visual hall of famous people, visual glossary, index, resources, Web sites, and word count. Part of The Bilingual Library of the United States of America series, this is an incredible resource for young new readers in Spanish and older English-as-a-Second-Language learners.  (less)

foldout Rand McNally map, a Fodor's Gold Guide is an essential tool for any kind of traveler.  If you only have room for one guide, this is the guide for you.brbrbrbNew for 2000!/bFull-color sections let you experience Mexico before you get there with region by region virtual tours and cross-referencing to the main text. Fodor's color sections are a great way to begin planning your trip.brbrbrbLet the world's smartest guide enrich your trip/bbrFull-color images evoke what makes Mexico unique - Local experts show you the special places - Thorough updating keeps you on track - Practical information gives you the tools to explore - Easy-to-use format puts it all at your fingertipsbrbrbrbChoose among many hotels and restaurants in all price categories/bbrStay in charming colonial posadas, stylish beachside resorts, and gracious haciendas - Dine in traditional mesones de mole, airy zócalo cafés, old Spanish taverns, beachside palapas, and local taquerías - Check out hundreds of detailed reviews and learn what's special about each placebrbrbrbMix and match our itineraries and discover the unexpected/bbrSavvy descriptions help you decide where to go and when - Driving and walking tours guide you to everything from Baja coast whale-watching and colorful Heartland towns to sublime Maya ruins and unspoiled Caribbean beaches - Find great sources for huipiles, pottery, and hand-worked silverbrbrbrbGo straight to the facts you need and find all that's new/bbrUseful maps and background info?Р (less)

on the tension between national identity and modernity. A significant internal conflict emerges in Fuentes's work from his attempt to stake out two different positions for himself, as experimental novelist and as politically engaged and responsible intellectual. Drawing from his fiction, literary essays, and political journalism, van Delden places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America. He concludes that Fuentes is fundamentally a modernist writer, in spite of the fact that he occasionally gravitates toward the postmodernist position in literature and politics. Van Delden's thorough command of the subject matter, his innovative and sometimes iconoclastic conclusions, and his clear and engaging writing style make this study more than just an interpretation of Fuentes's work. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity offers nothing less than a comprehensive analysis of Fuentes's intellectual development in the context of modern Mexican political and cultural life. "This lucid book clearly delineates the features of an entire epoch in the intellectual life of Mexico. Its analysis provides a key to understanding one of the major authors of our time and one of the leading characters in twentieth-century Latin America."-Alberto Ruy Snchez "Maarten van Delden's insight into Carlos Fuentes is a triumph of scholarship. This challenging study is cause for celebration."-Walter Abish  (less)

information and is packed with beautiful, hand-painted illustrations of the world's food plants. In an oversized format with alternating full-page color plates, readers will find a feast of facts about cereals, sugar crops, oil seeds, nuts, legumes, fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, sea-weeds, mushrooms, wild food plants, and much more besides.brThe book, for example, provides authoritative coverage of fruit worldwide, both the varieties you commonly find at your local food stand (apples, oranges, strawberries, kiwi, bananas), and some you might not ordinarily see (mangosteen, manzanilla, marang, tamarind, or whortleberry). Similarly, we can uncover information on vegetables from acorn squash, asparagus, and broccoli, to truffle, turnips, watercress, and zucchini; nuts from the beechnut and the betel nut to the pistachio and the walnut; and herbs from anise and arrowroot to tarragon and wintergreen. Entries typically discuss the source and history of a plant, how it is prepared for market, and how it is used as food. Thus, for the Common Bean, we learn that it is the most widely cultivated bean in the world; that it has a host of local varieties and names (including French Beans, String Beans, Snap Beans, Frijoles); that remains have been found in Mexico that date back seven thousand years; that it is used in dishes that range from France's cassoulet to Mexican chili; and we even learn that one type of cultivar, known as nuoas, is grown only in very high altitudes in South America and that it pops when cooked, rather like pop corn. And the illustrations for the Common Bean show the flowers, pods, and seeds of several varieties, including the Climbing Purple-Podded Kidney Bean, the Brown Haricot, the White Haricot, and th@+LÌÌÌÌÍÿ¾Û€  (less)

to settlement. This title takes readers to U.S. cities located in the Rocky Mountains such as Denver, Colorado, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Readers will also visit the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States and discover how and why coal mining is the most common living made by people who live in that region. World locales and people this book visits include Japan and Tibet. After a description of the difference between mountains and volcanoes, readers will visit Hawaii, which consists of islands that are really the tops of volcanoes.  (less)

what renowned science fiction writer John Barnes will do when he finds himself in one of the wildest, most rollicking hard-SF adventures to hit print in years. Barnes's college friend Travis Bismarck always brought back plenty of great stories from his job as an industrial spy. This time, over a few beer- and coffee-fueled chat sessions, Travis unravels a tale about his current case too tall for even an SF author to believe: a Gaudeamus machine that bends physics in order to make possible both teleportation and time travel, and how it gets stolen - twice: a grad student-cum-prostitute who deals in telepathy-inducing drugs that let her ""download"" top-secret documents from her clients' brains: a romp through Colorado and New Mexico during which each episode and character is more bizarre than the last: and the Internet meme that seems to tie it all together. Barnes's commentary on Travis's story and his own life as an SF writer and drama teacher, interspersed with their everyday interactions with a group of funny, compelling friends, is related in a surprising and nontraditional narrative that blurs the line between fact, fiction, and metafiction."  (less)

discovery, and ore value. Unique details of each camp are given, including historical facts, buildings and businesses present, and, frequently, interesting anecdotes about the resident miners. The work is indexed by topic and mine, and appendices offer a glossary and a copy of the Miners' Ten Commandments, originally published in the Placerville (California) Herald in 1853  (less)

of tons of rock were vaporized and launched into the atmosphere. For a thousand miles in all directions, vegetation burst into flames. There were tremendous blast waves, searing winds, showers of molten matter from the sky, earthquakes, and a terrible darkness that cut out sunlight for a year, enveloping the planet in freezing cold. Thousands of species of plants and animals were obliterated, including the dinosaurs, some of which may have become extinct in a matter of hours. In Impact, Gerrit L. Verschuur offers an eye-opening look at such catastrophic collisions with our planet. Perhaps more important, he paints an unsettling portrait of the possibility of new collisions with earth, exploring potential threats to our planet and describing what scientists are doing right now to prepare for this awful possibility. Every day something from space hits our planet, Verschuur reveals. In fact, about 10,000 tons of space debris fall to earth every year, mostly in meteoric form. The author recounts spectacular recent sightings, such as over Allende, Mexico, in 1969, when a fireball showered the region with four tons of fragments, and the twenty-six pound meteor that went through the trunk of a red Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York, in 1992 (the meteor was subsequently sold for $69,000 and the car itself fetched $10,000). But meteors are not the greatest threat to life on earth, the author points out. The major threats are asteroids and comets. The reader discovers that astronomers have located some 350 NEAs (""Near Earth Asteroids""), objects whose orbits cross the orbit of the earth, the largest of which are 1627 Ivar (6 kilometers wide) and 1580 Betula (8 kilometers). Indeed, we learn that in 1989, a bus-sized asteroid called"  (less)

baby Hope never held...and never stopped thinking about. Now Hope briefly returns to her hometown to help her pregnant younger sister, Faith, escape, too. They need somewhere to go, a sanctuary. Where but The Birth Place? Faith can have her baby in safety and Hope can revisit old friends. Like Lydia--and the handsome Parker Reynolds. But Parker, the birth center's administrator and a widowed single father, isn't pleased to see Hope back in Enchantment. He's even less pleased when Lydia offers her a job. Hope doesn't understand his animosity. In fact, she almost wonders if he has something to hide....  (less)

to settlement. This title takes readers to U.S. cities located in the Rocky Mountains such as Denver, Colorado, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Readers will also visit the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States and discover how and why coal mining is the most common living made by people who live in that region. World locales and people this book visits include Japan and Tibet. After a description of the difference between mountains and volcanoes, readers will visit Hawaii, which consists of islands that are really the tops of volcanoes.  (less)