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Prehistoric Cultures of the Southwest: Mogollon (Prehistoric Cultures of the Southwest)
Southwestern New Mexico, with its high, grassy desert and rocky rivers, was home to the Mogollon people from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 1450. They are still known for the beautiful black-on-white ceramics they designed and for their village at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. This book depicts their architecture and their pottery while describing what we know of these people of the past..
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Waking the Ancients: A Novel of the Mogollon Rim
A tale of idealism, love, and survival High atop Arizonas mighty Mogollon Rim, Leah gazes over a vast forest. Left behind in a prehistoric ruin are her husband and children, captives of a frightening renegade archaeologist. If she leaves, she loses them. If she returns, they all die. But Leah has her magic, a fetish she found in a cave....
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A Desert Hello: Welcome to the Sonoran Desert
Come say hello to birds, bats, ants and other desert wildlife in this brightly illustrated board book. Children will be captivated by the colorful illustrations of the plants and animals as they are introduced to the special place that is their home - the Sonoran Desert..
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Cryptography and Security Services: Mechanisms and Applications
Today's information technology and security networks demand increasingly complex algorithms and cryptographic systems. Individuals implementing security policies for their companies must utilize technical skill and information technology knowledge to implement these security mechanisms. Cryptography and Security Devices: Mechanisms and Applications addresses cryptography from the perspective of the security services and mechanisms available to implement these services: discussing issues such as e-mail security, public-key architecture, virtual private networks, Web services security, wireless security, and the confidentiality and integrity of security services. This book provides scholars and practitioners in the field of information assurance working knowledge of fundamental encryption algorithms and systems supported in information technology and secure communication networks..
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The Guide to National Parks of the Southwest
The southwestern United States, with its astounding collection of national parks and monuments, offers travel unlike any other. Here, canyons record geologic time in a tableau of color. Frontier history unfolds in hundred-year old adobe walls. Impressive archeological sites connect us to the ancient people who lived here hundreds of years ago. Vast backcountries shelter flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth.

The Guide to National Parks of the Southwest is for anyone who yearns to explore America's greatest places. This guide covers fifty-two sites with great historical, biological, geological, or archeological significance. Each one is different and unique; each has a story to tell. There are caves, canyons, rivers, deserts, mountains, frontier forts, Spanish churches, cliff dwellings, and million-acre wildernesses, all places of mystery and magic where the power of natural forces and human history can be directly witnessed and experienced.

The Southwest's treasures were recognized early on, and the gems of the National Park Service are included in this volume - Montezuma Castle, Chaco Canyon, Natural Bridges, Navajo, Tonto, Petrified Forest, Gila Cliff Dwellings, and Grand Canyon. At these sites, and the many others included in The Guide to National Parks of the Southwest, visitors find nearly endless opportunities to camp, hike, boat, bicycle, picnic, sightsee; chances to explore, learn, participate, and contemplate.

Through text and photographs, this guide describes each park and monument and gives practical information to help plan a visit. Over 175 stunning photographs are included, from some of the nation's most well-known landscape photographers. Discover parks that are in a geographic area that stretches from west Texas, through New Mexico and Arizona, and into southern Utah and Colorado. The book features descriptions of 52 National Park Service units, each with a detailed access map, descriptions of the area, and information on interpretive programs, hiking, camping, accomodations, hours, phone numbers, and addresses..
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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Hidden within five caves in a narrow side canyon of the Gila River are structural remains left by people of the Mogollon culture more than 700 years ago. These stone and mortar dwellings, preserved at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico, are an enduring reminder of their resourceful commumity. The vast Gila Wilderness of Southwestern New Mexico is the first such area to be set aside by Congress. Photos by the author..
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