North America local history
-
The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian CivilizationsWinner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clézio's haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of...
- $56.63 AUD
- $56.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Canada In Pictures: The Prairie Region - Volume 4 - Alberta, Manitoba, and SaskatchewanCanada's Prairie Region is composed of three provinces - Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. These provinces are characterized by endless plains and hills. In this book, you will get to "travel" to the three said regions to see their most amazing sights. Information on these...
- $49.80 AUD
- $49.80 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican CountrysideThe 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the...
- $157.60 AUD
- $157.60 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and CanadaCanada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the...
- $108.20 AUD
- $108.20 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Mexico: The EssentialsMexico: The Essentials provides a concise introduction to Mexican history and culture built on ten fundamental aspects of Mexican life. Featuring a topical organization, the book offers readers easy access to these major themes--the "essentials"--that shape the nation and society: physical and living diversity,...
- $113.20 AUD
- $113.20 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History AliveFor many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters...
- $168.38 AUD
- $168.38 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. MontgomeryFor the first time ever, a young adult novel about the teen years of L.M. Montgomery, the author who brought us ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Maud to her friends -- has a dream: to go to college and become...
- $29.03 AUD
- $29.03 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for TodayThe ten stories that make up this collection are raw, original, and fresh. Although they are all about American Indians, they are as different from one another as they are from anything you've read before.A supermarket checkout line, a rowboat on a freezing lake...
- $47.53 AUD
- $47.53 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
PirataFrom 21-Jump Street writer and series creator Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, part family novel about an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don Winslow's The Dawn Patrol."It's rare to...
- $38.63 AUD
- $38.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of WarCanada's most popular military leader since World War II, General Rick Hillier tells his own story in A Soldier First--a frank, honest, eye-opening account of the General's quick climb through the ranks.Author: Rick HillierPublisher: HarperPublished: 10/01/2010Pages: 552Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x...
- $50.18 AUD
- $50.18 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Never Say DieIn this fast-paced adventure story set in the Canadian arctic, fifteen-year-old Inuit hunter Nick Thrasher comes face-to-face with a fearsome creature on a routine caribou hunt gone wrong. Part grizzly, part polar bear, this environmental mutant has been pegged the "grolar bear" by wildlife...
- $44.90 AUD
- $44.90 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis"William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very...
- $58.10 AUD
- $58.10 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Zincantecos of Mexico: A Modern Mayan Way of LifeThis case study explores the Zinacenteco belief system as represented in ceremonies, rituals and daily life, and discusses how that belief system also serves as a philosophy, cosmology, theology, code of values and science.Author: Evon Z. VogtPublisher: Harcourt Brace College PublishersPublished: 11/01/1997Pages: 157Binding Type:...
- $214.98 AUD
- $214.98 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
HatchetThis award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared--and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted...
- $20.35 AUD
- $20.35 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
National Geographic Road Atlas: Adventure Edition [United States, Canada, Mexico]National Geographic's Road Atlas: Adventure Edition, is the ideal companion for the next time you hit the road. Includes up-to-date road maps for all 50 U.S. States, plus Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Major cities and metropolitan areas are shown in detail with inset...
- $56.50 AUD
- $56.50 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Día de los MuertosLearn all about the traditions of Día de los Muertos with this second book in the brand-new board book series Celebrate the World, which highlights special occasions and holidays across the globe. At the end of October each year, it's time to celebrate an...
- $20.35 AUD
- $20.35 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
HatchetCelebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Newbery Honor-winning survival novel Hatchet with a pocket-sized edition perfect for travelers to take along on their own adventures. This special anniversary edition includes a new introduction and commentary by author Gary Paulsen, pen-and-ink illustrations by Drew Willis,...
- $22.63 AUD
- $22.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Pure ColourWinner of the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and...
- $61.15 AUD
- $61.15 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the BorderlandsBad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers,...
- $67.95 AUD
- $67.95 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
When We Were AloneA young girl notices things about her grandmother that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak Cree and spend so much time with her family? As she asks questions, her grandmother shares...
- $45.18 AUD
- $45.18 AUD
- Unit price
- per