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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
After the fabled Feathered Serpent breaks free from the bowls of the earth in 2012 to bring on the end of time, controversial astrobiologist and archaelogist Caden Montez must join forces with a 1,000-year-old Mayan warrior, who has crossed the Gulf of Time, to save humanity from extinction.
64) Saturday market
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Join Ana and Estela as they sell their handmade goods at a Saturday market in Mexico.
65) Cucu' Or Cuckoo
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Description
A traditional Mayan tale which reveals how the cuckoo lost her beautiful feathers.
69) The captive
Author
Series
Julian Escobar series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1979]
Description
As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.
Author
Pub. Date
©2002
Description
"Craig Childs has walked thousands of miles, season after season, into the desert looking for a wildness few people ever witness. In places that should have only desolation and waterless death, in seas of sand dunes and snow-swept high deserts, Childs has discovered an infinitely powerful grace. In the labyrinthine slots and walls within the Grand Canyon, he maps an improbably course toward a chute rumored to be an ancient shortcut through impassable...
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
"Comprehensive overview of Mesoamerican cultural traditions. Introductory chapter sketches the Mesoamerican physical setting and the field of Mesoamerican studies. Six chapters of volume's first section present the history of Mesoamerican peoples from prehispanic times to the present. The bulk of the text is devoted to topical essays on key issues in Mesoamerican studies: religion, gender, politics and economics, language, and native literature"--Handbook...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super mystery volume 22
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Nancy and the Hardy Boys investigate a case involving two Cactus Marathon runners.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico-the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras. Yet, when the colonial era ended two centuries later, only the Tepehuanes and Tarahumaras remained as distinct peoples, the other...
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