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The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
How the wall paintings at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors while preserving a record of pre-Columbian rituals and imagery.
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The Huarochiri Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A summation of native Andean religious tradition and an image of the superhuman and human world as imagined around A.D. 1600
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Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes Under Dictatorship (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx’s “depositions,” this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country’s military dictatorship.
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Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photographs (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
With more than three hundred images, some never before published, Seeing Time is the first career retrospective of Mark Klett, considered one of the most important landscape photographers of the past forty years.
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Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shifting global culinary map.
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Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Characterizes each plant and gives information on its natural habitat, its water, soil, light, temperature, and pruning requirements, and its possible uses in landscape design. This book supplies a list of public gardens that showcase native plants.
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Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece
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Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Colonial Central America was a large, populous, and always strategically significant stretch of land. With the Yucatan, it was home of the Maya,... Læs mere
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A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As a trans history of Argentina, a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives, A Body of One’s Own... Læs mere
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Night Moves (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The revolutionary culture critic delivers an edgy, exhilarating tribute to her beloved Chicago, recalling the gritty clubs and ramshackle neighborhoods where she found her voice a decade ago.
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The Senses of Democracy: Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tracing the evolution of “sense work” in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.
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Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This mid-career retrospective of the world’s preeminent hip-hop/rap photographer offers a unique visual mix tape of hip-hop artists, producers, and record dealers from the West Coast to the global African musical diaspora.
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