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Happiness in the Nordic World

Christian Bjørnskov

• Paperback | Engels | Nordic World
• Denmark is consistently among the countries with the happiest and most satisfied populations, and it regularly places at the very top with the rest of... Lees meer

Crossover

Jack E Staub

• Paperback | Engels
• Crossover is a laboratory manual and computer program that work together to teach the principles of genetics. Designed to complement regular textbooks... Lees meer

The Army of Truth

Henrik Wergeland

• Paperback | Engels
• One of Norway's most celebrated literary figures of the nineteenth century, Henrik Wergeland worked tirelessly for the civil rights of Jews in Norway.... Lees meer

The Reader and the Detective Story

George N Dove

• Paperback | Engels
• The Reader and the Detective Story is unique-it treats the detective story as a special case of reading, governed by special rules and shaped by a hig... Lees meer

Impure Cultures

Daniel Lee Kleinman

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Technology in Society
• How are the worlds of university biology and commerce blurring? Many university leaders see the amalgamation of academic and commercial cultures as cr... Lees meer

La Folletteas Autobiography

Robert M La Follette

• Paperback | Engels
• Written in lucid, vigorous prose, La Follette 's Autobiography is the famous Wisconsin senator's own account of his political life and philosophy. Bot... Lees meer

The Rhetoric of Reason

James R Crosswhite

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric of the Human Sciences
• One of the most discussed and elusive female characters in the Russian literary tradition, Alexandr Pushkin's Tatiana Larina is the progenitor of an i... Lees meer

Sailing to the Far Horizon

Pamela Sisman Bitterman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Of the legions of wayfarers who shared in the tall ship Sofia's diverse and colorful history, only seventeen were on board when she went down. Of thos... Lees meer

The Star of Redemption

Franz Rosenzweig

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Crit
• The Star of Redemption is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding religion and philosophy in the twentieth century. Fusing philosophy... Lees meer

Among the Wonders of the Dells

J Tyler Friedman

• Hardcover | Engels
• More than four million visitors travel each year to the Wisconsin Dells, making it the most economically significant tourist destination in the state.... Lees meer

Marginal Conventions

• Paperback | Engels
• Marginal Conventions contains twelve essays by social scientists centering around the general connections between popular culture and deviant behavior... Lees meer

Speculators and Slaves

Michael Tadman

• Paperback | Engels
• In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tadman establishes that all levels of white society in the antebellum South were deeply involved in a massive int... Lees meer

Intimate Creativity

Irving Sarnoff, Suzanne Sarnoff

• Paperback | Engels
• Integrating the psychology of love and creativity, this pioneering book explores both how a couple's involvement as lovers influences their creative c... Lees meer

Stars in My Eyes

Don Bachardy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In t... Lees meer

Lincoln and the Radicals

• Paperback
• Sometimes, in American politics, a conflict becomes so heated and divisive - as the conflict over slavery did - that the ground is set for civil war. ... Lees meer

Rescuing the Children

Vivette Samuel

• Hardcover | Engels
• Rescuing the Children is the autobiography of an extraordinary woman, the history of a remarkable organization she worked for in World War II France, ... Lees meer

Oedipus

• Paperback | Engels
• Classicist Lowell Edmunds and folklorist Alan Dundes both note that "the Oedipus tale is not likely to ever fade from view in Western civilization, [a... Lees meer

The History of Alta California

Antonio Maria Osio

• Paperback | Engels
• This work provides an English translation of the history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule. A Mexican-Californian, Osio writes of lif... Lees meer

Daughter in Retrograde

Courtney Kersten

• Hardcover | Engels
• When she isn't eavesdropping on family gossip or gazing at taxidermy squirrels in smoky dives, Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midweste... Lees meer

River of Blood

J Matthew Schoffeleers

• Paperback | Engels
• The culmination of years of fieldwork in Southern Malawi, "River of Blood" reconstructs the beginnings of the Mbona martyr cult, follows its history t... Lees meer

When Horses Pulled the Plow

Olaf F Larson

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Land and Life (Paperback)
• In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property... Lees meer

Postwar Politics in the G-7

Byron E Shafer

• Paperback | Engels
• This concise, comparative history looks at politics in the nations collectively known as the Group of Seven--the United States, Canada, Britain, Franc... Lees meer

Witnessing Slavery

Frances Smith Foster

• Paperback | Engels | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
• Frances Foster's classic study of pre-Civil War American slave autobiography is now issued in an accessible paperback edition. The first book to repre... Lees meer

In the Province of the Gods

Kenny Fries

• Hardcover | Engels | Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog
• Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he visi... Lees meer