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The essays in this book trace many of the multitudinous forces at work on the Constitution and in the popular culture and show how the forces control and benefit each other. The subject is of profound importance and, beginning with these essays, needs to be studied at great length for the benefit of us all.

Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. This work is a memoir of one of the sons of the family, Gerd Korman, following his path, from the family's deportation from Hamburg, through his time in rural England, to the family's reunited life.

A Cuban woman who moved to New Orleans in the 1850s, Velazquez fought in the Civil War as the cross-dressing Harry T. Buford. She organized an Arkansas regiment, participated in historic battles and romanced men and women, but the authenticity of her account has often been questioned.

Documents the lives of two remarkable women artists who were at the center of 20th century dance modernism. Written between 1920 and 1971, Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm are a treasury of fascinating detail about artistry, friendships of women, and the stamina of two artists who refused to capitulate to personal, political, and cultural forces.

A comprehensive manual and illustrated guide to native and naturalized vascular plants - ferns, conifers, and flowering plants - growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America. This work expands Norman Fassett's 1940 classic ""A Manual of Aquatic Plants"", yet retains the features that made Fassett's book so useful.

Explores the effects of censorship on writing and reading in early modern England, drawing analogies with France, to produce an original account of the relationship between art and politics, and of the interpretive and communicative systems we call ""culture"".

One group of male authors created fiction about the prostitute. The author examines how they attempted to turn an outcast into a heroine in a literature otherwise known for its puritanical attitude toward fallen women. She re-evaluates Stephen Crane's ""Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"", and other works of fiction. She draws on many period sources.

"Secrets to Writing Great Papers" illustrates how to work with ideas--develop them, hone them, and transform them into words. It provides techniques and exercises for brainstorming, choosing the right approach, working with an unknown or boring assigned topic, overcoming writer's block, and selecting the best point of view.

This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.

Ranging from Hellenistic pastoral to the contemporary counterculture activities of the "Greens," the essays in this volume underscore the complexity of simplicity. Whether the simple life is located in a culture's past or in its future, in a secluded corner or beyond society's boundaries, it remains a fascinating subject for discussion.

Inspired by actual events that took place in upstate New York and Wisconsin in the mid-nineteenth century, The Travels of Increase Joseph is the first in Jerry Apps's series set in fictional Ames County, Wisconsin. The four novels in the series all take place around Link Lake at different points in history. They convey Apps's deep knowledge of rural life and his own concern for land stewardship.

Challenging traditional conceptions behind Joseph Brodsky's status as a leading emigre poet and major descendant of Russian and Euro-American modernism, the author relocates the analysis of his travel texts in the diverse context of contemporary travel an

Explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. Nick Lantz's gaze is both roving and microscopic - the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother naming and renaming a family's short-lived pets, and a plea for post-9/11 redemption.

Printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his brilliant artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. This illustrated catalogue documents Colescott's extensive and varied graphic career.

Explains why Ralph Waldo Emerson has been and remains the central literary voice of American culture. This book offers the comprehensive and historically informed exposition of all of Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings as a contribution to the theory and practice of liberal culture. It considers Emerson's journals and lectures.

A fiction in which Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town.

A woman falls in love - literally - with a house; Werner Heisenberg confronts his own uncertainty; a rat (the rodent kind) runs for president; Hamlet has trouble with his prostate; Superman battles senility and more in this new poetry collection from the winner of the 1999 Felix Pollak Prize for poetry.

Those who have lived through authoritarian rule have tales to tell, truths that have been silenced. This work examines stories, accounts, images, songs, street theater, and paintings that witness authoritarian pasts in Nigeria, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia.

The wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and brash young filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's film Citizen Kane. John Evangelist Walsh illuminates the conflict between two outsize personalities and brings Hearst's vengeful anti-Kane campaign to the fore.

In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on ""the other genocide"" that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994.

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 trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help.

In the work, William is sent to study two sisters - one a brilliant recluse, the other possibly murderous - with pasts as murky as Hedda's. Characters are mirrored, parallel plots overlap and several dark sisters - gifted with imaginative intellects but viewed as morbidly deviant - are doomed to destruction

From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time.

A collection of 43 columns of ""Riepenhoff on Local Lakes"", written by outdoor editor of the ""Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"", this title covers 54 lakes in southern Wisconsin. He describes his fishing experiences and methods and provides information about the fish species in each lake, fish stocking, management, special regulations and public access.

Defining the political and aesthetic tensions that have shaped Cuban culture for over forty years, Linda Howe explores the historical and political constraints imposed upon Cuban artists and intellectuals during and after the Revolution.

An anthology of cronicas - short texts that are a cross between literary essays and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today.

This broad study of how James Joyce's work was received in the Anglophone world, written for both academic and lay readers, shows how the reading of Joyce's work has moved through different critical paradigms, periods, and places, and how Joyce's writing has given generations of readers a way to discuss the major issues of the modern world.

Anthropology is by definition about ""others"", but in this work the phrase refers not to members of observed cultures, but to ""significant others"" - spouses, lovers, and others with whom anthropologists have deep relationships. This work looks at the roles of these spouses of anthropologists.

An architecture equally poetry, fairy tale, autobiography and fiction, ""The Room Where I Was Born"" rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the poems are born out of violence and sexuality, they also affirm tenderness and compassion.

In this intimate first poetry collection, Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss and identity. A farmer finds the body of a dead child, a boy watches his mother get ready for a date, an overweight sister shares a cupcake.