Mexico category: 1477 books
by Jennifer Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2020
Enjoy tacos and beers on the beach, sip indie wines at a boutique vineyard, and cruise along the stunning Baja coast with Moon Tijuana, Ensenada & Valle de Guadalupe Wine Country. Inside you'll find:
Flexible itineraries including a five-day road trip, a weekend in Tijuana, three days in wine...
Diario de Oaxaca
A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Painting a vivid, personal portrait of social and political upheaval in Oaxaca, Mexico, this unique memoir employs comics, bilingual essays, photos, and sketches to chronicle the events that unfolded around a teachers' strike and led to a seven-month siege. When award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper...
by Phillippe Diederich
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where...
by Jordan Elisa Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Mexico has a diverse culture that goes back 2,500 years! Throughout history, the people of Mexico have made beautiful art, innovative tools, and incredible statues. Thanks to these artifacts, we can look back into history and see how these people lived. By integrating math and literacy skills, this...
On Mexican Time
A New Life in San Miguel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place...
Mexican Days
Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as—faced with the invasion of the town by tourists...
Mexican Mornings
Essays South of the Border
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
There is a part of Mexico, the west-central area encompassing the state of Jalisco and its capital, Guadalajara, which is the cradle of many significant cultural traditions that most of us associate with that great country: mariachi music, tequila and charreada (rodeos) to name a few. And Jalisco...
The Bare-toed Vaquero
Life in Baja California's Desert Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries. They raise goats and cattle and grow a magnificent variety of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. In this book a gifted photojournalist introduces...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Acapulco (Mexico) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
Singing for the Dead
The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political effects. Paja Faudree argues for the inclusion of singing as a necessary component in the polarized debates...
Luchadores
A History of Lucha Libre
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2019
What started in small venues around Mexico in the 1930s has become an industry that is now known all around the world. Millions of fans attend live events and watch the television shows of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion and the many independent wrestling...
Drug Lord: A True Story
The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
"Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable."-Don Winslow, author of The Power of Dog and California Fire and Life
"The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger...
The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
A Chronicle of the Collision of Two Worlds (Short ilustrated version)
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Trying to understand the conquest of the Aztec Empire entails penetrating one of the most fabulous and sad episodes of the history of mankind. It is well known that the Spaniards, led by Hernan Cortes, conquered the Aztecs; the most powerful civilization of Mesoamerica. However, there are many questions...
Chimalpahin's Conquest
A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success....