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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage מאת William Rathje It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today's garbage that Rathje and Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into all aspec...

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Dark Thirty (Sun Tracks) מאת Santee Frazier Writing sometimes in dialect, sometimes in gunshot bursts, sometimes in sinuous lines that snake across the page, Santee Frazier crafts poems that are edgy and restless. The poems in Dark Thirty, Frazier’s debut collection, address subjects that are not often thought of as “poetic,” like pover...

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House of Houses (Camino Del Sol) מאת Pat Mora Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat Mora’s House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the ...

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Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts מאת Gary Paul Nabhan The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists—and have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up around Arab grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cous...

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Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays (Camino Del Sol) מאת Ray Gonzalez In his distinctive and spirited way, Ray Gonzalez, the well-known essayist, poet, fiction writer, and anthologist, reflects on the American Southwest—where he was raised and to which he still feels attached (even though he has lived much of his life elsewhere). It is a place that tugs at him,...

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Tarahumara: Where Night is the Day of the Moon מאת Bernard L. Fontana Inhabiting the Sierra Madre Occidental of southwestern Chihuahua in Mexico, the Tarahumara (or Rarámuri) are known in their language as the "foot runners" due to the way in which they must navigate their rugged terrain. This book offers an accessible ethnography of their history, customs, a...

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Sonoran Desert Life: Understanding, Insights, and Enjoyment מאת Gerald A. Rosenthal This lavishly illustrated and informatively written book offers readers a guide to the Sonoran Desert that will enhance their understanding of the plants and animals that live there. Designed to be carried easily when traveling, it will enable the whole family to identify commonly found annuals, per...

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Across the Plains: Sarah Royce's Western Narrative (Western Women's Voices) מאת Sarah Royce On April 30, 1849, Sarah Bayliss Royce, along with her husband, Josiah, and their daughter, Mary, left her home in Tipton, Iowa, and headed for California in a covered wagon. Along the way, she kept a diary which, nearly thirty years later, served as the basis for a memoir she titled Across the Plai...

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Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems מאת Juan Felipe Herrera For nearly four decades, Juan Felipe Herrera has documented his experience as a Chicano in the United States and Latin America through stunning, memorable poetry that is both personal and universal in its impact, themes, and approach. Often political, never fainthearted, his career has been marked b...

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The Good Rainbow Road מאת Simon J. Ortiz A children's book that tells how two courageous boys saved their village. Written in the tradition of Native American oral storytelling and accompanied by colorful illustrations, it brings the powers of language, memory, and imagery to a tale that will captivate children ages seven and up. The text ...

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Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of Allotment מאת Kristin T. Ruppel Unearthing Indian Land offers a comprehensive examination of the consequencesof more than a century of questionable public policies. In this book,Kristin Ruppel considers the complicated issues surrounding American Indianland ownership in the United States.Under the General Allotment Act of 1887, al...

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When the Rains Come: A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert מאת John Alcock Life in the desert is a waiting game: waiting for rain. And in a year of drought, the stakes are especially high. John Alcock knows the Sonoran Desert better than just about anyone else, and in this book he tracks the changes he observes in plant and animal life over the course of a drought year. Co...

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Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods מאת Meredith L. Dreiss Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods takes readers on a journey through 3,000 years of the history of chocolate. It is a trip filled with surprises. And it is a beautifully illustrated tour, featuring 132 vibrant color photographs and a captivating sixty-minute DVD documentary. Along the way, readers lear...

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Divination and Healing: Potent Vision מאת Michael Winkelman Some of the world's leading authorities draw on their own participation in ritual to present detailed case studies demonstrating that divination can have therapeutic effects. In this wide-ranging volume, readers will find coverage of classic Ifa systems; Buddhist-influenced shamanic practices in the...

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Havana and Other Missing Fathers מאת Mia Leonin Mia Leonin spent the first sixteen years of her life believing her father was dead. All she knew of the man came through stories told by her mother. At times he had been a surgeon, at others a psychiatrist. In truth, he had been a fantasy. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Leonin learned from h...

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New Deal Art in Arizona מאת Betsy Fahlman Arizona’s art history is emblematic of the story of the modern West, and few periods in that history were more significant than the era of the New Deal. From Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams to painters and muralists including Native American Gerald Nailor, the artists working in Arizona under New D...

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what i'm on (Camino Del Sol) מאת Luis Humberto Valadez Luis Valadez is a performance poet and his poems shout to be read aloud. It’s then that their language dazzles most brightly. It’s then that the emotions bottled up on the page explode beyond words. And there is plenty of emotion in these poems. Frankly autobiographical, they recount the experie...

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When the Rains Come: A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert מאת John Alcock Life in the desert is a waiting game: waiting for rain. And in a year of drought, the stakes are especially high. John Alcock knows the Sonoran Desert better than just about anyone else, and in this book he tracks the changes he observes in plant and animal life over the course of a drought year. Co...

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The Law Into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism מאת Roxanne Lynn Doty Border security and illegal immigration along the U.S.–Mexico border are hotly debated issues in contemporary society. The emergence of civilian vigilante groups, such as the Minutemen, at the border is the most recent social phenomenon to contribute new controversy to the discussion. The Law Into...

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Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer מאת Richard Shelton Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds.Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” in national magazines—shared his brooding verse. But ...

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Nonprofits and Their Networks: Cleaning the Waters along Mexico's Northern Border מאת Daniel M. Sabet On the border of the United States and Mexico, few policy issues face such acutechallenges as those related to water. Border cities face an uncertain future watersupply, low-income neighborhoods often lack water and sewer services, andwater contamination poses a risk to the health of residents and t...

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Poema (Camino del Sol: A Latina and Latino Literary) מאת Maurice Kilwein Guevara Maurice Kilwein Guevara views the poem as a living art form that stretches well beyond the traditional bounds of poetry. Citing the Catalan avant-garde artist Joan Brossa, who printed the word POEMA on a clear lightbulb, Kilwein Guevara rethinks the interconnectedness of form, context, and meaning i...

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Observatories of the Southwest: A Guide for Curious Skywatchers מאת Douglas Isbell With its clear skies and low humidity, the southwestern United States is an astronomer’s paradise where observatories like Kitt Peak have redefined the art of skywatching. The region is unique in its loose federation of like-minded research outposts and in the quantity and diversity of its observa...

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For a Girl Becoming (Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary) מאת Joy Harjo “Always within you is that day your spirit came to us. When rains came in from the Pacific to bless. Clouds peered over the mountains in response to the singing of medicine plants, who danced back and forth in shawls of mist.” Transformative moments in the cycle of life are a time for acknow...

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“I Know It’s Dangerous”: Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border מאת Lynnaire M. Sheridan Migration from Mexico to the United States has become an increasingly volatile topic. The news is filled with stories of deaths, protests, and amnesty debates. With the constant buzz about migration in the political, economic, and legal spheres, the migrants themselves easily become a de-humanized m...

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Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru מאת Krister Andersson Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, ruralpoverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades.Experts blame excessively centralized public administrations for the lacklusterperformance of public policy initiatives. In response, decentraliz...

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Álamos, Sonora: Architecture and Urbanism in the Dry Tropics (Southwest Center Series) מאת John Messina The town of Álamos in the state of Sonora, Mexico, a one-day drive from the Arizona border, is one of the most intact colonial-era cities in northern Mexico. Álamos has been declared a National Historic Monument by the Mexican government and is one of only fourteen towns to be designated as Pueblo...

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White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court מאת Ignacio M. García In 1952 in Edna, Texas, Pete Hernández, a twenty-one-year-old cotton picker, got into a fight with several men and was dragged from a tavern, robbed, and beaten. Upon reaching his home he collected his .22-caliber rifle, walked two miles back to the tavern, and shot one of the assailants. With fort...

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Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts מאת Saleem H. Ali Examines environmental conflicts between mining companies and indigenous communities and offers a comparative study of the factors leading to those conflicts. Ali presents four cases from the United States and Canada that exemplify different historical relationships with government and industry and ...

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Pachucas and Pachucos in Tucson: Situated Border Lives (The Southwest Center Series) מאת Laura L. Cummings When the Zoot Suit Riots ignited in Los Angeles in 1943, they quickly became headline news across the country. At their center was a series of attacks by U.S. Marines and sailors on young Mexican American men who dressed in distinctive suits and called themselves pachucos. The media of the day portr...

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The Last Refuge of the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel: Ecology of Endangerment מאת H. Reed Sanderson When the University of Arizona announced plans to build observatories on Mt. Graham, atop the Pinaleño Mountains, the construction was seen as a potential threat to an isolated species found only on this sky island. The Mt. Graham red squirrel was declared “endangered” by the US Fish and Wildl...

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“I Know It’s Dangerous”: Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border מאת Lynnaire M. Sheridan Migration from Mexico to the United States has become an increasingly volatile topic. The news is filled with stories of deaths, protests, and amnesty debates. With the constant buzz about migration in the political, economic, and legal spheres, the migrants themselves easily become a de-humanized m...

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Bolivia’s Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the Andes מאת S. Sándor John In December 2005, following a series of convulsive upheavals that saw the overthrow of two presidents in three years, Bolivian peasant leader Evo Morales became the first Indian president in South American history. Consequently, according to S. Sándor John, Bolivia symbolizes new shifts in Latin Am...

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Reflections in Place: Connected Lives of Navajo Women מאת Donna Deyhle Woven together in Donna Deyhle’s ethnohistory are three generations and twenty-five years of friendship, interviews, and rich experience with Navajo women. Through a skillful blending of sources, Deyhle illuminates the devastating cultural consequences of racial stereotyping in the context of educ...

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Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity מאת Kirstin C. Erickson In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains howmembers of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct,negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines twointerconnected dimensions of the Yaqui ethnic imagination: the simultaneous...

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The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems (Camino Del Sol/ a Latina and Latino Literary Series) מאת Rane Arroyo A poem is a living library, a hospitable planet in black space, a bell waiting to wear the music of motion across stilled lands. Writers are the carriers of the voices around us. We are writers and readers in dark times when words are correctly understood as powerful weapons. —From the Introductio...

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Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability מאת Nina L. Etkin “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.” —Epicurus This fascinating book examines the biology and culture of foods and beverages that are consumed in communal settings, with special attention to their health implications. Nin...

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Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology מאת Todd A. Surovell Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and colonized more than 99 percent of the Earth’s habitable landmass in doing so. Yet there currently exist only a handful of informal models derived from ethnographic observation, experime...

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White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court מאת Ignacio M. García In 1952 in Edna, Texas, Pete Hernández, a twenty-one-year-old cotton picker, got into a fight with several men and was dragged from a tavern, robbed, and beaten. Upon reaching his home he collected his .22-caliber rifle, walked two miles back to the tavern, and shot one of the assailants. With fort...

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If I Die in Juárez (Camino Del Sol) מאת Stella Pope Duarte From the red-light districts in Ciudad Juárez to remote villages hidden away in the mountains of Chihuahua comes a tale of one of the darkest crimes to be recorded in the history of humankind. If I Die in Juárez traces the lives of three young women—Evita, a street child; Petra, a maquiladora wo...