Search Results: Authors starting with W from Alla

NEW ~ Prologo: M. en C. Abigail Aguilar Contreras, jefa del Herbario Medicinal del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Ciudad de Mexico. B&W illustrations. Bibliography / bibliografia. 120 pp. Edition of 1000 / 1000 edicion. "Entre azafran, mirra, almendras, ruibarbo y ginseng, Jose Waizel Bucay ofrece al lector [...] un referente basico para la difusion de la fitoterapia; explicando el origen de diversas yerbas, vegetales, legumbres y frutos, como la mandragora, el datil, el olivo, la belladona, el beleno, el colquico, la raiz de Jalapa, el barbasco, el tamarindo, el tabaso, el yoloxochitl y la coca, entre otras plantas."

NEW ~ Spanish-language translation of Casey Walsh's Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border (Texas A&M University Press, 2008). 303 pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. En espanol / Spanish. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.

NEW ~ A broad mapping of the history of slavery from ancient times to the twentieth century, highlighting global, continental, and national frameworks. A geographical perspective on slavery. Useful teaching resource. Chronology. Index. 146pp. In English. Minor shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Historians Gerardo Sanchez Diaz and J. Benedict Warren shed light on witchcraft and healing on the coast of Michoacan, Mexico, during the seventeenth century through this Inquisition investigation of a local priest. Lengthy introductions by the two editors followed by a transcription of the document. Paleography by Warren. 149pp. Maps. En espanol / Spanish. Light shelf wear: erasure on front end paper. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Illustrations by Issa Watanabe. Don Pablo pinta un pajaro sobre una rama que entra su casa, pero el ave no queda tranquilo--recorre distintos parajes y trae una sorpresa.

NEW ~ Edition of 3000 / tiraje de 3000 ejemplares. Hard to find!

NEW ~ Spanish-language translation by Angelika Scherp of Frank Water's ethnographic classic 1963 Book of the Hopi. The Hopi people of the Four Corners region (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado) from earliest times through their mythology, ceremonies, and oral traditions. Ilustraciones y material original recopilado por Oswald White Bear Fredericks. 372pp. Illustrations. Glosario de palabras Hopis. En espanol / Spanish. Light shelf wear to covers. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Four little booklets of Christmas stories for children in a cardboard slip cover: "Maria, Jose y el Angel", "El ninito Jesus," "La historia de los pastores," "Visita de los Reyes Magos." Spanish-language translations by Martha B. Larese Roja. Color illustrations. Simple stories for young children with an attractive presentation. Brand new. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Calvin y Hobbes en espanol. Calvin & Hobbes comic in Spanish. Historias graficas. Large format. In original plastic wrap.

NEW ~ Aventuras de Calvin y Hobbes en espanol. Calvin & Hobbes comic in Spanish. Large format. In original plastic wrap.

NEW ~ This study analyzes Brazilian historian Sergio Buarque de Holanda's work, especially his view of Portuguese western expansion in Brazil. "Este livro discute questoes centrais do pensamento de Sergio Buarque de Holanda e interpreta inicialmente 'Raizes do Brasil' para depois estabelecer vinculos entre este classico e a reflexao que Sergio desenvolve acerca da nocao de fronteira no Brasil." 275pp. Notes. Bibliography. Em portugues / Portuguese. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Important ethno-historical study based on archival research that documents Indigenous and African mixed communities within the eighteenth-century slave-holding society of northwest coastal Colombia by Anthropologist Erik Werner Cantor. 202pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. En espanol / Spanish. New copy, light shelf wear to cover. Siglo del Hombre Editores and Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia stickers and Alla stamp on front end paper. Hard to find! In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ "Jaime Wheelock Roman, autor de Raices indigenas de la lucha anticolonialista en Nicaragua, nos brinda ahora una perspectiva historica de esta intervencion [norteamericana], de la rica experiencia antiimperialista y popular encabezada por Sandino y de las actuales condiciones economico-sociales que permiten inducir la futura estrategia." Ground-breaking socio-economic study of twentieth-century Nicaragua. Revised and corrected edition. 213 pp. En espanol / Spanish. Minor shelf wear.

NEW ~ Realidad Social 6. Editorial Katun, 1984 (con base en la edicion de Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, Managua 1983, que obtuvo el texto de la Revista Punto Final de Mexico). Edition of 2000 / 2000 ejemplares. 133 pp. "La Revolucion Nicaraguense constituye uno de los procesos historicos y sociales que, por su interes, mas concentran la atencion mundial en nuestros dias. De ahi, la necesidad de profundizar en su conocimiento. Editorial Katun quiere servir a este proposito, de manera oportuna, publicando el texto del riguroso analisis que el Comandante de la Revolucion, Jaime Wheelock Roman, hace del proceso revolucionario nicaraguense en la entrevista que le concediera a Marta Harnecker." Minor shelf wear. Erasure on front endpaper.

NEW ~ Hardcover/no dust jacket. 274 pp. illus. Political and economic history of post-Independence trade (especially timber, hides, tobacco, and mate) along the Upper Rio de la Plata. ENGLISH 1.5 lbs.

NEW ~ Near Fine. Slight shelf wear. 171 pp. Coleccion Linguistica Indigena 8. POPOLUCA / ESPANOL / SPANISH 500 ejemplares / edition of 500. 10 oz.

NEW ~ Eleven essays primarily by archaeologists about the production and trade of obsidian, salt, shells, feathers, and metals in ancient Western Mexico. Illustrations, maps. Bibliographies. 379 pp. Slight shelf wear. Erasure on front endpaper.

NEW ~ Written by ethnographer Carter Wilson, this novel captures everyday life in an Indigenous Maya community (Chamula) in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, during the 1960s. Mayas, Ladinos, Post-Revolutionary bureaucrats, and "Mexicans" interact with tragic results. Highly recommended. 253pp. Glossary. English. Brand new. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Based on extensive research, including among documents discovered in 1995, Jean-Michel Wissmer presents a new critical reading of Sor Juana's work. Prologo de Elias Trabulse. 203pp. Cronologia. Bibliografia. Hard-to-find scholarly work. En espanol / Spanish. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Bilingual Zoque - Spanish. Bilingue Zoque - Espanol. Edicion facsimilar Cuadernos del archivo No. 2. Edition 1000 / 1000 ejemplares. Facsimile copy of the 1942 first edition. Copy reproduced was stamped by the Biblioteca Publica del Estado, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas; Archivo Historico de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez; and Summer Institute of Linguistics. 29 pp. Shelf worn, front cover bent.