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From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness 18 reviews
Stephen King, Whitley Strieber
Warner Books, 2004
borderlands
FROM THE BORDERLANDS ARRIVED ON TIME AND IN EXCELLANT CONDITION. i HAVE READ IT YET. iT WAS PACKAGED VERY GOOD
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F. Paul Wilson's Virgin 9 reviews
F. Paul Wilson
Borderlands Press, 2007
PRE- Davinci masterpiece
To all of the ignorant folk who don't listen to others that VIRGIN was published LONG before Dan Brown's snoozer, get a clue.
Wilson has been a talented, successful writer for far longer than the other authors who ventured into the religious thriller vein. He did it on a whim, under a different name - not like the horders of hacks who are just aching to cash in on the wake of Davinci's ...
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Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland 1 review
Daphne Berdahl
University of California Press, 1999
wonderfully thought provoking
This book is extremely interesting. The author has much enthusiasm about the subject and presents the material in a very interesting way. This is a thought- provoking subject and a must read for any anthropology fan or people interested in reunification.
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Crimson Orgy11 reviews
Austin Williams
Borderlands Press, 2008
Got much more than I expected. One heck of a ride.
Sheldon Meyer a Underground Horror movie director has a vision for the ultimate Grindhouse Flick. It is called Crimson Orgy and if Sheldons vision is realized it will become the most notorious cult movie ever made and quite possibly the worlds first true Snuff Film. He will encounter some major obstacles in the making of his masterpiece. To start he only has a week to finish the film and with a ...
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Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine31 reviews
Anna Reid
Basic Books, 2000
Wonderful introduction to the history of Ukraine up to 1997
As all the postings and appraisal of Anna Reids book reflects this is a very good introduction to Ukrainian history. That is with stress on both *good*, *introduction* and *up to 1997*. If you have allready read several histories of Ukraine, chances are slim you will find much new here. If you need an update on the orange revelution, you will simply not find what you look for here. If you find ...
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5 Stories1 review
Peter Straub
Borderlands Press, 2008
a new great collection from Peter Straub
This is a new wonderful collection of short stories by Peter Straub. Each story is more surprising than the one before. There is a tale about a jazz collector; one about the films noirs in the 50'; even a dark comedy about Donald and his family; a murder mystery and a Robert Aickman pastiche. Each story seemed great to me but for a different reason each time. The Aickman-ish story leaves you with ...
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Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
Juliana Barr
The University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.
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Borderlands/La Frontera, Third Edition: The New Mestiza 14 reviews
Gloria Anzalda
Aunt Lute Books, 2007
Classic
Not much can be said to some of the postings I see here--to those that suggest the third tier prose, those that call this work "racist," those that implore statements like "I hated it." These are the same people that vote for their own oppression, these are the very people that fancy their success on some sense of entitlement. Relax, you do not have to agree, but hear me out.
Classic. ...
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
James F. Brooks
The University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Brooks examines the creation of a widespread system of intercultural slavery between Native Americans and Spanish colonial peoples in the American Southwest between 1500 and 1880.
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Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriquez (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture & ...2 reviews
Patsy Pittman Light
Texas A&M University Press, 2008
A Visionary Artist from Mexico
Like author Patsy Light, I was intrigued when I moved to San Antonio, Texas by the strange concrete false-wood constructions that dot the city: a jungle hut bus stop on Broadway, an arbor footbridge in Brackenridge Park, a 125-foot long rail fence at the Alamo Cement Company's headquarters. Who, I thought, would do something like this? Architectual historian Light has now provided the answer in ...
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La Llorona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands1 review
Luis D. León
University of California Press, 2004
Unkept promises.
Luis D. Leon's book, La Llorona's Children, is an excellent scholarly work about religion and religious history in Mexico City and East Los Angeles, as well as how religion has both shaped and been shaped by history and culture in the centuries of Post-Columbian contact. Rightfully, he focuses on the "religious poetic" where so many other accounts of history have tried to secularize the telling, ...
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A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland2 reviews
Kate Brown
Harvard University Press, 2005
Absolutely Wonderful!
Extremely well written, well researched, and fascinating! I've been passing this book around to friends and family, we love it!
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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader (Latin America Otherwise)
Duke University Press, 2007
Women’s migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Scholars across diverse disciplines interrogate the socioeconomic ...
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The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
Joseph Masco
Princeton University Press, 2006
The Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco offers the first anthropological study of the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project for the people that live in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb, and the majority of weapons in the current U.S. nuclear arsenal, were designed. Masco examines how diverse ...
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Moonstruck (Borderlands)13 reviews
Susan Grant
HQN Books, 2008
Good lite sci-fi romance with an Alpha female - 1st in the Borderland series
The war is over. Finally there is peace in the galaxy. The Coalition, Drakken Horde and Earth are now united (The Triad Alliance). But Admiral Britasha Bandar doesn't like it one bit. She's made a career out of capturing and killing the vile Drakken. The same people who made her into the emotionless leader of the Coalition forces she is today. Brit didn't get the nickname 'Stone Heart' for ...
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meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (American Crossroads, 12)1 review
Rosa Linda Fregoso
University of California Press, 2003
A vital contribution to studies of the border, gender and the mass media
The reader accompanies Fregoso on a passionate stream of close analysis and brilliant social critique. She reviews the ways that movies, fiction, and other cultural products continue to mark the lives of women on the border with oppresive myths of national and personal identity. Her cultural criticism covers, but is not limited to, mainstream movie portrayals of Chicana swomen, Mexican and ...
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Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Nation of Newcomers Series) ...
Alicia Camacho
NYU Press, 2008
”In this beautiful study, Schmidt Camacho demonstrates that Mexican migrant imaginaries affirm in songs, manifestos, poetry, novels, and testimonies visions of justice that exceed the limits of the nation-form and the logics of capital accumulation” —Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in ...
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Living in the Borderland:The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma9 reviews
Jerome Bernstein
Routledge, 2005
Livng in the Borderland. Jerome S. Bernstein
In his book Living in the Borderland, Jungian Analyst Jerome Bernstein provides a fascinating account of the development of the Western ego from an historical interpretation of the Bible down to our present post-Cold War environment. The author posits that this development has moved the Western psyche away from its roots in Nature into an ever more abstracted intellectual consciousness. As the ...
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Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The Lamar Series in Western ...1 review
Samuel Truett
Yale University Press, 2008
A portrait of the failed dominion of empire.
Samuel Truett's Fugitive Landscapes traces the history of the borderland between Arizona, United States and Sonora, Mexico. Truett divides his analysis into four parts. Part one paints a broad picture spanning from colonial attempts at domestication until the coming of the railroad in the nineteenth century. Part two narrows the focus, switching from a broad, regional scope to a narrower view ...
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Covenants: A Borderlands Novel (Borderlands)50 reviews
Lorna Freeman
Roc, 2004
Unite to save this author!
I was completely surprised at how good this book was, the publisher write up does not nearly describe the scope of this book. I read it in a day and can't wait to start the next one.
Here is where the tragedy starts. Due to what the publisher thinks are low sales numbers Ms. Freeman's third book in this series has been put on hold until further notice!!!
I urge anyone who has read this book ...
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