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When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? These essays collected in this work are the products of this inquiry.

A sequel to the ""Nowhere in Africa"", this novel traces the return of the Redlich family to Germany after their nine-year exile in Kenya during World War II. It portrays the reality of postwar German society.

Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, in both his journalism and fiction. He shows how Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has from the 1980s to present.

Fusing philosophy and theology, this book assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but equally important roles in the spiritual structure of the world and finds in both biblical religions approaches to a comprehension of reality.

Contains thirteen previously published essays and review essays by many of the major critics currently interested in Jorie Graham's work and five new essays commissioned for this volume.

Presents the most plausible solution yet to the mystery of who killed William Desmond Taylor. In the process the author paints a portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s - from its major stars to its bisexual subculture. He provides an answer to a mystery and a study of a place, and an industry, that has always let people reinvent themselves.

As a member of Salvador Allende's Personal Guards (GAP) Luz Arce worked with leaders of the Socialist Party during the Popular Unity Government from 1971 to 1973. Arce's testimonial offers the harrowing story of the abuse she suffered and witnessed as a survivor of detention camps, such as the infamous Villa Grimaldi.

Spotlights the history of plant breeding and the seed industry, particularly genetically engineered crops. This second edition includes an extensive new chapter on recent controversies.

Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. ""Festa"" is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes.

This history explains the intersection of politics and culture, and the formation of a national identity, during Spain's Second Republic and Civil War. It counters recent scholarship claiming that leaders of the Second Republic had no programmes to encourage a Spanish national identity.

This text explores the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts and on the streets and tracks the intersections of dance and human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each has shifted and expanded.

This revised second edition demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry and other rhetorical means of persuasion. It shows economists to be human persuaders and poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods.

These deliberate transformations of traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, were written by political activists for use by progressive youth groups during the years of the German Weimar Republic, 1919 - 1933.

This volume demonstrates clock reactions, batteries, electrolytic cells, and plating. All demonstrations are in the format used in previous volumes: brief description, materials list, preparation procedures, instructions for presentations, information about potential hazards.

Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before.

The Wisconsin-born Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 1959) is recognized worldwide as an iconic architectural genius. In 1911 he designed Taliesin to use as his personal residence, architectural studio, and working farm. A century later Randolph C. Henning has assembled a splendid collection of rare vintage postcards, some never before published, that provides a revealing and visually unique journey through Wright s work at Taliesin. Included are intimate images of Taliesin at various stages and views of the building just after the tragic 1914 fire. The postcards also depict nearby buildings designed by Wright, including the Romeo and Juliet windmill and two buildings for the Hillside Home School. Henning provides useful explanations that highlight relevant details and accompany each image. Frank Lloyd Wright s Taliesin documents and celebrates Wright s 100-year-old masterpiece. Finalist, Midwest Book Awards for Cover Design and for Regional Interest Illustrated Book Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers"

Yair Mazor introduces English-speaking audiences to the poetry of Asher Reich, one of Israel's best contemporary poets. Dominated by themes of stormy sensuality, his dramatic imagery and metaphors interweave Mishnaic, Talmudic, and Biblical references in a colourful, complex poetic texture.

This is the author's memoir of moving through childhood to gay adulthood through visceral encounters with Hollywood movies: ""Hello Dolly!"", ""The Poseidon Adventure"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"" and ""The Sound of Music"" Oz"".

Presents a comprehensive history of groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. The author analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals.

This book applies psychoanalysis to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Avner Falk makes a close historical examination to show that the two parties have missed innumerable opportunities for a rational solution, and examines the unconscious aspects of the conflict.

The home-cooking tips that Helen Myrhe shared on ""Late Night With David Letterman"", she now shares with you. From breads to gravies, meats to jellies, and of course, that celebrated sour cream raisin pie, Myhre aims to show how to bring a rich, thick slice of Midwest cooking into your kitchen.

Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.

Brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through the author's work from its beginnings and defines his place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man. He explores life as a gay American man - from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement.

Presents the struggle of Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This work is a portrait of American culture clash and a narrative grounded in people's perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.

In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862-63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendices.

Presents five case studies that explore the dilemmas, moral as well as political, that emerge out of anthropology's position as both central and peripheral. This book offers ""a kind of posthumous reparation,"" a page in the history of the discipline for a distant colleague who might otherwise have remained in the footnotes.

Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to 20 BC, Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.

The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades - the record of a restless reader coming to terms with a turbulent and mercurial writer.

Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero when an American intellect ""discovers"" his writings. The story flits between Archanjo's lifetime and that of the American professor decades later.