Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya

Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya invites you to jump on one of the country s brightly painted chicken buses and visit its bustling marketplaces, Mayan monuments, colonial town squares, and whitewashed churches, where baroque Catholic rituals meld with ancient Mayan beliefs to create a unique style of worship. From the incense-shrouded devotional processions of Antigua to raucous festivals in remote highland villages, Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya takes you on a illuminating ride through the world of an exuberant people and their country. With images by acclaimed Lonely Planet photographer Kraig Lieb and essays by award-winning author Michael Shapiro, this book celebrates the spirited Mayan people of Guatemala, their brilliantly colored textiles and their reverence for tradition. Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya brings to life the land of this Central American country with captivating photos of Lake Atitlán, riveting images of smoldering volcanoes, and soul-stirring pictures of the towering Tikal ruins in the Petén jungle where Mayan civilization reached its height more than a millennium ago. Lieb and Shapiro, who have returned time and again to Guatemala over the past two decades, display a deep respect for the Mayan people. Their appreciation of Guatemala and its resilient inhabitants enlivens every chapter. Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya evokes the country so compellingly that it will carry you back to this remarkable place for many years to come.

Kraig Lieb

Michael Shapiro

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Purple Moon Publications

This book invites you to jump on one of the country's brightly painted 'chicken buses' and visit its bustling marketplaces, Mayan monuments, colonial town squares, and whitewashed churches, where baroque Catholic rituals meld with ancient Mayan beliefs to create a unique style of worship. From the incense-shrouded devotional processions of Antigua to raucous festivals in remote highland villages, you are taken on a illuminating ride through the world of an exuberant people and their country.

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Photography & Video

Jewish men and women have been prominent in the fields of religion, music, commerce, law, diplomacy, philosophy, literature, art, sport and cinema. Who were the most influential, and how do we rank them? This is a biographical listing of 100 of the most influential Jews in history. Individuals from the biblical, classical, medieval and modern eras appear, with each entry presenting a biography and an argument for that person's rank in the pantheon of world history. Shapiro has designed this list to inform, entertain, surprise and even outrage readers with its conclusions, inclusions and exclusions.

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The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time

This survey of the most influential Jewish lives includes short biographies of Karl Marx, Jesus, Einstein, Freud, Moses, Chaim Weizmann, Haym Salomon, and many other Jews of note. Reprint.

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World

Citadel Pr

So....what just happened? The people who fuel our civic conversation-reporters, writers, storytellers-have been asking each other that question a lot lately. So have people who consume their work. Both agree: Waves of technological change have greatly altered the news. How, exactly? Hard to say. This much is known: What adds up to what we are calling The Great Disruption upended certainties, assumptions, and behavior in media institutions, as well as the lives of the men and women who occupied those institutions. The Disruption is changing what journalists do and thus how we think as citizens. What just happened? Media gurus often speak with the confidence of con men. We are not them. Tales From the Great Disruption has no grand theory. Instead, it presents original reporting about what did happen when the waves of change struck and what came in their wake. The first half of the book, "The Gathering Storm," looks back for insight while its second half, "All the Space in the World," explores the new context. These are stories of people and, as such they are about conflict, joy, terror, disappointment, betrayal, loss, and discovery. They illuminate a complex period still in motion. Taken together, they offer lessons on how journalism can better face its Great Disruption.

Tales From the Great Disruption: Insights and Lessons From Journalism’s Technological Transformation

Anna Hiatt

Mike Hoyt

Big Roundtable Books

In the bestselling tradition of The Boys of Summer and Wait ‘Til Next Year, The Last Good Season is the poignant and dramatic story of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ last pennant and the forces that led to their heartbreaking departure to Los Angeles. 
The 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers were one of baseball’s most storied teams, featuring such immortals as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, and Roy Campanella. The love between team and borough was equally storied, an iron bond of loyalty forged through years of adversity and sometimes legendary ineptitude. Coming off their first World Series triumph ever in 1955, against the hated Yankees, the Dodgers would defend their crown against the Milwaukee Braves and the Cincinnati Reds in a six-month neck-and-neck contest until the last day of the playoffs, one of the most thrilling pennant races in history. 
But as The Last Good Season so richly relates, all was not well under the surface. The Dodgers were an aging team at the tail end of its greatness, and Brooklyn was a place caught up in rapid and profound urban change. From a cradle of white ethnicity, it was being transformed into a racial patchwork, including Puerto Ricans and blacks from the South who flocked to Ebbets Field to watch the Dodgers’ black stars. The institutions that defined the borough—the Brooklyn Eagle, the Brooklyn Navy Yard—had vanished, and only the Dodgers remained. And when their shrewd, dollar-squeezing owner, Walter O’Malley, began casting his eyes elsewhere in the absence of any viable plan to replace the aging Ebbets Field and any support from the all-powerful urban czar Robert Moses, the days of the Dodgers in Brooklyn were clearly numbered. 
Michael Shapiro, a Brooklyn native, has interviewed many of the surviving participants and observers of the 1956 season, and undertaken immense archival research to bring its public and hidden drama to life. Like David Halberstam’s The Summer of ’49, The Last Good Season combines an exciting baseball story, a genuine sense of nostalgia, and hard-nosed reporting and social thinking to reveal, in a new light, a time and place we only thought we understood.

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A two-book, slipcase set of Michael Shapiro's groundbreaking works. In My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge, Michael Shapiro devises a storied diary that views the world through the eyes of an inimitable woman whose being and essence are determined by her superlative and penetrating intellect. Inspired by the great Japanese literature by upper-class women writers of the mid-Heian period, eighty-four masterfully woven sections alternate prose, poetry, social commentary and haiku-like vignettes to tell a fascinating tale of betrayal, revenge and undying love. Intended as a companion volume and reader's guide to the author's earlier book, My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge, Palimpsest of Consciousness is a fusion of memoir, family chronicle, and author's commentary that provides a fascinating view into the lives and minds of two passionate scholars, and the rarefied and often treacherous universe in which they lived. Told with conviction and wry humor, Palimpsest of Consciousness traces the author's life from his beginnings as a stateless Russian child in pre-World War II Japan through his eventual journey to the United States, his meeting and marriage to the Dante scholar, Marianne Shapiro, and their life together. Along the way, we glimpse an extraordinary world, a place where classical music, baseball, ballet, a brother behind the Iron Curtain, a decades-long vendetta by corrupt academics, a family scattered across the continents, a birthday party for General MacArthur's son, and Hollywood High School co-exist in an unconventional balance. Towering above everything is the story of the couple's steadfast love for each other and for their magical daughter. But most delectably of all, the author reveals the real-life villains behind the academic scandal that fueled his earlier groundbreaking work, My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge. Illustrated by photos from the author's personal collection, Palimpsest of Consciousness recreates the times and multicultural milieux of an exceptional family moving through a singular era of world history.

Boxed Set: My Wife the Metaphysician and Palimpsest of Consciousness

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Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya

Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya

The Jewish 100 - A Ranking of the Most Influential..

The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time

Tales From the Great Disruption: Insights and Lessons From Journalism’s Technological Transformation

Last Good Season, The

Boxed Set: My Wife the Metaphysician and Palimpsest of Consciousness