3323 results for '"Ronald E. Rice'

Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local...

Around the globe, poverty has held too many people in its grip for too long. While microfinance - small loans to impoverished individuals - initially attracted attention in the press, it didn't...

During their full moon celebration in her grandmother's garden, Mae recites the story of her courageous ancestors, Yaya and Paanza, who escaped enslavement by carrying grains of rice in their hair...

Examines the non-violent protests by monks and nuns in Tibet for independence from China. The movement began in 1987 partly as a result of official Chinese encouragement for cultural and religious...

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Rubbed cover, previous owner's name.

Meeting the challenges faced by today's U.S. doctoral humanities programsDespite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher...

What are the social forces that are destructive to a native society and how are their leaders trying to overcome them? Many have already heard of the campaign of the Cree people to protect their...

This final volume takes Hogarth from his fifty-third year to his death at sixty-seven. The period opens with Hogarth at the height of his powers; a figure of influence with the literary generation of...

In Smoke Rice Water, Kishwar Chowdhury shares 100 recipes from across the Bay of Bengal and its surrounds - a vibrant, underexplored region that spans India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka,...

The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s past as it confronted Christianity and...

Long ago in India, there lived a raja who believed that he was wise and fair. But every year he kept nearly all of the people's rice for himself. Then when famine came, the raja refused to share the...

The first full-scale biography of the brilliant filmmaker and cinema theorist. 36 photos.

Now reintroduced with the addition of a Paris Review interview with the Argentine author, The Narrow Act was singled out by Borges as "the best, the most intelligent, and most carefully done" of the...

Describes the Czech writer's tortured childhood and the influence of his personal experiences on his stories and novels

The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of...