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Offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight.

Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of the Atlantic but also as an important social figure in London.

A respected author and scholar, Paul A. Johnsgard has spent a lifetime observing the natural delights of Nebraska's woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands. Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie collects his musings on Nebraska's natural history and the issues of conservation facing our future.

During the 1972-73 season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games, on their way to a not-yet-broken record of nine wins and seventy-three losses. Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the firsthand accounts of players, participants, and observers.

tells the economic story of how in one decade the NFL transformed from having a modest following in the Northeast to surpassing baseball as this country's most popular sport.

Opens an intriguing perspective on how these works engage the legacy of postmodernism - its subversion, self-reflexivity, and moral contingency.

Therese Migraine-George engages a literary analysis of contemporary works in exploring the tensions and theoretical debates surrounding world literature in French.

From the back roads of New Mexico and out-of-the-way fields in southern Colorado to urban hinterlands in South Texas, photographer Bruce F. Jordan evokes the startling beauty and unique world of ethnic Mexican cemeteries in En Recuerdo de: The Dying Art of Mexican Cemeteries in the Southwest.

In 1869 six London families arrived in Nemaha County, Kansas, as the first colonists of the Workingmen's Cooperative Colony, later fancifully renamed Llewellyn Castle. Based on archival research throughout the US and the UK, this history of an English collectivist colony in America's Great Plains highlights the connections between British and American reform movements and their contexts.

If you thought the fitness craze was about being healthy, think again. In the first book to tell the full story of the American obsession with fitness and how we got to where we are today, Jonathan Black gives us a backstage look at an industry and the people that have left an indelible mark on the American body and the consciousness it houses.

Offers an overview of the state of Inuit studies. This work showcases the methodologies and interpretive perspectives, and presents instructive case studies with individuals and communities. It is a useful reading for students and scholars interested in circumpolar North and in contemporary Native communities.

Situates the students' Indian play within a larger theoretical framework of cultural creativity, ideologies of authenticity, and counterhegemonic practices that are central to the fields of Native American and indigenous studies today.

Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894-1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father's life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work.

Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps's best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this searing and inspiring memoir, he tells an unforgettable story of his service overseas - and of the emotional wars that continue long after fighting soldiers come home.

Offers a rare inside view of what it means to be a federal judge - the nuts and bolts of conducting trials, weighing evidence, and making decisions

Features a bittersweet cross-cultural friendship and the richness and melancholy of modern Cheyenne life. This book tells of the author's relationship and friendship with Cheyenne elder Henry Tall Bull, which was punctuated by both insight and misunderstanding, and ultimately ended in tragedy.

Offers an account of Shakespeare's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness - on par with epic and tragedy.

For two decades, beginning in the early 1870s, Robert Keller ushered into print most of Johannes Brahms's major compositions. This volume collects for the first time the complete extant correspondence between Brahms and Keller. Their correspondence illuminates a relationship of mutual respect and friendship and highlights the labour that went into the publication of Brahms's masterpieces.

R. Alton Lee brings to life Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), a writer-publisher-entrepreneur who was one of America's most significant publishers and editorialists of the twentieth century, if not all time.

One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O'Malley (1903-79) is best remembered - and still reviled by many - for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. In Mover and Shaker Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete and nuanced account of O'Malley's life.

Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. After two and a half months and 1,450 miles, Dobson arrived in Helena, Montana. He then set a canoe on the Missouri and asked the river to carry him safely back to Kansas City. In Canoeing the Great Plains, Dobson recounts his journey on the the US's longest river.