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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The ancient earthworks and temples of the American Indians	Lindesay Brine	xvi, 429 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : 22 cm	OL1089822W
Cuauhnáhuac 1450-1675, su historia indígena y documentos en "mexicano"	Brígida von Mentz	"Describes some of the social and linguistic transformations that took place between 1450 and 1675 in the Cuauhnhuac region (now Cuernavaca, south of Mexico), seen from the perspective of the Nahuatl…	OL11872021W
El servicio personal de los indios en la Nueva España	Zavala, Silvio Arturo	"Two more volumes of Zavala's extremely valuable work, organized topically as in the past and offering commentaries, digests, and descriptions of archival documentation, other primary sources, and pe…	OL1214746W
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote	Tony Johnston	Rabbit outwits Coyote in this Zapotec tale which explains why coyotes howl at the moon.	OL134509W
I Am Lavina Cumming	Susan Lowell	While staying with relatives in California after the death of her mother, ten-year-old Lavina sees the arrival of the automobile and experiences the great San Francisco earthquake.	OL14458W
Rebellion in Chiapas	John Womack	John Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely complex strains of Mexico. Here, Woack examines the conflict in Chiapas in light of 500 years of struggle and uneasy accomodation between the reg…	OL15163683W
Why there is no arguing in heaven	Deborah Nourse Lattimore	Hunab Ku, the first Creator God of the Mayas, challenges the Moon Goddess and Lizard House to create a being to worship him, but the Maize God succeeds where the others fail.	OL15215304W
COLECCION MENDOZA O CODICE MENDOCINO	Bernardino de Sahagún	THIS IS A FACSIMILAR REPRODUCTION OF COLECCION MENDOZA OR CODICE MENDOCINO, EDITED BY JESUS GALINDO Y VILLA. IT'S WRONG THE TITLE AND AUTHOR. IS NOT A TITLE OF BERNARDINO DE SAHAGUN. PLEASE CHECK IT…	OL15385447W
Numerología astronómica mesoamericana en la arquitectura y el arte	Margarita Martínez del Sobral	Major investigation by architect Margarita Martínez del Sobral y Campa in what represents the outcome of a 3-year long research project on astronomic geometry, more concisely in the precise numeric r…	OL15932152W
The goldsmith's daughter	Tanya Landman	In the golden city of Tenochtitilan, the people live in awe of Emperor Montezuma and in fear of blood-hungry gods. Under an ill-fated sky, a girl is born, facing a life of submission and domestic dru…	OL16469589W
La hermosa Señora	Pat Mora	Grandma Lupita tells her granddaughter Rose and Rose's friend Terry the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a miracle that occurred near Mexico City in 1531. Includes facts about the event and its influe…	OL16557732W
The cultural history of Pre-Columbian America	Henri Stierlin	This book examines the artistic, architectural and cultural achievements of the Pre-Columbians.	OL1659649W
Caciques and their people	Judith Francis Zeitlin,Joyce Marcus	"Articles review Spores' contributions to Mixtec archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology. Other topics include archaeological theory, the colonial period, Xaltocán, Cholula, codex-style vessel from…	OL18967008W
Malinche	Gloria Durán	A biography of La Malinche, the Aztec noblewoman who served as translator, interpreter, and mistress to Cortez during the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520.	OL19210570W
La Malinche, sus padres y sus hijos	Margo Glantz	"Provocative collection of essays by literary critics and historians on the real, the symbolic, and the mythological Malinche, Cortes' mistress during the conquest of Mexico. Highly recommended as a …	OL19226445W
De hombres y dioses	Alfredo López Austin,Xavier Noguez	"Collection of seven significant articles by scholars such as Graulich, López Austin, and Taube. Chronologically organized, the chapters consist of an analysis of iconographic representations of th…	OL19233385W
Anarquistas de ultramar	Carlos Taibo	Ideas como las de autogestión, democracia directa y apoyo mutuo han sido defendidas tanto por el anarquismo que vio la luz en la Europa del siglo XIX como por muchos pueblos indígenas que espontáneam…	OL19362236W
The Aztecs	Jacqueline Dineen	Describes the history and customs of the Aztec civilization from its beginnings to its conquest by Spanish explorers.	OL1951728W
The Sad Night	Sally Schofer Mathews	Tells how the Aztecs established an empire in Mexico and what happened when they, led by Montezuma, encountered Cortés and the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.	OL1959279W
Mayas y aztecas	Antonio Aimi	"Este volumen está íntegramente dedicado a las antiguas civilizaciones de Mesoamérica, concretamente a la maya y la azteca, que poblaron México y el área más septentrional de Centroamérica. Con el ap…	OL19931474W