"This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or coauthor of more than 200 books or articles on the Maya, Schele served as the chief disseminator of knowledge to the general public about this anci ..."
" This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economi ..."
" The articles in this book conceptualize the ancient New World through new and varied approaches, from iconography to the history of anthropology. The many essays in this volume explore the vast vista of the Pre-Columbian world, including representations of history, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery and Pre-Columbian narrative, the ideology of rain making, and Maya beliefs about animal transformations. "
Biloxi (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) by MaryMiller Hardcover, Published 2019 by Wheeler Publishing Large Print, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-6536-8, ISBN: 1-4328-6536-6
"Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take."
""In these stories, from Biloxi to Hattiesburg, from Jackson to Oxford, the various crimes of the heart or doomed deeds of fractured households are carried out in real Mississippi locales . . . Are a devilishly wrought introduction to writers with a feel for Mississippi who are pursuing lonely, haunting paths of the imagination."--Associated Press Long-listed for The Morning News 2017 Tournament of Books"The big city has no lock on miser ..."
Buildings of Mississippi by Michael W. Fazio Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Virginia Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-4424-1, ISBN: 0-8139-4424-4
"Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head. McSweeney’s has won multiple literary awards, including two National Magazine Awards for fiction, and has had numerous stories appear in The Best American Magazine Writing, the O. Hen ..."
Fiery Pool(1st Edition) The Maya and the Mythic Sea (Peabody Essex Museum) by Daniel Finamore, Stephen D. Houston, Marc Zender Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16137-3, ISBN: 0-300-16137-9