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Why Men Die Sooner
 Don Fernandez
Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan, is a new book by Marianne J. Legato, MD, that focuses on the biological, cultural, and personal reasons that men's life span in the U.S. lasts an average of six years less than women's.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest: Mexican Enough
 Edward Nawotka
By the time she turned 30, Corpus Christi native Stephanie Elizondo Griest had traveled by bus to 42 states, lived in Russia and China and collected dozens more stamps in her passport. Yet she'd hardly set foot in Mexico.
Book Details Life of Alleged Mexican Drug Queen
 E. Eduardo Castillo
A woman touted by authorities as Mexico's most infamous female drug trafficker says in a new book that she grew up around smugglers, but she doesn't admit to using or trafficking drugs.
 Vincent Bugliosi on Prosecuting Bush
 The Real Network
Vincent Bugliosi is an American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders. His most recent books are Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (2007), and The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (2008).
Continental Union Conspiracy Theories Just Won’t Go Away
 Dave Russell
Back in June 2007, Jerome Corsi published the book, “The Late Great U.S.A.,” and came up with another one of those conspiracy theories that just won’t die. Corsi outlined a plan for a new continental government combining the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Zionism, Militarism, and the Decline OF US Power
 Clarity Press
This book challenges the claims of Zionist apologists who argue that the ‘Israel power configuration’ is just another lobby, by empirically examining several major policies.
Facts? Who Needs Facts?
 Philip Gailey
Character assassination has replaced dirty tricks in presidential politics. It's an ugly and repugnant business that poisons our political dialogue and harms our democracy. Sometimes, it's a bestseller.
San Miguel de Allende Summer Literary Festival
 PVNN
Legendary American writer, Tom Robbins, and his editor, Alan Rinzler, will be featured at The San Miguel Authors’ Sala first Summer Literary Festival at the Hotel Real de Minas in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico from August 19th through 21st, 2008.
Shock Doctrine Opens Way for Oil Drilling
 The Real Network
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Lessons Not Learned at the Bay of Pigs
 Howard Jones
The question is, what lessons can be extracted from a fiasco of nearly half a century ago? The short answer is that “regime change” has remained a central part of American foreign policy, meaning that the White House failed to learn anything constructive at the Bay of Pigs.
Obama Hits Back on Racist Book
Nedra Pickler
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hit back Thursday with a 40-page rebuttal to the best-selling book "The Obama Nation," arguing the author is a fringe bigot peddling rehashed lies.
Book on Fidel Castro in Mexico
 Prensa Latina
Cuba will always be a reference of dignity and Fidel Castro a leader on par with his people and Revolution, outstanding Mexican analyst Gilberto Lopez y Rivas said in this capital.
Random House Pulls Novel on Islam, Fears Violence
 Edith Honan
Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about the Prophet Mohammed's child bride, fearing it could "incite acts of violence."
The US-Mexico Border: A Walk On the Wild Sides
 The Economist
It is hard not to like David Danelo, a marine turned journalist and author. In the three months he spends travelling the length of America’s southern border, from the Gulf of Mexico in the east to the shores of California in the west, he displays a pleasing concern for almost everyone except politicians and drug pushers.
Suskind: Bush Ordered Fake Letter Linking Iraq to 9/11
 David Edwards & Nick Juliano
A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his administration lied, misled and deceived the American people to pursue its invasion of Iraq.
New Mexico First State to Adopt Navajo Textbook
 Felicia Fonseca
State officials formally adopted Evangeline Parsons Yazzie's book, "Dine Bizaad Binahoo'ahh," or "Rediscovering the Navajo Language," this week in Santa Fe. While other books on Navajo language exist, state officials say New Mexico is the first to adopt a Navajo textbook for use in the public education system.
Columbus Debunker Sets Sights on Leonardo da Vinci
 Tim Castle
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in a newly-published book.
Graphic Novelist in Amnesty Book on Mexican Murders
 Martin Roberts
U.S. graphic novelist and artist Phoebe Gloeckner is a contributor to a book funded by human rights group Amnesty International about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.
Massive Economic Disaster Seems Possible - Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?
 Scott Thill
With multiple crises on the horizon, survivalist views don't seem as marginal as they did before. Author, social critic and overall hilarious dude James Kunstler tackles an incoming post-oil dystopia in his recent novel, World Made by Hand.
President Calderón Signs Law to Encourage Reading and Books
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón signed the Law to Encourage Reading and Books at the official Los Pinos Residence this week. This law, he explained, will be a legal instrument, which, while not sufficient, will be crucial to supporting education, the dissemination of books, the habit of reading and the desire to learn.
On Iraq: Wiping Out the Legend
 Maya Schenwar
A new book from Foreign Policy in Focus explains what made the Iraq war possible, and how we can stop the factors that precipitated it before they breed.
Lessons From a Life on the Road
 PVNN
A true story so amazing that it reads like a fantasy, Doug "Ten" Rose's book, "Fearless Puppy on American Road," covers the 35 years he spent hitchhiking across the US and the unusual and inspiring characters he encountered along the way.
Frank McLynn's Top 10 Books About Mexico
 Guardian UK
Frank McLynn is the author of Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution. His previous books include biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Gustav Jung and Napoleon, and several works relating to the Jacobite movement.
In Tijuana, a Market for Death in a Bottle
 Marc Lacey
Those in search of the barbiturate commonly known as Nembutal, so-called death tourists, often armed with The Peaceful Pill Handbook by Dr Philip Nitschke, scout out the veterinary pharmacies that abound in Tijuana.
Can Latin American Firms Compete?
 PVNN
Can Latin American Firms Compete? examines the success and failure that Latin American firms have met with, in their own markets and elsewhere in the world, and the reasons behind this. Including contributions from leading international experts on business in Latin America, the book draws on concepts from a range of disciplines.
Calderón Inaugurates Exhibition Inaugurated Honoring Writer at Palace of Fine Arts
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón inaugurated the exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts honoring Antonieta Rivas Mercado. The exhibition contains a total of 180 artistic works and personal objects belonging to the writer who supported young writers after she had become famous, such as Andrés Henestrosa.
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
 Sherwood Ross
President Bush “beyond all reasonable doubt” is responsible for all the murders of American troops killed in Iraq and could be prosecuted by any of 140 Federal and State legal authorities, famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi says.
Author Shares Chronicles of a Paradise Lost in Baja Diaries
 BlackNews.com
It may read like a novel, but Baja Diaries - Chronicles of a Paradise Lost (published by AuthorHouse), the new book by George E. Puckett, is anything but fiction.
¡Ya Llegó!
 David Lida
When I came to Mexico City in 1990, with limited knowledge of Spanish, I knew that I wanted to learn to the language well, and to be able to read anything from Don Quijote to One Hundred Years of Solitude in the original. But I never dreamed I would one day write in Spanish.
Interview: Speaking with Hugo! Author Bart Jones
 Daniel Denvir
Bart Jones is the author of Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution. Jones lived in Venezuela from 1992 to 2000, working initially as a Maryknoll lay missioner and then as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press.
First Stop in the New World
 Mary D'Ambrosio
You might expect a boosterish screed, a mocking polemic or at least globalization theory from so grandiosely titled a book. But in "First Stop in the New World," author David Lida mostly eschews forecasting in favor of clear-eyed, agenda-free journalism, grounded in old-fashioned street reporting.
 July Activities at Biblioteca Los Mangos
 PVNN
With books galore (in English and Spanish), a video center, a CD based learning center, 15 internet connections, and an activity calendar that can't be beat, Puerto Vallarta's Library, Biblioteca Los Mangos, is a great place to spend a hot summer day.
God's Word on Sex
 David Van Biema
If you can remember scouring your parents paperbacks in search of their spiciest pages, you can understand the impulse behind the recently-published book The Uncensored Bible: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book. After all, for hundreds of years, the Bible was the only book available in many households.
Talking Travel with 'Wanderlust and Lipstick'
 Jerry Guo
Beth Whitman is the Wonder Woman of the travel biz. As author of the top-selling travel guide for women, Wanderlust and Lipstick, she is an expert on the art of travel, especially solo trips.
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