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	Time Out Buenos Aires  •   Time Out GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 334 PAGES A practical guide to the city and surroundings (including recommended excursions), jam-packed with detailed listings of hotels, bars and restaurants, shops and services. (ARG45, $19.95)
	Buenos Aires, Cities of the Imagination  •  Alberto Manguel  •  Jason Wilson ANTHOLOGY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 249 PAGES An exhilarating, erudite guide to Buenos Aires as it has been portrayed by writers, poets and thinkers. Divided geographically, it is a cultural history of the city, its people and character. Wilson quotes writers, internationally famous and locally known, who conjure the geography and mood of the city from its buses and historic rattletrap subway to the cafes, tango, food and smells, and architecture. There's hardly a street corner, building or park that doesn't have literary associations brought forth in this guide. (ARG21, $15.00)
	Tango: the Dance, the Song, the Story  •  Simon Collier CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES A spirited, illustrated tribute to the tango, the now-elegant dance born in the brothels among the working class of 19th-century Buenos Aires. (ARG14, $29.95)
	Buenos Aires Map  •   Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A laminated street map of Buenos Aires and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000. Two Sides. 20 X 39 inches. (ARG38, $8.95)

	Buenos Aires Map  •   Auto Mapa    •  A detailed city map. (ARG05, $14.95)
	Buenos Aires Map Guide  •   de Dios    •  This double-sided laminated map, produced in Buenos Aires in English, includes museums, walking tours, restaurants and shopping. (ARG49, $8.95)
	Bradt Guide Argentina  •  Erin McCloskey   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide in the popular series, with extensive practical details for travel, sightseeing and ex-cursions (ARG67, $24.95)
	Knopf MapGuide Buenos Aires  •   Knopf Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps. (ARG81, $9.95)
	Moon Handbook Buenos Aires  •  Wayne Bernhardson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular series. (ARG77, $18.95)
	The Authentic Bars, Cafes and Restaurants of Buenos Aires  •  Gabriela Kogan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Kogan's great tips on where to eat, drink and dance the tango all night, including a map and a glossary of Argentine food. (ARG84, $14.95)
	Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin  •  David Rock   • HISTORY  •  A highly readable, comprehensive history of Argentina since colonization. (ARG07, $29.95)
	Estancias: The Great Houses and Ranches of Argentina  •  Maria Saenz Quesada  •  Xavier Verstraeten   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Two dozen magnificent country estates are detailed in this sumptuously illustrated volume, featuring 200 color photographs and a cultural and social history by Maria Saenz Quesada. (ARG62, $75.00)
	Tango, The Art History of Love  •  Robert Farris Thompson   • HISTORY  •  A probing cultural history of the tango, its working class origins in 19th-century Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine roots. (ARG56, $15.95)
	The Invention of Argentina  •  Nicolas Shumway   • HISTORY  •  An illuminating intellectual history of Argentina, this book brings the founding fathers of the republic to life, deftly portraying the revolution against Spain in 1810 and its immediate aftermath. (ARG08, $27.95)
	Rough Guide Music Astor Piazzolla  •  Astor Piazzolla  •   Rough Guide World Music   • MUSIC  •  Practically a soundtrack to Buenos Aires, this superb anthology by the modernist maestro of tango includes the soulful Vuelvo al Sur. (ARG60, $14.95)
	Rough Guide Tango Music  •   Various Artists   • MUSIC  •  From Carlos Gardel to Astor Piazzolla, this marvelous far-ranging compilation samples the gorgeous range of music of Buenos Aires. (ARG90, $14.98)
	Spectacular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space In Buenos Aires 1955-1973  •  Laura Podalsky   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A social geography and cultural history of Buenos Aires. (ARG44, $24.95)
	Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron  •  Nicholas Fraser   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A sophisticated biography of Evita, tracing her humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure. Frazer also reveals Peronism and Argentine politics of the 1930s and 1940s. (ARG03, $15.95)
	Argentina, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Jill Gibian   • ANTHOLOGY • COMING IN MARCH  •  These choice stories introduce the landscapes and culture of Argentina, from the Andes to the Pampas, through the eyes of its writers. (ARG97, $14.95)
	Blow-Up and Other Stories  •  Julio Cortazar   • LITERATURE  •  Surreal stories from one of the great masters of Latin American short fiction. More Argentine in sensibility than setting. (ARG20, $15.00)
	Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings  •  Jorge Borges   • LITERATURE  •  The best known work by this extraordinary writer. Sometimes bizarre, always hilarious and thought-provoking, this dazzling collection of stories is well worth the effort. (ARG09, $14.95)
	Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien  •  Brian Winter   • LITERATURE  •  A journalist posted to the capital during the economic crisis, Winter captures the rhythms and character of Buenos Aires with fearless, profane wit in this wise and rollicking portrait. (ARG80, $24.95)
	Santa Evita  •  Tomas Eloy Martinez  •  Helen Lane   • LITERATURE  •  This riveting tale of the life -- and afterlife -- of Eva Duarte springs from actual events in Argentina in the 1950s, including the peregrinations of a perfectly preserved corpse. (ARG22, $16.00)
	The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club  •  Jessica Morrison   • LITERATURE  •  In this engaging debut novel, Cassie Moore learns the hard way that life doesn't always go according to plan. A six-month visit to Buenos Aires proves liberating when she accepts that staying on track isn't so simple and that sometimes life--and love--defies her best-laid plans. (ARG72, $20.99)
	The Buenos Aires Quintet  •  Manuel Vázquez Montalban   • LITERATURE  •  Montalban comments on not just wine, women and song, but also much of Argentina's political and cultural history in this riveting detective tale set against a backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires culture and the era's repressive military junta. (ARG48, $14.00)
	The Ministry of Special Cases  •  Nathan Englander   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Buenos Aires in the 1970s, Englander's darkly humorous novel portrays the absurdity and horrors of life in the city during Argentina's ignominious dirty war. (ARG94, $25.00)

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