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Trouble at the U

By: Margery Wolf

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It’s one of the coldest winters on record in Iowa City, Iowa, with snow still on the ground. The dean of one of the colleges is missing after Thanksgiving break, but even worse, two vans full of returning students are involved in a fiery crash. Soon the media and parents are frantically calling the university. President Barlow and his trusted administrative assistant Mary Lou stand united in their duty, but it’s not too long before things get even more complicated. The dean’s murdered body is found, state police worry that drug cartels are behind the crash, and someone has warned Mary Lou about becoming involved. The body count continues to rise, as does the number of connections between the university and drugs. It will take a cooperative effort of law enforcement, both the two-legged and four-legged kind, as well as a resourceful secretary and her family to unravel the mystery. Drawing on the sixteen years she spent as a faculty member at the University of Iowa, Margery Wolf has crafted a tale that leads readers down a path of intrigue and suspense. Trouble at the U weaves in details of the world of a large university from academic politics to relationships between a small town and professors. The mystery reflects Margery’s ethnographer’s eye in portraying different kinds of people and what makes them unique as Hawkeye state residents.

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260

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457561301

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9781457561306

Coyote's Land

A Novel Ethnography

By: Margery Wolf

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Coyote's Land

A Novel Ethnography

By: Margery Wolf

Via time travel, Charlotte Makee, a 21st century anthropologist, meets an elderly Coast Miwok curer named Sekiak in the hills near Olompali in Marin County, California. Charlotte wishes to learn about Coast Miwok life before their society was disrupted and then destroyed by Catholic priests, Spanish soldiers, settlers, and other foreigners over less than 100 years. Once Sekiak decides to work with Charlotte, she administers a potion that renders her visitor invisible to all but Sekiak and one or two others. That potion also allows Charlotte to comprehend Miwok speech, and she embarks on ethnographic fieldwork, listening and observing in the nearby settlements with Sekiak as her primary teacher of local customs and history. As the two women move back and forth through time, Charlotte fills dozens of notebooks with data about Coast Miwok life that she intends to draw upon to tell the story of what happened to the people of Coyote’s Land. But as Margery Wolf’s “novel ethnography” unfolds, an ominous air settles over the research enterprise, comparable to the ominous air of death and devastation that demolish a once-thriving society. This experimental ethnography joins fiction to historical and cultural data, helping us to feel and see what happened as the Coast Miwok world turned upside down and then was altered beyond recognition.

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324

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457564300

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9781457564307

Deconstructing the Hero

Literary Theory and Children's Literature

By: Margery Hourihan

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Deconstructing the Hero

Literary Theory and Children's Literature

By: Margery Hourihan

Childrens Literature is now a recognised area of study, mainly PG but also on undergraduate education courses. Makes literary theory accessible to teachers

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266

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Routledge

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1134761775

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9781134761777

The Behavior and Learning of Animal Babies

By: Lorus Johnson Milne,Margery Milne

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The Behavior and Learning of Animal Babies

By: Lorus Johnson Milne,Margery Milne

Explores the world of baby animals -- their physical growth, stages of development, behavior, learning, relationships, and environment. The Milnes illustrate how inherited skills and acquired responses work in tandem to guide each animal toward independence and to assure survival. For although each species is born into the world with certain instincts, the ability to survive is also dependent on learning, imitation, memory, and social strategy. B & W photos and an engaging writing style. "Lorus and Margery Milne are among our most skillful writers on natural science." "Reading this book will be a delightful experience for all lovers of nature and animals.

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0871066149

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9780871066145

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Trouble at the U

Trouble at the U

Coyote's Land

Coyote's Land

Deconstructing the Hero

Deconstructing the Hero

The Behavior and Learning of Animal Babies

The Behavior and Learning of Animal Babies

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