Picturing Sabino

Sabino Canyon, a desert canyon in the American Southwest near Tucson, Arizona, is enjoyed yearly by thousands of city residents as well as visitors from around the world. Picturing Sabino tells the story of the canyon’s transformation from a barely known oasis, miles from a small nineteenth-century town, into an immensely popular recreation area on the edge of a modern metropolis. Covering a century of change, from 1885 to 1985, this work rejoices in the canyon’s natural beauty and also relates the ups and downs of its protection and enjoyment. The story is vividly told through numerous historical photographs, lively anecdotes, and an engaging text, informed by decades of research by David Wentworth Lazaroff. Along the way the reader makes the acquaintance of ordinary picnickers as well as influential citizens who helped to reshape the canyon, while witnessing the canyon’s evolving relationship with its growing urban neighbor. The book will fascinate readers who are already familiar with Sabino Canyon, as well as anyone with an interest in local or regional history, or in historical photography.

This history of Sabino Canyon shows like never before why this mountain canyon near Tucson, Arizona, is such a beloved place. With more than two hundred images and engaging text, David Wentworth Lazaroff relays relates a hundred years of history, revealing how the canyon changed from a little-known oasis into an immensely popular recreation area on the edge of a modern metropolis.

Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán: From Deserts to Clouds provides an accessible and photographic view of the culture, history, and environment of an extraordinary region of southern Mexico. The Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán are lauded by botanists for their spectacular plant life—they contain the densest columnar cacti forests in the world. Recent archaeological excavations reveal them also to be a formative Mesoamerican site as well. So singular is this region that it is home to the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Through firsthand experience and engaging prose, the authors provide a synthesis of the geology, ecology, history, and cultures of the valleys, showing their importance and influence as Mesoamerican arteries for environmental and cultural interchange through Mexico. It also reveals the extraordinary plant life that draws from habitats ranging from deserts to tropical forests. The authors, both experts in their respective fields, begin with a general description of the geography of the valleys, followed by an introduction to climate and hydrology, a look at the valleys’ often bewildering geology. The book delves into cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the valleys and discusses archaeological sites that that encapsulate the valleys’ fascinating history prior to the arrival of Europeans. The book concludes by describing the flora that makes the region so singular.

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema explores how contemporary films (2000-2020) participate in the evolution and circulation of images and sounds that in many ways define how indigenous communities are imagined, at a local, regional and global scale. The volume reviews the diversity of portrayals from a chronological, geopolitical, linguistic, epistemic-ontological, transnational and intersectional, paradigm-changing and self-representational perspective, allocating one chapter to each theme. The corpus of this study consists of 68 fictional features directed by non-indigenous filmmakers, 31 cinematic works produced by indigenous directors/communities, and 22 Cine Regional (Regional Cinema) films. The book also draws upon a significant number of engravings, drawings, paintings, photographs and films, produced between 1493 and 2000, as primary sources for the historical review of the visual representations of indigeneity. Through content and close (textual) analysis, interviews with audiences, surveys and social media posts analysis, the author looks at the contexts in which Latin American films circulate in international festivals and the paradigm shifts introduced by self-representational cinema and Roma (Mexico, 2018). Conclusively, the author provides the foundations of histrionic indigeneity, a theory that explains how overtly histrionic proclivities play a significant role in depictions of an imagined indigenous Other in recent films.

This 3 In 1 Box Set Compilation includes Kate Cruise's & Timmie Guzzmann's intriguing & interesting horse & sea turtle fact book for kids plus the LOL Dr. Seuss style cat jerk rhyming poem book with hilarious rhyming verses for kids. The compilation includes: Book 1: Horse Discovery Book Book 2: Sea Turtle Discovery Book Book 3: Cats Are Just Really Big Jerks! Book 1: Inside the sea turtle discovery book your child will learn about things like: * What Is The History Behind The Origin Of Sea Turtles? * What Are The Various Species? * How Do Sea Turtles Reproduce? How Do Sea Turtle Babies Look Like? * Are Sea Turtles Carnivore, Herbivore, Or Omnivore? What Do The Sea Turtles Eat? * Are Sea Turtles Social? * Some Revelations, Truths & Other Curious Stuff About Sea Turtles * Can Sea Turtles Be Kept As Pet? * Important Sea Turtle Resources lots more Book 2: Inside you'll find interesting, intriguing, funny & weird horse moments like: * What Is The History Behind The Origin Of Sea Turtles? * What Are The Various Species? * How Do Sea Turtles Reproduce? How Do Sea Turtle Babies Look Like? * Are Sea Turtles Carnivore, Herbivore, Or Omnivore? What Do The Sea Turtles Eat? * Are Sea Turtles Social? * Some Revelations, Truths & Other Curious Stuff About Sea Turtles * Can Sea Turtles Be Kept As Pet? * Important Sea Turtle Resources and lots more... Book 3: Inside you'll find LOL funny, weird & jerky cat moments like: * Stinky Pink * Fighting Laws Are Not For Jerks * The Mean Latrine * Kitty Litter & Dusty Glitter * Scooping & Pooping * Evil Green Eyes * The Hypnotizing & Traumatizing Cat's Ball Of Fur * Turns Out Jerkier Than You Might Think and lots more...

This 2 In 1 Box Set Compilation includes Kate Cruise's & Timmie Guzzmann's intriguing & interesting horse fact book for kids and beautiful sea turtle discover book. The compilation includes: Book 1: Panda Discovery Book Book 2: Horse Discovery Book Book 1: Inside the horse discovery book your child will learn about things like: * Evolution Of Horses Until Today * Home Of Horses * Senses Of Horses * Behavior Of Horses * Cute Horse Babies * Beautiful Golden Horses * Most Rare Horse Breeds In The World * Horses Relation With Donkeys lots more Book 2: Inside you'll find interesting, intriguing, funny & weird sea turtle moments like: * What Is The History Behind The Origin Of Sea Turtles? * What Are The Various Species? * How Do Sea Turtles Reproduce? How Do Sea Turtle Babies Look Like? * Are Sea Turtles Carnivore, Herbivore, Or Omnivore? What Do The Sea Turtles Eat? * Are Sea Turtles Social? * Some Revelations, Truths & Other Curious Stuff About Sea Turtles * Can Sea Turtles Be Kept As Pet? * Important Sea Turtle Resources and lots more...

This 3 In 1 Box Set Compilation includes Kate Cruise's & Timmie Guzzmann's intriguing and interesting horse fact book for kids plus the LOL Dr. Seuss style unicorn jerk rhyming poem book with hilarious unicorn rhyming verses for kids. The compilation includes: Book 1: Horse Discovery Book Book 2: Humor Unicorns: Unicorns Are Just Really Big Jerks! Book 1: Does your child love beautiful horses? Inside the horse discovery book your child will learn about things like: * Evolution Of Horses Until Today * Home Of Horses * Senses Of Horses * Cute Horse Babies * Beautiful Golden Horses * Most Rare Horse Breeds In The World * Horses Relation With Donkeys * Horses & Humans * The Most Amazing, Curious & Intriguing Facts About Horses and other surprises that you did not know about horses... This book will take your child through a journey of fun facts, amazing discoveries, curious and intriguing stories about horses, and beautiful & amazing pictures of horses. You will find some interesting revelations and secrets you probably never heard about horses. Some myths and truths, and other curious stuff about horses that children just find cool and groovy to know are also included. Did you know that no two horses are identical! Inside you will find out the most amazing stuff about horses that there is to know about! Stimulation of thought and contemplation via discovery books like these increases intelligence and the brain power of your child. On the other hand, TV kills the brain cells of your child. Parents & home-schoolers alike are reporting unprecedented results from using these types of discovery books as learning materials & educators are reporting great results even with children who usually hate reading books & have learning blocks. This book is suitable for children ages 5+ Book 2: Inside you'll find unicorn jerk dog moments like: * Rainbow Fairy Dust & Magical Ray Of Gooey Rainbow Dust * Unicorns & Clogged Toilets * Unicorn Dreads ...

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures, respectively. Picture Worlds is the first book to examine the elaborately decorated terracotta vessels of these three distinct civilizations. Although the cultures were separated by space and time, they all employed pottery as a way to tell stories, explain the world, and illustrate core myths and beliefs. Each of these painted pots is a picture world. But why did these communities reach for pottery as a primary method of visual communication? How were the vessels produced and used? In this book, experts offer introductions to the civilizations, exploring these foundational questions and examining the painted imagery. Readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of each of these ancient societies, fascinating insights into their cultural commonalities and differences, and fresh perspectives on image making and storytelling, practices that remain vibrant to this day. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from April 10 to July 29, 2024, and at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University from September 14 to December 15, 2024.