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Lost Worlds explores the most distinctive sites in Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

This stunning publication represents the culmination of a three-year project by award-winning photographer Arthur Drooker. Drooker captures the magic and mystery of more than thirty ruins in sixteen countries.

His lumious images, shot in infra red format on a specially adapted digital camera, expose crumbling, overgrown walls, broken columns, and cracked arches in ways most readers will have never seen before.

These inspired photographs comprise a powerful visual meditation on the cultures, conflicts and conquests that forged the New World. He offers readers a new way of viewing the landscape as well as an enhanced vision of the collective identity of the Americas.

This extraordinary collection perfectly portrays the architectural, geographic and historical significance of ruins that are considered world wonders alongside little known gems.  It transports the reader on a journey to ancient temples, abandoned palaces and lofty citadels.

Included are

• monumental temples of Mexico’s Mayan civilization
• a Colonial era palace on the island of Haiti
• earthquake-ravaged cathedrals in Guatemala
• astonishing Incan citadels in Peru’s Sacred Valley – culminating with the breathtaking beauty of Machu Picchu.

In addition to the more than one hundred photographs, Lost Worlds features a foreword by noted writer Pico Iyer and brief text detailing the rise, fall and lasting significance of each ruin.

Evocative and enlightening, Lost Worlds will stir the imagination of those with a passion for photography, travel, history, architecture, and archaeology.

You can find further details of Lost Worlds on our catalogue.

The National Library of Scotland has just received a new and exciting cookbook in its collection. Viva la revolución incorporates amazing recipes from all over Mexico. Fiona Dunlap explores the cooking techniques that are creating a new fusion cuisine in Mexico. She also explores the tastes and traditions of old Mexican cooking.

This book is full of colourful and enticing photographs of Dunlap’s travels. She interviews twelve chefs and discovers the true spirit of Mexican cooking. The recipes range from the filled pueblan rolls ‘cemitas poblanas’ popular in Pueblan markets to the more advanced fusion food of the most exciting new restaurants in Mexico City and beyond.

Further details of Viva la revolución can be found on our catalogue.

Amexica recounts the journey that Ed Vulliamy made along the border between Mexico and America. With the news coverage of the drug wars that are ravaging Mexico and parts of America this book is a relevant addition to our collection.

The struggle’s and small triumphs made by the people affected by the drug wars and poverty in Mexico are harrowing. Vulliamy brings these stories from the black and white print into full colour.

Amexica contains stomach churning stories of women abducted and brutally murdered as well as injustice in the factories. The spirit of the Mexican people shines through with Vulliamys’ accounts of their triumphs and set backs in the fight against injustice and violence. This book gives the reader a true picture of what it is like to live in Mexico’s borderland.

You can find more on Amexica on our catalogue.

With the advent of new laws on immigration being passed in the State of Arizona and this issue playing a key role in the recent UK elections, ‘Replenished ethnicity: Mexican Americans, immigration, and identity’ by Tomás R. Jiménez has great bearing on current events.

This book looks into the identities of Mexican Americans and how they’re affected by continued immigration from Mexico.

Tomás R. Jiménez is an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University. His research and writing focus on

• immigration
• assimilation
• social mobility
• ethnic and racial identity.

By exploring Mexican immigration the reader is given a frank look at ethnic boundaries and ethnic identity.

You can find details of Replenished ethnicity on our catalogue