Author: Carmen Giménez Smith
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: sol, del, camino, pieces, odalisque
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0816527881
ISBN-13: 9780816527885

In her debut poetry collection, Carmen Giménez Smith illuminates Latina identity in the prismatic light of postcolonial history, feminism, myth, and the fragmentation of modernity. From these disparate elements she fashions a female persona—“clairvoyant with great shoes”—who is both bracingly modern and movingly vulnerable. Through her poems we traverse the landscape of a woman’s life (girl, mother, lover), navigating a terrain tinted with mythology and relic yet still fresh and uncharted. The poems revolve around issues of identity—and the ways in which identity is both inherited

Authors:Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez, Nancy Saporta Sternbach,
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: anthology, latina, teatro, puro
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0816518270
ISBN-13: 9780816518272

From plays produced on shoestring budgets in the 1970s to today’s high-tech performance pieces, Latina theater has emerged as a vibrant art form whose time has come. This anthology showcases this dynamic new genre through the works of established playwrights such as Cherr¡e Moraga and Dolores Prida as well as talented new playwrights and performers who have emerged in the past decade such as Migdalia Cruz, Elaine Romero, and Monica Palacios. Puro Teatro, A Latina Anthology includes a variety of theatrical genres: plays, performance pieces, puppet shows, innovative collaborations, and

Author: Tom Holm
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: rose, osage
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0816526508
ISBN-13: 9780816526505

Corrupt lawmen, insatiable businessmen, and an oil boom on Indian land. This is the milieu in which Tom Holm sets his gritty and provocative detective novel. Life is looking easy for J. D. Daugherty, a crusty ex-cop who has set up his own PI firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just after World War I. J. D. expects to make a straightforward living off the intrigues of the city’s wealthy socialites, but then Rose Chichester, a privileged young white woman, runs off with Tommy Ruffle, a young Indian who is heir to Osage oil. Hired by Rose’s father to track down the young pair, J. D. and his associate, a

Author: Michael R. Waters
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: perspective, american, north, geoarchaeology, principles
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 1997-02-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0816517703
ISBN-13: 9780816517701

Geoarchaeological studies can significantly enhance interpretations of human prehistory by allowing archaeologists to decipher from sediments and soils the effects of earth processes on the evidence of human activity. While a number of previous books have provided broad geographic and temporal treatments of geoarchaeology, this new volume presents a single author’s view intended for North American archaeologists. Waters deals with those aspects of geoarchaeology—stratigraphy, site formation processes, and landscape reconstruction—most fundamental to archaeology, and he focuses o

Author: Helga Teiwes
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: carvers, hopi, art, dolls, kachina
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 1992-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0816512647
ISBN-13: 9780816512645

This authoritative book "provides a clear example, easily grasped by most readers, of how Native Americans, even members of tribes rooted in centuries of tradition, adapt to modern technologies and opportunities"(Choice). Inc ludes more than 100 photos, many in color.

Author: Wei Djao
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: diaspora, voices, chinese
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0816523029
ISBN-13: 9780816523023

Twenty-two Chinese living and working outside of China--ordinary people from all walks of life--tell us something about their lives and about what it means to be Chinese in non-Chinese societies. We meet individuals who, while loyal to their countries of citizenship, continue to observe the customs of their ancestral home to varying degrees, whether performing rites in memory of ancestors, practicing fengshui, wearing jade for good luck, or giving out red packets of lucky money for New Year.

Author: Donald M. Ayers
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: terminology, bioscientific
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 1972-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0816503052
ISBN-13: 9780816503056

"Lessons that develop a set of guides toward understanding ’new’ scientific vocabulary through examination of stems and bases, suffixes etc. A help-yourself guide for ’unlocking’ unfamiliar scientific words accompanied by many examples and exercises." —The National Science Teachers Association "This new book is designed to self-teach the budding scientist the basics of the scientific language." —The Associated Press