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Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and the American colonies.

In focusing on his extensive journalistic activities, Emmett Parker brings into clear relief the figure of Albert Camus as an artiste engage and demonstrates the evolution, the development, as well as the profound unity of Camus's thought.

Covers a region from Minnesota to Missouri and eastward to the Gulf of St Lawrence and Virginia. Originally published in 1940, this manual includes 219 line drawings and seven photographs of aquatic plants, a glossary, an appendix of nomenclature revisions, an appendix on the use of aquatic plants by various fauna, and an index.

An account of one man's struggle to bring his dream of community-building through creative theatre to citizens across America. Robert Gard travelled across the USA discovering and nurturing the folklore, legends, history and drama of each region.

This study of grasses, whether native or non-native, growing in the wild in Wisconsin, includes descriptions, techniques, maps, and illustrations, for locating and identifying these grasses.

"Wisconsin My Home" is the story of Thurine Oleson, born in Wisconsin in 1866 to parents who had emigrated from Telemarken, Norway. This much-loved book was first published in 1950 when Thurine was a spry octogenarian. In it she not only vividly recalls the pioneer life of her childhood in a Norwegian American settlement but also tells her parents stories of their life in Norway and their reasons for emigration. This new edition restores the twenty-nine photographs that appeared in the original 1950 hardcover edition and includes an introduction by emigration historian Odd Lovell."

Banned by the inquisition, this classic began a new genre - the picaresque novel. This book has had enduring popularity as a literary expression of Spanish identity and emotion. This edition includes the annotated Spanish-language text and prologue, a full vocabulary, and concise footnotes explaining allusions and translating difficult phrases.

For many, "going back to the land” brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s—hippie communes and the Summer of Love. More recently, the movement has re-emerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. But these latest back-to-the-landers are part of a much larger story. Americans have been dreaming of returning to the land ever since they started to leave it. Dona Brown explores the history of this recurring impulse.

Surveys the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman onwards. This title guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage.

The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about a great fall, the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. What interests Bloch is the inner life; how we are formed by our losses and our parents' losses, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we finally discover ourselves.

Jim Daniels, in his first book of poems, draws upon his experiences in living and working in his native Detroit to present a start, realistic picture of urban, blue-collar life. Daniels, his brothers, his father, and his grandfather have all worked in the auto industry, and that background seeps into nearly all these poems. The first of the book's three sections sketches out this background, then moves into a neighborhood full of people whose lives are so linked to the ups and downs of the auto industry that they have to struggle to find their own lives; in "Still Lives in Detroit, #2," Daniels writes, "There's a man in this picture. / No one can find him." The second section contains the "Digger" poems, a series on the lives of a Detroit auto worker and his family which tries to capture the effects of the work on life outside the factory. Here, we listen to Digger think, dream, wander on psychological journeys while he moves through his routines, shoveling the snow, mowing the lawn, and so forth. In section three, the poems move into the workplace, whether that be a liquor store, a hamburger joint, or a factory. These poems, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, concentrate on the efforts of workers to rise above the often depressing work of blue-collar or minimum-wage jobs, to salvage some pride and dignity. The poems in this book try to give a voice to those who are often shut out of poetry. They are important. These lives are important, and the poems, more than anything, say that.

In the midst of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy debate, a gay former soldier offers a firsthand account of his experiences in the Iraq war, capturing the real experience of gay servicemen and servicewomen.

Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable.

John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. In this interpretation of the formative years Holmes reveals the agony as well as the elation of Muir's earliest experience of nature through to the fulfilment of the vision that would shape his lifelong environmental experience.

John and Beth Ross revisit the Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve in south-central Wisconsin 50 years after Leopold's death. They explore the terrain, encounter its natural citizens, and relate life here to its physical underpinnings, following Leopold's own practice of phenology.

This study of pre-Civil War American slave autobiography appears here in a new edition. It represents slave narratives as literary in the complete sense of the word, and also calls attention to gender in the narratives.

The author asks why American culture draws the lines it does - between home and work, family and friends, or humans and animals. Throughout the book she attempts to point out the systems of meaning through which contemporary Americans create social order and define their relationships.

The diary is an illuminating account of southern plantation society and the 'peculiar institution' of slavery on the eve if its destruction.

Fairy tales both familiar and obscure create a threshold, and the The Blue Hour pulls us over it. With precise language and rich detail, these poems unflinchingly create an eerie world marked by abuse, asking readers not just to bear witness but to try to understand how we make meaning in the face of the meaningless violence.

Speculates - with humour, tenderness, and a brutal precision - on a character that Flannery O'Connor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: "an angular intellectual proud woman approaching God inch by inch grinding her teeth." Original illustrations by Julie Franki further illuminate Reese's imaginative verse biography of a modern-day hillbilly saint.

These poems often spring from unlikely sources. In Almost Nothing to Be Scared Of, David Clewell's most expansive work yet, readers will discover a multiplicity of new ways to take heart - surely no small thing in a world where we're too often asked to take what we'd rather not.