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A collection of poems which explore the intersections between ecology, the imagination, urban nature, lesbian nature and the nature of the human heart. The collection is the winner of the 2002 Audre Lord Award for Lesbian Poetry.

This extensive analysis of Nazi culture contains selections from newspapers, novellas, plays and diaries as well as the public pronouncements of Nazi leaders, churchmen and professors. It describes national Socialism in practice and explores what it meant for the average German.

The Study Smart Series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.

Part of the ""Study Smart"" series, this text is designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programmes. Each book in the series teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in essays.

While poets such as Aleksander Pushkin worked within a male-centred Romantic aesthetic - the poet as bard or sexual conqueror; nature as mother or mistress; idealized woman as muse - Russian women attempted to reinvent conventions to express themselves as women and poets.

In the second half of the 20th century, no one had more influence over social security than Robert Ball who, in 1947, wrote the key statement defining why social insurance, not welfare, should be America's primary income maintenance programme.

Exploring theatrical representations of homosexuality in Brazil, this is an alternative history of Brazilian theatre. It offers a critical analysis of canonical and non-canonical plays infused with the insights of feminist and queer theory, and looks at the portrayal of AIDS in Brazilian culture.

Colombian-born Santiago Martinez starts his adult life as a young gay writer living in Spain. Years later, as a university professor in New York City, Santiago is called back to his native Colombia upon the suicide of his sister. There he learns shocking secrets about his childhood and adolescence.

This bilingual edition collects Jaime Manrique's lyrical and sensual poems about his childhood in Colombia, memories of his childhood and his more recent experiences and loves in Manhattan. Musical and romantic, these poems are in the tradition of Pablo Neruda.

Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life.

Drawing on more than 90 newspapers, this is a detailed analysis of British press coverage of Ireland over the course of the 19th century. It traces the evolution of popular understandings and proposed solutions to the ""Irish question,"" focusing particularly on the interrelationship between the press, the public, and the politicians.

Escaping his ghosts, AIDS widower David Masiello accepts a one-year position at a Western medical clinic in Beijing. Lonely but excited, he sets out to explore the city - both its bustling street life and its clandestine gay subculture.

Michael M.J. Fischer draws upon his experience with the mullahs and their students in the holy city of Qum, composing a picture of Iranian society from the inside - the lives of normal people, the way that each class interprets Islam, and the role of religion and religious education in the culture.

The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theatre to more Americans than at any time in history. This book documents this vibrant, colourful, politically explosive time, covering everything from daring dramas to musicals and puppet shows.

In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to consider the topic of madness, a subject little explored in Russian literature before then. This text illustrates the surprising glorification of madness in the prose novella ""The Queen of Spades"" and the lyric ""God Grant That I Not Lose My Mind"".

Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who wins renown as a Yiddish actress. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics, and Chloe's daughter Phoebe becomes a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.

Presents the story of a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, and of their passions for hunting, wild lands, and the grouse and raptor species they were instrumental in saving from destruction. This book provides an account of conservation history over the course of the 20th century, particularly in Wisconsin from the 1920s through the 1970s.

This text shows how healthcare professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent holistic healthcare, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. It investigates the need to rethink healthcare practices to bring the art and science of medicine back into balance.

Explores the plight of gypsies in Germany before, during and since the era of the Third Reich. The book reveals the painful record of the official treatment of the German Gypsies, from the heightened racism of the 19th century, to the National Socialist genocidal policies and up to the present day.

From the McDonald's hot coffee case to current nutrition labeling laws, Mr Peanut and trademark infringement, prison meals, definitions of organic food, what and how we eat are shaped as much by legal restrictions as by personal taste. This text looks at the intersections of food and the law.

To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, this work analyzes the intersections of three discourses - the literary, the medical and the political - and traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS to 19th century anxieties about nationhood, masculinity and sexuality.

These poems explore the Rwandan holocaust through the culture, myths and customs that Derick Burleson absorbed whilst living there.

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.

Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal world which invades the human world in many ways.

Emphasizing that current visitors to Yosemite - or to any national park - can still experience the solitude, wildness and romanticism of nature, this work argues that modern exploration would benefit from a national parks policy that actively promotes nature study.

Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James and Dewey. The second tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge.

This study of the writer Stevie Smith, portrays her as a well-connected literary insider who used many genres to resist domestic ideology in Britain. It explores the connections between her work and mass media production, and focuses on such contempories as Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley.

This comparative history looks at politics in the nations collectively known as the Group of Seven - the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Italy. From the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War, the book emphasizes political eras and political orders.

Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles' drama, this book examines variations of the Oedipus tale from around the world. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological and structuralist perspectives, the 19 essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale.

A compilation of articles on the cinematic period from 1919 to 1945. Many treat such early film-makers as Mary Ellen Bute and Theodore Huff and there is a listing of American avant-garde films produced before World War II and a bibliography of relevant criticism, literature and news accounts.