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Recounts the author's life experiences and also evokes the changing world of Italian Jewry in the twentieth century.

Nothing Grows by Moonlight (Av måneskinn gror det ingenting), first published in Norway in 1947, is sure to be talked about. It is a moving novel of love, betrayal, search, and sorrow that introduces a major twentieth-century Norwegian writer, Torborg Nedreaas, to an English-speaking audience. Under the surface of a dramatic story rich in atmosphere lurk social themes that will be of particular interest to American and British readers. At the beginning, a man picks up a woman in a railway station. "It is really very difficult to say what it was that made me notice her. It was probably many things, my own mood, the weather, the emptiness of that particular day." It turns out that she simply wants, desperately needs, someone to talk to. He listens to her story, spellbound, and from that night he is haunted forever by the clear, honest revelation of a broken soul—as the reader will be.The woman describes her hopeless involvement with her teacher and lover, who continues to see her, always to reject her, long after he is married. Obsessively, she returns to situations in which she is abused. Finally, in confronting her past without self-pity, without denying personal responsibility, she realizes how much her self-destructive behavior owes to a capitalistic and patriarchal system that forces women into roles that make them emotionally and economically dependent. A powerful subthemes of Nothing Grows by Moonlight concerns abortion, which Nedreaas sees not as a crime to be punished but as a tragedy that would not be necessary in a more equitable and caring society. But what finally lingers in the reader’s mind is the fully developed image of a woman, buffeted by life, coming to terms with God and man.

Has taken him thirty years to come to terms with the guilt and shame of desertion.

This collection is the first to address both historical and contemporary works that employ the ritual of the cadavre exquis. It offers a unique overview of the efforts of scholars and artists to articulate new notions of crossing temporal and spatial boundaries and to experience in a new way the body's mutability through visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic frames.

A study of 19th century Brazil, arguing that centralised political control increased political violence in the frontier regions.

Provides new and extensive information on the history, culture, and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.

Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, A.B. ""Bud"" Guthrie Jr. brought blazing realism to the story of the West. In Under the Big Sky Jackson J. Benson details the life and work of this true giant on the Western literary landscape.

An edgy memoir by a daughter of a murder victim, narrating her emotional journey after the death of her father.

It is often called ""Catherland"" - Webster County, Nebraska, where the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather spent her childhood and found inspiration for her stories of European immigrants on the prairie. Richard Schilling, with his watercolor paintings and ink sketches, conducts us to that land, to scenes that might have influenced Cather, but as they appear today.

Considers French colonial experiences in Africa and Southeast Asia and identifies the processes that made Frenchmen and women into ardent imperialists Explores the many ways in which brutality and killing became central to the French experience and management of empire

Details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from the early 1900s to the 1960s

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek's Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human - and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors - and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is wildly imaginative and shockingly real.

Based loosely on Paule Constant's own experiences, Private Property is at once deeply moving and intellectually exacting, an exploration of identity, home, and the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters.

Arguably the world's most popular sport, soccer has its own colourful lore. This book offers the perfect opportunity to catch up on soccer's rich history - and to discover some of the funniest, most ironic, outlandish, and tragic stories ever to come out of the world of sports.

Vikings, pirates, heroes, rogues, and explorers... all have heard the siren call of the sea, and master storyteller Harold Lamb chronicled some of their most daring exploits. This single volume contains all of Lamb's historical seafaring stories, drawn from rare and fragile pulp magazines.

As the King of Jockeys in the sport of kings, Tod Sloan lived in high style, until he was banned from British racing and forced to eke out a living on the margins of the sport for 30 years. The author's portrait of Sloan (1874-1933) shows a small-town, hard-luck, midwestern boy who became an overnight sensation and an international celebrity.

Wooden Leg remembers the world of the Cheyennes before they were forced onto reservations. This title tells the story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Although sport psychology did not fully mature as a recognized discipline until the 1960s, pioneering psychologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sought to understand mental factors that affect athletic performance. The essays collected in this volume tell the stories of these psychologists and their subjects and of the social and academic context that surrounded them.

Rev. John Dunbar and Samuel Allis set out in 1834 to establish a mission to Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains. Unable to obtain a guide and with only a vague knowledge of the West, they instead encountered the Pawnee Indians in Nebraska. This collection of letters written by and to the missionaries, as well as their journal entries, illustrates the life of the mission.

This landmark two-volume set is the richest and most important extant collection of information about traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of the Cherokees' own records were lost during their forced removal to the west, the Payne-Butrick Papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The telephone marks the place of an absence. Calling attention to the importance of the telephone in Nazi organization and propaganda, this book considers the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also available as Bison Books

Urban sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. This book delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning to some of America's top thinkers on the problem. It explores the core issues of urban sprawl and the agenda for dealing with it.

Focusing on the months between the German conquest of Poland in September 1939, which brought nearly two million additional Jews under Nazi control, and the beginning of the deportation of Jews to the death camps in the spring of 1942, this title describes how Poland became a laboratory for experiments in racial policies.

Describes the part African Americans played in the frontier army and as homesteaders, community builders, and activists. This title tells of the struggle for civil rights and against Jim Crow, and examines African American cultural growth and contributions as well as economic and political aspects of black life on the Great Plains.

Originally published in 1932 in France, "Les Vases communicants" is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This translation of "Les Vases communicants" presents the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism is based. It lays out the problems of everyday experience.