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Singing Mountaineers
Songs and Tales of the Quechua People
Av José María Arguedas, Ruth Stephan
Häftad, 1971
275 kr
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The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by JosÉ MarÍa Arguedas and MarÍa Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca …
Butterflies Will Burn
Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
Häftad, 2003
367 kr
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As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"-sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came …
Anson Jones
The Last President of Texas
Häftad, 1964
577 kr
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This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood. Within a year of his arrival, Anson Jones was …
Doctor Mary in Arabia
Memoirs
Av Mary Bruins Allison, Sandra J. Shaw
Häftad, 1994
412 kr
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Until fairly recently, Arab women rarely received professional health care, since few women doctors had ever practiced in Arabia and their culture forbade them from consulting male doctors. Not surprisingly, Dr. Mary Bruins Allison faced an overwhelming demand when she arrived in Kuwait in 1934 as …
How the Maya Built Their World
Energetics and Ancient Architecture
Häftad, 1994
223 kr
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Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, …
Image in Dispute
Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography
Häftad, 1997
400 kr
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Photography, cinema, and video have irrevocably changed the ways in which we view and interpret images. Indeed, the mechanical reproduction of images was a central preoccupation of twentieth-century philosopher Walter Benjamin, who recognized that film would become a vehicle not only for the …
Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Audubon Society
Places to Hide and Seek
Häftad, 2000
303 kr
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National Audubon Society sanctuaries across the United States preserve the unique combinations of plants, climates, soils, and water that endangered birds and other animals require to survive. Their success stories include the recovery of the common and snowy egrets, wood storks, Everglade kites, …
Brann and the Iconoclast
Häftad, 1957
292 kr
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"They wouldn't let him rest-even in his grave." Thus Charles Carver opens his story of the climactic years of a journalist who had poured out such blazing prose that readers from England to Hawaii mourned his murder.The impact of William Cowper Brann's Iconoclast upon the town of Waco, Texas, in …
Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness
Häftad, 1992
219 kr
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Between the Nile River and the Red Sea, in the northern half of Egypt's Eastern Desert, live the Bedouins of the Ma'aza tribe. Joseph Hobbs lived with the Khushmaan Ma'aza clan for almost two years, gathering information for a study of traditional Bedouin life and culture. The resulting work, …
Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television
Av Ben Brady
Häftad, 1994
283 kr
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From All Quiet on the Western Front, the Academy Award-winning "Best Picture" of 1929-1930, to Dances with Wolves, the 1991 winner, many of Hollywood's most popular and enduring movies have been screen adaptations of written work, including novels, stories, and plays. In this practical, hands-on …
Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874
A Biography
Häftad, 1965
412 kr
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In Gideon Lincecum's lifetime the United States expanded from fifteen to thirty-eight states—and Lincecum moved always with or ahead of that expansion. Possessed of a driving intellectual curiosity undeterred by lack of formal education, Lincecum examined all he confronted. He learned from Indians, …
Confederate Cavalry West of the River
Häftad, 1992
283 kr
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Another Confederate cavalry raid impends. You hear the snort of an impatient horse, the leathery squeaking of saddles, the low-voiced commands of officers, the muffled cluck of guns cocked in preparation-then the sudden rush of motion, the din of another attack.This classic story seeks to …
Place in the Rain Forest
Settling the Costa Rican Frontier
Häftad, 1997
275 kr
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In the 1950s, Darryl Cole-Christensen and his family were among the first settlers of the Coto Brus, an almost impenetrable, mountainous rain forest region of southeastern Costa Rica. In this evocative book, he captures the elemental struggles and rewards of settling a new frontier-an experience …
Growing Up in a Culture of Respect
Child Rearing in Highland Peru
Av Inge Bolin
Häftad, 2006
247 kr
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Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for all life as they progress smoothly from …
La ütz Awäch?
Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language
Av R. McKenna Brown, Judith M. Maxwell m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
483 kr
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Kaqchikel is one of approximately thirty Mayan languages spoken in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, and, increasingly, the United States. Of the twenty-two Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala, Kaqchikel is one of the four "mayoritarios," those with the largest number of speakers. About half a million …
Despite This Flesh
The Disabled in Stories and Poems
Häftad, 1985
251 kr
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Killed by kindness, stifled by overprotection, choked by subtle if sometimes unconscious snubs, the physically handicapped are one of the world's most invisible minorities. Seeking to draw attention to the various attitudes and perceptions about the handicapped, renowned poet Vassar Miller has …
Honorable Exiles
A Chilean Woman in the Twentieth Century
Av Lillian Lorca de Tagle, Joy Billington m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
292 kr
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Lillian Lorca de Tagle is living proof of women's progress in the twentieth century. Born into a privileged, yet circumscribed world in 1914 as the daughter of a wealthy Chilean diplomat, she became a translator and journalist at a time when few women of her class held jobs. Ordered into exile in …
So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico
Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico
Häftad, 2007
318 kr
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Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. In So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp presents the fascinating findings of her extensive fieldwork in Mexico as well as in Lebanon and Syria, which included …
Amá, Your Story Is Mine
Walking Out of the Shadows of Abuse
Av Ercenia "Alice" Cedeño, Susan Dixon
Häftad, 2007
232 kr
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In the preface to her memoir, Ercenia "Alice" CedeÑo recalls the secrecy and turmoil that marked her youth: "I spent most of my growing years mad at my mother and wanting her to change to fit in with the rest of the world," she writes. "When my sisters and I wanted her to visit our friends' …
Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter
Av Katherine Anne Porter, Ruth Moore Alvarez m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
381 kr
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This volume brings together twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appeared in Porter's collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Both fiction and essays are covered. All these pieces belong to Porter's apprenticeship as a creative writer. Thus, …
Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles
Häftad, 1998
275 kr
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Preventing teen pregnancy has become a national goal, but a one-size-fits-all strategy for achieving it may never be found. Because varying social and cultural factors lead to pregnancy among different ethnic/class groups, understanding these factors is essential in designing pregnancy prevention …
No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed
The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Häftad, 2009
332 kr
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Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano nationalist standards of the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the personal papers of Alonso S. Perales and Adela …
Escaping the Fire
How an Ixil Mayan Pastor Led His People Out of a Holocaust During the Guatemalan Civil War
Av Tomás Guzaro, Terri Jacob McComb
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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During the height of the Guatemalan civil war, TomÁs Guzaro, a Mayan evangelical pastor, led more than two hundred fellow Mayas out of guerrilla-controlled Ixil territory and into the relative safety of the government army's hands. This exodus was one of the factors that caused the guerrillas to …
Australian Voices
Writers and Their Work
Häftad, 2010
314 kr
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Contemporary Australian fiction is attracting a world audience, particularly in the United States, where a growing readership eagerly awaits new works. In Australian Voices, Ray Willbanks goes beyond the books to their authors, using sixteen interviews to reveal the state of fiction writing in …
Florida of the Inca
Häftad, 1951
734 kr
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Perhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition is the fact that, although it is easily the first great classic of American history, it had never before received a complete or otherwise adequate English translation in the 346 years which …
Fear on Trial
Häftad, 1983
342 kr
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John Henry Faulk was a popular radio and television personality during the McCarthy era. He was host of his own radio program on WCBS in New York when he publicly challenged AWARE, Inc., an ultrapatriotic group engaged in the systematic blacklisting of entertainment personalities. In response, an …
Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic
From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe
Av Bruce Murray
Häftad, 1990
352 kr
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The Weimar Republic of Germany, covering the post-World War I period of civil and governmental strife, witnessed a great struggle among a variety of ideologies, a struggle for which the arts provided one important arena. Leftist individuals and organizations critiqued mainstream art production and …
Andean Lives
Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
Av Ricardo Valderrama Fernández, Carmen Escalante Gutiérrez
Häftad, 1996
275 kr
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Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe HuamÁn were runakuna, a Quechua word that means "people" and refers to the millions of indigenous inhabitants neglected, reviled, and silenced by the dominant society in Peru and other Andean countries. For Gregorio and Asunta, however, that silence was …
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Häftad, 1999
219 kr
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"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of …
Sam Houston's Texas
Av Sue Flanagan
Häftad, 1973
371 kr
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When Sam Houston crossed the Red River for the first time in 1832, he termed Texas the "finest portion of the Globe that has ever blessed my vision." He soon made it his "abiding place" and became a lifelong traveller in his adopted country. By carriage and muleback his diplomatic, military, …
