Product Description: Pigskin Rapture team captures the sights, sounds, and smells of a state smitten with football, from K-D’s Barbecue in Midland, to the rarefied air of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s private box in AT & T Stadium. Here, too, are the more subtle and occasionally unseen manifestations of Texas football culture, such as a homeless man who resides on a practice field in Houston; the cavernous remains of the Astrodome; the proud high school where Andrew Luck played; the Australian woman who made the Cowboy’s cheerleading squad, having never watched an NFL game; and the hangover a West Texas town continues to endure nearly three decades following the publication of Friday Night Lights...read more

Product Description: Worshipped as the goddess of knowledge, beauty, and the arts, Saraswati continues to influence daily life in the Balinese village of Peliatan.Saraswati in Bali explains how one of the world's most famous tourist destinations strives to preserve its cultural traditions through the ceremonies, shadow plays, and masked dances held at the Pura Madya temple festival as well as the art collection, landscaped gardens, and cultural events at the nearby ARMA Museum...read more

Product Description: Mistero Buffo is Dario Fo’s one-man tour de force, in which he creates his own subversive version of Biblical stories. Infused with the rhythmic drive of a jazz improvisation, the immediacy of a newspaper headline, and the epic scope of a historical novel, Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame have performed Mistero Buffo throughout the world to over 10 million people...read more

A collection of five monologues based on Italian folklore is accompanied by 'The Story of the Tiger' in which a soldier fighting Chiang Kai-shek's army is saved from starvation by a tiger.

Product Description: An informative and easy-to-understand instructional tool for developing and improving the skill of the wide receiver. Provides a thorough review of the techniques, mechanics, and thought processes needed to refine and improve wide receiver play at any skill level...read more

Product Description: The definitive work on the multiple West Coast offense. Covers basic offensive philosophy, installing the offense, the run game, passing game, and pass protection systems, quarterback teaching progressions and passing elements, understanding defensive coverages, the wide receiver, run and passing game plays, and more...read more

Product Description: In collaboration with Nobel Prize Wiinner Dario Fo- the first book of his extraordinary artistryThe Italian actor, comedian, painter and playwright Dario Fo is celebrated throughout Europe asa major figure in twentieth -century theater...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child; it is also the first time that the Nobel for the literary arts has been awarded to an actor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exclusive U.S. publisher of the 1998 Nobel Laureate (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas is told through the voice of a last-minute conscript, who is eventually adopted by a tribe of Indians and helps them fight the Conquistadors. Original.

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Product Description: The first hands-on guide to XRD and XRF sampling and specimen preparation Systematic errors from poor sampling and improper specimen preparation can easily render X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) data of questionable use for analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When bombarded with X-rays, solid materials produce distinctscattering patterns similar to fingerprints. X-ray powderdiffraction is a technique used to fingerprint solid samples, whichare then identified and cataloged for future use-much the way theFBI keeps fingerprints on file...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work covers important aspects of X-ray spectrometry, from basic principles to the selection of instrument parameters and sample preparation. This edition explicates the use of combined X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction data, and features new applications in environmental studies, forensic science, archeometry and the analysis of metals and alloys, minerals and ore, ceramic materials, catalysts and trace metals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)