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New Books - May 2001 



Greetings from the Cerritos College Library!

Listed below are the 266 books cataloged during the month of April. These are titles selected by faculty, staff and students.

Monthly lists will be published throughout the year from September through July/August. If you are interested in checking out any of the following titles, they are available in the Library.

To request specific titles or request books in a particular subject area, please contact the Collection Development Librarian in LC59, lsampson@cerritos.edu, or 562.860.2451 ext. 2417.

Or you may use the Book Recommendation Form or the Website recommendation Form to request a website to be added to the library catalog

 

Fiction (Fic)

Cuesta, Barbara de la.  The gold mine.  Pittsburgh, Pa. : Latin American Literary     Review Press, 1988.  

Galeano, Eduardo H.  The book of embraces.  New York : W.W. Norton, 1992,     
    c1991.      

Gonzalez, Gaspar Pedro.  Return of the Maya.  Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, U.S.   
    A. : Yax Te' Foundation, 1998.

Ramirez, Sergio.  To bury our fathers : a novel of Nicaragua.  [New York,     
    NY] : Readers International, 1993. 

                                         
Short Stories (SC)

Bencastro, Mario.  The tree of life : stories of civil war.  Houston : Arte   
    Publico, 1997.       
Murguia, Alejandro.  Southern Front.  Tempe, Ariz. : Bilingual Press/         
    Editorial Bilingue, c1990. 
 
B   Philosophy and Religion
BF692.2 .B78 1999                                                               
  Browne, Kingsley.  Divided labours : an evolutionary view of women at work.   
    New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1999.                             
                                                                                
BL722 .H38 2001                                                                 
  Harris, Stephen L.  Classical mythology : images and insights.  3rd ed.       
    Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., 2001.                            
                                                                                
BL1225.K3 C35 1999                                                              
  Caldwell, Sarah.  Oh terrifying mother : sexuality, violence, and worship     
    of the goddess Kali.  New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press,1999.  
                                                                                
BT660.G8 G59 1997                                                               
  Goddess of the Americas = La diosa de las Americas : writings on the Virgin   
    of Guadalupe.  1st Riverhead trade paperback ed.  New York : Riverhead      
    Books, 1997, c1996.                                                         
                                                                                
BT660.G8 R58 1996                                                              
  Rodriguez, Jeanette.  Our Lady of Guadalupe : faith and empowerment among     
    Mexican-American women.  1st ed.  Austin : University of Texas Press,1996, 1994.  
                                                                                
BX1466.2 .B87 1996                                                              
  Burdick, John.  Looking for God in Brazil : the progressive Catholic Church   
    in urban Brazil's religious arena.  Berkeley : University of California     
    Press, 1996.                                                                
                                                                                
C   History of Civilization and Culture
CB311 .C543 1992                                                                
  Childress, David Hatcher.  Lost cities of North & Central America.  Stelle,   
    Ill. : Adventures Unlimited Press, 1992.                                    
                                                                                
CC165 .G23 2001                                                                 
  Gamble, Clive.  Archaeology : the basics.  London ; New York : Routledge,     
    2001.                                                                       
                                                                                
CT100 .C8 2000                                                                       
  Current biography yearbook.  New York, H.W. Wilson Co.                        
                                                                                
CT275.A186 A3 1989                                                              
  Acosta, Oscar Zeta.  The revolt of the cockroach people.  1st Vintage Books   
    ed.  New York : Vintage Books, 1989.                                        
 
D   World History
D445 .W8 1999                                                                   
  Wolf, Eric R.  Peasant wars of the twentieth century.  Norman : University    
    of Oklahoma Press, 1999.                                                    
                                                                                
DF78 .S2813 2000                                                                
  Savoir grec. English.  Greek thought : a guide to classical knowledge.        
    Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.         
                                                                                
DP48 .F84 1999                                                                  
  Fuentes, Carlos.  The buried mirror : reflections on Spain and the New        
    World.  1st Mariner Books edition.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.        
 
 E & F   History and Geography of the Americas
E27.2 .T45 1997                                                                 
  Theroux, Paul.  The old Patagonian express : by train through the Americas.   
    Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1997], c1979.                                   
                                                                                
E58 .A526 1993                                                                  
  America in 1492 : the world of the Indian peoples before the arrival of       
    Columbus.  1st Vintage Books ed.  New York : Vintage Books, 1993.           
                                                                                
E98.A7 N357 1999                                                                
  Native American art in the twentieth century : makers, meanings, histories.   
    London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.                                        
                                                                                
E112 .Z35 1993                                                                  
  Zamora, Margarita.  Reading Columbus.  Berkeley : University of California    
    Press, c1993.                                                               
                                                                                
E125.N9 A3 1993b                                                                
  Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar.  The account : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's      
    Relacion.  Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, 1993.                        
                                                                                
E183.8.B7 W45 1993                                                              
  Weis, W. Michael.  Cold warriors & coups d'etat : Brazilian-American          
    relations, 1945-1964.  1st ed.  Albuquerque : University of New Mexico,     
    c1993.                                                                      
                                                                                
E184.C24 L66 1982                                                               
  Lopes, Belmira Nunes.  A Portuguese colonial in America, Belmira Nunes        
    Lopes : the autobiography of a Cape Verdean American.  Pittsburgh, Pa. :    
    Latin American Literary Review Press, 1982.                                 
                                                                                
E184.C97 G73 2000                                                               
  Grillo, Evelio.  Black Cuban, Black American : a memoir.  Houston, Tex. :     
    Arte Publico Press, 2000.                                                   
                                                                                
E184.M5 C453 2000                                                               
  Chicano renaissance : contemporary cultural trends.  Tucson : University of   
    Arizona Press, c2000.                                                       
                                                                                
E184.M5 M456 2000                                                               
  Meier, Matt S.  Mexican Americans, American Mexicans : from Conquistadors     
    to Chicanos.  Rev. ed.  New York : Hill and Wang, 1993.                     
                                                                                
E184.M5 P418 1999                                                               
  Perez, Emma.  The decolonial imaginary : writing Chicanas into history.       
    Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1999.                              
                                                                                
E184.M5 P67 2000                                                                
  Portales, Marco.  Crowding out Latinos : Mexican Americans in the public      
    consciousness.  Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2000.               
                                                                                
E184.P85 F57 1993                                                               
  Flores, Juan.  Divided borders : essays on Puerto Rican identity.  Houston,   
    Tex. : Arte Publico Press, 1993.                                            
                                                                                
E184.S75 A63 1986                                                               
  Abalos, David T.  Latinos in the United States : the sacred and the           
    political.  Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1986.       
                                                                                
E184.S75 K53 1996                                                               
  Kids explore America's Hispanic heritage.  2nd ed.  Santa Fe, N.M. : John     
    Muir Publications ; Emeryville, Calif. : Distributed to the book trade by   
    Publishers Group West, c1996.                                               
                                                                                
E184.S75 O48 1999                                                               
  Olmos, Edward James.  Americanos : Latino life in the United States = La      
    vida Latina en los Estados Unidos.  1st ed.  Boston : Little, Brown,c1999.  
                                                                                
E185.615 .C32 1992                                                              
  Carmichael, Stokely.  Black power : the politics of liberation in America.    
    Vintage ed.  New York : Vintage Books, 1992.                                
                                                                                
E404 .C47 1998                                                                  
  Christensen, Carol.  The U.S.-Mexican War.  San Francisco, CA : Bay Books :   
    Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, c1998.                   
                                                                                
REF E741 .M83 1999                                                                  
  Muccigrosso, Robert.  Term paper resource guide to twentieth-century United   
    States history.  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.                   
                                                                                
E744 .S8 2000                                                                   
  Hook, Steven W.  American foreign policy since World War II.  15th ed.        
    Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2000.                                         
                                                                                
E748.W23 K58 2000                                                               
  Kleinman, Mark L.  A world of hope, a world of fear : Henry A. Wallace,       
    Reinhold Niebuhr, and American liberalism.  Columbus : Ohio State           
    University Press, c2000.                                                    
                                                                                
F389 .F69 2000                                                                  
  Foster, William C.  Spanish expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768.  1st ed.       
    Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000, 1995.                                   
                                                                                
F394.C83 N37 1998                                                               
  Navarro, Armando.  The Cristal experiment : a Chicano struggle for            
    community control.  Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1998.         
                                                                                
F394.S29 M57 2000                                                               
  Rosales, Rodolfo.  The illusion of inclusion : the untold political story     
    of San Antonio.  1st ed.  Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.         
                                                                                
F395.M5 N39 1996                                                                
  Navarro, Armando.  Mexican American youth organization : avant-garde of the   
    Chicano movement in Texas.  1st ed.  Austin, Tex : University of Texas      
    Press, 1996, 1995.                                                               
                                                                                
F395.M5 S74 1993                                                                
  Stewart, Kenneth L.  Not room enough : Mexicans, Anglos, and socio-economic   
    change in Texas, 1850-1900.  1st ed.  Albuquerque : University of New       
    Mexico Press, c1993.                                                        
                                                                                
F786.B54 O84 1998                                                               
  Otero, Miguel Antonio.  The real Billy the Kid : with new light on the        
    Lincoln County War.  Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, 1998.              
                                                                                
F786 .C653 1984                                                                 
  Coerver, Don M.  Texas and the Mexican Revolution : a study in state and      
    national border policy, 1910-1920.  San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity             
    University Press, c1984.                                                    
                                                                                
JUV F787 .A95 1996                                                                  
  Aylesworth, Thomas G.  The Southwest : Colorado, New Mexico, Texas.  New      
    York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1995.                                     
                                                                                
F787 .L38 1998                                                                  
  The late great Mexican border : reports from a disappearing line.  1st ed.    
    El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, 1998, 1996.                                  
                                                                                
F787 .M36 1998                                                                  
  Martinez, Oscar J.  Border people : life and society in the U.S.-Mexico       
    borderlands.  Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1998, 1994.                  
                                                                                
F787 .S2 1971                                                                   
  Samora, Julian, ed.  La raza: forgotten Americans; [papers, in memory of      
    Charles de Young Elkus.  Notre Dame, Ind.] University of Notre Dame Press   
    1971,[1966].                                                                      
                                                                                
F790.M5 C49 1997                                                                
  Chavez, John R.  The lost land : the Chicano image of the Southwest.  1st     
    ed.  Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1984.                   
                                                                                
F802.P83 G37 1994                                                               
  Garcia, Nasario P.  Tata : a voice from the Rio Puerco.  1st ed.              
    Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1994.                        
                                                                                
F802.S35 D43 1985                                                               
  DeBuys, William Eno.  Enchantment and exploitation : the life and hard        
    times of a New Mexico mountain range.  1st ed.  Albuquerque : University    
    of New Mexico Press, c1985.                                                 
                                                                                
REF F862 .L53 1988                                                                  
  Levick, Melba.  The missions of California.  Rev. and updated.  San           
    Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1998.                                         
                                                                                
F1209 .M496 2000                                                                
  Mexico.  7th ed.  Hawthorn, Vic. ; London : Lonely Planet, 2000.              
                                                                                
F1210 .O84 1990                                                                 
  Oster, Patrick.  The Mexicans : a personal portrait of a people.  1st         
    Perennial Library ed.  New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1990, c1989.          
                                                                                
F1219.1.C45 R43 1999                                                            
  Rebellion in Chiapas : an historical reader.  New York : New Press :          
    Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1999.                                          
                                                                                
F1219.3.P5 L43 1990                                                             
  Leon Portilla, Miguel.  Aztec thought and culture : a study of the ancient    
    Nahuatl mind.  1st pbk. print.  Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,      
    1990, c1963.                                                                
                                                                                
F1219.56 .C62 1992                                                              
  Codex Chimalpopoca. English.  History and mythology of the Aztecs : the       
    Codex Chimalpopoca.  Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1992.           
                                                                                
F1219.73 .W4 1993                                                               
  We people here : Nahuatl accounts of the conquest of Mexico.  Berkeley :      
    University of California Press, c1993.                                      
                                                                                
F1219.76.C35 H37 2001                                                           
  Hassig, Ross.  Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico.  1st   
    ed.  Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001.                           
                                                                                
F1219.76.R45 C37 2000                                                           
  Carrasco, David.  Quetzalcoatl and the irony of empire : myths and            
    prophecies in the Aztec tradition.  Rev. ed.  Boulder : University Press    
    of Colorado, c2000.                                                         
                                                                                
F1219.8.Z37 M37 1996                                                            
  Marcus, Joyce.  Zapotec civilization : how urban society evolved in           
    Mexico's Oaxaca Valley.  New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1996.          
                                                                                
F1221.T5 F66 1997                                                               
  Fontana, Bernard L.  Tarahumara : where night is the day of the moon.  2nd    
    ed., with a new pref.  Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1997.         
                                                                                
F1221.T9 V59 1993                                                               
  Vogt, Evon Zartman.  Tortillas for the gods : a symbolic analysis of          
    Zinacanteco rituals.  Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1993.         
                                                                                
F1226 .H5813 2000                                                               
  Historia minima de Mexico. English.  A Compact history of Mexico.  3rd ed.    
    in English.  Mexico, D.F. : Colegio de Mexico, 2000, 1995.                        
                                                                                
F1231.5 .M34 1995                                                               
  Mallon, Florencia E.  Peasant and nation : the making of postcolonial         
    Mexico and Peru.  Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.         
                                                                                
F1231.5 .M545 1989                                                              
  The Mexican and Mexican American experience in the 19th century.  Tempe,      
    Ariz. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, c1989.                          
                                                                                
F1233 .P65 1993                                                                 
  Pitner, Ernst.  Maximilian's lieutenant : a personal history of the Mexican   
    campaign, 1864-7.  1st ed.  Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,   
    c1993.                                                                      
                                                                                
F1234 .B83 1984                                                                 
  Brenner, Anita.  The wind that swept Mexico : the history of the Mexican      
    revolution, 1910-1942.  Austin : University of Texas Press, 1984, c1971.    
                                                                                
F1234.C233 B43 1995                                                             
  Becker, Marjorie.  Setting the Virgin on fire : Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan    
    peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution.  Berkeley :         
    University of California Press, c1995.                                      
                                                                                
F1234 .H3 1997                                                                  
  Hart, John M.  Revolutionary Mexico : the coming and process of the Mexican   
    Revolution.  10th anniversary ed.  Berkeley : University of California      
    Press, 1997.                                                                
                                                                                
F1234 .N48 1997                                                                 
  Newell, Peter E.  Zapata of Mexico.  Montreal ; New York : Black Rose Books,  
    c1997.                                                                      
                                                                                
F1234.Z37 B78 1998                                                              
  Brunk, Samuel.  Emiliano Zapata : revolution & betrayal in Mexico.  1st ed.   
    Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1998, 1995.                        
                                                                                
F1236 .C37413 2000                                                              
  Castaneda, Jorge G.  Perpetuating power : how Mexican presidents were         
    chosen / Jorge G. Castaneda ; translated by Padraic Arthur Smithies.  New   
    York : New Press, 2000.                                                     
                                                                                
F1386.1 .L48 1997                                                               
  Levitt, Helen.  Helen Levitt : Mexico City.  1st ed.  New York : Published    
    by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton &     
    Co., c1997.                                                                 
                                                                                
F1407 .A33 1993                                                                 
  Adams, Jerome R.  Latin American heroes : liberators and patriots from 1500   
    to the present.  New York : Ballantine, 1993, 1991.                               
                                                                                
F1408.27 .G3413 1998 v. 1, 3                                                            
    Galeano, Eduardo H.  Memory of fire.  New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.           
                                                                                
F1410 .W572 1992                                                                
  Williamson, Edwin.  The Penguin history of Latin America.  New York :         
    Penguin Books, 1992.                                                        
                                                                                
F1412 .H417 2000                                                                
  Harvey, Robert.  Liberators : Latin America's struggle for independence,      
    1810-1830.  1st ed.  Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2000.                
                                                                                
F1414 .L279 1994                                                                
  Latin America in the 1940's : war and postwar transitions.  Berkeley :        
    University of California Press, c1994.                                      
                                                                                
F1418 .P555 1992                                                                
  Pike, Fredrick B.  The United States and Latin America : myths and            
    stereotypes of civilization and nature.  1st ed.  Austin : University of    
    Texas Press, 1992.                                                          
                                                                                
F1419.A1 I34 1999                                                              
  The Idea of race in Latin America, 1870-1940.  Austin : University of Texas   
    Press, 1999, 1990.                                                               
                                                                                
F1429 .C464                                                                     
  Central America on a shoestring.  South Yarra, Victoria, Australia : Lonely   
    Planet Publications, c1997-                                                 
                                                                                
F1435 .K45 1993                                                                 
  Kelly, Joyce.  An archaeological guide to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.         
    Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1993.                               
                                                                                
F1435.3.P6 H67 1996                                                             
  Houston, Stephen D.  Maya glyphs.  Berkeley : University of California        
    Press ; London : British Museum, 1996, 1989.                                     
                                                                                
F1435.3.P8 R44 1994                                                             
  Reents-Budet, Dorie.  Painting the Maya universe : royal ceramics of the      
    classic period.  Durham : Duke University Press in association with Duke    
    University Museum of Art, 1994.                                             
                                                                                
F1436 .P4613 1989                                                               
  Perez Brignoli, Hector.  A brief history of Central America.  Berkeley :      
    University of California Press, c1989.                                      
                                                                                
F1445 .V36 1996                                                                 
  VanKirk, Jacques.  Remarkable remains of the ancient peoples of Guatemala.    
    Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1996.                               
                                                                                
F1464.3 .V55 1996                                                               
  Villatoro, Marcos McPeek.  Walking to La Milpa : living in Guatemala with     
    armies, demons, abrazos, and death.  1st. ed.  Wakefield, R.I. : Moyer      
    Bell ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed in North America by Publishers Group    
    West, c1996.                                                                
                                                                                
F1465 .P813 1996                                                                
  Popul vuh. English.  Popol vuh : the Mayan book of the dawn of life.  Rev.    
    ed.  New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.                                    
                                                                                
F1465.2.K5 W57 1995                                                             
  Wilson, Richard.  Maya resurgence in Guatemala:Q'eqchi'       
    experiences.  Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1995.                 
                                                                                
F1465.2.Q5 .T43 1992                                                            
  Tedlock, Barbara.  Time and the higland Maya.  Rev. ed.       
    Albequerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Pr