The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug
This superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature, dynamics, and consequences of the global cocaine industry. Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug offers an unprecedented global analysis of the cocaine trade, revealing how the world's most lucrative ......
The wonderful tales offered in this bilingual collection provide readers with a new set of living stories that give insight into the current traditional ways and daily habits of Guatemala's Tz'utujil Maya people-traditions that are fast disappearing. Anthropologist James D. Sexton and Maya storyteller Pedro Cholotio Temo have worked together ......
The wonderful tales offered in this bilingual collection provide readers with a new set of living stories that give insight into the current traditional ways and daily habits of Guatemala's Tz'utujil Maya people-traditions that are fast disappearing. Anthropologist James D. Sexton and Maya storyteller Pedro Cholotio Temo have worked together ......
Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network in the Southwest, which began development in 1882, used mirror-based ......
Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network in the Southwest, which began development in 1882, used mirror-based ......
Two lovers go on one final road trip through the American desert, hoping that they can outrun life itself. Flash-fiction master Grant Faulkner and punk photographer Gail Butensky have partnered to create this unique narrative made up of stories alongside edge-of-the-world photography. The book tells of two lovers taking a reckless, searching ......
A comprehensive, comparative, and regionwide perspective on Latin American economic development spanning the last twenty-five years. Latin America's economic performance is often depicted as a long sequence of repeated failures, including its contribution to global financial crises as well as its slow growth and intractable inequalities. Its ......
This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today. Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of "transnationalism" in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has ......
This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today. Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of "transnationalism" in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has ......