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Across a Hundred Mountains, A Novel
• Reyna Grande
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 266 PAGES
This novel set in a small town in Mexico, California and a jail in Tijuana addresses issues of poverty, loss, family and immigration.
(MEX161, $14.00) |
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Ancient Maya, New Perspectives
• Heather McKillop
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 460 PAGES
An overview for the general reader.
(MYA46, $22.95) |
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Backcountry Pilot, Flying Adventures with Ike Russell
• Thomas Bowen
ANTHOLOGY •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 206 PAGES
An anthology of anecdotes from the air, recounting dangerous flights and unbelievable adventures with Ike Russell, a bush pilot legendary among research scientists of the 60s and 70s. A fearless chauffeur, Ike would fly scientists to inaccessible corners of the globe (mostly in the desert regions of Mexico, but also East Africa, Madagascar and Tierra del Fuego), often under extreme circumstances. Among the writers featured are Bernard Fontana, Richard Felger and Paul S. Martin.
(DES07, $29.95) |
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Chihuahua, Pictures From the Edge
• Charles Bowden
• Virgil Hancock
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1996 •
PAPER
• 117 PAGES
A visual celebration of the city with 40 vibrantly colored full-page plates, almost exclusively of street scenes, buildings and eye-popping advertisements. Charles Bowden provides an accompanying essay on the U.S.-Mexico border region. Those readers expecting a straight-forward travelogue will be disappointed but anyone with a love for color and politics and symbols and art will be intrigued. Published in cooperation with the University of Arizona Southwest Center.
(MEX128, $29.95) |
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A Concise History of Mexico
• Brian Hamnett
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
A chronological and thematic history of Mexico, including cultural developments and contemporary issues, through Vincente Fox's presidency.
(MEX162, $28.99) |
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Crafts of Mexico
• Margarita de Orellana
• Albert Ruy Sanchez
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 360 PAGES
An abundantly illustrated guide to Mexico's crafts, including textiles, jewelry, ceramics, furniture and more. With 400 color photographs and illustrations.
(MEX144, $45.00) |
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Desert Ecology, An Introduction to Life in the Arid Southwest
• John Sowell
NATURAL HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 193 PAGES
A comprehensive but accessible introduction to how plants and animals adapt to desert environments.
(SWU246, $17.95) |
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Field Guide to Mexican Birds
• Roger Tory Peterson
• Edward Chalif
FIELD GUIDE •
1973 •
PAPER
• 298 PAGES
This easy-to-carry field guide covers 1,000 birds that have been reported in Mexico, Belize and El Salvador but only illustrates those species not already included in one of the Peterson North American bird guides, which you may also want to carry. The guide also covers northwest Costa Rica.
(FG12, $22.00) |
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Kissing the Virgin's Mouth: A Novel
• Donna Gershten
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 228 PAGES
The tale of thoroughly modern, contradictory Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vasquez of Mazatlan (or some fictional place just like it). Barabara Kingsolver chose this book as the first recipeient of her Bellwether Prize supporting literature of social change (a ponderous name but appropriate for this lyrical tale of a woman who scrambles out of poverty). The choice of the name Magdalena for the title character is no coincidence.
(MEX122, $12.99) |
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The Lawless Roads
• Graham Greene
• David Rieff
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
A riveting account of Graham's journeys through Tabasco and Chiapas in the 1930s, including his time in San Cristobal de Las Casas and Palenque. Greene was in Mexico investigating the impact of the anti-Church policies of President Calles. He draws on the same expenses for his masterpiece The Power and the Glory.
(MEX164, $15.00) |
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Moon Handbook Cabo
• Nikki Goth Itoi
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A great resource for the independent traveler, this guidebook features a good introduction to land, history and culture, as well as practical detail on getting around, where to go, and where to stay. With personality, detailed local maps, glossary and suggested itineraries.
(MEX143, $17.95) |
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Spanish
• Pimsleur Language Method
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2005 •
AUDIO CD
Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Spanish, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. The Pimsleur method emphasizes the use of listening skills without reading materials (so there isn't a book to follow along). It's advertised as "Totally audio: hear it, learn it, speak it."
(SPN257, $19.95) |
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
• Matthew Restall
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
In this provocative book, Restall tackles Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro and the misconceptions surrounding them. The conquisadores most certainly did not conquer the Americas with a handful of men, nor were they received as gods.
(SAM52, $19.99) |
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
• David Sibley
FIELD GUIDE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 474 PAGES
A compact, geographically specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. The book covers 703 species of birds occurring west of the Rockies, including Alaska, the western Canadian provinces, Baja California and portions of northern Mexico. Maps show the range throughout North America. For birders living east of the Rockies, you'll want to use Sibley's "Birds of Eastern North America" (USE262).
(USW418, $19.95) |
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Sierra Tarahumara Barrancas del Cobre Map
• International Map Company
MAP
A simple, two-color map of the Copper Canyon and Sierra Tarahumara from Chihuahua to Hermosillo, Los Mochis and Culiacan on the Golf of California. With roads, travel distances, the route of the Chihuahua al Pacifico railway, lakes and rivers. The reverse side features black-and-white photographs and travel information. Two Sides. 17x19 inches.
(MEX123, $6.95) |
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Sonoran Desert Spring
• John Alcock
NATURAL HISTORY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 134 PAGES
Alcock, a professor of insect behavior at the University of Arizona, writes of the plants and animals and ecology in this lyrical meditation on the Sonoran desert. The book is organized as a series of essays on key plants and animals over the four-month period from February to May.
(BJA20, $17.95) |
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