Maya For Travelers And Students

Author : Gary Bevington
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780292791893

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Maya for Travelers and Students by Gary Bevington Pdf

The Yucatan Peninsula draws many North American and European travelers each year to view the ruins of the pre-Columbian Classical Maya civilization and the abundant native flora and fauna. For these travelers, as well as armchair travelers and students, Gary Bevington has prepared the first general English-language introduction to Yucatec Maya, the native language of the people indigenous to the region. Written in nontechnical terms for learners who have a basic knowledge of simple Mexican Spanish, the book presents easily understood, practical information for anyone who would like to communicate with the Maya in their native language. In addition to covering the pronunciation and grammar of Maya, Bevington includes invaluable tips on learning indigenous languages "in the field." Most helpful are his discussions of the cultural and material worlds of the Maya, accompanied by essential words and expressions for common objects and experiences. A Maya-English-Spanish glossary with extensive usage examples and an English-Maya glossary conclude the book. Note: The supplemental audiocasette, Spoken Maya for Travelers and Students, is now available as a free download.

Author : Maya Frost
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780307450906

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The New Global Student by Maya Frost Pdf

Good-bye, Old School. Hello, Bold School! In 2005, Maya Frost and her husband sold everything and left their suburban American lifestyle behind in order to have an adventure abroad. The tricky part: they had to shepherd their four teenage daughters through high school and into college. This hilarious and conspiratorial how-to handbook describes the affordable, accessible, and stunningly advantageous options they stumbled upon that any American student can leverage to get an outrageously relevant global education. Ready to ditch the drama of the traditional hypercompetitive SAT/AP/GPA path? Meet the bold American students who are catapulting into the global economy at twenty with a red-hot college diploma, sizzling 21st-century skills, a blazing sense of direction–and no debt. You’ll discover: • the one thing preventing your student from blasting forward • why Advanced Placement isn’t so advanced • why international programs fail to provide a truly global education • the most critical time for your student to study abroad • the best exchange program in the world ($3,000 or less per year) • the strategic way to fast-forward through high school • how to maximize a family sabbatical • how to live the life of your dreams abroad–and save thousands for college Packed with myth-busting facts, laughable loopholes, insider insights, astonishing success stories, and poignant tales from the Frost daughters themselves, this inspiring romp is guaranteed to get you cheering.

Author : Kay Walten
Publisher : Loco Gringo
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Adventure Travel Guide for Families - Riviera Maya Edition by Kay Walten Pdf

Loco Gringo has created a series of travel guides written by locals who live in the Riviera Maya and Yucatan. These travel guides give you many options to explore local cultural sites, historical towns and regional foods. Planning a family vacation is tough. Going to a new destination makes it even tougher. This guide to family vacations in the Riviera Maya is written by locals who know the best activities, places to stay and things to do in the Riviera Maya. Locals have selected their favorite activities that they love to do with their families, some budget activities, some not. Take your pick of the suggested family activities and plan your family vacation with ease. Kay moved to the Riviera Maya in 1992 to explore underwater caves. As an expat, Kay has been working in the vacation and tourism profession in Mexico ever since. She is the co-founder of the travel & vacation rental website LocoGringo.com - See more at: https://www.locogringo.com/flying-solo-happily-vacation-riviera-maya#sthash.7pxE26pk.dpuf

Author : Joshua Eden Hinsdale
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581578454

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Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya: A Great Destination (Third Edition) by Joshua Eden Hinsdale Pdf

Completely updated, this insider's guide veers off the tourist trail for intrepid travelers to experience the local color, intrigue and charm of the Riviera Maya. For travelers in the know, Playa del Carmen is the little gem with all the beauty of white sand beaches that has drawn crowds from around the world to Cancun, with none of the high-rise overdevelopment. Playa remains a wonderful, sleepy town on a human scale, yet its discovery has resulted in a wide range of lodging and dining options. For families and adventurous travelers alike, there's something for everyone in this Mexican Riviera, known as the “Riviera Maya.” You can explore the fascinating Mayan ruins on the beach at Tulum, shop and have a fabulous lunch on the pedestrian area in Playa, stay in a full-service resort along Playacar, and go for some of the best fishing in the world near the famous Sian Ka'an biosphere in Punta Allen. The Riviera Maya is one of the true travel hot spots in the world today. Includes detailed info for eco-travelers, Maya culture buffs, anglers, foodies, and anyone needing respite on a sleepy beach. This is the definitive guidebook on Playa del Carmen. Distinctive for their accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the diverse travel guides in our Explorer's Great Destinations series meet the conflicting demands of the modern traveler. They're packed full of up-to-date information to help plan the perfect getaway. And they're compact and light enough to come along for the ride. A tool you'll turn to before, during, and after your trip, these guides include chapters on lodging, dining, transportation, history, shopping, recreation, and more; a section packed with practical information, such as lists of banks, hospitals, post offices, laundromats, numbers for police, fire, and rescue, and other relevant information; maps of regions and locales, and more.

Author : John Palmer Hawkins,Walter Randolph Adams
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0806137304

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Roads to Change in Maya Guatemala by John Palmer Hawkins,Walter Randolph Adams Pdf

Between 1995 and 1997, three groups of college students each spent two months in K’iche’ Maya villages in Guatemala. Led by Professors John P. Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams, they participated in an ongoing field school designed to foster undergraduate research and documentation of K’iche’ Maya culture in Guatemala. In this enlightening book, Hawkins and Adams first describe their field-school method of involving undergraduate students in primary research and ethnographic writing, and then present the best of the student essays, which examine the effects of modernization on K’iche’ Maya religion, courtship, marriage, gender relations, education, and community development. The process of actively involving undergraduate students in research is one of the most effective methods of enhancing education. Indeed, there is growing interest in this idea—currently the Council on Undergraduate Research, a national organization, boasts members from more than 870 colleges and universities. For educators of all fields interested in learning how to organize a field school that fosters research and publication, Hawkins and Adams discuss the methods they used and the problems they encountered. Anthropologists and sociologists will find this demonstration of undergraduates’ achievements useful for introductory and field methods courses. Finally, the book’s portrayal of the K’iche’ Maya culture in transition will appeal to Mesoamericanists and Latinamericanists of any discipline.

Author : Peter Eltringham,John Fisher,Iain Stewart
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1858287421

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The Rough Guide to the Maya World by Peter Eltringham,John Fisher,Iain Stewart Pdf

Incisive historical and cultural essays illuminate lost Mayan civilizations and their modern descendants while lively reviews point out the best places to eat, drink, and stay in northern Mexico and the Yucatn Peninsula, Guatemala, Blize, Honduras, and El Salvador. 57 maps. of color photos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : South America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172141286043

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South American Explorer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack C. Richards,Jonathan Hull,Susan Proctor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521601711

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Interchange Level 1 Student's Book 1 with Audio CD by Jack C. Richards,Jonathan Hull,Susan Proctor Pdf

Interchange Third edition is a four-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level. The Interchange Third Edition Level 1 Student's Book builds on the foundations established in the Intro for accurate and fluent communication, extending grammatical, lexical, and functional skills. Topics such as school, work, leisure activities, entertainment, and food are presented in unique ways using interesting real-life information. The Student's Book contains 16 teaching units, frequent progress checks that allow students to assess and monitor their own learning, and a listening self-study section. Included is a Student Audio CD that contains the conversation, pronunciation, and self-study sections from the Student's Book.

Author : Lisset Duke Cross
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781543456899

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Maya Routes Travel Book Series by Lisset Duke Cross Pdf

The Maya Routes Travel Book Series is a compilation of the tourist routes of the countries of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador taken from the book Maya Latin and Caribbean Routes published in 2006 and edited in English, Spanish, and French. Its contents include parts of the next published booksThe Audio-Visual Course: Bilingual People for Simultaneous Teaching of English and Spanish. Also, a description of the industrial design 114002, Pyraland Homes was taken from the book Pyramidal Architectural and Engineering by the same author. This edition, Chetumal Bay, includes a business directory with pictures and maps of this Mayan region in the Southern Mexican State of Quintana Roo. Lisset Duke Cross is the publisher and sole owner of all copyrights, CIPO, Canada, seven trademark registrations in Central America, and owner of nine copyrights in Washington, USA.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Central America
ISBN : UCLA:L0081283202

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Journal of Mesoamerican Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : María Bianet Castellanos
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cancún (Mexico)
ISBN : 9781452902913

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A Return to Servitude by María Bianet Castellanos Pdf

As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, Cancún, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the state's modernization plan for rural, indigenous communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up over a third of the city's population. A Return to Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatán Peninsula, M. Bianet Ca.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : America
ISBN : IND:30000070285766

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Yumtzilob by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald Wright
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143198192

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Time Among the Maya by Ronald Wright Pdf

The Maya of Central America have been called the Greeks of the New World. In the first millennium ad, they created the most intellectually and artistically advanced civilization of the Americas. Throughout the ensuing centuries, as neighbouring empires fell in warfare and to the Spanish invasion, the Maya endured, shaken but never destroyed. In Time Among the Maya, Ronald Wright's journey takes him not only to the lands of the ancient Maya, but also among the five million people who speak Mayan languages and preserve a Mayan identity today. His travels begin in tiny Belize, exploring the jungles and mountains of Guatemala, bloodstained by civil war, and end in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Embracing history, politics, anthropology, and literature, this book is both a fascinating travel memoir and the study of a civilization.

Author : Romin Teratol,Antzelmo Peres Peres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Tzotzil Indians
ISBN : 0826348904

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Travelers to the Other World by Romin Teratol,Antzelmo Peres Peres Pdf

Laughlin presents a selection of the journals of Zinacantec Maya Rom n Teratol and Antzelmo P rez, describing their journeys to the United States in 1963 and 1967.

Author : Mary Jo McConahay
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781569765487

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Maya Roads by Mary Jo McConahay Pdf

McConahay draws upon her three decades of traveling and living in Central America's remote landscapes to create a fascinating chronicle of the people, politics, archaeology, and species of the Central American rainforest, the cradle of Maya civilization.Captivated by the magnificence and mystery of the jungle, the author brings to life the intense beauty, the fantastic locales, the ancient ruins, and the horrific violence. She witnesses archaeological discoveries, the transformation of the Lacandon people, the Zapatista indigenous uprising in Mexico, increased drug trafficking, and assists in the uncovering of a war crime. Over the decades, McConahay has witnessed great changes in the region, and this is a unique tale of a woman's adventure and the adaptation and resolve of a people--From publisher description.