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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, the author embarks on a journey with no ports of call but emotional landscapes. She invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life.

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Sent to the Congo (Zaire) in the 50s, as fieldworker for a Belgian cultural agency, Vansina helped to found the field of African history as a scholarly speciality. This memoir describes Vansina's life and career on three continents, against the background of the collapse of colonialism in Africa.

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This work challenges educators to think in new ways about health professionals' educational environment and the roles played by learners, teachers and the recipients of health care.

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A multidisciplinary analysis of race and justice. The major controversial issues in race relations, from past and present, such as affirmative action, educational segregation, labour union racial practices, the persistence of racism in American institutions are discussed.

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The widespread superstition of the evil eye has attracted the attention of many scholars and the 21 essays in this volume reflect diverse perspectives: anthropology, classics, folklore studies, ophthalmology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, sociology and religious studies.

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A concise, sensible grammar handbook explaining lucidly how to remember correct word forms and sentence structures. Useful as a reference tool for high school and beyond, it packs an entire grammar encyclopedia into just over a hundred pages.

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In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality. Wrestling with God and Men is the product of Rabbi Greenberg's ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities.

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This collection of essays reveals the beauty and value of hornets, bats, katydids, mice, cicadas, and other tiny creatures. Allen M. Young records his keen observations of the natural world as he walks through urban woods near Lake Michigan, or sits on his deck in his own backyard.

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The author's thesis declares that the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. She explores the complex way in which African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labour, and offers comparative studies of agrarian change in four sub-Saharan areas.

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