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  • Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective

    by Maarten Jansen ...
    Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective offers a modern, 2nd generation look on wavelets, far beyond the rigid setting of the equispaced, dyadic wavelets in the early days. With the methods of this book, based on the lifting scheme, researchers can set up a wavelet or another multiresolution analysis adapted to their data, ranging from images to scattered data or other irregularly spaced ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Language of Argumentation

    Edited by Ronny Boogaart, Henrike Jansen, Maarten van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Bringing together scholars from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, The Language of Argumentation offers a unique overview of research at the crossroads of linguistics and theories of argumentation.In addition to theoretical and methodological reflections by leading scholars in their fields, the book contains studies of the relationship between language and argumentation from two different ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Encounter with the Plumed Serpent

    Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica

    by Maarten Jansen, Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez ...
    Series series Mesoamerican Worlds
    The Mixtec, or the people of Ñuu Savi ('Nation of the Rain God'), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. In Encounter with the Plumed Serpent, two leading scholars present and interpret the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving ... Read more

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • The Aztecs

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Carrasco ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Aztecs: A History From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    The Aztec Empire did not recoil from the face of an impending doom, they struggled faithfully. Destined to emerge from their humble beginnings, it grew into a highly-complex devoted civilization refusing to live at the mercy of more neighboring powerful rulers. Their powerful pocheca combed the valley for luxury items while markets dotted their lands.Inside you will find...✓ Introduction✓ How the ... Read more

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  • Aztecs

    An Interpretation

    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • The Aztecs

    by Michael E. Smith ...
    Series series Peoples of America
    The Aztecs brings to life one of the best-known indigenous civilizations of the Americas in a vivid, comprehensive account of the ancient Aztecs.A thorough examination of Aztec origins and civilization including religion, science, and thoughtIncorporates the latest archaeological excavations and research into explanations of the Spanish conquest and the continuity of Aztec culture in Central ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

    by Barbara E. Mundy ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350 ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Pre-Columbian America

    Empires of the New World

    by Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Series series Britannica Guide to Ancient Civilizations
    From the Mayan calendar to the Toltec architecture at Chichén Itzá, the bequests of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations have endured long after the societies that created them declined. The intellectual and cultural achievements of Pre-Columbian America rivaled those of ancient Rome and Egypt, and greatly enriched the landscape of present-day Mexico and Central America. The traditions, social ... Read more

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  • The Fate of Earthly Things

    Aztec Gods and God-Bodies

    by Molly H. Bassett ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    "Bassett at last provides a path to understand better the specifically Aztec characteristics of the teteoh and their ritual 'embodiments.'" — EthnohistoryFollowing their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" ( teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus