Arizona Books

Lucy Rees' book, The Maze, is an amazing journey through the actual desert wilderness of the Arazona/Four Corners area and also through the inner landscape of Lucy's past. The problems that occur on the trail with her great friend and the horses bring up memories that have haunted her with insecurity and fear. Lucy is able to bring us into her real journey with a past/present storyline of entering the maze of her life and coming out with gratitude, amazement and love.

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The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy is an anthology of scholarly essays by twelve learned contributors discussing the fictive, artistic, legal, ethical, and economic aspects of the institution of marriage in Europe from roughly 500 to 1550. Individual writings include "Medieval Jewish Models of Marriage", "The Many Loves of Philip Augustus", "The Dilemma of the Widow of Property for Late Medieval London", and more concerning definitions of marriage, sexuality, and legislation of property and propriety alike. An index rounds out this thoughtful, well-researched and solidly presented compilation of insights into the historical context of marriage - a timely volume indeed even as the institution of marriage becomes an increasingly hot topic in the modern day.

A well-written and interesting synthesis that utilizes historical, ethnographic, biological, and demographic data in giving a detailed account of the evolution of miscegenation and acculturation in Ibero-America. It is one of only a few studies that examine the significance of a very large and important subject.

One of the largest minority groups in the country and so little is known about them. Timely, well written, and needed. Highly recommend.

I got this book on a visit to Arizona's famous Meteor Crater in December 2000. It is fairly short, but it provides extensive details on the history of Meteor Crater. No other source provides as much information as this book! It also provides details on other events, such as the Chicxulub impact.

However, the book doesn't cover much on the physics of impact events. True, it's not a textbook, but some information on the physics of such events would have been nice.

First some definitions from Wikipedia: A METEORITE is an extraterrestrial body that survives its impact with the Earth's (or other planet's) surface without being destroyed. While in space it is called a METEOROID. When it enters the atmosphere, air resistance causes the body to heat up and emit light, thus forming a fireball, also known as a METEOR or shooting star.

This book is about meteorites, their makeup, and what we have learned from them. Some 88 authors from nine countries have contributed to the writing. This book describes the state of the art as known to science as of March 2006 when the book was finally put to bed. It is suitable as a graduate level text and a reference for meteoriticists and other researchers in allied fields.

The study of meteorites is a fairly new science. It is only in the last century or so that people realized that rocks could fall from the heavens. In that time scientists have come to realize that these rocks, coming from outside the Earth provide a unique insite to exterrestrial situations including the birth of the solar system.

I've only read the first two chapters but it seems like Martinez does an excellent job introducing critical theory into linguistic analysis. Very appropriate for undergrads as well as grad students with little or no background in linguistics or anthropological linguistics. The case study and the theory complement each other quite elegantly.

Mexicans In The Midwest 1900-1932 by Juan R. Garcia (Head of the Department of History, University of Arizona) is a scholarly examination of Mexican migration to the American Midwest, and the conditions under which the migrants lived, including (but not limited to) poor, overcrowded, or virtually nonexistent housing and racial discrimination. An extensive and meticulous academic study of everything from songs and poetry to (often brutal) labor conditions, citizenship issues, and so much more, Mexicans In The Midwest 1900-1932 is a confidently recommended and fact-filled contribution which has earned a welcome entry in to scholarly and academic library American Regional History and Chicano/American Cultural Studies reference collections.

I became acquainted with the work of Lynn Randolph through three of Donna Haraway's books on feminism and technoscience (Randolph's paintings were used as illustrations). This particular work is an insightful and informative exhibition catalog with full-color and black-and-white images, along with essays by Walter Hopps-Hopps-Hopps and Donna Haraway. Not wanting to give too much unnecessary personal opinion about the artist's work in general, I will say that she should be paid more attention to; if you see her paintings you'll understand why. They are very reminiscent of modern Mexican paintings (Frida Kahlo especially), and they deal with technoscience and millenialism, so they resemble a lot of "sci-fi" art. Not for the squeamish, but incredibly thought-provoking. This small catalog is just about the only published work that deals solely with Randolph's work, and it deals with her art well, so I recommend it.