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God's Middle Finger
Free Press 2008; US$ 15.00Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the Sierra Madre, which is home to bandits, drug smugglers,... more...
Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 84.00Analyzes how protest became a key part of organizational maintenance and how organizations use protest as a political tool. more...
Mexican Enough
Atria Books 2008; US$ 15.00Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling... more...
The Chalupa Rules
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 14.00The Host of Martha Stewart's "Living Today" on Martha Stewart Living Radio (Sirius 112/XM 157)brings you this insightful look at how a colorful Mexican game of chance inspired him to succeed in life. "The Chalupa Rules" combines his family's timeless proverbs,traditional Spanish sayings, and powerful imagery to create a blueprint for success. Mario... more...
Hard Line
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become deadly as illegal immigration has shifted into some of the harshest territory on the continent, reshaping life on both sides of the border.... more...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2009; US$ 22.99Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost.... more...
The Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 86.00Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies. more...
El Sicario
Random House 2011; US$ 10.67MEET EL SICARIO. A fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head. He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. In grim and graphic detail he offers a series of confessions: -- Why he first became involved with the cartels and... more...
Drug Lord: A True Story
Cinco Puntos Press 2010; US$ 16.95?This book could function as an owner?s manual for the Mexican drug cartels.??Charles Bowden more...
Made in Mexico
University Press of Mississippi 2010; US$ 50.00This book concerns the aesthetic, political, and socio-political aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. Tourists seeking "authenticity" buy crafts and festival tickets, and spend even more on travel expenses. What does a craft object or a festival moment need to look like or sound like to please both tradition... more...









