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The book reviews and discusses present knowledge concerning the diadromous migration of salmonids. It groups elements ranging from ecology to cell biology, to give the reader a background knowledge for critical understanding of published literature and for proper design of experiments.

A collection of three novels by Anna Schmidt takes readers into war torn Europe during World War II, along with characters who exhibit an unwavering Quaker faith, strong family connections, and the conviction to stand for the truth against evil. Will three couple's love, forged amid great hardship, stand a chance. . .if they even survive all the Nazis throw at them?

Christopher Looby, “Lippard in Part(s): Seriality and Secrecy in The Quaker City” (pp. 1–35) Why did George Lippard publish The Quaker City (1844-45) originally in ten separate parts, issued at intervals over time? Answering this question involves some inference and speculation, but the argument is that the material form of part publication served not only strategic and practical purposes in the print marketplace but served also as an expressive form for Lippard. His early journalistic career was a schooling in seriality (his most interesting publications were ad hoc serials), but it was also where his ambition for long form fiction writing developed; The Quaker City then united serial form with an extended novel. This novel was driven by an animus against secrecy (the secret machinations of the powerful) and a converse devotion to democratic publicity, but serial publication itself entailed a form of secrecy (in a particular sense), and as Lippard wrote and issued the novel over an extended period of time he discovered the paradoxical value of secrecy for democracy. Finally, his little-known and belatedly published Key to the Quaker City (1845) embodied the antinomy of secrecy and publicity: it both revealed the novel’s secrets and manufactured new ones, preserving secrecy in perpetuity—that is, preserving the openness of the future for democratic agency.

David S. Reynolds, “Deformance, Performativity, Posthumanism: The Subversive Style and Radical Politics of George Lippard’s The Quaker City” (pp. 36–64) The most interesting American example of the genre known as city-mysteries fiction, George Lippard’s The Quaker City (1844–45), while rich in characters, stymies the novelistic stability conventionally provided by the struggles of heroes against villains in the mystery genre. Lippard’s style thus gets foregrounded as the locus of morality and politics, displaying an acerbic, presurrealistic edge. The current essay surveys linguistic and generic deformations (alinear narrative, irony and parody, bizarre tropes, performativity, and periperformativity) and biological and material deformations (posthuman images, including animals, objects, sonic effects, and vibrant matter) in The Quaker City to suggest how Lippard stylistically reinforces his goal of satirizing literary and social conventions and of exposing what he regards as hypocrisy and corruption on the part of America’s ruling class.

This essay argues that Winkfield's pseudonymous novel offers a detailed realization of — and a critical response to — an Ibero-American fantasy at the heart of Robinson Crusoe : a specifically English fantasy of access to Spanish and Portuguese wealth derived from the Americas. Positioning Winkfield's novel in this hemispheric context, we find its protagonist and narrator is less a triumphantly female and hybrid apostle of Christianity than a kind of spectral embodiment of fantasy, insistently giving the lie to Crusoe's ‘hemispheric disavowal’ through an obsessive will to enslave that brings to light and mirrors what was latent but suppressed in her literary forebear. Ultimately, the novel advocates the unsettlement of America on a single island of the extended Caribbean, a hemispheric south of past and future plantations running from the novel's colonial Virginia to Crusoe's ‘Brasils’.

Nineteenth-century U.S. novelist and social activist George Lippard wrote his 1845 best seller,The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall, in the wake of economic chaos following the Banking Panic of 1837. While most of the novel portrays sensationalized acts of violence and sexual aggression used to call attention to the dire social circumstances of his era, Lippard includes two contrasting prophecies of America's future: one, a dystopian nightmare set in A.D. 1950, and the other, a brief, utopian vision set in approximately A.D. 2040. Lippard's inclusion of this utopian revelation, which portrays a United States free of violence, provides insights into the fate of utopia in America during troubled economic times. This article examines Lippard's early brand of urban socialism and his role as a sensation novelist, noting his narrative method for articulating utopian ideas. By selecting a precariously stationed female character as his visionary, Lippard underscores the fragility of utopian potentiality amid 1840s U.S. economic chaos. Because of Lippard's allegorical structure, as his heroine is threatened, so too is the utopian future she foresees.

These ten magical stories are primarily set in Pittsburgh-area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their culture and folklore to bring life and a sense of wonder to a seemingly barren region of the Rust Belt. Each story catapults the ordinary into something original and unpredictable. A skeptical journalist scopes out the bar where the town mayor, in seemingly perfect health, is drinking with his buddies and celebrating what he claims is the last day of his life. A woman donates her dead mother’s clothes to a thrift shop but learns that their destiny is not what she expected. A ten-year-old girl wrestles with the facts of life as she watches her neighbor struggle to get pregnant while her teenage sister finds it all too easy. A high school girl hallucinates in a steamy hospital laundry room and discovers she can see her coworkers’ futures. A developer’s wrecking ball is no match for the legend of Giovanna’s green thumb in the title story “Giovanna’s 86 Circles.” Quirky and profound, Corso’s magical leaps uncover the everyday poetry of these women’s lives. Finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award Selected for “Best Short Stories of 2005” in Montserrat Review Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association Sons of Italy National Book Club Selection

Filmmaker Qina Liu has created a short documentary about Katharine Kittredge's decade-long quest to learn about the life and work of Anglo-Irish diarist and poet Melesina Trench. The story tells of remarkable coincidences, documents lost and found, and the emergence of Trench's descendants in the project's final chapter.