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These deliberate transformations of traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, were written by political activists for use by progressive youth groups during the years of the German Weimar Republic, 1919 - 1933.

Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. ""Farm Boys"" undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States.

Drawing on archaelogy, anthropology and history this guide explores Roman costume, looking at everything from hairstyles and jewelery to literature and geography.

This volume demonstrates clock reactions, batteries, electrolytic cells, and plating. All demonstrations are in the format used in previous volumes: brief description, materials list, preparation procedures, instructions for presentations, information about potential hazards.

Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before.

The Wisconsin-born Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 1959) is recognized worldwide as an iconic architectural genius. In 1911 he designed Taliesin to use as his personal residence, architectural studio, and working farm. A century later Randolph C. Henning has assembled a splendid collection of rare vintage postcards, some never before published, that provides a revealing and visually unique journey through Wright s work at Taliesin. Included are intimate images of Taliesin at various stages and views of the building just after the tragic 1914 fire. The postcards also depict nearby buildings designed by Wright, including the Romeo and Juliet windmill and two buildings for the Hillside Home School. Henning provides useful explanations that highlight relevant details and accompany each image. Frank Lloyd Wright s Taliesin documents and celebrates Wright s 100-year-old masterpiece. Finalist, Midwest Book Awards for Cover Design and for Regional Interest Illustrated Book Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers"

This is the author's memoir of moving through childhood to gay adulthood through visceral encounters with Hollywood movies: ""Hello Dolly!"", ""The Poseidon Adventure"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"" and ""The Sound of Music"" Oz"".

Presents a comprehensive history of groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. The author analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals.

This book applies psychoanalysis to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Avner Falk makes a close historical examination to show that the two parties have missed innumerable opportunities for a rational solution, and examines the unconscious aspects of the conflict.

The home-cooking tips that Helen Myrhe shared on ""Late Night With David Letterman"", she now shares with you. From breads to gravies, meats to jellies, and of course, that celebrated sour cream raisin pie, Myhre aims to show how to bring a rich, thick slice of Midwest cooking into your kitchen.

Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.

Written in lucid, vigorous prose, La Follette's Autobiography is the Wisconsin senator's own account of his political life and philosophy. Both memoir and a history of the Progressive cause in the US, it charts La Follette's formative years in politics, his attempts to abolish entrenched, ruthless state and corporate influences, and his embattled efforts to advance Progressive policies as Wisconsin governor and US senator.

Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925), the Republican senator from Wisconsin, is best known as a key architect of American Progressivism and as a fiery advocate for liberal politics in the domestic sphere. But "Fighting Bob" did not immediately come to a progressive stance on foreign affairs. In The Education of an Anti-Imperialist, Richard Drake follows La Follette's growth as a critic of America's wars and the policies that led to them. He began his political career with conventional Republican views of the era on foreign policy, avidly supporting the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. La Follette's critique of empire emerged in 1910, during the first year of the Mexican Revolution, as he began to perceive a Washington-Wall Street alliance in the United States' dealings with Mexico. La Follette subsequently became Congress's foremost critic of Woodrow Wilson, fiercely opposing United States involvement in World War I. Denounced in the American press as the most dangerous man in the country, he became hated and vilified by many but beloved and admired by others. La Follette believed that financial imperialism and its necessary instrument, militarism, caused modern wars. He contended they were twin evils that would have ruinous consequences for the United States and its citizens in the twentieth century and beyond.

In education, journalism, legislative politics, social justice, health, law, and other arenas, Muslim women across Kenya are emerging as leaders in local, national, and international contexts, advancing reforms through their activism. Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya draws on extensive interviews with six such women, revealing how their religious and moral beliefs shape reform movements that bridge ethnic divides and foster alliances in service of creating a just, multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious democratic citizenship. Mwalim Azara Mudira opened a school of theology for Muslim women. Nazlin Omar Rajput of The Nur magazine was a pioneer in reporting on HIV/AIDS in the Muslim community. Amina Abubakar, host of a women's radio show, has publicly addressed the sensitive subject of sexual crimes against Muslim women. Two women who are members of parliament are creating new socioeconomic and political opportunities for girls and women, within a framework that still embraces traditional values of marriage and motherhood. Examining the interplay of gender, agency, and autonomy, Ousseina D. Alidou shows how these Muslim women have effected change in the home, the school, the mosque, the media, and more--and she illuminates their determination as actors to challenge the oppressive influences of male-dominated power structures. In looking at differences as opportunities rather than obstacles, these women reflect a new sensibility among Muslim women and an effort to redefine the meaning of women's citizenship within their own community of faith and within the nation.

Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind, The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works.

For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. This work recounts Bledsoe's wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace. It contains her tales of fending off wolves in Alaska, encountering UFOs in the Colorado Desert, and searching for lions in Berkeley.

Presents a comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the ""Horn Book"", shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. This book illustrates some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about ""good reading"" for children, the costs and payoffs of professional life, and more.

Explores some of the best-known literary partnerships - from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. This collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the diversity of literary couplings and collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period.

Lori, the heroine of this narrative, is attempting to flee the East Coast for a better life in the West. She is a child of the Seventies who feels misled by the rebellious ""boomer"" generation and disappointed with life in 1980s New Jersey. Spurred by the tale of her pioneering grandparents, Lori quits her job, and sets off into a wild frontier.

Brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through the author's work from its beginnings and defines his place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man. He explores life as a gay American man - from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement.

Presents the struggle of Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This work is a portrait of American culture clash and a narrative grounded in people's perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.

Presents a history that captures Madison's early history from its first days as a city to the Great Depression. This volume also includes archival images of Madison.

In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862-63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendices.

Presents five case studies that explore the dilemmas, moral as well as political, that emerge out of anthropology's position as both central and peripheral. This book offers ""a kind of posthumous reparation,"" a page in the history of the discipline for a distant colleague who might otherwise have remained in the footnotes.

Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to 20 BC, Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.

The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades - the record of a restless reader coming to terms with a turbulent and mercurial writer.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the history, archaeology, and ethnology of copper in sub-Saharan Africa. This book introduces the ritual, social, and political aspects of copper working and consumption, deals with the copper trade and examines the roles it played in traditional sub-Saharan African society.