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Offers an analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. This book reveals the links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. It also demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity.

Explores how a variety of print media - religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary ""Bible-zines"" - have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War.

Inspired by years of talking with farmers, foragers, loggers, tribal activists, seed savers, fishers, railroaders, and nature lovers of all stripes, this title presents a communal conversation that invites readers to ponder their own roles in grassroots environmentalism.

David Obey has in his forty years in the US House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In 2007 he has assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Here, he looks back on his journey in politics. He also discusses his own central role in the evolution of Congress and ethics reforms.

Reveals the factors that propelled the literary movement of writing autobiography in China, the roles that liberal translators and their renditions of Western life stories played, and the way in which these women writers redefined writing and gender in the stories they told.

A guide to Indiana's hometown mom-and-pop restaurants and a reclamation and celebration of small-town Midwest culture. This work also captures the spirit of the locals, bringing to life the people whose stories give the book - and the food - its soul.

Investigates the changes that have taken place in university research over the years, gauging the state of research in higher education and examines issues and challenges crucial to its future. This work also explores the cost of doing science, the commercialization of university research, and the changing composition and number of PhD students.

Josefina Niggli (1910-1983) was one of the most successful Mexican American writers of the early twentieth century. Although Niggli is perhaps best known for her fiction and folk plays, this anthology recovers her historical dramas. It includes an introduction to Niggli, and a chronology of her life and writings.

Investigates the conspicuous marks of violence in Russian history and culture. Exploring the problem of violence in Russia, this work features essays that look into Russian history as well as depictions of violence in the visual arts and in literature, including the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nina Sadur.

Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia - imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with Napoleon - and he served three tsars, including Catherine the Great. This is the biography of Derzhavin.

Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. This work analyzes a panoply of archival and oral resources, and public and private actions to show how power may be exercised not only by rulers but also by the ruled.

Chronicles twentieth century history as ""universal civil war"" between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West.

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), a pioneering gender theorist, transcendentalist, journalist, and literary critic, was one of the most well-known feminist intellectuals of 19th-century America. This volume assesses Fuller's genius and character. It offers an international discussion of Fuller's unique cultural, political, and personal achievements.

The year is 1955. Andy Meyer manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is meandering, and the feeling is Midwestern. Andy, himself the owner of a half-acre pickle patch, works part-time for the Harlow Company, a conflict that places him between the family farm and the big corporation.

Addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing, this title offers insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding.

Living in Nigeria on the brink of civil war, Anna becomes blood brothers with Dave, the Korean American daughter of a CIA operative. They do push-ups, collect pornography, and plot lives of unmarried freedom while around them a country disintegrates. This novel offers an understanding of the interplay of sexuality, gender, race, and war.

One of the significant philosophical works of the 20th-century, ""Contributions to Philosophy"" is also one of the most difficult. This collection of essays, unravels this challenging work. It highlights Heidegger's ""being-historical thinking"" as thinking that sheds light on theological, technological, and scientific interpretations of reality.

The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture. This title explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture. It offers a decade-by-decade discussion of the relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state.

A book-length poem that pounds the pavement of the New Jersey Turnpike, driving through America - past land-fills and wetlands and weapons labs - under the towering shadows of engines, oil, and war.

Explores the history of the park land, from its importance to Native Americans and early European settlers through the 20th century. This work relates the role of conservationists and progressives in establishing the state park, its popularity for tourism and recreation, and efforts to protect the park's resources from a variety of threats.

Presents the oral traditions, legends, speeches, myths, histories, literature, and historically significant documents of the twelve independent bands and Indian Nations of Wisconsin. This anthology introduces us to a group of voices, enhanced by many maps, photographs, and chronologies.

Reveals the play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: to sex, money, and family structure; to masculinity and social standing; to senility and partying; and to jokes, lies, and idiocy. This work includes comprehensive commentary, useful indexes, and a pronunciation guide.

Recounts the events of the previous fall when the protagonist was suspected of killing Isabel Vittorio, the chair of her department and her former lover. This book dramatizes how communities can create the very climate of mistrust and paranoia that victimizes them.

Presents the criminal justice system's capacity for error as it recounts one woman's courageous battle in the face of adversity. This book focuses instead on how the gravest injustice can be committed with the best of intentions, and how one woman's bravery and persistence finally triumphed.

Combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. This work finds a balance between past and present and examines how dance practices are core identity and cultural creators.

Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions.

How are we to think and act constructively in the face of today's environmental and political catastrophes? Gail Stenstad finds answers in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Stenstad's writing enacts Heidegger's transformative way of thinking; and brings new insight into contemporary environmental, political, and personal issues.

A biography of the major American writer of novels and short stories - Sherwood Anderson. In the first volume of this two-volume work, the author chronicles the life of Anderson. The second volume covers Anderson's return to business pursuits, and his extensive travels in the South, touring factories.

Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution, this book tells the fascinating story of these individuals' return to canonical status during the darkest days of the Stalin era. It also features pieces on literary and cultural history, film, opera, and theater.