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Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives examines the Chesapeake region from historical, sociological, anthropological, archaeological, and literary perspectives. The anthology uses these perspectives to represent the multitude of experiences in the region and in doing so captures the essence of race, class, and ethnic and gender diversity that made up life in early Chesapeake Maryland and Virginia.

This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived.Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples. Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.

This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.

Presents the history of the university within the framework of each administration and looks at Albuquerque and its citizens during each time period. This work describes to UNM alumni, former and current UNM students, and former and current faculty members and administrators, the efforts that have gone into making the University.

Photography came to Latin America early in its technological development and has proven an essential tool for documenting the region's physical spaces and encounters among varied cultures. Numerous Europeans experimented with the new medium as they traveled throughout Latin America. This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth...

One of the great food fads of the 1980s, fajitas, brought widespread acclaim to Tex-Mex restaurants, but this novelty was simply the traditional Mexican method of preparing beef. Hispanic carne asada, thin cuts of freshly slaughtered meat cooked briefly on a hot grill, differed dramatically from thick Anglo-American steaks and roasts, which were aged to tenderize the meat. When investors sought to import the Chicago model of centralized meatpa...

Albuquerque Remembered" is an informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City." Under the flags of Spain, Mexico, the United States, and for a brief period, the Confederate States, Albuquerque grew from a small farm and ranch village in the northern reaches of New Spain to the thirty-fifth largest city in the United States. Howard Bryan devotes special attention to some of the colorful characters who have populated the city's history, a...

Ramadan brings together essays to explain the history of Islamic law and its role in the contemporary world.

In this poetic theatrical piece, Solange, Thomas, Gabrielle, and Paul represent four different ways of life and four different elements of existence which play out over fourteen tableaux. As they move among the spaces of dreams and of the real world of hospital rooms, bars, galleries and classrooms, Herménégilde Chiasson's characters confront an overwhelming range of questions, from sex to death, from money to marriage, from the Acadian Expuls...

Ancient and medieval Jewish travellers are brought to poetic life amidst images garnered from the poet's personal journeys crossing the Sahara Desert and voyaging down the Congo River. This title is number 135 of the Essential Poets Series.

Anna Julia Cooper's dissertation, "L'Attitude de la France l' gard de l'esclavage pendant la revolution, " offered a bold interpretation of the French Revolution. In it, she examined the relations between the 18th-century revolutionists in Paris and the representatives and inhabitants of the richest of French colonies, San Domingue. Historian Frances R. Keller now makes this unique work available in English for students and scholars alike. Thr...

Your Hands-On Guide to Virtual Teams-With a CD-ROM Full of Practical Resources This third edition of the best-selling resource Mastering Virtual Teams offers a toolkit for leaders and members of virtual teams. The revised and expanded edition includes a CD-ROM with useful resources that allow virtual teams to access and use the book's checklists, assessments, and other practical tools quickly and easily. Deborah L. Duarte and Nancy Tennant Sn...

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Diabetes, the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S., increased alarmingly in 1999, prompting the government to call the disease and unfolding epidemic. By 2025 it is estimated there will be 22 million American with Diabetes. As this book details, diabetes can often be prevented or controlled with positive lifestyle changes, including eh use of ampalaya (aka bitter melon), a vegetable that is being used around the world as a tea, in capsules...

The bawdy life and times of the Celtic Mary Magdalen.

True Christianity was Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg's last published theological work, a systematic description of his view on the church in this world and the next. Interwoven with discussions of established Christian doctrine are many of his own experiences in heaven, creating a powerful vision of his hopes for the future of the church.

Section 10 of the 13 maps covering the entire 740-mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail--the most significant new Northeast recreation amenity since the Appalachian Trail.

Section 5 of the 13 maps covering the entire 740-mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail--the most significant new Northeast recreation amenity since the Appalachian Trail.

This definitive biography of an extraordinary nineteenth-century army officer and author includes 25 b&w, photographs and 16 maps.

Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864-"1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attachC), and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Unlike the two black graduates before him, Young went on to a long military career, eventually achieving the rank of colonel. After Young, racial intolerance closed the door to blacks at the academy, and forty-seven years passed before another ...