Laura Ziukaite-Hansen

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

World Languages

This popular introduction to Norwegian (Bokmål) has been revised and updated, making it even easier to learn at home or in the classroom. It is also a useful resource for students of the mutually intelligible Nordic languages Swedish and Danish. Beginner's Norwegian Second Edition includes thirteen lessons covering everyday situations like introductions and dining out, complete with vocabulary, dialogues, and exercises augmented by two audio CDs with native Norwegian speakers. An introduction to Norwegian history, culture, and language, a two-way glossary of expressions, and an Answer Key for self-correction are also included. New features in this edition include a pronunciation section on Norwegian diphthongs, and easier-to-read Norwegian-English and English-Norwegian glossaries.

Beginner's Norwegian

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Bill Hillmann

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

Precocious Chicago teenager Joe Walsh witnesses his heroin-addicted brother commit murder, precipitating a violent spiral that tears his family apart.

The Old Neighborhood

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Magnus Magnusson

Hermann Palsson

The Norse Discovery of America

One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.

The Vinland Sagas

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Eric Christiansen

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived. Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples. Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.

The Norsemen in the Viking Age

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Else Roesdahl

Susan M. Margeson

Kirsten Williams

Revised Edition

Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingship, poetry and family life. The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation.

The Vikings

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Howard J. Zehr

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A New Focus for Crime and Justice

Changing Lenses examines our assumptions about crime and justice, which it terms a 'retributive' lens or paradigm. It then looks at historical, biblical, and practical alternatives.

Changing Lenses

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Egil Törnqvist

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Ingmar Bergman Directs

Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between Stage and Screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman's spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twentieth century media landscape is outlined. In the epilogue the question is answered to what extent one can speak of Bergman's directorial 'method' irrespective of the chosen medium.

Between Stage and Screen

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Penny Lernoux

The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America - The Catholic Church Conflict with U. S. Policy

The most important contribution of the last decade to the american public's understanding of what is happening in Latin america.

Cry of the People

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Francis M. Deng

Social Studies

In this book, African, European, and U.S. experts analyze the issues involved in African conflicts and examine the areas in need of the most dramatic changes. They offer specific recommendations for dealing with current problems, but caution that unless policymakers confront the security situation in Africa, further destruction to national unity and political and economic stability is imminent.

Conflict Resolution in Africa

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Yahya Kamalipour

Image and Perception

In this thought-provoking volume, experts explore the disturbing ramifications of portrayal of the Middle East by the U.S. media; analyze the stereotypes and misconceptions that Americans have of Arabs, Iranians, and other Middle Easterners; and discuss the far-reaching political and cultural impact of the United States on the Middle East. Focusing on the U.S. media (books, magazines, newspapers, motion pictures, television) coverage and portrayal of Arabs, Palestinians, the Intifada, Middle Eastern women, Iran, Islam, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf War, the book also examines the impact of motion picture classics on young children and the perceptions of American students relative to the Middle East. College students, educators, media professionals, policy makers, researchers, writers, and all those concerned about political communication, cross-cultural education, media effects, and international communication will find startling information about a critical topic on which very little has been written.

The U. S. Media and the Middle East

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John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco

A Synthesis of Classical and Contemporary Approaches

Acting Through Exercises

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Anthony Guneratne

With case studies of the cinemas of India, Iran and Hong Kong, and with contributors addressing the most challenging questions it poses, this important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations

Rethinking Third Cinema

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James King

Street Art Performance

Moving Pitches

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John D. Brewer

Gareth I. Higgins

Francis Teeney

Religion is traditionally portrayed as nothing but trouble in Ireland, but the churches played a key role in Northern Ireland's peace process. This study challenges many existing assumptions about the peace process, drawing on four years of interviewing with those involved, including church leaders, politicians, and paramilitary members.

Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland

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William. Goldman

Adventures in the Screen Trade

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Norman K. Denzin

Philosophy

Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema

By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, sex lies and videotape, Do the Right Thing - Norman K Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of text: social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life. Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists (Mills, Baudrillard, Barthes, Habermas, Jameson, Bourdieu, Derrida and others). He relates these ideas to the problematic of the postmodern self as e

Images of Postmodern Society

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Paul Fussell

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

History

Selections from poetry and fiction describe the 20th century's major conflicts.

The Norton Book of Modern War

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Lamb's Players Staff

Developing a Drama Group

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Robert A. Baruch Bush

Joseph P. Folger

Responding to Conflict Through Empowerment and Recognition

Bring a fresh approach to the bargaining table

Tap the transformative potential of mediation and discover the full promise of the mediation process. In this insightful work, the authors present an alternative theoretical framework that affords a deeper understanding of conflict and mediation -- one based on respect for personal strength and compassion for others. Drawing on their own experience and a wide body of research, they offer mediation practitioners, administrators, policy makers, and researchers a new and useful perspective on how mediation is currently practiced, how it could be structured to accomplish more, and how to refine the process for future application.

The Promise of Mediation

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Wallace Shawn

Aunt Dan & Lemon takes us into the world of a young recluse named Lemon (alias Leonora) who spends her nights reading chronicles of Nazi atrocities. Lemon tells the audience about the overwhelming influence in her life of her parents' friend "Aunt Dan," an eccentric, passionate professor whose stories and seductive opinions enthrall Lemon from the time she is a young girl. The relationship that develops between Lemon and Aunt Dan and the conversations that went on in a small house on the bottom of an English garden form the focus of this play about political orientation and the allure of certain ideas-even if they lead to murder. A forceful play exposing the banality of society's evil, Aunt Dan & Lemon explores the ease with which good and bad become reconciled in the human mind.

Aunt Dan and Lemon

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Conscientious Objections

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The Motion Picture Mega-Industry 

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An Approach to Understanding Intercultural Communication 

Cultural Orientation 

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1912-1922

Personalities of the Decade

Sister Liz

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