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Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother's second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a stoner slut, and his father is engaged to a Southern belle. Rick's only solace is his growing collection of original Broadway-cast LPs.

A novel about the tyranny of love over men and women and the unending trials of strength between good and evil in human nature. First published as ""Varulven"" in 1958, its main characters move against the backdrop of Norwegian society from World War I to the 1950s.

Provides a complete volume of pertinent information by and about John Ledyard, one of the most amazing explorers of all time. Including Ledyard's own journal, letters between him and others, particularly Thomas Jefferson, and biographical information on eighteenth-century Siberia, this offers an exceptional look at history, geography, and travel.

This is a textbook for the teaching of standard Macedonian grammar and vocabulary to English speakers. Designed by an experienced teacher to be completed in one year of intensive study, this second edition includes expanded glossaries and an answer key for those studying on their own. The sixteen chapters provide a basic knowledge of Macedonian language as well as an introduction to Macedonian life, culture, history, and literature.

A study of the development of Italian national identity in all its incarnations throughout the 20th century. It describes a dense sequence of events: from victorious Italian participation in WWI through the rise and triumph of Fascism to Italy's transition to a republic.

This transnational study probes the abiding inclination to ""blacken"" riots. It unravels the connection between racial violence - both the white and the ""raced"" - in the United States and South Africa,as well as the social dynamics that this connection sustains.

An exploration of the origins and lasting influence of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words ""landscape"", ""country"", ""scenery"", and, ""nature"". The ideas of land and country are tracked through Anglo-American history.

Reveals major figures in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the ""Metamorphoses"". This title explores issues central to Ovid's poetics - the status of the image, the generation of plots, repetition, opposition between refined and inflated epic style, and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry.

Personal testimonies are the life force of human rights work, and rights claims have brought profound power to the practice of life writing. This volume explores the connections and conversations between human rights and life writing through a dazzling, international collection of essays by survivor-writers, scholars, and human rights advocates.

Analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representation of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, this book explores the tensions between Americans' deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

In the Dutch countryside, the war seems far away - but not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van't Westeindes are not what they seem.

Elena Georgiou's debut collection of poems unveils the story of a vigorous soul's journey in and out of love. Whether her speaker is buying lunch at a falafel stand or bumping into the ghost of Marvin Gaye in the supermarket, Georgiou's zesty clarity prevails.

This work is a major revisionist reading of one of the central texts of the Russian canon, that focuses systematically on Tatiana Larina. This approach to ""Eugene Onegin"" should revitalize our understanding of both Alexandr Pushkin's heroine and the novel in which she appears.

An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate concerns. It also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic study.

A comprehensive textbook teaching English-speakers to read, write and speak contemporary Bulgarian. Volume one, introducing the basic elements of Bulgarian grammar, contains lessons 1-15, a Bulgarian-English glossary, and English-Bulgarian glossary for beginners, and an appendix of verbal forms.

This introduction to Norwegian helps students acquire the basic units of vocabulary and structure and use that knowledge to learn about Norway and Norwegian culture. This edition features a short grammar summary, a reference for review to assist in drawing together aspects of the grammar that are presented throughout the text.

Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is ""evidence"", how do historians know what it means and how can we trust them to get it right? The author tackles such questions head on in this book and practices what he preaches through a many insightful assessments of historical controversies.

The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon marshalls evidence from literary, historical and archaeological sources to offer a comprehensive classification of the origins and meanings of the Attic cults.

This work combines the author's vision and practicality and seeks to answer questions such as ""why dance?"", and to give voice to her plea of universal dance training as a reconized course in formal education.

This groundbreaking history of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) examines how General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist forces managed state finance and economic production, and mobilized support from elites and middle-class Spaniards, to achieve their eventual victory over Spanish Republicans and the revolutionary left.

This work relates changes in scientific and medical thought during the Scientific Revolution (c1500-1700) to the emergence of new principles and practices for interpreting language, texts and nature. It also explores the wider cultural origins and impact of these ideas.

Between AD 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. This book explores the cultural, historical, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds.

During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighbouring Laos. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort.