A grand overview of the New World’s most recognizable but least understood ancient city—Teotihuacan, in the Valley of Mexico—which proposes a new model for the city’s social and political structure.

A closer look into the reality of life in an East Los Angeles housing project where gangs have a longstanding presence.

A major rethinking of the origins of the two primary calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, proposing that the calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought.

An engaging collection of crime fiction in which Texas is as much a character as a setting.

The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Méndez—one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and José Guadalupe Posada—contains over 150 ill

A timely study of the historical, religious, and social forces that have shaped Iran throughout the past century.

The first scholarly history of Technicolor filmmaking, as well as a thoroughgoing analysis of how color works in film.

A biography of renowned U.S. congressman, Texas state legislator, labor lawyer, and political organizer Bob Eckhardt.

A visual survey of the career of acclaimed documentary photographer Alan Pogue, whose work has focused on social and political movements from Texas to the Middle East.

Essays by leading film scholars and an interview with screenwriter Callie Khouri explore the significant, on-going influence of the 1991 film Thelma & Louise.