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Critiques
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Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the…
extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song.Floyd begins by considering some of the grand narratives the industry has generated. She goes on to discuss particular places and the distinctive work they generated—the short fictions of the California Gold Rush, the Sagebrush journalism of Nevada&’s Comstock Lode, Leadville romance, and the popular culture of the Klondike.With excursions to Canada, South Africa, and Australia, Floyd looks at how the experience of a destructive and chaotic industry produced a global literature.
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Sports (biographies), Sports et jeux
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A delightfully entertaining journey following the lifelong development of a devoted horseman, and the opportunities and challenges native to such…
a pursuit in different parts of the world.It was at the age of thirteen that Gunnar Ostergaard wrote in his journal, &“Is there anything more beautiful than horses?&” The rhetorical question would come to guide his every step as he sought a way to build a life around that which he loved most. What transpired was a journey through three lands and cultures, each providing a different window into the body and mind of the horse and the heart and soul of the horseman. In these pages he traces his path from Denmark to Germany to the United States, providing a glimpse into the world of rider development in three vastly different places, as well as a rare peek behind the curtain of top international dressage training and competition. Throughout, Gunnar is funny and frank, generously sharing both his struggles and successes. The result is a highly entertaining history lesson that is at the same time rich in equestrian philosophy readers can immediately apply to their own riding lives.
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Histoire
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Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic…
past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Under Díaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico&’s image as a backward, peripheral nation. The government claimed symbolic links with the great civilizations of pre-Hispanic times as it hauled statues to the National Museum and reconstructed Teotihuacán. Christina Bueno explores the different facets of the Porfirian archaeological project and underscores the contradictory place of indigenous identity in modern Mexico. While the making of Mexico&’s official past was thought to bind the nation together, it was an exclusionary process, one that celebrated the civilizations of bygone times while disparaging contemporary Indians.
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Aventure (récits)
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Based on a Cheyenne legend, this novel holds universal appeal as it explores the theme of a man&’s conflict with…
his culture. It is the story of how Little Bear, a Cheyenne warrior who opposes war, reconciles the conflict between his personal values and the demands of his tribe. The dilemma faced by Little Bear gives rise to a story that is at once a compelling adventure tale, an authentic description of Indian life and ritual, and a parable of self-realization.First published in 1953, The Canyon remained one of Schaefer's personal favorites. This new release will be welcomed by Schaefer&’s enduring admirers and by new Western literature enthusiasts. It is a classic not to be missed.
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Littérature générale (romans)
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Children and their parents and grandparents will love these stories of family life, entitled The Pancake Stories because they begin…
with Timothy Taylor&’s adventure in making breakfast for his parents. Peggy Pond Church, one of the great New Mexico authors of the twentieth century, wrote these stories for her own sons in the 1930s, and her daughter-in-law Elizabeth Church created the illustrations in the 1950s. Now at last they are published, both in the original English and in Noël Chilton&’s Spanish translation.All the Pancake Stories are about Timothy Taylor and his family: his mother, his father, and his eccentric aunties. A horse who goes to the movies, a cat who has too many kittens, and a dog who makes everyone laugh are all part of Timothy&’s world. Read these stories aloud. They will remind you how much fun it is to be a child.
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Environnement, Nature
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More than twenty-five years after his death, iconic writer and nature activist Edward Abbey (1929–1989) remains an influential presence in…
the American environmental movement. Abbey&’s best known works continue to be widely read and inspire discourse on the key issues facing contemporary American society, particularly with respect to urbanization and technology. Abbey in America, published forty years after Abbey&’s popular novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, features an all-star list of contributors, including journalists, authors, scholars, and two of Abbey&’s best friends as they explore Abbey&’s ideas and legacy through their unique literary, personal, and scholarly perspectives.
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Animaux et faune, Sports et jeux
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A revised and updated edition of a classic work on horses and horsemanship by one of the most acclaimed riders in show jumping history.
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Histoire (romans)
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In the fourth book in the Asha and Baz series, readers learn about volcanoes from renowned volcanologist Katia Krafft!Asha wants…
to win a super cool volcanic rock by solving the Great Volcano Challenge at school. So she and her best friend Baz use their magic stick to travel to Iceland in 1973 to learn from famous volcano researcher Katia Krafft.She's sure to be able to help them with their project, but she's got an eruption to observe and data to record—and ash, lava, and smelly gases are a lot more scary than a classroom. With safety concerns rising, Asha and Baz will need to keep their cool to get back home and win the prize.
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Histoire (romans)
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First published in 1999, Faraway Blue is based on the real-life exploits of Sergeant Moses Williams, former slave, Civil War…
veteran, and Buffalo Soldier in the Ninth Cavalry Regiment. Included in Moses's story are four women and two men representing the ethnic groups and economic levels found in the late 1800s American Southwest.At the story's opening, Williams's cavalry unit has one assignment: kill Apaches in the faraway blue mountains of southwestern New Mexico Territory, also known as the Black Range. As a fighter in the white man's campaign to obliterate the Indians and take over their lands, Williams finds a nemesis in Nana, an old Warm Springs Apache warrior who is a tactical genius. Nana leads his small band of followers to repeatedly strike area mining camps and settlements. Both men know they must meet before the end of the war and a maddening cat-and-mouse pursuit ensues. ;Williams is sustained by his love for Sheela Jones, a mulatto whom he wants to marry when the army will allow it. But Sheela's love for him guides her to take an immense risk just as Williams and Nana ride out to settle their score.Evans paints marvelous word pictures of a land and people he knows extremely well. - Booklist As always with Evans, written with a good sense of the times and place. - Kirkus
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Multiculturalisme (romans), Aventure (récits), Littérature générale (romans), Policiers (romans), École (récits)
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The Math Kids are at it again! When their new friend, Special Agent Carlson, asks them to take a look…
at a cryptic poem written by a dying bank robber, they know they will need all of their math skills to crack the case. The poem isn't their only problem, though. Their favourite school janitor is fired for stealing from student lockers. The Math Kids know Old Mike would never do anything like that, but how can they prove it, especially with the new janitor watching their every move? Jordan, Stephanie, Justin, and Catherine will need math, bravery, and a little bit of luck if they hope to solve the bank robbery case and get Old Mike his job back. Will they be able to figure out the unusual pattern in time? The Math Kids: An Unusual Pattern is the third book in David Cole's fast-moving math adventure series.
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Essais et documents généraux
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During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlán, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as…
a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value. To encompass new developments in the discourse the editors have added six new essays.
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Fantastique (récits), Oeuvres littéraires (romans), Peuples autochtones (romans)
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Sacred Folks brings it all home in the final book of Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.&’s urban Native Chicago story…
cycle. Disciples, demons, gods, gangbangers, and the city itself all meet up to tell unforgettable tales across time and neighborhoods. Our guide through the trilogy, Teddy, is right in the thick of things, and he recounts for us parts of the path to the end and explains how and maybe why we got here and where we might go after all.
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Etats-Unis (histoire), Essais et documents généraux
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New Mexico&’s twin traditions of the scientific and the supernatural meet for the first time in this long-overdue book by…
a journalist known for investigating the unexplained. Strange tales of ghosts, monsters, miracles, lost treasure, UFOs, and much more can be found not far from the birthplace of the atomic bomb. Huge radio astronomy dishes search desert skies for alien life, and the world&’s first spaceport can be found in this enchanted land; in many ways New Mexico truly is a portal to other worlds.Mysterious New Mexico is the first book to apply scientific investigation methods to explain some of New Mexico&’s most bizarre lore and legends. Using folklore, sociology, history, psychology, and forensic science—as well as good old-fashioned detective work—Radford reveals the truths and myths behind New Mexico&’s greatest mysteries.
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Etats-Unis (histoire), Environnement
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Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing…
it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake&’s vast bird populations. Controversy between environmentalists and the City of Los Angeles brought so much attention to Mono Lake in the late twentieth century that it became best known for its appearance on &“Save Mono Lake&” bumper stickers. This thoughtful study is the first book to explore the lake&’s environmental and cultural history.Hoffman writes about gold mining in the Mono Basin; the taking of birds and their eggs to supply food for miners and townspeople; a failed oil boom; efforts to develop recreational activities such as a state-operated marina, which also failed; catastrophes including plane crashes and the testing of bombs underwater; and litigation over the diversion of creeks flowing into the lake and the resulting decline in the lake level. A variety of photographs, some never before published, ranging from mining to motor boat races in the 1930s are also included.
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Animaux et faune, Sports et jeux
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A handy quick-reference with step-by-step color photos and easy-to-follow instructions from two top professional grooms.Braiding a horse&’s mane kind of…
comes with the territory—who can resist playing with all that hair? While it may begin as a downtime activity on a rainy afternoon or fun with friends after riding lessons, braiding takes on a life of its own when it comes to competition. Professional grooms and others who braid on the show circuit can make a living doing just that when they have the skills to do it fast and do it well.Professional grooms Cat Hill and Emma Ford, co-authors of the bestsellingWorld-Class Grooming for Horses,have braided thousands of horses for a variety of disciplines over the course of their esteemed careers in the equestrian industry. Now they&’ve highlighted those skills in a book conceived to be a helpful barn companion—one you can take with you and keep in your tack trunk, providing a go-to reference whenever you need it. Chock full of full-color photographs that illustrate every step of the process, readers learn techniques for:Braiding down—a nice, tight, smooth braid is the key to a sophisticated finish.Using thread, yarn, or rubber bands.Properly finishing and removing braids to avoid hair damage.Button braids two ways.Hunter braids.Running braids.Unpulled manes and long manes.Braiding forelocks.With their expertise, top-tier standards, and trademark clarity as professionals who have made teaching their trade an integral part of their lives, Hill and Ford provide everything you need to know to turn a horse out with professional polish, ready to impress the judges and wow the crowds.
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Peuples autochtones (biographies), Peuples autochtones
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The Navajo tribe, the Diné, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But…
over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the Diné people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico. The summer of 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the Navajos' return to their homelands. One Navajo family and their community decided to honor that return. Edison Eskeets and his family organized a ceremonial run from Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, to Santa Fé, New Mexico, in order to deliver a message and to honor the survivors of the Long Walk.Both exhilarating and punishing, Send A Runner tells the story of a Navajo family using the power of running to honor their ancestors and the power of history to explain why the Long Walk happened. From these forces, they might also seek the vision of how the Diné—their people—will have a future.
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Journaux personnels et mémoires
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Love and friendship, art and craft, language and culture are the subjects of this look back at one woman&’s experiences…
in Mexico over a period of twenty years.What first propels Linda Grant Niemann south are the migrants she encounters in her job as a railroad brakeman in the Southwest. She decides to learn Spanish, and in Mexico she soon meets some surprising kindred spirits. An admirer of craft and expertise, Niemann seeks out individual artists who make exquisite things—Otomi papermakers, the families who produce the famous ceramics of Mata Ortiz, the man in Michoacán who knows how to fashion full-size jaguar thrones in bent cane.Some of her searches lead her to tiny villages and to artists who seldom get to meet their own fans. Niemann wonders if she is experiencing an ordinary shopaholic&’s obsession or if this is something more. The something more reveals itself as the connection of one artist to another.
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Westerns
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&“Old Jake Hanlon sits on the edge of the mesa and looks out over miles of southwestern plain,&” starts Jack…
Schaefer&’s all-ages novel Mavericks. Old Jake Hanlon is &“ancient and craglike, weathered and withered . . . something like a worn rocky butte himself.&” Living in his memories, Hanlon prefers to reflect on his youth, when he lived every cowboy&’s dream, rather than think about the old man he has become, now labeled &“a decrepit old nuisance&” by the folks in town. Ultimately, it is Old Jake&’s recollection of the tales of his past—stories of endurance, strength, compassion, and cunning—that helps prepare him for death.
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Nouvelles
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It takes all kinds to populate Northern New Mexico, and this book has every one: from gypsies and gamblers to…
ranchers and criminals. Noted author Nasario García introduces us to some of these people and the challenges they face. The title character, Adelfa, flirts with the glamour of casinos and finds herself addicted to gambling. Sam &“Spam&” Austin, an inmate serving a long sentence for murder, is paroled, attends medical school, and becomes a doctor. The affable grandfather in &“Yo Quiero Hacer un Lie &’Way,&” a hard-working and honorable rancher, stuns the proprietor of a mortuary with his request to put a coffin on layaway.
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Histoire
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In Gabriel García Márquez&’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held…
for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that &“incredible things are happening in this world.&” The modernity he marvels over is the new availability of cheap and useful goods. Steven Bunker&’s study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that &“incredible things are happening in this world.&”In urban areas, and especially Mexico City, being a consumer increasingly defined what it meant to be Mexican. In an effort to reconstruct everyday life in Porfirian Mexico, Bunker surveys the institutions and discourses of consumption and explores how individuals and groups used the goods, practices, and spaces of urban consumer culture to construct meaning and identities in the rapidly evolving social and physical landscape of the capital city and beyond. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a colorful walking tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City. Emphasizing the widespread participation in this consumer culture, Bunker&’s work overturns conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture.