Recommended Books
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The Land & Environment
- A Legacy of Change: Historic Human Impact on Vegetation in the Arizona Borderlands, Conrad Joseph Bahre, Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Sonoita Plain: Views Of A Southwestern Grassland, Carl E & Jane H. Bock, Stephen E. Strom (Photographer), Univ. Arizona Pr.
- The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland, Carl E & Jane H. Bock, Univ. California Pr.
- A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Staff, Univ. California Pr.
- Ecology and Management of North American Savannas, Guy R. McPherson, Univ. Arizona Pr.
- The Desert Grassland, Mitchel P. McClaran (Editor), Thomas R. Van Devender (Editor), Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Working Wilderness: The Malpai Borderlands Group Story and the Future of the Western Range Nathan Sayre, Rio Nuevo Pr.
- Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the American Southwest: Species of Capital, Nathan Sayre, Univ. Arizona Pr.
- The New Ranch Handbook: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands, Nathan Sayre, Quivira Coalition
- Beyond the Rangeland Conflict : Toward a West That Works, Dan Dagget, Jay Dusard (Photographer), Good Stewards Project
- Basin and Range, John McPhee, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Roadside Geology of Arizona, Halka Chronic, Mountain Press Pub.
- Plants of Arizona, Anne Epple, Falcon
- Trilobite : Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey, Vintage
- The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, David Allen Sibley, Knopf
- The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior, David Allen Sibley, Knopf
- The Sibley Guide to Birds, David Allen Sibley, Knopf
The People
- Cowboys of Santa Cruz County, Carter Allen & Dodie Allen, Carter Allen Photography
- Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona, Patricia Preciado Martin, Jose Galvez (Photographer), Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women, Patricia Preciado Martin, Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Images and conversations: Mexican Americans recall a southwestern past, Patricia Preciado Martin, Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Univ. New Mexico Pr.
- The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Copper Canyon Pr.
- The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Univ. New Mexico Pr.
- Borders, Pat Mora, Arte Publico Pr.
- Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Richard Rodriguez, Penguin
- La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico, Alan Weisman, Jay Dusard (Photographer), Univ. Arizona Pr.
- On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier, Tom Miller, Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader, Tom Miller (Editor), Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Crossings, Alex Webb (Photographs) & Tom Miller (Essay), Monacelli
- Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, Luis Alberto Urrea, Anchor
- The Devil's Highway : A True Story, Luis Alberto Urrea, Little, Brown
- Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border, Miriam Davidson, Jeffry Scott (Photographer), Univ. Arizona Pr.
- Down by the River : Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family, Charles Bowden, Simon & Schuster