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Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, desperate to gain New Spains silver. He broke Spains monarchy, setting …
Taking inspiration from the author's own Afghan-Uzbek heritage, this contemporary YA debut is a breathtaking journey into the grief that lingers through generations of immigrant families, and what it means to confront the ghosts of your past.Struggling to deal with …
Schaefer shares the individual stories of seven peoplerancher, sheepherder, homesteader, town settler, soldier, miner, and cowboyin this collection. He tells the tales as they can only be told: in the open spaces of the Old West. In these memorable narratives …
View book details for Juan the Bear and the Water of Life
La Acequia de Juan del Oso
La Acequia del Rito y la Sierra in the Mora Valley is the highest and most famous traditional irrigation system in New Mexico. It carries water up and over a mountain ridge and across a sub-continental divide, from the tributaries …
Readers searching for courage and adventure will find just that and more in the engaging prose of Jack Schaefer in this vintage collection of Western vignettes. Exploring varied tales of life in the West, Schaefer shares the stories of exceptional …
Rooted in the Midwest but at home anywhere, Glenna Luschei has spent over fifty years writing and supporting other writers in the midst of adventures that have taken her around the globe. Now in her late eighties and as vibrant …
The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by conflict between church and state. This book focuses on the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church to influence Mexican society through Jesuit-led organizations such as the Mexican Catholic Youth …
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The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development
AMACOM
The lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. . .no matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers.Packed with tested strategies and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and …
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Recipes from the Land of Enchantment
Winner of the 2010 New Mexico Book Award for Best CookbookSince he first traveled to New Mexico in the 1960s, Clyde Casey has been in love with New Mexican cuisine and has explored its evolution from Puebloan roots, to influences …
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Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977
This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movements social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movements origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety …
He is fifty, a man of middle years with a weak heart and two failed marriages. Mourning the loss of the boundless energy he squandered as a young man, he is a creature of habit now, relying on daily patterns …
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERRecommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine #1 Library Reads PickOctober 2020#1 Indie Next PickOctober 2020BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALISTBook of The Month ClubA …
View book details for In Appropriate Distance
The Ethics of the Photographic Essay
What is the evolving relationship between words and images in the photographic essay? How do the purpose and form of the photographic essay change over time? And how are relationships between the contributors, subject, and readers communicated explicitly and implicitly …
The year is 1838. A young Scotsman forced from his homeland arrives at Hudsons Bay. Angus McDonald is contracted to British masters to trade for fur. But the world he discovers is beyond even a Highlanders wildest imaginings: raging rivers, …
Random House Children's Books
Thirteen-year-old foster kid Jasmine Schuler is immediately drawn to the scrawny, broken-looking brown gelding huddled in the corner of an auction house stall. Feeling a kinship with the lonely animal, Jas convinces her new foster mom, who rescues and rehabilitates …
Anyone planning a fishing trip to beautiful southern Colorado needs this book to locate the best fly-fishing streams. Most guidebooks focus on large, well-known drainages. Williams and McPhail identify many locations not included in other books. They also recommend appropriate …
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A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River
Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques …
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Living with Schizophrenia
For more than twenty years Josie Mendez-Negrete has endured the emotional journey of watching her son Tito struggle with schizophrenia. Her powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family …
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn …
The Blood Poems is one part bloodletting, one part healing, and one part sensuous celebration as Jessica Helen Lopez lays out what it means to be a strong brown woman, a single mother, and the kickass bard that the twenty-first …
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On Photography and Memory
Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolms] long career. Charles Finch, The New York Times Book ReviewFor decades, Janet Malcolms books and dispatches for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books …
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The Complete Facsimile in Context
Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing. Coauthored by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman, the work was composed on typewriters and developed through …
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Therapy and Training for Your Cat
St. Martin's Press
Cats are wonderful companions, but when they misbehave it can be challenging, if not outright difficult, to successfully treat the behavior problem in order to restore feline harmony to the home once again. In Cats on the Counter Dr. Larry …
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A Reader for Youth
Andrew woke up with a guinea worm coming out of his foot as a result of drinking unsafe water a year previously. Anjali awoke with a cough because smoke from kilns filled her dilapidated home.Tyler stayed home from school because …
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Some Good Men of the Old West
This collection of essays features twelve heroes from the American West. Schaefer profiles pioneers of the Westthe doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West. These unsung champions highlight the unglorified work …
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