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  • - A History
    av John W. Jenkins & E.David Cronon
    547

    This fourth volume in the history of the University of Wisconsin covers events from the deluge of World War II vets on the GI bill to the 1960s radicalism which made national headlines. The authors also explore the effects of the McCarthy era and the actions of university president E.B. Fred.

  • - Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-18
    av Denise J. Youngblood
    317

    A study of a decade's native Russian film production through the 1917 Revolution. Showing how these films appealed to a new middle class, the author examines the organization and evolution of the industry and looks at genres, motifs and themes in 65 of the most important surviving films.

  • - Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance
    av Arthur Hove & Warrington Colescott
    627

    This chronicle of a unique period in the development of printmaking in the U.S. at the University of Wisconsin, 1945-95, tells the story beautifully, in interviews with and about those who taught and those who were taught, and with examples of their prints.

  • av University of Wisconsin Press
    287

    In this critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, Victor Terras discusses psychological, political, mythical and philosophical approaches, guiding readers through the range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations of Dostoevsky's rich novels.

  • - Lessons from Cristal
    av Jose A. Gutierrez
    377

    Jose Angel Gutierrez' autobiography provides an insider's view of the important political and social events within the Mexican American communities in South Texas during the 1960s and 1970s. He traces the many prejudices facing the Chicanos with powerful scenes from his own life.

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    451

    Organized chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the 19th century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late 19th and 20th centuries.

  • - Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet
    av David M. Bethea
    287

    In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time.

  • - New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries
     
    421

    This collection of case studies focuses upon high mountains, tropical forests and lowlands, as well as humid and arid-semiarid landscapes. Each chapter analyzes the implications for meshing environmental protection and sound resource use with development.

  • - A Family's Journey from Lebanon
    av Elmaz Abinader
    261

    In this memoir of her Lebanese-American family, the author offers an account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning four generations and two continents, the book is the story of a family from the mountains of Lebanon and their emigration to Pennsylvania.

  • av Elizabeth N. Sholl
    261

    This collection of poems by Betsy Sholl offers revelations by weaving together seemingly unrelated events.

  • av Carolyn Lei-Lanilau
    287

    This collection of essays on ethnic and sexual identity revolves around the persona that the author calls ""Ono Ono Girl"". Challenging assumptions about genre and gender and acting out the notion that language is a function of the body, these essays are soundbites of Ono Ono Girl inventing herself.

  • - Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage
    av Susan E. Marshall
    331

    Drawing on surviving records of antisuffrage organizations, the author argues that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests rather than an ideal of ""true womanhood"". The book reveals an increasingly militant style as powerful women sought to exclude ""the ignorant vote"".

  • - Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health
    av Ronald L. Numbers & Judith Walzer Leavitt
    531

  • - A Casebook
     
    317

    A casebook of interpretations of the ballad ""The Walled-Up Wife"". Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power issues in the ballad, and Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble presents a structuralist interpretation.

  • - Reading Against the Grain
    av Kevin J. H. Dettmar
    347

  • - Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America
     
    667

    Examining specific environmental debates, this study suggests the environment is a concept and a set of cultural values constructed by our use of language. It explores how genres such as nature writing have influenced discourse, and investigates the impact of cultural traditions.

  • - A Memoir of Mexican California
    av Antonio Maria Osio
    451

    This work provides an English translation of the history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule. A Mexican-Californian, Osio writes of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s.

  • - Construction of Alcohol Problems
    av Joseph R. Gusfield
    331

    This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture. The text also contains several ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a study of court-mandated programmes for drink drivers.

  • av Bob Hicok
    261

    These poems, reflecting a kind of severity, set out to produce a morally accurate view of the mundane world they inhabit. The poet also, however, keeps his eye on the larger view - on megalopolis, and also what he himself calls, ""the heart's jazz"".

  • - Ethnicity, Nationalism and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
    av A.M. Khazanov
    287

    A study of the fate of ethnic communities in the former Soviet Union, showing the interconnections between nationalism, ethnic relations, social structure and the ongoing political process. Included are studies of the situations in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and of the Yakut and Meskhetian Turks.

  • av Edward E. Daub
    587

    Designed as a companion and study guide for the textbook ""Comprehending Technical Japanese"", this book serves as a supplement to ""Basic Technical Japanese"". It provides explanations of the origin and meaning of more than 500 Kanji, chosen for their significance in the literature of the sciences.

  • - Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
     
    377

    Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

  • - Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
     
    607

    Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

  • - Current Issues in Socio-historical Perspective
     
    361

    Provides an introduction to the historical development and current status of various health care topics. The book is organised in sections: basic concepts; public health; health care professions; health care organisations; mental illness; financing health care; and medical education.

  • - Gender Equality in the Workplace
    av Suzanne Uttaro Samuels
    247

    Many US private employers have enacted foetal protection policies that barred women - that is, women who had not been surgically sterilised - working in jobs that might expose foetuses to toxins. This text analyses these policies and the ambiguous responses to them.

  • - Goethe, Novalis and the Poetics of Vyacheslav Ivanov
    av Michael Wachtel
    731

    This work explores the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), the poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis also played a central part in his vision, being precursors in the proto-Symbolist pantheon.

  • - Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination
    av Jonathan Smith
    347

    Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon to argue that literary figures were involved in constructing a methodology that would serve both science and literature, by bringing together reason and imagination.

  • - Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta
     
    727

    In every culture there exists unwritten law - obligations and prohibitions that are understood, and transgressions that are punished. These volumes explore the historical implications of folk law, its influence around the globe, and the conflicts that arise when it diverges from official law.

  • - Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850
    av Jr & James L.A. Webb
    317

    A study of the ecological and economic impact of desertification along the southern edge of the western Sahara. A climatological trend toward increasing aridity has forced the desert 300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the Western Sahel.

  • - Mass Society and Cultural Criticism in Dickens, Melville and Kafka
    av David Suchoff
    317

    Using the methods of Frankfurt School theorists, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, Suchoff offers new readings of Dickens, Melville and Kafka that underscore the political and social critiques inherent in their novels. He also studies the historical origins of literary theory.

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