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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.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Charlottengrad Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Russias Social Gospel The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine War and Revolution
The late Russian Empire experienced rapid economic change, social dislocation, and multiple humanitarian crises, enduring two wars, two famines, and three revolutions. Daniel Scarborough considers the roles played by pastors in the closing decades of the failing tsarist empire and the explosive 1917 revolutions.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Diversity Quota
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Tree of Life Bk. 1 On the Brink of the Prec A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy ""The Tree of Life"", describes the lives of the novel's ten protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto before the outbreak of World War II..
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Worse than the Devil Anarchists Clarence Darrow and Justice in a Time of Terror
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Wisconsin Cocktails
Cocktails have always had a stronghold in America's Dairyland. This highly illustrated volume uncovers the true stories behind the state's obsession with brandy, ice cream drinks, and a smorgasbord of garnishes.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Royal Capitalism Wealth Class and Monarchy in Thailand
Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institution and one of the world's wealthiest monarchies. Puangchon Unchanam examines the reign of Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX and how the crown thrived by transforming itself into a ""bourgeois"" monarchy.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Surveille
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Northeastern North America
The best and most comprehensive manual and illustrated guide to native and naturalized vascular plants - ferns, conifers, and flowering plants - growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and south to Virginia and Missouri.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Farm Boys Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. ""Farm Boys"" undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Global Russian Cultures
Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when ""Russian"" literature is written in English? What is the geographic ""home"" of Russian culture created and shared via the internet? Global Russian Cultures innovatively considers these and many related questions about the literary and cultural life of Russians.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dry Land
As the Great War rages across Europe, Rand Brandt, an idealistic young forester in the northwoods of Wisconsin, discovers a remarkable gift: his touch can grow any plant in minutes. Overjoyed, he dreams of devoting his life to conservation, restoring to its former glory a landscape devastated by lumbering.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Bohemian Body Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture
Examines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova Origins Philosophies Points of Contention
Olga Sedakova stands out among contemporary Russian poets for the integrity, erudition, intellectual force, and moral courage of her writing. This first collection of scholarly essays on her work in English assesses her contributions as a poet and thinker, presenting far-reaching accounts of broad themes and patterns of thought across her writings.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Shopping or The End of Time
These tour-de-force poems simultaneously capture an impression of emptiness and pleasure, of existing in a liminal space filled with both hollowness and potential.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Discovering Albanian 1 Workbook
A companion workbook to Discovering Albanian 1 Textbook, this workbook offers a rich variety of graded practice exercises in grammar and vocabulary. A key to all the exercises is included at the end of the workbook.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Seeing New Worlds Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenthcentury Natural Science
Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Mark Twains Own Autobiography The Chapters from the North American Review
Mark Twain's ""Own Autobiography"" stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. This book covers a wealth of critical work done on Twain since 1990. It also includes a discussion of literary domesticity, locating the autobiography within the history of Twain's literary work and within Twain's own understanding and experience of domestic concerns.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus Fortunas y Adversidades with an English Introduction
Banned by the inquisition, this classic began a new genre - the picaresque novel. This book has had enduring popularity as a literary expression of Spanish identity and emotion. This edition includes the annotated Spanish-language text and prologue, a full vocabulary, and concise footnotes explaining allusions and translating difficult phrases.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
Explores the implications of sex-for-pay from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. The essays in this volume reflect the difficulty of answering the question of whether temple prostitution existed in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the implications of literary representations of prostitutes and courtesans.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin SpearWon Land Sardis from the Kings Peace to the Peace of Apamea
The contributors to this volume are members of the Hellenistic Sardis Project, a research collaboration between long-standing expedition members and scholars keenly interested in the site. These new discussions on the pre-Roman history of Sardis restore the city in the scholarship of the Hellenistic East.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin An Epitaph for German Judaism From Halle to Jerusalem
Emil Fackenheim's life work was to call upon the world at large to confront the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on the Jewish people, Judaism, and all humanity. Here, he looks back on his life, at the profound and painful circumstances that shaped him as a philosopher and a committed Jewish thinker.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin I Thought We Were Making Movies Not History
Reveals the author's experience of Hollywood in its golden days and tells the stories of the stars who appeared in his films, including Natalie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin MADRE AND I A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Constitutional History of the American Revolution v. 4 Authority of Law
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Writing Desire Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography
Examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, this work illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Field Guide to Wisconsin Streams Plants Fishes Invertebrates Amphibians and Reptiles
From spring-fed headwaters to quiet, marshy creeks and from tannin-stained northern reaches to broad southern tributaries winding through farmland, Wisconsin is home to 84,000 miles of streams. This guide is the ultimate companion for learning about Wisconsin stream life.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature A Study in Cultural Mythology
Studies the development of the Cossack hero and identifies him as part of Russian cultural mythology. Judith Kornblatt explores the power of the myth as a literary image, aiming to provide challenging readings of 19th- and 20th-century works by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, Khlebnikov, Babel and others.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Humanist Geography An Individuals Search for Meaning
For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried the study of humanistic geography - a blending of geography and philosophy - to new heights, offering with each new book a fresh and often unique intellectual introspection into the human condition. His latest book, Humanist Geography, is a testament of all that he has learned and encountered as a geographer.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Collecting Music in the Aran Islands A Century of History and Practice
In presenting four substantial, historically valuable collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book illustrates how understanding the motivations and training (or lack thereof) of individual music collectors significantly informs how we should approach their work and contextualize their place in the folk music canon.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Religious Entanglements Central African Pentecostalism the Creation of Cultural Knowledge and the Making of the Luba Katanga
The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and how the Luba shaped missionary research.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Afterlife
Grief fractures and scars. In Afterlife Michael Dhyne picks up the shattered remains, examining each shard in the light, attempting to find meaning - or at least understanding - in the death of his father.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Geography of Wisconsin
This accessible survey of Wisconsin geography is sure to delight scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike. A beautiful array of nearly 250 photographs and easy-to-read maps illustrate key geographical concepts and structures.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Masked The Life of Anna Leonowens Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Health in a Fragile State Science Sorcery and Spirit in the Lower Congo
Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Transformations Thinking After Heidegger
How are we to think and act constructively in the face of today's environmental and political catastrophes? Gail Stenstad finds answers in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Stenstad's writing enacts Heidegger's transformative way of thinking; and brings new insight into contemporary environmental, political, and personal issues.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Widescreen Dreams Growing Up Gay at the Movies
This is the author's memoir of moving through childhood to gay adulthood through visceral encounters with Hollywood movies: ""Hello Dolly!"", ""The Poseidon Adventure"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"" and ""The Sound of Music"" Oz"".
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Wars inside Chiles Barracks Remembering Military Service under Pinochet
From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370,000 young men were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto Pinochet's violent regime. Some were brutal enforcers, but many endured physical and psychological abuse. Leith Passmore examines the emergence, in the early twenty-first century, of a movement of ex-conscripts seeking reparations.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Womans Civil War A Diary with Reminiscences of the War from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald's story records a personal battle of her own - a southern woman's struggle in the midst of chaos to provide safety and shelter for herself and her nine children. Her diary shows that history is as much a domestic subject as an account of the public affairs of men.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec
Richard Handler's groundbreaking study of nationalistic politics in Quebec is a striking and successful example of the new experimental type of ethnography, interdisciplinary in nature and intensively concerned with rhetoric and not only of anthropologists but also of scholars in a wide range of fields, and it is likely to stir sharp controversy.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Understanding and Teaching Native American History
A timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. This volume is designed to help teachers effectively integrate Indigenous history and culture into their lessons, providing richly researched content and resources across the chronological and geographical landscape of what is now known as North America.
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