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Captures the public achievement and private pain of a Wisconsin woman and her family. Helen's home influences, Presbyterian background, education and talents impelled her to lead. This book, based on a family's history, speaks about the way we were and are, a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

Presents a collection of poetry that explores various human predicaments: a cancer-ridden wife, an explosive father, an infertile couple, various sexual aggressors, and a missing girl. Such portraiture enables the reader to consider the complexity of human love: how selfishness, fear, lust, and even brutality coincide with tenderness and loyalty.

German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century - or so it is commonly assumed. Nils Roemer challenges this assumption, finding that religious sentiments, concepts, and rhetoric found expression through a newly emerging theological historicism at the center of modern German Jewish culture.

In the early 1970s, when he was still an aspiring, unpublished writer, Felice Picano had a days-old kitten slated for euthanasia who refused to perish. Rescued, named, and trained, Fred became a companion. Fred in Love is a story about how we learn and grow, and how we love.

This is an analysis of Zionist Revisionist thought in the 1920s and 1930s and of its ideological legacy in modern-day Israel. Kaplan suggests that Revisionism's legacies can be found both in the right-wing policies of Likud and in the heart of post-Zionism and its critique of mainstream (Labor) Zionism.

Laud Humphreys (1930-1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. This biography examines the groundbreaking work through the life of a complex man, and the life of the man through his controversial work.

This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. "Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, "Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.

"Excellent. . . . This detailed analysis of how the Marshfield Clinic struggled to balance competing priorities and interest groups nicely illustrates the adage 'If you see one HMO, you've seen one HMO.'"--Joel D. Howell, "The Journal of American History"

Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes.

Blue Daughter of the Red Sea is Birabiro's poetic account of the harsh reality of her young life spread across three continents. Her voice is a fresh melange of child and adult perspectives, at once brutally honest and wise beyond her years.

The ""Study Smart"" reference guide series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, presents strategies for test-taking and studying, provides exercises to improve spelling, grammar and vocabulary.

After her husband's death, Ginny Gillespie travels with his ashes to Paris, where she meets and falls in love with Roland Keppi, a strange, visionary man without a country. But when Roland is deported to a German camp for people without identity papers, their dreamlike affair is disrupted.

Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle are among the most important American modernist poets. In this comparative study, Jacob Korg examines their intertwined lives, from an early romantic relationship, through the ongoing friendship, rivalry and artistic dialogue that helped shape their work.

Addressing many questions relevant to anglers, this book brings together many varied concepts of cognitive ecology as applied to trout and their salmonid relatives: char, salmon, grayling and whitefish.

This is the story of Henry Aaron's first year in Wisconsin's Class C minor league baseball team. It shows how Aaron bridged the cultural divide between growing up in the segregated South and playing in the North.

This text asks questions relating to gender nonconformity, race, and sexuality from social science perspectives and then examines personal stories of reinvention and transformation, including discussions of the lives of dancers Isadora Duncan and Bill T. Jones and playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.

Integrating the psychology of love and creativity, this work explores both how a couple's involvement as lovers influences their creative collaboration and how working together affects their relationship.

A subtle literary portrait of Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Alfred Chester, this book is also a complex and perceptive account of the ways colonialism and sexuality structure each other, particularly as reflected in the literature written in postwar Tangier.

This is Someck's first full-length book to appear in English. His Sephardi voice is rich with slang, hot music, street gangsters and army commandos, and the odours of falafel and schwarma. In his poetry we find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe and cowboys battling for the hearts and souls of Israelis.

The great Andean insurrection has received scant attention by historians of the ""Age of Revolution"", but in this book Sinclair Thompson reveals the connections between ongoing local struggles over Indian community government and a larger anticolonial movement.

This work makes accessible to English speakers a hidden literature of great beauty and importance. The poems are from the Telegu language of southern India.

In this volume, Betty Berzon tells the story of her journey from psychiatric patient on suicide watch to her role as a therapist and gay pioneer. She discusses her mental breakdown and suicide attempts, her hospitalization and recovery, and her own coming out as a lesbian at the age of 40.

With wry humour and unflinching honesty, Cathy Colman crosses the terrain of love, family and art, asking why we resist becoming the person we truly are.

A son is born early, as if coming up over the horizon before his own dawn. An elderly father lingers at life's other horizon. These poems use language which is dense and clear, playful and sombre, with an emotional amplitude which is suggestive of Behn's own musical training.

Inspired by his Huguenot heritage, French Protestant pastor Pierre Toureille participated in international Protestant church efforts to combat Nazism during the 1930s and headed a major refugee aid organization in Vichy, France during World War II. This is his story.

In the land of beer, cheese, and muskies - where the polka is danced and the winter is unending - everybody is ethnic, the politics clean and the humour plentiful. This collection includes jokes, anecdotes, and tall tales from ethnic groups and working folk in the upper midwest of the US.

Barbara Joans is both an anthropologist and a biker. This book introduces the reader to the lives of women within American biker culture. She looks at women who ride in their own right, on their own bikes, as well as the women who ride the rear - the biker chicks.

This text examines the physical features of Wisconsin that shape the state's climate - topography, mid-latitude location, and proximity to Lakes Superior and Michigan - and meteorological phenomena that affect climate, such as atmospheric circulation and air mass frequency.