A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.

This book surveys the normal obstetrics encountered in primary care and serves as a practical guide to the evaluation and management of common prenatal, peripartum and postpartum complications.

This book explores how four leading thinkers--Su Shih, Shao Yung, Ch'eng I, and Chu Hsi--applied the I Ching to these projects. These four men used the Book of Changes in strikingly different ways.

"... a major addition to the literature on oral traditions.

This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War.

This book presents the first full portrait of one of Africa's most powerful and least understood social groups.

John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts.

This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and state in the name of Catholic culture.