The book provides a cohesive view of the Aztecs and their empire, emphasizing the diversity and complexity of social, economic, political and religious roles played ... She won the Outstanding ...

In the Aztec writing system, 10-Rabbit is 1502—the year, according to the codices surviving from the era, that the empire's most feared ruler, Ahuitzotl (pronounced ah-WEE-tzohtl), was laid to ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key ...

A software platform that focuses on a person's relationships with others. A social operating system is an emerging model that integrates social networking sites with email, Web surfing and other ...

Speaking of politics, the political history of the Aztec Empire is riveting and thoroughly, surprisingly, modern: The power struggles, the built economies and trade goods, the family and social ...

The Chinese system for ranking people's reputation based on their social behavior and allegiance to the government. The Social Credit System is enabled by the massive surveillance in place via the ...

That affects their finances, too. "We found there are major impacts in that social structure really does matter for how people form financial ties," says Jacob Moscona, an MIT economist and co ...

Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls ... to form part of the Huey Tzompantli A similar structure to the Huey Tzompantli struck fear in ...