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Forgotten for more than a century in an old cardboard box, these are the letters of Guy Carlton Taylor, a farmer who served in the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. From March 23, 1864, to July 14, 1865, Taylor wrote 165 letters home to his wife Sarah and their son Charley. From the initial mustering and training of his regiment at Camp Randall in Wisconsin, through the siege of Petersburg in Virgini...

Translator's AcknowledgmentsPrefacePt. One: On the Side of the Fog1. An Untimely Pregnancy2. Coyote, Father and Son3. The Dentalia Thieves4. A Myth to Go Back in Time5. The Fateful Sentence6. A Visit to the Mountain GoatsPt. Two: Breaks through the Clouds7. The Child Taken by the Owl8. Jewels and Wounds9. The Son of the Root10. Twins: Salmon, Bears, and Wolves11. Meteorology at Home12. Jewels and Food13. From the Moon to the Sun14. The Dog Hus...

This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class, gender, and American nationhood. "Subjects and Citizens" is among the best books of critical and cultural studies I have read."--William E. Cain, Wellesley College

Fred Lockwood presents a comprehensive account of research and development in open, distance and flexible learning from a range of acknowledged experts from around the world. An essential purchase for teachers and students alike.

Foreword by Catharine R. StimpsonAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of GenderPt. 1: Mary Wollstonecraft 1: The Distinction of the Sexes: The Vindications2: Embodying the Sentiments: Mary and The Wrongs of WomanPt. 2: Ann Radcliffe 3: Less than Man and More than Woman: The Romance of the Forest4: The Sex of Suffering: The Mysteries of Udolpho5: Losing the Mother in the Judge: The ItalianPt. 3: Frances B...

Whatever your prowess as a bridge player, this book will give you the reputation of being a champion cook.

The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.

A very practical manual of management strategies for the wide range of complex clinical problems associated with paediatric HIV infection.

Introduction. Politics, Social Science, and the Golden Rule: Reading theHandwriting on the Wall 1: Party Realignment and American Industrial Structure: The InvestmentTheory of Political Parties in Historical Perspective2: From 'Normalcy' to New Deal: Industrial Structure, Party Competition, and American Public Policy in the Great Depression3: Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The FederalReserve and the Open Market Ope...

Gives a grammatical sketch of Zapotec (Mitla Vallay, Oaxaca, Mexico). This third volume in the series Folklore Texts in Mexican Indian Languages consists of eight stories narrated by native speakers, transcribed phonemically, with glossing in English and free translations in English and Spanish.

Transdisciplinary team assessment allows team members to collaborate in making evaluations and formulating interventions. This text examines how team members from various professions can comprehend each other's assessment perspectives and work together.

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Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory -- giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. In an expanded second edition, six new chapters confront the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices, continuing in the tradition that has won this book such widespread acclaim.

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List of Figures and TablesList of CasesPreface and Acknowledgments1: Introduction2: Setting the Scene3: Patterns of Conflict Management in Thirteen Executive Contexts4: Modern Times: Authoritative Conflict Management in a Mechanistic Bureaucracy5: Silent Hives: Minimalistic Conflict Management in an Atomistic Organization6: Brave New World: Reciprocal Conflict Management in a Matrix System7: Conclusion: Orthodoxy, Change, and IdentityAppendix ...

Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader of the Year This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed "authentic" performance-based assessments of students' learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school. This important and timely book re...

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Social Structure, Culture, Agency, and Change1: The Place of Elites and Primary Groups in the Absorption of New Immigrants in Israel2: Reference Group Behavior and Social Integration: An Explorative Study3: Archetypal Patterns of Youth4: Institutionalization and Change5: Social Change, Differentiation, and Evolution6: Societal Goals, Systemic Needs, Social Interaction, and IndividualBehavior: Some Tentative Explora...