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501 Spanish Verbs
• Christopher Kendris
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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The perennial favorite among students of Spanish.
(GEN134, $16.99)
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Amphibians and Reptiles of La Selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean Slope
• Craig Guyer
• Maureen A. Donnelly
• FIELD GUIDE
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This comprehensive guide covers the reptiles and amphibians of the Caribbean slope.
(CRB177, $24.95)
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The Art of Mesoamerica, from Olmec to Aztec
• Mary Ellen Miller
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An excellent survey of Mesoamerican art and architecture from 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest. Compact and profusely illustrated, it includes drawings, photographs and site plans.
(MYA09, $21.95)
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Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish
• Joseph Keenan
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Idioms, common mistakes in word usage, and other helpful advice on tackling spoken Spanish. You'll need some foundation to take full advantage of this book -- but even a complete novice will appreciate the author's playful sense of humor.
(CAM06, $18.95)
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The Buried Mirror
• Carlos Fuentes
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A fascinating, illustrated survey of Latin American culture and history by the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. With hundreds of color illustrations.
(SPN71, $29.95)
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The Butterflies of Costa Rica and Their Natural History, Vol. 2
• P. Devries
• FIELD GUIDE
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The second volume of Devries' comprehensive study of butterflies.
(CRC09, $55.00)
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Central America, A Nation Divided
• Ralph Lee Woodward
• HISTORY
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A balanced standard history of the region -- popular as a university textbook and thoroughly revised to reflect the momentous events in the region since 1976. With an extensive guide to further reading.
(CAM80, $37.95)
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Coffee and Power, Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
• Jeffery M. Paige
• HISTORY
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Panoramic in scope, this scholarly history examines the emerging democracies of Central America and especially the political impact on powerful families who control coffee production.
(CAM50, $26.00)
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Coral Reef Fishes
• Ewald Lieske
• Robert Myers
• FIELD GUIDE
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This compact handbook features 2,500 illustrations of shallow-water fishes around the world.
(DIV05, $24.95)
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Costa Rica Adventure Guide
• Bruce & June Conord
• GUIDEBOOK
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A detailed, comprehensive practical guide to nature, culture and travel in Costa Rica.
(CRC33, $17.99)
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Costa Rica Highway and Road Map
• Jimenez & Tanzi
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A handsome and exceptionally clear map of Costa Rica at a scale of 1:500,000, with a locator map of protected areas, 10 city maps, distance chart and travel informartion (in Spanish and English).
(CRC07, $11.95)
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Costa Rica in Focus
• Tjabel Daling
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise guide to the people, politics, economy and culture of Costa Rica. The author explores the history of democracy since the abolition of the army in 1948, economic doldrums of the 1980s, and impact of tourism.
(CRC28, $12.95)
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Costa Rica Map
• Borch Maps
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A laminated road map of Costa Rica at a scale of 1:650,000, featuring an inset of San Jose.
(CRC21, $10.95)
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The Costa Ricans
• Richard Biesanz
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The people and social history of Costa Rica.
(CRC17, $13.50)
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Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands
• Chris Doyle
• Nancy Scott
• GUIDEBOOK
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A convenient, spiral-bound guide to anchorages, harbors and navigation from Anguilla to Dominica.
(CRB132, $29.95)
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Culture Smart! Costa Rica
• Jane Koutnik
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(CRC45, $9.95)
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Eastern Caribbean Cruise Tour Guide
• Coastal Cruise Tour Guides
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A handy guide and booklet that unfolds to a six-foot-long full color map. It features historical background, visitor attractions and maps of all the islands from Puerto Rico to Trinidad.
(CRB135, $15.95)
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The Ecology of a Tropical Forest, Seasonal Rhythms and Long-term Changes
• Egbert G. Leigh, Jr
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A good overview of the flora, fauna and ecology of the region.
(CAM52, $35.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Costa Rica
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide, divided geographically, features color photographs, dozens of excellent maps and a strong focus on wildlife.
(CRC43, $25.00)
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Field Guide to Mexican Birds
• Roger Tory Peterson
• Edward Chalif
• FIELD GUIDE
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An easy-to-carry field guide with 1,000 species reported in Mexico, Belize and El Salvador, covering also northwest Costa Rica.
(FG12, $22.00)
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Flowering Plants of the Neotropics
• Nathan Smith
• Scott Mori
• Andrew Henderson
• Dennis Stevenson
• Scott Heald
• FIELD GUIDE
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A beautifully illustrated, oversize introduction to the showiest, most important and interesting flowering plants of Mexico, Central and South America.
(CAM103, $95.00)
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Fodor's Costa Rica
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, frequently revised guide in the popular series, especially useful for its extensive annotated listings of suggested places to stay and eat.
(CRC12, $19.95)
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Footprint Mexico & Central America Handbook
• Sarah Cameron
• Ben Box
• GUIDEBOOK
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The classic, comprehensive guide to the region.
(MEX64, $24.95)
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Four Neotropical Rainforests
• Alwyn Gentry
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A good reference to the flora, fauna and ecology of four representative tropical forests: Manaus (Brazil), Park Manu (Peru), Barro Colorado Island (Panama) and La Selva (Costa Rica).
(AMZ33, $55.00)
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Frommer's Costa Rica
• Eliot Greenspan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With maps, color photos and suggested excursions.
(CRC38, $19.99)
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The Green Pharmacy
• James A. Duke
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An A-Z catalog of ailments and the herbal remedies that heal them.
(AMZ40, $19.95)
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Green Phoenix, Restoring Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
• William Allen
• SCIENCE
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The vivid tale of the creation of the Guanacaste Conservation Area in Northwest Costa Rica
(CAM77, $42.00)
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A Guide to the Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras
• Robert Ridgely
• J.A. Gwynne
• FIELD GUIDE
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A comprehensive field guide, noteworthy for its beautiful color plates, in a sturdy edition covering additional species found in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica
(CAM07, $49.95)
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High Jungles and Low
• Archie Carr
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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This absorbing memoir of slogging through the forest as a gun-toting tagalong on a commercial expedition in search of mahogany in the Honduran highlands is a classic. The book to read for anyone heading to the tropics.
(CAM01, $19.95)
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In Search of the Golden Frog
• Marty Crump
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memoir of a field biologist.
(CON18, $27.00)
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In the Rainforest, Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
• Catherine Caufield
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Caufield deftly combines good basic information on the ecology of the world's rain forests, a report on thorny conservation issues and a sympathetic treatment of indigenous inhabitants through masterly prose.
(FST01, $16.00)
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Lonely Planet Costa Rica
• Mara Vorhees
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, featuring a wildlife guide, adventure travel section and 32 pages of full-color photographs.
(CRC19, $21.99)
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The Maya Tropical Forest: Peoples, Parks and Ancient Cities
• James D. Nations
• HISTORY
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Jim Nations draws on field work in the region over the last 25 years in this personable, detailed overview of the people, history and wildlife of the lowland tropical forest of southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
(MYA49, $22.95)
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Moon Handbook Costa Rica
• Christopher P. Baker
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough introduction to Costa Rica for independent travelers.
(CRC06, $21.95)
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The Mosquito Coast
• Paul Theroux
• LITERATURE
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A taught psychological tale of a man who abandons civilization for the wilds of Honduras.
(CAM34, $14.95)
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National Geographic Traveler Costa Rica
• Christopher P. Baker
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guidebook to Costa Rica, published by National Geographic in their attractive, visual style. The guide features 200 photographs, 20 maps and good information history, nature, culture and travel in Costa Rica.
(CRC26, $22.95)
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics
• Marco Lambertini
• John Venerella
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A compact, illustrated guide to the natural history of the tropical latitudes.
(CON17, $25.00)
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Nothing to Declare, Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
• Mary Morris
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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An absorbing memoir of a woman traveling alone throughout Mexico and Central America. Morris, a favorite writer, evokes the people and places she visits on her travels in gritty immediate detail.
(CAM08, $14.00)
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The Panama Canal Map
• Compass
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A map and souvenir guide to the Canal.
(CAM45, $9.95)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Spanish
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Spanish, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(SPN257, $19.95)
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Reef Fish Identification
• Paul Humann
• FIELD GUIDE
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This definitive guide for underwater enthusiasts features 670 stunning color photographs.
(DIV03, $39.95)
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Rough Guide Central America
• Peter Eltringham
• GUIDEBOOK
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A no-nonsense, comprehensive travel guide to Central America with country-by-country descriptions and a solid overview of history, culture and nature. Covers Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama.
(CAM95, $22.99)
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Rough Guide Costa Rica
• Jean McNeil
• GUIDEBOOK
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An opinionated, thorough travel guide with region-by-region descriptions.
(CRC13, $21.99)
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Sailor's Guide to the Windward Islands
• Chris Doyle
• GUIDEBOOK
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A convenient, spiral-bound guide to anchorages, harbors and navigation from Granada north to Martinique. With GPS coordinates, color sketch maps, and a directory of services.
(CRB134, $26.95)
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Snakes, The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
• Harry W. Greene
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The ecology and diversity of snakes worldwide, with stunning photographs.
(BST33, $60.00)
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Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life
• Paul Humann
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact guide illustrating all the fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants you are most likely to encounter in under 15 feet of water in the Caribbean.
(DIV02, $14.95)
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Spanish, Start Speaking Today! (Cassette Tapes)
• Educational Services Corporation
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 90-minute crash course in Spanish featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook.
(SPN140, $21.95)
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Spirits of the Jaguar
• BBC
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A four-part BBC television series, this documentary presents the land, wildlife and cultures of Central America in living color.
(CAM59, $19.98)
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The Tapir's Morning Bath
• Elizabeth Royte
• SCIENCE
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An engaging account of ecological research and ecologists at Barro Colorado Island, the Smithsonian Institution's Tropical Research Station in Panama.
(AMZ74, $14.00)
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Travelers' Tales Central America
• Larry Habegger
• Natanya Pearlman
• ANTHOLOGY
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A collection of eyewitness reports by journalists, travelers and writers, including Joan Didion, P.J. O'Rourke and Paul Theroux.
(CAM96, $17.95)
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The True History of Chocolate
• Sophie D. Coe
• Michael Coe
• FOOD
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This scholarly history of pre-Columbian chocolate by these married archaeologists reveals chocolate's origins as a ceremonial beverage in ancient Olmec and Maya society. The Coes trace the treat's evolution from a food of the gods to the salons of Europe down through the masses to Hershey Pennsylvania.
(CAM57, $21.95)
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Ultimate Spanish, Basic-Intermediate with Book
• Irwin Stern
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A university-level Spanish course in a box with eight, 60-minute cassettes and a 400-page book.
(SPN175, $75.00)
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The University of Chicago Dictionary, Spanish-English/English-Spanish
• Carlos Castillo
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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The well-regarded concise dictionary of words and phrases for today's language. Fifth Edition.
(SPN118, $11.00)
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The Windward Road, Adventures of A Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores
• Archie Carr
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Archie Carr's classic tale of his search for sea turtles in the Caribbean and Costa Rica. Originally published in 1956, this book is a delightful record of people and islands.
(CRB08, $16.95)
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