Product Description: This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise: that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues' are traditionally seen as providing...read more

Product Description: In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing, demanding, and rewarding of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets who were first published in Donald Allen's historic anthology of that name...read more

Product Description: You've got one chance to make a first impression. This little book provides all the insight you need to make sure you're making the right decisions when new customers enter your business. Your ability to provide a great "New Shopper Experience" will set you apart from every competitor...read more

Product Description: The stories and memories that shape the identity of a Jewish family of Russian origin living in Finland since the beginning of the 20th century make up this humorous and semi-autobiographical novel. The stories give insight into Benno, a cornetist with the czar's army who left Russia to escape his country's anti-Semitism; his father, a bootlegger who arrived in Finland by skiing there; and his son Arje, a militant communist who fought with the Germans against the Soviets during World War II...read more

Product Description: When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state’s public sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted inresponse put the labor movement back on the nation’s front pages...read more

Product Description: In recent criticism, Samuel Beckett's prose has been increasingly described as a labor of refusal: not only of what traditionally has made possible narrative and the novel but also of the major conventional suppositions concerning the primacy of consciousness, subjectivity, and expression for the artistic act...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The psychological aspects of social structure and behavior in large-scale organizations are viewed from the perspective of the open-system theory (view table of contents)