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Chasing Jagaurs: The Complete Guide to Costa Rican Whitewater
Lee Eudy

Earthbound Sports Inc., 2003

This is the most complete guide to whitewater paddling in the tropical paradise of Costa Rica. This guide describes 40 of the country's most spectacular whitewater runs. In addition, the book can help you find some of the best surfing beaches. Whether you want to travel to the country on your own or go with an outfitter, this guide is a "must have". 66 maps, 98 black and white photos, and 17 color photos help the traveler prepare for one of ...

Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

5 reviews
Oscar Arias

Whereabouts Press, 1993

¡Pura Vida! A Superb Insight into the Soul of Costa Rica
This small compilation of short stories was a priceless companion on my trip to Costa Rica. The philosophy of the "Traveler's Literary Companion" series is terrific: one of the best ways to really understand a country and its culture is through that country's literature. I highly recommend this book for anyone planning a trip to Costa Rica, or just curious about this glorious and inviting ...

Costa Rican Typical Foods

Grafica Litho-Offset S.A., 1994

Good Basic Costa Rican Cookbook
This is the cookbook that you find on shelves in the tourists shops in Costa Rica for about 7 dollars. It is a very small book (almost pamphlet like) with 53 pages of recipes (one page per recipe in most cases) Very basic but they are the recipes you are likely to encounter in Costa Rica. The author has put Worcester in a number of recipes where traditionally Lizano is used... the ...

Costa Rican Natural History

8 reviews

University Of Chicago Press, 1983

Jam-packed!
I found this hyper-detailed book to be absolutely invaluable while I was in Costa Rica! A book I found equally indispensable, which I read BEFORE I got there, was "Costa Rica: The Last Country the Gods Made." Both books should more than adequately prepare you for a trip around 1 - 3 weeks.

Costa Rican Spanish: Lonely Planet Phrasebook

3 reviews
Thomas Kohnstamm, Lonely Planet Phrasebooks

Lonely Planet, 2006

Its Cute and Small and I guess handy
We bought this as a "just in case" backup in case all communication skills broke down and we had to resort to language. Luckily that never happened so we never actually used the book. Usually you can get your point across with your hands and facial expressions (including getting out of a ticket because you did an 'illegal' U turn in front of a cop - show me the sign, there was no sign).

Costa Rican Wildlife: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist - Waterford Press)

14 reviews
James Kavanagh

Waterford Press, 2001

Great for Its Intended Purpose
The guide is intended to be a quick reference guide to some of the more common and most interesting creatures of Costa Rica, as indicated on the back summary above the UPC symbol. This waterproof pamplet accomplishes this goal just fine. Pamphlet is VERY sturdy (no worries in ALL weather) and pictures 1 inch square. Captions list Latin name, size in inches and centimeters and, for some, a short ...

Costa Rica - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!)

1 review
Jane Koutnik

Kuperard, 2006

No Matter Why You Go To Costa Rica...You Must Read This Book
I'm glad that I read this book. My family and I are considering living in Costa Rica. This book will help us understand Costa Rican culture so we can have a positive experience in Costa Rica.

Costa Rican Bird Song Sampler
David L., Jr. Ross

Cornell Univ Cornell Laboratory of, 2006

This compact disc contains 184 of the most often heard Costa Rican birds (nearly a third of the country's resident species). The sounds are numbered and sequenced to follow the order in which they appear in the plates in A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (Stiles, Skutch, and Gardner 1989). Recordings are presented within eight easy-to-use categories. In addition to covering the most characteristic bird songs of the major birding destinations, ...

Guide to Costa Rican Spanish

11 reviews
Christopher Howard

Costa Rica Books, 2005

Speak Easy
I spoke Spanish before coming to Costa Rica, but found the people in San Jose spoke with more slang and pachuco. Chris Howard's book helped me to communicate better and with more credibility. When I moved to the coast, the dialect was even more different. People considered me snobby when I spoke like I did originally. His information was even applicable in the countryside. I give this book ...

The Costa Rican Womens Movement: A Reader (Pitt Latin American Studies)

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997

This reader reflects the genesis, scope, and direction of women?s activism in a single Latin American country. It collects the voices of forty-one diverse women who live in Costa Rica, some radical, others strongly conservative, and most ranging inbetween, as they write about their lives, their problems, their aspirations. Unlike the comparative studies of women?s issues that look at several different countries, the reader provides an ...

The Costa Ricans
Richard Biesanz, Karen Zubris Biesanz, ...

Waveland Press, 1988

Associated with the country for more than forty years, the authors insightfully describe and interpret the character and customs of the people of Costa Rica. Their sympathetic account challenges the myths of equitable income distribution, broad-scale landowning patterns, and Costa Rica as Utopia. In this sense, Costa Rica resembles much of the rest of Latin America. The Biesanzes note, however, that Costa Rica does differ from its ...

The Remembering Stone (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended (Awards))

2 reviews
Barbara Timberlake Russell

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2004

Young Immigrants Featured Review
What can an immigrant do to make the American dream come true? In this wistul yet hopeful vignette, Barbara Timberlake Russell articulates the newcomer's game plan -- "wish for luck, work hard, and hold hope inside." The muted colors in Claire Cotts' lovely paintings, full of wind and movement, echo the feelings of change, loneliness, and longing articulated in the text. Ana, a girl who ...

When Woman Became the Sea: A Costa Rican Creation Myth

2 reviews
Susan Strauss

Beyond Words Publishing, 1998

I really loved reading this story and looking at the art.
I am a mother of two small children ( 2 & 3) and they really enjoyed listening to this story being told aloud at a recent book signing. The colorful art on every page keeps my children very interested in this wonderful book.

Protocols for an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of Fungi in a Costa Rican Conservation Area

1 review
Rodham E. Tulloss, Thomas E. O'Dell, ...

Parkway Pub, 1997

A very specialized and useful procedure book
It is a very specialized book that covers in great detail inventory making procedures for biodiversity which includes all fungi taxonomical groups existing in a protected area of Costa Rica. Even though the method selection foundations are not present, the names of the people who helped in the elaboration of methodology design are (all of them are specialists in different areas of fungi study), ...

When New Flowers Bloomed: Short Stories by Women Writers from Costa Rica and Panama (Discoveries (Latin ...

Latin American Literary Review Press, 1991

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Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households, Global Coffee, and Fair Trade
Deborah Sick

Northern Illinois University Press, 2007

This new edition of "Farmers of the Golden Bean" explores the network of local economies that connects coffee farmers with distant consumers in industrialized societies. In Costa Rica, coffee is grown primarily by small household producers who form the country's large, middle-class peasantry. Sick examines how these coffee-producing households cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. The analysis of individual and collective ...

Monteverde: Science and Scientists in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest (Venture Books - Science)
Sneed B. Collard

Franklin Watts, 1997

The ecology of tropical forests that grow at high altitudes is described through the eyes of scientists who live and work at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica.

Constitutional Adjudication: The Costa Rican Experience
Robert S. Barker

Vandeplas Publishing, 2008

This book traces the legal and historical development of one of the most important aspects of constitutionalism - constitutional adjudication (or "judicial review"), in a country with a longstanding commitment to the rule of law - Costa Rica. "This book reflects a very high level of legal scholarship on Latin American constitutional law and, upon publication, will become the definitive English-language work on Costa Rican ...

I Won't Stay Indian, I'll Keep Studying: Race, Place, And Discrimination in a Costa Rican High School
Karen Stocker

University Press of Colorado, 2005

While teaching and researching on an indigenous reservation in Costa Rica, Karen Stocker discovered that for Native students who attended the high school outside the reservation, two extreme reactions existed to the predominantly racist high school environment. While some maintained their indigenous identity and did poorly in school, others succeeded academically, but rejected their Indianness and the reservation. Between these two poles lay a ...

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