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The Vernor's Story: From Gnomes to Now, Paperback - Lawrence L. Rouch

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Michigan Legends: Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State, Paperback - Sheryl James

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sheryl JamesOver the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are fa...

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Love Is My Savior: The Arabic Poems of Rumi, Paperback - Rumi

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Reducere. This new volume of Rumi s works, the first-ever English translation of his Arabic poems, will be exciting for the newcomer to Rumi s verses as well...

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Twelve Classic Trout Streams in Michigan: A Handbook for Fly Anglers, Paperback - Jim DuFresne

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Reducere. "Since it first appeared in 1985, Hendrickson's book has introduced legions of fly fishers to the state's most-treasured rivers. In this newest edi...

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Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction, Paperback - Holly Wren Spaulding

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Reducere. DescriptionElemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction comes to us from twenty-three of Michigan's most well-known essayists. A celebra...

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Backpacking in Michigan, Paperback - Jim DuFresne

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Reducere. With 65 photographs and 77 detailed maps, this indispensable guide to the state's hiking trails gives beginners to advanced hikers all the informat...

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Isadore's Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town, Paperback - Mardi Link

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Reducere. On August 23, 1907, Sister Janina waved good-bye to her priest, who was headed out for an afternoon of fishing, and retired to her convent cell to ...

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Calumet Beginnings: Ancient Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan, Paperback - Kenneth J. Schoon

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Reducere. The landscape of the Calumet, an area that sits astride the Indiana-Illinois state line at the southern end of Lake Michigan was shaped by the glac...

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The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles, Paperback - Hesiod

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Presents epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian.Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Hes...

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Manifestoes of Surrealism, Paperback - Andre Breton

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Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism.Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Andre BretonTranslator: Hele...

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Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media, Paperback - Heid E. Erdrich

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Heid E. Erdrich writes from the present into the future where human anxiety lives. Many of her poems engage ekphrasis around the visual work of con...

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Bending Spines: The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic, Paperback - Randall L. Bytwerk

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Reducere. Why do totalitarian propagandas such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially succeed, and why do they ...

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The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry, Paperback - Don Faber

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Reducere. "An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber exper...

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The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir, Paperback - Marina Whitman

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Reducere. One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathemati...

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Day of Days, Hardcover - John Smolens

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Reducere. In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as...

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The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870, Paperback - Theresa L. Weller

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Reducere. Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the...

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Leading Academic Discussions. What Every University Student Needs to Know, Paperback - Robyn Brinks Lockwood

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The ability to lead a successful discussion in a seminar or course, or as part of key project team, is critical to success in and beyond higher edu...

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Sex, Identity, Aesthetics. The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies, Paperback - ***

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How Tobin Siebers' foundational work in disability studies resonates in the field todayPublisher: The University of Michigan PressNumber of pages: ...

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Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music, Paperback - Jim Daniels

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Reducere. While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of po...

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The Pleasures of Exile, Paperback - George Lamming

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Reducere. In The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny comb...

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In the Castle of My Skin, Paperback - George Lamming

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Reducere. Nearly forty years after its initial publication, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the Black colonial...

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The Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A Supplement to Journey to the West, Paperback - Yueh Tung

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Reducere. China's most outrageous character--the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters--returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the...

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Breakfast Served Any Time All Day. Essays on Poetry New and Selected, Paperback - Donald Hall

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Donald HallNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 19Cover type: Pa...

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Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body, Paperback - Gili Hammer

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Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciou...

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The Natural Contract, Paperback - Michel Serres

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Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1...

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Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phung, Paperback - Peter Zinoman

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Reducere. Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck--by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung--is a bitter satire of the rage for ...

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Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience, Paperback - Betty Jean Lifton

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Reducere. " Looks] at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents . . . A provocative, comprehensive inquiry." ---Kirkus...

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Aso ebi. Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa, Paperback - Charles Okechukwu Okey Nwafor

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The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

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Bath Massacre. America's First School Bombing, Paperback - Arnie Bernstein

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With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today's headlines, Bath Massacre serves as a reminder that terrorism ...

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The Many Faces of Political Islam, Second Edition: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies, Paperback - Mohammed Ayoob

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Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-...

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Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Life, Hardcover - James Cannon

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Reducere. Not since Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt twenty-nine years earlier had the American people known so little about a man who had steppe...

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Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks, Paperback - Joseph L. Sax

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DescriptionFocusing on the long-standing and bitter battles over recreational use of our national parklands, Joseph L. Sax proposes a novel scheme ...

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The Music of Django Reinhardt, Paperback - Benjamin Givan

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Reducere. "The Music of Django Reinhardt is an impressive contribution to the field of jazz studies. The book offers a penetrating view into the music of one...

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The Concept of Man in Early China, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressNumber of pages: 290Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

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English Structure Practices, Paperback - Keith S. Folse

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Reducere. DescriptionThis workbook, which may be used independently or in conjunction with English Sentence Structure, contains more than 400 exercises that ...

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Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention, Paperback - Martha Collins

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DescriptionFor her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teac...

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Fragmenting Globalization. The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States, Paperback - Xiaojun Li

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Argues that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less depen...

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The Article Book: Practice Toward Mastering A, An, and the, Paperback - Tom Cole

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Reducere. A comprehensive guide and workbook for improving ESL/EFL students' understanding of English articles, The Article Book can be used as either a supp...

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The Allure of Grammar: The Glamour of Angie Estes's Poetry, Paperback - Douglas R. Rutledge

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DescriptionOf Angie Estes, the poet and critic Stephanie Burt has written that she "has created some of the most beautiful verbal objects in the wo...

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Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good, Paperback - William Cheng

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Reducere. Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings--interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, per...

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Casebook of Inclusive Pedagogical Practices for Second Language Teacher Education, Paperback - Amy B. Gooden

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A casebook designed to broaden L2 teacher knowledge, thinking, and practice with regard to making language and learning accessible to all students....

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An A to W of Academic Literacy. Key Concepts and Practices for Graduate Students, Paperback - Mary Jane Curry

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Includes 65 common academic literacy terms and explores how they relate to genres, writing conventions, and language use. Each entry briefly define...

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On the Bullet Train with Emily Bront : Wuthering Heights in Japan, Paperback - Judith Pascoe

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While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bront 's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nea...

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There Used to Be Order. Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, Paperback - Patience Mususa

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Examines social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate. Based on three yea...

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Lords of the Sea. Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan, Paperback - Peter D. Shapinsky

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...

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Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno LaTour, Paperback - Michel Serres

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Reducere. Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific...

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Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China, Paperback - Maggie Greene

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Reducere. Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through...

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Black Cultural Life in South Africa: Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics, Paperback - Lily Saint

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DescriptionUnder apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government's policies, and ...

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Enduring Legacy. Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools, Paperback - Mark Edward Ryan

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An Odyssey Reader: Selections from Homer's Odyssey, Books 1-12, Paperback - Pamela Ann Draper

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Reducere. Homer's Odyssey has captivated readers and influenced writers and artists for more than 2, 000 years. Reading the poem in its original language pro...

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Paradigms and Sand Castles. Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics, Paperback - Barbara Geddes

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Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of...

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The Troubadour of Knowledge, Paperback - Michel Serres

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Reducere. What do we do when we raise a child, teach a student, or educate a person as a member of society? For the French philosopher Michel Serres, all of ...

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The Future of Digital Surveillance. Why Digital Monitoring Will Never Lose its Appeal in a World of Algorithm-Driven AI, Paperback - Yong Jin Park

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Exploring the chasm between the tyranny of surveillance and the ideal of privacy, this book traces the origins of personal data collection in digit...

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The Iliad - Rodney Merrill

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Description"Other competent translations of Homer exist, but none accomplish what Merrill aims for: to convey to the reader-listener in translation...

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Dignity. Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles, Paperback - Fran Leeper Buss

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Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

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The Diary of Bishop Frederic Baraga: First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan (Revised), Paperback - Joseph Gregorich

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Formal Modeling in Social Science, Paperback - Carol Mershon

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A formal model in the social sciences builds explanations when it structures the reasoning underlying a theoretical argument, opens venues for cont...

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Shugendo: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion, Paperback - Hitoshi Miyake

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Reducere. DescriptionThis volume of essays is the first comprehensive publication in English of the work of Miyake Hitoshi, a distinguished scholar of Shugen...

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Commerce with the Classics, Volume 20: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers, Paperback - Anthony Grafton

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The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly cha...

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Lebanese Blonde, Hardback - Joseph Geha

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Joseph GehaNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 163 x 237 x 26Cover type: Ha...

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Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan, Paperback - Theodore J. Karamanski

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Reducere. In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the interplay between men and technology in the lumbering of Michigan's rugged Upper Penins...

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Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music, Paperback - Pamela Fox

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Description"'All I gotta do is act naturally, ' Buck Owens sang, and Pamela Fox knows where the acting comes in. From early hillbilly acts to alt.c...

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Four Point Reading-Writing 1. Intermediate, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressIllustration(s): IllustrationsPublication date: 2011Dimensions: 203 x 253 x 16Cover type: Paperback / so...

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Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly. The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell, Paperback - Derek Pollard

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A collection of essays, reviews, and interviews that is designed to ignite a more wide-ranging critical appraisal of Donald Revell's writing, from ...

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Stringfellow Acid Pits. The Toxic and Legal Legacy, Paperback - Brian Craig

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Childhood Years: A Memoir, Paperback - Jun'ichirao Tanizaki

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In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering ...

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The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership, Paperback - Mukoma Wa Ngugi

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The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

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African Performance Arts and Political Acts, Paperback - Jendele Hungbo

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Presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection en...

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The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power After Watergate, Paperback - Andrew Rudalevige

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DescriptionHas the imperial presidency returned? "Well written and, while indispensable for college courses, should appeal beyond academic audience...

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A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical - Stacy Wolf

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DescriptionSubverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows...

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