"I'm not perfect," Mateo confessed, "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again, ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City - amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads - millions of dollars empower church missions, fa...
Jackson Pollock, the son of a farmer of Scots-Irish origin, was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He first came to public notice at the age of 30 when, under the auspices of Peggy Guggenheim, he exhibited 14 paintings of such power and originality that they created an immediate sensation in art circles worldwide. Within a few years Pollock was recognized as a major artist, whose work seemed to embody the energy and emotional intensity of America itself. In 1956 he died in a car crash. This biograph...
La civilizacion del espectaculo / The Spectacle Civilization
by Mario Vargas Llosa
En el pasado, la cultura fue una especie de conciencia que impedía dar la espalda a la realidad. Ahora, actúa como mecanismo de distracción y entretenimiento. «La cultura, en el sentido que tradicionalmente se ha dado a este vocablo, está en nuestros días a punto de desaparecer.»,-Mario Vargas Llosa La banalización de las artes y la literatura, el triunfo del periodismo amarillista y la frivolidad de la política son síntomas de un mal mayor que aqueja a la sociedad contemporánea: la idea teme...
First published in 1964, Ancient Iraq is the classic work on Mesopotamia and the great civilizations that sprung from the region bounded by the Euphrates and Tigris. It remains an invaluable primer for anyone fascinated by the extraordinary ruins and artworks which have emerged from generations of archaeological digs. The book gives a lively, comprehensive account, from the earliest city fragments through the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians through to its decline under Hellenisti...
Consumption of Inequality, The: Weapons of Mass Distraction
by Karen Bettez Halnon
Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: Genealogical Patterns (Volume 1, Book, #4)
by Edmund Carpenter and Carl Schuster
Nelson's victory at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805 was a pivotal event in European history. But Trafalgar was not simply an isolated battle fought and won in an afternoon - the naval campaign had in fact begun more than four years before. This extraordinary period, following Napoleon's threat to invade England in 1801, came to be known as The Great Terror, and Britain was on the alert. As the Grande Armee faced a Dad's army of English volunteers across the Channel, a secret war of espionage and su...
Sociology of Culture and Cultural Practices (New Directions in Culture and Governance)
by Laurent Fleury
Sociology of Culture and of Cultural Practices traces the development of the sociology of culture from its origins (Weber and Simmel) and examines the major trends that have emerged in this branch of sociology. It raises issues of cultural hierarchy, of distinction, and of legitimate culture and mass culture, and focuses on new areas of research, including the role of institutions, the reception of works of art, aesthetic experience, and emancipation through art and presents a synthesis of resea...
The Origin and Evolution of Freemasonry Connected with the Origin and Evolution of the Human Race (Cosimo Classics Sacred Texts)
by Albert Churchward
Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States (From the Colonial Times Through the Civil War, #1)
by Herbert Aptheker
Le present ouvrage est le tome I (en deux volumes) d'un ensemble de deux tomes formant le Dictionnaire abzakh (tcherkesse occidental). Ce tome I, qui constitue le dictionnaire proprement dit, vient completer les Phrases et textes illustratifs (tome II, volumes 1 a 4), precedemment publies. Plus qu'un simple dictionnaire bilingue classique, cet ouvrage est structure comme un dictionnaire analytique puisque, pour chacun des quelque dix mille entrees, l'accent est mis de facon tres detaillee tant s...
Minorities, Mullahs, and Modernity (Research, #95)
by Mark Saroyan and Edward W Walker
Ethnography and Development: The Work of Richard F. Salisbury
by Professor Marilyn Silverman
Servants of Nature (Fontana History of Science S.)
by Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson
‘Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history’ Scotsman In this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves and the goal of the scientific enterprise. Servants of Nature begins by examining the institutions that have shaped science: the academies of Ancient Greece, universities, the growth of...
In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously producing oil well in 1866. Marrying historical research with interviews with Trinidadian petroleum scientists, policymakers, technici...
A Cultural History of Humour - From Antiquity to the Present Day
Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past. This important and highly original book sets out to explore the terra incognita of humour through the ages -- from jokes and stag...