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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.

An examination of how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization.

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.

Winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, this collection explores the gestures of hurtfulness and compassion. Whether set in a shelter for battered women, in the midst of a political demonstration, or at the centre of an orchestra, the poems pursue the place of language in an injurous world.

In this collection of poems - which won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry - topics range from a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the ""befuddlement"" of childhood, and the wisdom of the nursing child.

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"".

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.

Of the Rosenbluth family, only the older children, Faiga and Luzer, had gone into hiding before the SS rounded up the Jews of Kanczuga, Poland. ""Hidden"" is Faiga and Luzer's story.

Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half a millennium, this volume explores how the omission of children from the region's historiography may in fact be no small matter.

This is the tale of a woman who readily admits her fear of travel, a fear that many experience but are embarrassed to admit. When finally she plunges into the new adventure, she describes her experiences in Florence with wit, humour and energy.

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.

Blending history, science and public policy, this reference book on the Great Lakes should be of interest to limnologists, biologists, graduate students, researchers, public officials, elementary and high school teachers, those who live near the Lake and those who use it for recreation.

This volume covers Anglophone Caribbean literature from the colonial era up to the beginning of the 21st century. It charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean and differing concepts of community and social integration.

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.

A study of the autobiographical documentary in America from the 1960s to the start of the 21st century. Jim Lane looks at the ways in which autobiographical documentaries such as ""Roger and Me"" and ""Sherman's March"" raise weighty questions about American cultural life.

This is a comprehensive collection of material on sculptured statue bases which should be of interest to archaeologists, historians of art and of religion, and scholars of ancient culture (including athletics and gender studies).

Tuvia Friling recounts and analyses the efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine - the Yishuv - to help European Jews facing annihilation. It shows the wide scope and complexity of Yishuv activity at this time.

This volume reviews the International Health Policy Program, assesing whether it has fostered institutional and individual research on health policy in developing countries and helped policymakers effectively use resources.

This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of the book is Jonathan Swift; other essays discuss Alexander Pope, and 18th-century music and poetry.

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.

This guidebook introduces you to over 60 brewpubs and breweries in Wisconsin, and rates 600 local beers. Each description includes a history, ratings, notes on the pub food with suggestions of other sites to see and activities in the area. There is also information on the brewing process.

This facsimile edition makes available in one volume all eight issues of ""Tambour"", a historically important ""little magazine"" published in Paris in 1929 and 1930 that featured a mix of writing by European and American modernists.

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.

Established at the University of Wisconsin in 1927 by educational theorist Alexander Meiklejohn, the ""Experimental College"" was a small residence-based programme within the university that provided a core curriculum of liberal education of two years of college. This is a record of the experiment.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.

Bridging history and anthropology, this text shows how the Lunda-Zdembu people of northwestern Zambia have justified innovations to their cultural identity and practices by establishing conceptual similarities to long-standing traditions.

When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS.

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

This study demonstrates how the influence of advertising and publishing on consumers affected writers in Britain and America between 1890 and 1920. Reading works by Joyce, Shaw, T.S. Eliot and others, it shows that these contexts affected the techniques and concerns of literature itself.

In this collection, the poet glorifies the spirit, but also the flesh, as exemplified by the poem ""Liver"", ""organ whose name contains the injunction Live!... great One-Who-Lives, so we can too"".