I think that the search required to write this book can be considered deep and risky, because it implied to go to dangerous places where drug dealers are trafficking or powerful people in the government who won't like some of the things that are said in the book. So I consider this is a very valiant work. But not only that, it is very well written, very clear with current information about environment in different areas of México, like Cancún coral reefs, Michoacán, México City, forestland in Chihuahua, pollution caused by twin plants (maquiladoras)and in addition it includes very valuable historic information related with all of the mentioned cases.

Contrary to the wisdom of the politically correct, multinational corporations provide the laboratory to germinate the entrepreneurial spirit of the nationals in their employ. DiConti, with research that gets to the heart of the question, debunks the notion that the "evil" multinational corporations "pillage and plunder" the managerial and entrepreneurial talent of the countries in which they do business.

Entrepreneurship in Training : The Multinational Corporation in Mexico and Canada, by Michael DiConti should be a textbook in the college MBA programs of America, who attract students from other countries. In that way, students fearing the employ of multinationals would consider the many advantages of gaining experience in this type of business structure. It would seem that Mexico in particular, with its newfound political and entrepreneurial awareness, would embrace the foreign intrusion into their business environment.

Deep in the jungle of Chiapas, Mexico -- Graciela Limon paints for her readers a vibrantly vivid picture of a very real, and until now, mostly faceless world. In her captivating pages, she takes us far beneath the "plush green-black canopy" of mahogany and ceiba trees, to a place where we are surrounded by "the incessant cacophony of the forest" -- where we find ourselves immersed and enmeshed, for 258 pages, in the heart and soul of the Mexican indigenous world. It is a world that human/e civilization has left behind -- where men are brutalized and over-burdened like beasts, and "women toil, breaking their backs, growing old before their time, buried in the mud of ignorance" -- until Limon's Juana, Orlando, and other Zapatista rebels, refusing to accept their fates, scream out: "Ya basta! No more!"

Limon has done it again! = another wonderful job of interweaving the beautiful rainbow threads of a very profound forbidden love into the background tapestry of her story -- that which colorfully develops between the insurgent Juana Galvan and a recruited Chicana photographer, Adriana Mora. Although the two women have lived their lives separated by thousands of miles -- meaningful dreams, visible scars, and inexplicable emotional ties attest to their belief that they have loved one another before.

As Limon writes, "we repeat ourselves," .... a phrase that refers not only to the belief in reincarnation held by the Lacandon people, but also to humanity's insistence, persistence -- and resistance to change -- AND challenge a(n all-too-often racist/classist/sexist/homophobic) "status quo."

In Limon's pages, and outside of them as well!, the struggle for freedom in the (erased) face/s of oppression goes on ....
and crimes of pure hatred ("puro odio") exact a terrifying toll on our/selves and our world.

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A masterfully crafted and expertly executed "wake-up call" for a sleeping world -- this is a timely and necessary novel with a very important message -- and in her creation/writing of it, Limon, like her Adriana, has taken on the highly courageous and commendable role of a missionary "of sorts."

..... her best to date!

While 10 years old, this unique book is still chock full of interesting trivia and recipies. Please e-mail the author at rik.espinosa@tulsaworld.com Thanks Rik Espinosa

This is a fabulous coffee table book makes a great gift for any nature lover. David Muench does a wonderful job of capturing the desert & bringing home for you to enjoy.It is in stunning full-color on glossy stock.

Photographs encompass landscapes of endless sands & rocks of many different hues. Impressive natural sandstone sculptures are also displayed. You even get a glimpse of the petroglyphs & ruins of ancient peoples.

I fell in love with a spectacular waterfall flowing into most gorgeous turquoise waters I have ever seen. Meadows of golden prickly pear cactus flowers & fields of brilliant orange poppies took my breath away.

The text includes many fascinating facts about America's deserts. There is also a great map of the region. Captions including quotations from Van Dyke's "The Desert" fit the photography perfectly.

This book was wonderful. It gave great insight into the lives of the average mexican person. It discussed the hardships that many Mexicans had to go through if they decided to turn to the protestant way of life. This book also discusses the missionaries in Mexico and the work they do. If interested in religion then this is the book for you!!

First, this is a technical, academic book, targeting linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists. Not introductory.

Having said that, I enjoyed the book tremendously. My background is in linguistics and computational linguistics. The various authors consider a) the ways in which language is a complex adaptive system (and what it means to be complex and adaptive) and b) the evidence we have about how language evolved, from various perspectives. For example, how human language differs from, but is related to, abilities and attributes of higher primates, and how the two might have been bridged. Evidence is drawn from medicine/brain science, as well as physical artifacts studied by archeologists. Other papers look at linguistic data from the perspective of various theoretical orientations, including the typological perspective, considering the types of variation that is and is NOT found in human language and what that may suggests about the language faculty. Language development stages in children, and the amazing area of creoles, in which children construct a complete language from fragmentary pieces are also of interest.

Anyone who has a good technical background in linguistics will find it accessible, and it is an engaging way to broaden your thinking about language and linguistic analysis.

Having worked with Prof. Lomnitz at the University of Chicago I can say, as a student, that he is a brilliant professor, and as a scholar, that he is one the best in the field of Latin American Studies today. This book not only restructures the way we look at nationalism in Mexico, but how we define nationalism in general. The author clearly steps beyond the bounds of traditional theory and presents a cogent and practical thesis. This is a must read for students of Latin America, the social sciences, history, anthropology or just plain academics.

Library Journal's review of this guide: "Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas-type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore."

It's rare enough simply to hear the story of the chemical industry, but even more compelling is the conclusion. Garcia-Johnson's argument that the environmentalism in industrialized nations stands a chance of being exported to other countries in which those chemical industries operate is both compellingly argued and refreshingly optimistic.