Search Results: Latin America from Books of the World

Bogota: Plaza & Janes Editorés, 1986. Paperback. Near Fine. Appears unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 314 pages.

London: Pan MacMillan / Picador, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Corrected Edition. Second printing. Very Good. Text block tanned, but unmarked. Foxing to top edge. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 376 pages. "What I had known of Trinidad as a child had seemed to me ordinary, unplanned, just there, with nothing like a past. But the past was there: in the schoolyard, below the saman tree, we stood perhaps on the site of Dominique Cert's Bel-Air estate, where in 1803 the slave commandeur or headman, out of a twisted love for his master, had tried to poison the other slaves. More haunting than this was the thought of the vanished aborigines, on whose land and among whose spirits we all lived." It is the most human kind of history, done with a novelist's eye. Living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution which is… Read More

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation, 1990. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxvi + 402 pages.
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present concerns in over seventy pieces that vary from writing by new talents to published pieces by Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Norma Alarcón and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.

Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. Trade Paperback. First Edition, Second Printing. Near Fine. Original bookseller's pricemark on the half-title page, otherwise interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Cover shows mild shelfwear. Not from a library. 415 pages.Contents:Detente : the search for a "constructive" relationship /​ Alexander L. GeorgeCrisis prevention in nineteenth-century diplomacy /​ Paul Gordon LaurenSoviet policy in the Middle East, 1967-1972 : unalterable antagonism or collaborative competition? /​ George W. BreslauerThe Basic Principles of Agreement of 1972 /​ Alexander L. GeorgeThe Kremlin and détente : Soviet conceptions, hopes, and expectations /​ Colt D. BlackerThe Arab-Israeli war of October 1973 : origins and impact /​ Alexander L. GeorgeThe African terrain and U.S.-Soviet conflict in Angola and Rhodesia : some implications for crisis prevention /​ Larry C. NapperMissed opportunities for crisis prevention : the war of attrition and Angola /​ Alexander… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Very Good. No markings. Spine creased. Reading wear to covers. Not from a library. 370 pages. The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize.
authors: Pablo Neruda; Hardie St. Martin (trans)
The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago; his sojourns as Chilean consul in Burma, Ceylon, and Java, in Spain during the civil war, and in Mexico; and his service as a Chilean senator. Neruda, a Communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes and then to Europe; his travels took him to Russia, Eastern Europe, and China before he was finally able to return home in 1952. The final section of the memoirs was written after the coup in 1972 that overthrew… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 1991. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv+446 pages.
Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border retell their experiences. With respect and sympathy, anthropologist Davis transcribes the oral histories of 90 Mexicans and Mexican Americans, among them a muralist, a lumberyard manager and farm and factory workers. This often dramatic collection offers thoughtful discussions of how migrations affect societies on both sides of the border.

Clermont-Ferrand, France: Michelin Travel Publications, April 2000. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. No remainder mark. Not damaged. Not from a library. 340 pages.Cuba...the name evokes a curl of cigar smoke, the tang of a rum-based cocktail, the throb of salsa in the tropical night. More than four centuries before the Revolution Cuba was Spain's first colony in the Americas. A country of striking landscapes, Cuba's greatest resource today is its people, their cheerfulness intact despite their economic situation. With easy-to-read text and clear maps this guide takes you from the colonial cities of Havana, Trinidad and Santiago to the dizzy bends of La Farola mountain highway, and on to the palm trees and pristine beaches of coasts and keys. An ample selection of addresses will enable you to make the most of Cuba, helping you to find a luxurious room in a Havana palace, discover a Casa de la Trova, and hear talented local musicians play many treasures of the Cuban repertoire.

New York: St. Martin's Press, November 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Light foxing to edges, otherwise Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 340 pages. The author's experiences as U.S. vice consul in Belize when it was still British Honduras, including encounters with huge tropical roaches, a bordello run by the town's most respectable citizen, and a hurricane which killed four hundred people.

New York: Basic Books, October 1991. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Documents the progress of second-generation Hispanics over the last two decades, arguing that Hispanic leaders should stop treating them as a permanently disadvantaged group.

London & New Jersey: Zed Books, June 1994. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. 136 pages.

Lisboa: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1990. Trade Paperback. Fine. Not from a library. No remainder marks. Cover with flaps. 91 pages. Nice full-colour exhibition catalogue with text in English. Published for the commemorative exhibition "Portugal in the opening of the world" at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, presented by the Organization of American States. Contents broken into sections "The Age of Closed Worlds", "The Significance of the Portuguese Discoveries", "The Culture of the Portuguese Discoveries", and "The Encounter Between the Worlds".

Santo Domingo: Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF), 1985. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight shelfwear. Not from a library. 139 pages. Spanish translation of International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery (Report of the Global Feminist Workshop to Organize Against Traffic in Women, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, April 6-15, 1983.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. x + 232 pages. Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to edges and corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxvi + 476 pages ; 25 cm.

La Habana: Editora Política, October 1983. Stapled photocopy. Good. 28 pages. Translation of: Declaraciones de Cuba sobre los sucesos de Granada. Contains two official statements issued jointly by the Partido Comunista de Cuba and the Cuban government, and the transcript of a news conference by Fidel Castro Ruz. The contents of this edition have been taken from Granma, official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba.

New York: Viking, August 1993. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Text unmarked. Gift inscription to FFEP. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clipped and rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 318 pages. 8 pages of plates. An ethnobotanist recounts his experiences in the Amazon rain forest tracking the indigenous shamans whose knowledge of the curative powers of plants and herbs could hold the key to the cure for AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses.

Chicago: March/Abrazo, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with one-inch dog-ear crease to front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 156 pages.

Boulder: Westview Press, May 1984. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Ex-Library: UK Ministry of Defense, Whitehall Library. Good; Near Fine other than the library markings. 349 pages.The expiration in 1982 of the Protocol of Port-of-Spain reheated a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that had been frozen since 1970, Almost at once, Venezuelan ultranationalists asserted the need to recover by force the Essequibo region of Guyana--two-thirds of that country--which Venezuela had long claimed. While rejecting force as a solution, the Venezuelan government has indicated that the Protocol will not be renewed, thus pushing the economically and politically vulnerable Guyana toward new and uncertain negotiations. This book describes the actors and their stake in the conflict, the capacity of each to develop the disputed region, and the implications of the Venezuelan claim for both sides. Incorporating a critical examination of the conflict's historical-legal background, Dr. Braveboy-Wagner chronicles… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, December 1958. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Good book in a Good jacket. Ex-library, otherwise a nice reading copy. Spine straight and tight. Shelf and reading wear to jacket. 373 pages.

Through the forests of the Amazon. A marvelous account of a fantastic jungle country and its feathered and painted inhabitants: the beautiful Wai-Wai and Frog Indians and the complex, semi-civilized Wapisianas.