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Jana Leo remembers each part of the moment when a man entered her apartment in Harlem and raped her. After calling the police, who showed little interest in the incident, the artist realized that the violence did not end with the rape. Preoccupied with the possibility her aggressor would return, she contacted her landlord, who refused to increase security measures. Leo sharply analyzes the vulnerability of the working class and the perverse penal justice system. In addition, she analyzes rape within the circle close to the victim, as her rapist was also her neighbor.

La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb’s contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished....

Una tremenda erupción de un volcán en Indonesia convirtió el verano europeo de 1816 en uno de los más fríos y desapacibles de los que se tenga noticia. Una inmensa nube de azufre, ceniza y cristales en polvo cubrió los cielos del hemisferio norte, hasta el punto de provocar una larga noche de tres días de duración. Justo entonces se reunieron en la mansión de Villa Diodati, en los márgenes del Lago de Ginebra, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, John Polidori y el poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley, entre otros. El encuentro ha pasado a la historia: de él surgieron algunas de las pesadillas más...

Review: "Descriptive monograph on results of excavations at San Juan Yucita Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, that focused on late formative residential areas"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/