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This volume is derived from papers presented by the North American delegates at the Third International Steinbeck Congress, held in May 1990 in Honolulu, Hawaii, under the co-sponsorship of the Steinbeck Society of Japan and the International Steinbeck Society. These ten essays, arranged in two parts, seek to provide a clearer understanding of Steinbeck's life and work during his most productive period. Part I discusses Steinbeck's women, with emphasis on the function of the feminine from original perspectives. It uses recent research sources, including some of the Steinbeck-Gwyn love letters and poems. Part II explores the Depression trilogy--"In Dubious Battle", "Of Mice and Men," and "The Grapes of Wrath"--Steinbeck's major works of the late 1930s.

An account of Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897-1979), one of Great Britain's most influential airmen.

The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. This volume examines the geophysical, paleoethnobotanical, faunal, lithics, base rock, osteology, bone chemistry and nutrition, social landscape, and ceremonial constructs employed at Tibes.

As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended to remold Yucatan in the image of the advanced nations of the day. Covering topics from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, this title includes essays that illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicited.

"A trailblazer.... This books makes an important contribution to a neglected area within the history of American higher education."

Offers fresh and critically significant ways of understanding the women writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries and their texts, the distribution of knowledge, and the complicated place of women in modernist institutions.

Samuel Robert Cassius was born to a slave mother and a white father in Virginia in 1853 and became a member of the Restorationist Movement (Disciples of Christ) while a coal miner in Indiana. This book aims to capture the essence of Cassius' complex and extraordinary life.

In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the United States and Russia began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Into this difficult situation the Americans placed General William Henry Tunner.

A woman travels among geographies both real and imagined looking for her daughter.