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A collection of traditional Quechua songs and folktales.

A medieval Spanish Muslim manuscript describing the contributions of nine nations to human knowledge.

Exploring how the Gothic has been deployed in contemporary films.

The story of a legal lynching in the heart of East Texas.

This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day.

These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

A major reference work on South American birds.

This book contains three of Bakhtin's early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates of the period.

The author of Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy delivers a comprehensive, unbiased portrait of the ancient Celts using Greek and Roman primary sources. ';The ancient Celts capture the modern imagination as do few other people of classical times. Naked barbarians charging the Roman legions, Druids performing sacrifices of unspeakable horror, women fighting beside their men and even leading armiesthese, along with stunning works of art, are the images most of us call to mind when we think of the Celts,' observes Philip Freeman. ';And for the most part, these images are firmly based in the descriptions handed down to us by the Greek and Roman writers.' This book draws on the firsthand observations and early accounts of classical writers to piece together a detailed portrait of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe and the British Isles. Philip Freeman groups the selections (ranging from short statements to longer treatises) by themeswar, feasting, poetry, religion, women, and the Western Isles. He also presents inscriptions written by the ancient Celts themselves. This wealth of material, introduced and translated by Freeman to be especially accessible to students and general readers, makes this book essential reading for everyone fascinated by the ancient Celts. ';I know of no other work that pulls this sort of material together and groups it by such helpful categories (war, feasting, poetry, religion, women, etc.). I will certainly value it in my library and... as recommended reading for several of my courses. It will be a nice companion to Freemans Ireland and the Classical World.' Patrick K. Ford, Professor and Chair of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism.

The first comprehensive picture of women's status and opportunities in late eighteenth-century Egypt.

A study of the political and economic dynamics of this complex region.

A cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Bronte, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the "novel in verse" which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda, who brought tra

';Fills a major gap in the bird identification literature . . . A must for birders planning a trip to this friendly patch of Central America.' The Curious Naturalist With nearly six hundred identified species of birdsand an average of five ';new' species discovered annuallyBelize is becoming a birding hotspot for amateur and professional birders from around the globe. Thousands of birders visit the country each year to enjoy Belize's amazing abundance and variety of both temperate and tropical birds in natural habitats that remain largely unspoiled. But until now, despite the growing need for an authoritative identification guide, birders have had to rely on regional field guides that offer only limited information on Belizean birds. Birds of Belize provides the first complete guide to the identification of all currently known species574 in all. The birds are grouped by families, with an introduction to each family that highlights its uniquely identifying characteristics and behaviors. The species accounts include all the details necessary for field identification: scientific and common names, size, plumage features, thorough voice descriptions, habitat, distribution, and status in Belize. Full color, expertly drawn illustrations by noted bird artist Dana Gardner present male and female, juvenile and adult, and basic and alternate plumages to aid visual identification throughout the year, while 234 range maps show the birds' distribution and seasonality in Belize. A comprehensive bibliography completes the volume. ';A first-class book that will enable users to identify any bird they encounter in Belize.' Victor Emanuel, President, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours

This study of ancient Egyptian art reveals the evolution of aesthetic approaches to proportion and style through the ages. The painted and relief-cut walls of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record an amazing continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3,000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems unchanging, but this appearance is deceptive. In this work, Gay Robins offers convincing evidence, based on a study of Egyptian usage of grid systems and proportions, that innovation and stylistic variation played a significant role in ancient Egyptian art. Robins thoroughly explores the squared grid systems used by the ancient artists to proportion standing, sitting, and kneeling human figures. This investigation yields the first chronological account of proportional variations in male and female figures from the Early Dynastic to the Ptolemaic periods. Robins discusses the proportional changes underlying the revolutionary style instituted during the Amarna Period. She also considers how the grid system influenced the overall composition of scenes. Numerous line drawings with superimposed grids illustrate the text.

One of the world's leading authorities presents a major overview of the Moche, one of pre-Columbian America's greatest civilizations, renowned for its monumental architecture, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles.

The first major study of the relationship between visual art and film in China and Japan.

A thorough resource on the oscine passerines of South America.

A decade after he celebrated traditional, wood-smoked 'cue in Texas BBQ, Wyatt McSpadden captures the new urban BBQ scene epitomized by Franklin Barbecue, as well as small-town favorites such as Snow's in Lexington.

The author is joined by a retired narcotics cop as they investigate the assassination of a drug dealer and hit man outside Tucson, Arizona.One of Charles Bowden's earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edgeand decaying at its center. Bowden's quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer becomes a meditation on the glories of the desert landscape, the squalors of the society that threatens it, and the contradictions inherent in trying to save it.';At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs... A brave and interesting book.' David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review';Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.' Jim Harrison';The Southwest as portrayed in this Kerouac-esque odyssey betokening the death of the American frontier spirit is a landscape of broken dreams, violence, uprooted lives and fallen idols.... Miles distant from tourist-poster images of the Sunbelt, this vista of narrow greed, diminished expectations and despoilation of nature sizzles with the harsh, unrelenting glare of a hyperrealist painting.' Publishers Weekly

The acclaimed author of Blue Desert explores life on the arid borderlands of southern Arizona in this "e;compelling and wonderfully poetic"e; essay collection (Ron Hansen, New York Times Book Review).In Desierto, Charles Bowden brings his signature eye for vivid detail and penetrating insight to the Sonoran Desert. Travelling across this unforgiving terrain, he explores struggling desert villages, bitter Indian feuds, and a rich history that transcends borders. He profiles notorious predators from mountain lions to drug lords and land barons. Through it all, Bowden offers prescient visions of a future in which the region's age-old dramas replay themselves long into the future."e;In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of the US-Mexican border with saints and sinners, but his enduring hero is the desert itself."e; -Kirkus Reviews

This extensively illustrated, bilingual English-Portuguese volume traces the physical development of Brazil's largest city and presents a blueprint for transforming its aging industrial areas into mixed-use affordable housing districts.

This landmark feminist critique presents a ';brilliant and scathing' survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write (Nicole Rudick, New York Review of Books). Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? InHow to Suppress Women's Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtleand not so subtlestrategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique. ';What is it going to take to break apart these rigidities? Russ's book is a formidable attempt. It is angry without being self-righteous, it is thorough without being exhausting, and it is serious without being devoid of a sense of humor. But it was published over thirty years ago, in 1983, and there's not an enormous difference between the world she describes and the world we inhabit' (Jessa Crispin, from the foreword).';A book of the most profound and original clarity.' Marge Piercy';Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer, a writer of real moral passion and high wit.' Adrienne Rich

Surveying comedic texts and performers from The Jack Benny Program to Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, and Stephen Colbert, this classroom-ready anthology offers a first-ever overview of the field of comedy studies.

A cofounder of the dB's, Chris Stamey re-creates the music scene in late 1970s New York City, recalling the birth of punk and other new streams of electric music as well as the making of the cult albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion.

Bringing to light the origins of an important national cinema, this book examines Palestinian filmmaking during the long 1970s, and how it sustained a revolution and continues to inspire in a new century.

With empirical case studies of Walmart's entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world's largest private employer has had to adapt its labor practices and supply chain operations to meet local conditions.

With empirical case studies of Walmart's entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world's largest private employer has had to adapt its labor practices and supply chain operations to meet local conditions.