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How to Undress a Cop: Poems 5 reviews
Sarah Cortez
Arte Publico Press, 2000
strong work
Sarah Cortez is a poet, teacher, and cop in Houston, Texas. Her work is tough, sensual, and very sexual. Her job as a cop and her Latina heritage flavor her poems. This is a beautiful piece of work from a poet who has a lot of potential to be great. She has the flavor of those 'bad girl' poets (like Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux, and their matriarch-Edna St. Vincent Millay). This is a strong ...
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Skull Rack16 reviews
Ron Braithwaite
Harbor House (GA), 2007
splendid retelling of the Spanish Conquistidores
For those who appreciate historical novels solidly based on facts,while still telling a gripping story, this is the book for you. Cortes' exploits are vaguely known by most people but the actual story is more fascinating than any "thriller novel" Ron Braithwaite has done his homework. The story, which uses the method of a retelling by a Priest of the Spanish Inquistion,is very well written in a ...
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Maripolarama3 reviews
powerHouse Books, 2005
New York downtown alive
Maripol's book is amazing look at downtown New York City's underground scene during the 1980's.
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By Right of Conquest (Large Print Edition): Or With Cortez in Mexico3 reviews
George Alfred Henty
BiblioBazaar, 2007
A book of truth!
This book has become an instant favorite with me. I really love how Mr. Henty shows the true reasons behind Cortez's conquest, and not the pack of lies that we usually hear in history. The thing that got my attention was the Henty made it clear that both sides had their good and bad intentions. The Mexicans wanted peace to reign but yet they exercised brutal human sacrifices to their gods. ...
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The Heart And Science of Yoga: A Blueprint for Peace, Happiness And Freedom from Fear11 reviews
Leonard Perlmutter, Jenness Cortez Perlmutter
AMI Publishers, 2005
practical and scholarly
"The Heart and Science of Yoga" is just what serious spiritual seekers, and well-intentioned people alike need in a world that seems to change so much and be so difficult to understand. By combining careful, scholarly explanations of an ancient thought system with simple guidelines, the author shows us how to benefit from the teachings of yoga science. Engaging stories, both traditional and drawn ...
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"With His Pistol In His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero4 reviews
Américo Paredes
University of Texas Press, 1970
Excellent Folklore Research
This book is a fine study of Mexican-American folklore. Paredes takes a "literary ethnographic" approach to studying the ballad singer Gregorio Cortez. Paredes develops interesting and rich ways of applying literary analysis to the ballads. He also uses the study of history along with ethnographic inquiry to challenge the image of the Texas ranger as a knight in shining armor. For anyone ...
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The Man Burns Tonight: A Black Rock City Mystery5 reviews
Pocket Books, 2005
still burnt on Sunday
it's Sunday Morning. I woke up at around 9 something, as I have been for months now - even on the Playa. I picked up the book that I've been reading since Thursday on the Playa. A book call 'The Man Burns Tonight" by Donn Cortez... or should I say, Captain Fun. I can say that because I got the book from Captian Fun himself. He gave it to me while chatting on some tower, sharing a smoke, in a ...
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The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez: Baja California's Golden Age, 1947-1977 : The Life and Writings of Ray Cannon4 reviews
Gene S. Kira
Cortez Publications, 1999
A look at a time past and people who lived large
Wonderful photos and you hold in your hand a book that can transport you, via his own words, into the inner circle of an astounding man, Ray Cannon, and the glamorous and mysterious friends he drew around him. He left Hollywood and the big-city life of the movies, where he had money and power, to take up the life of a country fisherman and a writer of essays. But he was never a country ...
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Mi Planta De Naranja Lima/ My Orange Lemon Plant3 reviews
Jose Mauro De Vasconcelos
Melhoramentos, 2006
"Historia de un niño que un día descubrió el dolor..."
Así comienza uno de los libros más sensacionales de la literatura brasileña escrito a manos de José Mauro de Vasconcelos. El autor, nacido en Río de Janeiro, relata con extraordinaria fuerza narrativa y sensibilidad la historia de un niño que descubre el dolor y se hace adulto precozmente. Si Salinger consiguió retratar la mentalidad de un adolescente estadounidense, Vasconcelos consigue con ...
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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, ...5 reviews
John Steinbeck
Library of America, 1996
Steinbeck's Art
It is surely a shame that Mr. Steinbeck forever will be confined to the archipelago of socio-economico-political literature. Too often a smug reviewer writes of Steinbeck's "moving" portrayal of the Joad family and their struggle against a growing America. "Oh, how I can 'identify' with the Preacher!" HUMBUG. Mr. Steinbeck wrote words, not ideas. His art is exquisite and melodious and ...
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Career Counseling Models for Diverse Populations: Hands-On Applications for Practitioners2 reviews
Nadene Peterson, Roberto Cortéz González
Brooks Cole, 1999
Excellent career counseling book.
This book applies classic counseling theories for use in career counseling. It is an interesting and innovative look at this often neglected area of counseling.
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Private Elvis2 reviews
Diego Cortez
Hippocrene Books, 1978
Elvis is free- free of Col. Parker that is!
Shocking photos of Elvis surrounded by almost exclusively ugly people, women especially (don't let the cover photo fool you). Maybe it was the post-war German makeup-and-hair routine or just the clientele of the seedy nightclubs near his Army base. Red West looks about as out of place as a red-haired rockabilly can in a post-Weimar Cabaret. If you want a glimpse into the Elvis twilight zone- ...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, The Studio of the Street2 reviews
Diego Cortez, Glenn O'Brien, ...
Charta/ Deitch Projects, 2007
Excellent Basquiat book
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1CJV6NOBNMIXF Flipping through Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Streets
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Cortez And Montezuma1 review
Collis
Faber and Faber, 1954
An incredible story!!
This is perhaps the most interesting work of history I've ever read. I apologize that I don't have long to spend on this review, but you will not be disappointed in this book. His use of language, and familiarity with the sources is excellent, and his simple historical narratives are more compelling than most novels.
We're so used to the idea that the conquistadors were the bad guys, but the ...
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Sea of Cortez Review 2000 / 20012 reviews
Jennifer Redmond
Sunbelt Publications, 2000
Stands alone.
If you are looking for fishing tips or availability of gasoline in Catavina you sure won't find it here. This fine review will not give you the information you can find elsewhere. You will get some of the feeling and emotions from the writings women and men who have been "inspired by baja." The inner lives of gringos living in the glory of Baja. The cover alone is easily more than worth the ...
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Mexico before Cortez: Art, history, legend (Anchor book A936)1 review
Ignacio Bernal
Anchor Books, 1973
Tenochtitlán in an island
This excellent classic book takes the history of the aztec empire
not of all civilizations that went on in what was to become New Spain with the spanish conquest. The facts known about forty years ago show what are the new advances in the interpretion of mexico's archeology. It also marks the knowledge about many parts of life in the middle of inmense lakes that used to be the scene of live in ...
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Coagulations New and Selected Poems1 review
Jayne Cortez
Pluto Press, 1986
a lover of passionate poetry of activism and community
jayne cortez writes firespitter poems, songs of blood and freedom and beats (and caresses) the drum of undying resistance to oppression. this book is a good introduction to her work. she write with fiery anger and real, passionate strength.
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Complete Guide to the Sea of Cortez (CD-ROM)2 reviews
Gerry Cunningham
Cruising Charts, 2001
Great work!
I love having so much information on a CD. I find that this information is more complete and more accurate that anything else available for the area. Having it all on one CD along with hundreds of extra color photos and charts makes this a cruiser's dream come true!
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Baja Boater's Guide Vol. 2: Sea of Cortez 4 Ed1 review
Jack Williams
H.J. Williams Publications, 2003
The definitive book for the Baja side of the SOC
This book is very in depth with excellent drawings and photos but is almost entirely about the Baja peninsula side of the Sea of Cortez - if you are looking for the mainland side SOc info, the Cunningham books are bibles for that territory.
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Cortez on Jupiter2 reviews
Ernest Hogan
Mandarin, 1991
Un Libro Fantastico (And Funny)!
Wading through the madness of Ernest Hogan's CORTEZ ON JUPITER is like taking a stroll through the mind of a mad Mexican Hunter S. Thompson--and damn me, that's a GOOD thing. With its narrator and main character, the crazed freefall painter Pablo Cortez, spewing autobiography and Spanglish stream-of-conciousness as he takes you through a future world of painting, stardom, sex, and the ...
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