A marvelous, organ-by-organ journey through the body eclectic…Irresistible [and] impressive. John J. Ross, Wall Street
JournalThe human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fact of our lives. It is the inspiration for art, ...
An American invention, the cocktail fluctuated in popularity following Prohibition and had firmly taken root
in the culinary landscape by the 1990s. The Bay Area played a significant role in reviving it--as much as New York and London. From the ...
Winner, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award (American Society for Ethnohistory) Comanches have engaged Euro-Americans' curiosity for
three centuries. Their relations with Spanish, French, and Anglo-Americans on the southern Plains have become a highly resonant part of the mythology of the American ...
In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish
a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang Ling, the first Celestial Master. Facing an impending apocalypse caused by centuries of sin, Zhang ...
This innovative volume selectively assesses three centuries of inquiry into the role of communications in
the history of civilization. It challenges the conventional assumption that inquiry into the human consequences of living in a communications-dominated age began in the middle ...
Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands.
Susan Vincent examines four aid projects in the area, each following distinct international trends, that took place between 1984 and 2008 within the context of ...
Through interviews, written testimonies and documents, Frank de Jesús Acosta reconstructs the development of Barrios
Unidos, the Santa Cruz-based organization founded to prevent gang violence among inner-city ethnich youth.
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting
an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening ...