Mexico category: 1477 books
This Love Is Not for Cowards
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues,...
by Liza Prado, Gary Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
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Finding Mezcal
A Journey into the Liquid Soul of Mexico, with 40 Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
In this groundbreaking and deeply personal book, Ron Cooper—a leading voice in the artisanal mezcal movement, and the person largely responsible for popularizing the spirit in the United States—shares everything he knows about this storied, culturally rich, and now hugely in-demand spirit, along...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered today...
by Rolo Diez
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
“Both a scathing and picaresque comedy, a biting and spicy concoction. Just like tequila.”—Le Monde
It’s not easy being a cop in Mexico City. Meet Carlito, a police detective with a complicated life. A wife, a mistress, children by both. He resorts to money laundering and arms dealing...
The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico
Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or “crowned nuns,” that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death....
Pillar of Salt
An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. With his friend and fellow poet Xavier Villaurrutia, he cofounded Ulises and Contemporáneos, landmark avant-garde journals of the late 1920s and 1930s. At once "outsider"...
by Arnold Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican “painted book” that first came into public view at Sotheby’s auction house in London in 1982, nearly four hundred years after it was presumably made by Mexican...
The Hunt for Pancho Villa
The Columbus Raid and Pershing’s Punitive Expedition 1916–17
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. "Black Jack†? Pershing led an expeditionary...
The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition
The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of...
Moctezuma's Children
Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520–1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the...
El Sicario
The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained...
by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 1585) was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards for Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortés… In the book, Castillo describes the Conquest of the Aztecs, in which...