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Portuguese Memory Book
A New Approach to Vocabulary Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Mnemonics is an age-old device for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. The Portuguese Memory Book, by William F. Harrison and Dorothy Welker, makes use of this reliable memory help in a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful, sardonic, touching, and heroic to help both students...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Healing practices in Mesoamerica span a wide range, from traditional folk medicine with roots reaching back into the prehispanic era to westernized biomedicine. These sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing practices have attracted attention from researchers and the public alike, as interest in...
Desert Duty
On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
While politicians and pundits endlessly debate immigration policy, U.S. Border Patrol agents put their lives on the line to enforce immigration law. In a day's work, agents may catch a load of narcotics, apprehend groups of people entering the country illegally, and intercept a potential terrorist....
Histories and Stories from Chiapas
Border Identities in Southern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The 1994 Zapatista uprising of Chiapas' Maya peoples against the Mexican government shattered the state myth that indigenous groups have been successfully assimilated into the nation. In this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aída Hernández delves into the experience of a Maya group,...
Corporate Crops
Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control...
Creating Outdoor Classrooms
Schoolyard Habitats and Gardens for the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Schoolyards have come a long way from the barren playgrounds that many people remember. Today's school campuses often feature gardens in which students can learn about native plants and wildlife, grow vegetables and fruit, explore cultural traditions, practice reading and math skills, and use their...
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
Beyond the Pyramid
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illuminating study, Cynthia Steele explores how the writers of the next two decades responded to the massacre and to the social crisis it signaled in terms of political change and gender identity.
Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
This pioneering ethnography looks at women and drinking in the Highland Chiapas, Mexico, community of San Pedro Chenalh to address the issues of women's identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. In a new epilogue, Christine Eber describes how events of the last decade, including the...
by Miles O. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Black tides of spilled oil pollute the world's coasts with depressing regularity, giving scientists ample opportunity to observe their environmental impacts and learn how to clean up and restore the affected shorelines. Miles O. Hayes has been a leader in this work for over twenty years. In this highly...
Screening Stephen King
Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer’s work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and...
Punk Slash! Musicals
Tracking Slip-Sync on Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Punk Slash! Musicals is the first book to deal extensively with punk narrative films, specifically British and American punk rock musicals produced from roughly 1978 to 1986. Films such as Jubilee, Breaking Glass, Times Square, Smithereens, Starstruck, and Sid and Nancy represent a convergence between...
Among Women
From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest...
The Film Photonovel
A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post–World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons...
by Mary Neel Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In the dense, shady rain forest, it's easy for a little guy to get lost from his mother. When a young okapi wanders away from his mom, he discovers the world of people and learns that he is a very special animal, different from all the rest. But still he misses his mother and their home in the forest....