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  • Home Is Where the Rajawala' Are

    Living in Time and Space the Highland Maya Way

    The Mayan peoples of highland Guatemala live within an animate world, where the physical environment, ancestors, and surrounding people, plants, and animals are infused with spirit and presence.At the heart of this daily engagement are the ajq'ija', Mayan spiritual guides who serve as mediators between human communities and the rajawala'-the vital, living energies of the world. This book offers ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Constructing (in)competence

    Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social interaction

    Competence and incompetence are constructs that emerge in the social milieu of everyday life. Individuals are continually making and revising judgments about each other's abilities as they interact. The flexible, situated view of competence conveyed by the research of the authors in this volume is a departure from the way that competence is usually thought about in the fields of communication ... Read more

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  • Kaqchikel Chronicles

    The Definitive Edition

    The collection of documents known as the Kaqchikel Chronicles consists of rare highland Maya texts, which trace Kaqchikel Maya history from their legendary departure from Tollan/Tula through their migrations, wars, the Spanish invasion, and the first century of Spanish colonial rule. The texts represent a variety of genres, including formal narrative, continuous year-count annals, contribution ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Greatest Hits

    Original Stories of Assassins, Hit Men, and Hired Guns

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    From some of the hottest names in crime fiction today come original stories written expressly for this collection.These taut tales, loaded with tension and charged with uncertainty, bring each victim—the unsuspecting, the hunted, the fearful—into the deadly sights of a hired killer’s gun.From New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors come these stories:“Keller’s Karma” by Lawrence Block ... Read more

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  • Faces of Resistance

    Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity

    Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and powerIn the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Jewish Manual

    Enriched edition. Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette

    Judith Cohen Lady Montefiore's "The Jewish Manual" serves as a pioneering work in the intersection of culinary arts and cultural preservation, marking a significant contribution to Jewish literature and the 19th-century British culinary scene. Combining traditional recipes with practical household management advice, the book reflects the rich tapestry of Jewish customs while navigating the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

    Harvest of Violence Revisited

    Series series Contemporary American Indian Studies
    Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • New Armies from Old

    Merging Competing Military Forces after Civil Wars

    Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent factions into a new national army, has been a frequent goal of conflict resolution practitioners since the Cold War. In practice, however, very little is known about what works, and what doesn’t work, in bringing together former opponents to build a lasting peace ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Resilience Dividend

    Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

    by Judith Rodin ...
    Narrated by Cyndee Maxwell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, ... Read more

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    The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The ... Read more

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  • Capoeira

    The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, taught in Brazilian schools and practised by a range of social classes around the world. Some advocates now seek Olympic recognition for Capoeira. This apparent change in the meaning and purpose of Capeoira has led to conflicts between traditionalists, ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Canadian Housewife's Manual of Cookery

    Series series American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
    The content of The Canadian Housewife’s Manual of Cookery owes much to contemporary cookbooks published in America, England, and France. There are several hundred recipes including soups, sauces, fish, meats, poultry, eggs, game, vegetables, puddings, pancakes, fritters, pastry, cakes, bread, sweets, salads, ale, beer, and summer drinks. In addition, the book contains a chapter on homemade ... Read more

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