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Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth by M.E. Warlick
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using... -
The Relacion de Michoacan (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico by Angelica Jimena Afanador-Pujol
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics... -
Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent... -
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems by Gabriela Mistral
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women,... -
Cinema and Social Change in Latin America: Conversations with Filmmakers by Julianne Burton
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Since the late 1960s, films from Latin America have won widening audiences in North America and Europe. Until now, no single book has offered an introduction to the diverse personalities and... -
Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest by J. Frank Dobie
Booksplease Price: £14.42Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those... -
They Die Strangers by Mohammad Abdul-Wali
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41They Die Strangers, a novella and thirteen short stories, is the first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English. Abdul-Wali died tragically in an... -
Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions by John Beverley
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68"This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution," write John Beverley... -
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in... -
Experimental Latin American Cinema: History and Aesthetics by Cynthia Tompkins
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36While there are numerous film studies that focus on one particular grouping of films-by nationality, by era, or by technique-here is the first single volume that incorporates all of the above,... -
The Texanist: Fine Advice on Living in Texas by David Courtney
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46The Texanist, Texas Monthly's perennially popular back-page column, has become the magazine's most-read feature. With an inimitable style and an unassailable wholesomeness, columnist David Courtney... -
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?: Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos by Chiara Francesca Ferrari
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish?" This was Chiara Francesca Ferrari's reaction when she learned that Drescher's character on the television sitcom The Nanny was meant to be a portrayal of a... -
Sound Design and Science Fiction by William Whittington
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege... -
Thelma & Louise Live!: The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film by Bernie Cook
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47When they floored their Thunderbird off a cliff rather than surrender to the law, Thelma and Louise became icons of female rebellion, provoking strong reactions from viewers who felt either... -
From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide by Robert Krueger
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring Burundi a few weeks later, Bob Krueger began... -
Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier by Camilla Fojas
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The southern frontier is one of the most emotionally charged zones in the United States, second only to its historical predecessor and partner, the western frontier. Though they span many genres,... -
Kiowa Ethnogeography by William C. Meadows
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Examining the place names, geographical knowledge, and cultural associations of the Kiowa from the earliest recorded sources to the present, Kiowa Ethnogeography is the most in-depth study of its... -
Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central America by Thomas C. Bruneau
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America's mara gangs, but there have been few clear-eyed... -
Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest by Paul A. Scolieri
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014 Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014 de la Torre Bueno (R) Special Citation,... -
What Makes a Man?: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin by Rashid Al-Daif
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the "West-East Divan" program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle... -
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Stephen Tapscott
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.41Latin Americans have written some of the world's finest poetry in the twentieth century, as the Nobel Prizes awarded to Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz attest. Yet this rich literary... -
Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon by Brian S. Bauer
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the... -
The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Jeanette Favrot Peterson
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.20Honorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico SectionIn the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and a team of... -
Variations on a Rectangle: Thirty Years of Graphic Design from Texas Monthly to Pentagram by D. J. Stout
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.30"Editorial design is the art of storytelling, and DJ's brand of it is uniquely American. Western American. It starts out slow and builds. It wins you with a bit of humility (almost 'shucks-gee-whiz')... -
They Tell of Birds: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton by Thomas P. Harrison
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Thomas P. Harrison here combines a lifelong interest in birds with a professional study of literature. This book, a study of birds as they are presented by four great English poets, inquires into... -
The Making of Hillary Clinton: The White House Years by Robert McNeely
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.25Beginning with the 1992 presidential campaign that propelled them to two terms in the White House, Hillary and Bill Clinton have occupied the American political stage like no other couple in history... -
Ariel by Jose Enrique Rodo
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77"Irritating, insufferable, admirable, stimulating, disappointing Rodo: . . . you are part of our family quarrels, and must bear with your disrespectful, equally disappointed, intuitive, incomplete... -
Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru by Elizabeth P. Benson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern... -
Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central... -
Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America by Philip Kelly
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Geography has always played a major role in world politics. In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North... -
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction by Naomi Lindstrom
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Manuel Puig's... -
How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken by Alex Marshall
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of... -
The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso by Sherry Velasco
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastian, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went... -
Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir by Margo Price
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32An October 2022 IndieNext pick"[An] engaging and beautifully narrated quest for personal fulfillment and musical recognition...This is a fast-paced tale in which music and love always take center... -
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States: A Field Guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida by Alan E. Bessette
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.41The weather patterns and topography of America's Gulf Coast create favorable growing conditions for thousands of species of mushrooms, but the complete region has generally gone uncharted when it... -
The Swimming Holes of Texas by Julie Wernersbach
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Nothing beats a natural swimming hole for cooling off on a scorching summer day in Texas. Cold, clear spring water, big old shade trees, and a quiet stretch of beach or lawn offer the perfect excuse... -
Desierto: Memories of the Future by Charles Bowden
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds."-Los Angeles Times"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora... -
Texas Turtles & Crocodilians: A Field Guide by Troy D. Hibbitts
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Texas has a large and diverse turtle population, with forms that are found nowhere else (Cagle's Map Turtle and the Texas Map Turtle) and wide-ranging species that barely touch the state, including... -
Learning from Bogota: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space by Rachel Berney
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Once known as a "drug capital" and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogota, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed "the miracle of Bogota." Beginning in the... -
This Land: An American Portrait by Jack Spencer
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.30Jarred by the 9/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 "in hopes of making a few 'sketches' of America in order to gain some clarity on what it meant to be living in this nation at...