Bounty Hunter's Moon is an old-fashioned, clean cutmystery/western. Hogan does a realistic job portraying Shawn Starbuckas a lone jack-of-all-trades looking for his long-lost brother in New Mexico Territory. Although finding his lost brother has been his goal for many years, his sets aside his quest (I'm not so sure it's as settled as the opening page claims) in order to do what needs to be done, in the code of the Old West. Hogan's characters leap off the page, and the text flows well, more like a B&W movie than a book. The book has a surprise ending, as do all good books. And it has the heroic gunplay requisite to all great Westerns.

Although Starbuck's brother is alegedly dead according to the opening line of this book, I hold out hope that there is a mistake about the message, and there will be another Starbuck adventure. Of course, if there is, it's probably already written as Mr. Hogan is rapidly approaching 100 years old....

This book will knock your socks straight off. These photographs were taken by, apparently, amateur photographers, but they are simply magical. Although these photographs were [taken] in Mexican brothels, they speak volumes about the American Southwest. A must have for collectors of the great photography books of our time. Part of the permanent OilCan collection.

Not only is this a well written book, the illustrations are superior. Ted De Grazia should be given credit in your write-up. He is a very famous artist and his illustrations here are a grand complement to the writings of author Alvin Gordon.

Mexican Jewish writer Sabina Berman is best known for her successful plays and is not often recognized for her equally noteworthy prose. "Bubbeh" provides insight into Berman's childhood and adolescence, as well as Jewish life in Mexico City ... The novel ... is a tribute to her immigrant grandmother. The narrator, Sabita, recounts her memories of the life and lore surrounding her bubbeh, a proverbial woman of valor, whose home provides sustenance and refuge for her extended family. The bubbeh's stories from the Kabbalah and the oral tradition serve as an antidote to the mother's Marxist rejection of religion... In Berman's account, the bubbeh is at once the diminutive and ridiculous formal foreigner whom the granddaughter rejects as a teen, and the giant force whose very image is larger than life. At two points in the narration, Sabita remembers how, in her childhood, the figure of her grandmother is so big it blocks out the cathedral clock. Bubbeh saves the family when they are destitute in Japan. Sabita recalls her heroic foresight: "That's what my grandmother is to me: the woman who has her wisdom tooth excavated to store a diamond, and then, when the last resources have been exhausted and no one knows how to geep on going, she removes the diamond and asks: 'Will this do?'" Critics will debate whether this novel reverts to an essentialist vision of women or breaks new ground in feminine writing. Certainly this work, like other Mexican novels such as "Como agua para chocolate" by Laura Esquivel and "Antes" by Carmen Boullosa," reevaluates and treasures lessons and traditions learned in the kitchen and that have been passed on by our grandmothers. Andrea Labinger's rendering of the novel sparkles like the gem in the bubbeh's molar. Her prose preserves the freshness and immediacy of the young narrator. The translation successfully suggests the personal quirks of many different speakers and rettains the humor of Berman's novel.

This book was referred to me by a friend when he heard I was thinking about doing business in Mexico's Maquiladora Industry (I noticed the maquiladora industry is not one of your subject links; it should be). He said it would be helpful and it was. I would recommend it to anyone who is considering the same thing. The book had a lot of statistical tables and jargon that I wasn't interested in; but the bottom line, the point that the author drove home, was real interesting. That point is that companies from the U.S. can and are working successfully in the maquiladora industry and are overcoming the cultural differences your hear so much about. In the examples the author uses, U.S. companies were sending their own managers down to their plants in Mexico and then they were hiring Mexican citizens to work for them. The real success story in this was that these same managers were using teamwork in their plants and it was working great. gjd

This is a surperb book, I've read it twice and found it so good I went back for thirds! This book covers this religious sacrifices and durg deals made by the charismatic cult leader Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a Miami-born ex-altar boy who's love for power and money cause him to form his cult. The religion in which they practice is Santeria, which includes animal sacrifces and in the end, human sacrifices. I highly recomend this book :)

We have kids and lots of books. This is must have. The kids love it, and we do too. Very well written and great illustrations. If we did not have kids I would have purchased it!

I'll admit to being skewed here, as the author has been a friend of my family since I was four years old (we in fact met Nigel and his family in the travels depicted in this book). But reading it for the first time years later, it is a fascinating look into the indigenous cultures of Mexico, et. al., as seen through the eyes of a Briton travelling with his family. Even though these travels were in the early 1970s, they retain a certain timelessness while reflecting what has in many ways already become a bygone age. Nigel has a rare talent for being able to tell the whole story without getting bogged down in so much detail that it makes you want to chuck the book into the nearest trashcan. A great read for students of Latin American culture, and for fans of travellers' tales.

Barta's exploration of the construction of the mexican subjectivity is superb. His is a sophisticated analysis of the process by which the State legitimates itself through nationalism. This work constitutes a devastating critique of the icons and myths constructed by nationalist discourse. It is also an invitation for us, mexicano/as, to rethink ourselves as subjects and to live our mexicaness in new and subversive ways.

Anyone who appreciates the unspoiled west and california history should find California coast trails by J.Smeaton Chase a pleasant read. Shortly after publishing his diary journals of extensive journeys throughout the Sierra Nevada mountains in Yosemite Trails, Chase embarked on his next adventure on horseback. This trip would take him from Mexico to Oregon along the coastal route of the spacely settled california. Most of the books appeal to me is Chases daily recording of intimate details such as a rare flower or a unique sunset. His daily travels often ended with a campfire on the sand with the ocean waves for a lullabuy. Chases winning personality and knowledge of California history further enhance the book along with frequent references to former events and places of historical significance. California Coast Trails is a trail guide, history book and personal travel diary all in one. You wont regret the read.