Search Results - "Peru"
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The Incas; the royal commentaries of the Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega, 1539-1616
Published: Orion Press, 1961Subjects:Description: xlviii, 432 pages : illustrations (part color) color maps. ; 23 cm.Book -
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Daily life in colonial Peru 1710-1820
Published: Allen & Unwin, 1968Subjects: “…Peru Social life and customs.…”Description: 275 pages : 13 plates, illustrations, facsimile, maps, portrait ; 23 cm.
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Daily life in Peru under the last Incas
Published: Macmillan, 1962Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Book -
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The cosmic serpent : DNA and the origins of knowledge 1st Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam trade pbk. ed.
Published: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999Subjects: “…Indians of South America Drug use Peru.…”Description: 257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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The vision of the vanquished : the Spanish conquest of Peru through Indian eyes, 1530-1570
Published: Barnes and Noble, 1977Subjects: “…Indians of South America Peru Government relations.…”Description: v, 328 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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A socialist empire; the Incas of Peru
Published: Van Nostrand, 1961Subjects: “…Indians of South America Peru.…”Description: xxii, 442 pages : illustrations, maps (part folded) ; 24 cm.
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The Mysteries of Machu Picchu
Published: Avon Books, 1979Subjects: “…Machu Picchu Site (Peru)…”Description: xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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An ancient world preserved : relics and records of prehistory in the Andes Rev. and updated.
Published: Crown Publishers, 1976Subjects: “…Indians of South America Peru Antiquities.…”Description: 314 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Haiti Two Years Later
Published: Infobase, 2014Contents: “…Reconstruction Begins in Port-au-Prince (2:50) -- Haiti Plate Tectonics (3:37) -- Haiti Earthquake Threat (1:29) -- Reducing Earthquake Vulnerability (3:17) -- Improving Construction Practices (3:36) -- Addressing Architectural Flaws (2:47) -- Seismic Building Techniques (2:47) -- Natural Disaster Vulnerability (1:37) -- Peru's Earthquake Recovery (2:38) -- Confined Masonry (1:45) -- Reinforcing Adobe Structures (2:19) -- Anticipating Earthquakes in Peru (4:52) -- Clearing Rubble in Haiti (2:52) -- Displaced Persons in Haiti (2:43) -- Port-Au-Prince Reconstruction (2:59) -- Port-Au-Prince Urban Planning (2:01) -- Urban Development Challenges (1:17) -- Haiti's Outlook (2:21) -- Credits: Haiti: Two Years Later (0:24)…”Description: 1 streaming video file (48 min.) : sd., col.
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Revolution in the Third World : myths and prospects
Published: Viking Press, 1977Contents: “…Anti-imperialist national revolutions: Nasser's Egypt ; Independent Algeria ; Revolutionary experiments in Black Africa ; Peru : populism from the top ; Chile : too many reforms, or not enough revolution. 5. …”Description: xxii, 195 pages ; 22 cm.
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Acculturation in the Americas : proceedings and selected papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists
Published: The University of Chicago Press, 1952Contents: “…Bascom -- Land tenure in the Marbial region of Haiti / Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain -- Some aspects of hierarchical structure in Haitit / Rhoda Metraux -- Le Batuque de Porto-Alegre / Roger Bastide -- African influence on the music of the Americas / Richard Alan Waterman -- Modern cultural development and synthesis in Latin America / John Gillin -- The folk culture of the Brazilian Amazon / Charles Wagley -- Caboclo cultures of Southern Brazil / Emilio Willems -- Indian adjustments to modern national culture / Antonio Goubaud Carrera -- Historical aspects of the Canadian Métis / John Perry Pritchett -- The modern Latin American city / Theodore Caplow -- On the identification of the Indian in Peru / Harry Tschopik, Jr. -- Poblacion indo-mestiza / Manuel Gamio -- An analysis of modern Middle American calendars / Suzanna W. …”Description: ix, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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