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Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador Best Price: $55.38 Challuabamba (ch?-wa-bamba)--now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the...	Morning Star: surrealism, marxism, anarchism, situationism, utopia (Surrealist Revolution Series) When members of the surviving old guard of surrealism declared the movement over (Le Monde,...	Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military Relations Best Price: $24.00 The continued spread of democracy into the twenty-first century has seen two-thirds of the...	A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941-1945: The Life of Sami 'Amr (Jamal and Rania Daniel Series in Contemporary History, Politics, Culture, and Religion of the Levant) Best Price: $47.33 Writing in his late teens and early twenties, Sami'Amr gave his diary an apt subtitle:...	The Master Showmen of King Ranch: The Story of Beto and Librado Maldonado (Ellen and Edward Randall Serie) Best Price: $42.90 Texas' King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the most enduring of...



Explosive Nucleosynthesis	Cactuses of Big Bend National Park (Corrie Herring Hooks) Best Price: $18.95 When the cactuses bloom in Big Bend National Park, their vivid pinks and purples, reds and...	Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture) Best Price: $37.00 In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo...	A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Colombia's Invisible War Best Price: $40.00 To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on...	For Glory and Bolívar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz Best Price: $23.65 She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero...



Plants of the Metroplex Best Price: $6.54 Impressive! This is the most comprehensive and informative plant guides for this part of Texas...	Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation (The William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) Best Price: $65.00 Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles,...	The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System Best Price: $35.00 Bauer synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca...	Antonio Caso, Philosopher of Mexico (Texas Pan American Series) Best Price: $19.95 Few men have had as much cultural and educational influence on their own countries as the...	Vietnam: The Early Decisions Best Price: $25.00 Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these...

Aspects of the Renaissance Best Price: $19.95 The Renaissance has long posed a problem to scholars. It has been generalized as an emergence of...	The Astonishment of Words: An Experiment in the Comparison of Languages Best Price: $19.95 One, two! one, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it...	The Huarochiri Manuscript Best Price: $33.26 This book takes the reader back to the beginning of the 17th century and tells the customs and...	Architecture in Texas: 1895-1945 Best Price: $126.98 With this entertainingly written and well organized book, you can settle down to painlessly...	The Jumanos: Hunters and Traders of the South Plains Best Price: $17.28 I doubt that even the doting author thought this book would make the best seller lists. The...

Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta, Anna Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie Book Description: Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but...	Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San Diego, Texas Best Price: $24.94 I feel so proud to say I grew up in a town with such amazing history! Its nice to walk into a...	Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema Best Price: $19.95 Williams Fosters analyzes Latino gay and lesbian movies. He has an expansive view of the genre;...	Texas Gardening the Natural Way: The Complete Handbook Best Price: $18.85 I find this book to be a great quick reference book, like a mini-encyclopedia on all things...	Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story Best Price: $102.98 Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their...

Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America Best Price: $22.90 Hispanics/Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the United States--but they are far from...	In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) Super book. Every article has new information either about pilgrimages to caves, cave rituals,...	Animalerie (Wittliff Gallery Series) Best Price: $12.51 Jayne Hinds Bidaut is an artist with the camera. This elegant collection of manipulated...	The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico Best Price: $18.65 Migration is a way of life for many individuals and even families in the Mexican state of...	Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State Best Price: $24.65 According to conventional wisdom, the national identity of the Jordanian state was defined by...

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (Jewish Life, History, and Culture) Best Price: $16.14 The book is readable -- not exciting but not an academic drudge either. This is important...	Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays (Chicana Matters) Best Price: $38.98 The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in...	The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space (Chicana Matters S.) Best Price: $89.86 The history of the plaza, laid out under the Spanish crown in 1781, is the history of Los...	The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space Best Price: $21.95 I was not surprised to find this book in the New Acquisitions section of the Hong Kong Public...	Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico Best Price: $13.95 I picked up this book based on a write-up in the Wall Street Journal, a write-up that I now...

Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers Best Price: $59.99 Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and...	When the Center Is on Fire: Passionate Social Theory for Our Times Best Price: $60.00 In this lively and provocative book, two feminist public sociologists turn to classical social...	Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen Best Price: $38.28 Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and "Girl Power" a...	Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present (William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) Best Price: $22.00 The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined:...	Ireland and the Classical World Best Price: $24.67 On the boundary of what the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the habitable world, Ireland...

Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin Best Price: $31.12 As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010,...	Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project Best Price: $60.00 In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance...	The House Will Come to Order: How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics (Focus on American History) Best Price: $30.40 The first book to chronicle the exciting history of Speakers of the Texas House of...	One Hundred Bottles Best Price: $49.99 One Hundred Bottles , with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as...	Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade (Jamal and Rania Daniel Series in Contemporary History, Politics, Culture, and Religion of the Levant) Best Price: $47.75 One of the most extraordinary spaces on earth, Jerusalem's Esplanade has been regarded as...

The Chora of Croton 1: The Neolithic Settlement at Capo Alfiere Best Price: $70.50 From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) at the University of...	Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) Best Price: $50.00 Texas women broke barriers throughout the twentieth century, winning the right to vote,...	From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900 Best Price: $30.00 The Gulf Coast has been a principal place of entry into Texas ever since Alonso Alvarez de...	Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity (Literary Modernism Series) Best Price: $35.27 The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern...	Private Women, Public Lives: Gender and the Missions of the Californias (Chicana Matters) Best Price: $23.65 Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes...

Plants of the Metroplex Best Price: $6.54 Impressive! This is the most comprehensive and informative plant guides for this part of Texas...	Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation (The William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) Best Price: $65.00 Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles,...	The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System Best Price: $35.00 Bauer synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca...	Antonio Caso, Philosopher of Mexico (Texas Pan American Series) Best Price: $19.95 Few men have had as much cultural and educational influence on their own countries as the...	Vietnam: The Early Decisions Best Price: $25.00 Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these...

Aspects of the Renaissance Best Price: $19.95 The Renaissance has long posed a problem to scholars. It has been generalized as an emergence of...	The Astonishment of Words: An Experiment in the Comparison of Languages Best Price: $19.95 One, two! one, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it...	The Huarochiri Manuscript Best Price: $33.26 This book takes the reader back to the beginning of the 17th century and tells the customs and...	Architecture in Texas: 1895-1945 Best Price: $126.98 With this entertainingly written and well organized book, you can settle down to painlessly...	The Jumanos: Hunters and Traders of the South Plains Best Price: $17.28 I doubt that even the doting author thought this book would make the best seller lists. The...

Islam: Origin and Belief Best Price: $11.47 I know of no other work that so clearly and comprehensively introduces the general reader to the...	Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes "In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize...	Staying Sober in Mexico City Best Price: $15.00 A Berkeley professor attends an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in DF (aka Mexico City) and reports...	Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation, and Leadership (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) Best Price: $18.71 I give this book, two thumbs up. I never knew much about modern Maya identity until now. I...	The First Texas News Barons (Focus on American History Series, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin) Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By...

The Death and Life of Drama: Reflections on Writing and Human Nature Best Price: $8.94 What makes a film "work," so that audiences come away from the viewing experience...	Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution Best Price: $98.74 As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats,...	Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader: Volume I: The Years 1914-1960 (Dulles, John Wf//Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader) Best Price: $17.28 Journalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost...	The Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason (Texas Film & Media Studies Series) Best Price: $25.00 "Play it again, Sam" is the motto of cult film enthusiasts, who will watch their...	A Place in the Rain Forest: Settling the Costa Rican Frontier Best Price: $5.99 In the 1950s, Darryl Cole-Christensen and his family were among the first settlers of the Coto...

The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) Best Price: $198.88 When three of the most renowned mayanists join to write a book it must turn out great. Well, it...	"Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear Best Price: $37.34 The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the...	Rancheros in Chicagoacán: Language and Identity in a Transnational Community Rancheros hold a distinct place in the culture and social hierarchy of Mexico, falling between...	Sound Design and Science Fiction Best Price: $20.93 I'm one of those picky people when it comes going to the movies. I always go early and only...	James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography Best Price: $18.64 A smart, lively book about the morphing of a 1950s teen rebel figure into a star of...

Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga: A Frontier Mission in South Texas (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory) Best Price: $93.19 In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial mission Espiritu Santo de...	Tales of a Low-Rent Birder Best Price: $8.40 Birders are an odd, if endearing lot, and nowhere is this more apparent (and freely admitted)...	The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature (Texas Pan American Series) "This is a significant contribution to Latin American literature, specifically Mexican...	Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino Best Price: $151.14 In this book, Dr. Davis and his contributors bring to the general public the cultural...	Learn about . . . Texas Birds Best Price: $6.90 Children from six to twelve are introduced to the most frequently seen and interesting Texas...

Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier Best Price: $34.95 Spanish, Mexican, and American military engineers played an especially important role in mapping...	The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism (Modern Middle East) Best Price: $23.50 This is one of those books which perhaps has influence in academic understanding of a region,...	The Religion of the Etruscans Best Price: $84.96 This is an excellent compilation of essays by scholars in the field published this year. Edited...	Big Bend: A Homesteader's Story Best Price: $11.01 This book has a magic about it that can only be fully appreciated among those who know and love...	Portraits Best Price: $288.65 With a personal space and specific time and lighting, a photographer can allow the viewer to...

Backcountry Mexico: A Traveler's Guide and Phrase Book Best Price: $17.00 I was a Spanish major in college, but would honestly have no idea how to express myself in a lot...	The Birds of South America: Volume 1: The Oscine Passerines Best Price: $65.17 This really is a must for everyone who's seriously interested in South-American birds. The...	The Wiles of Men and Other Stories Best Price: $111.52 Bakr touches on many issues that face women and others in modern Egyptian society (also Arab). ...	Taming the Wild Mushroom: A Culinary Guide to Market Foraging Best Price: $12.88 Many mushroom hunters prefer to do their foraging in the marketplace, where all the mushrooms...	Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America Best Price: $50.29 I bought this book as a text book for a Latin American art class, and it by far exceeded by...

Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe Best Price: $30.00 The Weimar Republic of Germany, covering the post-World War I period of civil and governmental...	Love Songs of the New Kingdom Finally a book of Egyptian love poetry for people with enough of Budge to recognize a hieroglyph...	Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750 Best Price: $14.43 Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and...	What is la hispanidad?: A conversation (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) Best Price: $10.60 Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their...	The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico Best Price: $25.00 This book is for anyone living in Mexico or planning on living in Mexico. It examines the truth...

The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell T) Best Price: $18.51 A rare diary illustrated with previously unpublished period drawings that records some of the...	The Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem (Corrie Herring Hooks Series) Best Price: $35.00 Though small among its woodpecker relatives, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker poses a huge dilemma...	From Uncertain to Blue (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series) Best Price: $34.65 "In the beginning, there was no real plan, just a road trip that became a journey." In...	The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization Best Price: $87.22 The native Maya peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize have been remarkably...

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