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This book presents English translations of eight of the comedies Holberg wrote for the Lille Gronnegade Theatre in Copenhagen in the 1720s. The most extensive collection of Holberg plays available in English, the translation and other materials are based on research materials not available to earlier translators and are thus more accurate.

Set in the ruins of the author's family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest, this book focuses on the largely overlooked human and environmental costs of coal mining in the southern Illinois region and in the nation, beginning with the policies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson and continuing up to the present-day debates over clean energy.

Presents the first volume to explore the provisions made during the US Civil War for amputees in need of artificial limbs - programmes that, while they revealed stark differences between the resources and capabilities of the North and the South, were the forebears of modern government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded service members.

Covers the author's years growing up in early post-settlement Illinois, where he gave in to temptations such as drinking, gambling, and the lure of prostitutes before joining the army, finding God and becoming a preacher. Blackman peppers his story with the sordid details of the sinful times of his life as well as with discussions of faith and of struggling to understand his God.

Complete with maps and photos, The Chattanooga Campaign contains a wealth of detailed information about the military, social, and political aspects of the campaign and contributes significantly to our understanding of the Civil War's western theatre. Woodworth's introduction sets the stage for ten insightful essays that provide new analysis of this crucial campaign.

This collection of nine new essays by major critics on the films of Sam Peckinpah is the first since Bliss's Doing It Right: The Best Criticism on Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. It brings together in book form groundbreaking criticism on one of the most important and controversial directors in American cinema.

Poet Jacob Shores-Arguello takes readers on an illuminating voyage through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political corruption and public outrage, Shores-Arguello's lyrics of a revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and familiar.

Poet Wally Swist blends themes of love and epiphany to lead readers into a more conscious interaction with the world around them. These ethereal poems call upon a spirituality unfettered to any specific religion, yet universal and potent in its scope, offering a window through which life can be not only viewed but also truly experienced.

Provides readings of the film rhetorics of auteurs George Romero, Wes Craven, and John Carpenter, showing how they engage the anxieties of contemporary culture in thematic explorations of the body, the Gothic, and the frontier.

This expands the understanding of the relationship between genre conventions and disciplinarity (of or relating to a particular field of study). Using rhetorical analysis, ethnographic observation, and individual interviews, it demonstrates how literary scholars - despite their theoretical differences and diverse objects of study - share a core set of rhetorical strategies for argumentation.

Eli Goldblatt traces his education as a poet and teacher, connecting his experiences to his conception of literacy. It is a clearly written and engaging literary autobiography.

Tackles in a comprehensive but lively manner subjects (such as constitutional theory, the function of the American Supreme Court, doctrinal developments, and judicial processes) rarely treated in one volume.

Presents a collection of family recipes created prior to 1900 and perfected from generation to generation, mirroring the delicious and distinctive kind of cookery produced by the mix of people who settled the Illinois Country during this period. Some recipes reflect a certain New England or Southern influence, while others echo a European heritage. All hark back to a simpler style of living, when cooking was plain yet flavourful.

Investigates the timeless questions of relationships, of loss and longing, and of environment both natural and manmade. This informal yet haunting collection juxtaposes a myriad of perspectives - public and personal, interior and exterior, sacred and secular - to explore the fathomless mysteries that abound between one human and another.

As the first African American elected to the Illinois general assembly, John W. E. Thomas was the recognised leader of the state's African American community for nearly twenty years and laid the groundwork for the success of future black leaders in Chicago politics. This fascinating full-length biography—the first to address the full influence of Thomas or any black politician from Illinois during the Reconstruction Era—is also a pioneering effort to explain the dynamics of African American politics and divisions within the black community in post-Civil War Chicago.

Chicago seems an ideal environment for public housing because of the city's relatively young age among major cities and well-deserved reputation for technology, innovation, and architecture. Yet this shows that the city's experience on the whole has been a negative one, raising serious questions about the nature of subsidised housing and whether we should have it and, if so, in what form.