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No Settlement, No Conquest:
A history of the Coronado Entrada
After nearly 500 years of myth and disinformation, historian Richard Flint uses recent archaeological and documentary discoveries to explain how and why Spaniards invaded the present-day United States 1540-42. He also offers a new insight into the Pueblo Indians who successfully resisted conquest. Their resistance was a major factor in forcing the Spaniards and their 2,000 Mexican Indian allies back to Mexico. See some of the other books he and his wife Shirley Cushing Flint have written here. As for No Settlement, No Conquest, it is the definitive, up-to-date account of the Coronado expedition.
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Closing the Chart:
A dying physician examines family, faith and medicine
This book is required reading in some medical schools today. Author Jim Belshaw (see some of his other books here) tells the story of a family physician struck down by a rare disease who undergoes three heart surgeries. The doctor changes his views on the teaching and practice of medicine. As he lays dying, the doctor through his journal urges his colleagues to become healers — to look at their patients as human beings with spiritual as well as physical lives.
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Anasazi America:
Seventeen centuries on the road from Middle Place
Anthropologist David E. Stuart (see his other books here) examines the rise and fall of the 11th century Chaco Anasazi, ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. At the height of their power, the Anasazi consisted of a vast and powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly 100 towns, integrating the region through economic and religious ties and hundreds of miles of roads. Why did they disappear, leaving only spectacular ruins?
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War Without End, Amen: A Vietnam Story
Author Tim Coder, who was an Army squad leader as a sergeant, provides a dramatic and moving account of the Vietnam War from the viewpoint of the enlisted and draftee infantryman. More than 40 years later, the book's protagonist recalls harrowing combat experience with a need to reconcile himself to what he experienced in the war. You can visit his author website.
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Mayas
This is the first in a series of books by Nicaragua artist Luis Garay on the origin stories of the Americas. In Guatemala in 1558, a young Mayan K'iche' man, who had learned to write the K'iche' language in Latin characters, transcribed what he described as a sacred book that "we can no longer see." This was the Popol Vuh. This beautifully illustrated version of the Popol Vuh allows readers to discover one of the most ancient literary works of the Americas from an Indian point of view. Visit Luis Garay's website. Luis Garay has been called one of the best young Latin American illustrators working today. .
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Brave and Beautiful: A Breast Cancer Face Book
Many photography books focus on breast cancer and what happens to a woman's body. This book, however, looks at what happens to her spirit and heart. Susan Boe's photographs and stories of 36 women will give hope to any person struggling with a cancer diagnosis.
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The Chain Gang: One newspaper versus the Gannett empire
Author Richard McCord (see another of his books here) brings to life a disturbing nationwide trend in which a huge conglomerate corporation sets out to destroy a locally owned competitor. It's happening throughout America as local businesses of all kinds are increasingly forced out by national and international corporations. McCord's book documents how a small local daily managed to fight off a large newspaper chain bent on its destruction. There are survival lessons for all locally owned businesses in this book.
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Assassination of a Michigan King: Life of Jesse James Strang
There was an American "king" in the 1850s — the enigmatic Jesse James Strang. A Mormon with five wives, he managed to establish and for six years control a literal kingdom on Michigan's Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. In this second edition biography, author Roger Van Noord (see his other books here) tells the little-known history of Strang, whose island kingdom flourished despite federal prosecution and a gun battle with mainlanders. Strang even was elected to the Michigan Legislature twice.
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Artemis Invaded
New York Times best-selling author Jane Lindskold is one of America's best-known and most widely published science-fiction writers. See Lindskold's other books here. This book is the sequel to Lindskold’s series novel Artemis Awakening. Like many established authors, Lindskold is republishing on the Internet many of her out-of-print successes. This book returns to the world of Artemis, a pleasure planet that was lost for millennia, a place that holds secrets that could give mankind back unimaginable powers.
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New Mexico Historical Biographies
Don Bullis (see his other books here) provides in this book a collection of nearly 1,500 biographical sketches drawn on important New Mexicans dating from the 16th to the early 21st century. Subjects include people from all walks of life, connected to each other only by an association with New Mexico. Some of them are well-known to anyone familiar with the Land of Enchantment, while others are somewhat obscure, overlooked by observers of the day and historians in the years since they lived. Some of them had a positive impact on New Mexico, while others left a black mark.
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