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This book provides detailed histories of colonial water systems in four localities in the Mexican Bajio-Celaya, Salvatierra, Valle de Santiago, and Queretaro. It includes studies of irrigated agriculture, hydraulic technology, and water law in the region.

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Sarah ist eine junge Frau, die gerade im Begriff ist, die Karriereleiter emporzuklettern, als sie völlig unerwartet und ungewollt schwanger wird. Von finanziellen Grundängsten geplagt, steht sie nun vor der Wahl, ihren gerade aufkeimenden beruflichen Erfolg und die damit verbundene finanzielle Unabhängigkeit zugunsten des Mutterglücks zu opfern, oder das moralisch Unmögliche zu tun, das Kind abzutreiben. Als ein Fremder in ihr Leben tritt und...

Time equals progression—progression equals death." This mantra held Ed Zine prisoner in the basement of his father's Cape Cod home. A handsome, athletic twenty-four-year-old suffering from a debilitating form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, he thought that going forward in time moved him closer to death, and that reversing the action would prevent it. Trapped in a ritualistic nightmare, Zine would spend nearly ten hours a day making the 16, ...

Most of us wish that our parents and grandparents had left more about themselves and what moved them for us to read and talk about today. In Songs of Crocus Hill, author Michael E. Murphy presents a poetry collection that focuses on memory poems-candle-lit vignettes related to the memoir genre. The people, places, and experiences he imagines are drawn from his years growing up in the Crocus Hill district of St. Paul, from his experiences a...