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In 1521, when the Spanish arrived in Mexico, they were amazed at the spectacular architecture and complex urban planning they encountered in the great city of Tenochtitlán (modern-day Mexico City). To the native Mayan, Aztec, and Olmec traditions that had flourished throughout Mexico, the Spanish brought their own influences, resulting in an extraordinarily rich design heritage that survives to this day.
Acclaimed architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter vividly captures this enduring passion for design in Casa Mexicana Style, the follow-up to his best-selling Casa Mexicana (more than 100,000 copies sold). In this gorgeous new book featuring more than 250 photographs, Street-Porter takes us on an insider's tour of 30 stunning homes, from urbane city apartments and modernist beach houses to stately rural haciendas and lovingly restored colonial townhouses.
All of the residences showcased here are enlivened by a natural blending of indoors and outdoors, a vibrant palette shaped by the sun-drenched surroundings, and an artful incorporation of the country's celebrated crafts and handiwork. Whether large or small, historical or contemporary, Mexican houses are artistic statements, expressing the unique and inimitable lifestyle of their creators. Casa Mexicana Style is a welcoming invitation to bask in the beauty of these homes, to enjoy their charm and sophistication.
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For professionals.......2007-05-25
This is a beautiful book, wonderful photography and architecturally very interesting. It is also very heavy, large, and it only shows buildings. I have no room or need for it on my interior design shelves.
Unbelievable guide to Mexican design.......2007-02-18
I am an interior designer and have always been fascinated by the use of color in Mexico. This book is eye candy for any designer. The pictures are amazing and the photography wonderful. I have picked up this book so many times I have bookmarked almost every page for ideas. Great inspiration!
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Mexican HOuses.......2005-09-08
This is the best book I've seen on Mexican houses..comprehensive and are they beautifully photographed! and all kinds of examples, from the very oldest colonial, Porfirian, to modern. I
am so glad I got a copy, and too, that I found out about the book, as I wasnt aware of it when it was published some twenty years ago.
Fell short of what I hoped.......2003-04-12
I bought my copy because of the name, since I am FACINATED with interior design and decorating ideas with ANYTHING Mexican. My text IS in English, and if I would have known it was available in Spanish I would have preferred to have it that way!!
Anyway, this book DOES show the enormous VARIETY of what can truly be called "Mexican": from indigenous homes to still functioning haciendas to colonial-style buildings to the Broque French influence so many of the wealthy class favored before the revolution.
However, for me, it is just too cold, too sterile, for the Mexico I know and love. The colonial and Baroque-influenced homes look more like museums. They look like something only the extraordinarily wealthy could ever even dream of, and are far removed from the comfy, cozy, antique-filled hotels featured in "Mexicolor" or "Mexicasa". There is also a huge, AD NAUSEUM section on modern Mexican architecture -which I LOATHE- and a whole chapter on American, Chicano influenced houses -which I could CARE LESS about. All in all, I have my few favorite pages, which I love and look at repeatedly, but the majority of the book consists of large sections that I skip in their entirety. If you are looking for a treatise on the gamut of architectural styles in the country of Mexico, this is probably a good choice. If you want a book on Mexican interior design and decoration with a passion for things Mexican, this is NOT going to be your first choice.
It is a great book!!.......2002-02-07
I am a Mexican woman studying in the USA. I read a commentary above saying that these are European houses, they are not. We were conquered by the Spaniards centuries ago and thus the architectural style blended creating a "Mexican Style". This so called Mexican style includes european traces with Indian influences. This book represents Mexican houses that complies with this style. Obviously you can find native houses following Indian design, but for sure not in any Mexican metropoli.
Nice Photos of Interiors -- Little Else.......2001-09-05
Well, the book does have some nice photos. My copy is in english. However, it really falls short of what was promised. First, there is virtualy nothing in it about architecture. Very few photos of buildings, houses, etc. at all. It's just a collection of photos of the interiors of homes designed by famous people. I was very disappointed. For example, it goes on and on about european homes in mexico -- what does that have to do with mexican styles? If you are looking for a book that is basically a Home & Garden magazine with 270 pages then buy it. Like i said earlier - some nice photos. If you wanted somethign else, then search on. Cause this may leave you unsatisfied.
Beware! Text is Spanish.......2001-07-21
If you don't read Spanish then consider this book just a picture book. It would be nice if somewhere it had been mentioned that this book is NOT IN ENGLISH. The pictures are OK.
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Layer Cake
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Our narrator's too smart to tell you his name ("if I [did], you'd be as clever as me"), but he's not afraid to tell you everything else about the "layer cake"-London's intricately arranged constellation of underworld fiefdoms. He's a drug dealer who's planning to retire on his thirtieth birthday-after one last great score-to a life as "a gentleman of leisure." Only problem is his boss, the crime kingpin "don" Jimmy Price, has other plans. He can walk away from the life for good only if he can track down a runaway daughter for Jimmy's old friend.
Complicating matters are two million top-grade Ecstasy tablets that were robbed from a factory in Amsterdam by a renegade outfit in Jimmy's employ who are now looking for someone to offload the ill-gotten loot. With an angry mob of German neo-Nazis in hot pursuit, and all crosses and double-crosses leading back to Jimmy, our narrator finds he may have to negotiate a new exit strategy.
With a rich supporting cast of dozens of characters, Layer Cake is a gripping, linguistically inventive thriller, a cross between Irvine Welsh and Dennis Lehane that keeps you turning the pages until the very end.
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Great book for you geezers!.......2007-02-08
If you liked the movie you'll enjoy the book the movie was based on! For a US reader it takes time to get all the UK slang down, but it is well worth it.
Very good.......2005-12-01
Realities are a zig-zaggy thing in Layer Cake. The plot, character motives and entire belief systems changed directions almost on the paragraph. If you don't pay quick attention, you might as well be reading the phonebook by the last several chapters. And I admit I got swallowed up by the multitude of thinly explained switcharoos at some points. But all these traits are complementary to the novel, whose characters are themselves desperately trying to keep up. A recurring euphemism in Layer Cake? "Don't lose the plot, brov." That's right.
Fancy Readin' a Bitta Good Crime Tale, Brov?.......2005-06-06
Written back in 2000, J. J. Connolly's debut novel is receiving a lot of buzz these days because of its recent film adaptation. The movie was directed by Matthew Vaughn, producer of the British underworld capers "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch". There will doubtless be many comparisons drawn between the three works based on similarities in setting and characterization. However, "Layer Cake" ultimately distinguishes itself with a more hard-boiled tone and straightforward characters.
The narrator is a mid-level player in the London drug scene who is looking to retire in one piece before his upcoming 30th birthday. However, the head of his syndicate has other plans for him - a pair of daunting jobs that will earn him his freedom to leave the crime family for good with no bad feelings.
The voice of the unnamed first-person narrator is both the strength of the book and its biggest burden. The narrator's language is slick yet credible, leading to some great dialogue scenes accompanied by well-conceived commentary in his thoughts. Being proper criminals in the London scene, everybody uses Cockney rhyming slang, which takes a while to pick up. There are times that I wished for annotated version with editor's notes - I recommend looking up rhyming slang on the Internet or else checking out the bonus material on fhe "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" DVD. For credibility's sake, there is a mountain of profanity as well, including some "strongly-worded" phrases that are apparently more commonplace in Britain than here in the States (check out the Statistically Improbable Phrases section above to decide whether or not this book is for you). On the downside, the stream-of-conscious flow sometimes hindered the plot and rendered certain action passages very difficult to follow. For example, the protagonists cycle through numerous nicknames for rival gangs with no warning, making it a real task at times to keep up with who's dealing with whom. This device has a tendency to smother the plotting more than the Cockney rhyming slang and phonetic misspellings ever could.
The plot is a straightforward stream of cons and double-crosses as each faction tries to get the upper hand and escape with the loot. I was disappointed that the initial thrust of the plot - the narrator's quest to retrieve the runaway-junkie daughter of a friend of the boss - abruptly fizzled near the end for the sake of adding yet another twist. Plot twists are dime-a-dozen in many fiction genres today, and I felt that the plot would have been better served by credibly finishing what it started rather than piling on implausible surprise after surprise for the last 100 pages.
I'm also surprised to see reviews that proclaim this a funny book. While many of the characters displayed a quirkiness that drew an occasional sly smile, I found the book's tone to be subtly very gritty, lacking any of the slapstick Benny Hill buffoonery of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" or "Snatch". That tone is mercilessly reinforced by our protagonist's actions. He graduates through several levels of casual amorality by the end, casually building up his personal rap sheet for the singular goal of getting out of the gangster game with as much profit as possible. Those looking for a morality play with tearful self-examination leading to confessionals about the harm done will be sorely disappointed by our hero's selfishly blase attitude throughout.
Overall, this book is a good read, recommended for fans of crime fiction who are looking for new locales. Well-crafted dialogue and voice coupled with interesting settings manage to outshine an ultimately predictable plot.
Snatch meets Dutch.......2005-01-08
This novel comes across like a Guy Ritchie movie crossed with an book by Elmore Leonard. Very enjoyable and engaging. I'll have to check out the British movie when it hits Canada.
Crime 'Innit?.......2004-12-01
The unnamed hero of this novel (who is also its narrator) is quietly doing well out of a crime racket in London until things change when the gangland boss Jimmy Price "asks" him to locate the missing daughter of his fellow boss Eddy Ryder. From then on, things get complicated - the task is not what it seems and our hero's neat world begins to unravel, exposing him to greater dangers and unwelcome surprises.
"Layer Cake" is another Brit crime novel: for those who've seen "The Long Good Friday" or "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" or who've read Jake Arnott's books, the setting and plot will seem familiar. Once again, you're taken to the harsh criminal underworld of London, where deceit and corruption reign and the best laid plans invariably go awry.
The language used in the book is harsh yet convincing, and for all its lack of originality, "Layer Cake" has great energy - you zoom along as the plot develops. As a piece of sheer entertainment, it works well. The ending though, was not a surprise.
G Rodgers
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meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.
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A vital contribution to studies of the border, gender and the mass media.......2005-11-03
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 American coverage of the Ciudad Juarez feminicides and some Chicano concepts of family and manhood. Fregoso is an important voice in the fields of both gender studies/women studies, and media studies, but this is just her standpoint, her expertise. The implications of her work ripple throughout all of contemporary critical theory.
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The Mexican League = LA Liga Mexicana: Comprehensive Player Statistics, 1937-2001 / Estadsticas Comprensivas De Los Jugadores, 1937-2001
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Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878 - 1961
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While there is dispute among scholars as to where and when the first game of baseball was played in Mexico, there is no doubt that the game is as popular there as it is in America. The popularity of the sport led to the establishment of the Professional Mexican Baseball League in 1925, which continues today.
This text opens with a brief history of Mexican professional baseball and provides, in both English and Spanish, statistical information on the players of the Mexican Baseball League since 1937 (the first year in which the league kept official records). Individual batting statistics for each player and pitching statistics for each pitcher are provided, along with tables listing rookie of the year, no hit games, perfect games, triple crown winners and consecutive games, team champions, individual batting champions, individual pitching champions, winning percentage, earned runs, the best batters in each category (runs scored, hits, doubles, triples, etc.), all-time individual batting leaders, the best pitchers in each category (innings pitched, complete games, shutouts, etc.), and all-time individual pitching leaders. Members of the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame are also listed, as are the competitors and results for Mexican League All-Star games. An appendix provides statistics for 85 Mexicans who have played in the Major Leagues.
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An unerring feel for the tastes we love has made Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger's cookbooks and, restaurants havens for all who crave exciting,flavorful food. InMesa Mexicana,they offer their unique, interpretations of the tastes of coastal Mexico with a bold, colorful cuisine that excites the palate and satisfies our yen for earthy, rustic flavors, minus the heaviness of most standard fare. Best of all, the very healthy and inexpensive recipes in Mesa Mexicana can be made at home with minimal,fuss. There are salads, salsas, grilled meats and fish,the greatest collection of taco recipes in print, as well as the delicious vegetable dishes the authors are famed for-Braised Cauliflower with Parsley and Lime, Roasted Parsnips and Carrots with Cumin, and Red, White, or Green Rice. Desserts include a sensational Lime Coconut Pie and fabulous frozen treats, including KahlÚa chip ice Cream and Tamarind ice. There are also cooling beverages such as Limeade with Chia Seeds, the Border Sunset, and of course, a stellar margarita.
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Great for Mexican Theme Entertaining........2006-03-08
`Mesa Mexicana' and `too hot tamales' are the two books currently available from the chef / teaching / restauranteur team known as the `too hot tamales' of early Food Network fame, Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger. They recently went up against Bobby Flay on `Iron Chef America'. Not that it really matters, but I don't remember who won or what the secret ingredient was. What is important is that it was easily one of the most entertaining and memorable `Iron Chef America' episodes, comparable to the very first one featuring Chicago Mexican cuisine expert Rick Bayless and the competition featuring Oriental fusion master, Ming Tsai of `Blue Ginger'. What I do remember is the imprint of the iron on the back of Susan Feniger's blouse and the inventive recipe they did for Scotch eggs.
The first impression of both of these books is not inspiring. The layout is ordinary, leaning toward the garish. The photographs are in a grainy black and white and too small to easily make sense of what is happening, not to mention the fact that most are missing captions. In `too hot tamales', it is even difficult to tell which of these two delightful ladies is Mary Sue and which is Susan, from the lack of clear identification on the photographs. The flyleaf of `Mesa Mexicana' clears this up. Mary Sue is the taller with blond hair and Susan is the shorter with dark hair. They also neglect to give a good picture of co-author, Helene Siegel, whose voice seems to be strong in the prefaces and introductions.
Based on the strong `Iron Chef America' appearance, I decided to check out the books from this duo, even though their Food Network show was before my time. I figured two gals with this much energy and a strong showing against the indomitable Bobby must have something to say. At the outset, the book `too hot tamales' did not impress, until I got to the chapters on soups. At this point, the authors' observations seemed to come alive. This was not nearly as strong as what I saw in Deborah Madison's recent book on soups, but the comparison showed that Mary Sue and Susan clearly had something important to say. That is not to say that `too hot tamales' is the better book. `Mesa Mexicana' is actually the better of the two for anyone who is not familiar with Mexican cooking. Having determined that these books have something to say, the next big question is why get these books instead one from the heavy hitters of Mexican cuisine, Rick Bayless or Diana Kennedy.
For starters, both Bayless and Kennedy's best books are more strongly oriented toward teaching Mexican cooking, either by technique or by region. Milliken and Feniger's books are more for fun, without straying too far from strong roots in genuine Mexican cooking technique. If all you want are some good, snappy recipes without being tied to the grill (as you are with many of Bobby Flay's recipes), Milliken and Feniger may be your best choice. They are certainly your best choice if you are attracted to entertaining with a Mexican theme. I had an epiphany of insight when I realized that a rather large number of pages in both books, as well as many pages in many other cookbooks are dedicated to `starters', `finger food', `appetizers', `hors `d'ourves', `antipasto' and what have your. But if you live in a typical family, how much time do you really spend making `party food' in comparison to daily breakfasts, lunches, and suppers. Why don't cookbooks dedicate 20% of their books to breakfast and 35% of their books to brown bag food rather than giving so much room to entertaining food, which the average cook may make once a month, if they are inclined to entertain with food in the first place.
All this means is that these books are much more valuable to you if you do entertain often. This is especially true because both books are very reasonably priced, appropriate to their uninspired art work. It is also true because of the rather odd organization of the recipes. In both books, some chapters are organized by function or meal, some by style of cooking, and some by principle ingredient. This means neither book is especially good if you want to find a book to fit a particular function or to use a particular ingredient. The fact that both books are relatively short confirms that neither book may be very useful if you have room for only a very small cookbook collection. But if you can afford the money and space for a large cookbook collection, you will probably already have one or more volumes from Kennedy and Bayless, so why load yourself up with our spicy gals?
For most people, the answer is simply that they are great fun to read and their recipes get right to the point. If you are a foodie, you don't need another tutorial on technique. If you are a casual cook who entertains, you can go straight to the largely very concise recipes and get on with it. So, both books are easily worth the room they take up on your shelves.
As an aside, it is really interesting to see our gals' comments on the cooking talents of the Mexicans, which is very similar to Tony Bourdain's comments in `A Cook's Tour', where he states that almost all his line chefs at `Les Halle' are Mexican with practically no formal training, yet they are as capable as most French trained cooks.
If you really like cookbooks or you really like Mexican food, I recommend both of these books.
The Pictures Make This Book.......2005-07-22
The whole thing is illustrated in pen and ink, so you never have to worry if the food comes out like the picture or not. The pinto been looks like a bloated comma.
My Favorite Cookbook.......2005-06-04
I have made several recipes from this cookbook and have had loved them all. The salsas are now staples on my table as are the skirt steak, the flans (yum!) and the tortilla soup.
Many of the recipes appear on the menu at their restaurant, Border Grill. When prepared to specs, they taste just like the real thing. This makes me happy because Border Grill is one of my favorite restaurants.
Great Mexican cooking takes time, but as this cookbook shows us, it is not complicated. The book is beautiful, the recipes clear, and the results fabulous.
Easy Recipes, Complex Flavors.......2003-04-27
We love their restaurants and really love this book! The recipes are easy to follow and most are quite quick to make yet are complex in flavor. We particularly like their comments before each recipe that summarize the dish and make recommendations of other dishes that complement the flavors.
Excellent for the hobbyist chef, but not everyday.......2000-12-23
Mary Sue Miliken and Susan Feniger are two of the top chefs in LA. Their "Border Grill" in Santa Monica (4th and Broadway) is a noisy, splashy, foodie haven with superb drinks, a decent wine/beer list, and amazing food. Mesa Mexicana offers recipes that one might easily see on Border Grill's menu. For those of us who grew up equating Mexican food with Tex-Mex, Miliken and Feniger's inventive take on traditional Mexican cuisine is a revelation.
As a cookbook, Mesa Mexicana is interesting, has an attractive layout, and, by the minimal standards of the genre, is well-written. One would not want to use it on an everyday basis. Many of the recipes involve a fairly intensive amount of prep work and/or require specialized ingredients. For the hobbyist chef with access to a decent Mexican grocer and time on his/her hands, however, it is an inspiring and provocative work. Highly recommended on that qualified basis.
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Leyendas Mexícanas.......2000-10-06
"Leyendas Mexícanas" is a collection of eighteen Mexican legends. Each story is a delight to read. The legends reflect events from approximately 1,500 years of the country's history and folklore of Mexico. The tales introduce an array of memorable characters (from animals, gods, goddesses, ancient rulers and warriors) of the Mexican Republic.They are truly authenthic legends. One of my favorite is "El León y El Grillo." I love the way the little crickett outsmarts the lion. And "Atzima, la Princesa" it a legend of true love. Readers will learn how these characters resolved the dilemas that confronted them: some with great chourage, and others with remarkable ingenuity. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the rich cultural heritage of Mexico like I do.
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BELLAMENTE EMPASTADO LLEVE A LA COMODIDAD DE SU HOGAR Y/O NEGOCIO ESTA MAGINIFICA OBRA DE LA COCINA MEXICANA E INTERNACIONAL. EN SU INTERIOR USTED PODRA HACER INFINIDAD DE COMBINACIONES, YA QUE SE ENCUENTRA DE MANERA PRACTICO SU INTERIOR.... ENTRADAS, PLATILLOS FUERTES, POSTRES. VIENE EXQUISITAMENTE ENRIQUECIDO CON INFORMACION DE: EQUIVALENCIAS Y MEDIDAS, BEBIDAS Y MUCHO, MUCHO MAS
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Los antiguos mexicanos a traves de sus cronicas y cantares (Lecturas mexicanas)
Miguel Leon Portilla
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The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
ASIN: 9681909364 |
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The 1910 Revolution is still tangibly present in Mexico and its people. This path finding book shows how Mexicans from 1910 through the 1950s interpreted the revolution, tried to make sense of it, and, through memory, myth making, and history writing, invented an idea called "La Revolución." This research clarifies how the revolution has served to authorize and legitimize politics today.
Description in Spanish:Casi cien años después del comienzo de la Revolución Mexicana, este acontecimiento sigue siendo una extraña combinación de sucesos reales, mitos renovadores e historias inventadas por los gobiernos posrevolucionarios para narrar la historia del movimiento social más importante de América Latina en el siglo XX.
De las historias y mitologías derivadas de la lucha armada nace la Tradición Revolucionaria, que toma forma en el festival anual, el monumento conmemorativo y la historia oficial. Todas ellas representan los distintos modos de organizar la memoria colectiva para difundir el pasado, realzarlo y revivirlo en el presente. En este libro se encuentran historias hasta ahora inéditas de los festivales anuales, como el que se realizaba el 20 de noviembre, que a partir de esto se eligió como Día de la Revolución Mexicana, o la insólita construcción del Monumento a la Revolución, que originalmente estaba destinado a ser el Palacio Legislativo. Esta aproximación a la historia revolucionaria y al desarrollo de las "historias oficiales" de la Revolución Mexicana llega hasta nuestros días en un momento de incertidumbre ideológica, en el que varios grupos políticos y gobiernos intentan modificar la Tradición Revolucionaria y con ello la esencia misma de la Revolución.
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Traditional Mexican Style Exteriors
Traditional Mexican Style Interiors (Schiffer Design Book)
New Hacienda, The pb
