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Although the many common birds of the Upper Midwest are lovely to hear and see, there is no doubt that the uncommon birds attract more attention. An illustrated companion to ""Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest"", this work celebrates the rarer birds of the Upper Midwest.

In the sparsely settled hills of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, winter's toughness is matched only by the animosity and affection of its inhabitants for each other and for the land that unnerves them. This book evokes a place dominated by two great lakes whose power and ferocity influence the lives of every inhabitant.

This study introduces and explores Lacan's complex theories of subjectivity and desire through close readings of cananical children's books such as "Charlotte's Web", "Stellaluna", "Holes", "Tangerine" and "The Chocolate War".

Presenting a collection of poems, this work embarks on a journey to the land of America's female children. Demonstrating the seriousness of female childhood - which is as dangerous and profound as war, economics, and history - it reveals the extremes of self-doubt and self-righteousness inherent in being a contemporary American girl.

Iowa's place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State's inhabitants. This work includes information about the state's name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of vanished counties and towns.

Embraces the possibility that we can learn as much from objects as we can from other people, from the inanimate as much as the animate. This work reveals what the world is like when your attention is focused elsewhere, when your head is turned the other way.

A compilation of essays and images that reveals an essential component of Czech contributions to the world of modern theatre. Featuring the craft of twenty-seven of the best stage and costume designers of the twentieth century, it supplies evidence of their consistently high quality and dynamic creativity. It is accompanied by a CD.

Starting with the notion of Germany as the ideal site for academic study and travel in the 19th century and concluding with the twentieth-century image of Germany as an aggressive country, this work examines the everchanging image of Germans and Germany in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, William James, John Dewey, among others.

Contains one hundred poems that explore medical practice, interpersonal relationships, and the modern world. These poems record instances of pain and suffering, joy and grief, humor and irony; and the subjects range from caregivers, patients, trainees, and teachers to poverty, injustice, and war throughout the world.

Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.

In 1987, photographer Sandra Dyas moved to Iowa City and began documenting the area's vibrant live music scene. This work contains sixty photos which capture her twenty years of photographing live music venues and shooting portraits of musicians in and around the city.

Defines and explores the ramifications of a character type in twentieth-century American literature - the ugly woman - whose roots can be traced to the old maid/spinster figure of the nineteenth century. This book concludes that the ugly woman character enables authors to explore the ironies and inequalities inherent in the beauty system.

Settled amid the seasonal amusements and condominium-lined beaches of the Florida coast, the characters who inhabit in these stories reach out of their lives to find that something unexpected has replaced what used to be familiar. Some are stalled in the present and some move towards the future heartened by what they learn from those around them.

Features stories that explore the ambiguities of kept secrets, the tangles of abandoned pasts, and uneasy accommodations. The characters face the desire to reclaim dreams left behind, along with something of the dreamer that was also lost. In each story, they face conflict, sometimes within themselves, sometimes with each other.

Presents a collection of twentieth-century elegies, which depict the inevitable struggle between love and death. Divided into five sections, the elegies convey the impact of death and its aftermath; and also focus on the loss of family, lovers, and dear friends. This title is useful for those who personally grieve the passing of loved ones.

Drawing from the paintings of Susan Rothenberg, Gwyneth Scally, and Eric Fischl, this is a book-length poem written in small fragments. It is formed as much by the poet's travels through Turkey, the Baltics, and Eastern Europe as it is by the movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Bill Morrison.

Gives us a poetic inventory in a display of voices and accents. These poems contain the scattered bric-a-brac of the imagination, with goods that range from a dud egg to genetic hybrids, from Marian iconography to pigs at a state fair.

Part of the Iowa's series of laminated guides, this title aids to identifying the many challenging raptors of the Great Plains, from northern Minnesota to northern Texas. It creates fourteen panels, showing twenty-six species perched and in flight with plumage variations - dark phases, light phases, and juvenile and adult male and female forms.

By reconsidering Walt Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American diversity, but as a historically specific poet with roots in the antebellum lower middle class, this book defines the tensions and ambiguities about culture, class, and politics that underlie his poetry. It also reveals a class-conscious and conflicted Whitman.

Presenting a collection of letters by women writers, this book explores the act and art of writing from diverse perspectives and experiences. The letters illuminate such issues as authorship, aesthetics, collaboration, inspiration, and authorial intent; and also initiate discussions on race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender.

In this biography of the man regarded by his enthralled fans as God's unconventional messenger to a sinful world, the curator of the Billy Sunday Historic Site Museum recreates Sunday's life through a material culture lens.

Part detective novel, part cinematic saga, part street-smart narrative, the poems in The Life of a Hunter form a document of expedition that couples individual discovery with communal transformation.

The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space gathers stories about coping with grief, trying to love people who have died, and - more broadly - leaving old versions of the self behind, sometimes by choice and sometimes out of necessity.

American poets in On the Wing explore aviation and space flight. Olsen's introduction traces the prehistory of flight literature from the Bible to the 19th century and sketches the evolution of 20th-century response. The book includes a short history of flight in the US and includes 116 poems.

First printed in 1858, this was written to recruit emigrants to Iowa. A Home in the West tells of Walter and Annie Judson who one March night decide to move to the West in search of a better life. It portrays the challenges and transformations of the period and includes the Panic of 1857, the Mormon Handcart Expedition and Native Americans in Iowa.

In a Fine Frenzy reveals what Shakespeare's poetic children have made of their inheritance. The poets respond to the sonnets, the comedies, the tragedies, the romances, and, to a lesser degree, Shakespeare the man. They reveal the aspects of his work most captivating to modern writers.

Collected here are the reminiscences of people who knew Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) . Many of the printed recollections in this book appeared after Alcott became famous and showcase her as a literary lion, but others focus on her teen years, when she was living the life of Jo March.