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This vivid and lyrical collection introduces English-language readers for the first time to one of the most acclaimed Iranian poets of her generation

This rich theoretical analysis redefines and relocates the concept of universal citizenship at the revolutionary limits of the nation and identity.

With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people's rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.

Examining patterns of urban settlement and abandonment across several centuries, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of Sicily's strategic importance to ancient Rome and broader Mediterranean-wide networks.

Analyzing international data regarding food production and social inequality, especially in the NAFTA region, this book convincingly argues that neoliberal regimes, not individuals, have created the global obesity epidemic.

Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.

This inviting book presents a simplified version of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur¿an that will help general readers and students understand its argument for women¿s equality.

This volume collects some 75 duotone images of horses and riders, most of them never before published.

';Valuable to anyone who loves cooking and eating south-of-the-border food and doesn't want to sacrifice taste for healthy choices or vice versa.' Foreword Just about everyone loves Mexican food, but should you eat it if you want to manage your weight or diabetes? Absolutely! There are countless authentic Mexican dishes that are naturally healthymoderate in calories, fat, and sugarand completely delectable. Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking presents some two hundred easy recipes with exceptional nutrition profiles. Substitutions that alter the taste and pleasure of food have no place here. Instead you'll find flavorful low-calorie dishes from the various schools of Mexican and Mexican American cooking in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. From traditional meat, seafood, and vegetarian entrees andm antojitos mexicanos, including tacos, enchiladas, and tamales, to upscale alta cocina Mexicana such as shrimp ceviche and mango salsa, these recipes are authentic, simple to prepare with supermarket ingredients, and fully satisfying in moderate portions. Every recipe includes nutritional analysis: calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, fiber, sugar, and sodium. You'll also find information on Mexican cooking and nutrition, ingredients, techniques, and equipment. Try the recipes in Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking, and you'll discover that comfort food can be both delicious and good for you. Buen provecho!

Now updated to include contemporary developments in the horror film genre and the critical thinking about it, Barry Keith Grant's groundbreaking exploration of the cinema of fear has sold over 8,000 copies.

This selection of masterpieces from the Gernsheim Collection, one of the world's most important collections of photography, effectively constitutes a visual history of photography from the earliest-known photograph to images of the mid-twentieth century.

An authoritative, highly readable biography of the most powerful and colorful lieutenant governor in Texas history, Bob Bullock.

The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Mendez-one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Jose Guadalupe Posada-contains over 150 ill

A major new analysis and interpretation of the surviving body of ancient Mexican divinatory codices.

The first comprehensive study of the entire range of Minoan architecture from 7000 BC to 1100 BC, extensively illustrated and written for both scholars and general readers.

From the East Los Angeles barrio to international stardom, Los Lobos traces the musical evolution of a platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning band that has ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from traditional Mexican

Showcasing one of the world's largest private collections of African American cookbooks, ranging from rare nineteenth-century texts to modern classics by Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor, this lavishly illustrated collection speaks volumes about America's food culture.

The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. This book represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it - Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird.

Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." This book focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the women comics who flout the postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire.

';[Shindler] tells the story of her year wearing the crown while offering an incisive history and analysis of an always-controversial beauty contest.' Kirkus Reviews In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves an engrossing, witty memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's ';ideal,' especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception. Shindle profiles winners and organization leaders and recounts important moments in the pageant's story, with a special focus on Miss America's iconoclasts, including Bess Myerson (1945), the only Jewish Miss America; Yolande Betbeze (1951), who crusaded against the pageant's pinup image; and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (1987), a working-class woman from Michigan who wanted to merge her famous title with her work as an oncology nurse. Shindle's own account of her work as an AIDS activistand finding ways to circumvent the ';gown and crown' stereotypes of Miss America in order to talk honestly with high school students about safer sexilluminates both the challenges and the opportunities that keep young women competing to become Miss America. ';Kate Shindle's sharply observed, smart, and heartbreaking take on Miss America will be embraced by pageant super fans and should be required reading for everyone who's thought about what it takes to be America's ideal.' Jennifer Weiner, New York Times-bestselling author ';This memoir offers a captivating cultural history of the last 100 years in America through the lens of the Miss America Pageant and its white-knuckled struggle to remain relevant.' Library Journal

Over two hundred images taken on set over twelve years, as well as commentary by Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, and others, create a behind-the-scenes portrait of a critically acclaimed feature film-Richard Linklater's Boyhood.

The author considers the theory, practice, and criticism of early twentieth-century sculpture in order to reveal the changing meaning and significance of the archaic in the modern world.

This volume explores the interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America through the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians.