Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Riordan Roett
Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class ...
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Colombia: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Richard D. Mahoney
Even to experts, Colombia is one of the most confusing countries in the Americas. Its democratic tradition is among the richest and most long-standing in the hemisphere, with only eleven ...
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Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Roderic Ai Camp
Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in ...
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Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Terryl Givens
Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is America's most successful-and most misunderstood-home grown religion. The church today boasts more than 15 million members ...
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Jorge Duany
Puerto Rico, acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over ...
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Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Miguel Tinker-Salas
Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery ...
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