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For its type, this one is a classic. The author's father, also Frank, is the main protagonist. As a smitten young Austrian educated in Berlin of the late 19th Century, Frank falls in love with a faithfully married woman whom he impregnates because of her husband's infertility. Then, seeing no alternative, he enters a Roman Catholic monastary to become a priest and is promptly thrown out and cursed for disobeying orders when he takes Church property to feed the poor. He becomes an artillery officer in the Austrian Army, receiving the Iron Cross for bravery, and subsequent honors to include a position, at age 22, as military liason on behalf of Austria to the Belgium government. From this point, our hero joins the multitude of those seeking fortune and honor in the new world, embarking as a ship's electrician on a German registry vessel from Bremerhave to Alcapulco, where he almost immediately survives yet another attempt on his life, killing a Mexican desperado in a bar fight. This is the setting for "Drums In The Hills," the ancient communication medium of that day in Old Mexico, a time of elegant chivilry of the landed European aristocracy and repressive rule over their indentured serfs, banditry, wild lawlessness and disorder, little regard for human life, Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution of 1910, ... and Frank is centrally located in the epicenter of it all. Before the first World War, Frank rides a German submarine from Mexico to attend German military intelligence school in Berlin! This is an important story on so many levels, religious, historical, military, hazards of the day, courtship in Old Mexico, bullfighting (yes, Frank is even gored and survives), and Native American order and justice in the seized lands. The only real suggestion I have for the author is to use a spelling and grammar checking program on the next edition.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I is a wonderful story that both entertained me and taught me a great deal about Mexico before and during the revolution. I was amused at how Frank entered the bull ring to impress his love, and amazed that he survived a firing squad of determined professional soldiers. It is a story that should be made into a movie! It would be very exciting and involve many colorful character actors. It has plenty of action, enough information for the intellectual and romance for the heart. It is easy to read and has convenient chapters. I fully recommend this book for any one to read!

This book is a wonderfully informative and historical book that blends in romance, humor, excitement and tragedy amid the road to the Mexican revolution. The chapters are short, bitesize installments that lend themselves well to reading sessions. The vocabulary is simple enough to read without a dictionary and there is a great deal of dialogue which enlivens the characters' personalities. The auxillary characters are richly developed and I came away with a much greater understanding on what went on during this fascinating period of history.

David Stuart's ECUADOR EFFECT appears--at first glance--to be a fictionalized version of his own anthropological fieldwork in Ecuador in the 1970s. But it is much more than just that. It is a deeply felt commentary on the human condition, from a sensitive and observant soul who writes knowingly of a country and its people from a base of personal experience.

ECUADOR EFFECT moves on several levels simultaneously: It is the very stuff of Greek tragedy, the working out of deep, irremediable human flaws toward a seemingly pre-destined end. It is a work of anthropology, revealing the soul of a country (one of the three so-called 'Indian' countries of South America, along with Peru and Bolivia, the former 'Alta Peru'). And is a powerful (for want of a stronger term), excruciatingly moving story of human evil in all its forms, and the price that ultimately must be paid for that evil.

I have not read a finer tale in my 61 years, nor one that more effectively engages all the human senses and reactions. Those who have read Dr. Stuart's Guaymas books will recognize his major themes, and once again enjoy the work of a master storyteller, who makes the distinction between fiction and non-fiction irrelevant as he moves expertly through all the dark alleys--and the brighter, happier glades as well--of the essential human agony.

Jack Snyder

This is a wonderfully written, extremely entertaining novel. Read just after my return from Ecuador, it was a fantastic look into an Ecuador I'd only learned to love.

Wow! A devastatingly gorgeous story of how one man, an American stranger in southern Ecuador, learns a thing or two about love, family and justice. David E. Stuart takes you on a journey that breaks your heart, sets it aflutter, and then afire. Powerfully written, Stuart crafts a riveting story with a quick tempo. It's a literary dark horse.

In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge Sterne and her husband, artist Maurice Sterne, made their way up to Taos in an unforgettable journey up the rural road. Mabel immediately connected spiritually and emotionally with Taos and was drawn to find a place to stay. "Edge of Taos Desert" is the story of her personal transformation during her first year in Taos. In many ways, this book is an insightful commentary on Santa Fe and Taos in 1918. Mabel's description of the physical and cultural environment is vivid. She describes the Mexicans bringing in wood by burro to sell as well the first time she saw an Indian. Careful readers will discern the conflicts and prejudices between the Pueblo people, the Mexicans, and the more newly arrived Anglos. She provides many priceless early observations of the region that may best be understood by readers who have some knowledge of New Mexico history and culture. However, understanding Mabel's history may provide more information about the significance of this book.

Mabel Dodge Luhan grew up in a wealthy family that left her emotionally bankrupt. She spent years of her adult life looking for the fulfillment of her emptiness. She was a renaissance woman in Italy, and then a salon hostess in New York, hosting conversations with some of the brightest minds of her time. She was a radical modernist looking for a solution to the American ills brought on by the Industrial Revolution. "Edge of Taos Desert" is the most important autobiographical chapter in her life because, in the Pueblo people, she believed that she had found a solution to both her emotional emptiness and America's discontentment. Her role in the future became to draw artists to Taos to write about and paint the people, the place, and the culture in order that it might be saved and that, we, as Americans might also save ourselves with what we'd learned.

She had a messianic vision of utopia with the Victorian belief that a woman's role was to support others. She found her own voice, though, in writing her autobiographies and several other books. "Edge of Taos Desert" is a beautifully written literary piece. She journeys through with strong social and cultural observations and a bold confidence and irreverence that allows her to see what a white woman of her time would not have been allowed to see. By August of 1918, her third husband (Sterne) has returned to New York, and she enters the door of being one of the most infamous Taoseno's in that town's history with a poignant and personal tale to tell.

This book is a rare jem. The writing is of unparralled beauty and perception. Mabel Dodge Lujan describes her arrival in Taos, New Mexico in l9l7. Lujan has come from New York city where she was a wealthy socialite involved in various art and political/psychological cicles (She was the former lover of John Reed who was portrayed by Warren Beatty in the movie Reds). She has come to Taos to reunite with her husband, the artist Maurice Stearn. However, almost imediately she finds that the town of Taos, and especially the Indians of the neighboring pueblo, are awakening the depths of her in a sublime and inevitable way. She describes how this process of conversion from a relatively shallow person (though an earnest seeker of truth), to one who begins to understand and feel the life beyond herself is catalyzed by the Indian Tony Lujan, whom she later marries. The story is really a spiritual one, but never described as such. Rather one only feels the utter humility of this women in the face of a way of life that increasingly draws her to it while also drawing her to the depth of herself. Her descriptions of the Indian life of the pueblo must be some of the finest ever crafted about native Americans.

I really loved this book - beautifully written and it is a wonderful look at Taos and the Pueblo in the early 1900's. My daughter has orderd the next one, "Winter in Taos" as a Mother's Day gift.Luhan is a most unusual person with a very beautiful outlook on the high desert and it's people.

This book won a book design award by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) in 1999 in the trade book illustrated category. Book designer: Heidi Haeuser; Publisher: University of Texas Press.

Superb black and white photographs by a premier photographer, displaying the lives of ordinary people and the native customs of various parts of Mexico. A real bargain at the price.

This book contains some of the most extraordinary photographs taken in Mexico. The camera travels through the country capturing images of people, their art, and their environment.

This book gives a well rounded look at the work of Edward Sheriff Curtis in a size that is easy to handle.

After viewing on PBS, a documentary of Edward Sheriff Curtis, I was moved to purchase this excellent work.
I was touched to my soul, by the photos, and how well they conveyed a race of people who have all but vanished.
The text that goes with the pictures is also quite good, and tells a remarkable story of a man obsessed to tell the world a story which we all need to hear and see. Curtis sacrificed his own finances and marriage, and did succeed in completing a very exhausting pilgrimage.

This is perhaps the greatest book authored by my uncle, Victor Hugo Boesen. He worked diligently with Curtis' daughter and other members and friends of the Curtis family to research and to write this book. The photographs are stunning. It is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the American Indian and Curtis' crucial role in recording this history. This book has been translated into French and German. Victor Boesen served as a war correspondent for Liberty Magazine during World War II and was present at the signing of the peace treaty on the USS Missouri. His writings appeared in Life, Look, the Los Angeles Times, and other major periodicals and newspapers.

I just want to add, Jays analysis of the ISOMORPHISMS process with induction to the lower frontal reverse cyclops is right on. My boyfriend Richard and I both read it even twice during our vacation in Key West. The rest of the night we just could't stop talking about Jay's work.

Fantastic Jay, keep it up...

with love, simply Patrick

I just want to add, Jays analysis of the ISOMORPHISMS process with induction to the lower frontal reverse cyclops is right on. My boyfriend Richard and I both read it even twice during our vacation in Key West. The rest of the night we just could't stop talking about Jay's work.

Fantastic Jay, keep it up...

with love, simply Patrick

Siegel is an Excellent author, I highly recommend this book to anybody interested inthe field of parallel Processing. Way to go, Siegel!

Este libro contiene una copia facsímile del diario personal de Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) escrito por su propia mano en español, seguido por copias de cada pagina con comentarios explicativos y traducciones en inglés. El diario, el cual estuvo oculto al publico en México durante varias décadas, cubre los últimos 10 años de la vida de la artista, cuando se hallaba en medio de muchos problemas físicos y emocionales. Entre otros tópicos, escribe sobre su niñez, sus opiniones políticas y su relación con su marido, el pintor Diego Rivera. Con su colorido texto y esbozos, así como ilustraciones y retratos más elaborados, el diario es una pieza artística por derecho propio.

Interesting that Calderon now opens a space for a comprehensive display of Kahlo's works in the capitol city, considering the great differences in the politics they espouse so ardently. It is like Rockefeller hiring Diego Rivera for a mural in Manhattan, and scandalized sees Marx and Lenin within!

But such wonders are beyond me, and humbly and happily and gratefully let us receive this excellent facsimile with transcription and commentary of this diary maintained by Frida Kahlo in the final decade of her proud though tormented life. Carlos Fuentes, the famous Mexican novelist contributes one commentary, paired with an introduction by Kahlo scholar Sarah Lowe. Then follows a reporduction of each page of the diary, each page of which we see clearly from Kahlo's own hand, unlike the dubious and revisionist Reagan Diaries recently released. Following the diary pages, each page is then transcribed, commented and put into context very thoroughly. COmprehensive chronologies, bibliogrpahies and indices complete this excellent edition useful to any scholar or Frida fanatic.

Let me note that I received today the second edition, published in September of 2001, and that I have the Spanish edition, which I find more direct and useful than straining to peer through the dim gauze of someone else's transalation of Kahlo's own words. Highly recommended. Deeply and truthfully moving, as everything which falls from the hand of Frida.

Frida was more than an artist, she was a woman who knew what she wanted and how to get it. Her only downfall was that she had deep doubts inside her most inner self and shared it with very few.

I guess we all do, but she always wanted people to think she was though when in fact she was very fragile.

I can honestly say that this book is the only book I have ever read that's changed my life and the way I see the world.

I first read this book in the early 70s. It is an interesting view of life and the quest for ultimate meaning through spirtual development.

For the Westerner who seeks a higher consciousness I haven't found a better book since I read it 30 years ago.

Religious books may be interesting but usually refer to states of consciousness already attained by people who have trained for generations.

The seekers of truth becomes frustrated by their complexity, and/or pretend to understand in order to belong.

This book starts from the very first step.

It refers to interaction in life as easily recognizable "games".

High games and low games.

It tells you simply how to indentify the game you're currently playing, what to do to move to a higher game, how to avoid obstacles, how to reach the higher states.

It also tells you how, when and where to look for a Teacher.

If I had to be stranded on an island with only one book, this would be the one.

[Review by Larry Blumenfeld, Blumenfeld & Aswsociates, Post Office Box 2831, 660 Circulo Nomada, Tubac, AZ 85646-2831, (520) 398-3371, published in COUNCIL FIRES, The Publication for Western Americana Enthusiasts, Vol. 8, Issue #1, January, 1998, p. 16-17.] E1 Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860. Written by John Miller Morris. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, First Edition ($39.95). El Llano Estacado is an extremely well written new work of Southwestern History, brilliantly revealing the historical core and heart of one of America's most history-packed regions--the mesaland of the Southern High Plains in Texas and New Mexico. From the Canadian River in the north to the Edwards Plateau in the south, from the Pecos River in the west to the awesome canyonlands of the Red, Pease, Brazos, and Colorado Rivers in the east, these 50,000-square miles of what is commonly referred to as "the Llano" are here chronicled over a period of 300 years, revealing the history, cultural grandeur, and mythic wonders of this special ruggedly beautiful land. A knockout read for both historians and buffs alike, Morris's new book is his song to this unique environment, revealing, melding, and analyzing a diversified series of Spanish, French, Mexican, and Anglo-American explorers and adventurers and how they made their mark on this remarkable land. The book opens with an examination of what is known as the Lost Coronado Trail, pursuing the question of where did the Coronado Expedition go in 1541. What follows is nothing short of a breakthrough analysis of what they saw and how they remembered it as revealed through their personal accounts and journals. The second part of the book, which deals with the Llano Frontier, continues its unique approach to the study of the three centuries of Spanish exploration and imagination following Coronado. Here we revisit this extraordinary land through the eyes and imaginations of the conqueror, Juan de Onate, the accounts of the French explorers, Pierre Mallet and Paul Mallet, and the travel diaries of trailblazers Pedro Vial, Jose Mares, and Francisco Amangual. Part Three then explores and analyzes "the invention or discovery of the Llano through the Anglo imagination," including the "prose of the poet Albert Pike, the grand deceits of Alexander Le Grand, the reasoning of Josiah Gregg, and the legendary collapse of the Texan-Santa Fe Expedition" as chronicled by George Wilkins Kendall and Thomas Falconer. Together the author analyzes what he calls the "American rhetoric of romantic discovery." The Great Zahara, the last of four parts, deliciously delves into the "perceptual approaches of classic U. S. Explorers James W. Abert, Randolph B. Marcy, A. W. Whipple, Andrew Gray, and John Pope...." Powerful, unusual, stimulating, and nothing short of brilliant, El Llano Estacado is one of the finest works of cultural and mythic history of a region I have ever read. Morris has penned a great work of both history and imagination, pushing the boundaries on historical scholarship to limits that I would have never thought possible. This book should change the way history is not only written but perceived. You must read this mmagnificent book!!

Using historical writings of early explorers, the author captures the mystery and magic of the great Llano Estacado or "Staked Plains" that begin in West Texas and extend north and west. Particularly amusing is the efforts of early railroad surveyors to find underground water at the edge of the Llano (aka the caprock) only to miss one of North America's largest aquifers (the Ogalla) by a matter of miles and in some cases yards.

We were going on a trip to see the Llano Estacado and the canyon in west Texas.This book gave the trip so much dimension and understanding at how hard the life was for the explorers and the pioneers in this harsh land.Very cleverly written,holds one attention. Wonderful