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Louisiana During World War II: Politics and Society, 1939-1945 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Few historians have investigated the experiences of individual American states during the tumultuous World War II years. In his study of... Læs mere
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Jim Crow's Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Louisiana's non-unanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of... Læs mere
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Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness.... Læs mere
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Garrison Tales from Tonquin: An American's Stories of the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam in the 1890s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The thought of enlisting in the French Foreign Legion held a tantalizing allure for young... Læs mere
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Time for Bed: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy Rawlings's Time for Bed traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime... Læs mere
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Left-Handed Wolf: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers short lyrical meditations and narratives that wrestle with contemporary issues of the environment, spirituality, and the social. These compact, imagistic poems welcome space and silence as a way of addressing both the commonality and complexity of people and experience.
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The Grace of Distance: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In The Grace of Distance, his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the ways in which we try to close the distances we experience in modern life, between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love.
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My Surly Heart: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Prolific poet and novelist David Huddle reflects on turning seventy-six years of age and records his aghast reactions to changes brought about by the current president of the United... Læs mere
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How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens... Læs mere
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In the Months of My Son's Recovery: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The poems of In the Months of My Son's Recovery inhabit the voice and point of view of the mother of a heroin addict who enters recovery. With clear perception and precise emotional tones, Kate Daniels explores recovery experiences from multiple, evolving vantage points.
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Far West: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Intertwines the past and present, as time alternates between racing and standing still. Crafting poems that confront memory lapses and painful recollections, Skloot traces his moments of purest perception and expression.
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Words Written Against the Walls of the City: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bruce Bond's new collection, Words Written Against the Walls of the City, confronts problems of collectivity and individual freedom in ways that bring the historical into conjunction with the personal details of everyday lives.
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