With its enormous population and growing importance as an international center, Mexico City is an important laboratory for urban studies of many kinds. This book describes and analyzes the city's growth, change, and social characteristics, including migration patterns, housing, transportation, crime, the labor force, economic levels, marriage and fertility patterns, health and morality, ethnic and social groups and the environment. The book concludes with acapstone chapter that summarizes the researchers' findings, reflects on some of the previous literature about the city, and suggests government policies that may benefit the city's future.

Despite all the interesting information that is provided in this book, why would I want to pay .... for this book? For any student of urban sociology, public policy, urban anthropology etc. as well as for any urban missionary or urban pastor this book is a treasure house of information about a major world class city and a model of the kind of research that needs to be done on cities anywhere. People like me, who love their city and want to understand it better, "Mexico MegaCity" offers great insights into how a city works. It is crucial that information like this be used and then applied to ministry strategies or public policy proposals or economic development plans etc...

Mexico Way is an excellent read. The plot is believeable and the action gripping. Jim Kreeger is very credible as an aging, but savvy CIA COS. So are all the other characters. The book exposes both Mexican and Belt Way politics for what they often are: corrupt and self-serving. Throughout the book, I often asked myself: could this really happen? And the answer was almost always YES. Moss does an excellent job of fleshing out both the plot and the characters. Looking for more Moss works now.

Tom Miller brings the quality writing & accurate detail shown in his earlier baja guide books to the west coast of mainland Mexico. We used it to find new surf spots not listed in the Surfer Guide.

This book is great! I highly recommend it for teachers looking for resources to teach Mexico! It is suitable for 1st-5th grades (yes, it spans that many!) It's packed with information as well as hands-on activities your students can actively engage in and learn! Excellent!

Joanne Herschfield and David Maciel edit Mexico's Cinema, an important college-level history of Mexican cinema developments. Fourteen essays consider the first hundred years of Mexican cinema, exploring a range of themes and the history of its development.

This book is more than chips and salsa. I married into a Mexican family and have learned over the years family revolves around food. This book has helped me understand the importance of certain foods in relationship to holidays. I can share with my children how their abuelita makes holiday dishes.

This is an excellent book. It is by far the most readable and detailed account of these wonderful colonial monuments in either English or Spanish.

Superbly illustrated with dozens of original line drawings, this is a comprehensive survey of more than sixty ancient monasteries in central Mexico and Oaxaca. Many of them are architectural masterpieces. Most of them house extraordinary artistic treasures, whether in the form of murals, paintings, fonts or alterpieces.

The small villages where many of them are found go unrecorded in conventional tourist guides. Perry's landmark book has easy-to-follow sketch maps locating all the places described in the text and contains literally hundreds of little-known facts about the buildings, their contents and the background to their construction.

Why should you be interested in these monuments? Because, to quote the author, these are "buildings that not only mirror a crucial period in the history of the Americas, but continue to play a central role in the life of the Mexican people today." Few Americans know very much about the missions and monasteries of Mexico and anyone interested in the history of Mexico's colonial period, or interested in the country's art and architecture, will enjoy reading this book, even if they are unable to visit first-hand all the places described.

The book's value as a reference source is enhanced by a useful glossary, extensive bibliography and complete index.

Anyone interested in Mexico's modern politics and current events must read this book. I thought the first chapters, those dealing with Mexico's history previous to the 1910 revolution, were a bit useless to the overall effect. However, most of the book deals with the country's cultural and political aspects in such a way as to make it a necessary companion to the study of present day Mexico. There are many revealing ideas, and above all, I think, the author is able to transmit to the reader more than facts or oppinions about Mexico's government: he is able to clarify and express those things one always notices about Mexico without one ever beeing able to conceptualize into words. Althoug the author does not inted to be prophetic, I think that he was knowledgeable enough to foresee many of the developments that have just recently taken place after this book's publishing, so that one can clearly see the underlying motives and reasons of those changes.

The ambitious agenda of Lopez Austin and Lopez Lujan is to both write a comprehensive historical review of preconquest Mexico and to present a series of debates about the important topics related to the history, archaeology, and art history of the indigenous peoples. Though they leave some room for improvement, these authors are clearly successful in their endeavor, and I heartily recommend this book, both for those looking for a primer on preconquest Mexico and for those looking for a text to use in the classroom.

This book, a translation of _El pasado indgena_, provides scholars and students with an important synthesis. The book, in an effort to preserve readability, lacks endnotes (an unfortunate decision in this reviewer's mind). The authors provide the first such overview book which goes beyond the boundaries of Mesoamerica. They argue that the three great culture areas (Aridamerica, Oasisamerica, and Mesoamerica) must be understood in relation to each other. It is a solid argument indeed. Even Mesoamerica cannot be understood without an analysis of shifting boundaries and its relationships with the other cultural areas. Yet, the problem that Lopez Austin and Lopez Lujan face is endemic to all such studies: the information on Aridamerica and Oasisamerica pales in comparison to that of Mesoamerica. Hence the book is primarily about Mesoamerica, as the other two culture areas really only influence the first chapter.

This book is well worth reading and provides some fascinating commentary. However, the authors' analyses would be helped by consulting the more recent colonial ethnohistories, which provide some more systematic analysis which could be useful, particularly in analyzing the late Postclassic societies. Certainly a consultation of recent works could allow the authors to engage in more of a critique of indigenous social structures on the eve of the Spanish conquest. The book also largely ignores gender differentiation (except for a very brief discussion of gender within religion). As recent works have shown, placing gender within historical analysis is always extremely relevant and useful. These considerations aside, the methodology used here, allowing students access to archaeological and historiographical debates while also providing a historical overview, is sound, and the authors present a highly readable and well reasoned account of indigenous Mexico before the Spanish conquest.

Its the CLOSEST to it, is a comprehensive guide for those unfamiliarized with the region.Congratulations.