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Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices. She analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity. Norget also considers the...

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From an expert in the field, this major survey includes new research and recent changes in the region and, reviewing two centuries of modernization, examines the history of Eastern European economies within a wider political and ideological context.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Cricket arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. This work studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years, and describes the intensity surrounding India's national game.

Offering a comparative approach, including visual material and film, this book provides an introduction to the Promethean myth and locates the nature of this compelling tale's continuing relevance through history, from its origins in ancient Greece, to its appearance in Romantic age works and twentieth-century films.

A guide for understanding human rights treaties, this work contains an exploration of patterns of participation and of exactly what motivates states to take part. Covering fifteen international treaties, it shows how and why international relations thinkers are divided on the issues of what makes states participate in human rights treaties.

This study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. It approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and attempts to change pedagogical approaches.

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This work provides a thorough and accessible, as well as scholarly, introduction to the nature and meaning of Zeus in Greek culture and later reception. "Zeus provides an indispensable guide to the Myth of Zeus that has pervaded art and culture through out the centuries.

Provides a comprehensive overview of language acquisition in children. This book introduces students to key theories and concerns such as innateness, the role of input and the relation of language to other cognitive functions. It teaches students the skills needed to analyse children's language.

Examining the kings' legacy in the creation of the Roman province of Britannia, this book examines the interface of two worlds and how much each owed to the other. Its topics are: the links between Iron Age king of Britain and Rome before the Claudian conquest, the creation of the towns of Roman Britain, and more.

These essays from leading experts in the field focus on theory, education and practice in this essential sector of architecture, and help to formulate solutions to the challenges facing the global community today.

Shows how Zionists imprisoned by Soviet authorities were allowed to choose sentences of permanent departure to Palestine, where they helped build Jewish society, the backbone of left-wing parties, and the powerful trade union movement. This book is useful for students of Jewish and Israeli, Russian and Soviet and European and British history.

Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment of changes in socio-economic conditions among the region's indigenous people, tracking progress in these indicators during the first international decade of indigenous peoples (1994-2004). Set within the context of existing literature and political changes over the course of the decade,...

Better Than I Ever Expected is a warm, witty, and honest book that contends with the challenges and celebrates the delights of older-life sexuality. It asserts that women over sixty are at the top of their game when it comes to enjoying sex. Joan Price's woman-to-woman straight talk transcends the self-help style of other books in this field. Yes, there are challenges to sex after menopause and beyond, says Price, but there are also creative s...

According to the yogic tradition of India, the seven chakras, or energy centers, concentrate and distribute refined life-force energy throughout the body. Yoga master Alan Finger, well-known for his many Yoga Zone teaching videos, presents detailed yoga practices and meditation instructions for understanding the chakras and bringing them into balance. This book is for serious students who wish to cultivate subtle energies using ancient tantric...

A three-headed fortune teller gives Alecto a dark prophecy. Alecto must face the consequences if he wants to tell Pamela the truth about his feelings. While Pamela and Belus search for Alecto, Berial decides to play a game with their lives. Young adult.

Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson Countering the generic "spirituality" so popular today, Edith Humphrey presents an authentic Christian spirituality that draws on Scripture and the profound riches of the Christian tradition -- Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant. Humphrey shows how Christian spirituality is rooted in the Trinity, in the ecstasy ("going out" of oneself) and "intimacy" (profound closeness with another) marking the relations between...

Picking up where their island hopping adventures left off, Jack and company go inland, where they discover (what may or may not be) a fountain of youth, a lost Seminole empire, Rip Van Winkle, and Teela the mermaid as a barmaid. The volume concludes with a new ship and a showdown with the notorious pirate Smokebeard.