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Presents a compilation of more than one hundred recipes that showcase the distinct culinary and cultural traditions of Wisconsin. The recipes in this work range from classic pot roasts and country-style pies to long-simmering soups and heritage specialties.

A study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction. Providing an analysis of her accomplishments as a writer, the author demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for several years surprising variations within those conventions.

Moving beyond past histories of Viet Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history. This book explores topics such as the extraordinary diversity between north and south, lowland and highland, and Viet and minority.

Masada, an ancient desert fortress, is examined in this study as it became an ideological symbol for the State of Israel. The text looks at the way the mythical narrative of Masada was created, promoted and maintained by pre-state Jewish underground organizations and other bodies.

Contact improvization is an underground, experimental movement in modern dance, that captures artistic and social forces in transition. This book considers the development of this dance form within its historical, social and cultural contexts.

Drawing upon all of Husserl's major texts, Damian Byers describes the form the philosopher gives to the problem of knowledge - the way this form influences the development of the phenomenological method and the results of its application.

Jean M. Humez offers a biographical overview based on extensive new research and a compilation of the complete texts of the stories Harriet Tubman told about her life - a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources.

Explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than 20 essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time.

This volume is both a manual for contemporary artists and a historical work covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. It presents the old masters' techniques and provides specific directions for making inks, styluses, reed and quill pens, and fabricated chalks.

This text identifies three basic fictional forms dealing with murder and detection - mystery, detective and crime fiction. It attempts to express their interrelations, to define their differences, and to explain why these subgenres take the forms they do.

This work offers useful practical advice for teachers of chemistry.

This text lists 69 lecture demonstrations, 110 procedures for displaying chemical phenomena in college and secondary shcool chemistry classes. Each chapter includes an introduction providing the teacher with information about the concepts, terminology and principles relating to the demonstrations.