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Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depressionuthat is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction.

Considered by critics to be an accurate portrayal of frontline medical conditions, A Surgeon in Khaki is New Zealand surgeon Arthur Anderson Martin's account of his experiences in 1914, early in World War I. In this engaging narrative, the reader experiences the daily life of war through the eyes of the medical officers who tried valiantly to help the wounded and ill on the front lines.

"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence Rene Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked in - thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror - into one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less than our own immortality.

The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory, Telling Children's Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's literature.

Explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World. Brian A. Pavlac discusses witch hunts in fascinating detail by region, highlighting the cultural differences of the people who incited them as well as the key reforms, social upheavals, and intellectual debates that shaped European thought.

An exploration of ski bum history and culture and the socio-economic factors that are shaping it today

With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, this work outlines a revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as "The Ring of the Nibelung".

A narrative of Walter Johnson's life by his grandson, who lives in Arlington, Virginia. This biography gives an account of a one-time great pitcher and his on-field accomplishments, and emphasises on his personality as a decent, humble athlete with self-effacing humor.

Undertakes a dramatic retelling of Shoshoni creation stories and examines, along with other topics, the mythologies embedded in the "Dream Mine" of Mormon folklore, the heroic images of cowboys and Wobblies, the MX missile, the dark side of Oz, and the Las Vegas of tourists, dam builders, and gamblers.

Two Leggings was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian. This title tells a poignant story of the end of traditional Crow life and attitudes, which Two Leggings saw ending with the last warfare rather than the death of the buffalo.

Depicts an experience that pays no attention to language differences or national boundaries: childbirth. This novel which is set in a maternity ward for difficult cases, focuses on the weeks immediately before and after delivery.

Features twenty-one traditional tales retold by Hopi narrators. This work offers an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore. As sedentary planters, the Hopis tended to reduce Coyote to the level of a laughable fool.

Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S Curtis (1868-1952) called him Shadow Catcher. Filled with Martin Curtis' breathtaking photographs, this book traces Curtis' life and work from his boyhood in Wisconsin, through his first photo expedition to Alaska in 1897 and the completion of The North American Indian collection in 1930.

Henry Wiggen, the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball ""with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family."" More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer.

A visionary novel of the twenty-seventh century by the "Father of Science Fiction".

Offers an history of Indian-white relations. This title covers a study of Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Holy Man who is best known as the brother of Tecumseh. It establishes the critical and pre-eminent role of Tenskwatawa as the leader of the Indian resistance to American expansion before 1810.

Reveals the author himself to be a uniquely sensitive interpreter of Lakota theology, philosophy, and history - which are all one in traditionalist Lakota thought. This title offers an insight that penetrates the inner beings of both Black Elk and John G Neihardt, two men of vastly different cultures who became one as seekers of the Sacred.

Follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. The author writes passionately about the game, bringing alive the players' efforts, accomplishments, and failures.

""Insouciant"and "irreverent"are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books and, invariably, "hilarious".Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form.

The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu's theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often overlooked. This volume, the first critical examination of Bourdieu's early fieldwork and its impact on his larger body of social theory, represents an original and much-needed contribution to the field.

By turns humorous, learned, celebratory, and elegiac, the author displays a keen intelligence and a flair for language that turn bits of common, everyday life into resonant narrative. He maintains a conversational charm while taking the contemporary personal essay to a new level of complexity and candour.

Intertwines the themes of exile, lost origins, memory, and hope. This book, set mainly in the Americanas, begins with the regal Behanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was exiled to distant Martinique. It follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family.

The Two-Spirit man occupies a singular place in Native American culture, balancing the male and the female spirit. Drawing on observations from interviews, oral histories, and meetings and ceremonies, this work provides a view of how Two-Spirit men in Colorado and Oklahoma struggle to redefine themselves and their communities.

Provides an overview of the battles and an on-site tour to help both serious students and casual visitors get the most out of a visit to Chickamauga and Chattanooga. This guide emphasizes how the opposing armies used terrain and how that terrain shaped the course of each battle.

Uses the plots and characterizations in the novels and the blockbuster films to place James Bond in a historical, cultural, and political context. This title charts and explores how the settings and the dynamics of the Bond adventures have changed in response to shifts in the real-world environment in which the fictional Bond operates.

Talks about General George Crook, described as the greatest Indian fighter the army ever had, a man whose prowess was demonstrated from British America to Mexico and from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. This book recreates the events and landscapes through which Crook moved and shows how he was able to achieve his most remarkable victory.

Presents a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us. This book examines the reasons soldiers act as they do. It explains the attractions of battle - the adrenaline rush, the esprit de corps - and analyzes the many rationalizations made by combat troops to justify their actions.

The basis for the highly acclaimed 1950 film, "Broken Arrow", this work is a history in fiction form, of the Southwest, from the time of the Gadsden Purchase in 1856 until the end of the Indian wars, about 1870. It follows the adventures of Cochise, noted chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, and Tom Jeffords, famous peace maker and Indian agent.

Through the seventeenth century solitude was considered the human condition in the Western philosophical tradition. The self was not dependent on others to perceive itself as complete. This book features reflections on the debates on the concept of otherness and self, interdependence and solitude.