This book has received an Honorable Mention from the 2001 Southern Books Competition. "One of the challenges of book design is to thoughtfully create a readable and engaging package for outstanding intellectual content. Jose Orozco Farias has done an exemplary job here and deserves warm praise. Color continuity from jacket through title page to chapter openings is exceptional. The table of contents is clear, simple and easy to use. Chapter openings are beautiful. Images are thoughtfully and effectively arranged. The text is extremely readable with thoughtful use of white space." Congratulations to the authors, designer Jose Clemente Orozco Farias, and the University of Texas Press.

If you got this far, you are probably going to buy this book, since it is the only survey in English of the rich history of photography in Mexico. But in case you have any doubts about spending the 40 odd dollars, put them out of your mind, since it is really a great art book, even if you aren't interested in Mexico or photography! Reads like a series of fascinating "tales"....I'm a very biased reviewer but thought someone had to be the first to review this excellent book.

I had to review this book for a historical book review and it read like a breeze through the part describing the battles of the war. The political part after the war part was intresting but not as exciting as the former. This is a great read for fans of the Mexican War and even though of the Civil War.

Otis Singletary's The Mexican War is a concise and excellent overview of the war. Its greatest strength is the way it brings the personalities and personal conflicts to life. It provides great insight into the way politics intruded upon the prosecution of the war.

This is an intriguing analytical summary of the major political, economic, and social trends in Mexico. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the author's scenarios or conclusions, there is a lot to learn here and ponder over. If decisionmakers can read only one book on Mexico, MEXICO 2005 would be an excellent choice.

Once in every decade, an author produces a book that provokes debate and sheds light on a topic analyzed from an entirely fresh perspective. Mike Mazarr's Mexico 2005 is just such a book. This work approaches Mexico through a challenging and articulate framework of six global trends, ranging from the changing allocation of human resources to that of human psychology. The author concludes with a series of probable, controversial scenarios in 2005. The book is rich in insights and piques the reader's interest at every turn of the page. Mazarr's lucid writing and wide-ranging, eclectic themes will appeal to students, academics, the business community, government officials, and the media. Anyone interested in Mexico today and Mexico in the 21st century should read this book.

The book has a comprehensive list of routes for each mountain, it also provides good advice for begineers. However, there are two things I don't like form this book: 1) Need an update to reflect latest changes (Popo for example) 2) The book looks too simplistic, the format is ver bad for the type of information. The book has very few quality photos and the routes are difficult to follow.

I wish I could find a more up-to-date book about these beatiful mountains

RJ did a great job with this book. I used it way back in 1988 to climb the 3 big ones and found it absolutely accurate. He's got some great tips in there too!

Wow. The photos of this book are really great. As the wife of a Mexican, we had to have a book of photos from Mexico - to reminisce and to see places that we haven't yet visited. We searched for the perfect book - and this is it. All color photos, artistically captured, exclusively of the countryside are in this book. All of the major regions of Mexico are featured. If you haven't been to Mexico, this is a preview to the wonders that await you, and if you are missing Mexico, then this will bring a smile to your face.

Mexico: A higher vision, is a book for all people. Whether or not you have been to Mexico the photographs alone are astonishing. The book portrays a beautiful country giving writen details about different sections of the country along with some historical facts and myths. For those who have been there it is a sweet reminder of the culture. From the past to the present. It gives photos of the old and the new and how they mix together. Definately a must have.

"Mike Oliver's Acapulco" is the most captivating history I have ever read of a city. The celebrity, excitement and glamour will never been seen again. What heady times. I am glad you were there to capture them for us so brilliantly. Thank you Mr. Oliver!

Having lived in Acapulco for over 40 years, the book "Mike Oliver's Acapulco" has certainly put the spotlight on this resort

with the stories about all the exciting and world renown visitors, as well as its marvelous events. As the owner of the glass bottom boat Dinka, I find myself talking to passengers about the true happenings related in this book. Once my wife and I started reading the book, we couldn't put it down.

This is a splendid book detailing life in Mexico before the conquest by the Spaniards. Beginning with the inside covers the book is rich in pictoral description. The endpapers are beautiful color reproductions of Diego Rivera's "The Great City of Tenochtitlan", a lavish tribute mural of Aztec life that adorns the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City. The color is magnificent throughout the book and includes many artifacts left from the ancient Aztecs. The book also includes a great little glossary that includes a pronunciation guide to Nahuatl terms. The glossary serves as a fine introduction to the Nahuatl Language and it's phonetics. Although the authors and contributors are scholars, the book is easy to read for the average person interested in archaeology and Pre-Columbian life in Mexico. The color plates are some of the finest and include rare glimpses into Codex's that are housed in museums. A magnificent book to use as reference. The book is also a great source of information for further research as it includes a selected bibliography. An excellent view of Aztec life, it compliments any personal library. If you love the Art of Pre-Columbian Mexico this book is also a source of inspiration.

Developed by four distinguished Mesoamerican scholars for an exhibit at the Denver Museum of Natural History (1992 - 1993). Great photographs of artifacts (jade masks, human skulls, sculptures), buildings and manuscripts. Well-written (not dry or too scholarly). It's been on my coffee table for years but I never tire of looking at it.

We Follow Kevin Dillon through his innocent and optimistic youth in Boston, into a racist cauldron, to his rescue and thence to a love affair with a proverbial farmer's daughter, and then into the U.S. Army in Texas. Michael Hogan has written an interesting, thoughtful, and exciting tale based on historical facts. Kevin's experience in Mexico are at once exciting and tragic. A novel well worth the read.

Few writers have ever had a more intense identification with the San Patricios than Michael Hogan. (San Patricios was the name given to the Irish soldiers who deserted to fight for Mexico in the Mexican-American War. Hogan, an Irish-American who has long lived in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish, is currently head of the English and Humanities Departments at Guadalajara's American School. The author of twelve books, he was also historical consultant on the set of "One Man's Hero," an MGM picture starring Tom Berenger and Daniela Romo which presents a fictional episode in the history of the San Patricios. "Molly Malone and the San Patricios" does double duty as a robust action novel and a work of historical revisionism. (Though named after that famed dispenser of cockles and mussels, "Molly Malone" is an Indian dog that has attached itself to the Irish battalion.) Since some of the soldiers who deserted to fight for Mexico were U.S. citizens (others were immigrants who joined the Army because of anti-Irish discrimination in civilian life), media organs of the day were almost unanimous in branding them as traitors. In a sober and compelling analysis, Hogan shows how the treatment they received would hardly induce them to become superpatriots a la George M. Cohen, an Irish-American lucky enough to come after anti-Hibernian prejudice had evaporated. The earlier newcomers daily encountered signs reading "No Irish need apply!" and, after joining the Army, were even denied Catholic chaplains. Hogan's historical work, published in 1997, was titled "The Irish Soldiers of Mexico." His novel follows the outline of the nonfiction book but also has an early section that proceeds events in Mexico. The protagonist is a 16-year-old "greenhorn" right off the boat who encounters both torment and ecstasy in the life of a newly arrived immigrant. He is beaten up by bigots in a bar but then employed by a rich farmer whose nubile daughter is instantly attracted to him. Though the farmer is well-intentioned, his benevolence does not extend to sanctioning a romantic laison between his dughter and a penniless Catholic immigrant. This leads to a chain of events that culminate in Kevin being shanghaied into the army and shipped off to the Mexican border on the eve of President Polk's "Manifest Destiny" invasion of Mexico. The rest is known. Kevin and his comrades desert and form an artillery battalion that distinguishes itself in some of the war's most sanguinary battles. Using an E.L. Doctorow approach, Hogan deftly blends fictional and historical figures in the novel. Lee and Grant make cameo appearances, as does Henry Clay Jr., who dies in a war that his father strenuously opposes. Hogan offers up some marvellous touches of humor. No historical figure was more vainglorious than the Mexican commander Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Photography had recently been invented and the Irish soldiers quipped that Santa Anna would rush out of his tent in full uniform whenever lightning flashed: he thought God wanted to take his picture. A more somber episode--and one that touches intimately on the area of ethnic stereotyping--involves an agonizing decision that the Irish survivors had to make when the war ended and they were in captvity. A lieutenant named Martin Lyndon had been a barrister in his native Galway before economic circumstances forced him to emigrate. A realistic man, a born survivor, he addresses his comrades in their cell: "I'm going to suggest that we plead the defense of drunkenness at our trials. Drunkenness as an excuse for desertion. Let me tell you why." Lyndon goes on to explain tht drunkenness has traditionally been considered a mitigating factor in courts-martial and such a plea would be bound to reduce penalties they might suffer--shorter terms of imprisonment or, at worst, the honor of a firing squad rather than hanging. Though some soldiers buy Lyndon's argument, a young idealist like Dillon is repelled by what he considers a disgraceful copout. "They had deserted an invading army for the noblest reasons," writes Hogan. "They had fought for a cause they believed in, under a banner which represented their faith and ideals. They had shown courage and honor in battle and now they were about to negate it all by declaring that they were simply a bunch of drunks." While some of his comrades make this devils's bargain, Kevin Dillon goes to death on the scaffold. --Reviewed by Jim Tuck Guadalajara Colony Reporter

The monkey box is probably the sweetest true love story i have read... made all the more sweet by the fact that it is a REAL story! The history, the love and the passion of the characters, the fear of war, the rigidness of the social customs all interplay into a wonderful story I would love to see made into a movie! Mr. Rodriquez brings his family back to life for us; we get to know their very thoughts and dreams; their hopes, their passions , their sorrows.... we feel all of their emotions as if they were were living and breathing here today.

The Monkey Box is an incredibly intense story that runs the full gamut of emotions: love and war, struggles between the classes, greed, deceit, hardship, romance, etc.. What's even more incredible, it's a true story. The story is so riveting, I could not put it down. I read for hours on end. GREAT BOOK!