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Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.

A subtle literary portrait of Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Alfred Chester, this book is also a complex and perceptive account of the ways colonialism and sexuality structure each other, particularly as reflected in the literature written in postwar Tangier.

This is Someck's first full-length book to appear in English. His Sephardi voice is rich with slang, hot music, street gangsters and army commandos, and the odours of falafel and schwarma. In his poetry we find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe and cowboys battling for the hearts and souls of Israelis.

This volume contains nearly 80 personal letters addressed to J.D. Salinger from writers, editors, critics, journalists and other luminaries, as well as from students, teachers and readers around the world. Their voices testify to the lasting impressions Salinger's writing has made their lives.

This title looks at past post-structuralist theory to re-examine methods of textual interpretation developed in past millennia to understand sacred, philosophical, cultural, legal, literary and artistic texts.

The great Andean insurrection has received scant attention by historians of the ""Age of Revolution"", but in this book Sinclair Thompson reveals the connections between ongoing local struggles over Indian community government and a larger anticolonial movement.

This work makes accessible to English speakers a hidden literature of great beauty and importance. The poems are from the Telegu language of southern India.

This work argues that the artistic quality of realist texts is better appreciated by approaching them from a cognitive perspective, rather than from a linguistic or formalist one. The aim of writers, like that of cognitive scientists, is to track the arc of learning from experiences.

A study of the autobiographical documentary in America from the 1960s to the start of the 21st century. Jim Lane looks at the ways in which autobiographical documentaries such as ""Roger and Me"" and ""Sherman's March"" raise weighty questions about American cultural life.

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 her mental breakdown and suicide attempts, her hospitalization and recovery, and her own coming out as a lesbian at the age of 40.

With wry humour and unflinching honesty, Cathy Colman crosses the terrain of love, family and art, asking why we resist becoming the person we truly are.

A son is born early, as if coming up over the horizon before his own dawn. An elderly father lingers at life's other horizon. These poems use language which is dense and clear, playful and sombre, with an emotional amplitude which is suggestive of Behn's own musical training.

Inspired by his Huguenot heritage, French Protestant pastor Pierre Toureille participated in international Protestant church efforts to combat Nazism during the 1930s and headed a major refugee aid organization in Vichy, France during World War II. This is his story.

In this text, Richard P. Thiel tells the tale of his ten years at the centre of efforts to track and protect the recovery of wolves in Northern Wisconsin. The book conveys the wonder, frustrations, humour and hard work of field biologists, as well as the politics that accompanies their profession.

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 humour plentiful. This collection includes jokes, anecdotes, and tall tales from ethnic groups and working folk in the upper midwest of the US.

Barbara Joans is both an anthropologist and a biker. This book introduces the reader to the lives of women within American biker culture. She looks at women who ride in their own right, on their own bikes, as well as the women who ride the rear - the biker chicks.

Using the diaries (some kept only briefly, others through an entire lifetime) of girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999, this work offers an insight into the self-images of girls and women and the dynamics of families through recent history.

Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva's powerful poetic voice and her tragic life have often prompted literary commentators to treat her as either a martyr or a monster. This work focuses on her poetry, rediscovering her as a serious thinker with a coherent artistic and philosophical vision.

A cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world, among groups as diverse as: Kenyan villagers; US prisoners; and Shaker Church members. The examples of celibacy described illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context.

This text examines the physical features of Wisconsin that shape the state's climate - topography, mid-latitude location, and proximity to Lakes Superior and Michigan - and meteorological phenomena that affect climate, such as atmospheric circulation and air mass frequency.

A biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn that tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and the University of Wisconsin's 'Experimental College' in the early twentieth century. It also features his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era.

Tom Wendelburg lives to fish. A prolific outdoor writer and photographer, a respected and innovative flytier, a keen observer of fish habitat and behavior, a versatile and passionate fisherman--Wendelburg is all of these. He is one of the most-published writers on fishing, with bylines in such magazines as Fly Fisherman, but this is his first book. Catching Big Fish on Light Fly Tackle is a book to be savored and re-read, for it distills decades of fly-fishing knowledge. It includes Wendelburg's philosophy of using light tackle, his insights on surface and underwater tactics, discussions of his favorite fish (trout, bass, bluegills, salmon, and steelhead) and of his favorite flies, including much-admired fly patterns that he developed (Wendelburg's Hare's Ear Scud and his no-hackle hairwing dry fly). Wendelburg is a consummate fisherman and a first-rate teacher, and his enthusiasm is infectious.

This text contains details and descriptions for more than 150 trails in 60 locations in the southern Wisconsin area. This second edition has new maps for Lafayette and Vernon counties, plus additional trail maps for Black Hawk, Wildcat Mountain State Park and Blackhawk Lake Recreational Area.

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.

Tracing the roots of recent US reforms to the early days of the war on poverty, this work describes a social welfare system grown inept, corrupt, and susceptible to conservative redesign. It focuses on the economic barriers impeding movement out of poverty into the American mainstream.

A window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. It offers insights into the lives of writers such as Arthur Miller, V.S. Naipaul and Iris Murdoch, exploring their reactions to criticism, how they advanced their careers, and their struggles with money, love and illness.

Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a significant political filmmaker in the US during the Cold War. Blending biography with critical insights about art, literature and film, Lewis offers de Antonio as a lens to focus on the complex terrain of post-World War II America.

This work calls for a paradigm shift in US higher education. It introduces a theory of ""multicontextuality"", which proposes that many people learn better when teachers emphasize whole systems of knowledge, and that education should offer and accept many approaches to teaching and learning.