...T. Patrick Culbert The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion . By Robicsek Francis . Foreword by Coe Michael D. and Goodnight Barbara A. . Norman , 1978 . University of Oklahoma Press . Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxv , 233...

...Miguel León-Portilla Flute of the Smoking Mirror: A Portrait of Nezahualcoyotl—Poet-King of the Aztecs . By Gillmor Frances . Foreword by Dibble Charles E. . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1983 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 182 . Paper...

...R. E. Q. Flute of the Smoking Mirror. A Portrait of Nezahualcoyotl—Poet-King of the Aztecs . By Gillmor Frances . Tucson , 1968 . University of Arizona Press . Illustrations. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 183 . $6.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969...

...Peter B. Villella Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice . Edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrew K. Scherer . Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia . Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection , 2018 . Photographs...

...M. Bianet Castellanos Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use among the Maya . Edited by Jennifer A. Loughmiller-Cardinal and Keith Eppich . Foreword by John E. Staller Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2019 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Figures. Table. Notes...

... predispositions, setting, and the placebo effect all help to produce an individual’s response to smoking cannabis. Reactions to marijuana can be shaped not only by the particular chemical composition of what is being smoked but also by cultural expectations and context and the individual user’s biochemistry...

... the origins of the cigarillo to other methods used to adapt tobacco smoking to a larger market, Guillermo Céspedes has compiled a fascinating account of the development of the tobacco industry in New Spain. He divides his book into four historical periods, the first two tracing the origins of tobacco...

.... Thus, the drug trade has augmented violence, imploded the judiciary, fomented corruption, augmented the military, and degraded the environment. What’s more, producers become consumers. Consumption is increasing in almost all supplier countries (e.g., Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia, where smoking...

...Alex Borucki Apart from taxes and finances, María de los Reyes Hernández Socorro and Santiago de Luxán Meléndez examine seventeenth-century Flemish paintings portraying smoking. Reflections on merchant networks and transimperial connections emerge in the chapter of João de Figueiroa-Rego, who...

... devoid of political comment, focusing instead on hummingbirds, fire flies, bananas, and pre-Columbian history and art. There are a few sidelights on social life: everyone smoked a lot and women fancied cigars; there were no saws in all Mexico; the wealthy imported their furniture from the United States...

... of political parties constitutes the essence of the Venezuelan democratic system. Caballero opposes the widespread view that parties have deformed the nation’s democracy by blocking the development of autonomous organizations in civil society. He maintains that the antiparty position is often a smoke screen...

... is quite sophisticated, other notions—that AIDS is contracted through smoking coca, for example —are unexpected (p. 51). The collection is divided into a number of sections that contain both the original Spanish letters and English translations. The one interesting exception is the letters dictated...

... assumed that the epidemic spread through a population previously weakened by overexpansion, and wreaked the same havoc in Castile as it did elsewhere. Rather than accept the plague as the “smoking gun” for the social, political, and economic ills of the time, however, Ruiz finds that the crisis long...

... struggle for pluralist political legitimacy during the crucial decade of the 1840s. He reminds us that through the rhetorical smoke of these turbulent times the emerging character of Venezuela—passionate, freewheeling, noisily egalitarian—can be glimpsed. ...

...” and personal attacks on colleagues; they consumed so many hours debating such matters as changing the regulation prohibiting smoking in the chamber and the meaning of the rule on a quorum that some expressed concern over those “sterile discussions” while questions vital for the future of the country were...

... to highlight the “smoking coalition” that undergirds policy shifts. Yet the author also integrates political variables, such as Pinochet’s strategy for maintaining power and the democratic opposition’s coalition strategy. When these and other influences on policy change are accounted for, it is difficult...

... more similar than might be expected, although the Spanish smoked less tobacco, used more local pottery, and carried on fewer domestic activities in their households than did the English. Overall this excellent book emphasizes how useful archaeology can be for the re-creation of historical reality...

... to reach the director, but with the electricity out, smoke pouring from the building, and firefighters on the scene, remaining at the palace was impossible. A police van was commandeered to transfer the ballots to TRE headquarters. Maluf insisted that he and Natel be allowed to ride with the boxes...

...), food, gambling, games, house interiors, meals, sex, sickness, and smoking. In making this compilation Parker has actually done what many people must have considered doing. For this aid to research, future students of Central America will continue to be grateful to him. His excerpted material...