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Wild Kingdom: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the world of academia, examining this strange landscape populated by faculty, administrators, and students. Using what she calls “received academic forms”, Jehanne Dubrow... Læs mere
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Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on emotional experiences prompted by his brother’s going to war in Afghanistan, the death of his mother from ovarian cancer, and the raising of his sons, James... Læs mere
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A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Documents the oil industry's sharp interface with Louisiana's environment. Drawing on government, corporate, and personal files, many previously untapped, John Arnold traces the history of oil-field practices and their ecological impacts in tandem with battles over regulation.
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No Way: An American Tao Te Ching (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the art of living in the fast-paced, dangerous, unpredictable contemporary world. Lucid and wise in the spirit of its ancient Chinese predecessor, No Way functions as a kind of offbeat-yet-deadly-serious manual on the conduct of life.
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Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company: Anton Reiff's Riverboat Travel Journal (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Anton Reiff's diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled across America by river and rail.
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Mannequin and Wife: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this debut fiction collection from Jen Fawkes, readers will encounter a taxidermist with anger issues, an Elephant Girl, the strongest woman alive, a flock of stenographers, a fairy on her lunch break, and a married couple who cohabitate with a department store mannequin.
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Atomizer: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines pressing questions of today, from equality and political unrest to the diminishing of democratic ideals, asking if it is even appropriate to write about love in a time seemingly hurtling toward authoritarianism.
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Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of... Læs mere
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Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine constitutes what was once the largest industry in North... Læs mere
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Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Reveals a previously unexamined facet of William McKinley's presidency: an ongoing dedication to the advancement of African Americans, including their appointment to significant roles in the federal government and the safeguarding of their rights as US citizens.
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What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on two years living and researching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Christopher Kempf's What Though the Field Be Lost uses the battlefield there as setting and... Læs mere
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Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Investigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp magazines in the 1930s.
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