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A collection of 31 articles (dedicated to Margaret Langdon) represents the multitude of approaches to Native American languages taken by linguists.

The highly variable North American red crossbill complex has presented one of the most controversial problems in avian systematics. This study suggests that this crossbill complex contains several distinctive sibling species that breed sympatrically and show ecological differences.

Discusses thirty species considered monophyletic and congeneric with Macrocneme maja (F.). This title describes fourteen species from South America. It summarizes biological information, and discusses and illustrates patterns of geographical distribution.

Describes the postcrania of the Miocene marsupials Ilaria illumidens and Ngapakaldia tedfordi and compares them with those of other vombatiforms and out-group marsupials. This title offers an analysis of postcranial characters that shows Ilaria to be most closely related to the wombats, primarily on the basis of the highly derived manus.

Royal treasury records of annual auctions of Indian tributes are the source of price history for sixteenth-century Nueva Galicia. Using this data, this book determines that from 1557 to 1598 the prices of some commodities such as maize rose more than in the neighboring Audiencia of Mexico, whereas other prices, such as those for wheat, fell.

Approximately 12 million years before the extinction of dinosaurs, a diverse terrestrial fauna inhabited what is now northcentral Montana. This title describes and evaluates the relationships of the large mammalian fauna of this area, which included rodent-like multituberculates, primitive therians, marsupials, and early eutherian mammals.

Examines relationships within the Chrysoxena group of the tortricid tribe Euliini. This title defines 54 species among six genera: Chrysoxena Meyrick; Vulpoxena Brown; Thoridia Brown; Dorithia Powell; Cuproxena Powell and Brown; and, Bidorpitia Brown.

A dictionary of the Nez Perce language, which is spoken in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. It illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from the published Nez Perce oral literature. It also includes an English-Nez Perce index, and appendixes listing phonosymbolic words and Nez Perce animal and plant names.

Presents a collection of virtually every opera libretto printed in Venice from 1637 to 1769. This set includes 1286 librettos bound in 117 volumes. It features five appendixes and seventeen indexes that provides access to titles, artists, dedicatees, roles, and many other aspects of production.

A monograph that describes the setting, features, and artifacts recovered from a major San Luis Rey II (prehistoric Luiseno) village in northern San Diego County, California.

Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative: The English Language Tradition.

Examines the pattern of alternation of structure and height of vertebral neural spines in the context of a larger review of axial structure in the most terrestrial of primitive Permo-Carboniferous tetrapods. This title states that a coupled pattern of axial dorsiflexion and rotation played a significant role in primitive terrestrial locomotion.

Describes the geology, soils, and mineral nutrition of serpentines (low in normal essential nutrients, high in magnesium, iron, and toxic heavy metals, nickel, and chromium), the vegetation and flora that tolerate this inhospitable habitat, the fauna on serpentines, and management/conservation problems associated with serpentines.

Documents the working lives of black South African reporters, caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get.

Examines Soviet Union foreign relations during the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan, focusing on the problems confronting the Bolsheviks as they sought to promote national security and economic development.

This is an ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire. The author lived among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (pygmies), for two years, learning their language and studying their complex social relations and ethnic identities.

Locates sociology in its relations to the other social sciences, literary theory, and the biological and physical sciences. Argued with the intensity and skill of a defense attorney for the human species, the author takes on sociobiology, artificial intelligence research, ecology and post-modernism.

Describes the youth culture of Japan, drawing comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States and the contrasting attitudes of adults in Japan and the U.S. towards adolescence.

Discussing the historical examples of "rumor" discourse, this title suggests why many blacks have - for good reason - channeled beliefs about race relations into familiar formulae, ones developed as early as the time of the first contact between sub-Saharan Africans and European white.

A study of moral and social theory that establishes the intellectual foundations of an important new movement in American thought: communitarianism. It attempts to explain and justify this communitarian turn and give it a liberal interpretation.

Shows how the Cuban success story has transformed the character of Miami while delineating more sharply the identity of other ethnic communities.

Documents the effects of war and embargo on the cultural and economic fabric of Nicaraguan society. This book reveals the enduring character of Nicaraguan society as he records the experiences of three families and their community through times of war, hyperinflation, dire shortages, and political turmoil.

Examines the origins of contemporary diversity and conflict in the Catholic Church as well as the processes of ideological change. With insights into the American Catholic Church, the modern papacy, and the Latin American Church, this title is as much a political study of ideological dynamics as it is an institutional study of religious change.

This portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. It is an inspiring account of how peasants, fishermen and labourers have united to halt the plunder of their resources.