Search Results: Latin America from Cat's Cradle Books

Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Francisco Alves Editora, 1996. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Short writings by Mozambique-born Brazilian author Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (1931- ). ; Portuguese Edition; 8.25" tall; 225 pages.

México: Grupo Oceano, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Spanish language. Square, sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have edge rubbing, overall light shelf wear. ; Study of Mexican politican Andrés Manuel López Obrador. ; 8.75" tall.. 320 pages; Re#.

Rio de Janeiro: Editora SAMOS, 1986. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages except for the last page, which has the author's name and address written on it. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Historical romance set in medieval Portugal by Brazilian author. ; 8.25" tall; 292 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Museu Histórico Nacional, 1977. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding, but wraps are pulling away. Signed by editor Freixiero with inscription on half title page. Pages clean, bright. Wraps have general handling wear. ; Literary analysis and documents pertaining to the literary work of Brazilian author José Martiniano de Alencar (1829—1877). Coleção Estudos e Documentos; 9.0" tall; 252 pages; Signed by Author.

Rio De Janeiro: Editora 34, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Essays about health, sexuality, and sex education in Latin America. ; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 343 pages.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Softcover. Fine with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have only very faint edge rubbing. ; Demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about and concern for the rest of the hemisphere, especially Spanish Latin America, in the policymaking of the early republic. 9.25" tall; 320 pages.

Petrópolis: Editora Vozes Ltda., Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1978. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Fourth Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Pages in last third of book have faint creasing of corners. Wrappers have handling wear including soiling and creasing on back. ; History of the role of Prussians/Germans in the settlement of São Pedro, in the southernmost region of Brazil. Attention primarily to the 18th and early 19th centuries. Dimensões do Brasil; Vol. 9; 8.25" tall; 250 pages.

San José, Costa Rica: Tipografia Nacional, 1912. Ephemera. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. Booklet is in the Spanish language. Stapled binding is sound. Pages age-darkened with some marginal marks. Wraps are tattered, worn, present but detached. Some pages uncut. ; Publication of articles and news from the Ateneo de Costa Rica, which was founded by Costa Rican educator Justo Facio (1859-1931), who also served as minister of education. ; 8.75" tall; 28 pages.

Mexico: Instituo Nacional De Antropologia e Historia, 1967. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Spanish language. Exlibrary markings. Stapled booklet-style binding is tight. Several holes from additional staples are visible. Text pages clean and bright. Wrappers have general wear, some scraping at spine area. Discussion of the use of chemical analysis in identifying ceramics from archaeological sites in Mexico. Ex-Library; 9.5" (24 cm) tall; 32 pages.

Marseilles: Université d'Aix. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is primarily in the French language with several essays in English. Sound binding. Pages have underlined passages on some. Title page creased with minor soiling. Pages generally otherwise clean, off-white, with typescript font. Wraps have general handling wear. ; Contents: van Eeuwen and Pizetti van Eeuwen, Editorial. Corten, Haiti: un mouvement social sans allocutaire. Pizetty van Eeuwen, Le Problème des status de très petites îles: Montserrat et Barbuda. Kapcia, Populism and popular ideology in pre'revolutionary Cuba: The Roos of the revolution. Espindola, Social and political movements in post'revolutionary Cuba. van Eeuen, Géopolitique de la côte atalntique nicaraguayenne - Le gouvernement sandiniste et les mouvements ethnico-reégionaux. Brown, The Bermudian working class and the struggle for reform (1944-1968). Carriere, In the shadow of the imperial state: some thoughts on United States policy and the Central… Read More

Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Author's signature on title page with additional inscription. Remainder of pages are clean and bright. Wrapper shows no sign of wear. ; Analysis of ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution. ; 9.25" tall; 311 pages; Signed by Author.

Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A., 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Spanish language. Square, sound binding. Hinges stressed but holding. Text pages clean and bright. Writing on half title page. Pictorial paper over boards is edge rubbed, lightly shelf worn. ; Love poetry by many Mexican poets. ; 8.5" tall; 262 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Editora Cátedra, 1977. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light overall shelf wear. ; Anthology of articles published in the newspaper Correio Braziliense between 1808 and 1820. 8.25" tall; 644 pages.

Porto Alegre: Editora da Universidade, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Minimal shelf wear to wraps. Essays on Brazilian culture as a synthesis between the primitive and the modern. Contents: Maltz, Antropofagia: Rito, Metáfora, e Pau-Brasil. Teixeira, O Liquidificador de Acarajés: Tropicalismo e Industrial Cultural. Ferreira, Caetano e a Canção Tropicalista. ; Síntese Universitária; Vol. 38; 7.0" tall; 101 pages.

Curitiba, Brazil: Universidade Federal do Parana Centro de Estudos Portugueses, 1980. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Publication is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Nascimento Campelo, Editorial. Robl, João Garcia de Guilhade. Casado Gomes, O prólogo do auto camoniano D'El Rei Seleuco. Novaes Coelho, A Atualidade de Camões. Nascimento Campelo, O animal incômodo. Décio, Vida e obra de Luís de Camões. Rosa da Silva, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão: Uma proposta de leitura. Alberto Dala Stella, Poesias. ; 9.0" tall; 76 pages.

University, Mississippi: Romance Monographs, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Previous owner's name on title page. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with light wear at corner tips and light sunning on spine and around edges. ; Contents: Julián del Casal: Modernity and the art of the urban interior. Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera: modernity and the destruction of the romantic "angel consoladora." Rubén Darío: renewal and tradition in Spanish American modernism. Bibliography. ; Romance Monographs; Vol. 43; 9.0" tall; 103 pages.

São Paolo: Anna Blume FAPESP, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages with some writing on half title page. Wraps have light shelf wear. ; Art theory by Brazilian author. ; 8.25" tall; 150 pages.

México: Artes de México, 1970. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Articles in Spanish with English translation following. French translations at end of volume. Binding sound. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Wrappers have overall handling wear, light edge wear, corner crease on back. ; Contents: Ideas generales sobre la medicina primitiva (Some general thoughts concerning primitive medicine). La medicina primitiva en diversas culturas (Primitive medicine in various cultures). Fuentes para el conocimiento de la medicina primitiva en Mexico (Source material for the study of Mexican primitive medicine). La religion en el concepto de la medicina (Religion and medicine). El ambiente social y cultural (The social and cultural environment). El medico y sus funciones en la sociedad (The doctor and his funcions in society). La enfermedad y su diagnostico (Infirmity and its diagnosis). Medios curativos (Curative remedies). Epilogo (Epilogue). Illustrated with black and white photographs, color plates. ;… Read More

Rio de Janeiro: DIFEL, Dufusão Editorial S.A., 1978. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. ; The political ideas of Brazilian political figure and writer Aureliano Candido Tavares Bastos (1839-1875). 8.25" tall; 216 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Editora UFRJ, EDUERJ, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. Comparative study of slavery and its relationship to political, literary, and religious discourse in the 19th century in the United States and Brazil. ; 8.25" tall; 203 pages.