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