Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada (Biblioteca Clásica y Contemporánea, 343), 1979. 27th Ed. Paperback. 298., indices, glossary, wrps. El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society. Asturias makes early use of a literary technique now known as magic realism. One of the most notable works..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada (Biblioteca Clásica Contemporanea), 1957. 9th ed. Paperback. 245p., indices, wrps. This novel by Arguedas is important, according to the critic Julio Ortega, not only "for having discovered a native world for us, but also for revealing to us a new literature, which he began with this..... More
Guayaquil: Consejo Editorial de Honor (Coleccion Ariel Universal), 1974. First edition. Paperback. 160p., wrps. Huasipungo is a fundamental piece in the development of the Andean indigenous narrative. The Indian who appears in it is not a mythical Indian, but an Indian harassed by a hostile nature and by the traditional..... More
Santiago de Chile: Editorial Nascimento (Biblioteca Popular Nascimento), 1975. First edition. Paperback. 2 vol., (291p.), (298), wrps. Martín Rivas is a powerful story of romance, class, and national unity from an author who served for decades as a diplomat and ambassador for Chile. Inspired by the social realism of Honoré..... More
Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, 1980. Third edition. Paperback. 287p., wrps. First published in 1626, but probably written in the author's youth, the Historia de la vida del Buscón, called Don Pablos, an example of wanderers and a mirror of tacaños falls within the genre of the bitter picaresque novel initiated by..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada (Biblioteca Clásica y Contemporanea), 1968. Third edition. Paperback. 169p., indices, wrps. The "Legends of Guatemala" constitute a world of revelations, half myth, half truth. A work to be read aloud, its open spirit makes it possible to perceive the poetic sonority of the wonderful musical cadence..... More
La Paz: Editorial "Los Amigos del Libro" Werner Guttentag (Enciclopedia Boliviana), 1973. First edition. Paperback. 445p., indices, wrps. Myths and tales of the Quechua people of South America. More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 118p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. La Ingeniería del Brassier. More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2011. First edition. Paperback. 96p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. El Son en el Corazón "¿se puede o no se puede?" "¿Por qué..... More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 96p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. Reflexiones cafeínicas. De la histeria a la anorexia. "Retratos del Nuevo Mundo" "Popotitos..... More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2011. First edition. Paperback. 118p., photos, illus., wrps. Abril 2011 A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. El redescubrimiento de Egipto "El Carrusel, ¿juego de niños o juego de guerra? More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 116p., photos, illus., wrps. October 2010 A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. Cómo Fabricar una Almendra: Los Orígenes de la Agricultura" "De los..... More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 96p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. Los Puntos Suspensivos "Viscosos, pero sabrosis: los insectos comestibles" "Imaginar el futuro: La..... More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 96p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. "Cleopatra: Veneno en la Piel" "Mi casa es su Casa" "El Divino Tiempo..... More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 96p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. "Entre tipógrafos te veas. La Historia de la tipografía" More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 96p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. "Lo Más abstracto del Arte" "Las Cochinadas Más Cochinas" "De Complejos y Acomplejados"..... More
México, D.F. Editorial Otras Inquisiciones, 2009. First edition. Paperback. 96p., photos, illus., wrps. A sampling of the monthly Mexican cultural review Algarabía which spans 10 years of its publication, featuring an uniterrupted run of over 50 issues. "Caballeros...y damas. My Funny Valentine" "¿Qué *%$!@# hoyo negro?" "Elemental, mi querido Sherlock" More
Manizales: Universidad de Caldas, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 784p., tables, graphics, bibl., wrps. Being able to document that the elderly health approach provides better care and produces better results has taken several years of study and research. The elderly are a vulnerable and complex group, they have special problems and..... More
Medellín: Universidad CS, 2017. First edition. Paperback. 69p., photos, wrps. More
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropologia, Ediciones Uniandes (Colección Nuevas Voces), 2021. First edition. Paperback. 288p., illu., facsimiles, bibl., indices, wrps. A few years ago, the author of this book, a doctor by training, tried to learn to knead uprooted children. Where the sobanderas..... More
Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario, 2021. First edition. Paperback. (441p), (356p), bibl., wrps. This work, published in two volumes, covers from April 1969 to June 2019, builds a story that interweaves the most relevant events in Colombian and international history, with the history of health policies and medical education, to understand..... More
Bogotá: Universidad El Bosque (Colección Complejidad y Salud, Vol. 5), 2021. First edition. Paperback. 100p., glossary, bibl., wrps. There is no theory of health. How to do health? How to develop health policies? How to take care of health if you don't know exactly what "health" is? From diverse and..... More
Cali: Programa Editorial Universidad del Valle (Colección: Artes y Humanidades-Historia, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 222p., photos, tables, bibl., wrps. Hygiene, health and environment in historical perspective: Cali at the beginning of the 20th century, studies the characteristics related to the hygienic and sanitary panorama of the national and regional reality..... More
Medellín: Pluso & Letra, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 234p., photos, tables, bibl., wrps. This book is a journey through the memory of one of the most emblematic characters of national medicine who was also characterized as an intellectual who proposed new ways of narrating the history and geography of the..... More
Bogotá: Universidad El Bosque (Colección Bios y Oikos; Vol.26), 2021. First edition. Paperback. 117p., bibl., indices, wrps. After some decades of rigorous research and deliberation, bioethics in Latin America – Our America, as José Martí called it – is thinking with his own head and voice. This theoretical research attempts..... More
