Arizona Books

Author Keith Basso has compiled seven essays over a span of twenty-five years to create a thourough and interpretive look at importance of symbol in Western Apache language and culture. Through his study of Native American language, he adresses several topics including the influencial nature of metaphor and placenames, and the use of silence for the Western Apache.

Love the cover on the 1971 edition the best , but even with the newer cover it all has the same information inside. Fantastic photos and illustrations. Apache style is interesting and to hear the stories direct from them makes it even more real, understanding what they went through and feeling their pain at times too. Life seems unfair sometimes, but there is a reason for everything. Bottom Line, This is a Great Book!

Jenny Wilson is a health fanatic who uses herbs, supplements and other items to keep in tip top shape. She is driving home one day when she feels ill, loses control of her car and dies. Her husband, Jackson thinks her bald tires caused the vehicle to spin out of control but he gets an inkling that something more is going on when the police do an autopsy and report she was poisoned. The poison was found in her probiotic herb and mineral mixture.

The police serve Jackson with a warrant to search his house taking items like his computer and stuff from his medicine cabinet. They later arrest him; his mother in law writes a letter to the judge claiming ill health and that she will die if Jackson is released from prison. Jackson is denied bail but his lawyer finds interesting things about Jenny including the fact think she let a druggie into her home; she was having an affair with Jackson's colleague and has a brother who is alive even though she told everyone he is dead. Mara, the daughter he hasn't seen since she was three years old, has come to see her father and is asking questions in the hopes of learning information that will exonerate him.

This is a very interesting and fascinating crime thriller because the defense and the prosecution have equal amounts of information that could either convict or exonerate Jackson. The protagonist feels like a fool because he tuned his wife out and wasn't aware of what has gone on around him. He is an honorable man but his disintegrating marriage is the reason the prosecution has so much evidence against him. This is a deeply satisfying reading experience due to the eccentric cast of characters and a fast paced plot.

Harriet Klausner

This book is extremely well done with excellent photogrphic images, good field stories, and generally well written. I highly recommend it.

Knowledgeably compiled, nicely organized, and expertly edited by academician and historian Steven A. Walton (a member of the Center for Medieval Studies and a faculty member in the Intercollege Science, Technology & Society Program at Penn State University), "Wind & Water In The Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies From Antiquity To The Renaissance" is a series of essays offering descriptive commentary and analysis of windmills, watermills, water control, and irrigation systems employed in Medieval Europe. The continuity of mill technology and its transfer between Arabic and European cultures is discussed in substantial detail, as are the literary and artistic representations of these technologies, as well as their urban, rural and monastic contexts. Of special note are the early modern adaptations of the medieval technologies of wind and water and their impact on agriculture, the rise of the cities, and emergent national identities. Nicely enhanced with 46 key illustrations, a list of contributors, and an index, "Wind & Water In The Middle Ages" is a body of impressively articulate and seminal scholarship worth of inclusion into any academic library's Medieval Studies reference collection.

From the Publisher's Note to the Second Edition: The first edition of Winners Get Lost was published in 1950 under the label of a novel with the implication that it was pure fiction. We have always insisted that it was History that should merit a place on the projected five foot shelf of Southwestern Americana. The new preface, written in retrospect by the author, comes pretty close to vindicating our appraisal of the book. Winners Get Lost might well be dedicated to that vast horde of lost adventurers of at least two generations from North of the Border, each of whom believes that he, individually and personally, discovered Bahia Bachochibampo and all points leading to it and beyond on the old dirt road. None of those who read this narrative can help but feel that he too was along on this expedition, or at least knew intimately all of the characters who were. They should be forever grateful to Al Perry for preserving the memories that they themselves have failed to record about an era that ended in the name of progress.

From the Author's Preface to the Second Edition: Some parts of this story are based upon personal experience, others upon recounted details (usually highly embellished) of friends who have visited among our neighbors to the south. Today, of course, there are broad highways throughout Mexico, in places where once there were only single-track rough trails. Air-conditioned, modern hotels and motels, with hot and cold running water, replace the old casas de huespedes, with their wells and immediately adjacent privies in the patio. Hundreds of tourists now throng in spots that once sheltered only a few Indian people. Today diesel powered trains and jet planes arrive and depart on schedule. The old friendly, lazy tren-mixto has been relegated to the junk yard. Radio and television news is broadcast promptly, quite different from the days when the burro carried the weekly periodicals over the desert and mountains. It is my hope I may have described the conditions as they existed in the late twenties and early thirties, realizing, however, absent the song of the memory-bird, those days would be gone forever. Possibly though, the old-timers will recall such days and experiences and it may do the younger folk no great harm to read about them, notwithstanding all the nonsense I have interjected into the recounting of Pete's little journey south of the border - down Mexico way.

Chapter titles are: Berwynde on the Sound; Manhattan; Tucson; Nogales; Imuris; Magdalena; Santa Ana; Hermosillo; Tren Mixto; Bahia Bachochibampo; Pez Vela; Guaymas; El Mercado; Al Chabusco; Maria Ilena; Hasta Manana; Los Perdidos; Tiburones; La Paz; Mazatlan; Tia Sara y Juanita; El Pacifico; Los Angeles.

Winning The Dust Bowl is an impressive collection of Native America writer Carter Revard's poetry and prose memorializing Oklahoma Dust Bowl era bootleggers and bankrobbers, Oxford proctors and punters, American Indian Movement activists and agitators; all interwoven and augmented with his own life experiences on the Osage reservation in rural Oklahoma, his academic success as a Rhodes Scholar, Yale Ph.D., and tenure as a professor of medieval literature. Winning The Dust Bowl is both a compelling memoir and a compendium of superb poetry that can be very highly recommended for students of American literature, Native American culture, as well as an heroic and erudite reconciliation of disparate influences and heritages in the life of an exemplary scholar.

One of the best books on development of the`human diet. Fascinating material for anyone who`ever wondered how people decided (for instance) that cassava, a poisonous plant, could be rendered edible by leaching and cooking. Recently reissued as a paperback, retitled`Origins of Human Diet and Medicine.

Love and Art are an inseparable couple and have been throughout history. "Words of Love and Love of Words: In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" looks at literary endeavors and love in their relation throughout the middle ages. Philosophical, beautiful, even erotic were all forms of writing put down during the time about love, and many's love was simply writing about it. Many wrote simply because they had love to be the desire of human existence, with all the happiness, joy, and harmony that come along with it. A work of history focusing on literature, "Words of Love and Love of Words" is a scholarly and deftly crafted examination of love in writing during the time period.

(Planeta.com Journal) - This anthology is one of this year's must-reads. Contributions from all over the globe show the importance of wilderness. The editors have succeeded in their mission "to reinvigorate the effort to understand, reveal and save wilderness beyond the usual futile polarities." Thumb through the chapter "The Park of Ten Thousand Waterfalls" to find out how one entreprenuer has created one of the largest parks on the globe -- Chile's Parque Pumalin. Other chapters take on taboo topics, such as "Why conservation in the tropics is failing" or eco legends, such as "Recycled Rain Forest Myths." Highly recommended.