Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist (Essential Lives) (Essential Lives Set 4)
by Emma Carlson-Berne
Mexico's Drug War (At Issue (Paperback))
Mexican Americans are the largest and fastest-growing immigrant group in the United States today. Their history dates back thousands of years, and many have ancestors who lived in the Southwest long before the U.S. even existed. How have Mexican immigrants reshaped the United States? What is their history and culture? Why did they leave their homeland? And what does the future hold? Focusing on the human side of the story, ""Mexican Americans"" probes these questions by tracing the lives of ordi...
Mexico (Country Topics, #12) (Country Guides, with Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog)
by Anita Ganeri and Rachel Wright
This is one of a series of books that look at different countries in an activity-based way. Each book includes the geographical, historical and social aspects of everyday life in the country, looking at the different regions, trade, agriculture, school and home life. Interspersed are step-by-step guides to different activities - models to make, recipes to try, games to play and songs to sing, all designed to help the reader learn about the country and its language.
"World Tour" books explore the history and geography behind the most famous aspects of one country, in the form of a holiday scrapbook. A summary of the country's past helps to put the human and physical geography in context. It examines everyday life and controversial issues culminating in a discussion of the future. Each book contains travel/ sightseeing tips, recipes and maps.
Compare the lifestyle of Mexico's successful inhabitants to the hardship experienced by slum-dwellers and people who live in rural Mexico. Travel through the arid deserts, mountain ranges and tropical coastlines to discover how the Mexican environment is being altered by the modernization of the country. Includes maps and graphic panels showing statistics and fact boxes about size, flag, population, religion, currency and language.
