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Product Description: "The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger and all the real rules of the game are in this book, some kind of masterpiece."—Charles Bowden, from the introduction"Pablo Acosta was a living legend in his Mexican border town of Ojinaga...read more
By Charles Bowden (introduced by) and Terrence E. Poppa

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9781933693866 | Cinco Puntos Pr, June 14, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger and all the real rules of the game are in this book, some kind of masterpiece.

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Product Description: “Todavía tengo problemas para recordar su rostro. Pero no me siento capaz de olvidar su historia”. —Charles Bowden. Editado por dos de los más respetados escritores sobre el crimen y la violencia en México, El sicario es el testimonio de un asesino a sueldo que, afincado en el sangriento teatro del narcotráfico mexicano, secuestró, torturó y asesinó durante más de veinte años...read more

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9780307951441 | Reprint edition (Vintage Espanol, October 2, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “Todavía tengo problemas para recordar su rostro.

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By Charles Bowden (editor) and Molly Molloy (editor)

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9786073106245 | Italian edition edition (Grijalbo Mondadori, January 1, 2012), cover price $22.95

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Product Description: The Last Shepherds follows hill shepherds Dave Baxter and Stewart and Gwen Wallace through the cycle of hill farming in the Cheviot Hills of Northumberland—lambing in spring, haymaking, shearing in the summer, then autumn lamb sales and winter feeding...read more

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9780233003245 | Reprint edition (Andre Deutsch Ltd, October 19, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Last Shepherds follows hill shepherds Dave Baxter and Stewart and Gwen Wallace through the cycle of hill farming in the Cheviot Hills of Northumberland—lambing in spring, haymaking, shearing in the summer, then autumn lamb sales and winter feeding.

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Product Description: En La ciudad del crimen Charles Bowden presenta una crónica devastadora de una urbe en pleno colapso. El libro comienza en enero de 2008, cuando una lista escrita a mano aparece en el monumento a los policías caídos en Juárez...read more

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9780307743473 | Italian edition edition (Random House Spanish, June 14, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: En La ciudad del crimen Charles Bowden presenta una crónica devastadora de una urbe en pleno colapso.
9786073101349, titled "Ciudad del crimen / Murder City: Ciudad Juarez y los nuevos campos de exterminio de la economia global / Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields" | Italian edition edition (Grijalbo Mondadori, October 15, 2010), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: En La ciudad del crimen Charles Bowden presenta una crónica devastadora de una urbe en pleno colapso.

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By Charles Bowden (editor)

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9781568586588 | Original edition (Nation Books, May 10, 2011), cover price $15.99

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9781568584492 | Nation Books, March 30, 2010, cover price $27.50

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9781568586458 | Reprint edition (Nation Books, March 22, 2011), cover price $16.99

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Product Description: A century ago, power on farms was provided by five million heavy horses. They were the pride of rural Britain and the men who worked with them were the elite among farm workers. But today heavy horses are almost a thing of the past...read more

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9780233050034 | Andre Deutsch Ltd, December 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Last Horsemen is the inspiring story of John Dodd and his family, who have lived on Sillywrae Farm—the last farm in Britain to be worked by horses—for more than 150 years.

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9780233003238 | Andre Deutsch Ltd, May 1, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A century ago, power on farms was provided by five million heavy horses.

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9780151013951 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, April 9, 2009), cover price $24.00

Miscellaneous:

9780547545158 | Houghton Mifflin, April 9, 2009, cover price $24.00

Product Description: SOMETIMES THE DEAD WON'T GO AWAY. Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the skeleton key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud...read more

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9780684853437 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.

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9780743244572 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, December 30, 2003), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.

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9781435289970 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: SOMETIMES THE DEAD WON'T GO AWAY.

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Product Description: Twentynine Palms is a compelling account of the devastating murder of two young girls by a troubled Marine in the rural California desert town of Twentynine Palms. More than just a murder-mystery, Twentynine Palms is a passionate dissection of desert life itself...read more
By Charles Bowden (introduced by), T. Jefferson Parker (foreword by) and Deanne Stillman

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9781883318796 | Angel City Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Twentynine Palms is a compelling account of the devastating murder of two young girls by a troubled Marine in the rural California desert town of Twentynine Palms.

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Traces the events leading up to the 2004 suicide of a controversial San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 Dark Alliance series on the CIA/crack-cocaine connection led to his resignation, drawing on extensive interviews that explore the likelihood that Webb's stories were correct and that he was betrayed by his editors. Original.

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9781560259305 | 1 edition (Nation Books, September 28, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Traces the events leading up to the 2004 suicide of a controversial San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 Dark Alliance series on the CIA/crack-cocaine connection led to his resignation, drawing on extensive interviews that explore the likelihood that Webb's stories were correct and that he was betrayed by his editors.

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An anonymous narcotics agent outlines one of his most significant cases, which involved a fifty-million-dollar heroin deal that originated in Colombia and required the shared efforts of federal agents from all parts of the United States. By the author of Down by the River. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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9780151011834 | Houghton Mifflin, July 6, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An anonymous narcotics agent outlines one of his most significant cases, which involved a fifty-million-dollar heroin deal that originated in Colombia and required the shared efforts of federal agents from all parts of the United States.

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9780156032537 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 5, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An anonymous narcotics agent outlines one of his most significant cases, which involved a fifty-million-dollar heroin deal that originated in Colombia and required the shared efforts of federal agents from all parts of the United States.

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Product Description: Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, 2007Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. Recently his activism helped persuade the U...read more
By Michael Berman (photographer) and Charles Bowden

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9780292713307 | Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, 2007Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s.

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Product Description: Short stories based on the perspective and imagination of a 4 year old, depicting family fun.
By Aunt Caroline and Charles Bowden (illustrator)

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9781412070447 | Trafford on Demand Pub, April 30, 2006, cover price $10.96 | About this edition: Short stories based on the perspective and imagination of a 4 year old, depicting family fun.

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Product Description: Cover has minor wear. All pages completey flawless.
By Charles Bowden (foreword by) and Jack W. Dykinga (photographer)

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9781565794993 | Westcliffe Pub, November 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Cover has minor wear.

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Product Description: Blues for Cannibals continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid-to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment...read more

Hardcover:

9780865476240 | North Point Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Continues the story of the destruction of America's rich natural resources in a time of personal consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and the wholesale destruction of the environment.

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9780865476530 | North Point Pr, November 6, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Blues for Cannibals continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid-to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment.

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Product Description: A century ago, power on farms was provided by five million heavy horses. They were the pride of rural Britain and the men who worked with them were the elite among farm workers. But today heavy horses are almost a thing of the past...read more

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9780233050935 | Andre Deutsch Ltd, August 1, 2002, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A century ago, power on farms was provided by five million heavy horses.

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Product Description: In this ground-shaking, breath-taking cri de coeur, Bowden delves with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brave New World. The figures he casts before us-from Pancho Villa to a modern-day drug lord, from General Sherman to a skid-row Sioux named Robert Sundance-trace a story not so much of rapaciousness as of fear and loathing...read more

Hardcover:

9780679433361 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author explores the destruction of the natural beauty of the American West through the experiences of a variety of people, including Mexican farmers and drug dealers, Arizona gun enthusiasts, and others.

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9780865476295 | North Point Pr, February 27, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In this ground-shaking, breath-taking cri de coeur, Bowden delves with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brave New World.

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9780613916783 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $25.10 | About this edition: In this ground-shaking, breath-taking cri de coeur, Bowden delves with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brave New World.

By Charles Bowden, Jack W. Dykinga (photographer) and Robert Redford (foreword by)

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9780810944688 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1996, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9780810929920 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Time challenges the propaganda and the realities of the current relationship between the United States and Mexico, focusing on the more intimate connection between the border towns of El Paso and Juarez...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780893817763 | Aperture, April 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Time challenges the propaganda and the realities of the current relationship between the United States and Mexico, focusing on the more intimate connection between the border towns of El Paso and Juarez.

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