Tells the story of voting in elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin's history. This book explores the... Læs mere
By focusing on one particular type of NGO - those organized to help prevent the spread and transmission of HIV in Kenya - Megan... Læs mere
In 1945, during the final months of the Third Reich, Eva Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist, she recorded... Læs mere
It was 1978, and gray wolves had been extinct in Wisconsin for twenty years. Still, there were rumors from the state's northwestern counties that they had returned. Dick Thiel,... Læs mere
Using full-colour illustrations, this provides meticulous instructions for safely demonstrating colourful phenomena and... Læs mere
Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid... Læs mere
From 1917 the US Department of Justice systematically targeted the US's most radical... Læs mere
Offers a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. Bartolo Natoli... Læs mere
Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians.
A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral... Læs mere
With interdisciplinary analysis of literature, painting, and film, Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! traces how physical fitness had an even broader impact on culture and ideology in the Soviet Union than previously realized.
In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a “normal” American family. But her Polish-born... Læs mere