Secrets of spinning, weaving, and knitting in the Peruvian Highlands

The traditional way of stating the common view of the moral asymmetry between keeping secrets and lying is that keeping secrets is prima facie morally permissible, whereas lying is...

Abstract Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

First published in 1806, and revised and edited by her son for this 1845 sixth edition, this collection of letters by Anne Grant (1755–1838) tells her story of thirty years' reside...

Based on the synthesis of materials from numerous studies of natural conditions, represented by relief, geological structures, modern geomorphological processes, and individual cli...

Designing a Knitwear Collection, 2nd Edition, is an essential and comprehensive overview of the knitting design and development process. Featuring more than 475 color images, emerg...

This chapter looks at the emergence and popularization of Nikkei cuisine, a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian championed by celebrity chefs such as Gastón Acurio and Nobu Matsuhisa. ...

This essay analyzes the transformation of Peruvian chicha, an adaptation of Colombian cumbia, from an unassuming working-class music into a central feature in new nationalist disco...

In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian...