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José Limón and La Malinche

The Dancer and the Dance

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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014

José Limón (1908-1972) was one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century. Hailed by the New York Times as "the finest male dancer of his time" when the José Limón Dance Company debuted in 1947, Limón was also a renowned choreographer who won two Dance Magazine Awards and a...
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With Courage and Common Sense

Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Women who were sixty or older at the turn of the twenty-first century have lived through some of recent history's most momentous moments—and yet these women often believe that their personal lives and stories are insignificant, not worthy of being recorded for future generations. To change that perception...
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Santiago's Children

What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile

by Steve Reifenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little...
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Making Faces, Playing God

Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup

by Thomas Morawetz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Wearing a mask—putting on another face—embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy...
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Founding Finance

How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation

by William Hogeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both...
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The Fight to Save Juárez

Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War

by Ricardo C. Ainslie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly 20 percent of the country's drug-related...
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by Bruce Mannheim
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013

The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is currently...
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Yutopian

Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina

by Joan M. Gero
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly,...
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Our House in the Clouds

Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador

by Judy Blankenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous...
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Salvation in New England

Selections from the Sermons of the First Preachers

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

The sermon as crafted by the early New England preachers was the most prominent literary form of its day, yet the earliest Puritan texts have as a rule been available only in rare-book collections. This anthology of sermons of the first generation of preachers fills a serious gap in American literature....
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Saddam's War of Words

Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait

by Jerry M. Long
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009

From a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent...
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Red Desert

History of a Place

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North...
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History of the Inca Empire

An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions

by Father Bernabe Cobo
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on...
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Bolívar and the War of Independence

Memorias del General Daniel Florencio O’Leary, Narración

by Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Robert F. McNerney
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them...
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