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Bloody Plátanos: La oscura historia de United Fruit y el nacimiento de las repúblicas bananeras Detrás de la simple y cotidiana banana se esconde un imperio global construido sobre el poder, la explotación y el derramamiento de sangre. Bloody Plátanos la historia no contada de cómo la United Fruit Company (UFC), más tarde conocida como Chiquita Brands International, transformó una fruta tropical en un símbolo de la codicia corporativa, la manipulación geopolítica y la represión laboral. A lo largo de más de un siglo, este impactante reportaje lleva a los lectores desde las ...

Dive back into the sultry, shadowy streets of Tampa with Tampa Vice 2, the electrifying sequel to the acclaimed crime saga. Picking up where Santo Trafficante Jr.’s reign ends in 1987, this gripping chronicle traces the city’s evolution from a bolita-soaked Mafia stronghold to a modern hub of vice, pulsing with legalized sin and digital darkness. From the neon glow of strip club empires to the pill mill plague that turned Tampa into America’s opioid epicenter, from cyber scams raking millions to cannabis cash and sports betting wars, Tampa Vice 2 unveils a city where corruption and ...

Venezuela, una tierra de impresionante belleza natural y las mayores reservas probadas de petróleo del mundo, se ha convertido en un símbolo tanto de inmensa promesa como de un colapso dramático. Venezuela: Historia, Crisis y Oportunidad desentraña la apasionante historia de cómo una nación rica en recursos fue llevada de rodillas y cómo podría resurgir nuevamente.\n\nEsta cautivadora narración lleva a los lectores desde la conquista española y la revolución de independencia de Simón Bolívar hasta la era moderna de la riqueza petrolera y la agitación política. Revela cómo ...

For thirty-one years, the RMS Queen Mary sailed the North Atlantic. It helped defeat Hitler and was the ship of choice for the world's rich and famous. Now in retirement in the Port of Long Beach, the "Stateliest Ship Afloat" plays host to tourists, travelers—and more than six hundred spirits that roam her halls and passageways.

Step into a world where your melanin becomes a source of power and enlightenment. Imagine embracing the Divine Feminine within you, connecting with ancient African practices, and reclaiming your true essence. In this captivating guide, you will embark on a transformative journey that celebrates the sacredness of being a Black Woman. Keep reading to discover your special bonus offer! Imagine you find yourself surrounded by the wisdom of the Yoruba religions, Ifá, Santería, and Vodun.

Goin' Up To Cripple Creek is historical western fiction of the Cripple Creek Mining District, and the men who established it, and mined its gold. The time period is from the discovery and settlement of this alpine valley, through the establishment of the town of Cripple Creek, to the fires of 1896. This is the first work in The Gold Trail Series. Filled with action and romance, it is a well researched and historical fiction of an exciting time. Starting with the settlement by Levi Welty, and the discovery of gold by Bob Womack, it tells the story of the establishment of the District. A ...

Deep in the forests of northeast Georgia, something stirs. Based on real reports from hikers, hunters, and lifelong locals, Bigfoot in Georgia: Chattahoochee National Forest presents 15 immersive encounters with something massive, unknown, and intelligent that walks the woods. These stories aren’t fiction. They’re dramatized retellings of eyewitness accounts, pulled from research and firsthand sources, written in the vivid, atmospheric style readers expect from Ethan Blackwood. Each encounter places you in the boots of those who lived it—alone in the wild, with the sound of something ...

Beau and Eli flee Arkansas with the law close behind. Their only option is to head for the 19th century frontier, equipped with little of the experience needed to survive the rigors of living and surviving in the Rocky Mountains. The mountain man life provides them with the refuge they need as they struggle to keep one step ahead of the dangers that threaten to take their lives. Little do they know that the life they have chosen is threatened by something that all the strength and knowledge of mountain men can’t defeat.

Sunset, 8 June 1982, East Falkland. Eight specially trained Royal Marines infiltrate Goat Ridge, a long rocky hilltop between Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which are occupied by a battalion of 600 Argentine infantry. Their daring mission was to hide out in hostile territory, reconnoiter the Argentine position and then report back. From their hiding place just metres away from the enemy, they note and sketch the Argentine positions, then withdraw as stealthily as they had come.

In history class, we’ve been taught that the Great Depression was all about crashing stock markets, snaking breadlines, and ecological disasters. We learned that FDR tried to put it right with the New Deal, but it was only World War II that finally succeeded in revitalizing the American economy. But that’s not the whole story.

¡Explore la fascinante historia de Brasil! ¿Se ha preguntado alguna vez cómo se convirtió Brasil en el país que es hoy? Este libro es su oportunidad de sumergirse en su pasado, desde las primeras civilizaciones indígenas hasta los tiempos modernos. Seguirá las historias de valientes exploradores, será testigo de la lucha por la independencia y verá cómo diferentes culturas dieron forma a Brasil a lo largo del camino. A medida que lea, descubrirá cómo los pueblos de Brasil —desde las primeras comunidades indígenas hasta los colonos europeos— afrontaron retos, construyeron ...

"At a time when many people feel discouraged and unheard, the life of Thomas Paine serves as an apt reminder of the power of ideas and the written word. David Benner has given us a tremendous gift with this absorbing book." -Thomas E. Woods, New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, and Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century “Thomas Paine rocked the political and religious establishments of America, France, and Britain. David Benner's new biography makes the implausible story of the author of "Common Sense" come ...

Vice House: Presidential Scandals and Their Impact on American History revela los vicios y escándalos ocultos que moldearon las vidas y los legados de los presidentes de Estados Unidos. Desde amoríos secretos hasta encubrimientos de salud y deudas de juego, este libro explora cómo los defectos personales influyeron en las decisiones públicas y transformaron la historia. A través de narrativas apasionantes, Vice House examina los escándalos, sus consecuencias y la intersección del carácter y el poder en la Casa Blanca. Perfecto para entusiastas de la historia y aficionados a la ...

Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the recently completed St. Francis Dam collapsed, releasing a 160-foot wall of water into the canyon below. Massive chunks of concrete, some weighing thousands of tons, were hurled more than half a mile downstream. Within hours, the flood had carved a 50-mile path of destruction to the Pacific Ocean, leaving over 500 people dead or missing. It remains the deadliest civil engineering disaster of twentieth-century America. Everything In Its Path tells the story of sixteen-year-old Kate Thompson, whose father and his assistant Andrew are excavating a ...

Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren G. Harding.) Petri's "historical fan fiction" draws on real events and completely absurd fabrications to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation's complicated past. A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri's US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed.

In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general.

On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop. On that historic day, LDS church president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church's 126-year-old ban barring Black people from the priesthood and Mormon temples. It was the most significant change in LDS doctrine since the end of polygamy almost 100 years earlier. Drawing on never-before-seen private papers of LDS apostles and church presidents, Harris probes the plot twists and turns, the near-misses and paths not taken, of this incredible story.

In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the 19th century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in Mexico and is throughout internationalist in orientation. It challenges the political narrative of sectionalism, emphasizing the national footing of slavery and the struggle between the Northeast and the Mississippi Valley for continental supremacy.

The reality of UFO incursions at American nuclear weapons facilities has been convincingly established. Hundreds of U.S. military veterans now openly discuss these ominous incidents and thousands of declassified government documents substantiate their revelations. Over the past four decades, renowned researcher Robert Hastings has interviewed more than 150 of those veterans regarding their involvement in these astounding cases. And the evidence presented in UFOs & Nukes makes clear that humans’ deadliest weapons have been under intense scrutiny by still-unidentified observers.

Abraham Lincoln, unlike most of his political brethren, kept organized Christianity at arm’s length. He never joined a church and only sometimes attended Sunday services with his wife. But as he came to appreciate the growing political and military importance of the Christian churches, and when death touched the Lincoln household in an awful, intimate way, the erstwhile skeptic effectively evolved into the nation’s first evangelical president. The war, he told Americans, was in some fashion divine retribution for the sin of slavery.