Christopher EidemillerAs a veteran classroom teacher of Spanish as a Second Language with graduate degrees in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language (MAT) and Spanish Linguistics (near completion), as well as an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Field Archaeology, Iam confident that this book will serve well in the Second Language and Bilingual Social Studies classroom, as well as providing a resource for budget travelers to Experience Yucatan: In Search of the Mayan people. The content within, which incorporates dozens of language-learning instructional pieces, invaluable travel tidbits for enhancing your educational adventure, and profound morsels of cultural information that focus on the situation of the contemporary people who descended from the original inhabitants of the Americas, certainly provides a venue for enhancing Second Language skills in Spanish through practical application; but more importantly, consistent with the intention of providing a resource for the potential-traveler/ language learner to access the Mayan pueblos of the region, where language students are presented with the opportunity to learn about the social and political injustices experienced by one of the oldest cultures in the New World, including the fallacy that accepts their disappearance from the face of the Earth some 500 years ago. Read More Read Less