Author: Michael McLaughlin
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Keywords: grill, southwestern
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1558321640
ISBN-13: 9781558321649

Grilling, America’s favorite home-grown cooking technique, and southwestern food, the country’s best-loved regional cuisine, together make a sizzlingly perfect match. Nothing brings to life the assertive tastes of the southwest better than the smoky accents and the robust depths of flavor that come from cooking over an open flame. From California across to Texas, an abundance of dry and sunny days send home cooks out to the backyard grill as nowhere else in the country. Now grill jockeys anywhere in the land can stoke up the fire and cook up a dazzling array of sure-to-please ou

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Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Keywords: proverbs, spanish, southwestern, refranes
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1985-03
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0890131775
ISBN-13: 9780890131770

Author: William Bascom
Publisher: Waveland Press
Keywords: nigeria, southwestern, yoruba
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 1984-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0881330388
ISBN-13: 9780881330380

The Yoruba, with other West African groups, represent a high level of cultural achievement in sub-Saharan Africa and are one of the most interesting and important peoples of the continent. The author offers detailed descriptions of the elaborate economic, political, and social structures of the Yoruba, their complex set of religious beliefs, and their world-famous art forms.

Author: Diana Pardue
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: jewelry, southwestern, contemporary
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-10-03
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1423601904
ISBN-13: 9781423601906

Contemporary Southwestern Jewelry reveals the captivating history of the art of American Indian jewelry making, uncovering the ancient techniques, tools, and materials that have shaped contemporary southwestern jewelry. As you explore Contemporary Southwestern Jewelry’s stunning photography, let the art speak to you of how it came to be and what it represents, echoing a similar message still told by traditional Native American jewelry.

Author: Madeleine Dunphy
Publisher: Web of Life Children’s Books
Keywords: life, web, desert, southwestern
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-11-07
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0977379566
ISBN-13: 9780977379569

Despite its stark landscape and harsh climate, the Sonoran Desert teems with life. Hare, hawks, lizards, bobcats, badgers, coyote — all live among the desert’s fragrant mesquite and spiny cactus, and none can exist without the others. Madeleine Dunphy’s poetic text explores all the warm and native elements that make the American Southwest such a mystical place, while Anne Coe’s stunning paintings portray the desert’s plants and animals as well as the dazzling colors reflected in the rocks and skies of the Sonoran Desert.

Author: Judy Mielke
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: landscapes, southwestern, plants, native
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1993
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292751478
ISBN-13: 9780292751477

For gardeners who want to conserve water, the color, fragrance, shade, and lush vegetation of a traditional garden may seem like a mirage in the desert. But such gardens can flourish when native plants grow in them. In this book, Judy Mielke, an expert on Southwestern gardening, offers the most comprehensive guide available to landscaping with native plants. Writing simply enough for beginning gardeners, while also providing ample information for landscape professionals, she presents over three hundred trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, groundcovers, wildflowers, cacti, and other native plants sui

Author: Paul Pixler
Publisher: Pruett Publishing
Keywords: colorado, southwestern, trails, hiking
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0871089394
ISBN-13: 9780871089397

The first three editions of this authoritative guide to Colorado’s hiking paradise have been bestsellers amoung seasoned and beginning hikers for years.This completely rewritten and revised edition includes: 70 trips of varying length with corresponding maps; directions to conquer 7 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks, 24 new maps providing alternative trail access and updated routes. Whether you enjoy afternoon excursions around the city trails of Durango or exploring the Colorado Trail, this fourth edition remains the most comprehensive guide to world-renown hiking.