Mexico Revisited
Author: Erna Fergusson
Publisher: New York : Knopf
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sympathetic exploration of contemporary Mexico, and an introduction to Mexican history.
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The Changing Mile
Author: James Rodney Hastings
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing materials drawn from a variety of disciplines, this book explores the repective parts played by man and climate in altering the face of the arid Southwest of the United States and the arid Northwest of Mexico.
Amexica
Author: Ed Vulliamy
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-10-26
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1429977027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in revelatory detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims—the brave and rogue police, priests, women, and journalists fighting the violence; the gangs and their freelance killers; the dead and the devastated—all come to life in this singular book. Amexica takes us far beyond today's headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself.
Mexico, California and Arizona
Author: William Henry Bishop
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 638
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHotspots Revisited
Author: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: Conservation International
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789686397772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the results of the biodiversity hotspots - those discrete, biogeographic regions that are known to hold at least 1,500 plants as endemics and that have lost at least 70% of their primary native vegetation.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Author: Daniel Hernandez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-02-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1451610181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life—and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of “cosmic violence.” For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading” (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).
Hotspots
Author: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9789686397581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes sections on Polynesia and Micronesia, the California coast, the Caribbean, Choco-Darien Western Ecuador, the Mediterranean Basin, Brazilian Cerrado, Tropical Andes, Central Chile, Atlantic Forest Region, the Caucasus, the Mountains of South-Central China, India and Burma, Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya, Guinean Forest of West Africa, Succulent Karoo, Cape Floristic Province, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, Sundaland, Wallecea, Southwest Australia, the Philippines, New Caledonia, and New Zealand.
Mexico Financial and Commercial
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Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopment Studies Revisited
Author: Charles Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 1317845269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1989. The Journal of Development Studies was founded 25 years ago as a professional journal for what had by then become an established sub-discipline within British social science. The Journal has consistently published a broad spectrum of British research on development studies - a catholicity that has been reflected in the composition of the Editorial Board over the years - and has always welcomed authors from the USA, the European Continent, and above all from the Third World. Collated form the last twenty-five years of the journal presented here are a collection of 20-odd papers that represent less than three per cent of articles published since 1964.
Neoliberalism Revisited
Author: Gerardo Otero
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-04
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0429973047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving unilaterally opened its borders to international competition and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico has become one of the world's leading proponents of economic liberalization. Nevertheless, as the recent uprising of native peoples in Chiapas has made clear, economic reforms are not universally welcomed. This book addresses the challenges brought about by the restructuring of the Mexican economy at a time when-multiple organizations of civil society are demanding a democratic political transition in a system that has been dominated by one party for nearly seventy years. The contributors identify the key social and political actors—both domestic and international—involved in promoting or resisting the new economic model and examine the role of the state in the restructuring process. They explore such questions as: In what ways is the state itself being reconstituted to accommodate the demand for change? How have Canada and the United States responded to the increased internationalization of their economies? What are the challenges and prospects for transnational grassroots networks and labor solidarity? Answers are provided by scholars from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology, all of whom promote interdisciplinary approaches to the issues. Each chapter traces the structural transformations within the central social relationships in Mexican society during the last decade or so and anticipates future consequences of today's changes.
