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This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town
of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79
CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial
chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the town during
antiquity, including the riveting story of its rediscovery in the
eighteenth century, excavation in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, and broad cultural significance in modern times.
Subsequent chapters offer an interpretive tour of the ancient town,
then focus on one of Herculaneum’s grandest and most beautifully
decorated private residences, known as the House of the
Bicentenary. Located on the town’s main street, it has a range of
features—original rooms, magnificent wall paintings and mosaics,
and remarkable documents—that illuminate daily life in the
ancient world. Final chapters bring the story up to date, including
recent discoveries about the site and its famous papyrus
manuscripts, as well as ongoing conservation initiatives.
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Houston Noir (Hardcover)
Gwendolyn Zepeda; Contributions by Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, …
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R970
Discovery Miles 9 700
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Over twenty years ago, Sarah Cortez left a flourishing corporate
career to strap on a gun, and police the streets. Transitioning
from designer heels and a high-rise office to a low-bid,
agency-owned Crown Vic wasn't easy, but it delivered exactly what
she desired. In these highly-charged personal reflections, Cortez
reveals the complicated machinery of a cop's heart, mind, and soul
by dissecting the differences between cops and civilians. A
must-read to understand the intangibles demanded by
policing-courage, determination, patience, and a belief in
justice-despite the grimy backdrop where life can become death in
an instant.
The poems of Sarah Cortez flex lean muscles to build lyric
intensity and a gripping edginess often backlit by an incandescent,
controlled eroticism. Cortez reveals the hidden underworld of her
fellow police officers, whose lives comprise the thin blue line and
whose blood sometimes splashes and blackens on summer concrete.
This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets
reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to
document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and
the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.
Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San Miguel
You see their silhouettes along the stone wall
or arm in arm below the glow of garden lights
huddled like foothills, earth you could plant maize in.
Cowboy hats and serapes, the smell of beer and
cinnamon churros. You think of family and language
how the music rolls through your hips
to the sweat behind your knees. How it rushes
through you, to a place you still don't know.
--Lois P. Jones
This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil
of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers' nets of the
Gulf Coast, near Matagorda. Three generations of Hispanic families
are viewed through the faith-filled lens of the miraculous and the
poignancy of dreams never realized. The journey continues to
mid-twentieth century Houston, where what is done is as powerful as
that which never happened.
"Cold Blue Steel" contains fifty lyric poems set in the world of
the urban street cop in Houston, the nation's fourth largest
metropolis.In the patrol car, at scenes of suicides and DOAs, in
the overtime reality of aching feet and sweating torsos, the reader
experiences the hard realities and unexpected luminosities of doing
America's most dangerous job.
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