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The Oedipus Casebook

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play's end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering... Lees meer

Kenya's Running Women

Michelle M Sikes

• Paperback | Engels | African History and Culture
• Since Pauline Konga's breakthrough performance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, the world has become accustomed to seeing Kenyan women medal at... Lees meer

The Offbeat: With Abandon

• Paperback | Engels | Offbeat | nr. 8
• With Abandon is the eighth volume in the independent literary series, The Offbeat, devoted to publishing a diverse collection of voices, and to promot... Lees meer

Pathways to Indigenous Nation Sovereignty

Alan R Parker

• Paperback | Engels | Makwa Enewed
• In a story that could only be told by someone who was an insider, this book reveals the background behind major legislative achievements of U.S. Triba... Lees meer

My Grandfather's Book

Gary Gildner

• Hardcover | Engels
• On Gary Gildner's eleventh birthday, his Polish grandfather Steve Szostak was buried. Just before the undertaker closed the coffin, Gildner's grandmot... Lees meer

Sounding Thunder

Brian D McInnes

• Paperback | Engels
• Brian McInnes provides a new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibwe oral history, historical record, and ... Lees meer

Shared Land/Conflicting Identity

Robert C Rowland, David a Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in... Lees meer

Centering Anishinaabeg Studies

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Studies
• For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They a... Lees meer

Lunatic

Crystal Williams

• Paperback | Engels
• Crystal Williams' new collection, Lunatic , courageously roots out the underbelly of the human condition with humor, irony, and unflinching directness... Lees meer

The Black Condition

• Paperback | Engels | Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
• Michigan State University Press, ProQuest, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New York Public Library are pleased to present a un... Lees meer

Finns in Michigan

Gary Kaunonen

• Paperback | Engels | Discovering the Peoples of Michigan
• In Finns in Michigan Gary Kaunonen probes the intricacies of immigration, labor, and ideology among the members of this intriguing and historically im... Lees meer

Sacred Wilderness

Susan Power

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Studies
• A Clan Mother story for the twenty-first century, Sacred Wilderness explores the lives of four women of different eras and backgrounds who come togeth... Lees meer

Angelina Grimke

Stephen H Browne

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, Angelina Grimké (1805-79) was among the first women in American history to seize the publi... Lees meer

Manchurian Legacy

Kazuko Kuramoto

• Paperback | Engels
• Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and the neighboring Port Arthu... Lees meer

The Murder of Joe White

Erik M Redix

• Paperback | Engels | American Indian Studies
• In 1894 Wisconsin game wardens Horace Martin and Josiah Hicks were dispatched to arrest Joe White, an Ojibwe ogimaa (chief), for hunting deer out of s... Lees meer

General Eisenhower

Ira Chernus

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• During the Second World War, Dwight D. Eisenhower formulated an ideology that encompassed deeply held ideas about human nature, society, and political... Lees meer

Transatlantic Rebels

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection, by an international array of historians, examines agrarian radicalism in comparative context from 1500 to the present. What unifies t... Lees meer

Finns in the United States

• Paperback | Engels
• Late-arriving immigrants during the Great Migration, Finns were, comparatively speaking, a relatively small immigrant group, with about 350,000 immigr... Lees meer

Twelve Twenty-Five

Kevin P Keefe

• Hardcover | Engels
• The against-all-odds story of a World War II–era steam locomotive and the determination of two generations of volunteers to keep it running comes al... Lees meer

Superchurch

Jonathan J. Edwards

• Paperback | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Drawing on five fascinating case studies, Superchurch blends a complex yet readable treatment of rhetorical and political theory with a sophisticated ... Lees meer

René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Wolfgang Palaver

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
• A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essentia... Lees meer

In the Shadow of Russia

• Paperback | Engels | Eurasian Political Econ. & Public Policy
• In the twenty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fifteen new independent republics have embarked on unprecedented transitions from c... Lees meer

Race and Human Rights

• Paperback | Engels
• The terrorist attacks against U.S. targets on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, sparked an intense debate about "hu... Lees meer

Remember the Distance That Divides Us

• Hardcover | Engels
• Born in Delaware's Brandywine Valley in 1807, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler was a young woman who was fully engaged in her time. Leaving comfort and mid... Lees meer