university of wisconsin press mär 2003 (14 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The Grammar Crammer' is a concise, sensible grammar handbook that explains lucidly how to remember correct word forms and sentence structures. Useful as a reference tool for high school and beyond, it packs an entire grammar encyclopedia into just over a hundred pages.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection of tales, based on the author's experiences of hunting and fishing through his youth and adulthood, acknowledges the edge between the cycles of modern life and the age-old seasonal call of the hunt.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party's nominee for president. Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor's life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Colombian-born Santiago Martinez starts his adult life as a young gay writer living in Spain. Years later, as a university professor in New York City, Santiago is called back to his native Colombia upon the suicide of his sister. There he learns some shocking secrets about his childhood and adolescence and comes to the realization that cherished memories of the past are only illusion.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom, and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. His novels, including 'The Family Moskat' and 'Enemies: A Love Story,' and his short stories, such as 'Yentl' and 'Gimpel the Fool,' prove him a consummate storyteller and probably the greatest Yiddish writer of the twentieth century.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), the Republic of Ireland, or South Africa.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - James Magruder's 'Sugarless' offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection of case studies focuses upon high mountains, tropical forests and lowlands, as well as humid and arid-semiarid landscapes. Each chapter analyzes the implications for meshing environmental protection and sound resource use with development.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity in order to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development. For the only way she can stop the factory is to call upon her close connections in Sao Paulo's highest political and financial circles--as only the Madam of the city's ritziest bordello can.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is the fascinating history of the innovative work of Wisconsin's educational radio stations, from the first broadcast by experimental station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin to the network of stations known today as Wisconsin Public Radio. Randall Davidson provides the first comprehensive history of the University of Wisconsin radio station, WHA; affiliated state-owned station, WLBL; and the postWorld War II FM stations that formed the WPR network. Davidson describes how, with homemade equipment and ideas developed from scratch, 9XM became a tangible example of 'the Wisconsin Idea,' bringing the educational riches of the university to all the state's residents.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited an intense preoccupation with matters of the flesh. Drawing on poetry, plays, short stories, essays, memoirs, and letters, as well as feminist and psychoanalytic theory, 'Beyond the Flesh' documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of two of the most important Russian Symbolists.