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	Time Out Buenos Aires  •   Time Out GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 284 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, a volume in the innovate series, "Cities of the Imagination." (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. (ARG38, $8.95)

	Buenos Aires Map  •   Auto Mapa    •  A detailed city map. (ARG05, $13.95)
	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 Bradt series. (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, $17.95)
	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)
	At Home in Buenos Aires  •  Edward Shaw  •  Reto Guntli   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A handsome, illustrated overview of history, architecture and design in Buenos Aires. (ARG33, $50.00)
	Estancias: The Great Houses and Ranches of Argentina  •  Maria Saenz Quesada  •  Xavier Verstraeten   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Two dozen of Argentina's most magnificent country estates are featured 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, $25.95)
	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, following her from humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure. It is also a revealing look at Peronism and Argentinian politics of the 1930s and 1940s. (ARG03, $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, $14.00)
	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, $13.95)
	Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien, A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina  •  Brian Winter   • LITERATURE  •  Winder sees tango as a key to the Argentine character in this eyewitness account of the modern realities, history, myth and legends of the dance born on the streets of Buenos Aires. (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, $15.00)
	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, $12.99)
	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 the backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires and Argentina's repressive military junta. (ARG48, $14.00)

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