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Dann, David.
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(2019)
| 9781477318775 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 776pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 68.95 (inc. GST), AUD 62.68 (ex. GST),
Named one of the world’s great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone,Mike Bloomfield (1943–1981) remains beloved by fans nearly forty years afterhis untimely death. Taking readers backstage, onstage, and into the recordingstudio with this legendary virtuoso, David Dann tells the riveting storiesbehind...
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Valentine, Kathy.
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(2020)
| 9781477312339 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 304pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 45.95 (inc. GST), AUD 41.77 (ex. GST),
A Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster ofsex, drugs, and of course, music; it’s also a story of what it takes tofind success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing downAt twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met...
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Felton, D.
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(1998)
| 9780292725089 | University Of Texas Press | pbk. | book | 168pp | Availability last checked: 4/8/2020
AUD 33.95 (inc. GST), AUD 30.86 (ex. GST),
Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, toprophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the livingfascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative,interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective...
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Tarkovskii, Andrei. Hunter-Blair, Kitty. Tarkovsky, Andrey.
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(1989)
| 9780292776241 | University Of Texas Press | pbk. | book | 256pp | Availability last checked: 20/5/2020
AUD 54.95 (inc. GST), AUD 49.95 (ex. GST),
Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema—hailed by Ingmar Bergmanas "the most important director of our time"—died an exile in Paris inDecember 1986. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, aremarkable revelation of both his life and work. Since Ivan's Childhood won...
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Hollander, Lee M.
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(1986)
| 9780292764996 | University Of Texas Press | pbk. | book | 192pp | Availability last checked: 29/9/2020
AUD 42.95 (inc. GST), AUD 39.05 (ex. GST),
The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holdingan important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales ofstrife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology andheroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of...
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Newest & Forthcoming Releases
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Galarte, Francisco J.
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(2021)
| 9781477322123 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 192pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 153.95 (inc. GST), AUD 139.95 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, browntransgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjectsare treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies,lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used...
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Cant, Anna.
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(2021)
| 9781477322024 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 296pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 85.95 (inc. GST), AUD 78.14 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
In 1969, Juan Velasco Alvarado's military government began an ambitiousland-reform program in Peru, transferring holdings from large estates to peasantcooperatives. Fifty years later, these reforms remain controversial:conservative critics claim they unjustly expropriated land and ruined thePeruvian...
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Seman, Jennifer Koshatka.
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(2021)
| 9781477321911 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 280pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 153.95 (inc. GST), AUD 139.95 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos—faithhealers—who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, workedoutside the realm of "professional medicine," seemingly beyond the reach of thechurch, state, or certified health practitioners whose profession was still inits...
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Boone, Elizabeth Hill.
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(2021)
| 9781477321676 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 344pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 110.95 (inc. GST), AUD 100.86 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanishfriars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gatherdetailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. Thepictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization...
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al-Asheq, Ramy.
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(2021)
| 9781477322260 | University Of Texas Press | pbk. | book | 80pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 27.95 (inc. GST), AUD 25.41 (ex. GST),
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My Heart Became a Bomb is the first collection of poetry by Syrian-Palestinianpoet Ramy al-Asheq to be translated into English. Poignant and raw, these poemstake the reader along a path of forced emigration from Bashar al-Assad’sprisons in Syria to Amsterdam to Auschwitz to Berlin, Germany, where...
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Seman, Jennifer Koshatka.
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(2021)
| 9781477321928 | University Of Texas Press | pbk. | book | 280pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 51.00 (inc. GST), AUD 46.36 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos—faithhealers—who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, workedoutside the realm of "professional medicine," seemingly beyond the reach of thechurch, state, or certified health practitioners whose profession was still inits...
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Vick, Todd B.
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(2021)
| 9781477321959 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 312pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 51.00 (inc. GST), AUD 46.36 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
You may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. Hismost famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. Inhundreds of tales detailing the exploits of Conan, King Kull, and others, Howardhelped to invent the sword and sorcery genre.Todd B. Vick delves...
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Galarte, Francisco J.
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(2021)
| 9781477322130 | University Of Texas Press | pbk. | book | 192pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 51.00 (inc. GST), AUD 46.36 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, browntransgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjectsare treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies,lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used...
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Ujayli, Shahla.
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(2021)
| 9781477322284 | University Of Texas Press | pbk. | book | 60pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 27.95 (inc. GST), AUD 25.41 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winningSyrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee ShahlaUjayli, A Bed for the King’s Daughter uses surrealism and irony toexamine such themes as women’s agency, the decline of collective life...
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Ardren, Traci.
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(2021)
| 9781477321645 | University Of Texas Press | hbk. | book | 312pp | Availability last checked: 30/9/2020
AUD 102.95 (inc. GST), AUD 93.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in January 2021
For the ancient Maya, food was both sustenance and a tool for building a complexsociety. This collection, the first to focus exclusively on the social uses offood in Classic Maya culture, deploys a variety of theoretical approaches toexamine the meaning of food beyond diet—ritual offerings and restrictions,medicinal...
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