Search Results: Authors starting with M from Alla

NEW ~ Third printing 1994. An anthology of works for theater in English by Hispanic authors Lynne Alvarez, Maria Irene Fornes, John Jesurun, Eduardo Machado, Jose Rivera, Milcha Sanchez-Scott. 280 pp. 16 oz.

NEW ~ Academic study of ties between humans and Afro-Brazilian Candomble religious entities based on daily activities at terreiros in Salvador, Bahia, and the practitioners' own accounts. The author is a Sociology professor the the Federal University in Bahia. "Combinando rica etnografia e experimentacao teorica inspirada na fenomenologia, o livro sera de interesse para pesquisadores das religioes de matriz africana bem como estudiosos da antropologia e sociologia da religiao." Artful color photographs. Notes. Bibliography. 294 pp. Edition of 400 / 400 exemplares. Portuguese. Slight shelf wear - front end paper. Minor defect in cover's plastic coating. In stock ~ usually ship in 1-3 days.

NEW ~ Very Good : Cover rubbed, shelf worn. 305 pp. Illus. Photographs and drawings. Essays on Mesoamerican archaeology in honor of Doris Heyden. AUTHORS: LINA ODENA GUEMES, ALFREDO LOPEZ AUSTIN, LINDA MANZANILLA NAIM, ROMAN PINA CHAN, WILLIAM J. FOLAN HIGGINS, JUAN ALFONSO ARELLANO HERNANDEZ, JOSE ALCINA FRANCH, AND MANY OTHERS.

NEW ~ 2 VOLS. Serie: Biblioteca Basica Tabasquena. Vol. I: 673 pp.; Vol. 2: 630 pp. Emphasis is on Tabasquena eighteenth to twentieth-century historiography. Appendix: brief biographies of authors. 3 lbs.

NEW ~ Biography of Mexico's Post-Revolutionary President Plutarco Elias Calles by Carlos Macias Richard, with support of the Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elias Calles y Fernando Torreblanca. This first volume covers his early life through the Revolution. 350pp. Includes: fotografias, cronologia, and bibliografia. En espanol / Spanish. Minor shelf wear to cover corners. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Two-volume set with eighteen and twenty scholarly essays on Chicano history respectively, covering a wide range of social, political, and cultural topics. Vol. I, 388; Vol. II, 571. Edition of 1000 / 1000 ejemplares. En espanol / Spanish. Hard to find. New, unread copy with light shelf wear to covers. Pencil inside front endpaper. In stock. Usually ships in three days. Multi-volume and weight may incur additional international shipping charges.

NEW ~ 359 pp. Illus. PORTUGUESE / PORTUGUESE 15 oz.

NEW ~ Thirteen Spanish-language short stories with themes related to the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Revolt by Mexican author Mauricio Magdaleno. "Magdaleno, uno de los escritores mas distinguidos de la segunda promocion de narradores de la Revolucion mexicana, es un autor preocupado por la sociedad en la que vive: los temas revolucionarios y el indigenismo predominan en su produccion...." A number of his stories became classic Hollywood films. Number 35 in the series Lecturas Mexicanas sponsored by the Secretaria de Educacion Publica. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Key moments and individuals in the Mexican Revolution from 2010-2017 by Mauricio Magdaleno; published by the Instituto Nacional de Estudios Historicos de la Revolucion Mexicana. 286pp. Number 2414 in an edition of 3000. En espanol / Spanish. Minor shelf wear, erasure on front end paper. Hard to find. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ 367 pp. Series: Etnografia de los Pueblos Indigenas de Mexico. 1000 ejemplares / edition of 1000. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH An ethnohistory of the Cora, indigenous peoples of Gran Nayar--the borderland region of the states of Nayarit, Durango, and Jalisco--during the Spanish colonial era. The narrative relies heavily on Jesuit and Franciscan sources. Includes sections on Cora resistance, economic organization, and religion and cosmovision, as well as a chapter on the author's visit to the Jesuit missions in the 1990s. 1 lb.

NEW ~ Coleccion La Ciencia para Todos 145. 201 pp. "...el autor explica como la ingenieria genetica responde muchas preguntas sobre la compleja diversidad biologica del ser humano y de la vida en la Tierra, y cual es la magnitud de su capacidad para transformar el mundo de los seres vivos." En espanol / in Spanish.

NEW ~ Poetry by Martin Makawi in the Tarahumara/Raramuri/Ralamuli language in one book accompanied by a CD (84pp. with B&W photographs), and the biligual Raramuri - Spanish version with an Introduction by Enrique Servin in the other (133pp). The two books are sold as a set. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

An independent bookstore specializing in Latin America since 1980. A train voyage through Mexico and popular history. Like new with light shelf wear and Alla stamp on front endpaper. In English. 377 pp. Index. 1.25 lbs.

NEW ~ Landmark historiographical contribution to the history of northwest Mexico and southwest U.S. Based on extensive archival research, Mario Alberto Magana Mancillas marries demography and social and cultural studies to define a region encompassing the Mexican State of Baja California north to San Diego, California, from the late-colonial period to the late nineteenth-century. Historical actors include indigenous peoples, Spanish colonists, missionaries, soldiers, and ranchers. Coleccion Biecentenario. 371 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations. Notes and Bibliography. Edition of 800 / 800 ejemplares. New, but front cover bent. Interior pristine. Excessive weight may incur additional shipping charges. En espanol / Spanish. In stock. Usually ship in 3 days.

Study of ancestral, historical and modern maize varieties and their distribution in Central America, primarily Guatemala, with a final section "Investigacion Preliminar de los Maices de El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua y Panama". Folleto Tecnico No. 31 from 1958. 138pp. Maps, Illustrations, Bibliography. En espanol / Spanish. Hard to find--only ten libraries hold this title according to WorldCat. Cover is rubbed, creased, and discolored; bookplate inside front cover and previous owner's stamp on title page. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Brief but informative history and ethnography of the Guarani, Guato, Kadiweu, Bamba, Ofaie Xavante, and Terena of Mato Grosso, Brazil, and their late-twentieth century Indigenous organizations. 120pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Em portugues / Portuguese. Light shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ 442 pp. Illus. A political history of Cold War era Operacion Estrella, which involved the 1967 disappearance of Dominican Coronel Francisco Caamano Deno in Europe and his secret transferal to Cuba. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 1.5 lb.

UNAM revista special issue "Negros e mulatos en America Latina" vol. XXV, no. 2 / octubre de 1970. "Bailes de negros" Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran; "El hombre negro en las sociedades dependientes: El caso de Haiti" Gerard Pierre-Charles; "El negro en la pintura cubana del siglo XIX" Adelaida de Juan; "El origen de los negros brasilenos" Suely Robles Reis de Queiroz; "Circuntancia e imagenes de la poesia negrista" Monica Mansour; y "De la esclavitud de la negritud: documentos" [selections from 1510-1968]. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ erasure on front endpaper. 142 pp. Collection Austral 108. Prologo de Francisco Sosa. 2000 ejemplares / 2000 this edition. 5 oz. Late-nineteenth century novel about the mid-century misadventures of a youth from Yautepec, Morelos, replete with bandidos.

NEW ~ Cloth cover scuffed, worn at corners. Pages yellowing at edges. Top corner spine some damage. Price in pencil front endpage. Text in very good+ condition. 140 pp. 1000 ejemplares. NO ISBN. B&W photographs and architectural plans. SPANISH / ESPANOL