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  • Vital Signs

    The Visual Culture of Maya Writing

    by Stephen Houston ...
    How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text. Vital Signs explains how this graphic system worked, shedding new light on its design, intent, and authorship.One of the few peoples of the ancient world with ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

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  • Title of Totonicapán

    by Stephen Houston ...
    This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh. The original document was completed in 1554, only a few decades after the Spanish Conquest of the K’iche’ people in 1524. This volume contains a wholly new translation from the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Memory of Bones

    Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

    by Stephen D. Houston, Stuart David, Karl Taube ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions.All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gifted Passage

    Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text

    by Stephen Houston ...
    In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted Passage establishes that adolescent men in Maya art were the subjects and makers of hieroglyphics, painted ceramics, and murals, in works that helped to shape and reflect ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The Maya

    by Michael D. Coe, Stephen Houston ...
    The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies and featuring full-color illustrations.The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student.This ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Empowering Leader

    12 Core Values to Supercharge Your Leadership Skills

    by Stephen L. Sokolow, Paul D. Houston ...
    These are challenging times, especially for leaders. Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. How do you become a more empowering leader? How do you supercharge your leadership skills to navigate these turbulent times?The answers can be found by tapping into 12 universal Core Values ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Inconstant Landscape

    The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala

    Edited by Thomas G. Garrison, Stephen Houston ...
    Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between the renowned sites of Tikal and El Perú-Waka’, it existed as a small kingdom ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Maya

    Ninth Edition

    by Michael D. Coe, Stephen Houston ...
    Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    The Maya has long been established as the best, most accessible introduction to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general listener and student.This new edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic research, which continues to proceed at a fast pace. Among the finest new discoveries ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Nutritional and Integrative Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine

    Edited by Stephen T. Sinatra, Mark C. Houston ...
    Despite decades of aggressive pharmaceutical and surgical interventions, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the number one killer of both men and women in the Western world. The most important aspect in the treatment of CAD is to focus on prevention. Indeed, prevention is easier than cure and when CAD does present itself, a combination of conventional and alternative methodologies can truly ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • The Adorned Body

    Mapping Ancient Maya Dress

    Edited by Nicholas Carter, Stephen D. Houston, Franco D. Rossi ...
    How we dress our bodies—through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more—is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body, Nicholas Carter, Stephen Houston, and Franco Rossi bring together contributions from a wide range ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs

    Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks

    Edited by John Bodel, Stephen Houston ...
    A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But what if embellishments mattered deeply - if hidden writing, slow to produce, slow to read, played as enduring a role as more accessible graphs? ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Re-Presenting the Past

    Archaeology through Text and Image

    Edited by Sheila Bonde, Stephen Houston ...
    Series Book 2 - Joukowsky Institute Publication
    The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence. This volume brings together nine papers, six of which were presented at a symposium hosted at Brown University. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus