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Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before.

The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades - the record of a restless reader coming to terms with a turbulent and mercurial writer.

The sexualized serial murder of women by men is the subject of this provocative book. Jane Caputi argues that the sensationalized murders by men such as Jack the Ripper, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and the Yorkshire Ripper represent a contemporary genre of sexually political crimes.

Ed McBain is a master of tone. He turns his material just a little off-axis. George Dove s study of McBain s imaginary city is both insightful and realistic. He gets at the heart of this major writer of police procedurals by examining the geography, the day-to-day happenings, and literary quality."

Greyhound, the largest and most enduring bus company in the US, had its beginning in the 1920s in the frigid climes of northern Minnesota. This work shows how the Greyhound Corporation has turned into a multimillion-dollar company.

The ""Study Smart"" series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programmes, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in essays.

Deals with acids and bases and liquids, solutions, and colloids, giving detailed descriptions of lecture demonstrations for college and secondary school chemistry classes.

Follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics - who came from the educated, bourgeois stratum of society - as they started to identify with the Nazi concept of Volksgemeinschaft, which labeled Jews as enemies of the people and justified their murder.

An award-winning memoir of shy Jewish teenager Moniek Goldner joining forces with hardened Polish criminal Jan Kopec to survive in Nazi-occupied Poland. First trained as Kopek's accomplice in robberies and black market activities, the orphaned Goldner eventually becomes an accomplished saboteur of the Nazi war effort for local partisan groups.

Eamonn Wall arrived in the US in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the ""New Irish"". In this book he wrestles with his own identity, and comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memories of both the New Irish and Americans of Irish heritage.

Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject's resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America's moral authority as a world leader.

Antarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season. The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. The fishbowl communities at McMurdo Station, South Pole Station, and in the remote field camps intensify relationships, jack all emotion up to a 10. The trick is to get what you need and then get out fast. At least that's how thirty-year-old Rosie Moore views it as she flies in for her third season on the Ice. She plans to avoid all entanglements, romantic and otherwise, and do her work as a galley cook. But when her flight crash-lands, so do all her plans. Mikala Wilbo, a brilliant young composer whose heart--and music--have been frozen since the death of her partner, is also on that flight. She has come to the Ice as an artist-in-residence, to write music, but also to secretly check out the astrophysicist father she has never met. Arriving a few weeks later, Alice Neilson, a graduate student in geology who thinks in charts and equations, is thrilled to leave her dependent mother and begin her career at last. But from the start she is aware that her post-doc advisor, with whom she will work in Antarctica, expects much more from their relationship. As the three women become increasingly involved in each other's lives, they find themselves deeply transformed by their time on the Ice. Each falls in love. Each faces challenges she never thought she would meet. And ultimately, each finds redemption in a depth and quality of friendship that only the harsh beauty of Antarctica can engender.

Presents an illumination of the individual Jewish identity of the major modernist German author - Kafka. Through an examination of Kafka's life, his influences, and his writings, this work makes a case for Kafka's interest in Zionism and demonstrates the presence of Jewish themes and motifs in Kafka's literary works.

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.

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.

How much did making it new have to do with making it? For the four ""outsider poets"" considered here, the connection was everything. Both a social history of literary ambition in America in the 1950s and 1960s and a collective literary biography, this is an account of postwar poetry underground.

This chronicle of a unique period in the development of printmaking in the U.S. at the University of Wisconsin, 1945-95, tells the story beautifully, in interviews with and about those who taught and those who were taught, and with examples of their prints.

In this critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, Victor Terras discusses psychological, political, mythical and philosophical approaches, guiding readers through the range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations of Dostoevsky's rich novels.

Drawing on surviving records of antisuffrage organizations, the author argues that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests rather than an ideal of ""true womanhood"". The book reveals an increasingly militant style as powerful women sought to exclude ""the ignorant vote"".

Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

In every culture there exists unwritten law - obligations and prohibitions that are understood, and transgressions that are punished. These volumes explore the historical implications of folk law, its influence around the globe, and the conflicts that arise when it diverges from official law.

The author of this book was a chronicler whose ear was close to the northern Wisconsin ground. In his Sac Prairie Saga, of which ""Walden West"" is the crowning volume, he captures the essences of midwestern village life with his distinctive combination of narrative and prose-poetry.

This work on concerns arising from contemporary medicine, looks at the careers of a number of general physicians of 70 years ago who have become today's scientific specialists, and asks how they have responded to change, and what their hopes are regarding the profession's current directions.

Provides edited accounts of six English voyagers and their experiences in Muscovy Russia between 1553 and 1600. With modernised spelling and presentation, these accounts are accompanied by a glossary of Russian terms, introductions of their authors, and annotations that help put the travellers' narratives into perspective.

German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking. Through a reading of Schmitt's corpus, this work highlights the importance of the ""Jewish Question"" on the breadth of Schmitt's work.

This is a textbook for the teaching of standard Macedonian grammar and vocabulary to English speakers. Designed by an experienced teacher to be completed in one year of intensive study, this second edition includes expanded glossaries and an answer key for those studying on their own. The sixteen chapters provide a basic knowledge of Macedonian language as well as an introduction to Macedonian life, culture, history, and literature.