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A collection of traditional Quechua songs and folktales.

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.

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.

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

';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

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

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.

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

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.

This groundbreaking anthology brings together generations of Chicana scholars and activists to offer the first wide-ranging account of women's organizing, activism, and leadership in the Chicano Movement.

The rise and fall of a Texas Democrat: ';A definitive, richly detailed biography [and] an engrossing history that sheds light on our own fractious times.' Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A former Golden Gloves boxer and WWII bombardier, Jim Wright entered Congress to fight a different kind of battle, making his mark on virtually every major policy issue of the later twentieth century: energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central America and in the Camp David Accords, and was the first American politician to speak live on Soviet television. A Democrat representing Texas's twelfth district (Fort Worth), he served in the US House of Representatives from the Eisenhower administration to the presidency of George H.W. Bush, including twelve years as majority leader and speakerand his long congressional ascension and sudden fall in a highly partisan ethics scandal spearheaded by Newt Gingrich mirrored the evolution of Congress as an institution. Speaker Jim Wright traces the congressman's long life and career in a highly readable narrative grounded in extensive interviews with Wright and access to his personal diaries. A skilled connector who bridged the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic Party while forging alliances with Republicans to pass legislation, Wright ultimately fell victim to a new era of political infighting, as well as to his own hubris and mistakes. J. Brooks Flippen shows how Wright's career shaped the political culture of Congress, from its internal rules and power structure to its growing partisanship, even as those new dynamics eventually contributed to his political demise. To understand Jim Wright in all his complexity is to understand the story of modern American politics.

Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofan people are surviving at the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry.

This innovative ethnography analyzes the discourse about Mexican-US migration in both a sending and a receiving community and shows how this discourse affects the lives and sense of national belonging of nonmigrants.

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.

This biography of legendary golf pro Harvey Penick, which won the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, reveals how he distilled a lifetime of coaching on and off the course into the best-selling sports book of all time, Harvey Penick's Little Red Book.

Identifies the common and rare flowers we see along the roadsides and in the pastures, fields, and forests of Texas. This title also features 370 species accounts that include the plant's scientific and common names, a description of its appearance, and its range, habitat, and blooming season.

Addressing one of the most important but least-reported aspects of mass communication, this timely volume considers both the perils of misinformation and the possibilities for remedying its detrimental effects.

The final volume in The Oratory of Classical Greece series presents four speeches by or falsely ascribed to the most renowned of the ancient Greek orators, Demosthenes, which have not been translated in recent times.

Now with new chapters on Greek vase painting and Roman artifacts and wall paintings, Controlling Desires is the essential classroom and general introduction to sexual practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the classical world.