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Beyond Punjab
Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing
A portal to the ancient hieroglyphic script of the Aztec Empire. For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, yielding the first cities of the Western …
Scholars and Gypsies
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them …
A Just Defiance: Bombmakers, Insurgents, and the Treason Trial of the Delmas Four
Both a riveting courtroom drama and a real-life thriller, A Just Defiance tells the story of four young black South Africans who were arrested for a string of political murders in …
Letters from a Life
This long-awaited third volume of composer Benjamin Britten's remarkable letters covers the years 1946-51. Fresh from the astonishing success of his great first opera, Peter …
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has …
Fungal Genetics
King and Emperor
"King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history."--The Wall Street Journal Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the …
How Big Should Our Government Be?
Cezanne: The Self-Portraits
Cezanne revolutionized the way we see and transcribe the essence of the material world. His position is pivotal: his style is part of the canon of early modernism and his iconic …
Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi
This richly detailed ethnographic work tells the story of a period of deep civil unrest in India . In 1975 Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency which gave her the power to …
The Big Push
For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. "Sexual harassment" has entered common …