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Laud Humphreys (1930-1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. This biography examines the groundbreaking work through the life of a complex man, and the life of the man through his controversial work.

This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. "Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, "Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.

"Excellent. . . . This detailed analysis of how the Marshfield Clinic struggled to balance competing priorities and interest groups nicely illustrates the adage 'If you see one HMO, you've seen one HMO.'"--Joel D. Howell, "The Journal of American History"

Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes.

Blue Daughter of the Red Sea is Birabiro's poetic account of the harsh reality of her young life spread across three continents. Her voice is a fresh melange of child and adult perspectives, at once brutally honest and wise beyond her years.

The ""Study Smart"" reference guide series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, presents strategies for test-taking and studying, provides exercises to improve spelling, grammar and vocabulary.

After her husband's death, Ginny Gillespie travels with his ashes to Paris, where she meets and falls in love with Roland Keppi, a strange, visionary man without a country. But when Roland is deported to a German camp for people without identity papers, their dreamlike affair is disrupted.

Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle are among the most important American modernist poets. In this comparative study, Jacob Korg examines their intertwined lives, from an early romantic relationship, through the ongoing friendship, rivalry and artistic dialogue that helped shape their work.

Addressing many questions relevant to anglers, this book brings together many varied concepts of cognitive ecology as applied to trout and their salmonid relatives: char, salmon, grayling and whitefish.

This is the story of Henry Aaron's first year in Wisconsin's Class C minor league baseball team. It shows how Aaron bridged the cultural divide between growing up in the segregated South and playing in the North.

This text asks questions relating to gender nonconformity, race, and sexuality from social science perspectives and then examines personal stories of reinvention and transformation, including discussions of the lives of dancers Isadora Duncan and Bill T. Jones and playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.

Integrating the psychology of love and creativity, this work explores both how a couple's involvement as lovers influences their creative collaboration and how working together affects their relationship.

A subtle literary portrait of Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Alfred Chester, this book is also a complex and perceptive account of the ways colonialism and sexuality structure each other, particularly as reflected in the literature written in postwar Tangier.

This is Someck's first full-length book to appear in English. His Sephardi voice is rich with slang, hot music, street gangsters and army commandos, and the odours of falafel and schwarma. In his poetry we find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe and cowboys battling for the hearts and souls of Israelis.

The great Andean insurrection has received scant attention by historians of the ""Age of Revolution"", but in this book Sinclair Thompson reveals the connections between ongoing local struggles over Indian community government and a larger anticolonial movement.

This work makes accessible to English speakers a hidden literature of great beauty and importance. The poems are from the Telegu language of southern India.

In this volume, Betty Berzon tells the story of her journey from psychiatric patient on suicide watch to her role as a therapist and gay pioneer. She discusses her mental breakdown and suicide attempts, her hospitalization and recovery, and her own coming out as a lesbian at the age of 40.

With wry humour and unflinching honesty, Cathy Colman crosses the terrain of love, family and art, asking why we resist becoming the person we truly are.

A son is born early, as if coming up over the horizon before his own dawn. An elderly father lingers at life's other horizon. These poems use language which is dense and clear, playful and sombre, with an emotional amplitude which is suggestive of Behn's own musical training.

Inspired by his Huguenot heritage, French Protestant pastor Pierre Toureille participated in international Protestant church efforts to combat Nazism during the 1930s and headed a major refugee aid organization in Vichy, France during World War II. This is his story.

In the land of beer, cheese, and muskies - where the polka is danced and the winter is unending - everybody is ethnic, the politics clean and the humour plentiful. This collection includes jokes, anecdotes, and tall tales from ethnic groups and working folk in the upper midwest of the US.

Barbara Joans is both an anthropologist and a biker. This book introduces the reader to the lives of women within American biker culture. She looks at women who ride in their own right, on their own bikes, as well as the women who ride the rear - the biker chicks.

This text examines the physical features of Wisconsin that shape the state's climate - topography, mid-latitude location, and proximity to Lakes Superior and Michigan - and meteorological phenomena that affect climate, such as atmospheric circulation and air mass frequency.

This collection of essays reveals the beauty and value of hornets, bats, katydids, mice, cicadas, and other tiny creatures. Allen M. Young records his keen observations of the natural world as he walks through urban woods near Lake Michigan, or sits on his deck in his own backyard.

Tracing the roots of recent US reforms to the early days of the war on poverty, this work describes a social welfare system grown inept, corrupt, and susceptible to conservative redesign. It focuses on the economic barriers impeding movement out of poverty into the American mainstream.

How much did making it new have to do with making it? For the four ""outsider poets"" considered here, the connection was everything. Both a social history of literary ambition in America in the 1950s and 1960s and a collective literary biography, this is an account of postwar poetry underground.

Blending poetry, prose and autobiographical details, ""Development"" and ""Two Selves"" together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that follows a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood.

In this volume, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they'll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their reflections on a variety of themes - from humour to death - illuminate the experience of doctoring in all its aspects.