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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking interpretation of the engraved stone plaques found in southwestern Portugal and Spain, with important implications for anthropological thought on the origins of writing and recording systems, the role of memory in the creation of social iTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Themes Chapter 2. Variations Chapter 3. Biographies Chapter 4. Agency and Ambiguity Chapter 5. An Iberian Writing System Chapter 6. Memory and Identity in Neolithic Iberia Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisA boon for students and instructors of the language, culture, and literature of the Portuguese-speaking world, this language resource manual delves beyond the realm of traditional language textbooks.Trade Review"This book provides an incredible wealth of information, including details and examples not found elsewhere. A worthy project." John Jensen Professor of Modern Languages, Florida International UniversityTable of Contents The Portuguese-Speaking World Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations, Symbols, and Diacritical Marks Phonetic Symbols Linguistic and Grammatical Terms in English and Portuguese Definitions of Linguistic and Grammatical Terms Orthographic Reforms Sound System Oral Vowels Oral Diphthongs Nasal Vowels Nasal Diphthongs Portuguese and Corresponding Spanish Vowels and Diphthongs Consonants Writing System and Accentuation Alphabet Letters Used to Transcribe Portuguese Sounds Capitalization Punctuation Marks and Commonly Used Typographic Symbols Diacritical Marks Syllables and Word Division Stress and Accentuation Words Stressed on the Second-to-Last Syllable (Proparoxytones) Words Stressed on the Next-to-Last Syllable (Paroxytones) Words Stressed on the Last Syllable (Oxytones) Portuguese, Spanish, and English Cognates Cognates Portuguese and Corresponding Spanish and English Sounds and Letters Portuguese and Corresponding Spanish Sounds and Letters Portuguese and Corresponding Spanish and English Prefixes Portuguese and Corresponding Spanish and English Suffixes Differences in Stress between Portuguese and Spanish Cognates True, Partial, and False Cognates Grammatical Categories Articles Definite and Indefinite Articles Contractions of Prepositions with Articles Nouns and Adjectives Adjectives Plural of Nouns and Adjectives Gender of Nouns and Adjectives Differences in Gender between Portuguese and Spanish Noun Cognates Placement of Adjectives with Nouns Diminutives and Augmentatives Numbers and Numerals Adverbs Comparatives and Superlatives Comparisons of Equality Comparisons of Superiority and Inferiority Relative Superlatives Absolute Superlatives Personal Pronouns Subject Pronouns Forms of Address Prepositional Pronouns and Contractions with Prepositions Direct Object Pronouns Indirect Object Pronouns Placement of Object Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns Contractions of Prepositions with Demonstratives Relative Words Interrogative Words Affirmative, Negative, and Indefinite Words Prepositions Verbs and Corresponding Prepositions Conjunctions Verbs Impersonal and Personal Infinitive Past Participle and Compound Tenses and Forms Passive Voice Indicative Mood Present Tense Forms Uses Present Perfect Tense Imperfect (Preterite Imperfect) Tense Forms Uses Preterite (Preterite Perfect) Tense Forms Uses Preterite versus Imperfect Simple and Compound Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Tense Future Tense Future Perfect Tense Conditional Tense Conditional Perfect Tense Subjunctive Mood Present Tense Present Perfect Tense Past (Imperfect) Tense Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Tense Future Tense Future Perfect Tense Subjunctive in Subordinate Clauses Subjunctive in Noun Clauses Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses Subjunctive in Adverb Clauses Subjunctive in Conditional Sentences Subjunctive in Common Expressions Present Participle and Progressive Tenses and Forms Imperative Mood Impersonal Verbs and Expressions Verbs That Take an Indirect Object without a Direct Object Ser versus Estar Ficar Ter and Haver Haver and Fazer in Expressions of Time Acabar Saber versus Conhecer Verb and Other Grammar Charts Regular Verbs: Derivation of Tenses and Forms Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs Verb Tenses and Forms Present Indicative Imperfect (Preterite Imperfect) Indicative Preterite (Preterite Perfect) Indicative Simple Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Indicative Future Indicative Conditional Present Subjunctive Past (Imperfect) Subjunctive Future Subjunctive Personal Infinitive Past Participle Compound Tenses Present Participle and Progressive Tenses Imperative (Command Forms) Verbs and Expressions That Require the Subjunctive Personal Pronouns and Possessives Contractions of Direct with Indirect Object Pronouns Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns, and Contractions Contractions of Prepositions Relative Words Interrogative Words Affirmative and Negative Words Indefinite Words Irregular Comparatives and Relative Superlatives "Synthetic" Absolute Superlative Adjectives Adverbs and Adverb Phrases Prepositions Verb List Works Consulted Reference Works Textbooks Index of Topics Index of Portuguese Words and Phrases

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Book SynopsisHow culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.Trade Review"This is one of the best accounts of a place's history and meaning I have ever read. Low's work should be widely used in courses in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape architecture, and historic preservation, as well as Latin American studies and anthropology. What a wonderful book!" Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies, Yale University "Combining ethnography, history, and spatial theory, this interdisciplinary book brings the Latin American plaza to life as a spatial expression of culture and politics. A paean to the plaza as democratic public space, it is as absorbing as it is unconventional." Neil Smith, Department of Geography and Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction Chapter One: Notes from the Field: A Personal Account Chapter Two: Public Space and Culture: The Case of the Latin American Plaza Part II: Histories Chapter Three: The History of the Plaza in San José, Costa Rica: The Political Symbolism of Public Space Chapter Four: The European History of the Plaza: Power Relations and Architectural Interpretation Chapter Five: The Indigenous History of the Plaza: The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations Part III: Ethnographies Chapter Six: Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space Chapter Seven: Constructing Difference: The Social and Spatial Boundaries of Everyday Life Chapter Eight: Public Space and Protest: The Plaza as Art and Commodity Part IV: Conversations Chapter Nine: The Park and the Plaza in Costa Rican Literature: Imagined Places Chapter Ten: Conversations on the Plaza: Remembered Places Chapter Eleven: Public Space, Politics, and Democracy Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe only book of its kind on the market, this monolingual Spanish textbook trains intermediate-level Spanish speakers (either in the classroom or for self-study) in legal terminology and the contexts in which it is used in Latin America and Spain.Trade Review"El derecho en español, as a workbook, could serve as a good source of exercises geared toward bilingual attorneys and other professionals in need of a better grasp of the legal systems in place throughout Spanish-speaking jurisdictions." * The Interpreter and Translator Trainer *Table of ContentsPrefacio, Profesor Alejandro M. GarroPrólogo y agradecimientosIntroducción: Cómo usar este libro1. En la universidad y en la profesión legal2. Derecho constitucional3. Derecho contractual4. Derecho bancario5. Derecho penal6. Derecho de familia7. Extranjería8. Derechos humanos9. Litigación y arbitraje internacional10. Cine jurídicoAnexo: Respuestas

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking exploration of experimental Latin American film applies Deleuzian theories of cinema in a comparative approach to examine multiple genres and works from the most important national cinematic traditionsTrade ReviewClearly organized and thoroughly researched, the book boasts a useful scholarly apparatus. * Choice *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Mise-en-Scène, a Seemingly International Staging Part 1. A Neonoir Skew to the Action-Image Chapter 1. A Shimmering Suture: Fabián Bielinsky's Epileptic El aura Chapter 2. Slippery Criminal Pleasures: Intermediality and Voyeurism in Jorge Furtado's O homem que copiava Chapter 3. Endless Quest: Chasing Sex, Lies, and Money at the Gates of Hell in Heitor Dhalia's O cheiro do ralo Part 2. Road Movies Chapter 4. The Paradoxical Effect of the Documentary: Walter Salles's Central do Brasil Chapter 5. Twin Piques: The Double Discourse of Carlos Sorín's El camino de San Diego Chapter 6. Orphans' Solidarity: María Victoria Menis's El cielito Part 3. Drama Chapter 7. Sculpting Time: Inés de Oliveira Cézar's Como pasan las horas Chapter 8. The Past Engulfs the Present: Josué Méndez's Días de Santiago Part 4. Experimental Auteurism Chapter 9. Whether or Not to End One's Life: Carlos Reygadas's Japón Chapter 10. Crime and Self-Inflicted Punishment: Carlos Reygadas's Batalla en el cielo Part 5. Experimental Auteurism and Intertextuality Chapter 11. The Miracle of Female Bonding in Patriarchal Society: Carlos Reygadas's Stellet licht (2008) Chapter 12. Cyclical Scapegoating: Inés de Oliveira Cézar's Extranjera Chapter 13. The Irrevocable Nature of Curses: Inés de Oliveira Cézar's El recuento de los daños Chapter 14. Splintered Mirrors, Echoes, and Reverberations: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Madrigal Part 6. Experimental Pseudo-Documentary Chapter 15. Room with a View: Fernando Pérez Valdés's Suite Habana Chapter 16. Life Is and Is Not: Paz Encina's Hamaca paraguaya Conclusion: Possible Futures Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe history of a small town in Mexico.Table of Contents Abbreviations Prologue. A Delimitation and Justification of the Subject Some Remarks on Method Self-Defense, Self-Criticism, and Aims Note concerning the Second Edition Three Beginnings The Mountain Landscape An Early History of Construction and Destruction A Society of Cowboys Part One. Half a Century in Search of Communion 1.The Ranchos (1861-1882) The Subdivision and Sale of the Cojumatlán Hacienda Economics of the Ranchos Ranching Society Religion, Games, and Insecurity 2.The Town (1883-1900) The Generation of the Snowstorm The Founding of San José de Gracia The Great Fright of 1900 3. The Ranchos and the Town (1901-1910) The Business World and Social Life Amusements and Religious Dutiesin Padre Othón's Small World Winds from the Outside World All in All, Half a Century of Peaceful and Orderly Progress Part Two. Thirty Years of Suffering 4. The Mexican Revolution (1910-1924) The Madero Revolution The Agents of Revolution in San José The Puntada Gang, José Inés Chivez Garcia, and the Spanish Influenza Gathering Clouds 5. The Cristero Revolution (1925-1932) A Few Months Before The Uprising After Tizapin San José de Gracia Lifts Its Head Again 6. The Agrarian Revolution (1933-1943) The Petitioners, the Petitioned, and the Apportioners of Land The Origin of Nine Ejidos Padre Federico Returns and President Cárdenas Comes to Call Incipit Vita Nova Thirty Years of Turmoil: Statistics and Concepts Part Three. Twenty-five Years of Change 7. Withdrawal and Expansion (1943-1956) At the Mercy of the Outside World The Symptoms of Transformation Seasonal Migration to the United States The Permanent Move to Mexico City 8. From Yesterday to Today (1957-1967) Priority of the Economic Factor Health, Water, Electricity, Education, Telephones, and Television Two Hundred Words More about Change New Aspects of the Landscape and the Town 9. The Upper Crust The Rich and the Middle-Income Group Politics from the Top Down, and Vice Versa Religion and Some of Its Environs Pleasurable Occasions and a Digression concerning Happiness 10. The Underdogs Small Landowners and Men Who Work for Other Men The Woman Produces Children, Meals, and Art Today Many Youngsters Go to School Human Pests and Other Sources of Annoyance Three Conclusions Timeless Things Sayings of Yesterday and Today A Small Epilogue and a Postscript Glossary Works Cited

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reporting for China is a fascinating and imaginatively conceived study of Chinese correspondents who work abroad. . . . Readers beleaguered by recent US sparring over fake news and alternative facts will find in this study a refreshingly concrete exploration of the tension, unblinkingly relayed by Nyíri. . . . The book offers, in a very accessible style, a nuanced and vivid account of a domain that has long been subject to overly facile assumptions about what freedom of speech actually entails and how it comes to be curtailed." -- Louisa Schein * American Ethnologist *"As the pioneering work in this field, Nyiri’s vibrant and important book opens up a lot of new questions about China’s global media expansion and soft power attempts. It spearheads an exciting new direction in the analysis of Chinese media and cultural studies." -- Maria Repnikova * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"The first extensive, systematic study of Chinese journalists who work as foreign correspondents for Chinese audiences. . . . A must-read for those interested in the machinations of Chinese politics and the Chinese state. . . . A fine example of how anthropologists study the media . . . valuable not just for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of media, communications, and journalism." -- Wanning Sun * The China Journal *"This is an original, nuanced, and informative study that deserves a wide audience." * Pacific Affairs *"Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World is a fascinating account of the expanding ways the Chinese are engaging with the world. . . . [and] is successful not only in revealing the hidden dynamics and tensions that compel Chinese foreign correspondents to report the way they do, but also in shedding light on the Chinese government’s intentions and influence as these pertain to the news media." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: China and the World 1. The Worldwide Expansion of China’s Media 2. How Stories are Made 3. How Correspondents Work 4. Finding the “China Peg” Epilogue: Cosmopolitan Professionals in the Service of the Nation

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Carefully researched, thoroughly documented, and very engaging, this is a book that everyone who travels needs to read and understand." * Choice *"Bike Battles is an enjoyable read that highlights important historical conflicts that shaped our current roadways. It is accessible and appropriate for any undergraduate class or person interested in bicycling." -- Lindsay Parks Pieper * Sports in American History *"A measure of any book is whether it makes you think beyond its pages, and Bike Battles did just that for me. My dad used to tell me that if I got only one thing out of a book — an interesting fact, a point of view I hadn’t previously considered, something helpful to my life or just entertainment — the book was worth its cover price. By that standard Bike Battles is a bargain. It allowed me to see the last 150 years of riding in America like a mosaic on the wall. I won’t look at parked cars the same way again. The book ought to give today’s bicycle advocates a sense of their place in history and make them proud to continue the battle." -- Grant Petersen * Wall Street Journal *"The book provides in scholarly and very readable style an analysis of cycling as it serves as a locus of conflict over the use and ownership of public commons. . . . Although bikes are the primary material theme of the book, they are a means to illustrate larger social, cultural, and political processes." -- Peter Cox * Journal of Transport History *"These colorful references, coupled with Longhurst's light and natural writing style, make Bike Battles easy to read." -- Amy Goetzman * MinnPost *"Longhurst’s accounts build on a truly innovative use of multiple sources, from legal texts, design manuals, and newspaper articles to sitcoms and traffic education films. These chapters are pleasant reads and convincing narratives. . . . In going beyond the present, this book helps us understand why motorists so often consider the road as their birthright. It is not because of an oft-claimed American love affair with the car, Longhurst asserts, but because of those multiple lost bike battles during the past hundred years." -- Martin Emanuel * Transfers *"In six chapters, [Longhurst] traces the history of what is essentially road-sharing: first horses and carts mixed with pedestrians; then trolleys and buses; then, after WWII, an overwhelming shift, funded by federal highway dollars, to the primacy of the car." * Seattle Weekly *"An excellent, enlightening new book." -- Knute Berger * Seattle Magazine *"Longhurst tackles this debate between bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians by exploring the different mediums Americans have used to create opinions on the bicycle, such as: popular songs, advertising, films, newspapers, and television." * Momentum Magazine (2015 Best New Bike Book) *"Longhurst has provided an accessible and highly readable story of the bicycle. . . . [He] has taken us on a legal and cultural ramble on the American road as well as given us a useful model of engaged and responsible urban history scholarship." -- Joshua Lupkin * Journal of American History *"Reading Bike Battles is like riding down a smooth path with some unexpected sightseeing along the way. The writing is accessible and fun to read. . . . Especially relevant to a generation of students who are more likely to consider forms of transportation beyond the car, this book is a promising addition to a history, urban planning, or environmental studies class." -- Margot Higgins * Environmental History *"Bike Battles provides a well-researched foundation into many of the issues of bicycle planning today, and is especially valuable by framing the battles as more than just legal rights." -- Peter Furth * Transport Reviews *"Longhurst provides general readers with a sprightly history of the political and legal battles over cycling from the late nineteenth century to the present . . . The bicyclists currently navigating traffic-choked streets, inhaling exhaust and darting between behemoth SUVs, like many other aspects of the contemporary urban landscape, Longhurst asserts, represent the legal and institutional legacy of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." -- Bruce J. Schulman * Reviews in American History *"You should absolutely buy and hold [Bike Battles] up as a righteous rebuke the next time someone complains that ‘the war on cars is real.’ Longhurst maps out the perfect storm of American consumer trends, policy decisions, and historical events that led to that car cutting you off downtown just now." -- Megan Burbank * Portland Mercury *"Tells the fascinating story of the legal and political battles over bicycles on the road. . . . Longhurst’s timely study shows that the arguments over bikes and road space are not new and also holds lessons for present-day bicycle advocates who would be wise to avoid the mistakes that scuttled earlier efforts to build bike infrastructure in US cities . . . will be of great interest to anyone interested in the history of bike policy and roads in the US." -- John Lloyd * Boy on a Bike! blog *"Intelligent, relevant and enlightening, Bike Battles is what all history should be. The reader needn’t be a policy wonk or a cycling enthusiast to appreciate the lessons, and its array of old photographs and sketches (bike commuters in 1902, “high riders” in Boston in 1880) are delightful. All in all, it’s a worthy ride." -- Jennifer Graham * The Hippo *"His book, while academically rigorous, is easily accessible to the general public. In fact, I found it a page-turner as would any one who rides a bike on the streets of any American city or rural place." -- Dave Cieslewicz * Isthmus *"In six chapters, [Longhurst] traces the history of what is essentially road-sharing: first horses and carts mixed with pedestrians; then trolleys and buses; then, after WWII, an overwhelming shift, funded by federal highway dollars, to the primacy of the car." -- Joe Garvin * City Living Seattle *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Get Out of the Road! 2. The Right Sort of People 3. The Rules of the Road 4. Victory Bike Battles 5. 1950's Syndrome 6. Bikes Are Beautiful Conclusion Acknowledgments Note on Citations and Sources Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A richly-layered overview of the journalistic landscape in Malaysia and Indonesia." -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *"Steele’s study is well situated within the literature on Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. It provides an important corrective not only to simplistic assumptions that Islam cannot allow for free expression, balance, or critique but also to superficial understandings of how religious values shape people’s public activities." * Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia *"Steele’s book presents a landmark work, setting the stage for more nuanced engagements with contemporary Muslim practices of journalism in a world of contested religious ideals, social values, and political projects." * Journal of Islamic Studies *"Janet Steele’s book really is an eye-opener for anybody interested in comparative perspectives on journalism ethics. She skillfully deconstructs any possible assumption that ethical reflections in modern media organization is a privilege of the West." * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *"Janet Steele’s new book on Islam and journalism in Southeast Asia is a refreshing tour de force of qualitative research, grounded in years of in-depth interviews and participant observation at five influential print publications. . . . this is an extremely important book that sets new standards for qualitative research on the internal workings of newsrooms, and the world views that prevail there." * Journal of Press Politics *

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Book SynopsisAble to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West (Xiyou ji) and lives on in literature and popular culture internationally. In this far-ranging study Hongmei Sun discusses the thousand-year evolution of this figure in imperial China and multimedia adaptations in Republican, Maoist, and post-socialist China and the United States, including the film Princess Iron Fan (1941), Maoist revolutionary operas, online creative writings influenced by Hong Kong film A Chinese Odyssey (1995), and Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese. At the intersection of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, film studies, and translation and adaptation studies, Transforming Monkey provides a renewed understanding of the Monkey King character as a rebel and trickster, and demonstrates his impact on the Chinese self-Trade Review"Sun’s well-executed book deserves the attention not only of the fans of the Monkey King, but also of those interested in the broad questions of the techniques, the status, and the implications of adaptation, rewriting, and representation more generally." * Journal of Asian Studies *"A delightful work of literary history with the advantage of incorporating several media. . . . Sun’s study deploys the Monkey King to bridge the gap between classical and modern/contemporary literature in a way that allows students of traditional Chinese and modern popular literature and media to connect." * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"[R]ecommend[ed]... as a contribution to the scholarly literature on European–Asian cultural interaction in an important period of modern history." * Asian Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is no one better to synthesize more than a century of research on behavior and ecology of Pacific salmon and trout. Quinn has marshalled his extensive experience in conducting salmon and trout research from Alaska to New Zealand to produce a technically comprehensive, highly readable, and beautifully illustrated volume as befits these noble fishes." * Quarterly Review of Biology *"The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout has rightly been described as a classic... It shows us exactly how in the right hands a huge volume of detailed and complex research can be presented in a manner that is highly authoritative and at the same time highly engaging." * Environmental Biology of Fishes *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bhatt’s ethnographic study illustrates in detail the lived reality of the men, women and children who make up this population of transmigrants – moving from India to the US, back to India and oftentimes back again to the States. Whilst focusing on the gendered dimension of these movements, the book presents a broader context of how personal and professional expectations and aspirations are affected by legal frameworks, family demands and considerations about future migrations. . . . [a] rich empiracal work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) *"An intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle . . . highlights the calculated decisions many of these young families make to ensure their own financial stability and maintain connections with both U.S. and India." * International Examiner *"intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle in Washington state." * International Examiner *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In her fine-grained analysis of local realities and the globalization of religion, Tâm Ngô has delivered an important contribution to Hmong and Vietnamese studies, the study of religion, Southeast Asian ethnography, and globalized evangelical Protestantism." -- Pascal Bourdeaux * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *"Not only is the book remarkable for its collection and use of hard-to-get data from a wide array of sources in Vietnam and abroad, including extended periods of fieldwork in a Hmong village, but also for the story it recounts of conversion not by mission on the ground but via broadcast from the air." -- Nick Cheesman * New Books in Southeast Asian Studies (NBN) *"This book on the conversion of the Vietnamese Hmong is important because, to an extent, the history of modern Vietnam is a history of contending with Christianity. . . . Ngô argues that beginning in the 1980s the Vietnamese Hmong, disillusioned by broken promises and oppressive developmental policies, have seized Protestantism as a route to empowerment and modernity." -- Mai Na M. Lee * Pacific Affairs *"Represents a great achievement as the summation of extensive independent fieldwork on a topic that is essentially the convergence of three 'politically sensitive' topics in Vietnam: religious change, ethnic politics, and transnational groups. Ngô has become the first academic to publish English-language research about this topic based on ethnographic methods, which is no mean feat given the government restrictions placed on academic research in upland Vietnam." -- Seb Rumsby * Southeast Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Focusing exclusively on premodern travel literature written in classical Chinese, Hargett (Univ. at Albany, SUNY) adroitly traces the development of this literary genre in China from the Six Dynasties through the late Ming. . . . Readers will enjoy the fine balance between the author’s analysis and his translation of excerpts from representative travel essays. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"This long-awaited, first book-length literary history of imperial Chinese travel prose in English is an impeccably researched guide to the Chinese literature of “movement across the planet’s surface.” Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools is eminently readable, with little exoteric or specialist vocabulary. While written primarily for those interested in China studies, it is certainly accessible to the general reader or to the enthusiast of Western travel literature." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *"This book will be welcomed by specialists and should be mandatory reading in a variety of disciplines. Its accessibility will also make it useful in the classroom for teachers at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As the culmination of a sinological career devoted to the translation and study of travel writing, Jade Mountains & Cinnabar Pools is an invaluable contribution to students and scholars in an array offields." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools succeeds in sweeping the armchair traveler along on a journey through both time and space, along a river journey with Fan Chengda and Lu You, and even beyond the confines of China with Faxian and Xuanzang, to landscapes and travel accounts heretofore unexplored." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) *"Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools offers the first book-length, comprehensive genre study and history of Chinese youji游記, or travel literature in English language." * Monumenta Serica *"[P]rovides a refreshing analysis of the fledgling field of studies in Chinese travel literature." * IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies) *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stephen J. Pyne writes about fire as if he were on fire, with searing, consuming heat and light. When he looks at fire he sees not biological catastrophe but social illumination and natural renewal." * Seattle Times *"Fire: A Brief History packs into one slender volume a sweeping tale of fire, and man's interactions with fire, from prehistory to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Pyne's perceptive words and tightly organized sentences allow him to suggest many thought-provoking ideas and to bring to his audience a fascinating story of fire's role in shaping our world." * H-Net Reviews *"No one is better qualified to teach us about fire’s history, fire’s crucial role in shaping landscapes, than Stephen Pyne. His discussions of forestry, land-management elitism, pastoral incendiarism, nature reserves, the conservation movement and the ecology of disturbance are profoundly valuable." * New York Times *"Pyne is the world’s leading authority on the history of fire, and his erudition is phenomenal. He offers us a broad panorama of ecological and human history in a framework of geology and geography. He shows what a great impact fire has had in shaping landscapes, flora, and fauna all over the world, and how in the late Pleistocene humans have, as it were, joined forces with fire by learning to manipulate it." * Science *"An excellent overview of why the history of humanity cannot be told without the history of fire. . . . An excellent book and strongly recommended for all audiences, especially those with interests in anthropology, geography, history, natural sciences, or the humanities." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Guha’s expertise in early modern Indian history allows him to explore “social structure and historical narration in western India” in great depth." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions toprovide the rst intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historicalmemory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes todebates beyond the eld of history that complicate the understanding of objectivityand documentation in a seemingly post-truth world." * New Books in South Asian Studies *"Guha’s book comes at a time when the authority of specialist historians is increasingly under challenge, while the gap between academic and public history seems larger and more in open conflict than ever. Through meticulous presentation of how the practice of history writing is shaped by the social-political context of the recording agents, Guha problematises the view that history writing can be seen as an autonomous cognitive practice of a specialised group." * South Asia Research *"[D]evelops important arguments about the public significance of historical knowledge and the essential role of historians in public life." * History and Theory *"[O]ffers the most recent reflection on historiography, history, and memory by a leader in the discipline of South Asian history. Given publications spanning a range of topics in South Asian history, such as caste in social and cultural history, environmental history, health and population history, and agrarian history, Guha gives a veteran practitioner’s perspective on history and memory in South Asian history." * South Asian History and Culture *"[A] welcome addition to the burgeoning scholarship around the practices of history writing in India and its relationship with the public sphere." * Contemporary South Asia *"[E]xtraordinary scholarship." * H-Asia (H-Net) *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[W]ill be of interest to scholars and policy makers of East Asia who are interested in theoretical frameworks to explicate the transitions in this part of the world." * Journal of Chinese Political Science *"[A] timely effort to integrate our understanding of environmental action in four major countries of East Asia. This book steps beyond the democracy/autocracy binary to point out the many ways that they have followed a similar development pathway, just at different times. This volume offers three commonalities" * China Quarterly *"[A] truly interdisciplinary endeavour that contributes to environmental and Asian studies. Given the relative paucity of edited materials that explicitly apply a comparative lens to East Asia’s environment, this is a much-welcomed scholarly intervention. Besides the impressive breadth of topics, this brilliantly edited collection ensures that the chapters are not only in conversation with each other, but also consistently engaged with the eco-developmentalism concept. Such strong cohesion enhances a reader’s sense of being able to piece together a fascinating yet complex picture of environmental governance and advocacy in East Asia." * Pacific Affairs *"[A] highly readable volume…Given its relevance to the ongoing climate emergency, this book should interest scholars, activists, and policy makers of the region and beyond." * Pacific Affairs *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Whether you are new to sustainability as a counterpart to historic preservation or a seasoned professional who knows LEED backward and forward, there is much inspiration to be found in Building Reuse." * Washington Trust for Historic Preservation *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is an excellent example of the application of archaeological research to a larger anthropological problem, in this case the anthropology of slavery and plantation economies in the Caribbean." * Choice *"This is a well-written book that has the added advantage of demonstrating the value of archaeology for the study of history, environmental history not least." * H-Net *"In this fine study of colonial Dominica, Mark W. Hauser brings together the history of slavery, the environment, and the growing field of histories of water. His interdisciplinary approach unveils new perspectives on known events and provides fresh insights into largely forgotten histories." * The Middle Ground Journal *

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Book SynopsisCHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title Illuminates how global solidarity defined African American politics and invigorated the African diasporaDuring the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957 Ghanaian independence celebration, the optimism and challenges of African independence leaders were publicized to African Americans through community-based newspapers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Inspired by African independenceand frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms in the USa new generation of Black Power activists embarked on nonviolent direct action campaigns and built alternative institutions designed as spaces of freedom from racial subjugation. Featuring interviews with activists, extensive archival research, and media analysis, Robin Hayes reveals how Black Power and African independence activists cTrade Review"With accessible writing that will engage both general readers and scholars, Hayes’s finely crafted book effectively shows that civil rights require sustained collective action and solidarity." * Library Journal *"My kind of book!" -- Opal Tometti, co-founder of Black Lives Matter"[Hayes's] work is truly transnational, crossing many borders, and interdisciplinary, grounded in history, sociology, and politics...Highly recommended." * Choice *"Love for Liberation provides an accessible and usable playbook of transnational histories and movement stories in a dynamic format. It presents new ways of thinking about and applying research on the globalization of race, Black culture, and the diaspora underground's relationship to social change." * Peace and Change: Journal of Peace Research *

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Book SynopsisConfronting the role of foodie culture in gentrificationHaving discovered the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of authentic eateries run byand forimmigrants and people of color. Fueled by media attention and capitalized on by developers, this interest in ethnic food and places contributes to gentrification, and the very people who produced these vibrant foodscapes are increasingly excluded from them. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, geographer Pascale Joassart-Marcelli traces the transformation of three urban San Diego neighborhoods whose foodscapes are shifting from serving the needs of longtime minoritized residents who face limited food access to pleasing the tastes of wealthier and whiter newcomers. The $16 Taco illustrates how food can both emplace and displace immigrants, shedding light on the larger process of gentrification and the emotional, Trade Review"Joassart-Marcelli explores high-level theories about race, ethnicity, economics, systemic racism, and other factors that shape the food system, and then situates those theories within the city of San Diego... And part of the power of this book comes from the reality that every city is home to the same kinds of stories that Joassart-Marcelli uncovered in San Diego." * Civil Eats *"The book offers a contextualized and complex account of the making and remaking of urban spaces through food, and avoids romanticizing or dismissing the everyday practices of local residents." * The AAG Review of Books *"Jossart-Marcelli’s work makes a useful contribution to the literature on urban evolution and the processes—demographic, political, and financial—that perpetuate cycles of neighborhood ascension, decline, and gentrification... As the geography and culture of urban foodscapes continue to grow and change, Jossart-Marcelli has given readers plenty to chew on." * The Journal of Urban Affairs *"The $16 Taco reflects the best of food-related research and writing today, as it links the foods that sustain each of us with social and cultural practices that shape the material spaces we inhabit." * California History *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With memories and stories at the forefront, the book is a magisterial contribution to the discipline of anthropology." * North American Congress on Latin America *"For those designing undergraduate and graduate courses in Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies and seeking readings that present innovative methodological and epistemological contributions, Hilda Lloréns’ Making Livable Worlds is highly recommended. The work invites spirited and engaging classroom discussions that promote expanded thinking in written work. Beyond the classroom, Lloréns’s methodology and nuanced treatment of too often simplified contested concepts make all-important contributions to these fields of study. Her serious attention to the daily work and interventions of Black and Afro-Puerto Rican women to make livable worlds in the here and now and for coming generations addresses gaping holes in environmental justice-minded Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies" * Latinx Project, New York University *"The primary strength of Lloréns’s book rests in the intimacy that she brings to excavating the troubling environmental injustices Black Puerto Rican women have to live under even as they struggle against marginalization...Making Livable Worlds is a timely and necessary examination of the growing crisis in environmental justice and other cultural issues such as gender, race, and the effects of colonialism." * Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Powerful and beautifully written, Making Livable Worlds opens an ecofeminist archive that invites researchers to extend this kind of study to other islands. It also provides inspiration on how to undertake this task with such methods as autoethnography, which will hopefully become more ingrained in the toolbox of young Caribbeanist scholars. One of the most important attributes of this work is that we hear through Lloréns myriad voices presented not as heroines or victims but as women making the best out of their imposed dispossession." * H-Environment *"Lloréns’ ambitious book skillfully weaves her personal and her family history with the histories of other Black Puerto Rican women in the coastal southeast part of Puerto Rico." * Latino Studies *"Scholars of social reproduction and the solidarity economy will find Lloréns’s case study useful for understanding how alternative economic logics develop and flourish under adversity." * H-Caribbean *"[P]rovides valuable insight on how capitalism, slavery, matriarchal dispossession, ecological crises, and colonization relate to Afro-Puerto Rican women’s lives, and models liberatory responses to these oppressive circumstances, empowering the reader to engage in further action toward similar goals of collective liberation." * Feminist Pedagogy *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A useful glossary of names, places, and botanical terms in Chinese and English, along with the detailed index, make this work valuable for researchers but the story is accessible to general readers. This book will fascinate anyone interested in botany and the geopolitical dimensions of modern science." * Choice *"This is a well-researched and well-written study of an important part of the history of botany, and of the resourcefulness and determination of Chinese botanists. It belongs in botanical and horticultural libraries everywhere, and as a story, it is recommended to anyone with an interest in plants and how they are studied." * The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries *"An indispensable addition to our still rather limited knowledge of scientific development in late Imperial and Republican China. Books such as this one are instrumental in putting together the complicated and at times complexing puzzle of the emergence and development of modern scientific practice in China, a process, which has consequences up to the present day." * Social History of Medicine *"Ordering the Myriad Things sets out to show how two knowledge systems—one that preoccupied itself by trying to understand how processes of change generated and manifested themselves through things such grasses, trees, and grains and another that sought understanding by making encountered objects the object of study themselves—interacted and ultimately became intertwined." * Journal of Chinese History *"Menzies presents a process-focused chronicle of how one newly emergent scientific discipline—botany—was introduced to China and developed by successive generations of Chinese botanists...Excellent, engaging, and well-written." * H-Net Reviews *"In this scrupulously researched monograph, Nicholas K. Menzies narrates personal, institutional, and scientific stories in astonishing and vivid detail to create a sweeping narrative of the establishment of the modern science of botany in China." * Isis, a Journal of the History of Science Society *"A fascinating and well-researched inquiry into the development of modern Chinese botany." * Monumenta Serica *"[A] welcome presentation of the history of modern botany in China. . . . The thought-provoking questions raised by Menzies and his analytical approach are sure to make this book instructive reading for historians of natural history." * Archives of Natural History *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A landmark book across a range of disciplines, and it makes for compelling and enjoyable reading." * Asian Studies Review *"Mumbai Taximen accomplishes several things. While it offers an ethnographic account of an automobility that is part of a distinctively non-Western mode of capitalism, first and foremost it constitutes an intriguing case study of how a vehicle may be appropriated as a metaphor of social identity and moral agency. . . [T]he book includes sharply drawn vignettes that bring us into the practices and concerns of daily life. These will make the volume especially useful in the classroom." * Ethnos *"[T]heoretically and empirically rich. . . This book is an important contribution to work on the critical occupation of taxi-driving (related to urban mobility), which is currently undergoing a rapid transformation driven by technology and the aspirations of post-colonial citizens and the state." * Pacific Affairs *"Mumbai Taximen’s narrative genius lies in the author’s “sensuous approach” which effectively transports the reader into the embodied, lived worlds of Indian automobility. . . [B]y inviting (indeed impelling) the reader into the lives of Mumbai’s taximen, in all its material messiness, palpable precariousness, quiet comforts, and dignified dangers, Bedi’s narrative puts up a roadblock to the charting of any easy path from social critique to straightforward solutions. This book unsettles. Which is why it needs to be read." * Journal of Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Michael Dwyer’s engaging analysis of upland geopolitics shows that Laos has been the mother of many outlandish ideas, but these ideas have had real, material, environmental and political consequences." * Journal of Peasant Studies *"This book and its focus not only raise critical questions about the stories of Laos but about how scholars can contribute to a lineage of attempts at understanding Southeast Asia in the world. This book and the questions it raises will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on natural resource governance, land grabbing, transnational investment, political ecology, and geopolitics, within and beyond Southeast Asia." * Eurasian Geography and Economics *"With an innovative methodology which accepts complexity rather than obliterating it, Upland Geopolitics epitomizes the difficulties and the struggles that state administrators face in their strive to project state power on a territory over which they proclaim sovereignty." * Asia Major *

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Book SynopsisA guide to discovering the fascinating natural history beneath your feetFrom trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old. In Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales, renowned paleontologist Elizabeth A. Nesbitt teams up with popular science writer David B. Williams to offer a fascinating, richly illustrated tour through more than a half billion years of natural history. Following an introduction to key concepts, twenty-four profileseach featuring a unique plant, animal, or environmenttell the incredible stories of individual fossils, many of which are on display in Washington museums. The spectacular paleontology of WashinTrade Review"The ultimate guide to Washington fossils." * KING 5 - Evening *

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Book SynopsisDoris Chase has achieved international stature as a pioneer in the field of video art since she moved from Seattle to New York City in 1972. An artist of remarkable and continuous creativity, Chase now divides her time between her video headquarters in New York and a Seattle studio where she works on new projects in painting and sculpture. Beginning as an innovative painter and sculptor in Seattle in the 1950s, Chase created sculpture that was meant to be touched and manipulated by the viewer. Chase then developed large-scale kinetic sculptures in collaboration with choreographers, and her art was set in motion by dancers. In New York, her majors contribution to the evolution of artists' video has been her work in videodance. On videotape, dancers and sculpture evolve into luminous abstract forms which represent some of the most sophisticated employments of video technology by an artist of the 1970s. In the 1980s, Chase began working in the nascent genre of video theater. In these pr

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