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Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes
From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system-that is, art-to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that native Andeans have endured over several centuries. Indeed, art has alw...
2012
R$ 289,98
Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule
As frequent intermediaries between Israeli military authorities and Palestinian citizens, Palestinian lawyers stand close to the fault line dividing Israeli and Palestinian societies. The conflicts and tensions they experience in their profession mirror the larger conflicts between the two societies. Thus, as George Bisharat reveals in Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule, a careful study of the w...
1990
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Ver ofertas Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
From reviews of Volume I:Brazilian Crusader is no doubt the best biography yet produced on Lacerda and the second volume . . . is certainly worth waiting for.-Luso-Brazilian ReviewJournalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazils foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military tak...
1996
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Ver ofertas William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions
Besides the groundbreaking novels and stories that brought him fame, William Faulkner throughout his life wrote letters-to his publisher, his lovers, his family, and his friends. In this first major study of epistolarity in Faulkners work, James G. Watson examines Faulkners personal correspondence as a unique second canon of writing, separate from his literary canon with its many fictional letters...
1987
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Ver ofertas Livro Western Representations of the Muslim Woman
Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed-the odalisque image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite way, as forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality.In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process thro...
1999
R$ 215,50
Livro Princess, Priestess, Poet
Living in 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first author of historical record by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for forty-two temples throughout the southern half of ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization now known as Sumer.Each of her hymns confirmed to the worshipers in each city the patron deitys unique character and significance. The collected hymns beca...
2009
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Ver ofertas Livro Friedrich Schleiermacher
Nationalism was a driving, moving spirit in the nineteenth-century Germany of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Jerry F. Dawson, through his thoughtful and well-wrought study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, provides an insight into contemporary nationalistic movements and the people who have a part in them. Schleiermacher, a prominent theologian and educator, was also a leading contributor to the tide of nat...
1966
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Ver ofertas Homeric Responses
The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the worlds foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was Homer-a real or an ideal poet? When were the poems composed-at a single point in time, or over centuries of composition and performance? And how were the poems committed to writing? These uncertainties have been known as The Homeric Question, and man...
2004
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Ver ofertas Sabine Pass
Winner, Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize, Austin Civil War Round Table, 2005In an 1882 speech, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis made an exuberant claim: That battle at Sabine Pass was more remarkable than the battle at Thermopylae. Indeed, Sabine Pass was the site of one of the most decisive Civil War battles fought in Texas. But unlike the Spartans, who succumbed to overwhelming Persian fo...
2004
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Ver ofertas The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television
This unique, comprehensive introduction to screenwriting offers practical advice for the beginning writer, whether college student or freelancer. Based on their experience as professional writers and as teachers in a large, successful screenwriting program at California State University, Northridge, the authors provide a progression of assignments at manageable screenwriting lengths for beginners....
1988
A partir de R$ 171,11
Ver ofertas After Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most famous director to have ever made a film. Almost single-handedly he turned the suspense thriller into one of the most popular film genres of all time, while his Psycho updated the horror film and inspired two generations of directors to imitate and adapt this most Hitchcockian of movies. Yet while much scholarly and popular attention has focused on the directo...
2006
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Ver ofertas Livro Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950
As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the p...
2001
R$ 288,89
The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz
Mexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zócalo, the citys traditional center, to western suburbs where they sought to imitate European and American ways of life. At the same time, poorer Mexicans, many of whom were peasants, crowded into eastern sub...
1997
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Ver ofertas Livro Nazi Ideology before 1933
This volume brings together a hitherto scattered and inaccessible body of material crucial to the understanding of the evolution of Nazi political thought. Before the publication of this volume, scholars had virtually ignored the extensive writings and programs published by leading Nazi ideologues before 1933. Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp have collected the political writings of Nazi theo...
1978
R$ 173,73
Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica
How humans adapt to life in an area prone to natural disasters is an intriguing study for the social sciences. In this volume, experts from several disciplines explore the adaptation process of prehistoric societies in the volcanic Arenal region of Costa Rica from about 2000 BC to the Spanish Conquest at about AD 1500.The data in this volume come from a survey of the region conducted with the late...
2014
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Ver ofertas Gardens of New Spain
When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they brought with them the plants and foods of their homeland-wheat, melons, grapes, vegetables, and every kind of Mediterranean fruit. Missionaries and colonists introduced these plants to the native peoples of Mexico and the American Southwest, where they became staple crops alongside the corn, beans, a...
2004
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Ver ofertas Livro Amazonia in the Anthropocene
Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the worlds largest tropical rainforest.Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas Kaw...
2016
R$ 213,00
Livro Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You
Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the manuscript painting is a singular document of indigenous response to Spanish conquest. Examining the ways in which the folios tlacuilo (indigenous painter/writer) creates a pictorial vocabulary, t...
2011
R$ 245,05
Coronados Children
Written in 1930, Coronados Children was one of J. Frank Dobies first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado.These people, Dobie writes in his introduction, no matter what l...
1978
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Ver ofertas Ill Tell You a Tale
Ill Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobies best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas. The tales included are those the author himself liked best, and he even rewrote some of them especially for this anthology. Ben Carlton Mead has contributed 32 original line drawings to illustrate the stories.These tales spring from the soil a...
1981
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Ver ofertas The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture
Winner, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2010The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture-cities, festivals, and wonder-from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats a multitude of imperialist ...
2010
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Ver ofertas Livro Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that womens lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Churchs ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that womens daily lives and their opportunities for m...
2013
R$ 247,94
Livro Beyond Machismo
Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo-a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on mens attitudes and behavior-is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals young, educated Latino men who are going beyond machismo to a deeper understanding of womens experie...
2016
R$ 300,02
Quixotes Soldiers
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transfor...
2010
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Ver ofertas Livro Women and Social Movements in Latin America
Womens grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to womens subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from womens concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care.This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of womens grass...
1997
R$ 289,18
Livro Brazil and the Quiet Intervention, 1964
When the Brazilian military overthrew President João Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a 100 percent Brazilian movement. It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United States had an invisible but pervasive part in the coup. Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and ...
1979
A partir de R$ 172,16
Ver ofertas Livro Victoria Ocampo
The first lady of Argentine letters, Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house.In this first biographical study in English of la superbe Argentine, originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampos role i...
1989
R$ 273,00
Livro Checkerboards and Shatterbelts
Geography has always played a major role in world politics. In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North America and Eurasia and often forbidding internal terrain have given rise to a fascinating and unique geopolitical structure.Kelly uses the geographical concepts of checkerboards and shatterbelts to chara...
1997
R$ 218,70
Defiance and Deference in Mexicos Colonial North
Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2004Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2003In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chi...
2003
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Ver ofertas Early Spanish American Narrative
The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbuss discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friars, as well as their Amerindian subjects, recorded the clash of cultures that followed the Spanish conquest...
2004
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Ver ofertas Livro Conspiracy Theory in America
Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service-and possibly even senior government officials-were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest levels ...
2014
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Ver ofertas Passage to Dusk
Passage to Dusk deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a postmodern, poetic style. The narrative focuses on the deranged, destabilized, confused, and hyper-perceptive state of mind created by living on the scene through a lengthy war. The story is filled with details that transcend the willed narcissism of the main character, while giving clues to the culture of the time. It is excellen...
2001
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Ver ofertas Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
An English translation of Chapas Historia de Nuevo León, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.Winner, Presidio La Bahía Award, Sons of the Republic of TexasIn the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de León, a frontier province of New Spain. In 1690, Juan Bautista Chapa penned a richly detailed history of Nu...
1997
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Ver ofertas Your Brain on Latino Comics
Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also examining the effects on readers who are challenged to envision such worlds.Exploring mainstream compani...
2009
A partir de R$ 248,61
Ver ofertas Spanish Film Under Franco
How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their study of Spanish cinema.After a brief overview of Spanish film before Franco, the author proceeds to a discussion of censorship as practiced by the Franco regime. The response of directors to censorship-the...
1987
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Ver ofertas Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders
Along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to hold the line against illegal immigrants, but many residents on both sides of the border seek to define and bound themselves apart from groups they perceive as others.This pathfinding ethnography charts the soci...
2000
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Ver ofertas Of Summits and Sacrifice
In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigenous authors to record the details of the religious rituals that the Inkas believed were vital for con...
2009
A partir de R$ 217,81
Ver ofertas Sab and Autobiography
Eleven years before Uncle Toms Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owners daughter. So controversial was Sabs theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness and enslavement of blacks and the economic and matrimonial subservience of women that the book was no...
1993
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Ver ofertas From the Republic of the Rio Grande
The Republic of the Rio Grande had a brief and tenuous existence (1838-1840) before most of it was reabsorbed by Mexico and the remainder annexed by the United States, yet this region that straddles the Rio Grande has retained its distinctive cultural identity to the present day. Born on one side of the Rio Grande and raised on the other, Beatriz de la Garza is a product of this region. Her birthp...
2013
R$ 218,88
Art and Answerability
Art and Answerability contains three of Mikhail Bakhtins early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates, lectures, demonstrations, and manifesto writing of the period. Because they predate works that have already been translated, these essays-Art and Answerability, Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity, and The...
1990
R$ 291,14
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine
For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40-80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dio...
1986
R$ 271,97
Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945
The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that countrys regime.Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regime of Getúlio Vargas p...
1983
R$ 247,07