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The many facets of Tommy G. Thompson - small-town grocer's son, brash campaigner with a common touch, shrewd political strategist, savvy policy wonk, and ebullient promoter of Wisconsin - come across vividly in these pages. Thompson, with journalist Doug Moe, traces his journey from boyhood to politics to the world stage.

Explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora.

Features original research that ranges broadly, from political aesthetics to Darwinism to yoga. These unique complementary perspectives counter reductionism of any kind, integrating the study of Russian modernism into the larger body of humanistic scholarship devoted to modernity.

With experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candour, he takes readers behind the bench to probe judicial minds analyzing actual trials and sentencings - of abortion protesters, murderers, sex predators, white supremacists, and others.

Olga Sedakova stands out among contemporary Russian poets for the integrity, erudition, intellectual force, and moral courage of her writing. This first collection of scholarly essays on her work in English assesses her contributions as a poet and thinker, presenting far-reaching accounts of broad themes and patterns of thought across her writings.

Why do fish jump? Why don't lakes freeze all the way down to the bottom? What are those water bugs? Is that lake healthy? Whether you fish, paddle, swim, snowshoe, ski, or just gaze upon your favorite lake, A Lakeside Companion will deepen your appreciation for the forces that shape lakes and the teeming life in and around them.

Charting a journey through schoolyards and laundromats, suburban gardens and rice paddies, yoga studios and rural highways, Michelle Brittan Rosado crafts poems that blend elegy and praise. In settings from California to Malaysian Borneo, she explores themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance.

Crafting raw memories into restrained and compact verse, D.M. Aderibigbe traces the history of domestic and emotional abuse against women in his family. A witnessing son, grandson, nephew, and brother, he rejects the tradition of praise songs for the honoured father, refusing to offer tribute to men who dishonour their wives.

Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when "Russian" literature is written in English? What is the geographic "home" of Russian culture created and shared via the internet? Global Russian Cultures considers these and related questions about the literary and cultural life of Russians.

In 1945, during the final months of the Third Reich, Eva Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist, she recorded statistics and her own observations in a secret diary. Noack-Mosse's aim in documenting the horrors of daily life in Theresienstadt was to ensure that it could never be repeated.

Eighteen-year-old Joshua Cushing wakes up in a psych ward, not knowing how he got there. Worse, he has only one eye. And no one in his family will tell him what happened to his girlfriend, Sophie. The one thing he knows for sure is that something happened, leaving him with a self and a life he barely recognises.

Andrei Bely's 1913 Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Bely expected his audience to participate in unravelling the work's meanings, narrative strains, and patterns of details. Contributors clarify these complexities and review the interpretive possibilities contained in the novel.

Bringing together the latest findings in Holocaust studies, the history of religion, and the history of sexuality in postwar - and now also postcommunist - Europe, Unlearning Eugenics shows how central the controversies over sexuality, reproduction, and disability have been to broader processes of secularization and religious renewal.

As the Vietnam War grinds on and the Nixon presidency collapses, Del "Minnow" Finwick's small world in Wisconsin has blown apart. His father, a deputy sheriff, has been murdered by the unknown "Highway 41 Killer." His mom has unravelled. And a goon named Larry Buskin has been pummeling Minnow behind Neenah High.

A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is a comprehensive collection of Sami oral tradition in English. Collected by August Koskimies and Toivo Itkonen in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and beyond the community.

In this sensitive investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in which magic, science, and the Vodun religion converge into a single universal force. He takes seriously his Beninese interlocutors' insistence that the indigenous phenomenon of aze ("witchcraft") is an African science.

Tells the stories of farmers across the American Midwest who are balancing profitability and food production with environmental sustainability and a passion for all things wild. They are using innovative techniques and strategies to develop their "wildly" successful farms as working ecosystems.

Engages postmodern and materialist feminist thought in readings of three significant poets writing in the early years of Rome's Augustan Principate. In their poems, they represent the flesh-and-blood body in both its integrity and vulnerability, as an index of social position along intersecting axes of sex, gender, status, and class.

Examination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of research, but Sharon W. Chamberlain is the first to offer an authoritative assessment of the legal proceedings convened in the Philippines. These were trials conducted by Asians, not Western powers, and centred on the abuses suffered by local inhabitants rather than by prisoners of war.

Scrabbling for ways to believe in themselves and the world, the spirited, heart-driven people who populate these stories find surprising pockets of hope. Refusing to buckle under the pressures of family and political traumas, the sojourners in this collection are unified by themes of creative expression and of love.

Contributors to this volume address such topics as the role of the 1960s Asian American movement in creating Japanese American taiko groups, and the experience of internment during World War II influencing butoh dance in Canada. The volume includes first-person narratives, interviews, ethnography, cultural studies, and performance studies.

In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a "normal" American family. But her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate escape from slave labour in Siberia. In this unforgettable memoir, Donna recounts her family history and her own survivor's story.

The story of how an ordinary young woman, Margaret Sams, met the challenges of difficult circumstances. The text recounts her ordeal through World War II in the Philippines and the relationship she formed with Jerry Sams while in Santo Tomas camp.

This is a collection of scholarly contributions brought together to discuss Turkey's role between the Middle East and Western Europe, its relation to the new independent states of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and its prospects for membership in the European Union.

Talks about ""The Jazz Singer"", the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. This film deals with the conflicts confronting the first-generation Jew in America.

A selection of poetry covering the full range of Hellenistic poetic genres, this anthology includes translations of ""Argonautica"" and eight of Theocritus's ""Idylls"". The author has also written ""The Hellenistic Aesthetic"".

John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the locked-room mystery the impossible crime. But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr s entire work and pays particular attention to this author s three best-known detectives: Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, and Sir Henry Merrivale."

Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves' economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures.