Offers a historical perspective on oil prices’ tendency toward volatility, the efforts of OPEC and others to stabilize prices, and the likelihood that today’s market will remain volatile. Writings by scholars in the United States, Australia, and Canada on how gender affects the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, and others in the dance world in three realms: concert dance, the studio, and higher education.Ĭrude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally (Columbia University Press 315 pages $35). Examines the economy and culture of smart phones in South Korea, with a focus on young Koreans’ engagement with their devices and apps.ĭance and Gender: An Evidence-Based Approach edited by Wendy Oliver and Doug Risner (University Press of Florida 212 pages $84.95). Smartland Korea: Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society by Dal Yong Jin (University of Michigan Press 238 pages $70 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines how class and other structural factors shape empowerment through technology discusses children with autism, cerebral palsy, and other disabilities and their use of the Apple iPad and app Proloquo2Go, which converts icons and text into synthetic speech. Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality by Meryl Alper (MIT Press 270 pages $75 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines the environmental and human impact of the manufacture, use, and disposal of digital devices. Traces the history of the guard from its founding by Augustus around 27 BC to its permanent dissolution by Constantine around AD 312.įinite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies by Sean Cubitt (Duke University Press 243 pages $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard by Guy de la Bedoyere (Yale University Press 335 pages $35). Focuses on images produced in France in a study of paintings, illustrated travelogues, and other works that reflect Europe’s cross-cultural exchange. Fraser (Penn State University Press 298 pages $89.95). Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839 by Elisabeth A. A study of Night Sea, a 1963 blue-and-gold grid painting by the Canadian-born American abstract artist and described here as the last of Martin’s process-based works. First English translation, and study, of recently discovered Yucatan Maya-authored Christian manuscripts from colonial Mexico that were used to evangelize the local population.Īgnes Martin: “Night Sea” by Suzanne Hudson (AfterAll Books, distributed by MIT Press 100 pages $19.95). Christensen (University of Texas Press 321 pages $55). The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan by Mark Z. Reports on excavations and GIS-aided surveys of the Omani site centered on the construction and function of non-mortuary, circular monuments made of mudbrick or stone. Possehl (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 330 pages $69.95). The Bronze Age Towers at Bat, Sultanate of Oman: Research by the Bat Archaeological Project, 2007-12 edited by Christopher P. Research on a Classic Period Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatan region that was centered on short- and long-distance trade rather than political ritual. Hutson (University Press of Colorado 376 pages $75). A work in linguistic anthropology that examines how Tamil-speaking migrants from India and Sri Lanka living in Montreal negotiate the politics of French, English, and Tamil variants.Īncient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil edited by Scott R.

Das (Oxford University Press 269 pages $99 hardcover, $39.95 paperback).

Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts by Sonia N.

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