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Daily Life of the Aztecs by Jacques Soustelle Publisher Comments The Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them--imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Aztecs & Conquistadores: The Spanish Invasion & the Collapse of the Aztec Empire by John Pohl Publisher Comments The Spanish conquest of Mexico was a remarkable military expedition that had a huge impact on the history of the world. Hernán Cortés led the expedition, the aim of which was the addition of Mexico to the Spanish Empire, and the extraction of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Broken Spears Aztec Account Exp Edition by Migue Leon Portilla Publisher Comments In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aztecs Rise & Fall of an Empire by Serge Gruzinski Publisher Comments Published alongside 'Search for Ancient Greece', 'Newton', 'Rembrandt', 'Rodin' and 'Sky - Order and Chaos' as new additions to the exciting and original New Horizons series. Launched this spring, the books have greatly benefited from the attendant... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Moctezuma's Mexico :visions of the Aztec world by David Carrasco Book News Annotation Over 150 photographs of artifacts, buildings, and manuscripts, combine with four essays to present a nonacademic exploration of Mexico's final pre-Columbian empire. Coordinated with (but not the catalog for) an exhibit at the Denver Museum of Natural... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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City of Sacrifice : the Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (99 Edition) by David L. Carrasco Publisher Comments At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places) by Richard F Townsend Publisher Comments Within a hundred years, the Aztecs established the largest empire in Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, shimmering city in a lake, a Venice of the New World. The book ends with a dramatic narrative of the Spanish conquest, as seen... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discoveries: Aztecs (Discoveries) by Serge Gruzinski Synopsis The Aztecs were noted for their impressive architecture, majestic sculpture, luxurious clothing, and fine goldworking--but they also practiced human sacrifice. The seemingly contradictory aspects of this fascinating culture are examined here, from its... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daily Life of the Aztecs, on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest: On the Eve of the Spanish Conquest by Jacques Soustelle Publisher Comments “Soustelles great book about the Aztecs . . . takes us deep into the life of this great society. . . . Soustelle has the rare quality of entering into the minds of those he is studying and seeing things from their point of view. . . . [His] book is... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tiger's Eye by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments "A decade ago...I fell ill.'Fall' is the appropriate word; it is almost as alarming and quite as precipitous as falling in love." So begins Inga Clendinnen's beautifully written, revelatory memoir exploring the working of human memory and the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization by Davíd Carrasco Publisher Comments At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $24.41 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Aztec World by Elizabeth Brumfiel Publisher Comments The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history,... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Aztecs of Central Mexico Imperial Societ by Frances F Berdan Publisher Comments Who were the Aztecs, really? AZTECS OF CENTRAL MEXICO: AN IMPERIAL SOCIETY answers that question by covering the compelling story of a complex, imperial society in Central Mexico during the 15th and 16th centuries. It uses pre- and post-Spanish conquest... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Aztec World (Exploring the Ancient World) by Elizabeth Hil Boone Synopsis Written by leading scholars, each book in this series provides an up-to-date assessment of a particular area of the ancient world. Abundantly illustrated in full color, the series places readers at the cutting edge of modern archaeological thinking... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Civilization of the American Indian #67: Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind by Miguel Leon Portilla Publisher Comments For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aztecs an Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments In considering the extraordinary culture of the Aztecs of Mexico it is impossible to ignore the extravagance of their practice of the ritual killing of humans. Inga Clendinnen renders those killings intelligible through investigation of a wide field of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Book Club Paperback
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Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments In considering the extraordinary culture of the Aztecs of Mexico it is impossible to ignore the extravagance of their practice of the ritual killing of humans. Inga Clendinnen renders those killings intelligible through investigation of a wide field of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Aztecs (Peoples of America) by Michael E Smith Publisher Comments This book is a vivid and comprehensive account of the Aztecs, the best-known people of pre-Columbian America. It examines their origins, civilization, and the distinctive realms of their religion, science and thought. It describes the conquest of their... (read more) List Price $60.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Moctezuma & the Aztecs by Elisenda Vila Llonch Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Aztecs, a history by Nigel Davies Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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