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Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, “I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, ‘Can you get rid of it?’” From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began collecting impressions that, through the tincture of time and the magic of his narrative gift, have become the finely wrought pieces of Such a Life.   Whether recounting the observations of a solemn child, understood only much later, or exploring the intricacies of neighborhood politics at middle age, Martin offers us a richly detailed, highly personal view that effortlessly expands to illuminate our world.   At a tender age Martin moved to a new level of complexity, of negotiating silences and sadness, when his father lost both of his hands in a farming accident. His stories of youth (from a first kiss to a first hangover) and his reflections on age (as a vegan recalling the farm food of his childhood or as a writer contemplating the manual labor of his father and grandfather) bear witness to the observant child he was and the insightful and irresistible storyteller he’s become. His meditations on family form a highly evocative portrait of the relationships at the heart of our lives.

The Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of southern Alaska. This book offers a description of the syntax of two Haida dialects.

Reveals both the William F. Cody of personal history and the Buffalo Bill of American mythology - and, finally, the curious reality that partakes of both

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; an introduction by David E. Wilkins; an essay by Gerald Vizenor; and articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by Jill Doerfler.

Offers a rare workaday look at the importance of food in Antarctic history and culture

Tells the dramatic story of America's first space station from beginning to fiery end

Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depressionuthat is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction.

Explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World. Brian A. Pavlac discusses witch hunts in fascinating detail by region, highlighting the cultural differences of the people who incited them as well as the key reforms, social upheavals, and intellectual debates that shaped European thought.

Depicts an experience that pays no attention to language differences or national boundaries: childbirth. This novel which is set in a maternity ward for difficult cases, focuses on the weeks immediately before and after delivery.

Henry Wiggen, the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball ""with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family."" More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer.

A visionary novel of the twenty-seventh century by the "Father of Science Fiction".

Follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. The author writes passionately about the game, bringing alive the players' efforts, accomplishments, and failures.

""Insouciant"and "irreverent"are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books and, invariably, "hilarious".Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form.

The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu's theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often overlooked. This volume, the first critical examination of Bourdieu's early fieldwork and its impact on his larger body of social theory, represents an original and much-needed contribution to the field.

Uses the plots and characterizations in the novels and the blockbuster films to place James Bond in a historical, cultural, and political context. This title charts and explores how the settings and the dynamics of the Bond adventures have changed in response to shifts in the real-world environment in which the fictional Bond operates.

Presents a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us. This book examines the reasons soldiers act as they do. It explains the attractions of battle - the adrenaline rush, the esprit de corps - and analyzes the many rationalizations made by combat troops to justify their actions.

Giordano Bruno's most representative work, "Spaccio de la bestia trionfante", published in an atmosphere of secrecy in 1584, was singled out by the church tribunal at the summation of his final trial. This title provides an introduction to the philosopher who dared to voice his audacious theories of nature, religion, and history.

Offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century US. Molly Littlewood McKibbin examines the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature to reveal the tensions of multiracialism in American life through individual consciousness, social perceptions, societal expectations, and subjective struggles with multiracial identity.

Examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country.

Updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analysing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of texts.

Examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African-born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a key figure in the anthropology of anticolonialism and conflict theory in southern Africa, and one of the most prolific structuralist and Marxist anthropologists of his generation.

Provides a lively tour of the Great Plains region through the civic and political contributions of its citizens, demonstrating the importance of community in the region. Great Plains Politics profiles six men and women who had a profound impact on the civic and community life of the Great Plains.

Focuses on the personal and professional lives of more than sixty women who, despite their diverse backgrounds, each made complex conscious and unconscious compromises to create profit and power. This book informs contemporary questions of how women juggle professional and personal responsibilities - achieving success in spite of gender constraints and societal expectations.

Synthesizes anew the sea otter's complex history of interaction with humans by drawing on new histories of the species that consider international and global factors beyond the fur trade, including sea mammal conservation, Cold War nuclear testing, and environmental tourism. Ravalli weaves together the story of imperial ambition, greed, and an iconic sea mammal.

Tells the story of an elite group of space travellers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as ""payload specialists"" came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for a wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons.

Many golfers would agree with Andy Brumer that there is poetry in the game of golf. Brumer, one of the most insightful writers on golf, considers the game from unexpected and often surprising angles. Contemplative and compelling, The Poetics of Golf explores the links between golf and life by way of art and literature, philosophy and psychology.

Created in 1887, Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana is home to the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine peoples. This title investigates how historical understandings of literacy practices challenge Indigenous language revitalization efforts on the reservation.

A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the "metropolis" of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide. The essays in The Hard Way Home offer a view of Alaska that is at once introspective and adventurous.

The Jazz Age coincided with the growth of Kansas City from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City's music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city's history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space.