Provides new insights into the common heritage between Texas and Mexico. An entertaining book, richly layered in fact and lore.

This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

The book approaches its subject at the macro- and the micro-level: from city-planning, building types, and designs to architectural style.

Contains biographical and autobiographical sketches of 289 authors and illustrators of children's books, with 232 photographs and drawings.