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Moon Handbooks Mexico City (Moon Handbooks) 12 reviews
Christopher Humphrey
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2005
very helpful
+ A hefty, helpful guide
+ Practical and knowledgeable
+ The traveling Bible
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Avalancha de Éxitos 11 reviews
Café Tacuba
Warner Music Latina, 1996
Cool covers
+ A quite enjoyable surprise
+ "No Manches Dice La Changa"
+ Extraordinaria producción
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The Life and Times of Mexico6 reviews
Earl Shorris
W. W. Norton, 2006
The Life and Times of Mexico
+ We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges!
+ Simply Superb
+ A sweeping survey of the foundations which have made Mexico what it is today
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La Perdida10 reviews
Jessica Abel
Pantheon, 2008
A thrilling and insightful portrayal of an amazing city
+ accomplished, fascinating graphic novel
+ La Perdida
+ Surprisingly Action-Packed
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Clandestino 124 reviews
Manu Chao
EMI Latin, 2003
Holy Guacamole
+ Alienation, dispair, and hope...
+ Great CD
+ Easy listening
+ Manu Chao
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Above Mexico City3 reviews
Robert Cameron, Herb Lingl
Cameron & Company, 2004
Magnificent Book about Aerial Views of Mexico City
+ Mega Metropolis
+ above mexico city
This is the first book of aerial photography on Mexico City. Bob Cameron and Herb Lingl have done an outstanding work, especially that Mexico City skies are mostly highly cloudy and gray with smog and pollution. They captured extradordinary moments of clear and blue skies of Mexico City and ...
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Legends of the City of Mexico1 review
Thomas Allibone Janvier
Lethe Press, 2002
A treasure of Mexican folklore!!
The legends told on this book are amazing.The supernatural,the unexpected,the suspense are always present on each legend.They dates from Spanish colonial times,and they still retold again from generation to generation.The most interesting from this stories,is that people say these really happened ...
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First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century20 reviews
David Lida
Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
viva la vida
+ A Candid Portrayal of the U.S.'s Neighbor to the South
+ Want to know the real Mexico City?
+ A mix of great articles and tedious fluff
+ Read this book, join the 16th to the 21st centuries
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The Virgin's Guide to Mexico
Eric B. Martin
Macadam Cage Pub, 2008
A novel about crossing the border in the opposite direction: from wealthy, suburban Texas into the wild heart of Mexico. Alma Price is seventeen - she's smart, she's angry, and she's going to Mexico. Her grandfather lives there, or so she thinks, although it's hard to know what's true with a lying mother who raised her among the blond brigade of their rich Texas neighborhood. Sick of ...
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Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City
powerHouse Books, 2006
"Spirit, flesh: in the end the same quest, born of a crumbling economy and identity. The single most apparent sign is the proliferation in prostitution, an ‘outing’ of what has always existed, but furtively. The government has officially admitted that it is impossible to rein in the sex trade; Mexico City is not busy busting working women and men, but formulating legal and health guidelines for ...
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Proxima Estación: Esperanza71 reviews
Manu Chao
Virgin France, 2001
A Must!
+ This Album Knocked Me Out (in a good way)
+ Surprised
+ it doesnt get much better than this!
+ There is "Esperanza" for music after all
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel 51 reviews
Roberto Bolano
Picador, 2008
A masterpiece
+ excellent read
The Savage Detectives, the Mexican novel of a Chilean writer that spent his last years of life in Barcelona, is one of the few masterpieces that Latin America has produced during the last years. The language skills, the rhythm, the story, the characters, everything is first class literature in this ...
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Moon Handbooks Mexico City (Moon Handbooks)12 reviews
Christopher Humphrey
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2005
very helpful
+ A hefty, helpful guide
+ Practical and knowledgeable
+ The traveling Bible
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First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century20 reviews
David Lida
Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
viva la vida
+ A Candid Portrayal of the U.S.'s Neighbor to the South
+ Want to know the real Mexico City?
+ A mix of great articles and tedious fluff
+ Read this book, join the 16th to the 21st centuries
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel51 reviews
Roberto Bolano
Picador, 2008
A masterpiece
+ excellent read
The Savage Detectives, the Mexican novel of a Chilean writer that spent his last years of life in Barcelona, is one of the few masterpieces that Latin America has produced during the last years. The language skills, the rhythm, the story, the characters, everything is first class literature in this ...
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The Life and Times of Mexico6 reviews
Earl Shorris
W. W. Norton, 2006
The Life and Times of Mexico
+ We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges!
+ Simply Superb
+ A sweeping survey of the foundations which have made Mexico what it is today
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Legends of the City of Mexico1 review
Thomas Allibone Janvier
Lethe Press, 2002
A treasure of Mexican folklore!!
The legends told on this book are amazing.The supernatural,the unexpected,the suspense are always present on each legend.They dates from Spanish colonial times,and they still retold again from generation to generation.The most interesting from this stories,is that people say these really happened ...
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Avalancha de Éxitos11 reviews
Café Tacuba
Warner Music Latina, 1996
Cool covers
+ A quite enjoyable surprise
+ "No Manches Dice La Changa"
+ Extraordinaria producción
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The Virgin's Guide to Mexico
Eric B. Martin
Macadam Cage Pub, 2008
A novel about crossing the border in the opposite direction: from wealthy, suburban Texas into the wild heart of Mexico. Alma Price is seventeen - she's smart, she's angry, and she's going to Mexico. Her grandfather lives there, or so she thinks, although it's hard to know what's true with a lying mother who raised her among the blond brigade of their rich Texas neighborhood. Sick of ...
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La Perdida10 reviews
Jessica Abel
Pantheon, 2008
A thrilling and insightful portrayal of an amazing city
+ accomplished, fascinating graphic novel
+ La Perdida
+ Surprisingly Action-Packed
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