The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories ebook (ePub) Horacio Quiroga (Auteur), Margaret Sayers Peden (Traduction) Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London,... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 8,01 € Télécharger
The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990 - ebook (ePub) James W. Marquart (Auteur), Sheldon Ekland-Olson (Auteur), Jonathan R. Sorensen (Auteur) In late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the gallows. Of 520 convicted capital offenders sentenced to die between 1923 and 1972, 361 were actually executed, thus maintaining Texas’ traditional... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 27,10 € Télécharger
The Exiles and Other Stories ebook (ePub) Horacio Quiroga (Auteur), J. David Danielson (Traduction) Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 8,01 € Télécharger
Certificate of Absence ebook (ePub) Sylvia Molloy (Auteur), Daniel Balderston (Traduction) Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 8,01 € Télécharger
Beautiful TV The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal - ebook (ePub) Smith, Greg M. (Auteur) During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 06/03/2009 Téléchargement immédiat 25,94 € Télécharger
Spanish Central America A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720 - ebook (ePub) Murdo J. MacLeod (Auteur) The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 05/07/2010 Téléchargement immédiat 48,41 € Télécharger
Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate ebook (ePub) Elizabeth Hill Boone (Auteur) In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 56,96 € Télécharger
The Devil's Church and Other Stories ebook (ePub) Joaquim-Maria Machado De Assis (Auteur), Jack Schmitt (Traduction), Lorie Ishimatsu (Traduction) The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 8,01 € Télécharger
James Dean Transfigured The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography - ebook (ePub) Claudia Springer (Auteur) After the death of James Dean in 1955, the figure of the teen rebel permeated the globe, and its presence is still felt in the twenty-first century. Rebel iconography—which does not have to resemble James Dean himself, but merely incorporates his... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 22,88 € Télécharger
Branding Texas Performing Culture in the Lone Star State - ebook (ePub) Leigh Clemons (Auteur) Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W.... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 15/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 18,66 € Télécharger
Reframing Latin America A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - ebook (ePub) Erik Ching (Auteur), Buckley Christina (Auteur), Angélica Lozano-Alonso (Auteur) Providing an extensive introduction to cultural studies in general, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting provocative, essential readings from Latin American writers of the last two centuries, Reframing Latin America brings... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 03/06/2009 Téléchargement immédiat 30,80 € Télécharger
The Mammals of Texas Revised Edition - ebook (ePub) David J. Schmidly (Auteur) The Mammals of Texas has been the standard reference since the first edition was authored by William B. Davis in 1947. Revised several times over the succeeding decades, it remains the most authoritative source of information on the mammalian... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 22,78 € Télécharger
Let me tell you what I've learned Texas Wisewomen Speak - ebook (ePub) PJ Pierce (Auteur), Liz Carpenter (Préface) Barbara Jordan spoke for many Texas women when she told a reporter, "I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 05/07/2010 Téléchargement immédiat 19,30 € Télécharger
Living with Lupus Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador - ebook (ePub) Ann Miles (Auteur) Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 15/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 18,66 € Télécharger
Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil" Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945) - ebook (ePub) John W. F. Dulles (Auteur) Praised by his admirers as "one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch" and as "an intrepid Don Quixote," Brazilian lawyer Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getúlio Vargas.... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 28/06/2010 Téléchargement immédiat 34,80 € Télécharger
The Cast Iron Forest A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers - ebook (ePub) Francaviglia, Richard V. (Auteur) A complex mosaic of post oak and blackjack oak forests interspersed with prairies, the Cross Timbers covers a north-south belt of southern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and North Central Texas. Home to Native Americans over several thousand years, the... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 14/04/2016 Téléchargement immédiat 19,93 € Télécharger
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine ebook (ePub) John M. Riddle (Auteur) For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/05/2013 Téléchargement immédiat 29,11 € Télécharger
The River Has Never Divided Us A Border History of La Junta de los Rios - ebook (ePub) Morgenthaler, Jefferson (Auteur) Winner, William P. Clements Prize, Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, 2004 Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios straddles the border between Texas and Chihuahua, occupying the basin formed by the... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 01/01/2010 Téléchargement immédiat 23,30 € Télécharger
The Chora of Croton 1 The Neolithic Settlement at Capo Alfiere - ebook (ePub) Jon Morter (Auteur) From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations and surveys in ancient territories (chorae) in southern Italy. This wide-ranging investigation,... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 03/10/2012 Téléchargement immédiat 65,50 € Télécharger
Maya Calendar Origins Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time - ebook (ePub) Prudence M. Rice (Auteur) In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental... Lire la suite Voir le produit Format ebook (ePub) Editeur University of Texas Press Parution 17/02/2009 Téléchargement immédiat 25,94 € Télécharger