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Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five ""Dreams"" or ""Visions"" (Suenos y discursos). Censorship prohibited its publication of such satire, but copies were made by hand. In 1993 a critical edition of all of the surviving manuscripts was published. Crosby's work compares this version with all of the 43 extant manuscripts.

Habitat loss and fragmentation arguably pose the greatest threats to biological diversity. This title provides a blueprint for advancing understanding of conservation in agricultural regions. It combines the efforts of ecologists, economists, statisticians, mathematicians and land-use specialists.

Agriculture is moving from feeding a growing planet to feeding a planet with environmental concerns. Ecological agrarians are developing solutions from the creative to the mundane. J. Bishop Grewell, Clay J. Landry, and Greg Conko unveil stories of these entrepreneurs at work, the challenges they face, and the benefits they hope to reap.

Mentoring is personal and professional assistance given by a more experienced person during a time of transition. This work covers descriptions of a successful mentoring programme, and how participants related to the programme, to each other, and to the programme's lasting effects on their lives.

A biography of noted Indiana businessman John Purdue, whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's greatest land-grant university, Purdue University, in 1869. The book incorporates research efforts by previous writers with facts gleaned from newspapers and official documents.

Providing a reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America, this book is a story of achievement and success, and it is also about greed, racism, and violence. The author offers a provocative look at history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature.

A mother's reflection inspired by hand-raising a litter of Pembroke Welsh corgis whose own mother died after a Caesarian delivery. Devastated by the loss of her companion and awed by the task of saving the puppies, the narrator is surprised to discover she enjoys this exclusive commitment.

In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's ""L'Astree"" and Charles Sorel's ""Le Berger extravagant"", the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist anti-romance.

This volume brings together a series of accounts, from ordinary servicemen and women, detailing their experiences of the Vietnam War. Some are heroic, some are frightening, while others verge from the amusing to the nigh on unbelievable.

This work attempts to theorize the process of the emergence, in 18th-century New Spain, of a position of intellectual subjectivity differentiated from that established by the regime of Spanish imperial authority. It traces how groups of ""criollo"" intellectuals try to construct such discourses.

Harry Springer kept detailed diaries throughout most of his life. His diaries for the time from November 28th, 1917 to August 19th, 1918 were lost during the fighting in the Argonne Forest, but in 1974, just before he died, he wrote these supplementary notes of what he could remember.

Looking at six Spanish novels, from the 1940s through the 1990s, this book proposes a new concept of the novel of feminine development. It emphasizes the importance of voicing women's sentiments previously unexpressed in Spanish literature.

According to the author, the 19th century was incapable of managing the feminine question and prefered to mythicize it. Everything that was related to it, especially feminine sexuality, was transformed into fiction. Thus women were saddled with the role of scapegoat.

Under the patronage of two south German nobles, Johann Lorenz Schmidt published an annotated translation of the Bible opening books in 1735. This work focuses on the controversy it aroused and of its eventual suppression, and sheds light on aspects of the 18th century and issues of censorship.

By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process.

As the definitive identification guide to the shrubs and woody vines of Indiana, this book provides coverage of approximately 90% of the species that are found in surrounding Midwestern states. As well as covering indigenous species, it also includes all currently known invasive shrubs and woody vines.

An increasing number of researchers and educators in the field of engineering wish to integrate considerations of social justice into their work and practice. In this volume, an international team of authors invite scholars to think and teach in new ways that acknowledge the social, as well as technical, impact engineering can have on our world.

In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that ¿with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary.¿ The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer¿s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally. The book takes the ¿root-seeking¿ movement with which Mo Yan¿s works are associated as a metaphor for its organizational structure. The four articles of ¿Part I: Leaves¿ focus on Mo Yan¿s works as world literature, exploring the long shadow his works have cast globally. Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan¿s English translator, explores the difficulties and rewards of interpreting his work, while subsequent articles cover issues such as censorship and the ¿performativity¿ associated with being a global author. ¿Part II: Trunk¿ explores the nativist core of Mo Yan¿s works. Through careful comparative treatment of related historical events, the five articles in this section show how specific literary works intermingle with Chinäs national and international politics, its mid-twentieth-century visual culture, and its rich religious and literary conventions, including humor. The three articles in ¿Part III: Roots¿ delve into the theoretical and practical extensions of Mo Yan¿s works, uncovering the vibrant critical and cultural systems that ground Eastern and Western literatures and cultures. Mo Yan in Context concludes with an epilogue by sociologist Fenggang Yang, offering a personal and globally aware reflection on the recognition Mo Yan¿s works have received at this historical juncture.

Walther Leisler Kiep is one of the most independent and influential German post-war politicians. He is also a successful entrepreneur and longtime chairman of Atlantik-Brücke, the influential German-American friendship organization, which he now serves as honorary chairman. In his autobiography, Kiep speaks frankly about a life at the center of power: as an independent politician and treasurer of the governing CDU party from 1970 to 1991, who did not shrink from conflict with party leaders Helmut Kohl and Franz Josef Strauss; as Minister of Finance in Lower Saxony; as a longtime member of the Volkswagen Supervisory board for 21 years; and as an ambassador for German-American relations, and confidant of several US presidents. As well as presenting an inside history of the relationship between Germany and the United States, the book sheds particular light on the struggle for German unification and that country's complex relationship with the Middle East.