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With a seemingly effortless motion, pinpoint control, a blazing, dancing fastball, and an unequaled competitive spirit, the author enjoyed one of the most celebrated careers in baseball history. In this book, he recalls his childhood, his playing days, and life after baseball. It also features photographs.

For nearly half a century, Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. In this title, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada and the crack of the cue ball, the young rebel on his big Harley, and the YMCA secretary who backstrokes her way across the indoor pool.

Countering the inclination to associate indigenous peoples with "wilderness" or to conflate everything "Indian" with a vague sense of the ecological, this book shows how Indian communities were forced to migrate to make way for the nation's "wilderness" parks in the nineteenth century.

Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, this book helps you evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World.

The 1954 Cleveland Indians were one of the most remarkable baseball teams of all time. This book features the writing and research of members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

The 1975 Cincinnati Reds, also known as the "Big Red Machine," are not just one of the most memorable teams in baseball history - they are unforgettable. This book commemorates the people and events surrounding this baseball team with essays on team management and key aspects and highlights of the season, including Pete Rose's position change.

This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War's critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse provides a clearly organised, thorough and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and precise directions for armchair traveller and battlefield visitor alike.

Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage.

Packed with rich detail and analysis of what often transpired when merchant ships were sunk by U-boats, this dramatic book highlights the hazards of World War II at sea. At its centre, James P. Duffy relates the story of the sinking of the British liner Laconia by the German U-boat U-156.

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi's texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities.

Provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization

Entertaining reference to the sport of baseball, including larger-than-life characters, baseball legends, sports facts and firsts, important milestones, and observations about daily life and popular culture.

Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropologyOCOs vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaningOCoin terms of what anthropology perceives, how it goes about representing its subjects, and how it understands and legitimizes itself. Of particular concern is that meaning is comprehended and created through a complex and continually unfolding process predicated on what is not thereOCothe unspoken, the unheard, the unknownOCoas much as on what is there. Such powerful absences, described by Wagner as OC anti-twins, OCO are crucial for the invention of cultures and any discipline that proposes to study them.As revealed through conversations between Wagner and Coyote, Wagner's anti-twin, a coyote anthropology should be as much concerned with absence as with presence if it is to depict accurately the dynamic and creative worlds of others. Furthermore, Wagner suggests that anthropologists not only be aware of what informs and conditions their discipline but also understand the range of necessary exclusions that permit anthropology to do what it does. Sly and enticing, probing and startling, Coyote Anthropology beckons anthropologists to draw closer to the center of all things, known and unknown

Written by an anthropologist, an historian, and a Native singer, this title reveals the personal and cultural power of Christian faith among the Kiowas of southwestern Oklahoma and shows how Christian members of the Kiowa community have creatively embraced hymns and made them their own. It features a CD of twenty-six Kiowa hymns.

A collection of essays embracing nonfiction from memoir and biography to travel writing and natural history, Interior Places offers a curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape.

Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but there were five more fallen astronauts. This book tells their stories also: Ted Freeman, C C Williams, the "Gemini Twins," Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.

Sidney Thompson tells the story of the early career of Bass Reeves, one of the greatest lawmen in American history, and his life as a slave before he became a deputy U.S. marshal.

In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.

Russell Cobb's The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of "Flyover Country" that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.

Fermented Landscapes applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape and cultural change as related to the production and consumption of fermented products.

Sabotaged is the remarkable account of French, Swiss, and Belgian intellectuals who followed Victor Considerant to Texas in 1855 in a quixotic attempt to fulfill their dreams of a new life in a utopia.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world in the twenty-first century? Robin Hemley wrestles with this question in Borderline Citizen as he takes the reader on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity.

Though spiritually akin to prose poems, Robert Vivian's dervish essays retain an essayistic form while reflecting the dynamic movement and ancient symbolism of Turkey's whirling dervishes with their wild lyricism, sometimes breathless cadences, and mesmerizing unspooling.

In the poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival.

Drawing on an array of approaches-biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political-Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena analyzes the different elements of Roosevelt's manifold encounters with the great outdoors.

This hauntingly beautiful collection of poems is a disarming account of a man consumed by thoughts of home and loss.

The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever.

Nicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr. contend that the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum is a securitized site of remembrance that evokes feelings of insecurity that justify post-9/11 domestic and international security efforts.