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This collection of essays reveals the beauty and value of hornets, bats, katydids, mice, cicadas, and other tiny creatures. Allen M. Young records his keen observations of the natural world as he walks through urban woods near Lake Michigan, or sits on his deck in his own backyard.

Tracing the roots of recent US reforms to the early days of the war on poverty, this work describes a social welfare system grown inept, corrupt, and susceptible to conservative redesign. It focuses on the economic barriers impeding movement out of poverty into the American mainstream.

How much did making it new have to do with making it? For the four ""outsider poets"" considered here, the connection was everything. Both a social history of literary ambition in America in the 1950s and 1960s and a collective literary biography, this is an account of postwar poetry underground.

Blending poetry, prose and autobiographical details, ""Development"" and ""Two Selves"" together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that follows a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood.

In this volume, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they'll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their reflections on a variety of themes - from humour to death - illuminate the experience of doctoring in all its aspects.

This fourth volume in the history of the University of Wisconsin covers events from the deluge of World War II vets on the GI bill to the 1960s radicalism which made national headlines. The authors also explore the effects of the McCarthy era and the actions of university president E.B. Fred.

A study of a decade's native Russian film production through the 1917 Revolution. Showing how these films appealed to a new middle class, the author examines the organization and evolution of the industry and looks at genres, motifs and themes in 65 of the most important surviving films.

This chronicle of a unique period in the development of printmaking in the U.S. at the University of Wisconsin, 1945-95, tells the story beautifully, in interviews with and about those who taught and those who were taught, and with examples of their prints.

In this critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, Victor Terras discusses psychological, political, mythical and philosophical approaches, guiding readers through the range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations of Dostoevsky's rich novels.

Jose Angel Gutierrez' autobiography provides an insider's view of the important political and social events within the Mexican American communities in South Texas during the 1960s and 1970s. He traces the many prejudices facing the Chicanos with powerful scenes from his own life.

Organized chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the 19th century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late 19th and 20th centuries.

In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time.

This collection of case studies focuses upon high mountains, tropical forests and lowlands, as well as humid and arid-semiarid landscapes. Each chapter analyzes the implications for meshing environmental protection and sound resource use with development.

In this memoir of her Lebanese-American family, the author offers an account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning four generations and two continents, the book is the story of a family from the mountains of Lebanon and their emigration to Pennsylvania.

This collection of poems by Betsy Sholl offers revelations by weaving together seemingly unrelated events.

This collection of essays on ethnic and sexual identity revolves around the persona that the author calls ""Ono Ono Girl"". Challenging assumptions about genre and gender and acting out the notion that language is a function of the body, these essays are soundbites of Ono Ono Girl inventing herself.

Drawing on surviving records of antisuffrage organizations, the author argues that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests rather than an ideal of ""true womanhood"". The book reveals an increasingly militant style as powerful women sought to exclude ""the ignorant vote"".

A casebook of interpretations of the ballad ""The Walled-Up Wife"". Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power issues in the ballad, and Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble presents a structuralist interpretation.

Examining specific environmental debates, this study suggests the environment is a concept and a set of cultural values constructed by our use of language. It explores how genres such as nature writing have influenced discourse, and investigates the impact of cultural traditions.

This work provides an English translation of the history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule. A Mexican-Californian, Osio writes of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s.

This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture. The text also contains several ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a study of court-mandated programmes for drink drivers.

These poems, reflecting a kind of severity, set out to produce a morally accurate view of the mundane world they inhabit. The poet also, however, keeps his eye on the larger view - on megalopolis, and also what he himself calls, ""the heart's jazz"".

A study of the fate of ethnic communities in the former Soviet Union, showing the interconnections between nationalism, ethnic relations, social structure and the ongoing political process. Included are studies of the situations in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and of the Yakut and Meskhetian Turks.

Designed as a companion and study guide for the textbook ""Comprehending Technical Japanese"", this book serves as a supplement to ""Basic Technical Japanese"". It provides explanations of the origin and meaning of more than 500 Kanji, chosen for their significance in the literature of the sciences.

Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

Provides an introduction to the historical development and current status of various health care topics. The book is organised in sections: basic concepts; public health; health care professions; health care organisations; mental illness; financing health care; and medical education.

Many US private employers have enacted foetal protection policies that barred women - that is, women who had not been surgically sterilised - working in jobs that might expose foetuses to toxins. This text analyses these policies and the ambiguous responses to them.