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The Planet Mars
Twenty years after the Viking missions of the '70s, we are finally going back to Mars. No fewer than ten missions are planned for the period between 1996 and 2003, and it is likely that human explorers will follow soon after--perhaps by the middle of the twenty-first century. When they do, they will owe much to the Mars of romance, to ...
An Introduction to Tree-Ring Dating
Demons and Development
The Struggle for Community in a Sri Lankan Village
Hopi Basket Weaving
Artistry in Natural Fibers
Peyote
Dry whiskey, Divine herb, Devil's root, Medicine of God, Peyote: for some people, to use it is to hear colors and see sounds. For many Native Americans, it brings an ability to reach out of their physical lives, to communicate with the spirits, and to become complete. For chemists, pharmacologists, and psychiatrists, the plant is ...
Riparian Ecosystem Recovery in Arid Lands
Strategies and References
Where the Dove Calls
The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico
Border Visions
Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States
Canals and Communities
Small-Scale Irrigation Systems
Settlement Ecology
The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture
If a Chimpanzee Could Talk and Other Reflections on Language Acquisition
The Telling Distance
Winner of the 1990 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, The Telling Distance evokes the yearning expanses of our southwestern deserts and finds them full of sensuous marvels, erratic life forms, eccentric fellow travelers, dry humor, and surprise. In prose that revels in paradox, it reveals desert distances to ...
Breathing Between the Lines
Demetria Martínez has entered the public consciousness by way of the heart. In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love.
Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran political refugee. Weaving together threads of love and family, social conviction and activism, loss and renewal, Breathing between the Lines carries the reader deep inside the head and heart of a talented Chicana writer.
Page by page, the journey is an exhilarating one. What we find at the end is up to us.