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In Paris, on August 21, 1911, came a crime like none other: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. In The Crimes of Paris, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the gripping story of the theft and the investigation that followed.

Mick Gidley is a professor of American literature at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated and the editor of Modern American Culture: An Introduction.

A concise overview of all of the terminations and restorations of Native American tribes

A poetic history of Southern California, told from the perspective of both Western science and Native myths and legends

Matt Miller is an assistant professor of English at Yeshiva University. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Book History, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.

A collection of dispatches Cartmill sent to family and friends while researching and writing a play about Standing Bear

Retelling of the historic 1934 Princeton/Yale american football game

Biographical sketches of nine admirable people in and around sports

A longtime soccer writer, Donn Risolo served as ESPN/ABC¿s chief researcher for coverage of the 1994 World Cup for matches at the Rose Bowl. He is the coauthor of The Wilson Guide to Soccer.

John Culbert teaches at Scripps College and has published articles in numerous journals, including October, Postmodern Culture, Qui Parle, and L¿Esprit Cr¿eur.

Translation of: Muerte como efecto secundario.

An examination of the oral, graphic, and critical impulses in Native American creative representation that demonstrates a continued relationship between traditional Native systems of representation with contemporary Native literature

According to W Scott Olsen, there are two reasons for flying. The first is just to get somewhere. The second has nothing to do with destination. This book explores this second reason, expressing our deepest curiosity and our longings for infinity, grace, and clarity.

Written by the author, a Brule Lakota woman who experienced firsthand the often devastating changes forced on the Lakotas, this book presents her attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history.

Donning a backpack for a long, lonely walk, the author of "Marching Through Georgia: My Walk with Sherman" retraces the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the 900 miles his ancestors had been forced to travel in 1838. Map.

Tom Kizzia is a journalist at the Anchorage Daily News.

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows" traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, "king of the wheelbarrow" at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself. In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau's characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance of modernization with touchin...

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Paule Constant is the author of seven novels, including The Governor's Daughter (Nebraska 1998), which was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt in 1994. ¿Betsy Wing's translations include The Governor's Daughter, H¿ne Cixous's The Book of Promethea, and Edouard Glissant's The Fourth Century (all available from the University of Nebraska Press).¿Margot Miller teaches French at the University of Maryland.

A palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible". Originally published in France in 1982, Gerard Genette's PALIMPSESTS examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts on the same document.