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In the postwar era, the police procedural series Dragnet informed Americans on the workings of the criminal justice system and instructed them in their responsibilities as citizens.

A moving memoir exploring how a poet found support and revival through Dolly Parton's music and story.

In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art-a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, with whom it has given concerts around the world.In this delightful book, Mr. Prieto recounts the adventurous life of his beloved "Cello Prieto," tracing its history through each of its previous owners from Stradivari in 1720 to himself. He then describes his noteworthy experiences of playing the Piatti cello, with which he has premiered some eighty compositions. In this part of their mutual story, Prieto gives a concise summary of his own remarkable career and his relationships with many illustrious personalities, including Igor Stravinsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriel García Márquez. A new epilogue, in which he describes recent concert tours in Moscow, Siberia, and China and briefer visits to South Korea, Taiwan, and Venezuela, as well as recent recitals with Yo-Yo Ma, brings the story up to 2009.To make the story of his cello complete, Mr. Prieto also provides a brief history of violin making and a succinct review of cello music from Stradivari to the present. He highlights the work of composers from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, for whose music he has long been an advocate and principal performer.

A powerful novel about interpersonal and systemic violence, examined through the lens of a relationship between an anxious middle-class Omani artist and the Ethiopian domestic worker she hires.

A stirring memoir of liberal politics and personal reflection through years in Texas public service.

The impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity.

A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas.O'Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos' first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican indigenismo establishes the context for individual chapters on Castellanos' narratives of ethnic conflict (the novels Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas and the short stories of Ciudad Real). In further chapters O'Connell reads Los convidados de agosto,Album de familia, and Castellanos' four collections of essays as developments of her feminist social analysis.

The foundational writings of Isocrates, newly translated and placed in historical context.

How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism.

A lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue focusing on the social role of civil and religious clothing in Latin America during the 1700s.

A guide to water-focused and climate-resilient architectural and urban design.

Writers explore a city's relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding.

A meticulous survey of US media treatments of Central Americans.

Now with an afterword covering his final years, John Prine traces the crooked road traveled by the brilliant songwriter responsible for "Angel from Montgomery," "Sam Stone," "Paradise," and "That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round".

How a DJ's innovative chopped and screwed technique changed the Houston hip-hop scene.

An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.

The first comprehensive study of cartonera, a vibrant publishing phenomenon born in Latin America.

An examination of the sound and silence of women in digital media.