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The first full-length treatment of the emergence of the modern Berber identity movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora, the challenges it poses to Moroccan and Algerian authorities and to competing Islamist movements, and their responses to it.

The first comprehensive study of the diverse populations that attended Athenian dramatic festivals from the Classical to the Hellenistic periods.

A comprehensive history of the century during which the Normans occupied the Welsh peninsula.

A study of nematodes as active contributors to the decomposition cycle in soil ecosystems.

This book brings together in one volume both theory and a wealth of empirical data gathered by researchers from all the fields in which bark beetles are studied: ecology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, entomology, and forestry.

This study of African-based dance in Mexico explores the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society, showing how dance can embody social histories and relationships.

The surviving speeches of three orators from the end of the classical period.

This book traces the history of the intersections between nature, economy, and nation in the Spanish Caribbean through a history of the agricultural and botanical sciences.

A detailed account of the wrecking-and legal aftermath-of La Salle's ship Aimable in 1685.

A new perspective on life in British Mandate Palestine during the last four years of World War II, captured through the eyes of a young civil servant whose rare diary, accompanied by insightful historical commentary, addresses fundamental aspects of the region's recent history.

The acclaimed author of Garca Mrquez delivers ';a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy' (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges' death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges' personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges' stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges' life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature. ';Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada's excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful . . . Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph.' Choice

A richly researched historical and cultural study of capoeira, the Brazilian martial art/dance that is spreading around the world.

A popular music form as a lens for viewing Algerian society.

Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.

This volume contains five speeches written for lawsuits in which Demosthenes sought to recover his inheritance, which he claimed was fraudulently misappropriated and squandered by the trustees of the estate.

An ';utterly lucid, thoughtfully illustrated, and thoroughly convincing' book on the origins of the world's oldest known system of writing (American Journal of Archaeology). One of American ScientistsTop 100 Books on Science, 2001 In 1992, the University of Texas Press publishedBefore Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.the worlds oldest known system of writingderived from an archaic counting device. How Writing Came About draws material from both volumes of this scholarly work to present Schmandt-Besserat's theory in an abridged version for a wide public and classroom audience. Based on the analysis and interpretation of a selection of 8,000 tokens or counters from 116 sites in Iran, Iraq, the Levant, and Turkey, it documents the immediate precursor of the cuneiform script.

This book of reminiscences of old XIT Ranch cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run.

An unprecedented examination of the relationships of art, gender, and identity among the Amazigh (Berber) people of Morocco.

A noted authority on ancient sport discusses various ways in which the ancient Greeks, as well as people today, used sports to achieve social status.

Three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem between 1876 and 1924 describe the lifeways of the imperial family, dispelling Western stereotypes of harem debauchery.

This book convincingly argues that Antiphon the orator and Antiphon the Sophist were the same person.

The most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867.

This book is the first critical biography of Hanif Kureishi.

How major Israeli films of the 1980s and 1990s have contributed to national identity formation.

Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like?

A narrativehistory of the Civil War years in Galveston, Texas.

The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them.

The English translation of Brasil: Nunca Mais, a catalog of how torture was used in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.