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  • Tarahumara Medicine

    Ethnobotany and Healing among the Rarámuri of Mexico

    by Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón, Alfonso Paredes ...
    The Tarahumara, one of North America’s oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning “nimble feet”—and though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in long-distance running is famous worldwide. Tarahumara Medicine is the first in-depth look into the culture that sustains the “great runners.” Having spent a decade in Tarahumara communities, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Recent Developments in Alcoholism

    Alcohol and Violence - Epidemiology, Neurobiology, Psychology, Family Issues

    by Henri Begleiter, Deirdre Winczewski, Richard Deitrich, Richard Fuller, Donald Gallant, Donald W. Goodwin, Edward Gottheil, Alfonso Paredes, Marcus Rothschild, David H. van Thiel ...
    Series Book 13 - Recent Developments in Alcoholism
    From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism On behalf of the Research Society on Alcoholism, I am pleased to introduce this thirteenth volume of Recent Developments in Alcoholism about alcohol and violence. Current concepts are presented in well-organized sections that - cus on epidemiology, neurobiology, psychology, and family issues. It is - coming increasingly clear that age, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in the world to the big ones like Mandarin - What Language Is celebrates the history and curiosities of languages around the world and smashes our assumptions about "correct ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Short History, 1910-1920

    by Stuart Easterling ...
    "An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!" (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959).The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wetland Plants of Queensland

    A Field Guide

    by KM Stephens, RM Dowling ...
    This practical field guide describes and illustrates in colour 90 common and widespread wetland plants found in Queensland, and gives a distribution map for each species. To assist those readers who are keen to learn more, the book includes a series of keys to help identify those species that are not illustrated in the book but which may be encountered in the field. The keys also help to identify ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Australian Seeds

    A Guide to Their Collection, Identification and Biology

    Edited by Luke Sweedman, David Merritt ...
    This is the first complete guide to the collection, processing and storage of wild collected seed. While the main focus is on Australian seeds, the procedures and protocols described within the book are of international standard and apply to users throughout the world. The book provides a basic understanding to seed biology, evolution and morphology, and includes chapters on all aspects of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Wetland Habitats

    A Practical Guide to Restoration and Management

    by Nick Romanowski ...
    Wetland Habitats is a practical and easy to use manual for wetland restoration and conservation of diverse animal species. Covering all the recent work in this field, among other significant issues it discusses making the most of dams and created wetlands; reversing the effects of drainage, grazing, weirs, deteriorating water quality, and associated algal problems; captive breeding and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • English Words

    History and Structure

    by Professor Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell ...
    This new edition is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. It surveys the historical events that define the layers of vocabulary in English, introduces some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis, and is a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. The new edition has been updated with a discussion of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Revolution at Querétaro

    The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917

    by E.V. Niemeyer Jr. ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917 came to grips with the basic problem of twentieth-century Mexico. They hammered out pragmatic solutions to establish the legal foundations of the Mexican Revolution, the definitive break between the old Mexico and the new, the constitutional bases for the socioeconomic changes from ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Epidemiology of Mycotoxin Producing Fungi

    Under the aegis of COST Action 835 ‘Agriculturally Important Toxigenic Fungi 1998–2003’, EU project (QLK 1-CT-1998–01380)

    Edited by Xiangming Xu, John A. Bailey, B.M. Cooke ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

    $89.99 USD

  • Open Your Heart

    Religion and Cultural Poetics of Greater Mexico

    by David P. Sandell ...
    Series series Latino Perspectives
    In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican American people of faith use to cope with racism and poverty associated with colonial, capitalist, and modern social conditions. Based on in-depth interviews and extensive field research conducted in 2000 and 2001, Sandell's work shows how people use ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus