<p>"This survey of Hmong history and culture answers a keenly felt need for a study that combines comprehensive coverage with concise scope". -- C.T. Yates, Earlham College</p>

Hmong: History of a People

Politics & Social Sciences

Quincy, Keith

Social Sciences

Eastern Washington Univ Pr

Mount St. Helens: Five Years Later

Keller, S. A.

Science & Math

The Man Who Was Marked by Winter

Literature & Fiction

Meehan, Paula

Poetry

From the Foreword of this 66 page book: "Just occasionally there is a poet who marshals the details and meanings of her time and place in such a way that she becomes an essential voice. Paula Meehan is a poet like that. These are the lyrics of the Dublin in which she was born and of the wider landscape she seeks out. They fit 'each surprising street to city square to diamond'. They invite the reader into a dimension of compelling details: of winkle fish and blackthorn and albino butterflies. They propose the unabashed enchantments of fragrant applewood or the bright bronze nib of a fountain pen. And then, in beautiful surprises of language and argument, the dimension unfolds and re-creates itself into the surprising and ambitious spaces of contemporary vision: of a poet who is also a woman, who is restating the Irish poem in terms of new initiatives and perspectives. This is a book of wonderful coherence and direction. Dependable in its clarity of image, but unpredictable in its reach into melancholy and elegy. And yet its purpose is always clear: to honor the hard, daily human adventure - to do it true justice - by memory and music and language."

Being Elsewhere derives from Professor Sisk's personal experiences, which draws us back in time to the building of the Grand Coulee Dam in the late twenties and to the life of a caddy in the era of the Great Depression. The geography stretches as far as Guyana, London, Paris, and Venice. His ideas travel from rooming to caddying, from recent Roman ruminations to popular-pulse-taking in Paris....The "elsewheres" of the author's mind are scattered broadly: war and its generals, society and its celebrities, love and fear, couture and fanaticism, hope and acceptance....Traveling through the life of John Sisk, we make an eclectic humanist's journey toward an understanding of our history.

Being Elsewhere

Sisk, John P.

Essays & Correspondence

<p>Here is an account of life on an island, close to earth and sea and the things and creatures of a specific place, uttered as declaration or dialogue or meditation, with the soul and sense of a remarkably gifted poet enriching every line, every page. Linked as sequence or by subject to make the patterns of backbones, the poems relate the day-to-day affairs of one who has chosen, with his wife and neighbors for company, to live where the elemental takes on the flesh of meaning in particular, closely observed ways. Every experience is thus as charged and natural and profoundly moving as the sound of the human voice, carried across water from the trees and rocks of the shoreline. Through these poems we hear the voice of one who cherishes language as the vital force connecting us to each other - one who knows how vital the poetic resources of language are to express our deepest feelings, fear, anger, joy, love. And everywhere we encounter, and are refreshed by, Sam Green's acceptance of the poet's status in the world he wakes and works and makes love and sleeps in. Strength and tenderness are here as assuredly as the woodsman's grip on his ax handle, and the player's fingers over the strings of his guitar.</p>

Vertebrae: Poems 1978-1994

Green, Samuel

Memory and Heaven

Howell, Christopher

The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74 : Transforming an American Environment

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Youngs, J. William T.

Economics

Hangar Talk: Interviews With Fliers 1920'S-1990's

Biographies & Memoirs

Divorce Boxing: Poems

Berry, David Chapman

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