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The autobiography of a major twentieth century ornithologist.

The history of a short-lived professional writers' organization.

These volumes contain forty-three articles, all written by authorities in their field, on the ethnology of the Maya region, the southern Mexican highlands and adjacent regions, the central Mexican highlands, western Mexico, and northwest Mexico.

These volumes contain archaeological syntheses, followed by special articles on various aspects of the indigenous societies of southern Mesoamerica.

This volume is a reference for citations in Volumes 1-11 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, listing all the bibliographical entries cited and detailing the location (at the time of original publication) of the owner of each pre-Columbian American artifact illustrated.

These volumes contain ethnohistorical sources from the indigenous tradition, including prose and pictorial materials, a checklist of repositories, a title and synonymy index, and an annotated bibliography on native sources.

This volume covers the natural environment of Middle America, its role in the shaping of Indian cultures, the earliest primitive hunters of this area, the beginnings of agriculture, and the broad patterns of prehistoric civilizations there.

An invaluable reference work on the human biology of Middle America and its relationships to human society and culture.

Essays about archaeolgy and ethnohistory of various Mesoamerican groups and their relationships with cultures outside Mesoamerica.

Noted scholars analyze a variety of creative works-plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke- to offer a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.

A comparison of neo-classical English translations of Racine with the originals, and an analysis of what was changed and why.

Twentieth-century research in the field of chemical pattern formation saw extraordinary progress due to the pathbreaking contributions of Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine and his co-workers. Evidence exists that the dissipative structures studied by Prigogine and his colleagues may play a dominant role in the processes of self-organization of biological systems, the fundamental phenomena that govern all life forms.Brought together in this valuable volume are topical papers from the this research. Important aspects of nonlinear chemical pattern formation-dissipative structures-in chemical, biochemical, and geological systems are surveyed by leading scientists in the field of nonlinear chemistry. Topics covered include experimental observations of pattern formation in a variety of systems, bifurcation theory and analysis of nonlinear chemical rate equations, and the stochastic theory of nonlinear chemical reactions. Of particular interest are the studies of the effects of electric fields on the determination of nonequilibrium states of chemical systems.

This book examines how a relatively powerless ethnic group deals with the problems of economic inequality and racial discrimination and how they gain power in the community.

Using previously undiscovered primary source materials, Walker employs family history to analyze problems relating more generally to the development of state and society in newly independent Mexico.

A study of Chilean politics in the mid-twentieth century.

A study of a precedent-making Supreme Court decision regarding whether states or the federal government have ownership of the fishing and mineral rights of the marginal sea.

This comprehensive and compact volume is a field guide to all the native and naturalized trees of the north Texas zone, including the Blackland Prairies, the Cross Timbers region, and both the Rolling and High Plains.

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.

Believing that Milton has a vital message for the modern world, Whiting has abandoned the usual pattern for examining a poet-study of versification, meter, and other poetic devices-in favor of an exposition of the spiritual and moral meaning of Milton's

Describes a bygone way of life that has irreversibly disappeared. This title deals with various aspects of Arabian culture, including education, pilgrimages, styles of clothing, slavery, public executions, the status of women, and religion.

In nineteenth-century Brazil the power of the courts rivaled that of the central government, bringing to it during its first half century of independence a stability unique in Latin America. Thomas Flory analyzes the Brazilian lower-court system, where the private interests of society and the public interests of the state intersected.Justices of the peace-lay judges elected at the parish level-played a special role in the early years of independence, for the post represented the triumph of Brazilian liberalism's commitment to localism and decentralization. However, as Flory shows by tracing the social history and performance of parish judges, the institution actually intensified conflict within parishes to the point of destabilizing the local regime and proved to be so independent of national interests that it all but destroyed the state.By the 1840s the powers of the office were passed to state appointees, particularly the district judges. Flory recognizes these professional magistrates as a new elite who served as brokers between the state and the poorly articulated landowner elite, and his account of their rise reveals the mechanisms of state integration.In focusing on the judiciary, Flory has isolated a crucial aspect of Brazil's early history, one with broad implications for the study of nineteenth-century Latin America as a whole. He combines social, intellectual, and political perspectives-as well as national-level discussion with scrutiny of parish-level implementation-and so makes sense of a complicated, little-studied period. The study clearly shows the progression of Brazilian social thought from a serene liberal faith in the people as a nation to an abiding, very modern distrust of that nation as a threat to the state.

This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the state-the Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas.

A comparison of different stages of Faulkner's novel.

This interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras.

A thorough source on Gulf coast marine life.

A masterly account of the events and people during a remarkable period in Paraguay's history.