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Edith's protected life comes to an end when she must face the bitter fact that her beautiful daughter at eighteen is more a soldier than a farmer and that the kibbutz where Dinah now lives is a military fortress, despite its newly planted orchards.

Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500-1830 examines the nature of Spanish American political culture by reevaluating the political theory, institutions, and practices of the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case studies with a focus on New Spain and Quito, Jaime E. Rodriguez O. demonstrates that the process of independence of Spanish America differs from previous claims.

The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever.

The true story of Elliott Howe, a young public defender and Creek Indian who risked his career to defend an impoverished Cherokee man named Buster Youngwolfe, who was accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl in 1950s Oklahoma.

Nicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr. contend that the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum is a securitized site of remembrance that evokes feelings of insecurity that justify post-9/11 domestic and international security efforts.

Rosemary Levy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts.

Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes.

Alexander Vazansky examines the discontent of the U.S. Army in Europe and specifically of GI soldiers in Germany between 1968 and 1975 as a result of race relations, drug abuse, and political opposition.

A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken by violent change.

This thirteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's work on his mid-career novels The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima as well as work on a number of tales that would help to define his career.

Following previous dialect studies concerned primarily with varieties of Ojibwe spoken in Canada, Relativization in Ojibwe presents the first study of dialect variation for varieties spoken in the United States and along the border region of Ontario and Minnesota.

The ferocious rivalry between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders during the 1970s.

A rich history of baseball's hidden language told through stories and anecdotes about the game's most recognizable names, revised and expanded through the 2018 season.

The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux presents the Red Road and the Holy Dance (also called the Medicine Dance), two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, as told by Samuel I. Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Kyle E. Ciani examines the long history of interactions between parents and social reformers from diverse backgrounds in the development of social welfare programs in San Diego, California.

Low Mountains or High Tea dishes up the charms and eccentricities of the British countryside as seen through the eyes of an American husband and wife who had entirely different ideas on how to spend a holiday abroad.

Perhaps no NBA player today is as exciting and yet enigmatic as Kyrie Irving. Martin Gitlin's biography chronicles Irving's brilliance on the court as a devastating one on one talent, examines the influence of his father, the untimely death of his mother, his growth as a basketball player in high school and college, and his journey in the NBA.

A memoir of Elers Koch, a groundbreaking silviculturist, pioneering forest manager, and master firefighter in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service.

Meander Belt is a reflection on how a working-class boy from the American South came to fall in love with language and writing despite his relationship with a father who valued physical rather than mental labor.

A Grammar of Upper Tanana is a comprehensive text that performs the impressive task of providing a linguistically accurate written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language.

Walks on the Ground is a record of Ponca elder Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades.

Apple, Tree features a slate of compelling essayists who eloquently consider a trait they've inherited from a parent. Together, these all-new essays form a prismatic meditation on how we make fresh sense of ourselves and our parents when we see the traces of them that live on in us.

Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the "why" of his fishing identity before more recently becoming focused on the "how" of it. In Wilderness of Hope Grover recounts his fly-fishing experiences with a strong evocation of place, connecting those experiences to the ongoing national debate over public lands.

The Greatest Upset Never Seen relives the 1982-83 season, when Chaminade University put small-college basketball and Hawaii on the national sports map.

Presents essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity. Moving beyond the static "either/or" categories of racial identification found within typical insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous, contingent, multiple, and malleable.

Tales from the dark side of college athletics, told from an insider's perspective.

Examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skilfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White.