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  • Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias

    The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion

    by Jan Rus, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Shannan L. Mattiace, José Alejos García, Andrés Aubry, Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor, George A. Collier, Christine Eber0, Gustavo Esteva1, Xóchitl Leyva Solano2 ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the uprising. This compelling volume examines in detail these local and regional histories of power and ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Fields of the Tzotzil

    The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas

    by George A. Collier ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Fields of the Tzotzil is the first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system. In viewing tradition, not as a survival of traits, but as a dynamic process of adaptation by local systems to their placement in larger social and economic systems, it lays to rest the theory that tribal peoples apparently are ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • El Narco

    Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

    by Ioan Grillo ...
    "Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.comA gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Cartel

    The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars

    by Sylvia Longmire ...
    Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in recent years, building submarines to move up the coast of Central America and digging elaborate ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized power station is presently able to produce. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Water – all life depends on it. Yet how often do we stop to consider its true significance, its essential nature? The Water Wizard, the first volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and convincing ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grub

    Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

    by Anna Lappe, Bryant Terry ...
    In the past few years, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of hippie food co-ops and into three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Concurrent with this growth has been increased consumer awareness of the social and health-related issues around organic eating, independent farming, and food production.Combining a straight-to-the-point exposé about organic foods (organic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature

    Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    The Energy Evolution, the final volume in the revolutionary Eco-Technology series, contains radical environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's groundbreaking writings on methods for energy generation that harness the enormous potential of Nature. Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive means – by a centripetal inward motion, while our present culture uses explosive centrifugal (outwards) ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mexico

    A Sociopolitical Critique

    by Jorge Guerrero Sanchez ...
    Find out how it is to live in Mexico.Learn why Mexico is so inefficient and expensive in doing business.Learn the systematic failures of our legal system.Understand why Mexican immigrants are the way they are; learn where they come from in an objective perspective of their culture and institutions.Analyze Mexico using a 2X2 Matrix and several game theory grids outlining possible scenarios, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Wastewater Gardener

    Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time

    by Mark Nelson, PhD ...
    Mark Nelson, PhD, has worked for several decades in closed ecological systems research. As one of eight brave souls enclosed in the pioneering Biosphere 2 experiment for two years in 1991-1993, Nelson learned fi rst hand how essential the proper use of human waste is to the health of the planet. This realization, combined with his lifelong love aff air with constructed wetlands, led to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mexican Wilderness and Wildlife

    by Ben Tinker ...
    From the mountainous area bordering Arizona and New Mexico, the western range of the Sierra Madres reaches south into Mexico to the state of Jalisco. The eastern range stretches from the Texas border down to Morelia and the Valley of Mexico. Ben Tinker spent years exploring this rugged wilderness and the vast deserts of Sonora and Baja California. Mexican Wilderness and Wildlife condenses a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • From Workshop to Waste Magnet

    Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region

    by Diane Sicotte ...
    Series series Nature, Society, and Culture
    Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance

    Mexico and the Global Political Economy

    by Chris Hesketh ...
    Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh’s discussion of state formation in Mexico takes us beyond the national level to explore the interplay between global, regional, national, and sub ... Read more

    $79.99 USD