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Bridging history and anthropology, this text shows how the Lunda-Zdembu people of northwestern Zambia have justified innovations to their cultural identity and practices by establishing conceptual similarities to long-standing traditions.

In this memoir, the author tells of how, with the help of a tiny sperm vial called ""Dad"", she and her partner decide to have a child, unleashing a storm of controversy in their small town. From a glowing article in the local newspaper, to prayer vigils, the town responds in different ways.

The first half of this text explains 33 distinct types of natural communities found in Wisconsin, and the second half describes and maps 50 natural areas on public lands that are outstanding examples of these many different natural communities.

This work considers parenthood to be a lifelong process in which parents and children grow together. It calls for families, employers, communities, government and society to give parents real help with their day-to-day concerns and challenges.

When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS.

These poems explore the Rwandan holocaust through the culture, myths and customs that Derick Burleson absorbed whilst living there.

This study demonstrates how the influence of advertising and publishing on consumers affected writers in Britain and America between 1890 and 1920. Reading works by Joyce, Shaw, T.S. Eliot and others, it shows that these contexts affected the techniques and concerns of literature itself.

In this collection of essays, a range of literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic and US Latino literary and cultural texts. It includes discussion of texts from as early as the 17th century to writings of the late-20th century.

In this collection, the poet glorifies the spirit, but also the flesh, as exemplified by the poem ""Liver"", ""organ whose name contains the injunction Live!... great One-Who-Lives, so we can too"".

For the first time, the most important quotations from the writing of the great conservationist Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Alamanac, are gathered in one volume. From conservation education to wildlife ecology, from wilderness protection to soil and water conservation, the works of Aldo Leopold continue to have profound influence on those seeking to understand the land and its care.Leopold biographer Curt Meine and noted conservation biologist Richard Knight have assembled this comprehensive collection of quotations from Leopold's extensive and diverse writings. The editors have organized the quotations in twenty-one chapters under the broad themes of conservation science and practice, conservation policy, and conservation and culture. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay by a prominent conservation scholar who provides perspective on Leopold's contributions in these various fields.

An account of the life of Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and a journalist considered by many to personify Chicago. Drawing on interviews with Royko's family and intimates, the book chronicles his rise to one of the top names in US journalism.

Taking into account the history and culture of Iceland and recent Icelandic attitudes towards crime, this text explores how the threat of crime has affected Icelander's collective self-identity, producing a greater need for social control.

Examines the perspectives of artists, writers, native peoples and ecologists who recognized the beauty of the prairie. The text considers the connections between aesthetics and economics, landscape and culture, politics and ethics, as illustrated by the prairie in American civilization.

This guide to long-term care and care facilities offers families advice on key information. It explains how to choose a facility, what to expect from professional caregivers, paying for care, and other difficult issues, including the right to refuse care.

Focusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.

A comprehensive manual and illustrated guide to native and naturalized vascular plants - ferns, conifers, and flowering plants - growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America. This work expands Norman Fassett's 1940 classic ""A Manual of Aquatic Plants"", yet retains the features that made Fassett's book so useful.

This second volume of ""The Theatre of the Holocaust"", when combined with the first, represents an international collection of plays on the Shoah. Editor Skloot presents and comments on six plays that acknowledge the theatrical forms of the postmodern age.

Investigating the way one breaks through taboos and becomes a self-realized adult, this memoir traces the author's childhood in rural Arizona, his relationship with a physically shrinking father, his eccentric teenage friendships, and his growing awareness of his sexuality among young gays.

Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal world which invades the human world in many ways.

Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important 20th-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, the author of "Kiss of the Spider Woman"; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas, author of "Before Night Falls"; and Spanish poet and playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca.

Scholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.

In this volume, the author examines the nature versus nurture debate. He also explores the identity conflicts of public figures in Oklahoma and investigates the cultural significance of psychiatric diagnoses in the USA.

Harriet Brown spent a year observing a childcare centre in Wisconsin. This text presents the story of that year. The reader gets to know the children, families and teachers, their struggles, sorrows and triumphs, and the attempts to negotiate a contract between the child-care union and parents.

Amidst the militancy of the 1960s and early 1970s the Mexican population of the dusty agricultural town of Crystal City, Texas (Cristal in Spanish), staged two electoral revolts, winning control of the city council and school board. Armando Navarro presents the most comprehensive examination to date of the rise of the Chicano political movement in Cristal.

Emphasizing that current visitors to Yosemite - or to any national park - can still experience the solitude, wildness and romanticism of nature, this work argues that modern exploration would benefit from a national parks policy that actively promotes nature study.

Placing the texts of James Joyce in the context of the medieval mystical tradition that had interested and influenced him since his schooldays, this text also identifies the origins of modernist aesthetics in medieval forms of representation.

This investigation of the politics and production of feminist anthologies, explores the identities of women of colour, Jewish women, working class women, and lesbians. It shows how such anthologies have become a way for women to identify and build communities founded upon the politics of identity.

A guide to trails that wind through the streets of old Milwaukee and the forests of the Kettle Moraine, across the Niagara Ledge, along the shores of Door County, and up to Lone Rock. Historical significance on many of the trails is noted, including ice-age features and picnic areas.

Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James and Dewey. The second tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge.

Poet and critic, Robert Peters, recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son, Richard, a four-year-old called ""Feather"" by his sister and brother. He describes the harrowing image of his dead son, a strained marriage, and a family during moments of transcendent joy and crushing grief.