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New Mexico'S Quest For Statehood, 1846-1912

by Robert W. Larson

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 Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organised style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territoryâ€™s extraordinary sixty-six-year struggle for statehood.
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An Atlas Of Historic New Mexico Maps, 1550â€“1941

by Peter L. Eidenbach

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 Eidenbach has compiled a collection of New Mexicoâ€™s historic maps, navigating through a varied terrain of research and discovery, even securing permissions for colonial-era maps held in special collections with limited public access. This collection, featuring beautifully rendered diagrams of New Mexicoâ€™s landscape, allows exploration of the past as seen by that pastâ€™s inhabitants.
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The Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas

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 Provides a breeding distribution snapshot for each of Arizona's nesting bird species at the end of the twentieth century. Bird populations change constantly due to environmental factors and human activities. The data compiled in this book will serve as a baseline against which to judge future changes. It also provides a wealth of natural history information.
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Tia'S Tamales

by Ana Baca

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 Ana Baca's bilingual tale of how two children from different generations learn to make their family recipe for tamales will delight readers of her earlier picture books that combine folklore and traditional cuisine.
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The Opossum'S Tale

by Deborah Duvall e Murv Jacob

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The Border Is Burning

by Ito Romo

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 Loners, families, fathers, wives - anyone who lives on the border between Mexico and the United States also lives on a border of violence and complexity. Here a master of Chicano noir explores that world in lean and haunting stories that you will never forget.
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Dr. George - My Life In Weather

by George Fischbeck

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 "Not only has George Fischbeck had a long career as an award-winning journalist and educator, he has also helped raise millions of dollars for a variety of charitable causes. His story is all here, and the best part is what the fewest people know: the heartwarming memories of a family man"--
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Sandals Of The Basketmaker And Pueblo Peoples - Fabric Structure And Color Symmetry

by Dorothy Koster Washburn e Lynn Shuler Teague

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 The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fibre structures and designs have been dissected, described and interpreted for a century. Nevertheless, these artefacts remain mysterious in many respects. Teague and Washburn examine these sandals as sources of information on the history of the people known as the Basketmakers.
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No Mere Shadows - Faces Of Widowhood In Early Colonial Mexico

by Shirley Cushing Flint

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 Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada familyâ€"a mother, three daughters and a granddaughterâ€"from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520 until the 1580s.
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Sunlight And Shadow

by Mare Pearl e Sue Boggio

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 An acclaimed first novel by two award-winning New Mexico writers, Sunlight and Shadow is a story of family, friendship, and what it really means to have hope. â€œFilled with emotion. A real winner of a story.â€â€"Tony Hillerman
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The Poetry And Poetics Of Gerald Vizenor

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 The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native Americaâ€™s most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from diverse theoretical perspectives, along with comparative discussions of Vizenorâ€™s related works
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Gila - The Life And Death Of An American River

by Gregory Mcnamee

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City Of Slow Dissolve

by Hilda Raz e John Chavez

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 Before recovery comes the preparation to recover. In City of Slow Dissolve, John Chavez takes readers through this journey - the "slow dissolve", the unpacking and re-packing of self that must take place before healing can begin. Fusing language poetry, lyric, and narrative, Chavez uses syntactical play, rhythm, and repetition of key words and lines to lend immediacy to emotions and actions.
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Saved In Time - The Fight To Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

by Estella B. Leopold e Herbert W. Meyer

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A Growing Season

by Mare Pearl e Sue Boggio

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 Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl return in A Growing Season to Esperanza, New Mexico, the setting of their first book, Sunlight and Shadow. Esperanza is a community at the crossroads where a devastating drought threatens the farming community's very survival. Vultures circle in the form of developers who see failing farms as ripe pickings. Court battles pit the endangered silvery minnow against the farmers as the once mighty Rio Grande shrinks from its banks.
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John Gaw Meem At Acoma - The Restoration Of San Esteban Del Rey Mission

by Kate Wingert-Playdon

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 Kate Wingert-Playdonâ€™s narrative of the restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission and the process behind it is the only detailed account of this milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexicoâ€™s most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.
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Hard To Have Heroes

by Buddy Mays

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 When fourteen-year-old wannabe cowboy Noah Odell and his widowed mother leave rainy Gold Hill, Oregon, to join Noah's flamboyant uncle Bud on a ranch in New Mexico, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere with daily temperatures in excess of 100 degrees; enough rattlesnakes, buzzards, and hungry coyotes to start a zoo; a dozen scrawny steers; and a smelly outdoor toilet overrun with black widow spiders.
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Fractal Architecture - Organic Design Philosophy In Theory And Practice

by James Harris

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The Culture Of Tourism, The Tourism Of Culture - Selling The Past To The Present In The American Southwest

38,56€

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 The Southwest has long been one of America's dreamscapes, a place we go to relive and reinvent our past for the purposes of the present. Yet the Southwest is a real place, too, one where people live and make a living. This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region's meaning on the larger stage of American national life.
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The Great Ball Game Of The Birds And Animals

by Deborah L. Duvall; Illustration: Murv Jacob

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 When Bear and Terrapin tell two small furry animals that they cannot compete in the important stickball game between the animals and the birds, the two are welcomed by the birds, who find a way for them to fly.

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