Northern Illinois University Press

We are guilty of actions that make no sense. We perform acts of beauty and acts of ugliness. We give in to hidden ambitions, latent hungers, and clumsy grasps at insight. At the heart of these...

It's the summer of 1983. Ronald Reagan is in the White House, Princess Leia is on magazine covers, and Thea Knox is on the road. Fresh out of college, Thea is driving solo from California to New York...

An annotated translation of a diary written by a Russian doctor who was a physician with the 1900 Chukotka Expedition to find gold, and it includes an account of the diarist's visit to the United...

This book traces the history and legacy of flow as a crucial figure within Russian labor discourse since 1870. The book frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to labor culture in vertical...