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  • - The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom
    av Helen McGavran Corneli
    377

    Presents the story of a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, and of their passions for hunting, wild lands, and the grouse and raptor species they were instrumental in saving from destruction. This book provides an account of conservation history over the course of the 20th century, particularly in Wisconsin from the 1920s through the 1970s.

  • - A Sister and Brother in Nazi Poland
    av Fay Walker
    391

    Of the Rosenbluth family, only the older children, Faiga and Luzer, had gone into hiding before the SS rounded up the Jews of Kanczuga, Poland. ""Hidden"" is Faiga and Luzer's story.

  • - Children in Latin American History and Society
     
    391

    Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half a millennium, this volume explores how the omission of children from the region's historiography may in fact be no small matter.

  • - An American in Florence
    av Merrill Joan Gerber
    407

    This is the tale of a woman who readily admits her fear of travel, a fear that many experience but are embarrassed to admit. When finally she plunges into the new adventure, she describes her experiences in Florence with wit, humour and energy.

  • - Power, Oppression and Violence in Healthcare
     
    421

    This text shows how healthcare professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent holistic healthcare, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. It investigates the need to rethink healthcare practices to bring the art and science of medicine back into balance.

  • - Responses of an Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human Activities
    av Clifford H. Mortimer
    391

    Blending history, science and public policy, this reference book on the Great Lakes should be of interest to limnologists, biologists, graduate students, researchers, public officials, elementary and high school teachers, those who live near the Lake and those who use it for recreation.

  • - Cultural Identity and Self-Representation
    av Sandra Pouchet Paquet
    457

    This volume covers Anglophone Caribbean literature from the colonial era up to the beginning of the 21st century. It charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean and differing concepts of community and social integration.

  • - A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal
    av Gilad Margalit
    667

    Explores the plight of gypsies in Germany before, during and since the era of the Third Reich. The book reveals the painful record of the official treatment of the German Gypsies, from the heightened racism of the 19th century, to the National Socialist genocidal policies and up to the present day.

  • av Jim Lane
    451

    A study of the autobiographical documentary in America from the 1960s to the start of the 21st century. Jim Lane looks at the ways in which autobiographical documentaries such as ""Roger and Me"" and ""Sherman's March"" raise weighty questions about American cultural life.

  • av Angeliki Kosmopoulou
    747

    This is a comprehensive collection of material on sculptured statue bases which should be of interest to archaeologists, historians of art and of religion, and scholars of ancient culture (including athletics and gender studies).

  • - David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership, and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust
    av Tuvia Friling
    1 067

    Tuvia Friling recounts and analyses the efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine - the Yishuv - to help European Jews facing annihilation. It shows the wide scope and complexity of Yishuv activity at this time.

  • - An Internal Assessment
    av Ralph Andreano
    257

    This volume reviews the International Health Policy Program, assesing whether it has fostered institutional and individual research on health policy in developing countries and helped policymakers effectively use resources.

  • - Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth
     
    347

    This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of the book is Jonathan Swift; other essays discuss Alexander Pope, and 18th-century music and poetry.

  • - Reflections on Food and the Law
    av Barry M. Levenson
    391

    From the McDonald's hot coffee case to current nutrition labeling laws, Mr Peanut and trademark infringement, prison meals, definitions of organic food, what and how we eat are shaped as much by legal restrictions as by personal taste. This text looks at the intersections of food and the law.

  • - Searching for the Perfect Pint
    av Robin Shepard
    407

    This guidebook introduces you to over 60 brewpubs and breweries in Wisconsin, and rates 600 local beers. Each description includes a history, ratings, notes on the pub food with suggestions of other sites to see and activities in the area. There is also information on the brewing process.

  • av Harold Salemson
    467

    This facsimile edition makes available in one volume all eight issues of ""Tambour"", a historically important ""little magazine"" published in Paris in 1929 and 1930 that featured a mix of writing by European and American modernists.

  • - Social Ills, Literary Cures
    av David Caron
    727

    To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, this work analyzes the intersections of three discourses - the literary, the medical and the political - and traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS to 19th century anxieties about nationhood, masculinity and sexuality.

  • av Alexander Meiklejohn
    391

    Established at the University of Wisconsin in 1927 by educational theorist Alexander Meiklejohn, the ""Experimental College"" was a small residence-based programme within the university that provided a core curriculum of liberal education of two years of college. This is a record of the experiment.

  • av Susan Wells
    347

    In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.

  • - Style, Change and Social Transformation in South Central Africa
    av James A. Pritchett
    407

    Bridging history and anthropology, this text shows how the Lunda-Zdembu people of northwestern Zambia have justified innovations to their cultural identity and practices by establishing conceptual similarities to long-standing traditions.

  • - Artists in the Age of AIDS
     
    317

    When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS.

  • av Derick Burleson
    261

    These poems explore the Rwandan holocaust through the culture, myths and customs that Derick Burleson absorbed whilst living there.

  • - Little Magazines, Audiences and Reception, 1905-1920
    av Mark S. Morrisson
    317

    This study demonstrates how the influence of advertising and publishing on consumers affected writers in Britain and America between 1890 and 1920. Reading works by Joyce, Shaw, T.S. Eliot and others, it shows that these contexts affected the techniques and concerns of literature itself.

  • av Charles Webb
    261

    In this collection, the poet glorifies the spirit, but also the flesh, as exemplified by the poem ""Liver"", ""organ whose name contains the injunction Live!... great One-Who-Lives, so we can too"".

  • - Quotations and Commentaries
     
    377

    For the first time, the most important quotations from the writing of the great conservationist Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Alamanac, are gathered in one volume. From conservation education to wildlife ecology, from wilderness protection to soil and water conservation, the works of Aldo Leopold continue to have profound influence on those seeking to understand the land and its care.Leopold biographer Curt Meine and noted conservation biologist Richard Knight have assembled this comprehensive collection of quotations from Leopold's extensive and diverse writings. The editors have organized the quotations in twenty-one chapters under the broad themes of conservation science and practice, conservation policy, and conservation and culture. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay by a prominent conservation scholar who provides perspective on Leopold's contributions in these various fields.

  • - Anthropologists in Postsocialist States
     
    347

    Focusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.

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    377

    This second volume of ""The Theatre of the Holocaust"", when combined with the first, represents an international collection of plays on the Shoah. Editor Skloot presents and comments on six plays that acknowledge the theatrical forms of the postmodern age.

  • av Boyer Rickel
    261

    Investigating the way one breaks through taboos and becomes a self-realized adult, this memoir traces the author's childhood in rural Arizona, his relationship with a physically shrinking father, his eccentric teenage friendships, and his growing awareness of his sexuality among young gays.

  • - Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas
    av Valerio Valeri
    451

    Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal world which invades the human world in many ways.

  • - Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me
    av Jaime Manrique
    287

    Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important 20th-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, the author of "Kiss of the Spider Woman"; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas, author of "Before Night Falls"; and Spanish poet and playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca.

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