Emiliano Ruiz Parra, Elena Poniatowska ...
    Translated by Samantha Schnee, Jennifer Adcock, Catherine Mansfield ...
    With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, t****his is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows.Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN PromotesVeering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • El Narco

    Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

    by Ioan Grillo ...
    "Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.comA gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • El Sicario

    The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin

    Edited by Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden ...
    In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI, and who for twenty years kidnapped, tortured and murdered people for the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Murder City

    Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

    by Charles Bowden ...
    Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad.In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Narcoland

    The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers

    Translated by Iain Bruce, Lorna Scott Fox ...
    by Anabel Hernández ...
    This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times).“A riveting story . . . [from] an incredibly brave journalist.” —NPRThe “war on drugs” has so far cost more than 60,000 lives. Hernández explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • We're Going to Win This Thing

    The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster

    by Lin DeVecchio, Charles Brandt ...
    The riveting front-page news story of an FBI agent falsely accused of ordering four mob hits.FBI agent Lin DeVecchio was a key player in the New York Mafia wars from the late seventies through the early nineties. Yet despite his stunning success fighting organized crime, DeVecchio was accused of taking bribes, selling information to the man who was his informant, and even personally ordering four ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Undercover Cop

    How I Brought Down the Real-Life Sopranos

    by Mike Russell, Patrick W. Picciarelli ...
    "Nobody did undercover better than Mike Russell. His story is grittier than The Sopranos, more volatile than Goodfellas. A must read." —George Anastasia, New York Times–bestselling authorNearly taken out of the game by a shooting, New Jersey state trooper Mike Russell eventually found himself in the right place at the right time to save Andy Gerardo, one of the ranking captains of the Genovese ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Drug Wars

    The Mexican Cartels

    by Al Cimino ...
    With the suppression of the Colombian cartels, the Mexican crime syndicates took over the Latin American drug trade, controlling ninety per cent of the cocaine entering the US. This is their story. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Godfathers

    The Lives and Crimes of Mafia Mobsters

    by Roberto Olla ...
    Analyzes the Mafia through the mysterious lives of Mafia mobsters. This book introduces some of the biggest names in Mafia history, and explains the ways in which their political savvy helped them orchestrate many of history's major events. Much blood has been spilt on account of the Sicilian and American Mafias - and almost as much ink has been expended upon the details of their culture and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dead Cows for Piranhas

    A Perilous Journey Inside the Drug Trade

    by Hazel Friedman ...
    A high-octane journey into the brutal underworld of the South African and transnational drug trade.Journalist Hazel Friedman was on assignment in Thailand to document the stories of the increasing number of South Africans convicted as drug mules when she made a horrifying discovery. Many of the drug traffickers are in fact decoys.These individuals find themselves coerced or deceived into drug ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

    Life and Death in Juárez

    by Sandra Nieto ...
    Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...
    The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalistSixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable triple murder, Sandra Rodríguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of the most violent ... Read more

    $9.99 USD