Search Results: Authors starting with E from Alla

NEW ~ Fine. Slight scuffing visible at an angle, very minor shelf wear at bottom of front corner. 143 pp. Color and B&W photographs and floor plans. SPANISH / ESPANOL - ENGLISH / INGLES Bilingual. English trans: Graham Tompson. Modern twentieth-century domestic architecture in Latin America: Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay.

NEW ~ Study key to understanding Mexican and Latino conversion to the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) on the US-Mexican border during the first half of the twentieth century. Biography and religious history. 337pp. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. In English. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Original plastic wrap. 127 pp. Illus. Twentieth-century Oaxacan painters exhibited at the Banco Nacional de Mexico--curated by Rita Eder. Rodolfo Morales, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo and many others. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 1.75 lbs.

NEW ~ Texto escrito en maya tsotsil y espanol. 184 pp. Bilingual Tsotsil Maya - Spanish text organized thematically - knowledge about children, marriage, family, food, and more from the people of Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico. 182 pp. Edition of 500 / Tiraje de 500.

NEW ~ Lenguas de Mexico 9. Bilingue Raramuli [Raramuri] - Espanol. Bilingual Raramuli [Raramuri] - Spanish. 99 pp. Minor shelf wear.

NEW ~ Significant archival documents related to the municipality and region of Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, emphasizing the famed mining district and Compania El Boleo, transcribed and annotated by Edith Gonzalez Cruz. Collected from various archives, including Archivo Historico "Pablo L. Martinez," Archivo General de la Nacion (AGN), AHPLM, and others. Series: Cuadernos Universitarios. Fuentes para la Historia de Baja California, 4. Bibliography. 233 pp. En espanol / Spanish. In stock ~ ships in 1-3 days.

NEW ~ A collection of seven essays on mostly colonial topics by historians and anthropologists presented at the VI Congreso Internacional de Mayistas in Villahermosa, Tabasco, in 2004. Topics include: Los Indios de Xicalanco y la conquista de Yucatan; Santa Maria de la Victoria, Rebellion in el Partido de los Rios, Plagas y Epidemias en Villahermosa, Mayismos en su Gastronomia, & La novelas de los Yokot'andob de Tabasco. Documents republished, both facsimile and in transcription. Bibliographies. 202 pp. Edition of 1000 / 1000 ejemplares. En espanol / Spanish. Hard-to-find. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.

NEW ~ Twenty-three essays in English about Hispanic Caribbean Literature by well-known Latin American authors such as Miguel Carnet, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, as well as by academic scholars. 272 pp. 1 lb.

NEW ~ slight shelf wear, price sticker on front cover. 190 pp. Illus. 500 ejemplares / edition of 500. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 11 oz. An anthology of stories by various Chiapaneca authors with commentary and bibliography.

NEW ~ Bilingual: Prologo/prologue by Elena Poniatowska; Introduccion/Introduction by the editors. Over 50 cyber selections by many well-known literary figures. Additional publishers: Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte, The Colorado College, Whittier College. Edition of 1000. 316pp. New, slight shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ A collection of thirty historical essays by experts about women, family and society in Latin America since the eighteenth century, covering topics such as representation, education, children, abuse, ideals, morals, and so on. 783pp. Illustrations. Bibliographies. En espanol / Spanish. Light shelf wear to cover. Unread. In stock. Usually ships in three days. Heavy volume may incur additional international shipping charges.

NEW ~ Papers by international scholars in Spanish on a variety of themes (e.g. Indigenous, religion, race, linguistics, quipus) during the Jesuit presence in Peru, 1567-1667. Actas del Simposio Hist-11: "El Primer Siglo Jesuita en el Virreinato del Peru," 51o Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Santiago de Chile, 17-18 de julio, 2003. Contributors: Flavio Rurale, Davide Domenici, Antonino Colajanni, Paulina Numhauser Bar-Magen, Giuseppe Piras, Sabine Hyland, Maurizio Gnerre, Vito Bongiorno, Laura Laurencich Minelli, and R. Tom Zuidema. 228pp. Illustrations and bibliographies. En espanol / Spanish. Front cover creased. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Transcribed AGN manuscripts covering the Jesuit period in Sonora, Mexico, through the Jesuit expulsion and the early Bourbon era. Preliminary material includes an introduction and section on historical context by the editors. "Materiales para la historia de Sonora Tomo XVI Con fox. 4.1" Indice, followed by the transcribed manuscripts. "Los materiales para la historia de Sonora reunen documentos resquardados en el Archivo General de la Nacion en la Ciudad de Mexico, que narran el periodo de los Jesuitas en Sonora, asi como su expulsion y la entrada en vigor de las Leyes Borbonicas." Maps. Bibliography. 467 pp. Edition of 1000 / 1000 ejemplares. En espanol / Spanish. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.

NEW ~ Eight essays about economic, social, religious conditions among the Mazatecos de Oaxaca, Mexico, pre- and post-construction of the Presa Miguel Aleman. Includes: "Cuando llega el turismo. Geografia sagrada y construccion del paisaje en la Mazateca Alta (Oaxaca)"; "Chikon Nindo y Chato: dos caras de una forma de vida mazateca en Huautla de Jimenez"; "'Es tiempo del reverdecimiento de nuestra tradicion'. Modernidad indigena en Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca"; "El festival de Maria Sabina como campo social"; "Viaje nocturno havia lo sagrado"; "Chikones e comerciantes: pescadores de almas. La mitificacion de las relaciones de poder en tres localidades afectadas por la Presa Miguel Aleman"; "Despojo e re-territorializacion. Consecuencias socioculturales de la construccion de la Presa Miguel Aleman en la Isla del Viejo Soyaltepec"; "Tierra, pertenencia y practicas institucionalizadas en un pueblo de la Mazateca Baja". Maps. Illustrations. Bibliographies. 272pp. New book. Edition of only 500. In stock.… Read More

NEW ~ Coleccion Universitaria. "Los autores del presente libro analizan los obstaculos, las perspectivas y las posibles opciones para poner en practica las politicas de ajuste productivo necesarias para la reactivacion de las economias de la region." Autores: Mats Lundahl, Wim Pelupessy, Frans Thielen, Guy Durand, Yves Bourdet, Jack Menke, Satcha Jabbar, Anders Danielson, Geske Dijkstra, Miguel Chorro, Edgar Furst, John Weeks, Lars Pira. Late-twentieth century Central American and Caribbean political economy. En espanol / Spanish. 304 pp. Edition of 1000 / 1000 ejemplares. Minor shelf wear.

NEW ~ A collection of thirteen chapters in Spanish about issues related to sustainable development in Amazonia, including ancient agriculture, Afro descendants, extraction, Rondonia colonies, fishing, agroforestry, ethnobotany, and more. 201pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. Slight wear to cover. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ A selection of stories, games, riddles for children intended for teachers in Mexico. "...una seleccion de juegos infantiles para que tu, instructor comunitario, la aproveches y distrutes con los ninos de tu comunidad." Edition of 3000 / Tiraje de 3000 ejemplares.

NEW ~ Profusely illustrated collection of essays celebrating 100 years of architecture and urbanism in Mexicali, Baja California. Situated in the rich agricultural Mexicali Valley and on the U.S. border, the city was founded in 1903. The book documents historic establishments including restaurants and breweries. Maps, photographs, bibliographies. 182 pp. En espanol / Spanish. Slight wear to dust jacket. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.

Signed on the title page by Stafford Poole. 358 pp. Illus. Edited by senior scholars Schroeder and Poole, the volume contains essays by respected historians Kevin Terraciano, Lisa Sousa, David Tavarez, Sonia Liesett-Rivera, John Chuchiak, Matha Few, Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Asuncion Lavrin, Monica Diaz, Maria Elena Martinez, Stanley Hordes, Javier Villa-Flores, Kristin Dutcher Mann, Maureen Ahern, James Riley, and Michael Polushin. In English. A significant volume on various aspects of religion in colonial Mexico. 2 lbs.

Ten chapters on Fray Bartolome de Las Casas famed "Protector of the Indians," his work and literary heritage, the sixteenth-century Spanish intellectual milieu, and the American historical context by international scholars, with an introduction by Benjamin Keen. "A Selective Bibliography" by Raymond Marcus. 832pp. Illustrations. Dust jacket worn and repaired; water stain to upper outside corner of most pages. Inscribed by Benjamin Keen in 1987, otherwise interior pages are unmarked. In stock. Usually ships in three days.