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Facing repression, the Latin American left in the '60s and '70s found connection in transnational exchange, organising with activists in Africa, th...

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

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. 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. Winner of France's 2004 Prix de Flore for his memoir The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, Bruce Benderson has gained international respect for his ...

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

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...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss is a moving collaboration by some of ...

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. The third volume in this powerful trilogy, The Cattle Cars Are Waiting follows the tragic fate of the inhabitants of the ghetto. Chava Rosenfarb, h...

Reducere. June 12, 1952--only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama totin...

Reducere. More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first t...

Grounded in history and case law, Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF's journey toward accountability in France and the United States, culminat...

Tarquini offers a rich and stimulating synthesis, the best single-volume work available on this complex and challenging subject. This history revea...

This Element looks into how politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawin...

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

Addresses the creative and often unexpected trajectory of French cinema, which continues to be one of the most provocative and engaging cinemas in ...

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. 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...

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

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

Systems of belonging are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from sp...

In rural South African clinics, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations,...

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

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

Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressAuthor(s): Douglass K. DanielIllustration(s): 22 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 248Collection:...

In presenting four substantial, historically valuable collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book illustrates how understand...

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

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

Reducere. Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the ex...

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. What do we talk about when we talk about money? As the forty-four poets in this brilliant new anthology show, the answer is everything. From the im...

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

Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several di...

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. From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores...

Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms wi...

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...

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

Reducere. The civil rights movement transformed the United States in such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can pose real challenges for in...

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. 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. 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. A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection ...

Reducere. Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating t...

Reducere. In this sensitive and personal investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas J. Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in ...

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

Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describ...

Texas, for years, was a one-party state controlled by white democrats. In 1962, a young eighteen-year-old heard the first rumblings of Chicano comm...

Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the "Secret War" in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom reveals how...

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. As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in covert operations ...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

Reducere. Like that earlier grouse hunter Aldo Leopold, Mark Parman takes to the woods when the aspens are smoky gold. Here, in an evocative almanac that chr...

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...

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

Tells the story of voting in elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin's history. This...

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...

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Reducere. Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall, Paperback

Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

Reducere. Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

Reducere. DescriptionWith experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candor, he tak...

Reducere. This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle epoque Paris. In this barely dis...