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Central America Central America Antiquities Central America Description and travel Central America Emigration and immigration Indians of Central America Antiquities Indians of Central America Social life and customs Indians of Mexico Antiquities Indians of Mexico Social life and customs Large type books Mexico AntiquitiesMercer, Abbie
Summary: Bloody sacrifices, disgusting diets, and shocking religious rituals are some of the gruesome aspects of the totally gross history of Mesoamerica. Concise and entertaining, this text covers some of the more nauseating facts about pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (the region spanning Central America). The gruesome details about the Mesoamerican diet, religion, and medicine will shock readers. But beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing's Rosen Central 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972 MERPhillips, Charles
Summary: Aztec & Maya: The Complete Illustrated History uncovers the rise and fall of the many different empires of Mexico and Central America--their political and military campaign, their legends and myths, and their art, architecture and social history. Ground plans and detailed photographs explore over 20 magnificent and vitally important World Heritage sites, including Teotihuacán, Tenochtitlán,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972 PHIChomsky, Aviva
Summary: "Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells--in their own words--the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Blitzer, Jonathan
Summary: "An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border that tells the story of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policy makers determining their fate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Magazines, Call number: YA 305.235 VILWood, Levison
Summary: "Starting in the Yucatán, Wood sets out on an epic walking voyage, moving through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, travelling in the opposite direction along vital migrant routes. Journeying from sleepy barrios to glamourous cities to Mayan ruins lying unexcavated in the wilderness, Wood forges new relationships along the way that stand at the heart of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.28 WOOFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "You may like chocolate, but how would you feel about using cocoa beans as money or in glue? Maybe you'd like to play a ball game for warriors (just be careful you don't become a scarified to the gods after playing). What about living life with a calendar system even more advanced than our own? You could try it all if you lived like the Maya! Discover extreme facts about the Maya civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.81 FINJokinen, Kristen
Summary: "Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met scuba diving in Vietnam and fell in love. She was a real estate agent from Oregon, and he a financial analyst for Toyota in his native Finland. After hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from the border of Mexico to Canada they decided their next adventure would be a two-year cycling trip covering 18,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 JOKPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 972.8 PREFreeman, Kelsey
Summary: "At a time when anti-immigrant vitriol substitutes for US immigration policy, No Option But North deftly blends heartbreaking accounts of the journey north with cogent insights into the systemic causes that make the trek north an almost impossible option if you're poor and from south of the border. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the human rights implications of US immigration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IG Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 FREWoods, Michael
Summary: This book explores seven extraordinary creations of nature in Central and South America including Angel Falls, the Amazon River, Atacama Desert, Galapagos Islands, Montecristo Cloud Forest, Pos̀ Volcano, and the Andes Mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 980 WOOBlack, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.805 BLAGallenkamp, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.01 GALAdams, Richard E. W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.01 ADAWeisbecker, A. C. (Alan C.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.0009 WEIBehnke, Alison.
Summary: An introduction to the cooking of Central America, featuring such recipes as coconut bread, yucca fritters, rice and beans, and baked bananas. Also includes information on the history, geography, and customs of Central American people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5972 BEHSummary: The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. This program highlights the ingenious breakthroughs that cracked the code, unleashing a flood of dramatic new insights about the ancient civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRADenmon, Randy
Summary: "Only a week after the nation's newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt to do the unthinkable—drive a factory electric car across seven Third World countries to the "end of the road," Panama City, Panama. Without support and armed only with a toolbox, a bag...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DENMON, RANDY DENGallenkamp, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1985
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Summary: "David Bowles stitches together the fragmented mythology of pre-Colombian Mexico into an exciting, unified narrative in the tradition of William Buck's Ramayana, Robert Fagles's Iliad, and Neil Gaiman's Norse Myths"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BOWSummary: "500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact"--Booklet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIVWilliamson, Edwin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 WILChomsky, Aviva
Summary: "This book looks at the role illegality or undocumentedness plays in our society and economy. It shows how the status was created, and how and why people, especially Mexicans and Central Americans, have been assigned this status. The first three chapterslook at the histories of social exclusion. One looks specifically at the Mexican and Guatemalan contexts to understand why such large numbers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014