university of iowa press okt 2012 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The stories of Safe as Houses are magical and original and help answer such universal and existential questions as: How far will we go to stay loyal to our friends Can we love a man even though he is inches shorter than our ideal Why doesn't Bob Dylan ever have his own smokes And are there patron saints for everything, even lost socks and bad movies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From honey and black locusts to white and chinkapin oaks to yellow and river birches, Trees in Your Pocket provides identification and natural history information for about forty prominent deciduous species found in the Upper Midwest states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Forrest Gander and John Kinsella offer an experiment, a collaborative volume of prose and poetry that investigates - both thematically and formally - the relationship between nature and culture, language and perception. They ask whether, in an age of globalization, industrialization, and rapid human population growth, an ethnocentric view of human beings as a species independent from others underpins our exploitation of natural resources.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940s to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigms that equate postwar U.S. culture with containment culture, the authors present suggestive revisionist claims.