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This novel spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest.

The fourth novel in Jerry Apps's Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century. As the novel opens, Ben Wesley is hired as a research application specialist for Osborne University, a for-profit institution that has developed "Cranberry Red", a new chemical.

Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) became a celebrated photographer in the half-century following the American Civil War. Bennett is admired for his superb depictions of dramatic landscapes and his many technical innovations in photography. This engaging biography of H.H. Bennett tells his life story, illustrated throughout with his remarkable photographs.

In this moving and funny memoir, award-winning playwright Guillermo Reyes untangles his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant to the United States and as a young man struggling with sexual repression, body image, and gay identity. But this is a double-decker memoir that also tells the poignant, bittersweet, and adventurous story of Guillermo's mother, María, who supports herself and her son cleaning houses and then working as a nanny in Washington, D.C. and eventually in Hollywood. In one memorable scene, after realizing that her friend Carmen is cleaning the house of one of the producers of Annie Hall, María recruits her to take her picture as she poses dramatically with Mr. Joffe's Oscar in hand. It is María's defiant yet determined attitude amidst her sacrifices that allows for Guillermo's spirited coming of age and coming out. Their common ground is the drama of their encounters with discovery, heartbreak, and passion--the explosive emotions that light up the stage of their two-actor theater.

Antarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season. The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. The fishbowl communities at McMurdo Station, South Pole Station, and in the remote field camps intensify relationships, jack all emotion up to a 10. The trick is to get what you need and then get out fast. At least that's how thirty-year-old Rosie Moore views it as she flies in for her third season on the Ice. She plans to avoid all entanglements, romantic and otherwise, and do her work as a galley cook. But when her flight crash-lands, so do all her plans. Mikala Wilbo, a brilliant young composer whose heart--and music--have been frozen since the death of her partner, is also on that flight. She has come to the Ice as an artist-in-residence, to write music, but also to secretly check out the astrophysicist father she has never met. Arriving a few weeks later, Alice Neilson, a graduate student in geology who thinks in charts and equations, is thrilled to leave her dependent mother and begin her career at last. But from the start she is aware that her post-doc advisor, with whom she will work in Antarctica, expects much more from their relationship. As the three women become increasingly involved in each other's lives, they find themselves deeply transformed by their time on the Ice. Each falls in love. Each faces challenges she never thought she would meet. And ultimately, each finds redemption in a depth and quality of friendship that only the harsh beauty of Antarctica can engender.

Brings together a collection of travel essays that reveal what happens when a traveler follows her heart. This title features personal stories of exploration and adventure. It includes the stories ""Fruits at the Border""; ""Bashert""; and, ""Hot Springs, Montana"".

Illuminates the efforts of Russian satirists in exorcising the ghost of Stalin. Examining works from the 1917 Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book reveals how satirical treatments of Stalin often emphasize his otherness, distancing him from Russian culture.

Examines the presidency's ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, this book explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their role in the nation's real politics.

Focuses on the complexities of aesthetic politics in an exploration of Kandyan dance in Sri Lanka. This book traces the history and consequences of this transition from ritual to stage, situating the dance in relation to postcolonial nationalism and ethnic politics and emphasizing the voices of the hereditary dancers and of women performers.

Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited a preoccupation with matters of the flesh. This book documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of Alexander Blok and Zinaida Gippius.

The first examination of Russia's self-identification with Rome during a period that encompassed the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the rise of the Soviet state

Reveals connections between the writing of individual lives and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. This book focusses on the autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as partial historical documents, but as texts involved in remaking the world views of their readers.

Provides an introduction to the largest sedge genus, Carex, which makes up about 7 percent of the flora of the Upper Midwest. This book shows how to identify many of the major groupings of sedges that are used in guides to the genus throughout the world.

In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. This work shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become ""responsible"" mothers.

Presents an illumination of the individual Jewish identity of the major modernist German author - Kafka. Through an examination of Kafka's life, his influences, and his writings, this work makes a case for Kafka's interest in Zionism and demonstrates the presence of Jewish themes and motifs in Kafka's literary works.

Shows how gossip and the responses to it form an ongoing dialogue through which the moral reputations of trading women and businessmen, and cultural ideas about moral value and gender, are constructed and rethought. This work reveals a different perspective on the globalization of the market economy and its meaning and impact on the local level.

One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. Focusing on his less frequently studied later period, this book engages with such ideas as the ""semiosphere,"" the fluid, dynamic semiotic environment out of which meaning emerges; and more.

Presents a collection of life narratives by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in America. This book includes selections that span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly.

Sherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel ""Winesburg, Ohio"". This work covers Anderson's life after his move in the mid-1920s to ""Ripshin,"" his house near Marion, Virginia; his return to business pursuits; and more.

Offers the author's own thoughtful prescriptions as Americans and others throughout the world struggle with the questions of identity and solidarity. The essays in this book include ""Amalgamation and Hypodescent,"" ""Enough Already: Universities Do Not Need More Christianity,"" ""The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule,"" and more.

Considers how treatments of cannibalism variously perpetuated or subverted racist, sexist, and homophobic ideologies rooted in earlier times. This book brings together two discrete periods in US history: the years between the Civil War and World War I, and the post-Vietnam era.

The stories collected in This Is Not the Tropics come from the geographic center of a divided nation, and its protagonists evoke a split personality - one half submerged in America's own diehard mythology, the other half searching to escape tradition.

After the deaths of her father and father-in-law, Laurie Lawlor discovers an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a wetland in southeastern Wisconsin. This book is a story of refuge and renewal that chronicles the universal ties among people and wild places, and among the productive, yet endangered, ecosystems in the world.

Captures the public achievement and private pain of a Wisconsin woman and her family. Helen's home influences, Presbyterian background, education and talents impelled her to lead. This book, based on a family's history, speaks about the way we were and are, a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

An ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems in one of Wisconsin's most famous regions, the Kickapoo Valley. This environmental biography of a landscape and its people traces the historical development of modern American property debates within diverse rural landscapes and cultures.

A collection of essays on the history of anthropology focused on Benedict, Boas, Sapir, and modernist thought, exploring the roots of anthropology's early involvement with the study of American society. These essays, focused on the critique of mass society, examine Boasian anthropologists as critics of mass society.

Presents a collection of poetry that explores various human predicaments: a cancer-ridden wife, an explosive father, an infertile couple, various sexual aggressors, and a missing girl. Such portraiture enables the reader to consider the complexity of human love: how selfishness, fear, lust, and even brutality coincide with tenderness and loyalty.

German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century - or so it is commonly assumed. Nils Roemer challenges this assumption, finding that religious sentiments, concepts, and rhetoric found expression through a newly emerging theological historicism at the center of modern German Jewish culture.

In the early 1970s, when he was still an aspiring, unpublished writer, Felice Picano had a days-old kitten slated for euthanasia who refused to perish. Rescued, named, and trained, Fred became a companion. Fred in Love is a story about how we learn and grow, and how we love.