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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to... (more)

Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

by Sandra Postel

As we approach the twenty-first century, we are entering a new era-an era of water scarcity. We have taken for granted seemingly endless supplies of water flowing from reservoirs wells, and diversion projects; access to water has been key to food security, industrialization, and the growth of cities. In this book from the Worldwatch Institute, Sandra Postel explains that decades of profligacy and mismanagement of... (more)

Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers

Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers

by Javier Santiso

Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condition. Latin America must move beyond utopian schemes and rigid ideologies invented in other hemispheres and acknowledge its own social realities of inequality and poverty. And today some countries—notably Chile and... (more)

Nobody Loves a Drunken IndianClair Huffaker

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The Path Between the Seas

The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

by David G. McCullough

Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

by Sandra Postel

Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers

by Javier Santiso

Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian

by Clair Huffaker