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Shows readers how ideas of Asia operate in Shakespeare performances and how Asian and Anglo-European forms of cultural production combine to transcend the mode of inquiry that focuses on fidelity. This book shows how the history of how Shakespeare became a signifier against which Asian and Western cultures defined themselves.

Looks at the role of prostitution in female picaresque novels and also in ""Don Quijote"". This book also includes etiquette manuals that offer rules ranging from how to be the perfect wife and daughter to advice on using make-up. It considers legal measures and moral treatises that define the boundaries of sin.

Contains papers by scholars working in Holocaust Studies in Australia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, the United Kingdom, and the US.

Explores important questions in the field of critical animal studies and education by examining a wide range of educational situations and classroom activities. This book makes human-animal relations a crucial issue for pedagogical theory and practice.

Presents a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), and their Hebrew creativity. This book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew poetry written in Babylon at that time, the folktales, journalistic articles, and epistles, research of Hebrew literature, a story and a play.

Chronicles media's role in shaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time. This book examines the ways in which American women were portrayed in the national media as they assumed a greater role in public and private life.

Tells the story of Josiah E DuBois, Jr, a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. This book tells how Dubois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take action to rescue the displaced Jews.

A how-to book that tells how to plan for a happy, meaningful retirement. It develops six central themes that include: freedom and leisure; financial independence; separation from work; family and friends; and health and helping others.

Reveals the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace in his open letters to America's farm families and their children. This work features homespun tails that show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots even as he hobnobbed with US Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson, and anchored the prestigious Country Life Commission.

Chronicles the integration of dog owners, a much-maligned subculture, into mainstream society by tracing the history of the legislation. This book shows how a combination of science and politics, fact and fear, altruism and self-interest led to the adoption and enforcement of legislation that became a shining success.

The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this watershed event through historically contextualized readings of five paradigmatic novels.

Covers more than the conventional 'food-only' role of the agriculture. This book details how the solution to agricultural problems can lead to the general socioeconomic and political development of impoverished countries.

Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to ""The Piano"", ""Kiss of the Spider Woman"", and ""Northern Exposure"". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement.

Tackles the thorny issue of the disappearance of Montenegro as a sovereign state in the course of and as a result of the First World War. This book investigates the ambiguous and often troubled relationship between two ""Serb states,"" Montenegro and Serbia. It examines the politics and power plays of Serbs, Montenegrins, and others.

Examines questions of identity and self-understanding in six life-careers in the Austrian intellectual and political elite. This title also presents fresh perspective on the six examined individuals, whose scholarly, artistic, and bureaucratic careers are placed in a political context.

A multidisciplinary approach exploring the historical antecedents and the dynamic process of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution. This volume examines issues broadening our understanding of the Yugoslav case, and also sheds light on how to deal with state fragility and failure.

Describes Purdue's travels to diverse places where she lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. This book examines her beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. It describes the destitute family's journey into Ohio and her ascent from local entrepreneur to national figure.

Maps the presence, position and use in the narrative of a variety of material objects in Marguerite de Navarre's ""Heptameron"". This work includes a selection of objects, ranging from tapestries with scripture passages woven into the borders, fine arts paintings, chalices incised with proverbs, emblems, table linens, and more.

Covers gene regulation to enzyme mechanisms and protein structure.

Provides readers with an understanding of the complexities and nuances that characterize both Victor Hugo's novel writing and the nineteenth-century French novel.

Provides a comparative cultural analysis of the unprecedented success of the Jewish novel in the postwar United States by situating the process and event in the context of three closely-related American cultural movements: the popularity in the US of French philosophical and literary existentialism, the increasing visibility of the Holocaust in US-American life, and the advent of radical theology.

Presents a comparative analysis of the theoretical prose by two major Latin American vanguardist contemporaries, Mario de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) and Vicente Huidobro (Chile, 1893-1948). This title offers a comparative study of two allegorical texts, Huidobro's ""Non serviam"" and Mario's ""Parabola d'A escrava que nao e Isaura"".

How does insect suturing work? Which insect did the ancient Egyptians worship as a god? What did Ogden Nash have to say about termites? Which insect produces ""Turkey Red"" dye? What bug has survived for 300 million years? An illustrated collection of insect tales, this title tells you about the six-leg kingdom and its occupants.

Exposes the flaws of Mel Gibson's cinematic Christ, and lays out assertively the rationale of Jews and Christians, in how to grasp and comprehend the passion and execution of the Christian savior known scripturally as the ""King of the Jews.