Aztec

Altera Roma explores the confrontation of two cultures, European and Amerindian, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. In an age of exploration and conquest, Spanish soldiers, missionaries, and merchant

Poetry. A SLEEPLESS MAN SITS UP IN BED, the third collection by the poet and translator Anthony Seidman, charts a cartography of the here and the beyond—from the fossils of trilobites to Aztec religio

At Home with the Aztecs provides a new view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This approach offers an opportunity to humanize th

At Home with the Aztecs provides a new view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This approach offers an opportunity to humanize th

Modern Mexico derives many of its richest symbols of national heritage and identity from the Aztec legacy, even as it remains a predominantly Spanish-speaking, Christian society. This volume argues that the composite, neo-Aztec flavor of Mexican identity was, in part, a consequence of active efforts by indigenous elites after the Spanish conquest to grandfather ancestral rights into the colonial era. By emphasizing the antiquity of their claims before Spanish officials, native leaders extended the historical awareness of the colonial regime into the pre-Hispanic past, and therefore also the themes, emotional contours, and beginning points of what we today understand as 'Mexican history'. This emphasis on ancient roots, moreover, resonated with the patriotic longings of many creoles, descendants of Spaniards born in Mexico. Alienated by Spanish scorn, creoles associated with indigenous elites and studied their histories, thereby reinventing themselves as Mexico's new 'native' leadership

Botanical gardens flourish with butterflies and blossoms. A staple of art in many cultures reaching back to ancient Egyptian, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations, these vivid winged insects are considered

In the first book on Aztec dance in the United States, Ernesto Colín combines cultural anthropology, educational theory, and postcolonial theory to create an innovative, interdisciplinary, long-term e

Deadly Baggage is a book about the conquest of Mexico by an expedition led by the infamous Cortes in the sixteenth century. Rather than telling the Eurocentric version of the story, which focuses desc

No man can conquer Hell and Heaven alone. With the help of his friends Ernest Hemingway, Nettie, and Essie - plus a whole army of kids and an ancient Aztec god - Jude might just stand a chance to chan

Oxford Reading Tree: Story Sparks: Level 8 (Age 7 - 7½)On a trip to a museum, Charlie suddenly finds herself transported back in time to an Aztec village! She's arrived on the day of an annual sports

The great ancient Aztec and Mayan city-states dominated Central and Southern America before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores in 1519. Today the unique artistry discovered throughout the relic

The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in

Atl Xochitl is a sacred geometry codex. Xochitl is the aztec word for flower. Atl is the aztec word for water. This contemporary chicano art book explores and experiments with the aztec motif of flowe

Join teen chef detective Neil Flambe for a delicious blend of mystery, history, and top-notch cuisine in the first four books of the The Neil Flambe Capers, now available as a paperback boxed set.Neil

Every fifty-two years, fifty-two human sacrifices are chosen for the Underworld, a tradition thought to have disappeared with the fall of the Aztec and Mayan empires. Not one of the sacrifices chosen

You can never have too much chocolate—or too many chocolate recipes! From Mocha Squares to spicy Aztec Pralines and Fudge Cake with chocolate-caramel icing, this big, bold, beautiful volume features m

This book presents an ethnography of contemporary indigenous education through the spirit practice, dance ceremonies, and cultural diffusion efforts of a Mexica (Aztec) dance circle in the United Stat

Our beloved Day of the Dead holiday is for celebrating all walks of life: the cowboy, the dancer, the flowered mother, the musician, the farm-worker. Make copies of these unique, Aztec-inspired ill

This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure and the organization of collections.

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 mannered violence of their ritual killings.

In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free and independent'. Yet the genealogy of this new nation is not easy to trace. Colonial Mexico was a patchwork state whose new-world vassals served the crown, extended the empire's frontiers and lived out their civic lives in parallel Spanish and Indian republics. Theirs was a world of complex intercultural alliances, interlocking corporate structures and shared spiritual and temporal ambitions. Sean F. McEnroe describes this history at the greatest and smallest geographical scales, reconsidering what it meant to be an Indian vassal, nobleman, soldier or citizen over three centuries in northeastern Mexico. He argues that the Mexican municipality, state and citizen were not so much the sudden creations of a revolutionary age as the progeny of a mature multiethnic empire.

From a crater lake on an island off the coast of Bronze Age Estonia... To a crippled Viking warrior's conquest of England... To the bloody temple of an Aztec god of death and resurrection... Their pre

Helps you rediscover the lost world of ancient Central America, with 450 pictures and 15 step-by-step projects. This title lets you step back in time to Central America before the Spanish conquest and

This sumptuous boxed set of two encyclopedias charts the rise and fall of the ancient American empires - including the Chavin, Paracas, Moche, Olmec and Zapotec - offering an absorbing guide to the lo

Showing readers how to make chia, the secret weapon that helped the ancient Aztecs achieve their greatness, a central part of their daily diet, the host of the Dr. Danger reality television series pre

A reference guide to the mythology of the native North American, Maya, Aztec, Inca and earlier civilizations and cultures of the Americas. It includes more than 900 entries, arranged alphabetically an

"The Spanish Sampler" is a simple foreign language guide book that clarifies grammatical concepts, tense usage, accentuation, and gives an in-depth historical background of Aztec, Greek, Arabic, Celti

"In May 1942, a German U-boat torpedoed two unarmed Mexican oil tankers off the Gulf Coast, forcing Mexico to enter World War II. With the help of United States President Roosevelt, Mexican President

Unpeopled Eden opens in Mictlán, the region of the dead in Aztec mythology, inviting us down into a world where “the men are never coming home” and “rows of ghosts come forth to sing.” Haunted by bord

"Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again s

This detailed study is the only reference work of its kind to address Spain's conquest of Central and South America, providing in-depth coverage of native and European ideologies, political motivation

What do the Mayan prophecies, the Aztec Calendar Stone, the symbols on America’s Great Seal and the U.S. Capitol Building all have in common? Will the first Antichrist rise again? Will ancient Babylon

When her research team goes missing in the Yucatan Peninsula while investigating a powerful legendary artifact from the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, archaeologist Maria Pelati enlists Jonathon Payne

在工程科學的各個領域，基於高性能計算的數值模擬（仿真）已得到越來越多的應用。《工程科學中的高性能計算》圍繞數值模擬工程科學問題中廣泛用到的有限元法的並行計算，詳細介紹所涉及的各方面知識與方法，包括並行計算概念、並行計算機體系結構、基於消息傳遞的並行編程環境MPI、線性方程組的並行直接解法和並行迭代解法以及兩個開源的並行解法軟件包PETs和Aztec，最後介紹並行有限元法中的區域分解法與EBE方法。

Showing readers how to make chia, the secret weapon that helped the ancient Aztecs achieve their greatness, a central part of their daily diet, the host of the Dr. Danger reality television series pre

From the Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza to the Caribbean ruins of Tulum, many lives will be lost while searching for The Death Relic... Little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations after being

A malevolent group of Light-Dealers has surfaced in Cara Collin's hometown of Norfolk, Virginia. Led by an ancient Aztec demon, the "Takers" are torturing and murdering their way to world domination.

Introduces the ancient Aztec Empire, describing its history, rulers, agriculture, religion, art, architecture, and everyday life, with instructions for making such Aztec items as a mask, headdress, an

In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free and independent'. Yet the genealogy of this new nation is not easy to trace. Colonial Mexico was a patchwork state whose new-world vassals served the crown, extended the empire's frontiers and lived out their civic lives in parallel Spanish and Indian republics. Theirs was a world of complex intercultural alliances, interlocking corporate structures and shared spiritual and temporal ambitions. Sean F. McEnroe describes this history at the greatest and smallest geographical scales, reconsidering what it meant to be an Indian vassal, nobleman, soldier or citizen over three centuries in northeastern Mexico. He argues that the Mexican municipality, state and citizen were not so much the sudden creations of a revolutionary age as the progeny of a mature multiethnic empire.

Columbus arrived on North American shores in 1492, and Cortes had replaced Moctezuma, the Aztec Nahua emperor, as the major figurehead in central Mexico by 1521. Five centuries later, the convergence