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Star Gods of the Maya

Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars

By: Susan Milbrath

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Star Gods of the Maya

Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars

By: Susan Milbrath

“A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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University of Texas Press

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0292778511

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9780292778511

Art Lab for Kids

52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages

By: Susan Schwake

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Art Lab for Kids

52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages

By: Susan Schwake

A refreshing source of ideas for creating fine art with children, Art Lab for Kids encourages the artist's own voice, marks, and style.

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1592537650

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Super Fun Art Activities for Kids

Awesome Projects for Kids of All Ages

By: Susan Schwake

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Super Fun Art Activities for Kids

Awesome Projects for Kids of All Ages

By: Susan Schwake

Super fun, super creative, and super engaging, Super Fun Art Activities for Kids is the perfect go-to resource for teachers, parents, and caregivers of all kinds to entertain and educate kids with simple activities that will expand and enhance their innate creativity.

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Quarry Books

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0760383863

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9780760383865

Art of the Cherokee

Prehistory to the Present

By: Susan C. Power

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Art of the Cherokee

Prehistory to the Present

By: Susan C. Power

In addition to tracing the development of Cherokee art, Power reveals the wide range of geographical locales from which Cherokee art has originated. These places include the Cherokee's tribal homeland in the southeast, the tribe's areas of resettlement in the West, and abodes in the United States and beyond to which individuals subsequently moved. Intimately connected to the time and place of its creation, Cherokee art changed along with Cherokee social, political, and economic circumstances. The entry of European explorers into the Southeast, the Trail of Tears, the American Civil War, and the signing of treaties with the U.S. government are among the transforming events in Cherokee art history that Power discusses."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820327662

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Star Gods of the Maya

Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars

By: Susan Milbrath

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Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars

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University of Texas Press

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Young V. Old

Generational Combat In The 21st Century

By: Susan Macmanus

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Young V. Old

Generational Combat In The 21st Century

By: Susan Macmanus

Arguing that an inter-generational war is brewing in the United States, this book paints a picture of the "ageing of America" and what it means for politics and policy questions, including social security, health care, crime, jobs, social welfare, defence and foreign affairs. Differences between older and younger citizens are examined in the light of voting and registration patterns, ideological and party preferences, and varieties of political activism. Contemporary media and new technologies are highlighted as sources of disparities and bridges between the generations - how they "watch politics", how they prefer to solve social problems, and how inter-generational understanding may be improved through communication and education.

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Routledge

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0429982550

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9780429982552

Corruption

A Study in Political Economy

By: Susan Rose-Ackerman

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Corruption

A Study in Political Economy

By: Susan Rose-Ackerman

Corruption: A Study in Political Economy focuses on the problem of corruptions in political economy and functional bribery. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 11 chapters. Chapters 2 to 4 deal with the fundamental relationship among voters, legislators, and interest groups, as well as the role of the government bureaucracy in shaping legislative choices. Chapters 5 illustrates the basic relationships with an analysis of a monopolistic government official charged with allocating a benefit through a queuing system, while Chapter 6 retains the assumption of a single official with monopoly power but moves beyond the queuing model to consider alternative sanctioning strategies, a wider variety of bureaucratic tasks, and bribers who may be competitively or monopolisticly organized. Chapters 7 and 8 explore the potential of a system where officials are permitted to compete with one another in processing applications for governmental benefits. Under this system, an individual or firm rejected by one official can seek the benefit from other bureaucrats. Chapter 9 introduces a final administrative variable into the analysis, while Chapter 10 discusses the governmental corruption to analogous corrupt activities entirely within the private sector. Lastly, Chapter 11 looks into the relation between corruption and democratic theory, the possibility of reforming corrupt bureaucracies, and the link between economics and morality. This book will be of value to public servants, legislators, economists, sociologists, and researchers.

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Academic Press

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1483289060

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9781483289069

Ensuring Greater Yellowstone's Future

Choices for Leaders and Citizens

By: Susan Gail Clark

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Ensuring Greater Yellowstone's Future

Choices for Leaders and Citizens

By: Susan Gail Clark

Drawing on extensive conservation experience in the greater Yellowstone region, Susan G. Clark outlines the leadership and policy issues associated with managing greater Yellowstone's natural resources and asseses the successes and failures of those who have worked there toward sustainability over the past 40 years.

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Yale University Press

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0300145039

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9780300145038

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

By: Anne S. Dowd,Susan Milbrath

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Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

By: Anne S. Dowd,Susan Milbrath

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged ideas about the cosmos with those concerning calendar and astronomy, the volume showcases the value of detailed examinations of astronomical data for understanding ancient cultures. The volume is divided into three sections: investigations into Mesoamerican horizon-based astronomy, the cosmological principles expressed in Mesoamerican religious imagery and rituals related to astronomy, and the aspects of Mesoamerican calendars related to archaeoastronomy. It also provides cutting-edge research on diverse topics such as records of calendar and horizon-based astronomical observation (like the Dresden and Borgia codices), iconography of burial assemblages, architectural alignment studies, urban planning, and counting or measuring devices. Contributors—who are among the most respected in their fields— explore new dimensions in Mesoamerican timekeeping and skywatching in the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacano, Zapotec, and Aztec cultures. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, art history, and astronomy.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457193752

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9781457193750

Weaving the Past

A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present

By: Susan Kellogg

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Weaving the Past

A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present

By: Susan Kellogg

Weaving the Past is the first comprehensive history of Latin America's indigenous women. While concentrating mainly on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it also covers indigenous peoples in a variety of areas of South and Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women.

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351

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OUP USA

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0195123816

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9780195123814

Black Representation and Urban Policy

By: Albert Karnig,Susan Welch

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Black Representation and Urban Policy

By: Albert Karnig,Susan Welch

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth in the number of black elected officials. Although blacks still constitute barely 1 percent of elected officeholders in the nation, their increasing political power cannot be denied. In Black Representation and Urban Policy, Albert K. Karnig and Susan Welch focus on the election of blacks to mayoral and city council seats, using the most current data available on more than 250 cities. They address two major questions: What conditions promote blacks' chances of winning election to public office? Does the election of blacks to municipal office have an effect on urban policy? In exploring the factors that underlie the election of blacks to public office, the authors found that the resources of the black community itself—the size as well as the education and income of the black population—are the best predictors of blacks' winning political office. The authors' assessment of the impact of black elected officials on urban policy constitutes perhaps their most profoundly important finding. Cities with black mayors have had greater increases in social welfare expenditures than have similar communities without black mayors. The authors point out that election of blacks to mayoral posts, then, can have more than symbolic consequences for public policy.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226425347

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9780226425344

Ecological Relations

Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth

By: Susan Board

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Ecological Relations

Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth

By: Susan Board

International relations (IR) traditionally theorises the social relationships between different peoples. In so doing, it ignores the ecological bases to life - the ground upon which we walk, the all-encompassing bind of nature. In the current climate of environmental degradation, international relations as a theory must in turn be altered. By broadening the term 'relations' to include this ecological framework, international relations can be approached from a changed perspective. In this book, Susan Board uses a Foucauldian model of power to expand the boundaries of international relations. She argues that 'relations' can include other people or animals, and are not exclusively between states. Such a perspective acts to denaturalise the marginalization of women, animals and indigenous peoples and hence expand the constrained discipline of IR. By rethinking international relations to put ecological foundations first, we are pushed to think and act with consideration of the long-term sustainability of the global environment; an ecological focus reminds us of our interdependence with our environment and all our neighbours. The book raises conceptual and methodological issues that go directly to the heart of current critical engagements within the discipline of IR. As such it will be of great interest to students and researchers in IR, environmental politics and political theory.

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Routledge

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1134534000

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Political Women in Japan

The Search for a Place in Political Life

By: Susan J. Pharr

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Political Women in Japan

The Search for a Place in Political Life

By: Susan J. Pharr

Drawing on interviews with one hundred young Japanese women engaged in a spectrum of voluntary political groups, Susan J. Pharr explores how politically active women overcome the constraints that bar or limit the political participation of the average woman. The book treats political volunteers as agents of social change in a process of role redefinition by which prevailing concepts of women's roles gradually adjust to accommodate political behavior. Tracing developments that led to the grant of suffrage and other political rights to women during the Allied occupation, Pharr sets the stage for an analysis of that process as it unfolds in the experience of individual women. She uses women's images of self and society and issues of political and gender role socialization, career and life expectations, and political role and participation to develop a three-fold typology for looking at political women in Japan. She examines both the satisfactions of political volunteerism—from the exhilaration of addressing a crowd from a sound truck to the pleasure of speaking "men's language"—and the psychological and social costs associated with it. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

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Univ of California Press

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0520309979

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9780520309975

Using the National Gifted Education Standards for University Teacher Preparation Programs

By: Susan K. Johnsen,Joyce L. VanTassel-Baska,Ann Robinson

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Using the National Gifted Education Standards for University Teacher Preparation Programs

By: Susan K. Johnsen,Joyce L. VanTassel-Baska,Ann Robinson

This guidebook helps university personnel design or revise teacher preparation courses in gifted education to align with the new standards required by NCATE for program accreditation.

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Corwin Press

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141296525X

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9781412965255

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

By: Anne S. Dowd,Susan Milbrath

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Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

By: Anne S. Dowd,Susan Milbrath

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University Press of Colorado

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Book's by Susan Milbrath

Star Gods of the Maya

Star Gods of the Maya

Art Lab for Kids

Art Lab for Kids

Super Fun Art Activities for Kids

Super Fun Art Activities for Kids

Art of the Cherokee

Art of the Cherokee

Star Gods of the Maya

Star Gods of the Maya

Young V. Old

Young V. Old

Corruption

Corruption

Ensuring Greater Yellowstone's Future

Ensuring Greater Yellowstone's Future

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

Weaving the Past

Weaving the Past

Black Representation and Urban Policy

Black Representation and Urban Policy

Ecological Relations

Ecological Relations

Political Women in Japan

Political Women in Japan

Using the National Gifted Education Standards for University Teacher Preparation Programs

Using the National Gifted Education Standards for University Teacher Preparation Programs

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

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