Building on his earlier works: Folk Healer and Green Medicine, Torres (a U. of New Mexico administrator) treats his early exposure to curanderismo-- Mexican/Mexican-American folk healing--and its history, beliefs, practitioners, and practices. He includes notes on integrating traditional and modern medicine, annotated further reading, the Spanish names of featured plants, an herbal glossary, and line illustrations. Torres and Sawyer co-authored Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing (U. of New Mexico Press). Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A collection of six stories reflecting the history or culture of Mexico, presented in both English and Spanish, each of which is followed by questions and activities.

Regarding his background as a Mexican folk healer in Texas as a core part of his identity, Torres (an administrator at the U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque) offers an insider's rather than New Age account of this tradition and his meetings with three famous curanderos. Photos feature the healers, their rituals and herbs. Coauthor Sawyer (PhD, UNM staff) is described as the first Anglo initiate in the Southwest. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The author recounts his years as a founding member of the New York branch of the Young Lords Organization, the Puerto Rican-American radical political group that arose in the late 1960s and had withered away by the mid 1970s. Melendez describes his own individual political growth and situates the Young Lords within the larger historical contexts of the Latino experience in the US and the radical politics of the 1960s. This is a paperbound reprint of a 2003 book. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'L'àgora e la piramide' mira ad una soluzione coerente e sistematica delle grandi incognite che la Costituzione spagnola del 1978 continua a proporre dopo un quarto di secolo: La connessione tra la norma costituzionale ed il processo di transizione che l'ha originata; I rapporti fra la struttura sociale e l'organizzazione del potere nella Spagna contemporanea; Le aporie dell'ideologia personalista dei diritti umani; I canali partitocratici che condizionano il gioco della partecipazione politica; L'affermazione di un potere giudiziario irresponsabile; Il quadro autonomista ed europeo che ha messo in discussione l'idea di Spagna da due estremi apparentemente opposti: i separatismi e la globalizzazione.

Lyrical and evocative in both concept and form, the work of Catalan architect Carme Pinós is notable for its uncompromising embodiment of the physical, historic, and metaphoric qualities of its sites. Pinós explores the landscape personally, drawing from it a vocabulary of forms -- lines, planes, curves, arches, containers -- and an often geometric grammar of assembly. Her materials -- earth, concrete, steel, wood -- are deployed with sensitivity to the exigencies of structure, uniting in compositions that are at once delicate and aesthetically dominant. First in collaboration with architect Enric Miralles and since 1991 as principal of her own firm, Pinós has developed an architecture of eloquence and strength that is attentive to the identity of the place and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant.

A comprehensive presentation of the architect's oeuvre, Carme Pinós: An Architecture of Overlay features twenty-one projects, built and unbuilt, in photographs, models, and Pinós's uniquely intricate drawings. Among the designs are the enormous JVC Cultural & Business Center and the Puerto de Hierro office building, both in Guadalajara, Mexico; La Serra High School in Lérida; a waterfront promenade in Havana; single-family and community housing; and numerous sports and recreational facilities throughout Spain. Contemplative yet cutting-edge considerations of the dualities inherent in architecture -- nature and culture, history and modernity, standardization and variety, intellect and emotion, reason and intuition, time and timelessness -- these works emphasize in equal degrees the formal and the functional, the natural and the human-made.