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A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present

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Report copyright infringementby John K. Crellin (Author)Reissued as a companion edition to Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine, this illustrated reference guide covers over 700 medicinal plants, of which more than 150 are readily obtainable in health food stores and other outlets. Based on the Appalachian herbal practice of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, each account of a plant includes the herbalist's comment, an assessment of the plant's efficacy, and current in...

Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas De Genova (Author)While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of "Mexican Chic...

Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast

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Report copyright infringementby Harvey H. Jackson (Author)The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with "small fishing villages," through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Harvey H. Jackson III focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to Panama City, Florida--an area known a...

Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject

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Report copyright infringementby Kirsten Buick (Author)Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes. Throughout this richly illustrated study, Kirsten Pai Buick investigates how Lewis and her work were perceived, and their meanings manipulated, by others and the sculptor herself. She argues against the racialist art discourse that has long cast L...

Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades

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Report copyright infringementby Laura A. Ogden (Author)Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades--a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile, unique, and in need of restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in the Everglades, Laura A. Ogden explores ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth McCausland (Author)Marsden Hartley was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Art connoisseurs and students, who are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of Marsden Hartley in an understanding of modern at, will welcome this book. It contains a biographical and critica...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Camuto (Author)This new edition of A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge offers readers a chance to revisit a contemporary classic of fly fishing literature, a book that takes the reader through a year of fly fishing backcountry mountain streams from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Camuto's love of trout fishing is wedded to a keen awareness of both history and nature. Although the author has fished for trout from Oregon to Russia, he still lives in the shadow of t...

A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection

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Report copyright infringementby James B. Stockdale (Author)The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In this collection of essays he offers his thoughts on his imprisonment. Describing the horrors of his treatment as a prisoner of war, Stockdal...

Preferring Christ: A Devotional Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict

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Report copyright infringementby Norvene Vest (Author)A modern approach to spiritual deepening using the ancient, but wise Rule of St. Benedict.The Rule of St. Benedict continues to attract those who seek to live a deeper life, connected to Christ. But with such an ancient text, how can we authentically engage St. Benedict's Rule in a manner that is true to its profound insights-and to our own spiritual journey? Norvene Vest suggests that the answer lies in the way we read the Rule. "It should...

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Report copyright infringementby David Tatham (Author)Winslow Homer (1836-1910), arguably the best-known American artist of the nineteenth century, created three distinctly different bodies of work in the course of his long career: paintings, book illustrations, and illustrations for the pictorial press, the magazine-like illustrated journals of his day. A number of books and exhibition catalogues have dealt with his career as a painter, and historian David Tatham treated all of Homer's work a...

Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö Ni' Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery

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Report copyright infringementby Penelope Myrtle Kelsey (Author)Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future gener...

Sueños Americanos: Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities

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Report copyright infringementby Julio Cammarota (Author)Education is a primary route to rewarding employment and economic security. It is particularly significant for the future prospects of children who are ethnic minorities, were born into disadvantaged economic circumstances, or are dealing with language barriers. For nearly a decade Julio Cammarota interviewed and observed Latino youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four who lived in a barrio in a city on the California coast. ...

Winslow Homer in London: A New York Artist Abroad

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Report copyright infringementby David Tatham (Author)Though a Bostonian by birth and upbringing, Winslow Homer lived and maintained his studio in New York City for twenty-five years, establishing himself as a leading figure in New York's art world. In 1881, determined to broaden his status as a painter, Homer journeyed to Great Britain. During his trip, major changes appeared in nearly everything he did as a painter. They came so rapidly that there can be little doubt that the crucial turning...

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Report copyright infringementby Milton Meltzer (Author)Dorothea Lange's depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer documents her development as an artist and provides a moving portrayal of a life burdened with illness and the conflicting demands of family and profession.Author BiographyMilton Meltzer is the author of many books of history and biography, four of...

Lebanon / Liban: Poems of Love and War / Poèmes d'Amour Et de Guerre

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Report copyright infringementby Nadia Tuéni (Author), Christophe Ippolito (Editor), Samuel Hazo (Translator)This bilingual anthology, edited by Christophe Ippolito, contains Samuel Hazo's complete translation of Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Paul B. Kelley's selections from the never-before-translated Sentimental Archives of a War in Lebanon. The Francophone poet Nadia Tueni has devoted readers in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and has quickly achieved poetic distinction in...

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Report copyright infringementby David Tatham (Author)In this lavishly illustrated volume, David Tatham turns his eye to Winslow Homer's Adirondack oils, drawings, prints, and watercolors--more than a hundred pieces from the artist's many visits to the region between 1870 and 1910. Homer's affinity for this remote region of New York State lasted for forty years. No other place--not even Prout's Neck in Maine--held his attention as an artist for so long a period. Nearly every time he set out fo...

Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Ferguson Barker (Author)Most people recognize Michigan by its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula and the Great Lakes embracing the state. Underneath the earth's surface, however, is equally distinctive evidence of an exciting history. Michigan rests on sedimentary rocks that reach down into the earth's crust more than fourteen thousand feet--a depth three-and-a-half times deeper than the Grand Canyon. Within these layers of rock rest all sorts of ancient fos...

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Noodin (Author)Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word "weweni" expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for "relatives" is "nindenwemaaganag" those whose "enewewe," or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection. Noodin's warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear...

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Report copyright infringementby Maryse Condé (Author), Richard Philcox (Translator)This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of femal...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Russell Reaver (Editor)"A splendidcollection from one of the nation's richest and most diverse traditionalcultures. . . . Florida Folktales will appeal not only to scholars and loversof folklore, but to anyone interested in the wellsprings of Americanstorytelling and literature."--Charles Wolfe, editor, Tennessee FolkloreSociety Bulletin Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9.01 x 6.05 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

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Report copyright infringementby Georgia L. Fox (Author)"Fox provides important insights that will help historical archaeologists interpret tobacco-related finds and understand the multiple meanings of a commodity that has burned through the social, political, and economic fabric of the modern world."--Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking "Few artifacts illustrate the American experience as clearly as tobacco. Fox examines how tobacco and smoking reveal broade...

Led Zeppelin and Philosophy: All Will Be Revealed

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Calef (Editor)Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critics and eluded classification, synthesizing blues, rock, folk, rockabilly, funk, classical, country, Indian, and Arabic techniques. They performed the alchemical trick of transmuting base led into gold--and platinum--and diamond. They did what they would, finding wisdom...

Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night

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Report copyright infringementby Sallie Ann Robinson (Author), Jessica B. Harris (Foreword by)Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufuskie, the island is now changing rapidly. With this book, Robinson highlights some of her favorite memories and delicious recipes from life on Daufuskie, where the islanders traditionally ate what they gr...

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Report copyright infringementby Mildred Council (Author)In this much-anticipated follow-up to her bestselling Mama Dip's Kitchen, Mildred "Mama Dip" Council serves up an abundance of new recipes for home-style Southern cooking that is sure to please. From catfish gumbo to breakfast pizza and peach upside-down cake, Mama Dip's Family Cookbook offers recipes for more than three hundred dishes, including many Council family favorites. Also featured are party and celebration foods for family and ...

Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Fa

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Report copyright infringementby Sallie Ann Robinson (Author), Pat Conroy (Foreword by), Gregory Wrenn Smith (With)"If there's one thing we learned coming up on Daufuskie," remembers Sallie Ann Robinson, "it's the importance of good, home-cooked food." In this enchanting book, Robinson presents the delicious, robust dishes of her native Sea Islands and offers readers a taste of the unique, West African-influenced Gullah culture still found there.Living on a South Carolina island accessible onl...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Cavender (Author)In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present. He provides a complete tour of ailments and folk treatments organized by body systems, as well as information on medicinal plants, patent medicin...

Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Lonetree (Author)Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how muse...

Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Sider (Author)With more than 40,000 registered members, the Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the country and the largest east of the Mississippi River. Despite the tribe's size, the Lumbee lack full federal recognition and their history has been marked by a struggle to articulate an Indian identity against the imposition of non-native definitions of Indianness. Gerald Sider explores the complexities of Lumbee tribal identity, focusing on the...

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

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Report copyright infringementby Paula Gunn Allen (Author)This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.Author BiographyPaula Gunn Allen (1939-2008) was a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Native American of Laguna Pueblo and Sioux heritage. She authored many books, including The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditi...

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Report copyright infringementby Bobbie Malone (Author) For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children "see beyond the rim of their own world." In Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, historian and educator Bobbie Malone takes us into Lenski's own world to tell the story of how a girl from a small Ohio town became a beloved literary icon. Author and illustrator of the Newbery Awar...

Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced

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Report copyright infringementby Rochelle Davis (Author)This book chronicles the local histories written by modern Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war.Author BiographyRochelle A. Davis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Number of Pages: 360 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date...

Mini Thai Dictionary: Thai-English English-Thai, Fully Romanized with Thai Script for All Thai Words

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Report copyright infringementby Scot Barme (Editor), Pensi Najaithong (Editor)It's never a good idea to be overly-reliant on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this excellent Thai dictionary. Tuttle's Mini Thai Dictionary is ideal for any application where a handy and portable dictionary is required. This pocket-sized dictionary is intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Thailand, or as a Thai language study reference. Mini Thai ...