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  • Conflict in Colonial Sonora

    Indians, Priests, and Settlers

    by David Yetman ...
    In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups—Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. Priests hoped to pacify Indians, who in turn resisted the missionary clergy. Settlers, who often encountered opposition from priests, sought to dominate Indians, take over their land, and, when convenient, exploit ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Natural Landmarks of Arizona

    by David Yetman ...
    Series series Southwest Center Series
    Natural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona’s natural monuments through the eyes of a celebrated storyteller who has called Arizona home for most of his life. David Yetman shows us how Arizona’s most iconic landmarks were formed millions of years ago and sheds light on the more recent histories of these landmarks as well. These peaks and ranges offer striking ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán

    From Deserts to Clouds

    by David Yetman, Alberto Búrquez ...
    Series series Southwest Center Series
    Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán: From Deserts to Clouds provides an accessible and photographic view of the culture, history, and environment of an extraordinary region of southern Mexico. The Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán are lauded by botanists for their spectacular plant life—they contain the densest columnar cacti forests in the world. Recent archaeological excavations reveal ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Saguaro Cactus

    A Natural History

    by David Yetman, Alberto Búrquez, Kevin Hultine, Michael Sanderson ...
    Series series Southwest Center Series
    The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape—its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human—has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity.This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

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  • Geology of British Columbia

    A Journey Through Time

    by Sydney Cannings, Richard Cannings, JoAnne Nelson ...
    This book tells the story of the province’s geology and the history of its living creatures. The first edition of Geology of British Columbia,, with its accessible but rigorous science, struck a chord with readers. Since it was first published, theories about plate tectonics and the geological history of British Columbia have evolved, and this new edition reflects the current thinking. This book ... Read more

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  • Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park

    The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park

    by Greg Breining ...
    Despite growing evidence of geothermic activity under America's first and foremost national park, it took geologists a long time to realize that there was actually a volcano beneath Yellowstone. And then, why couldn't they find the caldera or crater? Because, as an aerial photograph finally revealed, the caldera is 45 miles wide, encompassing all of Yellowstone. What will happen, in human terms, ... Read more

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  • Magdalena

    River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia

    by Wade Davis ...
    A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, bestselling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade-- that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and futureTravelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis ... Read more

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  • Silver, Sword, and Stone

    Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

    by Marie Arana ...
    Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult NonfictionLonglisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for ExcellenceAgainst the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region ... Read more

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  • Atlas of a Lost World

    Travels in Ice Age America

    by Craig Childs ...
    From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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  • Crossing the Continent, 1527–1540

    The Story of the First African in American History

    by Robert Goodwin ...
    "An adventure story more thrilling than Defoe or Melville could have imagined." — The Philadelphia InquirerThe true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer—an African slave named Esteban DorantesCrossing the Continent takes us on an epic journey from Africa to Europe and America as Dr. Robert Goodwin chronicles the incredible adventures of the African slave Esteban Dorantes (1500 ... Read more

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