In the land of beer, cheese, and muskies - where the polka is danced and the winter is unending - everybody is ethnic, the politics clean and the... Læs mere
Part of the ""Study Smart"" series, this text is designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programmes. Each book in the series teaches skills for... Læs mere
Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 1849-1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution's infancy.
Scholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.
In this volume, Betty Berzon tells the story of her journey from psychiatric patient on suicide watch to her role as a therapist and gay pioneer. She discusses... Læs mere
Investigating the way one breaks through taboos and becomes a self-realized adult, this memoir traces the author's childhood in rural Arizona, his relationship with a physically shrinking father,... Læs mere
In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on ""the other genocide"" that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994.
Angels, death, religion, and Russians along the Northern California coast challenge our smart and artful sleuthing couple in this captivating follow-up to Murder in Lascaux, the debut novel in the Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler mystery series.
An outcast gay Mormon travels by bus from his Washington, DC, home to Antarctica, in a wild yet touching adventure across some of the most astonishing landscapes on Earth.
Eighteen-year-old Joshua Cushing wakes up in a psych ward, not knowing how he got there. Worse, he has only one eye. And no one in his family will tell him what happened to his... Læs mere
An analysis of literary criticism that explores the origins of modern criticism in Romanticism and discusses work by Wordsworth, Derrida, Foucault and de Man. The book argues that there is a complex interplay between concepts of subjectivity and linguistic choices.