Metawritingthe writing about writing or writing that calls attention to itself as writinghas been around since Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy, but Jill Talbot makes...
Since the 1980s, Ecuador has seen five indigenous uprisings, the emergence of the powerful Pachakutik political movement and the strengthening of the Confederation of Indigenous...
Sports have long served as inspiration for poetrythe ancient Greeks wrote odes in praise of their athletesso it is little surprise that in a culture...
Sports have long served as inspiration for poetrythe ancient Greeks wrote odes in praise of their athletesso it is little surprise that in a culture...
My Victorians is a hybrid in both form and content, part memoir/extended lyric essay but also a work of biography, photography, and cultural, literary, and...
A series of autobiographical essays explores the complexities of German reunification and the new German state, grappling with modern issues as well the troubled legacy...
The characters in these stories have been forced into conditions of life that they find unbearable, and the stories chart their often tragically misguided attempts...
The characters in these stories have been forced into conditions of life that they find unbearable, and the stories chart their often tragically misguided attempts...
Standing with such environmental classics as Loren Eiseleys TheImmense Journey, his friend and mentor Aldo Leopolds A Sand County Almanac, and Joseph Wood Krutchs The...
Ten stories tell of an elderly South American woman, a teenage suicide, a divorced couple, and two lovers listening to sounds from a neighbor's apartment
The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace...
When His Father Developed Alzheimers Disease, Don Lago Realized That The Stories And Traditions Of His Swedish Ancestors Would Be Lost Along With The Rest...
When his father developed Alzheimers disease, Don Lago realized that the stories and traditions of his Swedish ancestors would be lost along with the rest...
Along with color photographs of all thirtytwo species, this work, part of Iowa's series of laminated guides, includes common and scientific names, habitat (prairie, woodland,...
This text examines paradigmatic moments in the rich performance history of Shakespeare's play, from its early modern origins in the mid 1590s to postmodern stagings...
As a natural outgrowth from her anthology of contemporary American farm poems,Handspan of Red Earth, editor Catherine Webster has devoted herself over the past years...
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Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (19142006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for twentyfour...
Product DescriptionIn this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew...
Not since the early nineteenth century, when George Catlin and Karl Bodmer thoroughly sketched the area, have the roughtextured Loess Hills of western Iowa been...
In May 1860, Walt Whitman Published A Third Edition Of Leaves Of Grass. His Timing Was Compelling. Printed During A Period Of Regional, Ideological, And...
Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by students who had emigrated to northeastern Iowa from Mecklenburg,...
In his carefully written text, geologist Paul Garvin has combined scientific facts about minerals with an appreciation of their history and beauty to produce a...
In his carefully written text, geologist Paul Garvin has combined scientific facts about minerals with an appreciation of their history and beauty to produce a...