Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, Paperback - William H. Beezley

Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porf...

Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dr...

Reducere. After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would e...

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In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

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First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America's finest and boldest writers of fictio...

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Reducere. In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William G. DegenhardtAuthor: Charles W. PainterAuthor: Andrew H. PriceAmphibians and reptiles thrive in New Mexico's many l...

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, an...

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THE FIRST OFFICIAL NOVEL FROM GAME GRUMPS Listen up, kid. My name is Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills. I'm the author of this book and many other ones that you...

The literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of sh...

Reducere. A leading historian of the early church and the best-selling author of Misquoting Jesus, Bart Ehrman offers the first comprehensive account of the ...

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The instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascina...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England, in 1885. In 1914, he married Frieda Von Richtofen, a German national and distant c...

Reducere. First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relatio...

Reducere. In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney t...

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In this exploration of how people lived and died in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century New Mexico, Martina Will de Chaparro weaves together the st...

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In this unique work, the authors explore both the historic origins of the Day of the Dead and its colorful present-day celebrations in Mexico and t...

The first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking from the 1960s to 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the a...

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The following questions, which have been in my mind for over fifty years, will be answered by a careful study of the Bible. Was Judas predestined t...

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Synopsis: The Gospel of Judas: On a Night with Judas Iscariot presents a fresh translation of the Gospel of Judas, with introduction, commentary, a...