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México Sediento / Mexico in a Drought«El problema de la disponibilidad de agua en la cuenca del valle de México es una verdadera bomba de tiempo para la ciudad más poblada del planeta. Podemos imaginar que una sequía pudiera hacer estallar en pedazos el pacto federal mexicano porque un estado,...
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Diablo Guardián / Guardian Devil«Me siento oscura y luminosa, provinciana y newyorka, violada y violadora; traigo un motor adentro y me dan muchas ganas de usarlo para estrellarme contra una pared. De Violetta se cuenta que robó a su familia más de 100 mil dólares. Que le sobran...
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111 Places in Ottawa That You Must Not Miss- The ultimate insider's guide to Ottawa- Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides- Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide- Appeals to both the local market (almost...
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Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935Brian Behnken offers a sweeping examination of the interactions between Mexican-origin people and law enforcement--both legally codified police agencies and extralegal justice--across the U.S. Southwest (especially Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) from the 1830s to the 1930s. Representing a broad, colonial regime, police...
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ProvidenceProvidence, the first in the McBride Chronicles trilogy, describes the sweeping story of two parallel lives ? Jane Hopkins, an orphaned young girl from England and Gideon McBride, the son of a poor fisherman from Scotland - who separately travel to the New World...
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Serviam: The Political Ideology of Adrien Arcand"Keep your spirits clear and lucid, tear off the masks of your tormentors, and fanatically serve the truth. Our struggle began long ago, and what we have sown will not be uprooted, since the children of our children will reclaim the torch for the...
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The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799-1832Nahuatl-speaking women and men left last wills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to have ended. Describing their world in testaments clustered around epidemic cycles, they responded to profound changes in population, land...
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Meeka Loves Nature: Insects: Bilingual Inuktitut and English EditionThere are so many insects to discover in the North Join the little entomologist as she explores the tundra to find all sorts of bugs, from polaris bees to Arctic blue butterflies and everything in between. What flying, buzzing, crawling creatures will she discover...
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Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern CityWinner, The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), 2022 Co-winner, Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association, 2022 Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which...
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The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the AmericasTells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success....
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My Indian***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD - SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD - LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION - SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA - SILVER*** In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who...
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Grey Owl: Three Complete WorksThe three most famous and influential works from the controversial legend and early conservationist. Grey Owl was born Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, the son of an aristocrat in Hastings, England, in 1888. Raised by his two aunts, he led a lonely childhood in England until...
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Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from HellIn the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware their ultimate destination lies in the heart of drug cartel country. Having no earthly idea of where he'll...
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The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American WarWinner of the Bolton-Johnson PrizeWinner of the Utley PrizeWinner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History "The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians...in a story that involves far more than military strategy, diplomatic maneuvering, and American political intrigue...Studded with arresting...
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La Ciudad Oculta. Volumen 1La capital del pa s es tan grande que puede albergar infinidad de historias ocultas en cada calle, en cada casa. Por ello, H ctor de Maule n se ha dado a la tarea de capturar algunas de ellas, las m s impactantes y...
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The Maya Sites - Hidden Treasures of the Rain Forest: A Traveler's Guide to the Maya Sites on the Yucatán Peninsula, in México and GuatemalaThe Maya Sites - Hidden Treasures of the Rain Forest A Traveler's Guide to the Maya Sites on the Yucat n Peninsula, in M xico and Guatemala 2nd Edition, 155 illustrations, 91 in color This book is a compact guide that contains the 15...
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The Circle of Caring and SharingWhen two foxes, who are best friends, have a fight it upsets the whole community of animals. Kokom the Owl knows just what to do and brings together all the animals and holds a Sharing Circle.Author: Theresa Corky Larsen-JonassonPublisher: Medicine Wheel PublishingPublished: 09/01/2019Pages: 24Binding...
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Dragonfly Kites/PimithaagansaHighway's text has a graceful simplicity, evoking the deep pleasure of brothers at play in a serene, remote setting. -- Horn Book At once a celebration of heritage, the wilderness and imagination, this book is a breath of fresh northern air. -- Kirkus Reviews...
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Those Who Dwell BelowHaunted by the vicious creatures of his recent past, Pitu tries to go back to a normal life at home after the other-worldly travels and near-death encounters of his recent disappearance into the world of the spirits. But Pitu knows that there is more...
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Pacho NachoMama and Papa could not agree on a name for their first baby, and everyone in the family had an opinion. That's how the name Pacho-Nacho-Nico-Tico-Melo-Felo-Kiko-Rico came to be, and Pacho's parents insisted that everyone use his full name. But when Pacho finds himself...
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