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In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, Congressman Melvin Laird agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. Lampooned as a ""missile head,"" but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he pursued his program of Vietnamization. This biography reveals his role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War.

The Ice Age National Scenic Trail is a thousand-mile footpath - entirely within the state of Wisconsin - that courses like a river through a varied landscape. This book features images of this trail. It also includes essays, which describes the natural history of this landscape.

Reveals the author's experience of Hollywood in its golden days and tells the stories of the stars who appeared in his films, including Natalie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others.

Presents an encyclopedia of memory - from A to Z - that intertwines fiction, memoir, and cultural history, reimagining the story of the world and one man's life. This alphabetical guide to the apocalypse layers images like a prose poem, building from Aristotle to da Vinci, hip-hop to lederhosen, and plagues to zippers.

A tourist mecca, the area known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk. This title places H H Bennett Wisconsin Dells within the context of contemporary artists and photographers of American Indians and examines the receptions of this legacy by the Ho-Chunk.

Offers an analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. This book reveals the links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. It also demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity.

Explores how a variety of print media - religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary ""Bible-zines"" - have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War.

Explores how a variety of print media - religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary ""Bible-zines"" - have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War.

Inspired by years of talking with farmers, foragers, loggers, tribal activists, seed savers, fishers, railroaders, and nature lovers of all stripes, this title presents a communal conversation that invites readers to ponder their own roles in grassroots environmentalism.

David Obey has in his forty years in the US House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In 2007 he has assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Here, he looks back on his journey in politics. He also discusses his own central role in the evolution of Congress and ethics reforms.

Reveals the factors that propelled the literary movement of writing autobiography in China, the roles that liberal translators and their renditions of Western life stories played, and the way in which these women writers redefined writing and gender in the stories they told.

A guide to Indiana's hometown mom-and-pop restaurants and a reclamation and celebration of small-town Midwest culture. This work also captures the spirit of the locals, bringing to life the people whose stories give the book - and the food - its soul.

Investigates the changes that have taken place in university research over the years, gauging the state of research in higher education and examines issues and challenges crucial to its future. This work also explores the cost of doing science, the commercialization of university research, and the changing composition and number of PhD students.

Josefina Niggli (1910-1983) was one of the most successful Mexican American writers of the early twentieth century. Although Niggli is perhaps best known for her fiction and folk plays, this anthology recovers her historical dramas. It includes an introduction to Niggli, and a chronology of her life and writings.

A memoir that embraces both pathos and humor, this work takes us into a world that is strange and sad but also suffused with the holy. It recounts the challenges of taking on a life committed to God in a postmodern world that has little use for the divine.

Investigates the conspicuous marks of violence in Russian history and culture. Exploring the problem of violence in Russia, this work features essays that look into Russian history as well as depictions of violence in the visual arts and in literature, including the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nina Sadur.

Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia - imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with Napoleon - and he served three tsars, including Catherine the Great. This is the biography of Derzhavin.

Offering a radical revision of the Greek myth of the first woman, the author argues that Pandora leaves a decisive mark on ancient poetics and shows that we can unravel the profound impact of Pandora's image once we recognize that she embodies the very id

After decades of violence of all kinds, what remains are the stories. History is revised and debated, its protagonists bear witness, its writers ensure that all the suffering has not been in vain. This work includes stories from Colombia that allow us to see a vibrant and pulsating country amidst so much death and loss.

Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. This work analyzes a panoply of archival and oral resources, and public and private actions to show how power may be exercised not only by rulers but also by the ruled.

Chronicles twentieth century history as ""universal civil war"" between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West.

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), a pioneering gender theorist, transcendentalist, journalist, and literary critic, was one of the most well-known feminist intellectuals of 19th-century America. This volume assesses Fuller's genius and character. It offers an international discussion of Fuller's unique cultural, political, and personal achievements.

An account of a two-week ramble along a famous Corsican hiking trail with his German friend Petra that offers readers a journal that is a launching point for reflection: thoughts on cultural differences, friendship, physical challenge, personal challenge, and getting lost.

The year is 1955. Andy Meyer manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is meandering, and the feeling is Midwestern. Andy, himself the owner of a half-acre pickle patch, works part-time for the Harlow Company, a conflict that places him between the family farm and the big corporation.

Examines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights.

Addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing, this title offers insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding.

Living in Nigeria on the brink of civil war, Anna becomes blood brothers with Dave, the Korean American daughter of a CIA operative. They do push-ups, collect pornography, and plot lives of unmarried freedom while around them a country disintegrates. This novel offers an understanding of the interplay of sexuality, gender, race, and war.

Addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing, this title offers insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding.

Presents a collection of eleven essays which bring together a number of intellectual, political, and ethical domains that were central to Elaine Marks' work: pedagogy, feminism, lesbianism, women's auto/biography, Jewish identity, community, memory, mourning, isolation, and death.

One of the significant philosophical works of the 20th-century, ""Contributions to Philosophy"" is also one of the most difficult. This collection of essays, unravels this challenging work. It highlights Heidegger's ""being-historical thinking"" as thinking that sheds light on theological, technological, and scientific interpretations of reality.