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The inaugural volume in the Cities of the Etruscans series, edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Lisa Pieraccini, this book presents a comprehensive study of the city of Caere by an international group of scholars.

International favorite dishes and personal stories from a celebrated food writer and foremost authority on traditional Mexican cooking.Diana Kennedy is the world's preeminent authority on authentic Mexican cooking and one of its best-known food writers. Renowned for her uncompromising insistence on using the correct local ingredients and preparation techniques, she has taught generations of cooks how to prepare traditional dishes from the villages of Mexico, and in doing so, has documented and helped preserve the country's amazingly diverse and rich foodways. Kennedy's own meals for guests are often Mexican, but she also indulges herself and close friends with the nostalgic foods in Nothing Fancy.This acclaimed cookbooknow expanded with new and revised recipes, additional commentary, photos, and reminiscencesreveals Kennedy's passion for simpler, soul-satisfying food, from the favorite dishes of her British childhood (including a technique for making clotted cream that actually works) to rare recipes from Ukraine, Norway, France, and other outposts. In her inimitable style, Kennedy discusses her addictionseverything from good butter, cream, and lard to cold-smoked salmon, Seville orange marmalade, black truffle shavings, escamoles (ant eggs), and proper croissantsas well as her btes noireskosher salt, nonfat dairy products, cassia ';cinnamon,' botoxed turkeys, and nonstick pans and baking sprays, among them. And look out for the ire she unleashes on ';cookbookese,' genetically modified foods, plastic, and unecological kitchen practices! The culminating work of an illustrious career, Nothing Fancy is an irreplaceable opportunity to spend time in the kitchen with Diana Kennedy, listening to the stories she has collected and making the food she has loved over a long lifetime of cooking.';Diana's recipe for her most personal cookbook includes equal parts passion, creativity, and humor, with a soupon of provocation. I love the way she's so blunt in her comments about food and the food world, her btes noires, in this bookit's exactly the way we cooks talk to each other in private, and it rarely gets into our books.' Paula Wolfert, author of The Food of Morocco';Nothing Fancy gives us access to the razor-sharp wit and wisdom of one of the great intuitive cooks of our time.' Zak Pelaccio, chef and owner of Fish & Game, Hudson, New York, and author of Eat With Your Hands';Diana Kennedy is the most serious food writer in Mexico, but what many people won't knowuntil they read this bookis that she's an extraordinary cook of all sorts of cuisines. Cooking casually with her at home is to know her keen palate and deep understanding of how food works. It's also great fun.' Gabriela Cmara, chef and owner of Contramar, Mexico City, and Cala, San Francisco

With photographs that have never been published before, this is the first English-Spanish bilingual retrospective of a prominent Mexican photographer who has documented Latin America from revolutionary movements to timeless moments of daily life.

Featuring extensive, newly uncovered biographical information, Martin Ramirez is the definitive study of the life and critical reception of the Mexican migrant and psychiatric patient who became one of the twentieth century's finest artists.

With rare, previously unpublished photographs and iconic images of politicians from the state's founders to Ann Richards, George W. Bush, and Rick Perry, here is the first-ever photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns.

Capturing the country's visual surrealism in striking detail, Mexico presents two hundred images by Mark Cohen, the acclaimed street photographer and author of Frame and Dark Knees.

These revealing, never-before-published photographs from the Clinton White House chronicle Hillary Clinton's transformation into a national policymaker and foreshadow her unprecedented role as a trailblazer for women in presidential politics.

"e;Not only one of the best books of the year, it's one of the most beautiful rock memoirs ever written . . . Her portrayal of Chesnutt is perfectly done."e; -NPR"e;Friend, asshole, angel, mutant,"e; singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt "e;came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess."e; A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009, including About to Choke, North Star Deserter, and At the Cut. In 2006, NPR placed him in the top five of the ten best living songwriters, along with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and Bruce Springsteen. Chesnutt's songs have also been covered by many prominent artists, including Madonna, the Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Sparklehorse, Fugazi, and Neutral Milk Hotel.Kristin Hersh toured with Chesnutt for nearly a decade and they became close friends, bonding over a love of songwriting and mutual struggles with mental health. In Don't Suck, Don't Die, she describes many seemingly small moments they shared, their free-ranging conversations, and his tragic death. More memoir than biography, Hersh's book plumbs the sources of Chesnutt's pain and creativity more deeply than any conventional account of his life and recordings ever could. Chesnutt was difficult to understand and frequently difficult to be with, but, as Hersh reveals him, he was also wickedly funny and painfully perceptive. This intimate memoir is essential reading for anyone interested in the music or the artist."e;The music made by the late Vic Chesnutt was evocative, haunting and often heartbreaking. Kristin Hersh's book about the singer-songwriter shares all of these qualities."e; -Rolling Stone

Learning from Bogota illuminates how a former "drug capital" has been transformed into a "pedagogical city," where redesigned public spaces teach residents how to reconnect with one another and become more engaged citizens

Drawing on archival research, this illuminating study shows how residents of all ethnicities in three colonial boomtowns used festivals to redefine wealth and present themselves as more than subjects of European power.

Presenting over two hundred previously unpublished images from the city's largest and most comprehensive photographic archive, this volume chronicles Houston's transformation into a city of international importance.

Award-winning screenwriters and filmmakers, including Ron Howard, Callie Khouri, Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally, Jenny Lumet, and Harold Ramis, discuss their careers and iconic films in these lively conversations transcribed from the acclaimed PBS series On St

The first study in English of Latin American graphic narrative, this book explores the genre's Argentine and Brazilian traditions, illuminating the different social, political, and historical conditions from which they emerged.

This collection of new work by the fine art photographer Rocky Schenck presents hand-tinted color images that lead viewers through hypnotic landscapes and subversive tableaux rich in psychological subtext and unpredictable narratives.

With authentic recipes, behind-the-scenes stories, and recommendations of where the locals eat, this is the indispensable guide to Texas's appetizingly diverse tacos and taco culture by the authors of Austin Breakfast Tacos.

A landmark in the study of rock art, this extensively illustrated volume reveals that prehistoric hunter-gatherers in southwest Texas painted one of the earliest known pictorial creation narratives in North America.

This substantially updated edition of the classic anthology of plays for young audiences presents contemporary plays that treat more mature, realistic themes while still encouraging youth to embrace life and follow their dreams.

With interviews and stories of celebrated players, including past and present NFL stars, as well as legendary coaches and dynastic teams from across Texas, The Republic of Football captures the standout moments in Friday night lights.

Surveying the range of Sun Ra's extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought "space music" to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.

Tracing the whole sweep of Mary J. Blige's career through the critically acclaimed 2014 album, The London Sessions, this is the first serious look at the music and cultural impact of one of the most important musical artists to emerge in the past quarter

This illustrated history of the colorized linen postcards of the 1930s and '40s is ';an incredible tour... A veritable treasure trove of American culture' (Crave Online). From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a ';linen' card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like texture, linen postcards celebrated the American scene with views of majestic landscapes, modern cityscapes, roadside attractions, and other notable features. These colorful images portrayed the United States as shimmering with promise, quite unlike the black-and-white worlds of documentary photography or Life magazine. Linen postcards were enormously popular, with close to a billion printed and sold. Postcard America offers the first comprehensive study of these cards and their cultural significance. Drawing on the production files of Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, the originator of linen postcards, Jeffrey L. Meikle reveals how photographic views were transformed into colorized postcard imagesoften by means of manipulationadding and deleting details or collaging bits and pieces from several photos. He presents two extensive portfolios of postcardslandscapes and cityscapesthat comprise a representative iconography of linen postcard views. For each image, Meikle explains the postcard's subject, describes aspects of its production, and places it in social and cultural contexts. In the concluding chapter, he shifts from historical interpretation to a contemporary viewpoint, considering nostalgia as a motive for collectors and others who are fascinated today by these striking images.

A groundbreaking interpretation of the engraved stone plaques found in southwestern Portugal and Spain, with important implications for anthropological thought on the origins of writing and recording systems, the role of memory in the creation of social i