Examines Mexico's economic and social conditions in the 1990s and the free-trade maze, and provides an insightful look into the daily struggle of a cross-section of Mexicans.

Spanish Conquistadors and the Imperial Catholic Church, through murder and fire, tried to erase from history the creation stories of the Aztecs and other Mexican peoples. But bits and pieces survived. Through long research and imagination, David Bowles has woven together a remarkable tapestry of the whole, from the beginnings of the world to when Cortes first stepped onto the Continent.

Legends and myths captured David Bowles's imagination

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A research report maps out the route of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau, examining the terrain and likely stops along the route, accompanied by photographs and maps.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a suggested analytical technique for the investigation of the hydrologic impacts of flow regulation This technique has been developed for use in studies with wide geographical coverage and broad scope of analysis wherein simplification of approach and reduction in the need for detailed data inputs must be achieved without sacrificing the capability to develop adequate and realistic albeit not...

Bat populations in the western portion of the US are threatened by the rapid westward expansion of White-nose Syndrome (WNS), a disease implicated in the loss of over a million bats since 2006. Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the fungus believed responsible for WNS, has been confirmed in southeastern Wyoming, southcentral Kansas, western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle, potentially placing at least 13 of the 18 bat species native to Colorado at...