Wed Nov 17 06:37:48 2010 UTClccn-n81-90470Environmentalists--Arizona0.420.540.67Charles_Bowdenn 81090470oca00635673aBowden, Charles,1945-Bowden, Charles Clyde,1945-Bowden, Chuck,1945-lccn-n85-275159Dykinga, Jack W.phtlccn-n86-66587Richards, Eugenelccn-n2007-10661Cardona, Julián1960-lccn-no2006-48596Berman, Michael P.1956-lccn-n96-54789Hancock, Virgil1953-lccn-n98-53724Hayden, Julian D.1911-lccn-n88-42020C-SPAN (Television network)lccn-n2002-42536Bartholomew, W. E.lccn-n79-141986Younker, Richardlccn-n79-59685Fontana, Bernard L.Bowden, Charles1945-Bowden, Charles1945-100Arizona--Santa Catalina MountainsNature conservationNature--Effect of human beings onDesertsDrug dealersManners and customsDrug enforcement agentsUndercover operationsEconomic historyNorth America--Sonoran DesertMurderIndians of North America--Economic conditionsWater conservationGroundwaterHistoryKeating, Charles HSecurities fraudLincoln Savings & Loan AssociationCorruptionCaliforniaSavings and loan association failuresHuman ecologyNarco-terrorismWest (U.S.)Mexico--Ciudad JuárezHomicideDrug abuse and crimePictorial worksVoyages and travelsSocial changePropheciesSocial predictionNorth America--Mexican-American Border RegionDrug controlEcologyDrug trafficAuthors, AmericanMoral conditionsPolitical and social viewsNational characteristics, AmericanMesquiteCannibalismFolkloreBiographySouthwest, NewNatural historySocial historyUnited StatesBowden, Charles,--1945-Travel19451975197719811986198719881989199119921993199419951996199820002001200220032004200520062008200920101100013813823book363.4509721hv582540651124412703ocn049805544sw049805544:lccn-n81-90470Falsebook20020.48Bowden, Charles

Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the skeleton key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Phil Jordan runs DEA intelligence, but when his brother Bruno is killed, he is powerless. Amado Carrillo Fuentes runs the most successful drug business in the history of the world, but when his usefulness to governments ceases, he mysteriously dies in a hospital. Carlos Salinas runs Mexico, but as soon as he leaves office, his brother is jailed for murder and Salinas flees into exile. Sal Martinez, DEA agent and Bruno's cousin, does the secret work of the U.S. government in Mexico, but when he seeks revenge for his cousin's murder, he is sentenced to a term in federal prison. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and money. Down by the River is the tale of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. Of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government. Of how major financial institutions fattened on the drug industry. And how the governments of the United States and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this comes together down by the river, a place where the fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is an unforgettable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family.

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"Revisiting his earliest work with a new introduction, "What I Learned Watching the Wells Go Down," Bowden looks back at his first effort to awaken people to the costs and limits of using natural resources through a simple and obvious example - water. He drives home the point that years of droughts, rationing, and even water wars have done nothing to slake the insatiable consumption of water in the American West. Even more timely now than in 1977, Killing the Hidden Waters remains, in Edward Abbey's words, "the best all-around summary I've read yet, anywhere, of how our greed-driven, ever-expanding urban-industrial empire is consuming, wasting, poisoning, and destroying not only the resource basis of its own existence, but also the vital, sustaining basis of life everywhere.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north.

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Continues the story of the destruction of America's rich natural resources in a time of personal consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and the wholesale destruction of the environment.

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The author follows a narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country, as he sets in motion his latest conquest, a $50 million heroin deal that originates in Colombia and has federal agents sitting at attention from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to New York City. As the bust unfolds, the agent reveals the unerring instinct and ceaseless vigilance that have led him through minefields and brought down kingpins. But now they have led him to a place where it isn't so clear who the heroes are or what the fight has been for. And still the warrior fights on, in a murky and unforgiving landscape.--From publisher description.

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Evaluates the prospects of our near-future world in the face of dwindling fuel reserves, terrorism, and a decreasing capacity of everyday people to experience passion and connection.

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The author explores the West and tracks the blood orchid, the metaphor for the country's obsessive love affair with violence.

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