The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
Claudia Brittenham and Maria Teresa Uriarte
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Between AD 650 and 950, artists at the small Central Mexican city-state of Cacaxtla covered the...
On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History
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Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of...
The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire
Dick Wicke, John MacGinnis and Tina Greenfield
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The Assyrian empire was in its day the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Building on the...
German Queer Crime Fiction: Feminist Politics, Justice and Desire
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A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of...
Iphicrates, Peltasts and Lechaeum
Nicholas Sekunda and Bogdan Burliga
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The works assembled in this volume complement the article written on the battle of Lechaeum by...
Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama: Enacting Family and Monarchy
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English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian...
Table Talk: Sweet and Sour, Salt and Bitter
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The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic A.A. Gill knows...
The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of al-Shafii's Risalah
Kecia Ali, Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i and Joseph E. Lowry
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The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the...
Rio de Janeiro: A Food Biography
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In the last four centuries of its history, the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro created a lifestyle...
Shots and Shooters: 50 Drinks to Make a Great Party
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In bars up and down the country there'll be someone forcing the rest of their party to endure the...