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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 $50.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $5.95 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 “Soustelle’s 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... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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. Herna n Corte s led the expedition, the aim of which was the addition of Mexico to the Spanish Empire, and the extraction of Aztec... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs (Brassey's Military Profiles) by Peter Tsouras Publisher Comments He surrendered the throne of his forefathers and an empire to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.95 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: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization by David 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 $27.25 Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples & Places Aztecs) by Richard F. Townsend Synopsis Richard Townsend gives the complete history of the Aztec civilization's rise from humble nomads to empire builders. Within a hundred years, the Aztecs established the largest empire in Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, shimmering... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places) by Richard F Townsend Publisher Comments Updated with new information, this introduction to the ancient Mesoamerican culture features new illustrations of key Aztec archaeological sites and discussions of local craft manufacturing, trade, farming, and women's roles. 143 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, "Lord of the Smoking Mirror" (Mesoamerican Worlds) by Guilhelm Olivier Publisher Comments Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon. An enigmatic and melodramatic figure, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror was... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $42.50 New - 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art & Architecture of the Aztec & Maya: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Buildings, Sculptures and Art of the Peoples of Mesoamerica, with Over by Charles Phillips Publisher Comments The book goes on to discuss and illustrate the beauty of the colossal stone sculptures of the Toltec, and the magnificent jade carvings of the Olmec, and the turquoise mosaics of the Aztec. The book has a highly visual approach, with over 230... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Civilization of the American Indian #67: Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind by Migue Leon Portilla Review "León-Portilla reminds us that the New World, conquered so long ago by Europeans, still cries out for attention and understanding. As the legend of the plumed Serpent reveals, the present can gather new life from an adventure into the past. Few books... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Handbook to Life in the Aztec World (Handbook to Life) by Manu Aguilar Moreno Publisher Comments Since its violent dissolution in 1521, the Aztec Empire of Mexico has continually intrigued us. Recent discoveries resulting from the excavation of the Templo Mayor in the heart of Mexico City have taught us even more about this fascinating culture. The... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca by John Bierhorst Synopsis One of the great documents of colonial Mexico, the Codex Chimalpopoca chronicles the rise of Aztec civilization and preserves the mythology on which it was based. Its two complementary texts, Annals of Cuauhtitlan and Legend of the Suns, record the pre... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $19.95 New - 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 $45.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Book Club Paperback
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Life an Death in Templo Mayor (Mesoamerican Worlds) by Eduardo M Moctezuma Publisher Comments In 1978, workmen in downtown Mexico City accidentally discovered a beautifully preserved monolithic sculpture at the foot of the main temple of the Aztecs. This important find led to a massive excavation that continues today under the direction of... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $9.95 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: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Aztecs (Peoples of America) by Michael E Smith Publisher Comments This is a history of one of the best known peoples of pre-Columbian America. The Aztecs were the upstarts of Meso-America. Until the thirteenth century they were a little-known people practising subsistence agriculture in the north of what is now Mexico.... (read more) List Price $60.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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