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1491, New Revelations of Americas Before Columbus
• Charles C. Mann
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 560 PAGES
A thought-provoking, speculative history of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. Mann portrays the successes and failures of the complex societies of the Mississippi River, Central Mexico, the Andes and the Amazon.
(WLD61, $16.95) |
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501 Spanish Verbs
• Christopher Kendris
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2010 •
PAPER
• 728 PAGES
The perennial favorite among students of Spanish, revised with a bonus CD-ROM. Organized alphabetically, each of the often irregular verbs gets its own page -- complete with all the verb tenses, examples and common idioms. The book is both a reference for Spanish speakers and a tool for beginners. Por que no hay como hablar Espanol sin verbos. O algo asi.
(GEN134, $16.99) |
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An Album of Maya Architecture
• Tatiana Proskouriakoff
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 164 PAGES
A classic work, first published in 1946. Combining her talents as a scholar, artist and architect, Proskouriakoff presents breathtaking artistic reconstructions of what the Maya sites may have looked like more than 1,000 years ago. The text summarizes the archeological findings at each site. This gorgeous book evokes daily life at the sites.
(MYA06, $19.95) |
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The Ancient Maya
• Loa Traxler
• Robert Sharer
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 892 PAGES
In its sixth edition, this scholarly tome is a standard reference on everything Maya, an up-to-date descendent of the original by the pioneering archaeologist Sylvanus Morley. It includes individual site descriptions, maps -- and much else of interest to the general reader. We recommend it for the serious student.
(MYA07, $37.95) |
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An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America
• Joyce Kelly
ARCHAEOLOGY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
The clear descriptions, site plans, maps and photographs of 38 archeological sites and 25 museums throughout Central America make this book an ideal travel companion. While the book includes general information and road directions, its real value is the detailed site information, background on ancient history and recent archeological activity.
(MYA04, $19.95) |
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Breaking the Maya Code
• Michael Coe
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
A broadly considered history. Michael Coe chronicles the centuries-long search for the "rosetta stone" of the Mayan language, a search which received an enormous boost in 1952 when Yuri Knorosov successfully translated the Dresden Codex, a Mayan bark-paper text. The book also includes an extensive discussion of Maya studies and political activism in the wake of Knorosov's discovery.
(MYA30, $19.95) |
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Central America, A Nation Divided
• Ralph Lee Woodward
HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
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, $39.95) |
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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
• Simon Martin
• Nikolai Grube
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
The history of the Maya dynasties, encompassing biographies of 152 kings and queens, as gleaned from recently deciphered hieroglyphs. It's an unusual, rewarding book, illustrated in color and black-and-white. This new edition of the kingdom-by-kingdom history of the ancient Maya brings the story up to date with previously unknown rulers, new glyphic readings and additional information on diplomacy and warfare.
(MYA31, $26.95) |
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Coffee and Power, Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
• Jeffery M. Paige
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
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. The author combines exhaustive historical research, covering the last 30 years, with wide-ranging interviews.
(CAM50, $30.00) |
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Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Jared Diamond
HISTORY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 575 PAGES
Big, wildly ambitious, provocative, this is Jared Diamond at his best. He tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not. He devotes 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris). It's a fitting follow-up to his Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel.
(GEN324, $18.00) |
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Flowering Plants of the Neotropics
• Nathan Smith
• Scott Mori
• Andrew Henderson
• Dennis Stevenson
• Scott Heald
FIELD GUIDE •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 616 PAGES
This beautifully illustrated, authoritative guide, with contributions by dozens of botanists, features 64 color plates and 250 detailed pen-and-ink drawings by Bobbi Angell. It's an excellent, oversize introduction to the showiest, most important and interesting flowering plants of Mexico, Central and South America edited by a team at the New York Botanical Garden. The cover is adorned with a magnificent passiflora.
(CAM103, $99.95) |
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A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins
• C. Bruce Hunter
GUIDEBOOK •
1986 •
PAPER
• 342 PAGES
A well organized guide to archaeological sites throughout the Maya world with good site diagrams and black-and-white photographs, originally published in 1974 and revised in 1986 for this second edition. While not up-to-date on recent developments, this book is nonetheless a compact, accessible survey of important archaeological sites for the traveler by an experienced study trip leader.
(MYA23, $21.95) |
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Jungle of the Maya
• Douglas Goodell
• Jerry Barrack
• Jim Wright
• Archie Carr
NATURAL HISTORY •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 152 PAGES
A handsome survey of the wildlife and habitats of the Selva Maya, the tropical forest that spreads through Belize, Guatemala and the Yucatan.
(MYA51, $34.95) |
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Maya Cosmos, Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path
• Joy Parker
• Linda Schele
• David Freidel
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 543 PAGES
A provocative, speculative history of Central American religious practices since the dawn of the Maya kingdoms. The authors -- an archaeologist, an epigrapher and a popular historian -- suggest that contemporary shamanistic practices may be continuous with the religious rituals of the ancient Maya.
(MYA32, $23.99) |
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The Maya Tropical Forest: Peoples, Parks and Ancient Cities
• James D. Nations
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 323 PAGES
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. With chapters on the Selva Lacandona (Chiapas), Calakmul (Chetumal), the Maya Biosphere reserve in Guatemala (including Tikal) and protected sites in Belize.
(MYA49, $22.95) |
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics
• Marco Lambertini
• John Venerella
NATURAL HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 338 PAGES
A compact guide to the world's tropical zone, organized by biome. It's a good overview of the ecology of forests, mangroves, coral reefs, deserts, and grasslands found between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. A useful companion for travelers to tropical latitudes. With color photographs and color plates illustrating a sampling of the most conspicuous birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and fish.
(CON17, $30.00) |
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Spirits of the Jaguar
• BBC
NATURAL HISTORY •
2006 •
DVD
Billed as "The Definitive Portrait of the Land, Wildlife and Peoples of Central America, this four-part BBC television series is an excellent introduction to the region. It includes the programs: The Forging of a New World, Forest of the Maya, Hunters of the Caribbean Sea and The Fifth World of Aztecs.
(CAM59, $19.98) |
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The True History of Chocolate
• Sophie D. Coe
• Michael Coe
FOOD •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A scholarly history of the fact and meaning of pre-Columbian chocolate by the husband and wife archaeologists Michael and Sophia Coe. Originating as a ceremonial beverage in ancient Olmec and Maya society, chocolate evolved from a food of the gods to the salons of Europe down through the masses to Hershey Pennsylvania. With illustrations and recipes.
(CAM57, $21.95) |
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The University of Chicago Dictionary, Spanish-English/English-Spanish
• Carlos Castillo
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2002 •
PAPER
• 603 PAGES
Long a favorite with students and travelers, this new edition -- the first in 15 years -- of the University of Chicago dictionary brings vocabulary and usage up to date. With slang, vulgar and otherwise, a concise dictionary of words, phrases, and basic grammar.
(SPN118, $11.00) |
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