Product Description: The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on historical processes and explains how this vast expanse of territory--stretching from the American Southwest to the tip of the Southern Cone--became Europeanized in the colonial period, and how the European and American civilizations transformed one another as they grew together...read more

Product Description: A fascinating handbook revealing the secrets of the symbolic written characters of the ancient Maya people, which provides a vivid portrait of their gods, people, and everyday life. Maya Script presents about 200 Maya glyphs (symbolic figures)...read more

A in-depth portrait of the Byzantine Empress Theodora profiles one of the most important female figures in Western history, who was born the daughter of a bear-keeper and rose to become the wife and partner of the Emperor Justinian, leading a fascinating life depicted here in meticulously researched detail.

Product Description: On the Body is unlike any other by this author. It is carefully structured in five parts, and is a major study on the catechesis of the human body and the spirit that lies within. The content for this work comes out of the Cardinal's 20 years as a bishop and it is from this experience that he regards this topic as being central theologically, anthropologically, and pedagogically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume presents about 200 Maya glyphs (symbolic figures). Some are ideograms (pictorial symbols representing things, not words); others are phonetic signs. The glyphs express people, animals, things, and such abstract concepts as death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Rich earth tones, bountiful harvests and bri ght vegetable stalls make Provence one of the most celebrate d and adored regions in the world. Biehn captures the vibran t colours of the area and reveals the many elements that mak e up its authentic palette. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A short story and lyrics in English and Spanish accompany a collection of photographs featuring couples engaged in the traditional Argentine dance (view table of contents)