La Habana: Editorial José Martí, 2005. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 212p. Anthology of articles and essays, most by US activists (Howard Zinn, Saul Landau, Noam Chomsky, and others) on US terrorism against Cuba, and on the five Cuban agents arrested for espionage while attempting to counter plots against Cuba in the..... More
Port-au-Prince: [Vues d'Haïti], 2009. 1st ed. Paperback. 34p., color photo plates, illus., wrps, 4to. Haitian magazine publication addressing facets of economics, sociology, international news and sports. With numerous sharp color photos throughout. Texts in French. Printed on glossy coated stock. This edition includes a special insert "La culture haÏtienne en..... More
Harmony Place, Brattleboro, VT: The Yale University Press, 1946. Paperback. 384p., wrps (chipped covers, heavily yellowing around edges). This issue features an article on Brazil, by acclaimed New York Times Journalist, Hubert Herring, (d.1967). More
Washington, D. C. General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, 1970s. First edition, presumed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 116 p., b/w photos, Algunos de los autores que cuya obra aparece en este libro son: Mario Benedetti, Homero Ardijis, Nicanor Parra, Jose Donoso, Enrique Lihn, etc. More
Santo Domingo: The Author, 2005. First edition. Paperback. 382p., photos, glossary, bibl., wrps. Cases in domestic violence among Dominicans resident in New York based on personal testimony. More
Alcalá de Henares, España: Universidad de Alcalá: Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, 1994. Paperback. 566p., tables, bibl., wrps, (light wear to front and back covers). Features the following studies: "El Poder Hispano en la Corte Federal y de los Estados", "The Political Culture of Mexican Los Angeles, 1910-1940", "Images and Self..... More
Oaxaca: Oaxaca Secretaria de cultura, 2010. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, 194p., wrps, bibl., photos, notes. Este libro habla de los hombres y mujeres de San Francisco Cajonos que fueron a Estados Unidos para trabajar, braceros. Contiene sus biografias y fotografias de algunos de ellos. Hablan de las disferencias culturales, problemas..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Editôra Civilização Brasileira, (Cadernos do Povo Brasileiro, Vol. 17), 1963. Paperback. 141p., tables, wrps (yellowing, pages yellowing). Definition and examples of Imperialism and its role in World History. With sections on Capitalism, Latin America, Foreign Relations and World War II. Includes notes. More
Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores de Antropología Social/Editorial Nueva Imagen, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 258p., illus., tables, bibl., wrps (pencil markings to pp. 33). With chapters on public education for Chicanos, bilingual education, and education in Texas and San Diego (four studies). More
México: The Author, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 115p., bibl., wrps. More
New York: Catalan Communications, 1990. First edition, presumed. Hardcover. 4to, wrps, 45 p., color graphic illus. Graphic novel of a fantastic notion in which a plant looks for love in all the wrong human places. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2009. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 388 p.; [8 plates], index, bibl., notes, photos, b/w photos, illus. The first-ever book on the history of Korda’s photo, this volumen explores how a single two-tone image has sustained Guevara as both an enduring symbol of resistance and a...... More
New York: Atheneum, (Atheneum, No. 40), 1963. Revised. Paperback. 484p., maps, illus., tables, bibl., index, wrps (lightly yellowing, blue pen underlining to pages throughout). The material examines modern Mexico, reflecting its ancient characteristics, society, wars/ revolutions, the econony and the industrialization of Mexico. More
Boston: South End Press, 1986. Paperback. 66p., tables, graphics, wrps. With a Central American resource guide appended. More
Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1978. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 204 p., illus. DIscusses the rise of comics in North America, their cultural resonance, influence and dialogue with cinema, export, connection to the plastic arts, place in the history of literarture, influence abroad and role in politics (war and progaganda)... More
Buenos Aires: Grupo Abierto Libros, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. xii; 417, (2)p., lrg. fldg. map, photos, illus., facsimiles, glossary, indices, boards, cloth, dj. Historical exploration into the the social and educative impacts of Northamerican teachers in Argentina during the administration of Argentine activist, intellectual writer, and seventh President of Argentina..... More
Hato Rey, Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 1998. Paperback. xix, 423p., glossary, wrps. Novel of Puerto Rican life in New York. More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1998. Paperback. 229p., photo plates, facsimiles, index, wrps. Essays relating the film worlds of Hollywood and Argentina. With photos of film-stills and of famous actors, such as Brad Pitt, (b. 1963) and Gwyneth Paltrow, (b. 1972). More
[South Bend, Indiana]: University of Notre Dame, 2006. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 210 p., index, bibl., illus. “For years, anthropologists have been interested in jogo de bicho as a key Brazilian institution. We now have an English translation uniting Roberto DaMatta’s theoretical acumen and knowledge of Brazil with Elena Soarez’s field..... More
New York: Boo-Hooray, 2011. First edition, presumed. Paperback. 4to (large), wrps, 160 p., color reproductions of paperback book material: front and back matter, references, notes. "The antiquarian mystique surrounding Edward Davis Wood Jr.’s career as an author of pornographic pulp fiction is legend. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Hardcover. Octavo, boards, dj., 152 p., notes, index. Criticism on the political relationship between Haiti and the United States during the post-occupation period. More
Lima: ICPNA, 2005. 1st ed. Paperback. Large 4to, wrps, 114 pp., semi glossy stock, illus., photos., bibl. With an essay on the US-born (1946) artist by Luis Eduardo Wuffarden, and a photo-illustrated biographical chronology. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2004. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 256 p., index, bibl., notes, maps. In May 2001, two dozen Mexican workers struck out across the U.S. border, plunging into the forbidding desert of southern Arizona with little water. Three days later, following a frenzied search by U.S. Border..... More
Mexico City: El Colegio de México: Centro de Estudios Económicos , (Documento de Trabajo, No. 1985-II), 1985. Staplebound. 40, (16)p., illus., tables, facsimile, wrps. 4to. From Abstract: "This paper represents an application of theories of speculative attacks on fixed exchange rate regimes and of optimal investment banking contracts to the..... More
Miami: Interamerican Institute for Democracy, 2011. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 253 p., notes, bibl. "this is possibly the best book on Garcia Hamilton. Enrolled in the stream that puts the weight of the difficultties of Latin america in the cultural issue, Garcia Hamilton brings his historian background to delve..... More
