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A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan.

Tarkovsky sets down his thoughts and his memories, revealing for the first time the original inspirations for his extraordinary films.

Six short works from the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union.

A biography of Billy Joe Shaver, it recounts his struggle to break into the music business in Nashville. It describes his thirty-year career as a singer-songwriter in Nashville and Texas, his bouts with alcohol and drugs, and his pleasure in touring with his son Eddy and their band Shaver during the 1990s.

A detailed, practical guide to the ancient craft of making stone tools, featuring an archaeological analysis.Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them.Flintknapping contains detailed, practical information on making stone tools. Whittaker starts at the beginner level and progresses to discussion of a wide range of techniques. He includes information on necessary tools and materials, as well as step-by-step instructions for making several basic stone tool types. Numerous diagrams allow the reader to visualize the flintknapping process, and drawings of many stone tools illustrate the discussions and serve as models for beginning knappers.Written for a wide amateur and professional audience, Flintknapping will be essential for practicing knappers as well as for teachers of the history of technology, experimental archaeology, and stone tool analysis."e;A mid-range user's guide to flintknapping is long overdue. There have been some admirable attempts to produce such a volume, but these have been targeted at specific, fairly narrow audiences. Not so with Flintknapping. . . . [Whittaker's] clear aim is to reach professional archaeologists as well as hobbyists. I believe he achieves this goal with incredible skill and humor. . . . I highly recommend this book to everyone interested in flintknapping."e; -Plains Anthropologist"e;Very attractive to readers interested in ancient crafts, survival skills, or the history of technology . . . . Far superior to anything currently available."e; -James C. Woods, director, The Herrett Museum, College of Southern Idaho

The Ways of the Desert, translated from the French, offers an introduction to the North African Arab nomads in the nineteenth century-their way of life, customs, dress, and religion.

Presenting a proven technique for screenwriting centered on a character's flaws and strengths, an expert screenwriting coach shows writers exactly how to construct screenplays that tell compelling, satisfying stories.

Powerfully evoking the unquenchable American spirit of exploration, award-winning photographer Dan Winters chronicles the final launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor in this stunning photographic tribute to America's space shuttle program.

Translations of the oldest written literature to have a known author: the Inanna poems by the Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna.

How Avedon created his famous work.

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.

The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.

Combining vivid interview commentary with in-depth analysis of organized crime as a transnational and corporate phenomenon, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the emerging face, new structure, and economic implications of organized crime in Mexico.

Celebrating a lifetime of exploring humanity's landscape through an artistic lens, the legendary photographer Keith Carter collects more than 250 of his most compelling images, ranging from the deeply personal to the universal, accompanied by essays from

More than 600 rarely seen items from the David O. Selznick archive offer fans and film historians alike a must-have behind-the-camera view of the production of this classic movie on its seventy-fifth anniversary.

Bronx Boys captures the violence, resilience, and hope of young men growing up in what was one of the toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States.

The first collection of original translations of all forty-two temple hymns of Enheduanna, the world's earliest known writer.

In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology.

This volume presents a gallery of raw and beautiful portraits created in Harlem by the acclaimed young photographer Khalik Allah, producer of the award-winning documentary Field Niggas.

This remarkably engaging, occasionally unsettling photo essay by the internationally acclaimed photographer of Seen Behind the Scene, Exposure, Falkland Road, and Ward 81 presents powerful images, most never before published, that probe the humanity of an

Pablo Neruda wrote these sonnets for his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda

A translation of a 1653 work, providing vast amounts of data on the religion and lifeways of the Incas and their subject peoples.

A lively, beautifully illustrated history of theatrical stage design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world's leading authority, Oscar G. Brockett.

Folklore about the famous breed of Texas cattle.

A new text to help Spanish speakers learn Portuguese.

The classic work on forms of the folktale.

These verses are a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage.

The story of a battle in AD 986 -- a strong ruler and his men versus a famed warrior community that feared no one and dared all.