2206 results for '"Arnold H. Pieterse'

A collection of two hundred poems by twenty-one native Americans--including Laguna, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pueblo, Chippewa, Oneida, Seneca/Seminole, Mohawk, and Blackfoot--features the work of Leslie...

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or...

What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with...

The essential introduction to population ecology—now expanded and fully updatedEcology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions,...

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most...

A unique and enlightening account of the significant, but rarely acknowledged, function of wooden barrels over the past two millennia. Barrels—we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without...

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This text offers a clear and refreshing exposition of the dynamics of mechanical systems from an engineering perspective. The author thoroughly covers basic concepts and applies them in a systematic...

Everything you ever wanted to know about parasites but were too horrified to askIn What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the...

Over the past several decades, civil and ethnic wars have undermined prospects for economic and political development, destabilized entire regions of the globe, and left millions dead. States,...