This atlas is pretty sweet. It's got all the track layouts, so detailed I can pick out my seats when I order tickets for the races. They also show parking areas and paddock/pit/garage areas inside the track. Also included are inset maps showing how to get to the WC tracks from nearby cities. For those of us who don't get to that many Winston Cup events, all local NASCAR sanctioned tracks are highlighted too! In addition to all this there are fully blown detailed maps showing all the states to help you plan your road trip to any event.
Other goodies include state populations, largest cities, land area, highest points, as well as mileage charts, and websites for all national parks and federal lands (for you hunters and outdoors people).

Overall this atlas contains a lot of info!

Jason Wolf

ps - Don't for get the trivia included like: Who earned the 400-mile event race record at Darlington in 1968? It's David Person, but buy the atlas for the rest of the questions ;)

Embodied in this five star novel is suspense, conspiracy, romance, and a mysterious phenomenon known as Once:Once. With a young man seeking a higher power, a young woman who has been cast out by her own people searching for her true identity, and a villainous general attempting to take control of Chiapas and overturn the Mexican government, Once:Once will undoubtedly captivate anyone searching for an outstanding work of literature. I enjoyed this novel very much because it has excellent character development and impressive storytelling. Lee Cuesta has masterfully created a unique novel that will have everyone reading Once:Once from cover to cover.

Too bad it's out of print, I'd love a copy! I read this book 20 years ago and cannot find a copy. I highly reccommend it for it's intense mystery and the lure of a treasure hunt. Steeped in the early history of the desert southwest. It is an excellent read!

This is a great book, highly recommended. Hancock and McNamee capture the essence of the strange, mirage-like Southwest, full of ghosts and forgotten dreams.

Zane Grey's Open Range is a colorful, action/adventure western novel of a youth on his journey to manhood. Set in the rugged open range of the old American Southwest, our strong-hearted hero finds himself pitted against an unscrupulous family, and only a valley filled with prized wild horses can tip the balance against them and for him. Open Range is enthusiastically recommended reading for the legions of Zane Grey fans.

What an exquisite book! Not only is it an informative and interesting read, but it made me want to move to Taos and take up oil painting! In fact, I'm signing up for painting classes this week! The plates are magnificent, and the subject matter, Taos, and Taos Pueblo Indians, are filled with beauty and dignity from a time gone by. Highly recommended for all lovers of the Southwest, native cultures, and landscape and oil paintings.

This guide not only gives excellent information on visiting archaeological sites and cities in Mexico, it also contains photographs and gives site plans, maps, and information on museums,restaurants, and buying folk art.

Riviting pictures taken by kids themselves, to show what it is like to live on the margin in this Central American country. The book captures the complexity of life in the dump, and shows the real depth of character and resilience these kids have.

Pablita Verlarde: Painting Her People is an impressive artbook that beautifully presents an historical and compelling memoir of the artist, enhanced with twenty-eight of her paintings in full color, including some previously unpublished and rarely seen. Biographer Marcella Ruch spent many hours with Pablita Verlarde recording her stories as first person reminiscences and includes anecdotes drawn from her Pueblo childhood, her mother's early death from TB, her experiences at St. Catharine's Indian School at age 5, her later years at the Santa Fe Indian School (working with Dorothy Dunn to develop her art), and painting murals at Bandelier under the WPA. There are personal reflections on the struggle to raise her children alone, and her eventual fame as an Native American painter. Here also are stories about the experiences of being a Native American woman in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, as well as being an artist able to triumph over many difficulties. Each story is illustrated with one of her paintings of Pueblo life, a photograph from her personal collection, or an historical photograph from the Museum of New Mexico photo archives. A "must" for students of Native American art history in general, and the work of Pablita Verlarde in particular, Pablita Velarde: Painting Her People is also available in paperback (0937206652, $18.95).

This book contains a description and analysis of sixteenth and seventeenth century Mexican manuscripts. The best way to understand the life and way of thinking in ancient Mexico is through their own literature. Aztec scribes recorded the encounter of two worlds the way they experienced it. This book talks about what codices and other manuscripts reveal about life in Mexico before the conquest and about the transformation their world suffered at the arrival of the Spaniards. As the book states, it is extremely sad that of the thousands of books the pre-Hispanic scribes made, less than twenty have survived. This book reveals the magic the past of Mexico is filled with.