Search Results: Authors starting with L from Alla

NEW ~ Biography of Arriovaldo Pires, known as Capitao Furtado, mid-twentieth century Brazilian composer and popular singer and performer with a lengthy discography. 132pp. Photographs. Discography. Bibliography. Index. Colecao MPB, n. 18. Em portugues / Portuguese. Purchased from FUNARTE in the 1990s by Alla. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ History of twentieth-century Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). 270pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. English. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Antologia de poemas -Jaime Labastida (Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 1939), poeta, ensayista, periodista. Director de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua 2011-2019. Maestria filosofia y letras UNAM. Director de la editorial Siglo XXI desde 1990. Premio Nacional Literatura 1987; Premio Villaurrutia 1996; Medalla de Oro INBA 2009. SEP Lecturas Mexicanas, Segunda Serie # 52. 189pp. Letra grande / larger type. Light shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Summary of the essential religious practices and beliefs of Afro-cuban santeria, based on knowledge acquired through long-term relationships with informants and priests of the Yoruba cult. The author, Romulo Lachatanere (1909-1952) held a doctorate in pharmacy and died tragically in an airplane crash. This text was first published as part of El Sistema religioso de los Afrocubanos (1992). Coleccion Echu Bi. 55 pp. Erasure on front end paper. En espanol / Spanish. In stock ~ usually ships in 1-3 days.

NEW ~ Gripping short stories of "terror," such as classics by Horacio Quiroga and Robert Louis Stevenson as well as more contemporary authors, in Spanish and adapted to a graphic format by Horacio Lalia. Coleccion Narrativa Dibujada Enede. Serie Sobrevivientes. Illustrations in Black & White. 152pp. Edition of 2000.

NEW ~ Transcribed documents follow two essays one by Cristobal Landazuri, and one Frank Solomon and Sue Grosboll. Significant sixteenth-century Indigenous demography. Fuentes para la Historia Andina, n. 1. 313pp. Charts. Maps. Index. En espanol / Spanish. Slight shelf wear to cover, spine faded. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ First published in 1947, anthropologist Ruth Landes' pioneering English-language study of the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Written as a first-person observational story, the text is both readable and informative. Introduction by Sally Cole. 251pp. Photographs. Glossary. Slight shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Textbook survey of Latin American colonial history with background on Iberia, Africa, and Indigenous America. Maps. Illustrations. Index. 304pp. Brand new. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Eight chapters by scholars of the New Indigenous History of Brazil, with an introduction by editor Hal Langfur that situates this innovative research within the historiographical trajectory. The authors draw on new archival findings to trace a past in which Indigenous actors from various regions of Brazil engaged with Portuguese colonists, missionaries, slavers, soldiers, miners and ranchers to shape their lives. Maps. Charts. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 285pp. Brand New. In stock at Alla, Santa Fe, NM. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ A richly-illustrated history of nineteenth-century Cuban lithography--technology, individual lithographers, and the subject matter of the images, from maps to costumbrismo to political commentary to cigar box labels. Prologo: Eliseo Diego. 217 p. Il. map. fot. Minor shelf wear."La historia de la litografia en la Cuba colonial, sus iniciales balbuceos y su posterior articulacion al acontecer economico, politico y cultura de la isla, son abordados con amena minuciosidad en el presente volumen, que rinde tributo a quienes plasmaron en las piedras litograficas un capitulo imprescindible de la memoria de la nacion." Publicaciones de la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana.

NEW ~ A young adult novel inspired by the ancient Maya "Reina Roja" of Palenque in Mexico. Includes an afterword on the history and archaeology of Palenque. 137 pp. En espanol / SPANISH. Also by Jose Luis Trueba Lara: Lobo Cimarron.

NEW ~ Another young adult novel inspired by the history of Mexico by Trueba Lara. This time readers learn about the enslaved Africans who fled from sugar plantations of central Mexico during the War of Independence from Spain. "Esta novela recupero usos y costumbres de los hermanos de piel y desgracia: los negros cimarrones, en tiempos de la guerra de Independencia." 168 pp. En espanol / In Spanish.

NEW ~ Trueba Lara takes young readers on the Spanish expedition from Mexico City to explore Cibola and Quivira in what would become New Mexico. 132 pp. En espanol / In Spanish. 12+

NEW ~ "No hay peor castigo que ser el hijo del soberano..." Ilus. Ricardo Pelaez. A novel for young adults influenced by Mixtec history and set in ancient Mexico in the year 1011. Includes an epilogue with a scholarly description of the historic ruler. 199 pp. En espanol / Spanish.

NEW ~ Fine condition except bottom back corner damaged in shipping and slight indentation in dust jacket and chip at top of spine. Removed from publisher's shrink wrap to access publication information. (Priced as is.) 260 pp. Illus. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, including some fold outs. BILINGUAL SPANISH / ESPANOL AND ENGLISH / INGLES. Over 5 lbs. Weight may result in an increase in shipping costs.

NEW ~ 227 pp. Traduccion y estudio preliminar de Adolfo Caceres Romero. Edicion bilingue. Biblioteca de Cultura Popular 38. 2000 ejemplares / edition of 2000. 8 oz.

Biografia de Diego de Almagro (Almagro, 1479) su infancia, su viaje a las Americas--Panama, Peru, y Chile--hasta su muerte. 329pp. Maps. Illustrations. En espanol / Spanish. Primera edicion de 1000 ejemplares. Minor shelf wear, some markings, Libreria Jose Maria Carrera sticker on front end paper. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Literary criticism. 214 pp. Minor shelf wear. ENGLISH 13 oz.

NEW ~ Literary criticism. Part I: Analysis of numerous "postcolonial" narratives and the significance of "nation." Part II: Delves into theory and criticism of twentieth-century authors: Cortazar, Carpentier, Garcia Marques, Rulfo, and Vargas Llosa. ENGLISH 214 pp. 13 oz.

NEW ~ Nine essays plus an introduction by the editor reinterpreting Argentina's late-nineteenth century Conquest of the Desert. 277pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In English. In stock. Usually ships in three days.