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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"".
£15.15
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Isaac Bashevis Singer A Life
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.
£19.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin No Condition is Permanent Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in SubSaharan Africa
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.
£18.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cultures of Secrecy Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults
This volume offers information on how, for 50 years, the bush Kaliai in Melanesia have worked the deserted cargo left by US Marines during World War II into their indigenous culture. The author seeks to show how cargo cults in general bring together past, present and future.
£23.85
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Germany and Its Gypsies A PostAuschwitz Ordeal
Explores the plight of gypsies in Germany before, during and since the era of the Third Reich. The book reveals the painful record of the official treatment of the German Gypsies, from the heightened racism of the 19th century, to the National Socialist genocidal policies and up to the present day.
£37.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Perus Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spani Huamanga to 1640
This is the second edition of Stern's account of the Indians of the Ayachucho region of Peru during the century that followed the Spanish Conquest. Following ten years of historical interpretation, the author is now able to set his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective.
£21.15
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.
£23.85
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.
£15.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin MADRE AND I A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism Reading Against the Grain
£22.05
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.
£19.95
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.
£42.75
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.
£23.95
