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Seamus Heaney's death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of his career. Much of the scholarship to date on Heaney has focused on his poetry. O'Brien's new work, however, focuses on Heaney's essays, book chapters, and lectures as it seeks to understand how Heaney explored the poet's role in the world.

The story of the Thomas Indian School is the story of the Iroquois people and the suffering and despair of the children who found themselves trapped in an institution from which there was little chance for escape. In this essential book, Burich offers new and important insights into the role and nature of boarding schools and their destructive effect on generations of indigenous populations.

In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in this volume challenge this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in which ethnic, religious, and linguistic commitments have intersected to create "minority” communities in the modern era.

"This volume originated in a conference held at the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University in 2013, Minorities of the Modern Middle East."--Acknowledgments page.

Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places-and the loss to us if there are no such connections.

Ahmet Midhat Efendi's famous 1875 novel Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrounds. The novel provides readers with an elegant yet powerful appeal for progressive reforms and individual freedoms.

As close and thorough an investigation of available resource material as one can humanly make, certainly as has yet been made.

Offers a comprehensive account of Nigerian civil society groups in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Kew blends democratic theory with conflict resolution methodologies to argue that the manner in which groups - and states - manage internal conflicts provides an important gauge as to how democratic their political cultures are.

During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces the experiences of twelve individuals from their young adulthood as members of the Ba'thist generation, to their work as interpreters, through their navigation of the US immigration pipeline, and finally to their resettlement in the United States.

Perched on a triangular finger of land against steep cliffs, the sixteenth-century village of Corey represents a rare source of knowledge about the Cayuga past, transforming our understanding of how this nation lived. In Corey Village and the Cayuga World, Rossen collects data from archaeological investigations of the Corey site, including artifacts that are often neglected.

In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family's past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. Part memoir, part detective story, Because of Eva is an intimate tale of one woman's history within the epic sweep of world events in the twentieth century.

Presents a collection of columns by Sean Kirst that spans almost a quarter-century. During his long career as a writer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Kirst won some of the most prestigious honours in journalism, including the Ernie Pyle Award, given annually to one American writer who best captures the hopes and dreams of everyday Americans.

Probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie.

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens.

Raised in a Ladino-speaking family of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants, Pinhas-Cohen fuses the ancient Sephardic chant of her childhood with the contemporary rhythm of Israeli life. This bilingual collection offers readers a careful selection of poems from each of her seven published volumes.

Raised in a Ladino-speaking family of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants, Pinhas-Cohen fuses the ancient Sephardic chant of her childhood with the contemporary rhythm of Israeli life. This bilingual collection offers readers a careful selection of poems from each of her seven published volumes.

Gathers selected poems from the acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim (1934-2014). In this award-winning volume, poems are drawn from fourteen of the poet's collections published over the last twenty years in addition to some of his final works. Lu'lu'a's fluid translation captures both Al-Qasim's innovative style and the emotional tenor of his poetry.

Explores the function of concurrent enrolment programmes in addressing the gap between high school preparation and readiness for the academic and social demands of college. Experts in the education field map out the foundation for programmes offering concurrent enrolment courses, including best practices and necessary elements for a sustainable, viable programme.

Presents suburban classroom projects aimed at exploring the watershed and the commonwealth of the region. With these diverse and robust projects, contributors spotlight the myriad ways suburban students can build rich, authentic connections to their surroundings and create a sense of belonging to their community.

In 1890, The Snake's Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. As Bram Stoker's first full-length novel, The Snake's Pass is a heady blend of romance, travel narrative, adventure tale, folk tradition, and national tale. In this critical edition, Buchelt offers detailed and studied insight into both the novel and Stoker's life.

The poems collected in this bilingual volume represent the full range of Else Lasker-Schuler's work, from her earliest poems until her death. Haxton's translation embraces the poems' lyrical imagery, remaining faithful to the poet's vision while also capturing the cadence and rhythms of the poetry.

What determines voting behaviour in Turkey? While many scholars have argued that elections in Turkey over time can be effectively and simply explained by static social or cultural cleavages, Wuthrich challenges these assertions with a framework that carefully attends to patterns of strategic vote-getting behaviour in elections by political parties and their leaders.

Challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, Fagersten champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humour, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters.

In the latest addition to the America in the Twentieth Century series, Dunar provides a sweeping account of the twentieth century's second decade. Beginning with the social, political, and economic circumstances in the United States in 1910, America in the Teens presents the themes and pivotal events that shaped America during this tumultuous period.

In Makuck's fourth collection of short stories he once again explores the fertile territory of small, rural American towns. With tenderness and clarity, he excavates the mundane surface of everyday lives to reveal compassionate characters who are unexpectedly vulnerable.

The Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen was a pioneering figure in early nineteenth century abolitionism and African American literature. Originally published in 1859, this title chronicles the remarkable life of a tireless young man and a passionate activist. The narrative recounts Loguen's early life in slavery, his escape to the North, and his successful career as a minister and abolitionist.

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens.