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(0)Enrique R Lamadrid
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Water for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, use, and history in New Mexico, northern Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain, the Middle East, Nepal, and the Philippines, situating New Mexico's acequia heritage and its inherent sustainable design within a global framework. The lush landscapes of the upper Río Grande watershed created by acequias dating from...
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This thoughtful bilingual book recounts the two most deadly epidemics to strike the Southwest-smallpox in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and influenza during World War I-this beautifully illustrated narrative reveals that with tragedy comes heroism, as demonstrated by the children who bravely transported the smallpox vaccine from Mexico's interior to New Mexico in 1805.
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
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English
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Guided by a blue hummingbird, Jade brings an offering to the Mountain Spirit who lives near her village in Mexico, and asks if he will send rain to end the drought that threatens the people. Includes information about the legend on which this story is based and facts about corn.
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Owl in a straw hat volume 3
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39 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
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English
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Ollie Tecolote and his animal friends celebrate Christmas, serving up Nuevomexicano traditions with all the trimmings.
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Owl in a straw hat volume 2
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39 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
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English
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Ollie Owl and Uni Unicorn bravely face three guardians of the Dark Forest as they seek Jackie Jackalope, who ran away from Wisdom School after being bullied. Includes activities.
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xiii, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlán, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value. To encompass new developments in the discourse the editors have added six new essays."--Publisher's website.
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xxxiv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E.A. 'Tony' Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times. Mares engages in dialogue with heroes and demons, anarchists and cardinals, and beggars and poets. He takes us through the convex mirror of history to the blood-stained...
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xxxv, 250 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context is a new anthology of essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that situates New Mexico's acequia heritage and its inherent sustainable design within a global framework. Initially inspired by two special issues of the Green Fire Times (GFT) that centered on New Mexico's rich acequia traditions, Water for the People features twenty-five essays (including...