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1	The Weight of All Things more books like this by Sandra Benitez add to wishlist During the strife in El Salvador, Nicolas's mother is shot by terrorists as violence breaks out in a public plaza. Convinced that she is still alive, he travels the country on a desperate journey, encountering horror, pain, and danger--and losing his childhood in the process. Based on a true story, Benitez's novel brings to life the troubles in El ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Massacre at El Mozote more books like this by Mark Danner, Rk Danner add to wishlist see all copies from $2.77! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Salvador more books like this by Joan Didion add to wishlist Joan Didion spent two weeks in El Salvador in 1982, and used her observations and interviews as the basis for this bleak, vivid, and macabre portrait of the country in the grip of civil war. As she describes what it's like there for the average person who is simply struggling to live a normal life in the midst of chaos, Didion captures the mood of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Salvador Dali, 1904-1989 more books like this by Gilles Neret add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan more books like this by Ana Carrigan add to wishlist The murder of Jean Donovan and her fellow churchwomen by government troops in El Salvador made headlines around the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dali, Genius Obsession and Lust more books like this by Ralf Schiebler add to wishlist This text analyzes the different periods of the Dali's development from 1921 to 1983, supported by a selection of his paintings. It presents interpretations of Dali's pictures, using the artist's own writings and applying the motivational theories of two men who deeply influenced his thinking, Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank. Dali's life and art were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
7	The war of the saints more books like this by Jorge Amado add to wishlist When the image of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is shipped to the city of Bahia, it comes alive to save the soul of a young girl whose behaviour has offended her pious family. This mythical tale by the author of "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" investigates the power of a Brazilian religious cult. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Dali more books like this by Robert Descharnes add to wishlist Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition more books like this by Lewis Kachur add to wishlist Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favour of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of installation art before the form existed as such. In Displaying the Marvelous, Lewis Kachur explores this development by analyzing three elaborate ... see all copies from $14.50! new only from $16.84! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The secret life of Salvador Dali more books like this by Salvador Dali add to wishlist This startling early autobiography takes Dali through his late 30s and "communicates the...total picture of himself (Dali) sets out to portray" -- "Books." Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of drawings. see all copies from $3.69! new only from $8.09! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	A Handbook to Luck more books like this by Cristina Garcia add to wishlist With its cast of vividly drawn characters, ordinary people whose lives are made extraordinary by circumstance both tragic and joyful, this is the author's most beautiful, elegiac, and deeply emotional novel yet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Witness to War more books like this by Charles Clements add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Family Healing more books like this by Salvador Minuchin, MD, Michael P Nichols add to wishlist At the centre of people's lives is the family, which can be and should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world. Unfortunately, the source of people's greatest hope for happiness often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments. Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin unravels the knots of family dynamics against the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Salvador Dali more books like this by Meryle Secrest add to wishlist Meryle Secrest's unauthorized and uncensored investigative biography penetrates both the psychological enigma of Dali's personality and the sometimes glamorous, sometimes fraudulent behind-the-scenes art world that sustained it. 38 halftones. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.76! \| first editions
15 view cover	Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair more books like this by Ingrid Schaffner add to wishlist Life Magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 World's Fair stood out among the others: 'Dal 's Dream of Venus, the creation of famed Surrealist painter Salvador Dal, is the most recent addition to the still-growing list of amusement-area girl shows and easily the most amazing. Weird building contains a dry tank and a wet tank. In the wet tank ... see all copies from $20.96! new only from $138.02! \| first editions
16 view cover	Dali's Mustache more books like this by Philippe Halsman (Photographer), Salvador Dali add to wishlist With 101 Life magazine covers to his credit, Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) was one of the leading portrait photographers of his time. In addition to his distinguished career in photojournalism, Halsman was one of the great pioneers of experimental photography, motivated by a profound desire to push this youngest of art forms toward new frontiers by ... see all copies from $2.28! new only from $7.77! \| first editions
17 view cover	Dali Dali more books like this by Paul Moorhouse add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.67! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes more books like this by Don Kulick add to wishlist This narrative follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes ("travestis" in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, at an age as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles and linguistic pronouns. They ingest massive doses of female hormones and inject litres of industrial silicone into ... see all copies from $10.73! new only from $14.05! \| SVS
19 view cover	Bitter grounds more books like this by S Benitez add to wishlist The story of three generations of women in El Salvador. Elena is the wife of a rich coffee plantation owner, Mercedes is her housemaid. Their lives and those of their daughters are traced through marriage, infidelity, murder and revenge, all intertwined with the turbulence of El Salvador's history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador more books like this by Elisabeth Jean Wood, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful and fervently anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of political repression and take a chance on democracy? Forging Democracy From Below shows how popular ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $22.81! \| SVS
21 view cover	Dali's Optical Illusions more books like this by Dawn Ades (Editor), Salvador Dali, Antonio Pinchot (Contributions by) add to wishlist This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali's use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion ... see all copies from $19.25! new only from $57.25! \| first editions
22 view cover	Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia more books like this by Joao Jose Reis, Professor Arthur Brakel (Translator) add to wishlist On the night of January 24, 1835, hundreds of African Muslim slaves poured into the streets of Salvador, capital of the Brazilian province of Bahia, to confront soldiers and armed civilians. Nearly 70 slaves were killed. More than 500 were sentenced to death, prison, whipping or deportation. Although the rebel slaves failed to win their freedom, ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $14.92! \| SVS
23 view cover	Salvador Dali more books like this by Robert Descharnes add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Romero: A Life more books like this by James R Brockman add to wishlist An engrossing look at one of this century's most controversial clergymen--a man who played a prophetic and inspiring role in the violent vortex of Central America--Romero: A Life focuses on the final years of this outspoken Catholic archbishop. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $14.96! \| signed copies
25 view cover	Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America more books like this by Jeffery M Paige add to wishlist An examination of the political and historical influence that has traditionally been exercised by the great coffee-growing families of Latin America. Only by understanding this group, the author maintains, can the various responses to the revolutionary movements of the 1930s and 1980s be understood. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $27.50!

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