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  • Saints, Statues, and Stories

    A Folklorist Looks at the Religious Art of Sonora

    by James S. Griffith ...
    Series series Southwest Center Series
    . . . we move to the town of Aconchi on the Río Sonora, where the mission church once contained a life-sized crucifix with a black corpus, known both as Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas . . . and El Cristo Negro de Aconchi . . .So describes well-known and beloved folklorist James S. Griffith as he takes us back through the decades to a town in northern Sonora where a statue is saved—and in so doing, a ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Beliefs and Holy Places

    A Spiritual Geography of the Pimería Alta

    by James S. Griffith ...
    The region once known as Pimería Alta—now southern Arizona and northern Sonora—has for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. One need look no further than the roadside crosses along desert highways or the diversity of local celebrations to sense the richness of this cultural ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Hecho a Mano

    The Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican American Community

    by James S. Griffith ...
    Arts as intimate as a piece of needlework or a home altar. Arts as visible as decorative iron, murals, and low riders. Through such arts, members of Tucson's Mexican American community contribute much of the cultural flavor that defines the city to its residents and to the outside world. Now Tucson folklorist Jim Griffith celebrates these public and private artistic expressions and invites us to ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Geomorphological Mapping

    Methods and Applications

    by Mike J. Smith, James S. Griffiths ...
    Series Book 15 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    Geomorphological Mapping: a professional handbook of techniques and applications is a new book targeted at academics and practitioners who use, or wish to utilise, geomorphological mapping within their work. Synthesising for the first time an historical perspective to geomorphological mapping, field based and digital tools and techniques for mapping and an extensive array of case studies from ... Read more

    $181.99 CAD

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    The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front

    by Elizabeth R. Escobedo ...
    During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • From the Edge

    Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print

    by Allison E. Fagan ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Cuban Cinema After the Cold War

    A Critical Analysis of Selected Films

    by Enrique García ...
    The changes Cuba experienced following the collapse of the Soviet Union compelled Cuban filmmakers to rethink the values developed after the 1959 Castro revolution. Long-forgotten genres re-emerged, established auteurs incorporated new aesthetics into their films and an influx of foreign capital led to the repackaging of revolutionary ideology into more visually attractive narratives.Films such as ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology

    Edited by Roberto Santiago ...
    MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."--From the IntroductionFrom the sun-drenched beaches of a beautiful, flamboyan-covered island to the cool, hard ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • King of Cuba

    A Novel

    by Cristina Garcia ...
    A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the island” (Kirkus Reviews).Vivid and teeming with life, King of Cuba transports readers to Cuba and Miami, and ... Read more

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  • Global Positioning System

    Theory and Practice

    by Herbert Lichtenegger, Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, James Collins ...
    This book is dedicated to Dr. Benjamin William Remondi for many reasons. The project of writing a Global Positioning System (GPS) book was con ceived in April 1988 at a GPS meeting in Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Remondi discussed with me the need for an additional GPS textbook and suggested a possible joint effort. In 1989, I was willing to commit myself to such a project. Unfortunately, the timing ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Optical Remote Sensing of Land Surface

    Techniques and Methods

    by Nicolas Baghdadi, Mehrez Zribi ...
    The considerable progress in instrumentation and in the development of methods for the processing and analysis of data places remote sensing at the center of various international programs for the surveillance and tracking of climatic and anthropogenic changes and effects on the environment. This volume presents optical imaging and LiDAR systems: their instrumentation, physics of measurement, ... Read more

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  • The Flowers

    A Novel

    by Dagoberto Gilb ...
    Dagoberto Gilb is "one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed" (Larry McMurtry).Sonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives with his vivacious mother. But when she marries an Okie building contractor, they are uprooted to a small apartment building in a city where prejudice is not just white against ... Read more

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