Galeano, Eduardo 1940-

Open veins of Latin America : five centuries of the pillage of a continent by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
27 editions published between 1973 and 2009 in English and Spanish and held by 2,138 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America. -Back cover

Memory of fire by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
108 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 2,104 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into 2 parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the other, the history of America unfolds from the 15th century to 1700

Las venas abiertas de América Latina by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
235 editions published between 1970 and 2013 in 10 languages and held by 1,631 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Bogen handler om den økonomiske undertrykkelse af Latinamerika fra 1492 og til nyere tid

Mirrors : stories of almost everyone by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
25 editions published between 2008 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,584 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An exhilarating single-volume of the whole world from the Iron Age to the Information Age, by one of Latin America's greatest living writers

Soccer in sun and shadow by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
67 editions published between 1995 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 1,312 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
We learn of Abdon Porte of the Uruguayan club Nacional who, after a disastrous run of bad form, was found dead in the center circle of the club stadium, revolver in hand; of Andres Escobar, the Colombian defender, whose own goal lost his country a game in the 1994 World Cup and who was subsequently gunned down in Medellin; of the 1942 Dynamo Kiev team who were warned not to win a game against the occupying Nazis but who could not resist the urge to glory, trounced the German side, and were all eleven shot, still wearing their shirts, at the end of the game

Bocas del tiempo by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
31 editions published between 2004 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy--brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole--Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world"--Publisher's description

The book of embraces by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
67 editions published between 1989 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 1,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author shares brief anecdotes about life in South America, memories of incidents from his own past, and meditations on reading, literature, and freedom

Upside down : a primer for the looking-glass world by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
11 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 924 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Upside Down, takes us on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car," with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave," Galeano surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and its lack. We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he teaches us, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the north, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by the things we own; the south is the galley slave enabling our greed." "A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see our world anew and even glimpse how we might set it right."--BOOK JACKET

An uncertain grace by Sebastião Salgado ( Book )
15 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in English and held by 909 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastião Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart

Walking words by Eduardo Galeano ( Book )
43 editions published between 1993 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 845 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Striking collaboration between Galeano's tales rooted in the oral tradition and Brazilian artist José Francisco Borges' woodcuts in the cordel tradition is given a rich third dimension by Fried's imaginative translation of Palabras andantes. Readers will have to look elsewhere for introductory material, but in effect the book introduces and explains itself"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58