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Chicago: Children's Press, 1997. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Color photos throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 1997 Children's Press paperback, 7th printing. One of the New True Book series. Problem: Name top title page - most likely a teacher's name who couldn't get anyone to read the book. Too bad - good book for elementary school kids. Color ruins of Anasazi homes (Mesa Verde, etc.), pottery, etc. Simple text for early readers, yet full of information for the youngest history buff. More kids need to know about the ancient American civilizations. Perfect for home schooling. CONTENT: Describes the homes, culture, and way of life of the Anasazi, the Ancient Ones of the southwestern United States whose descendants (we believe) became the Pueblo Indians.

USA: Western National Parks Assn., 2010. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Sally Blakemore; Eileen Banashek paper engineering. CONDITION: NEW & perfect 2004 Western National Parks Assn. hardcover (pictorial boards), no edition nor printing given. Historically accurate color illustrations by Sally Blakemore. Paper engineering: Eileen Banashek, Sally Blakemore, & Anthony Esparsen. CONTENT: Archeologists say that 1,000 years ago more people lived in the Four Corners region of the Southwest than live there now. Today visitors to the region see the empty dwellings and pueblos from that time, but not the lively cultures that once built them. Ancient Dwellings of the Southwest puts the people back in these places in three dimensions. Hohokam ball players leap and dive in the ballcourt at Casa Grande Ruins in Arizona; the reader moves women at Mesa Verde in Colorado to watch them grind corn or pulls back the bow of a hunter at Bandelier in New Mexico. The buildings at all of… Read More

DK Publishing, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. G. Brian Karas color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 1999 DK Publishing hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Magical, thoughtful color illustrations by G. Brian Karas. CONTENT: [This book is not for every child - it requires a reader who can appreciate a slow-moving, mystical text and illustrations. IMHO.] The Bone Woman searches the barren desert for bones to create a wondrous creature, in a story inspired by creation myths from various desert cultures. In a mythic narrative voice accompanied by primitive images, McDonald describes a mysterious old woman who sifts sand to find bones. Readers can almost hear a drumbeat accompaniment to the text: "Like the desert pack rat,/ the harvester ant,/ Bone Woman lives deep in a cave,/ a cave cluttered with bones, bones." Against an off-white chalkiness that suggests a sun-bleached skull, the crone's stooped silhouette seeks tiny bone pieces of… Read More

Tucson, AZ: Treasure Chest Publications, Inc., 1991. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Cathie Lowmiller B&W illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" Unknown origin of 2 pale pink ink spots top back cover near spine. UNREAD/UNUSED 1991 Treasure Chest paperback (stapled-wraps), first edition. WARNING: Perhaps a small child could remove the staples in the wrap. Perhaps. B&W paper dolls by Cathie Lowmiller. CONTENT: This is a "read, color, and cut" combo book for most likely ages 6+. The characters are Chana, her mother, sister, father, 2 brothers - with stories of a trading mission, building a new home, making clothing, pets, flutes, making jewelry, etc. All aspects of the Anasazi that we know about. There is a pull out section of an Anasazi village so that the paper dolls can be placed on them in various scenes. Actually, a neat book - read the history, play it out. Questions welcome & answered.

Viking, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos; B&W maps. CONDITION: NEW 2004 Viking large hardcover (gray boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Nice B&W era photo section with a few B&W maps throughout. 575 pages, 2+ lb. CONTENT: In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, geographer Diamond laid out a grand view of the organic roots of human civilizations in flora, fauna, climate and geology. That vision takes on apocalyptic overtones in this fascinating comparative study of societies that have, sometimes fatally, undermined their own ecological foundations. Diamond examines storied examples of human economic and social collapse, and even extinction, including Easter Island, classical Mayan civilization and the Greenland Norse [recently blamed on rising sea levels]. He explores patterns of population growth, over-farming, overgrazing and over-hunting, often abetted by drought, cold, rigid social mores and… Read More

New York: Scribner's, 1982. 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Very Good. B&W maps, charts, drawings and photos. Condition: PLEASE READ - UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1982 Scribner's hardcover and DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Problem is top DJ edge: edge wear with small nic spine top. Interior perfect. B&W photos, charts, & drawings illustrate Content: Around the world, from the moors of northern Europe to the jungles of south Asia to the deserts of the American Southwest, the scattered ruins of ancient civilizations remain to tantalize us with memories of former glories, prehistoric accomplishments, and forgotten sciences. Was astronomy one of these lost sciences? Did priest-observers once stand atop these now crumbling towers to watch the slow turning of the stars? Archaeoastronomy, a modern discipline combining astronomy and archaeology, attemps to describe the astronomical knowledge of ancient peoples through the study of unwritten records they left behind in these stone ruins. This book… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Surprisingly, no illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1992 Simon & Schuster hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Deckle edges. No illustrations. Introduction by Jan Morris. CONTENT: I have always had a problem with the term "lyrical" being applied to non-fiction works. I was wrong. THIS is lyrical. Australian novelist Keneally brings his lively imagination to bear on the American Southwest. This is a sometimes sketchy account of a midwinter swing, by car and cross-country skis, through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Keneally doesn't talk to people much, and his reactions to landscapes can be predictable: ``Maybe religion is so strong in this landscape because this is terrain which puts the human in his place.'' But as in The Playmaker and Schindler's List, history is what moves him. He offers lively capsule biographies of figures who sum up an impulse, an era, a landscape, a paradox:… Read More

Utah: Utah Museum of Natural History, 1995. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Laurel Casjens color photos illustrate. CONDITION: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 1995 University of Utah Press soft cover, assumed first printing. Detailed color photos by Laurel Casjens. CONTENT: From approximately AD 1 to 1300, the people we now refer to as Anasazi inhabited parts of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Their impressive and enigmatic rock art and architectural ruins are well known, but the arid Four Corners climate has also preserved such artifacts as loomed clothes, intricate baskets, and sandals. This book is the most comprehensive volume on Anasazi sandals and weaving technique. Three hundred twelve examples from the extensive holdings at the Utah Museum of Natural History demonstrate the Anasazi genius as skilled textile artists. These examples incorporate colorful geometric patterns and reveal elaborate manipulations of warp and weft. Within the relatively rigid… Read More