A New York Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks Named a Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and Newsweek'Urgent, extraordinary .
The Handbook for Victims: Police Domestic Violence provides a concise explanation of the unique challenges faced by women whose abusers are in law enforcement.
Crossing the Threshold: Female Officers and Police-Perpetrated Domestic Violence is a groundbreaking exploration of the politics and dynamics confronting women in law enforcement.
¿Cómo podemos dar cuenta de la presencia africana en Argentina cuando proviene de múltiples orígenes, se inserta en dinámicas históricas distintas, responde a formas heterogéneas de clasificación de la racialidad e interacciona social y políticamente a través de diversos agrupamientos?
In The Longest WarPeter Bergen offers a comprehensive history of the war on terror and its evolution, from the strategies devised in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to the fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and beyond.
Gordon Brown's book will offer insight into the events that led to the fiscal downward spiral and the reactions of world leaders as they took steps to avoid further disaster.
Scott Drew, head basketball coach of the NCAA National Championship-winning Baylor Bears, rebuilt a program mired in scandal by instilling a culture of putting Jesus first.
One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality.
Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier.
Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas.
For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (18781885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's ';Golden Age' of progress, modernity, andmost contentiouslynational whiteness and the ';invisibilization' of Indigenous peoples.
This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest.
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.
At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time.
First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never beforeor sincedocumented in such striking and memorable fashion.
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human RightsThis new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.
The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century.
The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes.
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that ';incredible things are happening in this world.