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DescriptionSpain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed,...

Three official languages have emerged in the Balkan region that was formerly Yugoslavia: Croatian in Croatia, Serbian in Serbia, and both of these ...

Reducere. Originally published in 1978, Toward the Final Solution was one of the first in-depth studies of the evolution of racism in Europe, from the Age of...

DescriptionSenegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Captu...

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...

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...

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

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. 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 ...

Reducere. Winner of the SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Named Best Social Science Book, LASA Southern Cone Studies Section In Santiago, Chile, poverty an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bassam Z. ShakhashiriEditor: Tino BalioThe demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, m...

The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong ...

Reducere. One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in...

Reducere. 'Between Resistance and Martyrdom' is a comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era."About th...

Stephen King's popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. Through his eyes, the conventional ...

Reducere. Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history--it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theo...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our liter...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Countee Cullen - have...

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...

Reducere. The demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, most importantly, involve students in chemistry. Nowhere else wi...

Reducere. Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it...

AwardsMidwest Book Award (MIPA)DescriptionBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in No...

Reducere. DescriptionA cultural and intellectual history that explains the intersection of politics and culture, and the formation of a national identity, du...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays - three of which are published here for the first time - that fearle...

DescriptionMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated...

Provides a wide-ranging investigation of the gendered nature of historical memory and its influence on the development of the Mara region of Tanzan...

Reducere. In this landmark study of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Luca Crispi and Sam Slote have brought together fourteen other leading Joyce experts in a g...

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria...

The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different id...

Reducere. This is the first comprehensive textbook teaching English-speakers to read, write, and speak contemporary Bulgarian. The text is designed to be ada...

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

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...

Reducere. Answers to written exercises and transcripts now included in e-book and in printThe Norsk, nordmenn og Norge series regards communication as the pr...

Reducere. Jack Seabrook discusses The Fabulous Clipjoint in depth, as well as Martians, Go Home, The Screaming Mimi, and all of the other classic Fredric Bro...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ray CashmanGrowing up on a secluded smuggling route along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrat...

Reducere. DescriptionThe law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges ...

Reducere. For four decades, the American road narrative has been a significant and popular literary genre for expressing journeys of self discovery. These wo...

Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public heal...

Amid the rising nationalism and racial politics that culminated in World War II, European countries wishing to 'purify' their nations often forced ...

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

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

DescriptionMore than four million visitors travel each year to the Wisconsin Dells, making it the most economically significant tourist destination...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John RoosaIn the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and e...

DescriptionNamed for its mythical leader Captain Rock, avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821 24 in Ireland was notorious for its...

Reducere. For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Tradition...

Reducere. In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independenc...

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

Reducere. Amid the instability and violence of turn-of-the-century industrialization and urbanization Russians embraced a revolutionary art form to reflect t...

Reducere. DescriptionConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christin...

Reducere. Taking into account recent historic changes, this second edition updates the essays on the Supreme Court, same-sex marriage, the Right, and trans h...

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. 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. 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. The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary ha...

By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summ...

DescriptionFor many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog an...

Reducere. A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical materi...

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deput...

Reducere. Famous for iconic images of the rural Midwest such as American Gothic, Politics in Missouri, and Baptism in Kansas Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, ...

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. Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-ba...

DescriptionBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors ...

Reducere. This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Aga...

Publisher: Marquette University PressAuthor(s): Thomas C. ReevesNumber of pages: 455Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 221 x 150 x 41Cover type: Har...

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