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Reducere. Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War. He has brought with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. ...

Reducere. The colorful history and culture of Wisconsin are reflected in its place names, from those created by Native Americans, French explorers, and diver...

Reducere. This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and...

Reducere. Growing up, identical twins Paula and Artis speak in one voice--until they can't. After years apart, with lives, partners, and children of their ow...

Reducere. These three ancient tragedies--Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba--dramatize the tragic fates of women in the wake of war. Euripides (480-406 BC) inno...

Reducere. The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York....

For 872 days during World War II, the city of Leningrad endured a crushing blockade at the hands of German forces. Close to one million civilians d...

Reducere. In this eminently readable story, Jerry Apps delves into the heart of small-town America. Reckoning with timely problems and opinions that divide u...

Reducere. When Bunny Coburn was growing up, neighbors came together in times of hardship. No matter the trouble, they faced it with determination, camaraderi...

Reducere. Joshua Nguyen's sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma--sexual and generational--through the quotidian. P...

Reducere. Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; e...

Reducere. With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac...

Reducere. The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), the Republic of Ireland, or South Africa.About author(s): Jor...

Reducere. DescriptionBlood Work reveals what happens to the self when the body is compromised by illness. These poems explore the struggle to remain whole in...

Reducere. In the wake of a brutal storm that lashed the Door County peninsula, Sheriff Dave Cubiak assesses the damage: broken windows, downed trees, and pil...

Reducere. Pat Faunce yearns for more than his carefree New York life and his open relationship with Stu, an airline pilot. Above all, he wants to be a father...

Reducere. Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus"...

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative...

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

Reducere. Approximately five million people worldwide speak Albanian. The opening of Albania in the 1990s to broader trading and diplomatic relations with ot...

In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto Gonz lez looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adol...

Glenn Ford star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3: 10 to Yuma, and The Rounders had rugged good looks, a long ...

Reducere. Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity--and, ultimately, his sexual orientation--in order to b...

Drawing from diaries, journals, school textbooks, and printed propaganda, J.W. Mohnhaupt tells the stories of animals during the Third Reich, focus...

Reducere. This anthology of war literature includes some of the personal narratives, short stories, novel excerpts, drama, and poetry to come out of the Viet...

Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recogn...

Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary p...

Reducere. In this startling group memoir, four friends--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born--use Toni Morrison's novels as a sprin...

Reducere. This intriguing anthology brings together a broad range of critical essays on girls' series fiction from established scholars such as Chamberlain, ...

Newly revised for 21st-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch...

Reducere. With macabre humor, You, Beast explores the roots and limits of human empathy. Nick Lantz examines our strange, absurd, and often brutal relationsh...

Reducere. A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. ...

Reducere. Maureen Seaton traces the emergence of her identity in quick, droll, often surprising sketches. She finds herself alternately in the company of win...

Reducere. Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provi...

Reducere. This anthology argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice, a major figure in today's popular literature. The essays assert th...

Reducere. An explosive exposé of how British military intelligence really works-from the inside. This book presents the stories of two undercover agents: Bri...

Reducere. A fiercely honest exploration of the risks and rewards of contemporary relationships--and hookups--Sex with Strangers embraces the dizzying power o...

Reducere. It's the summer of 1945, and sixteen-year-old ruffian Milo Egerson has been shipped from his Minneapolis home to his great-uncle Ham's farm in rura...

Reducere. Grasses are the foremost plant family of prairies, savannas, barrens, many agricultural landscapes, lawns, and successional habitats throughout Wis...

Reducere. Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he v...

Reducere. Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-...

Drawing from personal experiences and theoretical perspectives in such varied fields as sociology, political science, literature, and media studies...

Reducere. Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves' economic role in so...

Reducere. It's a sparkling August day on Washington Island and the resonant notes of early classical music float on the breeze toward the sailboats and ferri...

Reducere. Why do fish jump? Why don't lakes freeze all the way down to the bottom? Which lake plants are invasive? What are those water bugs? Is that lake he...

Reducere. DescriptionAntarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season. The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. Th...

Reducere. The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. The third edition of this history o...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a supplement to the textbook Basic Technical Japanese. It introduces 100 new kanji and more than 1500 technical terms that ...

Reducere. Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make...

Reducere. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

Reducere. And Her Soul Out of Nothing, Paperback

Reducere. Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradi...

Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she me...

Reducere. Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have be...

Reducere. Andrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked i...

Reducere. On a chilly Monday in late spring, Sheriff Dave Cubiak is at the Green Arbor Lodge for lunch when a scream from a nearby medical conference disrupt...

Reducere. This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood's true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch's company has...

Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressAuthor(s): Edwin BlackNumber of pages: 198Publication date: 1978Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 21Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. This classic Swedish novel envisioned a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain's depiction of a t...

Presents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geo...

Reducere. About the AuthorJacobo Timerman (1923-1999) was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was deported to Israel in 1980...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stanley G. PayneFrom bloodthirsty conquest to exotic romance, stereotypes of Spain abound. This new volume by distinguished...

Contributor(s): Author: AeschylusTranslator: David MulroyFirst presented in the spring of 458 B.C.E. at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschyl...

Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and...

Reducere. Detective, monk, father, herbalist, Crusader, sailor, Celt, friend-author Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedict...

This is a guide to the field of women's autobiography. The 39 essays explore narratives across the centuries, including testimonies, diaries, memoi...

Reducere. An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it...

Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institu...

Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1, 300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine ...

Reducere. For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political a...