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  • Madre

    Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

    by Liza Bakewell ...
    Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while ¡qué padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Lost For Words

    by John Humphrys ...
    'Greatly enjoyable' GUARDIAN'It is always exhilarating to read a book which says what so many of us think' SPECTATOR'Timely and lively' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Let us be very clear about this from the start: John Humphrys is a Good Thing' EVENING STANDARD* * * * * *From Today programme presenter and national treasure John... ... Read more

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  • Barrio Libre

    Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier

    by Gilberto Rosas ...
    The city of Nogales straddles the border running between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, marginalized youths calling themselves Barrio Libre (Free 'Hood) employ violence, theft, and bribery to survive, often preying on undocumented migrants who navigate the city's sewer system to cross the US-Mexico border. In this book, Gilberto Rosas draws on his in-depth ethnographic research ... Read more

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  • The English Language in Canada

    Status, History and Comparative Analysis

    by Charles Boberg ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Migrating Faith

    Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century

    by Daniel Ramírez ...
    Daniel Ramírez’s history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azusa Street Revival. The Pentecostal phenomenon — characterized by ecstatic spiritual practices that included speaking in tongues, perceptions of miracles, interracial mingling, and new popular musical worship traditions from both sides of the border — ... Read more

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  • Border Odyssey

    Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide

    by Charles D. Thompson ...
    This blend of travelogue and reportage from the US-Mexico border is "a n exploration of 2,000 miles of fraught, rugged and deeply contested territory" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In a quest to capture a real-life, close-up view of the land where so many have been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, or killed—and the subject that has been debated for decades by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ¡Tequila!

    Distilling the Spirit of Mexico

    by Marie Sarita Gaytán ...
    Italy has grappa, Russia has vodka, Jamaica has rum. Around the world, certain drinks—especially those of the intoxicating kind—are synonymous with their peoples and cultures. For Mexico, this drink is tequila. For many, tequila can conjure up scenes of body shots on Cancún bars and coolly garnished margaritas on sandy beaches. Its power is equally strong within Mexico, though there the drink is ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Mexico on Main Street

    Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II

    by Colin Gunckel ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city’s Spanish-language newspapers, Colin Gunckel vividly demonstrates how this immigrant community pioneered a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Mexican Cult of Death in Myth, Art and Literature

    by Barbara Brodman ...
    "The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it, it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love." Thus Octavio Paz describes a cultural phenomenon that has for centuries fascinated scholars and aficionados of virtually every field ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • River of Hope

    Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands

    by Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez ...
    In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation to state power, and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders neither ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • 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

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