The settlement of Aguateca, Guatemala, rapidly abandoned at the end of the Classic period (ca. AD 810), provides archaeological insight into the political, social, and economic lifestyle of Maya elite. Located at the southern end of the Petexabatun region, Aguateca is unique amoung Classic Maya sites, primarily as a result of its Pompeii-like ......
Leadership is shown when you're with each other, listening and learning from one another. -an introduction to leadership for kids! Based on the Center for Creative Leadership's research-based Social-Emotional Leadership Framework, Building Bridges is a delightful tale using rhyming stanzas to present important leadership traits for kids. ......
As David Kennedy points out in his foreword, the West was once seen as a beacon of opportunity, and it is still a place where many ways of life can flourish. But it is also a region that leaves some people isolated both culturally and geographically. The essays collected here, the results of a 2012 conference, consider the problems and prospects ......
Ethnographic Observations and Archaeological Interpretations
What are the connections between past and present peoples in the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico? How were the ancient societies that occupied this landscape interconnected? Contributors leverage diverse source materials rooted in classic ethnography, oral tradition, and historical documents to offer novel answers to these questions. Running ......
"What is it about these borderland cats which has so fired up people? Scarcity combined with beauty explains some of the appeal. So does the animal's legendary strength and power as befits its role as the region's top predator. The jaguar's neotropical origins also add to its mystique...But there is something more. That such a large cat is out ......
Easter is arriving soon and Cow wants to make an Easter Tree. But how is she going to do that? She is only a little cow, not the Easter Bunny! Come and see if Cow will get her tree, with the help of all her animal friends. A lovely "Booml style" Easter story and the perfect gift for any Easter basket. Recognizable illustrations and easy to ......
Mother's Day is around the corner and Booml has no idea what gift to bring his mother. He's going to ask his various animal mommy-friends around the world, they might have some amazing ideas. Come along with Booml on his search for a perfect gift. Little children will love to give this book to their mothers. It has cute animals, short rhymes and ......
How does one bring poetry to a community? And who is going to make it happen? In response to these questions posed by the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Katharine Coles and a cadre of poets and artists provide this essential guide and inspiration. Blueprints creates for poets and arts organisers the sense that they are part of a larger, noble ......
Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier
It is difficult to piece together existing records that describe the migrations of African Americans in the nineteenth-century American West. Efforts to assemble collections of oral histories, images, diaries, and other written documents on the black experience in the Western United States and Canada have proven surprisingly fruitful, however, and ......
