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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Outlawed Pigs Law Religion and Culture in Israel
The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture. This title explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture. It offers a decade-by-decade discussion of the relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Fieldwork Dilemmas Anthropologists in Postsocialist States
Focusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Thinking Like a Mountain Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer Wolves and Forests
This new edition analyses Leopold's essay, which explores issues of predation by studying the interrelationships between deer, wolves and forests. Flader shows how Leopold's approach to wildlife evolved from, amongst others, his experiences restoring the deer population in the USA.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Holding the World Together African Women in Changing Perspective
Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume demonstrates social, economic, and cultural changes on the African continent and internationally.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Agents of Terror Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalins Secret Police
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Bosnian Croatian Serbian A Textbook with Exercises and Basic Grammar
An introduction to three of the languages of the former Yugoslav Republic - Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Dialogues and exercises are presented in each language, shown side by side for easy comparison, and Serbian is rendered in both its Latin and its C
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cultured Force Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Fascism in Spain 192377
This study analyzes all the major doctrines, personalities and defining features of the Spanish fascist movement, from its beginnings until the death of General Francisco Franco. It also seeks to explain why Franco was able to hold onto power long after Fascism was a spent force in politics.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Hellenistic Poetry An Anthology
A selection of poetry covering the full range of Hellenistic poetic genres, this anthology includes translations of ""Argonautica"" and eight of Theocritus's ""Idylls"". The author has also written ""The Hellenistic Aesthetic"".
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dancing Many Drums Excavations in African American Dance
This volume explores the influence of African American music on world culture. It brings together issues of race, gender, politics, history and dance, includes discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham's controversial ballet about lynching, ""Southland"".
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Event History Analysis in Life Course Research Life Course Studies
A compendium of studies drawn from an international conference, this volume includes work on event history analysis. Researchers at four institutions convened, shared models of analysis, and collected their findings for the first time.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Oresteia Agamemnon Libation Bearers and The Holy Goddesses
First presented in the spring of 458 BCE at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia won the first prize. It is the only surviving example of the ancient trilogy form for Greek tragedies. David Mulroy's fluid, accessible English translation with its rhyming choral songs does full justice to the meaning and theatricality of the ancient Greek.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism Reading Against the Grain
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Stevie Smiths Resistant Antics
This study of the writer Stevie Smith, portrays her as a well-connected literary insider who used many genres to resist domestic ideology in Britain. It explores the connections between her work and mass media production, and focuses on such contempories as Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Wisdom of Many Essays on the Proverb
Explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than 20 essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Plain A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the ""Historia Augusta"" is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. David Rohrbacher offers a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Spiritual Revolution The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia 17001825
Embedded with lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale effort to fully identify exactly how Western progressive thought influenced the Russian Church.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Long Hallway
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin How Difficult It Is to Be God Shining Paths Politics of War in Peru 19801999
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Inside a Class Action The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin American Parables
Daniel Khalastchi's third collection provides an uncompromising exploration into the political and societal disturbances facing America today. Electioneering, lack of affordable health care, the increase in mass shootings, and the continued fight for equal rights are juxtaposed against an unlikely sense of hope and optimism.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Posttheory Reconstructing Film Studies
A collection of essays on topics as diverse as film scores, audience response and the national film industries of Russia, Scandinavia, the US and Japan. The book examines issues such as: what goes on when viewers perceive a film?; how do movies create illusions?; and how does a film arouse emotion?
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Studying Native America Problems and Prospects
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.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin In Defense of Sovereignty Protecting the Oneida Nations Inherent Right to SelfDetermination
Recounts the history of the Oneida Nation and its struggles for self-determination. Since the nation’s removal from New York in the 1820s to what would become the state of Wisconsin, it has been engaged in legal conflicts with US actors to retain its sovereignty and its lands.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Story of My Boyhood and Youth
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin First Do No Harm Power Oppression and Violence in Healthcare
This text shows how healthcare professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent holistic healthcare, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. It investigates the need to rethink healthcare practices to bring the art and science of medicine back into balance.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cowboy Park
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Best Weapon for Peace Maria Montessori Education and Childrens Rights
The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist. In this volume, Erica Moretti reframes Montessori's pacifism as the foundation for her educational activism, emphasizing her vision of the classroom as a gateway to reshaping society.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Grafting Helen The Abduction of the Classical Past
This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Silenced Voices The Poetics of Speech in Ovid
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 provides a unique cross-reading of Metamorphoses, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, poems written after Ovid's exile from Rome in 8CE.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin J. D. Salinger and the Nazis
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Critical Romance Critic as Reader Writer Hero
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.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Defeat is the Only Bad News Rwanda under Musinga 18971931
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Antecedents to Modern Rwanda The Nyiginya Kingdom
To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Prints of Warrington Colescott A Catalogue Raisonne 19482008
Printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his brilliant artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. This illustrated catalogue documents Colescott's extensive and varied graphic career.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Money Murder and Dominick Dunne A Life in Several Acts
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Oedipus A Folklore Casebook
Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles' drama, this book examines variations of the Oedipus tale from around the world. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological and structuralist perspectives, the 19 essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Death Stalks Door County
Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he’s had enough of death.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Ageless Self Sources of Meaning in Late Life
This text argues that ""old"" age is not something that has intrinsic meaning and old people rarely see themselves as ""old"". It claims that they have a sense of self that is ageless and they stress continuity of identity, despite the physical and social changes associated with old age.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Fast Forward The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avantgarde Culture 19101930
Presents an examination of the images and concepts of speed that permeated Russian modernist poetry, visual arts, and cinema. This title illustrates how a wide variety of experimental artistic tendencies of the day relied on notions of speed or dynamism to create at least part of their effects.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Inside Rwandas Gacaca Courts Seeking Justice after Genocide
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere offers a comprehensive assessment of what these courts set out to do, how they worked, what they achieved.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Loss within Loss Artists in the Age of AIDS
When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Psalms
Fiedorczuk was inspired by her readings of the original Hebrew Psalms, as well as by the process of learning to sing. In her poems she captures the heartache and joy of the Biblical Psalms, but in the context of modern life.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Explosive Experts Wife
In sparse, powerful lines, Shara Lessley recalls an expat's displacement, examines her experience as a mother, and offers intimate witness to the unfolding of the Arab Spring. Veering from the strip malls and situation rooms of Washington to the markets and mines of Amman, Lessley confronts the pressures and pleasures of other cultures, exploring our common humanity.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Roof of the Whale Poems
Venezuelan poet Juan Calzadilla (b. 1931) is considered one of the most influential poets of the Spanish language. But while his books have appeared in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, and Spain, his work has not been widely available in English until now.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
The first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations.
£89.10
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Charlottengrad Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin
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