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1491, New Revelations of Americas Before Columbus
• Charles C. Mann
• HISTORY
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Mann portrays the successes and failures of the complex societies of the Mississippi River, central Mexico, the Andes and the Amazon in this thought-provoking speculative history of the Americas before the arrival of Europeans.
(WLD61, $15.95)
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501 Spanish Verbs
• Christopher Kendris
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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The perennial favorite among students of Spanish.
(GEN134, $16.99)
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Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, the Yucatan, and Belize
• Jonathan A. Campbell
• FIELD GUIDE
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A photo identification guide.
(CAM106, $39.95)
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The Ancient Maya
• Robert Sharer
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A scholarly reference on everything Maya, including individual site descriptions, maps, and much else of interest to the serious student of Maya history and culture.
(MYA07, $35.95)
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Antigua and My Life Before
• Marcela Serrano
• Margaret Sayers Peden
• LITERATURE
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Set in Santiago, Chile, and the Guatemalan city of Antigua, this is the story of two women --- one a famous singer, the other an artist/architect -- and a tragic shooting that sparks off memories of their friendship.
(CRB121, $14.00)
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An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America
• Joyce Kelly
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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The clear descriptions, site plans, maps and photographs of 38 archeological sites and 25 museums throughout Central America make this book an ideal travel companion.
(MYA04, $24.95)
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The Art of Mesoamerica, from Olmec to Aztec
• Mary Ellen Miller
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An excellent survey of Mesoamerican art and architecture from 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest. Compact and profusely illustrated, it includes drawings, photographs and site plans.
(MYA09, $21.95)
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Belize, Travellers' Wildlife Guides
• Les Beletsky
• FIELD GUIDE
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An all-around field guide featuring color illustrations of 200 birds, 50 mammals, 150 coral reef creatures, and 80 reptiles and amphibians.
(BLZ04, $27.95)
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Birds of Mexico & Central America, Princeton Illustrated Checklists
• Ber Van Perlo
• FIELD GUIDE
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An admirably compact, comprehensive guide.
(MEX163, $29.95)
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The Buried Mirror
• Carlos Fuentes
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A fascinating, illustrated survey of Latin American culture and history by the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. With hundreds of color illustrations.
(SPN71, $29.95)
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Central America Map
• ITMB
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A detailed map of the entire Central American isthmus at a scale of 1:1,100,000.
(CAM20, $12.95)
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Central America, A Nation Divided
• Ralph Lee Woodward
• HISTORY
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A balanced standard history of the region -- popular as a university textbook and thoroughly revised to reflect the momentous events in the region since 1976. With an extensive guide to further reading.
(CAM80, $37.95)
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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
• Simon Martin
• Nikolai Grube
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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The history of the Maya dynasties, encompassing biographies of 152 kings and queens, as gleaned from recently deciphered hieroglyphs. An unusual and rewarding book, illustrated in color and black-and-white.
(MYA31, $26.95)
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The Code of Kings, The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
• Linda Schele
• Peter Mathews
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A vivid guided tour of seven Maya sites, including Palenque, Tikal and Chichen Itza. This outstanding book features photos and line drawings throughout, and introductory chapters with a succinct introduction to Maya history and culture.
(MYA13, $22.00)
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Coffee and Power, Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
• Jeffery M. Paige
• HISTORY
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Panoramic in scope, this scholarly history examines the emerging democracies of Central America and especially the political impact on powerful families who control coffee production.
(CAM50, $26.00)
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Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Jared Diamond
• HISTORY
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Diamond tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not, devoting 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris).
(GEN324, $18.00)
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Confidence of the Heart
• David Schweidel
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A susspenseful, well-wriiten novel, where a north american anthropologist marries in Guatemala.
(GML12, $12.95)
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The Control of Nature
• John McPhee
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A bestseller in the classic McPhee tradition, this book explores our generally feeble attempts to combat all-powerful nature, including efforts by Icelanders to control the flow of a volcano.
(NAT01, $16.00)
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Coral Reef Fishes
• Ewald Lieske
• Robert Myers
• FIELD GUIDE
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This compact handbook features 2,500 illustrations of shallow-water fishes around the world.
(DIV05, $24.95)
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Costa Rican Natural History
• Daniel Janzen
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A thorough, prize-winning reader on all aspects of the natural history of Costa Rica, this hefty illustrated book is remarkably well written and rewarding for the serious general reader.
(CAM05, $49.00)
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Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
• Mary Miller
• Simon Martin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A richly illustrated survey of the art and archaeology of the Maya, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art.
(MYA44, $50.00)
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Culture Smart! Guatemala, A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette
• Lisa Vaughn
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(CAM119, $9.95)
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The Ecology of a Tropical Forest, Seasonal Rhythms and Long-term Changes
• Egbert G. Leigh, Jr
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A good overview of the flora, fauna and ecology of the region.
(CAM52, $35.00)
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A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Maya World
• Julian C. Lee
• FIELD GUIDE
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A nicely illustrated, complete guide.
(CAM104, $36.95)
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Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador
• Ernest Preston Edwards
• FIELD GUIDE
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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This classic guide illustrates all the regularly-occurring birds of Mexico and neighboring areas, including details of distribution, abundance, habitat and identification features for 850 species.
(MEX47, $22.95)
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A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America & Southeast Mexico
• Fiona Reid
• FIELD GUIDE
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Large color plates of mammals, mostly painted in the field, with range maps by species. A great resource for visitors to Central America with an interest in mammals.
(CAM60, $59.95)
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Fishwatcher's Field Guide Caribbean
• Idaz Greenberg
• FIELD GUIDE
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A convenient double-sided plastic card showing 75 reef fish of the Caribbean.
(DIV11, $7.50)
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Flowering Plants of the Neotropics
• Nathan Smith
• Scott Mori
• Andrew Henderson
• Dennis Stevenson
• Scott Heald
• FIELD GUIDE
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A beautifully illustrated, oversize introduction to the showiest, most important and interesting flowering plants of Mexico, Central and South America.
(CAM103, $95.00)
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Fodor's Guatemala
• Jeffrey Van Fleet
• GUIDEBOOK
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With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this book is an excellent overview of Italy and its attractions for visitors. Featuring separate sections on suggested places to visit, recommended walks, practical information, descriptions of restaurants and hotels, ratings of sights, and a chronology of historic events.
(CAM133, $19.00)
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Footprint Belize, Guatemala, & Southern Mexico
• Claire Boobbyer
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive practical guide to the Maya World -- Guatemala, adjoining Belize and the whole of Southern Mexico, including Chiapas, Oaxaca and the Pacific Coast, and the Yucatan.
(GML11, $19.95)
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Footprint Mexico & Central America Handbook
• Sarah Cameron
• Ben Box
• GUIDEBOOK
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The classic, comprehensive guide to the region.
(MEX64, $24.95)
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Frommer's Guatemala
• Eliot Greenspan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions.
(CAM130, $19.99)
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Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1)
• Cedric Belfrage
• Eduardo Galeano
• HISTORY
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Brief, lyrical vignettes and anecdotes from pre-Columbian myths through the conquest and early colonial period. A crash course in the history of the New World.
(MYA18, $16.95)
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The Green Pharmacy
• James A. Duke
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An A-Z catalog of ailments and the herbal remedies that heal them.
(AMZ40, $19.95)
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Guatemala: Never Again!
• Thomas Quigley
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Eyewitness testimony of the war conducted by the military against Guatemala's indigenous population during the 36-year civil war.
(CAM88, $30.00)
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A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins
• C. Bruce Hunter
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, accessible guide to archaeological sites in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
(MYA23, $19.95)
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A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America
• Stephen Howell
• Sophie Webb
• FIELD GUIDE
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Serious birders will want this definitive guide to the 1,070 bird species. It may be awkward to carry but it covers, in detail, all the birds you will see in the region.
(FG15, $49.95)
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A Guide to the Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras
• Robert Ridgely
• J.A. Gwynne
• FIELD GUIDE
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A comprehensive field guide, noteworthy for its beautiful color plates, in a sturdy edition covering additional species found in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica
(CAM07, $49.95)
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High Jungles and Low
• Archie Carr
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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This absorbing memoir of slogging through the forest as a gun-toting tagalong on a commercial expedition in search of mahogany in the Honduran highlands is a classic. The book to read for anyone heading to the tropics.
(CAM01, $19.95)
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Honey Jar
• Rigoberta Menchu
• LITERATURE
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(MYA47, $18.95)
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The Inhabited Woman
• Giaconda Belli
• LITERATURE
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In this powerful novel by a Nicaraguan poet, a young woman living in a contemporary Central American country becomes "inhabited" by the soul of a woman who lived there hundreds of years earlier, under the oppression of the Spanish rule.
(CAM33, $22.95)
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Insight Guide Guatemala, Belize & the Yucatan
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This handsome guide gives a profusely illustrated overview of Guatemala, Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on natural history, politics and culture.
(CAM113, $23.95)
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Jungle of the Maya
• Douglas Goodell
• Jerry Barrack
• Jim Wright
• Archie Carr
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A handsome survey of the wildlife and habitats of the Selva Maya, the tropical forest that spreads through Belize, Guatemala and the Yucatan.
(MYA51, $34.95)
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The Long Night of White Chickens
• Francisco Goldman
• LITERATURE
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A first novel attuned to the social setting and politics of contemporary life in Guatemala city.
(CAM90, $14.00)
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Mama Poc, An Ecologist's Account of the Extinction of a Species
• Anne La Bastille
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An impassioned account of the naturalist-author's quest to save the Atitlan grebe, endemic to Guatemala, from extinction.
(GML14, $25.00)
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The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War
• Mark Danner
• HISTORY
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A reconstruction of a 1981 massacre in El Salvador and the role of the United States.
(CAM67, $14.95)
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Maya Cosmos, Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path
• Joy Parker
• Linda Schele
• David Freidel
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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This book finds coherence in 3000 years of Central American religious history.
(MYA32, $23.95)
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Maya Glyphs
• S.D. Houston
• HISTORY
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A concise survey of ancient Maya language and writing.
(MYA24, $15.95)
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The Maya Tropical Forest: Peoples, Parks and Ancient Cities
• James D. Nations
• HISTORY
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Jim Nations draws on field work in the region over the last 25 years in this personable, detailed overview of the people, history and wildlife of the lowland tropical forest of southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
(MYA49, $22.95)
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Moon Handbook Honduras
• Chris Humphrey
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide to Honduras, its history, culture and attractions.
(CAM73, $19.95)
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The Mosquito Coast
• Paul Theroux
• LITERATURE
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A taught psychological tale of a man who abandons civilization for the wilds of Honduras.
(CAM34, $14.95)
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics
• Marco Lambertini
• John Venerella
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A compact, illustrated guide to the natural history of the tropical latitudes.
(CON17, $25.00)
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A Neotropical Companion
• J.C. Kricher
• Mark Plotkin
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A tropical primer aimed at the motivated general reader. From plants and animals to birds and bugs, it's all here in this wonderfully written overview of the ecology, habitats, plants and animals of Central and South America.
(GPS11, $29.95)
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Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide
• L.H. Emmons
• FIELD GUIDE
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An illustrated guide to the mammals of the New World tropics, compact enough to slip into your daypack, with 29 color plates illustrating more than 200 species.
(GPS12, $32.50)
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Nothing to Declare, Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
• Mary Morris
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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An absorbing memoir of a woman traveling alone throughout Mexico and Central America. Morris, a favorite writer, evokes the people and places she visits on her travels in gritty immediate detail.
(CAM08, $14.00)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Spanish
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Spanish, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(SPN257, $19.95)
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Reef Fish Identification
• Paul Humann
• FIELD GUIDE
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This definitive guide for underwater enthusiasts features 670 stunning color photographs.
(DIV03, $39.95)
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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
• David Stoll
• HISTORY
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This book alleges that Rigoberta Menchu took liberities with events depicted in her landmark autobiography.
(GML09, $25.00)
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The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy
• arturo arias
• HISTORY
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This anthology examines the debate over the authenticity of "I, Rigoberta Menchu."
(GML10, $22.50)
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Rough Guide Central America
• Peter Eltringham
• GUIDEBOOK
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A no-nonsense, comprehensive travel guide to Central America with country-by-country descriptions and a solid overview of history, culture and nature. Covers Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama.
(CAM95, $22.99)
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Scribes, Warriors and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya
• William L Fash
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A comprehensive, illustrated overview of the great city of Copan, its rise to power, history and mysterious collapse in the ninth century. Fash pays particular attention to the role of recently deciphered inscriptions in our changing understanding of the Maya.
(MYA11, $24.95)
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A Short History of Progress
• Ronald Wright
• HISTORY
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These succint essays, originally presented as a radio broadcast, analyze the rise and fall of great societies, including Maya, Roman, Sumerian, Ancient Chinese and Easter Island.
(WLD62, $14.95)
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Snakes, The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
• Harry W. Greene
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The ecology and diversity of snakes worldwide, with stunning photographs.
(BST33, $60.00)
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Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life
• Paul Humann
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact guide illustrating all the fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants you are most likely to encounter in under 15 feet of water in the Caribbean.
(DIV02, $14.95)
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Spanish, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(SPN259, $7.95)
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Spanish, Start Speaking Today! (Cassette Tapes)
• Educational Services Corporation
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 90-minute crash course in Spanish featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook.
(SPN140, $21.95)
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Spirits of the Jaguar
• BBC
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A four-part BBC television series, this documentary presents the land, wildlife and cultures of Central America in living color.
(CAM59, $19.98)
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Travelers' Tales Central America
• Larry Habegger
• Natanya Pearlman
• ANTHOLOGY
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A collection of eyewitness reports by journalists, travelers and writers, including Joan Didion, P.J. O'Rourke and Paul Theroux.
(CAM96, $17.95)
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The True History of Chocolate
• Sophie D. Coe
• Michael Coe
• FOOD
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This scholarly history of pre-Columbian chocolate by these married archaeologists reveals chocolate's origins as a ceremonial beverage in ancient Olmec and Maya society. The Coes trace the treat's evolution from a food of the gods to the salons of Europe down through the masses to Hershey Pennsylvania.
(CAM57, $21.95)
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Ultimate Spanish, Basic-Intermediate with Book
• Irwin Stern
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A university-level Spanish course in a box with eight, 60-minute cassettes and a 400-page book.
(SPN175, $75.00)
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The University of Chicago Dictionary, Spanish-English/English-Spanish
• Carlos Castillo
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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The well-regarded concise dictionary of words and phrases for today's language. Fifth Edition.
(SPN118, $11.00)
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The World of the Ancient Maya
• George S. Henderson
• HISTORY
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A comprehensive survey of the Maya from early settlement to the Spanish invasion. With descriptions of Maya rulers, architecture, art, language, and daily life, photographs and maps.
(MYA21, $29.95)
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Yucatan Peninsula Map
• World Mapping Project
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This detailed, full-color travel map of the Yucatan, at a scale of 1:650,000, includes site plans for Uxmal and Chichen Itza.
(MEX04, $9.99)
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