When people who have never been to Tucson think about this desert city, visions of dustbowls, brown landscapes, and eggs frying on pavement often come to mind. "Why would anyone ever want to live there?" they might ask. Well, Michelee Morgan Cabot will tell you in her book Dust Devils, Cozy Corners, and Javelinas: A Newcomer's Tale of Tucson. Not only has she found Tucson to be none of those preconceived notions often bandied about by the uninformed, but she's discovered a culturally rich landscape teeming with desert beauty, fascinating opportunities, and great food. Who wouldn't want to live here? So journey along with Michelee as she describes in creative and often hilarious prose some of the wonders of Tucson.

When people who have never been to Tucson think about this desert city, visions of dustbowls, brown landscapes, and eggs frying on pavement often come to mind. "Why would anyone ever want to live there?" they might ask. Well, Michelee Morgan Cabot will tell you in her book Dust Devils, Cozy Corners, and Javelinas: A Newcomer's Tale of Tucson. Not only has she found Tucson to be none of those preconceived notions often bandied about by the uninformed, but she's discovered a culturally rich landscape teeming with desert beauty, fascinating opportunities, and great food. Who wouldn't want to live here? So journey along with Michelee as she describes in creative and often hilarious prose some of the wonders of Tucson.

In a mountain valley in the foothills of the Sierra Madre del Oeste lies the magical town of Álamos, Mexico. Its vivid five-hundred-year history is reflected in its meandering streets and pleasing architecture, but what is it like today? It has no beach, no golf course, no gambling casinos, no Kentucky Fried Chicken. What could possibly be its attraction for the lucky few Americans and Canadians who have made it their home? Discover the warmth of its climate and the beauty of its flowers—and especially the warmth of its people and the beauty of what they have created. Quite possibly you may decide to come and see today’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre for yourself.

"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." — Milwaukee Sentinel "There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. Kingsolver's critically acclaimed writings always entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returns to her familiar themes of family, community, the common good, and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth—one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.

Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier and future times and indeed the Earth, to reveal connections between the most disparate lives and systems of feeling and power. At its breathing heart, it plots the fuguelike and fieldlike densities of late-twentieth-century life. McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirs believers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels. For Women and Men shows how the families through which we pass let one person's experience belong to that of many, so that we throw light on each other as if these kinships were refracted lives so real as to be reincarnate. A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languages, rich, ludicrous, exact, and also American, in which we try to grasp the world we're in. Along the kindred axes of separation and intimacy Women and Men extends the great line of twentieth-century innovative fiction.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.

"Mammals of the Southwest Mountains and Mesas" by George Olin is a comprehensive and informative guide to the diverse wildlife found in the southwestern United States. Olin's work offers readers valuable insights into the mammals that inhabit the region's mountains and mesas, providing detailed descriptions and scientific information about these creatures. The book is an excellent resource for nature enthusiasts, hikers, and wildlife lovers interested in the rich biodiversity of the Southwest. "Mammals of the Southwest Mountains and Mesas" is a valuable reference for anyone seeking to explore and understand the region's natural history.