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At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based...

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of...

A riveting firsthand account of the violence in East Timor in 1999This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. "If You...

The latter half of the twentieth century saw the development of liberationist and progressive theologies whose aim is both to understand life and to enhance it by focusing attention on the ways in...

Good Hardcover Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1978. First edition (1978), worn but sound copy. Scholarly study of San Andres, a bi-ethnic community in Guatemala where Cakchiquel Indians have...

Using evidence from a wide array of sources including literature, papyri, inscriptions, coins, and terra-cotta figurines, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoë II and...

"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--

Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the...

The only neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City's largest borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody KnowsBill Helmreich walked every block of New York City—some...

During Shakespeare's lifetime the courtly tradition of poetry and patronage evolved into the characteristic modern situation in which a professional poet writes for a paying public. This...

The first comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Cuban photography.

The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leading pragmatist thinker, and represents a...

This book considers the consequences of the natural sciences (physics, biology, neurosciences) for our view of the world. Willem Drees argues that religion and morality are to be understood as rooted...

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell. The power of stem cells to...