Product Description: Author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and other popular novels about Mexico, B. Traven surrounded his identity with mysteries designed to confound biographers. Now Heidi Zogbaum has produced a study of this enigmatic yet important author, linking his oeuvre with both Mexican and German politics of the 1920s and 1930s...read more

Product Description: The most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of Traven's life and work together with an analysis of the sources of his inspiration and his impact on other modern writers - is presented in this book by an international group of experts...read more

The author recounts her childhood in a Mexican peasant family, her years as a member of the Communist party, her meetings with artists and other prominent people, and her visit to Castro's Cuba when she was in her eighties

A collection of essays and writings on food from the best-selling author of Like Water for Chocolate shares her thoughts on the chile and its influence on Mexican life, her childhood reminiscences about her mother's and grandmother's kitchens, a recipe for Oaxacan Black Mole, and more. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England is more than a general account of the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It is a probing study of the way in which Christianity was fashioned in England, giving full weight to the variety of wealth of the traditions that contributed to early Anglo-Saxon Christianity. It is also a study in the process of christianization, as it was carried out by churchmen who, according to Mayr-Harting, prepared themselves by prayer and study and travel as well as by social awareness to christianize their world.For this edition, the author has added a new preface in which he reconsiders some of his earlier conclusions and addresses recent developments in the scholarship. In a completely new chapter, Mayr-Harting appraises the work of Boniface of Devon, the greatest missionary of the early Middle Ages whom he calls the "Mirror of English History." Mayr-Harting thereby extends his account of early Anglo-Saxon Christianity from the Gregorian mission of the late sixth century up to the eighth-century English mission to the Continent, perhaps the crowning achievement of early English history.

Product Description: The first translation into English of a major Mexican writer, this autobiographical novel tells of a Jewish woman's journey from Odessa, USSR to Mexico City in order to search for her family roots. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician...read more

The narrator recounts his childhood poverty, his betrayal by revolutionary comrades, and his near fatal encounter with a firing squad

The narrator recounts his childhood poverty, his betrayal by revolutionary comrades, and his near fatal encounter with a firing squad

Product Description: Jodorowsky’s memoirs of his experiences with Master Takata and the group of wisewomen--magiciennes--who influenced his spiritual growth • Reveals Jodorowsky turning the same unsparing spiritual vision seen in El Topo to his own spiritual quest • Shows how the author’s spiritual insight and progress was catalyzed repeatedly by wisewoman shamans and healers In 1970, John Lennon introduced to the world Alejandro Jodorowsky and the movie, El Topo, that he wrote, starred in, and directed...read more