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Examines Latin American leadership and experiences in the League of Nations. Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.

Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations. It also provides information on the eight species that have been reported but rarely seen in North America.

In 1858 Francois-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.

Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Rio de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. This book analyses the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.

The remote New Mexico community of Pie Town is famous for the photographs that Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee made there during the Great Depression. In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.

Edward Wright-Rios examines the much-maligned - and sometimes celebrated - character of Madre Matiana and her position in the development of Mexico.

Investigates how globalization, with all of its economic and cultural implications, effects the young generation of Nicaraguans who share a birthday with the revolution that attracted such intense foreign attention from the late 1970s to 1990. Farrell wea

Suitable for ages 8+, this is an adventure story based on characters from Cherokee tradition, including Ji-Stu (Rabbit) and his friends Otter, Sa-lo-li (Squirrel), and the mysterious Wampus Cat. It combines colour paintings and a blending of Cherokee mythology with scientific facts about animals and their places in our world.

In 1968, the author and her husband moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Chinle, Arizona, where he took up a job with the Navajo legal services program. This book presents her account about the places and people they came to love and the lessons they learned from their Navajo neighbours.

The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.

Focuses on the history of human habitation in the American Southwest and similar arid areas to propose fresh - and some very old - strategies to meet the challenges of creating equitable and adaptable communities for the 21st century. This book offers case studies for creating affordable, energy efficient, and environmentally sound communities.

Burdensome Katzenjammer Mystify Wondrous Zany These are five of the twenty-six words, one for each letter of the alphabet, that appear in Weighty Words, Too. As with the earlier Weighty Word Book, the stories, often fanciful, help young readers build their vocabularies. "e;Hibernate"e; tells the tale of Nathaniel, a very energetic Canadian bear, who plays in the snow with the other bears. Soon all the bears tire and want to sleep, with the exception of Nate. "e;He's hyper,"e; one grizzly bear observes. "e;If it's winter sleep you want,"e; advises Nathaniel, "e;then I suggest you do the opposite from me, hyper Nate."e; So, whenever animals sleep through the winter, think of "e;hyper Nate,"e; and you will remember the word HIBERNATE.

Published in honour of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, this book provides more than an institutional history. Rich with anecdotes and personality, Dora Calott Wang's account is a must-read for anyone curious about health care in New Mexico.

Set in the author's childhood home, the Rio Puerco Valley southeast of Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico, this collection of fictional short stories are based on his personal experiences or stories he heard about people or events while growing up in his valley. They illustrate the vibrant culture of rural northern New Mexico and its inhabitants.

The texts provide an overview of writers from the Colonial period to the nineteenth century. They include an exploration account, the vida of a mystic, an autobiography of a transvestite, poetry by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, essays, and two novellas.

"Yip, Yippy Yap Yippy Yay, I'm a clever fellow, they say,” howls Three-Toes the cunning coyote. Quiet as the shadow of a floating cloud, he gets around to escaping Rancher Brown's trap, tricking Towser the dog, and sending Hop-a-long jumping for shelter on his long jack rabbit legs. The final book of the Mesaland Series follows Three-Toes as he pops in and out of mischief on the sunny mesa.

In the sixth book of the Mesaland Series, meet a strange little animal sprinkled with needle-sharp quills - Mr. Porcupine. Whoops, he outsmarts Three-Toes the coyote. Crunch-crunch, he gobbles Rancher Brown's saddle. Ouch, he tangles with Fussy Bluejay.

In the second book of the Mesaland Series, Baby Jack grows up and is renamed Hop-a-long. Hop-a-long and his sister Jumping Jack leap across the mesa and get into plenty of mischief. On moonlit nights, Jumping Jack likes to hop on the smooth sand beside the mesquite. And Hop-a-long prowls the mesa, spying on his prairie dog friends and hiding from Hungry Owl.

"Buzz, buzz, I like what I duz," sings Dumbee, the handsome bumblebee who buzzes happily around the mesa all day. Dumbee gets into more trouble than all the rest of his family put together, but he always buzz-z-z-z-es for help. But when Dumbee finds some mysterious blue honey, he proves that he is smarter than everyone else thinks.

Cocky, a rollicking little roadrunner, joins baby jack rabbit Hop-a-long and the other creatures of the desert in the fourth book of the Mesaland Series. The small, gawky bird with his long bill and peculiar running gait first frightens his neighbours, then makes them laugh. But they learn to love and respect him after he defeats the enemy rattlesnake in an exciting fight.

The fifth book of the Mesaland Series tells the story of lovable, lumbering prairie dog Big Fat. His mischievous neighbour Little Ugly teases Big Fat when he plumps down for a rest on cactus spines and pops up howling. But when Big Fat shows off a beautiful litter of puppies, Little Ugly joins Big Fat as he watches carefully for the dangerous coyote Three-Toes.

In recent years the Cochuah region, the ancient breadbasket of the north-central Yucatecan lowlands, has been documented and analysed by a number of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists. This book presents and analyses the findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.

Baby Jack lives with his family - Mother Jack, Father Jack, and sister Jumping Jack - in a big mesquite thicket near Mount Baldy. A funny fellow with long legs and long ears, he loves to jump around the mesa. Join Baby Jack in the first book of the Mesaland Series as he explores the desert and encounters other creatures, including a little bee, a grasshopper, and a pile of big red ants.

The Kaqchikel Maya, who live in the highlands of central Guatemala, experience soul as part of a continuum of bodily states. This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.

Introduces twenty-two Uruguayan poets under the age of forty to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Kercheval paired poets and translators to produce a rich volume based on a multicultural dialogue about poetry and the written word. America invertida give readers an introduction to Uruguay's vibrant literary scene.

Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans's classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.

When the environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey.