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A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar.…

Kniha 9780520293281 Black against Empire Joshua Bloom,Martin,Waldo E.,Jr.…

The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and…

Provides an introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social…

Suitable for instructors and independent language students, this title provides the answers to the exercises.…

Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over…

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Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global…

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Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global…

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Following on the success of her books on Brunello di Montalcino, renowned author and wine critic Kerin O'Keefe takes readers…

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In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history of California-a…

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek…

This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western…

American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and…

In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by…

S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an…

It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner…

In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as…

A translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or Scripture on Great Peace,…

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Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime…

Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, this title describes the contrasting organizational…

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With a new preface and a new epilogue co-written with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez, this updated edition of Fresh Fruit, Broken…

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Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces-supported by Britain and the United States-has waged…

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How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation. Dreamers and Schemers chronicles…

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of…

Explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This book includes shocking details demonstrating…

Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral…

This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of Ballybran, a small village on the Dingle…

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and…

Instead of ambush, skirmish, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century BC devised a ferocious,…

Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric…

Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best known for his highly…

Examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. This book…

Capitalism today commodifies and monetizes all aspects of our lives. Dale Chapman shows how, in the name of honoring art,…

Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as…

Analyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and…

Proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative…

Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and…

Introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. This book shows how reproductive…