Lopez Books

I think this is a realy great book because it helps you to understand what is realy happening and in a way that i can unserstand. there are to many books that go on about all kinds of things and never say what they realy meen.

This book has helped me to undertand more about God and how he feels. not just what i want.

Alisha

This book by Juan Diego López takes a fresh look at Costa Rica's civil war of 1948. Having been born after the war was over, López is able to see this important period of Costa Rican history with the advantage and objectivity of a historian who is not mired by the deep emotions of those who took an active part in this short but bloody war which established the longest running democracy in Latin America.

"Los 40 días de 1948" takes a serious look at the civil war based on scientific principles where Lopez makes and analysis of it based on the interaction of the political and the military aspects of the conflict as it develops day by day. The structure of this essay, packed with historiographical data, for the first time allows the reader to make sense of the anecdotal information that had until now been the only information available to the reader.

This book is a must read for all those interested in understanding Costa Rica and how it came to be.

Martha Speaks is one of the best children's books I've read. It was highlighted on Reading Rainbow. If you're looking for a whimsical story with cute illustrations and a dog as the main character that kids will love, this is the book for you.

Quite simply this is the best pocketbook on the market in this category. Superb. Contains vast amount of useful information for all medical and healthcare staff/workers. It is of superb design. Even the font used is one of a kind (Easy to read). I do not agree with the reviewr from Doody that it should be of spiral format as this would make it uncomfortable to handle, especially when placing in shirt pocket or lab coat pocket. Again, if you are looking for a book of this kind than I strongly recommend this pocketbook.

This is a very good collection of letters, contracts and other historical documents relating to trade in the Med. between 900 and 1500 AD. The editors are well informed and provide a brief yet solid analysis of each document.

For those who want to know more about trade in the region (mainly Venice, Genoa, Constantinople, etc.) this is an excellent selection

The ambitious agenda of Lopez Austin and Lopez Lujan is to both write a comprehensive historical review of preconquest Mexico and to present a series of debates about the important topics related to the history, archaeology, and art history of the indigenous peoples. Though they leave some room for improvement, these authors are clearly successful in their endeavor, and I heartily recommend this book, both for those looking for a primer on preconquest Mexico and for those looking for a text to use in the classroom.

This book, a translation of _El pasado indgena_, provides scholars and students with an important synthesis. The book, in an effort to preserve readability, lacks endnotes (an unfortunate decision in this reviewer's mind). The authors provide the first such overview book which goes beyond the boundaries of Mesoamerica. They argue that the three great culture areas (Aridamerica, Oasisamerica, and Mesoamerica) must be understood in relation to each other. It is a solid argument indeed. Even Mesoamerica cannot be understood without an analysis of shifting boundaries and its relationships with the other cultural areas. Yet, the problem that Lopez Austin and Lopez Lujan face is endemic to all such studies: the information on Aridamerica and Oasisamerica pales in comparison to that of Mesoamerica. Hence the book is primarily about Mesoamerica, as the other two culture areas really only influence the first chapter.

This book is well worth reading and provides some fascinating commentary. However, the authors' analyses would be helped by consulting the more recent colonial ethnohistories, which provide some more systematic analysis which could be useful, particularly in analyzing the late Postclassic societies. Certainly a consultation of recent works could allow the authors to engage in more of a critique of indigenous social structures on the eve of the Spanish conquest. The book also largely ignores gender differentiation (except for a very brief discussion of gender within religion). As recent works have shown, placing gender within historical analysis is always extremely relevant and useful. These considerations aside, the methodology used here, allowing students access to archaeological and historiographical debates while also providing a historical overview, is sound, and the authors present a highly readable and well reasoned account of indigenous Mexico before the Spanish conquest.

Claude-Anne Lopez has given us a delightful and careful examination of a man too often classed as "quaint" and "lecherous". With subtle strokes, the portrait of Franklin the man-complex, the dreamer who builds, the lover who waits - emerges complete with vanity, pride, anxiousness, humility, generosity and fervor all intact.
Ms. Lopez's works (she has written many) are as important to understanding Dr. Franklin as is his own (as we call it) "Autobiography".

El tema de la Guerra del Pacífico ha estado determinado en nuestra perspectiva como el declive máximo de la historia republicana peruana. Por cuestiones prácticas, hoy no es el momento de enumerar las consecuencias que este hecho acarreó para el destino del país.
Empero, lo que sí resultaría adecuado es amordazar todo ese furor mítico que ha traspasado las décadas hasta llegar a nosotros, y que deviene a guardar el conocido estancamiento de pasiones e ira contra el país del sur.
Obvio. Esto no sólo le atañe al Perú. Esto radica en un ir y venir, desde reclamos nacionales -muchas pantallas de humo de nuestro clasismo político progre-, hasta desplantes chilenos por parte de su aristocracia, en sus dos flancos dominantes: la derecha facha o la izquierda caviar, of course.
Con todo esto, queremos decir, entonces, que no hay intenciones de departir una charla por un bien en común. Por ello, a ninguno de los dos lados se les da la gana de renunciar a su tozudez, y, así, el móvil de los actos varios se remite a la casi prehistórica vida independiente de ambos países.

El buque
Jorge Ortiz lleva más de 25 años abocado al estudio de la historia marítima. Consciente del aspecto conflictivo que devino del conflicto en mención, y conjugando dicho aspecto con su especialidad, es que junto al historiador chileno Carlos López ha publicado Monitor Huáscar: una historia compartida (1865-2005), un libro que establece el rol desempeñado por el buque en ambos bandos durante la Guerra del Pacífico.
"El Huáscar representa un símbolo muy fuerte para ambos países. Esto, a pesar que luego del combate de Angamos dejó de pertenecernos. Sin embargo, el sujeto, en este caso el Huáscar, sigue siendo el mismo, a pesar de ser chileno".
Afirma Ortiz, para luego apuntar que "pero no sólo está el buque como elemento en común; también sobresalen vínculos territoriales, en ciudades como Iquique o Tarapacá, en donde la historia engloba tanto a Perú como a Chile".
Con ello, al mencionar a este barco, se está tomando un aspecto por demás sensible, pues "el Huáscar posee una enorme simbología para nosotros, por todo lo que representa la figura de Grau; pero lo mismo sucede con los chilenos, pues en él murió su máximo héroe naval, como lo fue Arturo Prat", refiere Ortiz.
Si bien toda relación entre dos países implica desavenencias, hay que tomar en cuenta que éstas solo se solucionan mientras existan fuertes intereses comunes. Intereses que de una u otra manera hay que generarlos.
"Estamos condenados a entendernos, a abordar temas que son sensibles. Desde la perspectiva de Carlos López y la mía, la historia es sólo un instrumento que puede servir para ello. Pero ahora nos corresponde a los peruanos limpiar el pasado; y a ellos variar su actitud frente a algunos de nuestros requerimientos", concluye Ortiz.
Francisco Izquierdo Q.

A friend showed me this book after I mentioned to him the problem I was having located good information about women scientists, especially those who had made contributions in the field of geology. This book is a great place to start this research! Written for grades 5 and up, it provides biographical sketches of women who have made contributions in a variety of the sciences. It also includes fairly simple activities that allow students to get a taste of what it's like to work in the particular field of science. A glossary and a short bibliography make this a great resource for the shelf of any science teacher.

This is a sweet, tender collection of the author's recollections of growing up in an Albuquerque neighborhood with both a grocery store, where he worked, and the Catholic Church, which he attended. He writes of his neighbors with gentle wit and wisdom and reveals their souls in a manner that will make you proud that such a poet exists to give substance to the bricks and mortar of a neighborhood. Lopez teaches in the English Department of Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO. What a wonderful, inspiring poet.