Mexico category: 1477 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
This excellent 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Over the last decade, the U.S. military and homeland security research groups have contemplated the issue of how to counter unmanned drones. Recently, border security agencies...
Communism in Mexico
A Study in Political Frustration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The ease with which Cuba slipped into its relationship with Communism revived in the United States its recurring nightmare in which other Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, become satellites of Russia or Red China. But such an occurrence is most unlikely in Mexico, according to Karl Schmitt,...
A Taste of Living In Mexico,
A collection of stories and suggestions for would-be gringos
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
'A Taste of Living in Mexico' is a collection of stories, based on facts. It is informative and at times funny to anyone with an interest in Mexico. Particularly for someone, who might consider spending more time in Mexico to 'live the life', or to retire there, and see their retirement budget gain...
Kinship, Business, and Politics
The Martinez Del Rio Family in Mexico, 1823-1867
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The Martínez del Río family was a vigorous contestant in the highly politicized economy of early national Mexico. David Walker’s case study of its successes and failures provides a unique insider’s view of the trials and tribulations of doing business in a hostile environment. The family’s ordeal...
by Carmen Amato
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
The Insider’s Guide to the Best of Mexico is a unique collection of insider stories that you won’t find anywhere else. It’s your passport to a country full of color, culture, and contrasts.
Forty-two writers, artists, educators, travelers, business owners and others share their experiences...
by Cheryl Kline
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This comprehensive, all-you-need-to-know guide about teaching English in Mexico City is for the experienced teacher who is considering teaching privately in Mexico. With more than 20 million Mexicans residing in and immediately around the capital, along with a severe lack of qualified and affordable...
The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico
World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexican shores, the conflict had a significant influence on the country’s political development. Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the...
Alone in Mexico
The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens. He passed through the Caribbean, lived for a time in the mountains of Veracruz, and journeyed to Mexico City through the...
by H. Irving Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The Young Engineers In Mexico
by H. Irving Hancock
Luis Montez, mine owner, stood on the broad veranda in front of his handsome home, looking out over the country sweeping away to the eastward.
"Gentlemen, you are in a land of golden promise," began Senor Montez, with a smile...
Vasconcelos of Mexico
Philosopher and Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
José Vasconcelos—lawyer, politician, writer, educator, philosopher, prophet, and mystic—was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the intellectual life of twentieth-century Mexico. Vasconcelos was driven by the desire to gain a complete and comprehensive vision of reality,...
Vanishing Frontiers
The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier,...
This Is Mexico
Tales of Culture and Other Complications
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
This Is Mexico is a collection of essays on the often magical and mysterious—and sometimes heartrending—workings of everyday life in Mexico, written from the perspective of an American expatriate. By turns humorous and poignant, Merchasin provides an informed look at Mexican culture and history,...
Warlords of Ancient Mexico
How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico.
More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life...
To Die in Mexico
Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
To Die in Mexico combines gripping descriptive writing with fast-paced crime action.
Gives an in-depth treatment of Mexico’s top national security threat and a major national security threat to the United States: international drug trafficking.
Rigorous political analysis of the drug...