Biography: general Books
The University of Chicago Press Audubon at Sea The Coastal and Transatlantic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"These excellent selections are a wonderful reminder of why Audubon's writing deserves to be more widely read. Audubon at Sea is a delightful, captivating book, one that ranges to different regions and seasons, and features not only birds but fish, marine mammals, and many passages of interest concerning fishing, hunting, and collecting practices. Irmscher and King's expertise is impressive, and their introductions are helpful, informative, and beautifully written. The notes section is also truly remarkable: extremely well-informed, instructive, and detailed. This is a superb read." -- Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno, author of "On the Trail of the Jackalope"Table of ContentsForeword by Subhankar Banerjee Sources for the Texts Introduction I. Journal of a Sea Voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool aboard the Delos (1826) II. Ornithological Biography (1831–1839) Southern Waters A Long Calm at Sea The Florida Keys The Florida Keys (Part 2) The Brown Pelican and The Mangrove The Turtlers Black Skimmer or Razor-billed Shearwater Death of a Pirate The Frigate Pelican The Sooty Tern The Wreckers of Florida American Flamingo Wilson’s Plover St John’s River in Florida Mid-Atlantic Waters The American Oyster-Catcher The Fish Hawk or Osprey and The Weak Fish Little Guillemot The Long-billed Curlew Western Waters Black-footed Albatross Gigantic Fulmar New England and Atlantic Canada The Bay of Fundy Common Gannet The Eggers of Labrador The Foolish Guillemot The Great Black-backed Gull The Wandering Shearwater Cod-Fishing The Razor-billed Auk The Common Cormorant The Puffin Great Auk Wilson’s Petrel III. Journal of a Collecting Voyage from Eastport to Labrador aboard the Ripley (1833) Coda Acknowledgments Index
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press An Open Secret The Family Story of Robert and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The first lines of Nicholas Syrett’s third book, An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, had me hooked. . . [Syrett] takes us into the world of an Illinois couple—one born into a rich family with ties to the founding of the Union Stock Yards and the First National Bank of Chicago; the other an orphan in his early twenties, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for architecture with a part-time job and inheritance money." * Chicago Tribune *“The book brings a critical view to the gay intergenerational relationship. It reveals how same-sex love was transformed into familial ties but also into an open secret where the boundary between knowingness and unknowingness was always in suspension.” * DNA Magazine *"An intriguing, complicated, and critical account of a queer affair and one that demonstrates the difficulty of applying contemporary terminologies, practices, and values to past relationships, especially those with limited and latent evidence of queerness. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“Syrett’s expert portrait shakes up modern assumptions about queer coupledom. His richly nuanced interpretation reveals that the kinship claim of these men was not merely a front to hide their sexuality, but a deeply meaningful structure for their emotional and physical intimacy. Not quite the story of a same-sex marriage, An Open Secret shows that the history of male same-sex companionship is much queerer indeed.” * Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality *“Syrett escorts us into a world of wealth and privilege and creatively examines the decades-long intimacy of Allerton and Gregg. Filled with surprising revelations, Syrett’s account offers a new angle on the forms that queer life and love has taken in the past.” * John D’Emilio, author of Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives *“Syrett has crafted an eye-opening and engaging narrative, making a provocative contribution to queer history in his assertion that Allerton and Gregg may have had a relationship akin to bothmarriage and father to son—and that the two are not mutually exclusive. The story of this moneyed conservative couple disturbingly reveals how the privileged found community and refuge in open and secretive ways during a time of heightened homophobia.” * Amy Sueyoshi, author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi *“An Open Secret is a beautifully written, powerful account of queer domesticity, sympathetically humane but never simplistically celebratory of its subjects. Syrett deftly situates his biography in a broader history of twentieth-century LGBTQ communities and culture, offering a hot new take on the expansive queerness that defined some same-sex relationships before the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.” * Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands: A Trans History *"With previous books on the history of white college fraternities and the history of child marriage in the United States, Nicholas Syrett has a reputation for selecting fresh topics and conducting sound research and analysis. Adept with context, he has an impressive way of seeing topics, situations, and individuals in their singularity and as a means of exploring broad cultural themes. An Open Secret continues Syrett’s tradition of originality, attention to context, and rigorous analysis. The book is rich in ideas gracefully expressed." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Syrett’s portrait of Allerton and Gregg is a masterful intervention into both family history and the history of queerness." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Allerton Roots 2 Robert Allerton’s Queer Aesthetic 3 Travel and Itinerant Homosexuality 4 Becoming Father and Son 5 Lord of a Hawaiian Island 6 Queer Domesticity in Illinois and Hawai‘i 7 Legally Father and Son Conclusion: John Wyatt Gregg Allerton Acknowledgments Notes Index
£18.58
The University of Chicago Press The Public Papers
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together for the first time all the papers Louis Sullivan intended for a public audience, from his first interview in 1882 to his last essay in 1924. Organized chronologically, these speeches, interviews, essays, letters to editors, and committee reports enable readers to trace Sullivan's development from a brash young assistant to Dankmar Adler to an architectural elder statesman. Robert Twombly, an authority on Sullivan's work and life, has introduced each document with a headnote explaining its significance, locating it in time and place, and examining its immediate context. He has also provided a general introduction that analyzes Sullivan's writing style and objectives, his major philosophical themes, and the sources of his ideas. With the help of headnotes and introduction, readers will get a thorough sense of Sullivan's concerns, discover how his ideas evolved and changed, and appreciate the circumstances under which new interests emerged. This collection is a handy introduction to the full range of Sullivan's thinking, the book with which readers interested in the architect's writings should begin. As a companion volume to Robert Twombly's biography of Sullivan, it gives a comprehensive picture of one of America's most important architects and cultural figures.
£67.71
The University of Chicago Press The Man Verdi
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Columbia University Press Ivy ComptonBurnett Columbia Essays on Modern
Book SynopsisFrom the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In The Two Sign Painters, TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. His Son's Big Doll introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in Xiaoqi's Cap a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl.Huang's characters -- generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty -- come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.Trade Review"The literary master whom Huang seems most to resemble is Anton Chekhov. Huang portrays his characters with the same kind of compassionate objectivity, gentle humor, and sharp poignancy. His style is pithy, direct and clear... the clash between traditional ways and urban exigencies, the desire to fit in, the need to save face and the difficulty of making a living without losing one's self-respect are problems these characters confront every day, problems that will strike a chord with readers everywhere." -- Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review (Best Books of 2001) "The nine original stories... and Howard Goldblatt's sensitive translations of them are now poignant classics that do credit to David Der-wei Wang's new Modern Chinese Literature form Taiwan series... Huang's fertile imagination moves amid squatters, grotesques, misfits, oddballs -- people with lifestyles characteristic of a poor, developing country prematurely unsettled by urbanization, world politics, and globalization... The characters'guilt, despair, and defiant pride are universal, generally revealed in subtle but startling ways." -- World Literature TodayTable of ContentsTranslator's Note Preface Bibliographic Note The Fish The Drowning of an Old Cat His Son's Big Doll The Gong Ringworms The Taste of Apples Xiaoqi's Cap The Two Sign Painters Sayonara * Zaijian
£27.00
Columbia University Press William Diller Matthew Paleontologist
Book SynopsisThe biography of a man who came to occupy a major position in the history of North American palaeontology. Using personal letters, archives and accounts from those who knew Matthew, this volume presents a portrait of his excavations, travels, research and family life.
£64.00
Columbia University Press Second Skins The Body Narratives of
Book SynopsisExamining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative-thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: On Transitions -- Changing Bodies, Changing Narratives Part 1: Bodies 1. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex 2. A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual Embodiment Part 2: Narratives 3. Mirror Images: Transsexuality and Autobiography 4. "Some Primitive Thing Conceived in a Turbulent Age of Transition": The Invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the Narrative Origins of Transexuality 5. No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues Epilogue: Transsexuality in Photography -- Fielding the Referent Notes Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Finding Fran History and Memory in the Lives of
Book SynopsisExploring the intersections of biography and autobiography, East and West, faith and reason, Finding Fran tells the story of two high school friends who took radically different paths: Lois Banner became an academic feminist, while Fran Huneke converted to Islam, joining the mystical Sufi Order and moving to Egypt.Trade ReviewCandid and serious, Finding Fran is suffused with intelligence and at war with stereotypes... A deeply respectful account of very different ways of being a strong woman. Women's Review of Books Banner's book is a model for discourse and dialogue between often hostile perspectives. -- Kathy Bullock Association for Middle East Women's Studies Banner's ability to see personal choices as part of a larger societal picture has produced a special kind of autobiography, a living history, far superior to the flood of memoirs deluging the market in recent years. -- Charlotte Innes LA Weekly A spiritual quest that encompasses the roots of family and friendship-it will resonate with the women of Banner's generation and beyond. Kirkus Reviews
£78.20
Columbia University Press Melanie Klein European Perspectives A Series in
Book SynopsisIn her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a narrative that covers the history of psychoanalysis and illuminates Kristeva's own life and work.Trade ReviewKristeva, a formidable cultural historian and critic, brings a rich mix of data and ideas. Library Journal Not only is Kristeva superbly successful in this elaboration, but also I believe she is sometimes superior to Klein herself in the conceptual articulation of clinical insights. -- Aleksandar Dimitrijevic MetapsychologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Psychoanalytic Century 1: Jewish Families, European Stories: A Depression and Its Aftermath 2: Analyzing Her Children: From Scandal to Play Technique 3: The Priority and Interiority of the Other and the Bond: The Baby Is Born with His Objects 4: Anxiety or Desire: In the Beginning Was the Death Drive 5: A Most Early and Tyrannical Superego 6: The Cult of the Mother or an Ode to Matricide? The Parents 7: The Phantasy as a Metaphor Incarnate 8: The Immanence of Symbolism and Its Degrees 9: From the Foreign Language to the Filigree of the Loyal and Disloyal 10: The Politics of Kleinianism
£80.00
Columbia University Press Melanie Klein
Book SynopsisIn her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a narrative that covers the history of psychoanalysis and illuminates Kristeva's own life and work.Trade ReviewKristeva, a formidable cultural historian and critic, brings a rich mix of data and ideas. Library Journal Not only is Kristeva superbly successful in this elaboration, but also I believe she is sometimes superior to Klein herself in the conceptual articulation of clinical insights. -- Aleksandar Dimitrijevic MetapsychologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Psychoanalytic Century 1: Jewish Families, European Stories: A Depression and Its Aftermath 2: Analyzing Her Children: From Scandal to Play Technique 3: The Priority and Interiority of the Other and the Bond: The Baby Is Born with His Objects 4: Anxiety or Desire: In the Beginning Was the Death Drive 5: A Most Early and Tyrannical Superego 6: The Cult of the Mother or an Ode to Matricide? The Parents 7: The Phantasy as a Metaphor Incarnate 8: The Immanence of Symbolism and Its Degrees 9: From the Foreign Language to the Filigree of the Loyal and Disloyal 10: The Politics of Kleinianism
£27.00
Columbia University Press No Finish Line
Book SynopsisNo Finish Line is Meyer Feldberg as his friends and colleagues know him. In his telling, Feldberg’s story—both his successes and his failures—is a lesson plan for how to lead a worthy personal and professional life.Trade ReviewA warm and beautifully written memoir from one of the leading business school educators of his generation. Not surprisingly, this former Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Business—who transformed the institution into one of the world’s leading business schools—uses the opportunity to distill a series of life lessons relevant to all. At the same time, the memoir shows a humanity that serves as a role model. Particularly moving is the description of how, as Dean of the University of Cape Town's business school, he used his position to fight against apartheid. -- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for EconomicsMeyer Feldberg has spent life venturing into new countries and new fields. In No Finish Line, he shares the lessons of his experiences—and wisdom on living a good and meaningful life. -- Michael R. BloombergTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsLesson 1. Pace YourselfLesson 2. Be Self-AwareLesson 3. Take Risks to Find the Right FitLesson 4. Life Is FragileLesson 5. Admit Your MistakesLesson 6. Confront InjusticeLesson 7. Address Difficulties in the MomentLesson 8. Be GenerousLesson 9. Place MattersLesson 10. Engage with All Your Constituencies but Know Who Comes FirstLesson 11. Lead from the FrontLesson 12. Wield Power ResponsiblyLesson 13. Make an Extra Effort for Top TalentLesson 14. Be Mentored and Be a MentorLesson 15. Tend to Your FriendshipsLesson 16. Actively Participate in Your CommunityLesson 17. Stay ActiveLesson 18. ConclusionEpilogue
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University of Illinois Press Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
Book SynopsisThe collected writings of composer Ben JohnstonTrade ReviewAwarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).— ASCAP Deems Taylor AwardTable of ContentsEditor's Acknowledgments xi Introduction xi Bob Gilmore Ben Johnston: A Chronology xxv Bob Gilmore 1. ON MUSIC THEORY Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory; Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory 3 Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource 10 Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations 32 Microtonal Resources 41 Tonality Regained 46 Music Theory 53 Rational Structure in Music 62 A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation 77 2. ON MUSICAL AESTHETICS AND CULTURE Musical Intelligibility: Where Are We? 91 A Talk on Contemporary Music 103 Festivals and New Music 107 Three Attacks on a Problem 109 On Context 118 Contribution to IMC Panel 122 How to Cook an Albatross 126 Art and Survival 134 On Bridge-Building 143 Seventeen Items 149 Art and Religion 151 Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper 153 A.S.U.C. Keynote Address 156 Just Intonation and Mere Intonation 163 Without Improvement 166 Maximum Clarity 171 3. SOME COMPOSITIONS On String Quartet No. 2 183 On Sonata for Microtonal Piano 185 The Genesis of Knocking Piece 187 Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence 192 On Carmilla 196 On Crossings (String Quartet No. 3 and String Quartet No. 4) 199 On The Age of Surveillance 201 On String Quartet No. 5 203 On String Quartet No. 6 204 On Journeys 205 On Sleep and Waking 207 4. ON OTHER COMPOSERS Letter from Urbana 211 To Perspectives of New Music re. John Cage 216 The Corporealism of Harry Partch 219 Harry Partch/John Cage 232 Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music 235 Beyond Harry Partch 243 Regarding La Monte Young 251 Notes on Sources 259 Bibliography 263 Discography 267 Index 271
£31.50
University of Illinois Press The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Volume 2
Book SynopsisPromoting birth control as reform rather than revolutionTrade Review"In uncovering these historical gems, Volume 2 makes an unmatched contribution to the study of reproductive rights, genetic inheritance, and women 's rights, and reminds us of the importance of vigilance in protecting what Sanger won." Ann D. Gordon, editor of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
£79.00
MO - University of Illinois Press Let Something Good Be Said Speeches and Writings
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection is perfect, offering the best of Willard without overwhelming the reader. The documents chosen illustrate Willard's uncanny political sense and ability to turn a phrase, as well as her personal trajectory through the halls of temperance, into the wide arena of national and international reforms."--Mari Jo Buhle, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of American civilization and history, Brown University"Gifford and Slagell have done an admirable job of choosing works that reflect the evolution and tenor of Willard's thought. . . . Those readers interested in a fine sampling of this important woman's discourse, a sample that illustrates the breadth and depth of her work, could do no better than Gifford and Slagell's anthology of Frances E. Willard's speeches and writings."--Journal of Illinois History "Gifford and Slagell apply their combined expertise in history, gender studies, and rhetoric to select, edit, annotate, and contextualize 22 excerpts from Frances Willard's speeches and publication, 1874-97. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Let Something Good Be Said is the definitive collection of speeches and writings of Frances Willard, one of the most prominent American reformers and political activists and one of the most prolific female speakers and writers of the nineteenth century. As the recognized experts on Willard in the fields of history and rhetorical studies, DeSwarte Gifford and Slagell have expertly selected and annotated the first primary-text collection of her speeches and writings, providing an invaluable resource for scholars and students from a wide array of disciplines, including those interested in temperance, Gilded/Populist era social reform, and Willard herself."--Susan Zaeske, author of Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
£48.06
University of Illinois Press Elizabeth Packard
Book SynopsisOne woman's courage to battle stigma and injustice for women and the mentally illTrade Review"Linda Carlisle's comprehensive history makes a significant contribution to the field of psychiatry and the study of women's rights. Using a large mass of primary sources that hitherto remained unexamined, Carlisle sheds a great deal of light on the life of an individual who has not been taken seriously in much of the historical literature--until now."--Gerald N. Grob, Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University"This engaging book shows the fluid nature of what constitutes mental illness, and the evolving role of women in the household."--History of Psychiatry
£29.70
University of Illinois Press Feminist Writings
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015. "An impressive work of erudition. Essential."--Choice"Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann's decision to present these essays with introductions from an extraordinary community of scholars is a felicitous addition that enables the texts and meta-texts to bring to light their subtexts. The result is perhaps the best accolade to bestow on any work of scholarship: its necessity. For anyone interested in Beauvoir or the foundations of twentieth century feminist thought, research is imperiled without a perusal of this book."--Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut"Of all the excellent volumes in this amazing series . . . perhaps this one is the most awaited. This volume gives new insight into Beauvoir's thinking about gender, sexuality, motherhood, the women's movement, and the place of women in the world. These texts, many of which are available in English for the first time, and collected here for the first time anywhere, show the evolving thought on women by the most important feminist thinker of the twentieth century."--Kelly Oliver, author of Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment"I was thoroughly engrossed with these texts. This volume significantly adds to the Beauvoir literature, and to feminist literature more generally, and should put to rest, once and for all, the myth that Beauvoir embraced feminism only in 1972."--Claudia Card, author of The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil"Excellent introductions by leading scholars carefully locate these works in their own contexts and also demonstrate why we should still attend to Beauvoir's thinking today. This collection is necessary reading not only for those interested in Simone de Beauvoir's thinking but for all who are interested in the emergence of contemporary feminism."--Sonia Kruks, author of Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity
£31.50
University of Illinois Press Ilegal Reflexiones de un inmigrante
Book SynopsisTrade Review"He aquí la autobiografía de un hombre honesto, obligado a vivir entre sombras, a evadir preguntas y a mentir, alguien que se presenta de manera anónima, ya que revelar su identidad sería arriesgarse al arresto y la deportación. Un retrato fiel, una fotografía en close-up de la vida de un inmigrante indocumentado en Estados Unidos."--Kirkus Reviews "Como toda historia interesante, la de José Ángel es la historia de un fracaso que en su intimidad tiene algo de triunfo ... permanece estancado en una suerte de limbo: una ciudad invisible donde confluyen la memoria del pasado y la angustia del presente, un punto donde se intersectan el inglés y el español, la desilusión y la esperanza ... José Ángel penetró en el laberinto de la lengua con la curiosidad y entusiasmo de un niño. Su elección del inglés no es, como él mismo en muchas ocasiones piensa, una decisión fría y racional. Es más bien un acto de amor y de fe."--Marco Escalante, del prólogo
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Twenty Years at HullHouse
Book SynopsisAn annotated edition of Jane Addams' autobiography.Trade Review"One of the most important books ever written in the United States, Twenty Years at Hull-House remains a classic because it addresses large questions of human destiny and social justice in terms that are as relevant today as they were one hundred years ago."--Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Catherin Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity"After twenty years of relative obscurity, the early-twentieth-century social crusader and author of Twenty Years at Hull-House is once again in the spotlight."--Arianne Chernock, Lingua Franca"The classic account of the development of Hull-House into a vibrant community center for Chicago's immigrants and poor. Addams' memoir is central to understanding the aims and mood of the progressive era."--The Front Table
£17.99
University of Illinois Press Seed of Sarah Memoirs of a Survivor
Book SynopsisThis gripping and highly acclaimed account of a young woman's experience in concentration camps now includes a final chapter, "A Time to Forgive?" detailing the author's trips back to her former forced labor camp in Germany.Trade Review"European culture may have failed the human race during the crucial Holocaust years, but it is vindicated in this memoir in the person of the young Judith Magyar."--Freema Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review"We must be grateful to [Isaacson] for her courage to relive the anguish in order to write this remarkable book."--Bernard Lown, M.D., corecipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize"What informs the story in this book is an indomitable optimism despite great odds."--Yaacov Luria, Jewish Post and Opinion"This frank, first-person account of the author as a nineteen-year-old Hungarian Jewish girls sent to Auschwitz has an immediacy that will reach teens and a message of courage and hope amid horror that will touch them."--Candace Smith, ALA Booklist"Its lucidity and mixture of detachment and personal presence make it unique among memoirs of Holocaust survivors. This is more than an account of our century's most fearful event. It is reportage from the soul and, as such, is quite extraordinary."--Rod MacLeish, former book critic and commentator for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition"
£16.14
MO - University of Illinois Press Very Special Agents
Book SynopsisFrom Chicago's Al Capone to Waco's David Koresh, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has taken on America's most ruthless criminals and single-minded fanatics. This title delivers the disclosure of the bureau's controversial exploits.Trade Review"A straight-on, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most effective federal agencies, told by a veteran ATF agent with 25 years' experience chasing mobsters, contract killers, hate groups, and gun nuts. If it were a novel, it would be promoted as 'action-packed thriller,' but it's real life, folks. . . . The ATF has given invaluable assistance in helping convict members of the Mafia, KKK, and Hell's Angels, and its crime labs have helped crack the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings, but you'd never know it, and all most of us can remember about them is their part in the tragedy at Waco."--Tom Elliott, The Mensa Bulletin
£21.59
MO - University of Illinois Press Preacher
Book SynopsisBorn in Iowa during the Civil War, Billy Sunday rose to fame as the "fastest man in baseball" during his career with the Chicago White Stockings in the 1880s. In this account of Billy Sunday's life, the author unfolds the story of modern evangelism.Trade ReviewADVANCE PRAISE "Billy Sunday was the mold from which today's televangelists are cast... Preacher offers readers a delightful entry into a fascinating chapter in U.S. church history." -- Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "[A] detailed, diverting study." -- Publishers Weekly
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MO - University of Illinois Press Jane Addams a Writers Life
Book SynopsisThe story of the literary woman behind the public figureTrade Review"Filled with wonderful surprises. . . . Addams emerges from this study as a woman intent upon sharing her moral vision and the world she knew with her readers."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Joslin was scrupulous in her archival research, and her prose is lively and eminently readable. . . . Highly Recommended."--Choice"The task of Katherine Joslin's Jane Addams: A Writer's Life is to reclaim the private woman long neglected by biographies that extol the public icon and to reposition Addams as a writer among literary figures. She does both admirably."--Grace Farrell, Legacy“Katherine Joslin's Jane Addams, A Writer's Life is a splendidly researched and masterfully written study of what is arguably the most extensive, wide-ranging, and enduring achievement of this remarkable woman, Addams's public and personal writing. Joslin's book enables us to appreciate how essential reading and writing were to Addams's understanding of life and, more importantly, how much the persuasive power of her ideas is inseparable from the eloquence of her literary expression. ‘The fact is, Madam,’ the philosopher William James wrote in admiration, ‘that you are not like the rest of us who seek the truth and try to express it. You inhabit reality; and when you open your mouth truth can't help being uttered.’ Joslin brilliantly reveals the reality Addams inhabited and the truths she uttered.”--Carl Smith, Northwestern University"A breakthrough interdisciplinary study of the writings of Jane Addams, set in intense cultural and intellectual context. An extremely multidimensional and creative work, it deals seriously with the entire span of Addams's creative output, from childhood writings to final publications. There is simply no other book like this--I cannot over-emphasize its contribution."--Barbara Bair, The Jane Addams Papers Project, Duke University"Joslin combines meticulous research with an intimate knowledge of her subject matter for a commanding literary biography."--Sheila Teahan, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Moral Imagination 1 1. Three Journeys 19 2. Finding a Voice 58 3. Public and Private 102 4. Telling a War Story 149 5. Honest Reminiscence 202 6. Writing a Life 242 Notes 263 Bibliography 283 Index 293Illustrations follow page 17
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MO - University of Illinois Press Moving Beyond Borders Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies
Book SynopsisThe lifework of a pioneering scholar and leader in Latino studiesTrade Review"Succeeds mightily in giving Julian Samora his well-deserved recognition as a major figure in the building and sustenance of an important dimension of inclusion in higher education."--Journal of American Ethnic History"Julian Samora gave his life and work to a better and more complete understanding of the Chicano/Latino experience. This text is a wonderful and valuable introduction to the man and scholar."--Mario Garcia, author of Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona"This outstanding book provides marvelous insight not only into the life of a remarkable man but into the era that he helped to shape. I literally could not put the book down."--David T. Abalos, author of Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the PoliticalTable of ContentsEl Corrido de Julian Samora viJesus "Chuy" Negrete Samoristas' Creed viiiMarcos Ronquillo Foreword xiiiHerman Gallegos Preface xviiVilma Martinez Acknowledgments xix PART ONE: THE LEGACY OF JULIAN SAMORA Introduction: Moving Beyond Borders 1Alberto Lopez Pulido, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, and Carmen Samora 1. Grace and Redemption: Julian Samora 1920-1996 9Carmen Samora 2. A Scholar and Visionary in Mexican American and Latino Studies 30Barbara Driscoll de ALvarado 3. Philanthropy, the Creation of a National Minority and the Mexican American Graduate Studies Program at Notre Dame 49Alberto Lopez Pulido PART TWO: SAMORISTAS @ 57 Introduction: Creating an Intellectual Community 65Alberto Lopez Pulido, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, and Carmen Samora A. COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM 4. Constructive Marginality: En el otro lado 72Richard A. Navarro 5. Serving Our Communities (1970-1980) 79Ricardo Parra and Olga Villa Parra 6. From Uvalde, Texas, to South Bend, Indiana: A Chicano Goes to Notre Dame 89Alfredo Rodriguez Santos cls 7. Don Julian Samora, un hombre de Ubuntu 98Lydia Espinosa Crafton 8. Julian Samora: Una de los primeros sabios 106Alberto Mata Jr. 9. Fair Taxes and the Social Contract: The Samora Influence on a Chicano Economist 113Sergio X. Madrigal 10. Circles of Commitment 119Marcos Ronquillo 11. Common Geographies 125Ken Martinez B. THE PEDAGOGY OF JULIAN SAMORA 12. Reflections on Education: Post-Samora 132Teresita E. Aguilar 13. Julian Samora's Pedagogy of Empowerment 137Victor Rios 14. Personal Reflections on Education 142Jose R. Hinojosa 15. Crossing Disciplines and Boundaries: From South Bend to Mexico City 147Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado 16. In the Autumn of His Life 154Rudy Sandoval 17. Early Mentor 159Phillip Gallegos 18. Vessels of the Samora Legacy: Mentoring the Third Generation 166Anthony J. Cortese C. RESEARCH AND THE INTEGRATIVE PROCESS OF JULIAN SAMORA 19. Translating the Whole Person: Julian Samora as Research Mentor 172Alberto Lopez Pulido 20. Julian Samora: Mentor 174Jorge A. Bustamante 21. Making History 180Julie Leininger Pycior 22. Reflections on Research Perspectives and Strategies 188Paul Lopez 23. On Respect and Teaching 196Ciro Sepulveda 24. Becoming a Scholar: A Tribute to Julian and Betty Samora 201Gilberto Cardenas D. PERSONAL REFLECTIONS: VOICES AND SENTIMENTS FROM SAMORISTAS 25. Personal Visions: "Coming of Age with Samora" 207Miguel A. Carranza 26. Reflections on the Impact of Dr. Julian Samora 210Delfina Landeros 27. The Seeds We Plant 218Frank M. Castillo 28. The Legacy of Latino Consciousness 223Rene Rosenbaum 29. Julian Samora and His Lesson of Revelation 229Alberto Lopez Pulido 30. "Pues aqui me tienen" 233Amelia M. Munoz Appendix: "Mestizaje: The Formation of Chicanos" 241Julian Samora Index 259 Notes on Contributors 269Photographs follow page 64.
£22.49
University of Illinois Press Archipelago
Book SynopsisReflections of one architect's uniquely engaged lifeTrade Review"This book, Archipelago, streams in an irresistible flow of confidence yet it is barely a documentation of the work of an architect or of his teachings. It is a chart of islands of thought, linking their interconnections and discovering constellations of meaning from everyday life and aspects of human existence and ultimately offers courses of navigation in the various channels of architecture."--Rick Joy, AIA, from the book's foreword
£38.36
University of Illinois Press Sweet Dreams
Book Synopsis One of the most influential and acclaimed female vocalists of the twentieth century, Patsy Cline (1932–63) was best known for her rich tone and emotionally expressive voice. Born Virginia Patterson Hensley, she launched her musical career during the early 1950s as a young woman in Winchester, Virginia, and her heartfelt songs reflect her life and times in this community. A country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success, Cline embodied the power and appeal of women in country music, helping open the lucrative industry to future female solo artists. Bringing together noted authorities on Patsy Cline and country music, Sweet Dreams: The World of Patsy Cline examines the regional and national history that shaped Cline''s career and the popular culture that she so profoundly influenced with her music. In detailed, deeply researched essays, contributors provide an account of Cline''s early performance days in Virginia''s Shenandoah VaTrade Review"There are few voices in American music as iconic as Patsy Cline's. . . . Warren R. Hofstra's edited collection Sweet Dreams: The World of Patsy Cline gives that voice a rich historical context. The range and quality of authors are impressive. Sweet Dreams takes the often trite 'life and times' rubric and makes it seem fresh and vital, a model for understanding influential musical artists within historical context."--The Journal of Southern History"Why is Patsy Cline relevant? Hofstra synthesizes everything offered and ruminates on the durability and permanence of Cline's legacy. Recommended."--Choice"Sweet Dreams is not simply a thorough and multi-framed gaze upon the national icon(oclast) and legend, Patsy Cline. The volume goes deeper, exploring musical genres, class, and geography, while navigating questions regarding consumption and music's power to authenticate identity."--Appalachian Journal"The achievement of Sweet Dreams is that it explores the tensions and ambivalences in Cline's career and does so in a way that instructs scholarship on other country stars."--Notes"This book will stand out as a definitive work on Patsy Cline, country music, popular music, and gender and class in post-World War II American culture. The essays provide interesting insights into Cline's historical, musical, and sociological importance."--Michael T. Bertrand, author of Race, Rock, and Elvis
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University of Illinois Press Ilegal
Book SynopsisPor fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nueva en Estados Unidos, a donde llegó habiendo cursado la secundaria. N. acogió la educación y de ahí ascendió, de ser aprendiz del inglés como segunda lengua a realizar estudios de posgrado, antes de convertirse en traductor profesional. A pesar de tener un buen trabajo, hubo barreras que lo confinaron a las sombras. La falta de documentación legal le impedía viajar con libertad e incluso comprar una cerveza en un juego de béisbol. A pesar de vivir en un lujoso rascacielos, no puede abrazar completamente el sueño americano. Sin embargo, N. persistió. Esta motivante historia de éxito contradice los estereotipos de los inmigrantes indocumentados a la vez que evidencia cómo la educación puede convertirse en un Trade Review"He aquí la autobiografía de un hombre honesto, obligado a vivir entre sombras, a evadir preguntas y a mentir, alguien que se presenta de manera anónima, ya que revelar su identidad sería arriesgarse al arresto y la deportación. Un retrato fiel, una fotografía en close-up de la vida de un inmigrante indocumentado en Estados Unidos."--Kirkus Reviews "Como toda historia interesante, la de José Ángel es la historia de un fracaso que en su intimidad tiene algo de triunfo ... permanece estancado en una suerte de limbo: una ciudad invisible donde confluyen la memoria del pasado y la angustia del presente, un punto donde se intersectan el inglés y el español, la desilusión y la esperanza ... José Ángel penetró en el laberinto de la lengua con la curiosidad y entusiasmo de un niño. Su elección del inglés no es, como él mismo en muchas ocasiones piensa, una decisión fría y racional. Es más bien un acto de amor y de fe."--Marco Escalante, del prólogo
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University of Illinois Press Bill Monroe
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Insightful . . . [Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man] presents bluegrass history as it happened, as well as a fresh look at 'this extraordinary individual.'" --Wall Street Journal "A fair, objective, and entertaining chronicle."--Publishers Weekly "A detailed, decade-by-decade, almost moment-by-moment chronicle of the Father of Bluegrass. Because of its thoroughness, it will be the standard biography."--No DepressionTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter One. 1892–1919Chapter Two. 1920–1929Chapter Three. 1930–1939Chapter Four. 1940–1949Chapter Five. 1950–1959Chapter Six. 1960–1969Chapter Seven. 1970–1979Chapter Eight. 1980–1989Chapter Nine. 1990–1996EpilogueAppendix: Blue Grass BoysNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Illinois Press Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAwarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).— ASCAP Deems Taylor AwardTable of ContentsEditor's Acknowledgments xi Introduction xi Bob Gilmore Ben Johnston: A Chronology xxv Bob Gilmore 1. ON MUSIC THEORY Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory; Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory 3 Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource 10 Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations 32 Microtonal Resources 41 Tonality Regained 46 Music Theory 53 Rational Structure in Music 62 A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation 77 2. ON MUSICAL AESTHETICS AND CULTURE Musical Intelligibility: Where Are We? 91 A Talk on Contemporary Music 103 Festivals and New Music 107 Three Attacks on a Problem 109 On Context 118 Contribution to IMC Panel 122 How to Cook an Albatross 126 Art and Survival 134 On Bridge-Building 143 Seventeen Items 149 Art and Religion 151 Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper 153 A.S.U.C. Keynote Address 156 Just Intonation and Mere Intonation 163 Without Improvement 166 Maximum Clarity 171 3. SOME COMPOSITIONS On String Quartet No. 2 183 On Sonata for Microtonal Piano 185 The Genesis of Knocking Piece 187 Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence 192 On Carmilla 196 On Crossings (String Quartet No. 3 and String Quartet No. 4) 199 On The Age of Surveillance 201 On String Quartet No. 5 203 On String Quartet No. 6 204 On Journeys 205 On Sleep and Waking 207 4. ON OTHER COMPOSERS Letter from Urbana 211 To Perspectives of New Music re. John Cage 216 The Corporealism of Harry Partch 219 Harry Partch/John Cage 232 Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music 235 Beyond Harry Partch 243 Regarding La Monte Young 251 Notes on Sources 259 Bibliography 263 Discography 267 Index 271
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Indiana University Press Mourning Headband for Hue
Book SynopsisVietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives.Trade ReviewThe author's narrative burns with firsthand accounts, her own and those of others who shared their stories, as they all were trapped in blasted houses, churches and makeshift shelters, wounded, starving, sick and overrun by the Communists and their squads of vengeful executioners...[A] searing first-person account of the misery of war visited upon her family, neighbors and countrymen, caught in senseless, chaotic horror...A visceral reminder of war's intimate slaughter. * Kirkus Reviews *Nha Ca relates countless moments of terror she and her extended family members suffered and shares stories told to her by others who faced similarly dire circumstances. It's an intimate—and disturbing—account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom. * Publishers Weekly *To this day, her harrowing account—of war casualties, searches and arrests, ideological purges—generates intense debates about accountability during war time. * Shelf Awareness *...[A] searing eyewitness account...It makes for an intimate—and disturbing—account of war at its most brutal told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom. * VVA Veteran *This is a worthy addition to accounts that help readers understand the Vietnam War. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *On the whole, scholars will find this memoir invaluable for understanding the American War in Vietnam as an internal civil war between the Vietnamese. * H-Net Reviews H-War *In her translation of A Mourning Headband for Hue, Olga Dror has traversed the terrain of contemporary Vietnamese literature, selected a wonderful gem, Gii Khăn Sô Cho Hu by Nhã Ca, and made it accessible to an English readership. . . . It is simultaneously an account of the experience of civilians trapped in a city under siege and a literary response to the brutalities of war by a leading poet and writer of South Vietnam. * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *Mourning Headband for Hue is Nhã Ca's searing condemnation of the brutality of war. * Michigan War Studies Review *A work of great historical and literary value ideal for use in the classroom, Mourning Headband for Hue highlights overlooked voices and facets of the Vietnam War, meriting inclusion among the classics of wartime fiction. * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationTranslator's IntroductionSmall Preface: Writing to Admit Guilt1. First Hours2. The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer3. Hodge-podge4. On a Boat Trip5. A Person from Tu Dam Comes Back and Tells His Story6. Going Back into the Hell of the Fighting7. Story from the Citadel8. Returning to the Old House9. A Dog in Midstream10. Little Child of, Hue Little Child of Vietnam, I Wish You Luck!
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Indiana University Press Dispatches from the Pacific
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAuthor Ray Boomhower gives us a fascinating look inside the life of a wartime correspondent and man whose insatiable curiosity brought him to the front lines of some of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. . . Boomhower does an excellent job building Sherrod's growing interest in covering the war from the heart of the battle. * WW2 Reads *The contribution this book makes to the Pacific War historiography is well timed. While the First World War has now become separated by the centenary milestone, the Second World War is still intrinsically linked with the American public. Veterans are still with us and that is why Boomhower needs to be read. * JHistory *Biographer Ray E. Boomhower's Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod is a compelling read about a reporter whose dedication, drive, and personal bravery brought the war home. * World War II Magazine *"Dispatches from the Pacific is a gripping biography of a talented WWII reporter who left an incredible impact on the world of journalism. It is a perfect read for history buffs and those with an interest in journalism." * IDS *"Biographer Ray E. Boomhower's Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod is a compelling read about a reporter whose dedication, drive, and personal bravery brought the war home." * HistoryNet *"Dispatches from the Pacific will stick in the minds of its readers and compel them to reflect carefully upon and share with others its distressing insights into the costs exacted from the men and women that American citizens send off to fight their wars." * Michigan War Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface1. The War Correspondent2. Learning the Trade3. Somewhere in Australia4. War in the Fog and Atolls: The Aleutians and Beyond5. Betio: Red Beach 26. Saipan: Smith versus Smith7. Uncommon Valor: Iwo Jima and the Flag Raising8. Okinawa: The Final Battle9. "Taps"BibliographyIndex
£55.80
Indiana University Press Dispatches from the Pacific
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAuthor Ray Boomhower gives us a fascinating look inside the life of a wartime correspondent and man whose insatiable curiosity brought him to the front lines of some of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. . . Boomhower does an excellent job building Sherrod's growing interest in covering the war from the heart of the battle. * WW2 Reads *The contribution this book makes to the Pacific War historiography is well timed. While the First World War has now become separated by the centenary milestone, the Second World War is still intrinsically linked with the American public. Veterans are still with us and that is why Boomhower needs to be read. * JHistory *Biographer Ray E. Boomhower's Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod is a compelling read about a reporter whose dedication, drive, and personal bravery brought the war home. * World War II Magazine *"Dispatches from the Pacific is a gripping biography of a talented WWII reporter who left an incredible impact on the world of journalism. It is a perfect read for history buffs and those with an interest in journalism." * IDS *"Biographer Ray E. Boomhower's Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod is a compelling read about a reporter whose dedication, drive, and personal bravery brought the war home." * HistoryNet *"Dispatches from the Pacific will stick in the minds of its readers and compel them to reflect carefully upon and share with others its distressing insights into the costs exacted from the men and women that American citizens send off to fight their wars." * Michigan War Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface1. The War Correspondent2. Learning the Trade3. Somewhere in Australia4. War in the Fog and Atolls: The Aleutians and Beyond5. Betio: Red Beach 26. Saipan: Smith versus Smith7. Uncommon Valor: Iwo Jima and the Flag Raising8. Okinawa: The Final Battle9. "Taps"BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner will be of interest to both general and academic readers with an interest in the challenges faced by academic women of an earlier generation—and a must-read for those with no such interest. Readers will come away feeling like they've come to know Horner just enough to wish that they, too, had been her mentee and friend." * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsPreface: Meeting WinIntroduction: Writing Win's Life1. Barefoot Girl Running with the Boys2. Loving School and Being Popular3. Funny War Bride4. Washing Diapers in Cistern Water on a Missouri Farm5. Win's Ticket Off the Farm6. A Room of Her Own in Michigan7. Battling the Old Boys' Club8. A Win for Texas9. Epilogue: Reflections on a LifeAppendix: Winifred Bryan Horner, Vitae and BibliographyAcknowledgments
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Indiana University Press The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner will be of interest to both general and academic readers with an interest in the challenges faced by academic women of an earlier generation—and a must-read for those with no such interest. Readers will come away feeling like they've come to know Horner just enough to wish that they, too, had been her mentee and friend." * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsPreface: Meeting WinIntroduction: Writing Win's Life1. Barefoot Girl Running with the Boys2. Loving School and Being Popular3. Funny War Bride4. Washing Diapers in Cistern Water on a Missouri Farm5. Win's Ticket Off the Farm6. A Room of Her Own in Michigan7. Battling the Old Boys' Club8. A Win for Texas9. Epilogue: Reflections on a LifeAppendix: Winifred Bryan Horner, Vitae and BibliographyAcknowledgments
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Indiana University Press Life and Death in Kolofata
Book SynopsisEllen Einterz tells her remarkable story of delivering healthcare in Africa, where she fought against disease, injury, and malnutrition while under threat from the terrorist group Boko Haram.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1You will also require an umbrellaTo the end of the earthSo here we areEvery day someone's child diesLaying the foundationWho among them ever heard of Descartes?In their most dire poverty we find wealthThere are times when I really hate this workThe swift ticking of a little heartThere are no bridgesAmadou AliSlipping and sliding through the mudWhen in doubt, do nothing, go nowhere, say not a wordHe was burned everywhereThere is sure to be sorcery involvedOf donkeys, sheep and stablesThe God in KolofataPart 2She made it clear that she had reached her final destinationKeeping the front wheels in front of the back I am counting on you, should God turn out to be MuslimThe father of the husband ate herYou know about satellite phones?Write well to the Big People, tell them about this placeWhatever you do, don't say you're from EnglishOf the pain they bear, how much is our share?The sous-préfet wants to see youThere is a huge difference between 108 and 112 degrees Part 3Their ability to cope is almost beyond beliefSympathy and shared horrorEvery jutting rib, every mother's tearSome day my very soul will leave my bodyJust weedsPeople say it is blood being poured over the moonGod decided her time had come to dieThey close the nose and mouth, lest the last breath escapeBodies lying contorted on the sandWhere things get doneMy mother, I am dyingI'm going to carry you on my backObama CityIf you shake their hands, your testicles fall offHere, take this, please, fix it Part 4I wonder who will deliver her first childThe war is going to come to CameroonDo they want to kill you or abduct you?Who knows what they are eatingOur job is to take care of them to the best of our abilityWhat good fortune we Americans have hadHow do you say no if the person asking is holding an AK-47?Trekking to go somewhere, anywhereWhere I come from, you do not ask questionsWe wondered if Kolofata was being set up as the bull's-eyeNot longer than seven years, seven weeks and seven daysWhatever you can do, you should doAmong the slaughtered are many we cared for Epilogue
£45.00
Indiana University Press Life and Death in Kolofata
Book SynopsisEllen Einterz tells her remarkable story of delivering healthcare in Africa, where she fought against disease, injury, and malnutrition while under threat from the terrorist group Boko Haram.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1You will also require an umbrellaTo the end of the earthSo here we areEvery day someone's child diesLaying the foundationWho among them ever heard of Descartes?In their most dire poverty we find wealthThere are times when I really hate this workThe swift ticking of a little heartThere are no bridgesAmadou AliSlipping and sliding through the mudWhen in doubt, do nothing, go nowhere, say not a wordHe was burned everywhereThere is sure to be sorcery involvedOf donkeys, sheep and stablesThe God in KolofataPart 2She made it clear that she had reached her final destinationKeeping the front wheels in front of the back I am counting on you, should God turn out to be MuslimThe father of the husband ate herYou know about satellite phones?Write well to the Big People, tell them about this placeWhatever you do, don't say you're from EnglishOf the pain they bear, how much is our share?The sous-préfet wants to see youThere is a huge difference between 108 and 112 degrees Part 3Their ability to cope is almost beyond beliefSympathy and shared horrorEvery jutting rib, every mother's tearSome day my very soul will leave my bodyJust weedsPeople say it is blood being poured over the moonGod decided her time had come to dieThey close the nose and mouth, lest the last breath escapeBodies lying contorted on the sandWhere things get doneMy mother, I am dyingI'm going to carry you on my backObama CityIf you shake their hands, your testicles fall offHere, take this, please, fix it Part 4I wonder who will deliver her first childThe war is going to come to CameroonDo they want to kill you or abduct you?Who knows what they are eatingOur job is to take care of them to the best of our abilityWhat good fortune we Americans have hadHow do you say no if the person asking is holding an AK-47?Trekking to go somewhere, anywhereWhere I come from, you do not ask questionsWe wondered if Kolofata was being set up as the bull's-eyeNot longer than seven years, seven weeks and seven daysWhatever you can do, you should doAmong the slaughtered are many we cared for Epilogue
£20.89
Indiana University Press Kinsey
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Indiana University Press My Life with Trains Memoir of a Railroader
Book Synopsis1. Author was a legend and a RR titan, who was named one of Trains Magazine's '75 People You Should Know'2. A true insider's look at several companies including the formation of Conrail and Amtrak.3. Amazing photos and behind the scenes stories.Trade ReviewWe've seen a lot of railroading's giants pass in recent years, but I can't recall anyone who triggered the kind of deep, emotional response accorded Jim. . . . We'll learn more about him in May 2017 when Indiana University Press releases his book, My Life with Trains. * Classic Trains *The personal observations of a life-long railroader combined with dozens of color photographs make for great railfan reading. * S Gaugian *Jim's recollection of events and the people—the human as well as organizational tensions—is well balanced and accurate. If you are interested in railroad economics and leadership issues, this book should be in your library. Jim McClellan's memoirs provide a series of valuable history lessons, not just for us older folks, but also for those who face the next 30 to 40 years of uncertainty and opportunity. * Railway Age *McClellan covers his wide-ranging professional life, copiously illustrated with his own color photos . . . often taken from his privileged perch in either the locomotive cab or from the rear vestibule. McClellan has left us a vivid memoir of a railroad life well lived. * Classic Trains *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Railroads: 1950-20141. The Northeast2. The Southeast3. The Midwest4. The West5. CanadaPart II. Railroader6. Look Ahead, Look South7. Road of the Century8. Creating Amtrak9. Working at Amtrak10. The Creation of Conrail11. Look South, Again12. The Quest for ConrailReflectionsAppendixIndex
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Indiana University Press Building a City Writings on Agnons Buczacz in
Book SynopsisThe fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Mintz introduced Agnon's posthumously published Ir Umeloah (A City in Its Fullness)a series of linked stories set in the 17th century and focused on Agnon's hometown, Buczacz, a town in what is currently western Ukraineto an English reading audience, and argued that Agnon's unique treatment of Buczacz in A City in its Fullness, navigating the sometimes tenuous boundary of the modernist and the mythical, was a full-throated, self-conscious literary response to the Holocaust. This volume is an extension of a memorial dedicated to Mintz's memory (who died suddenly in 2017) which combines selections of Alan's work from the beginning, middle and end of his career, with autobiographical tributes from older and younger scholars alike. The essays dealing w
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Indiana University Press Jacqueline Kahanoff
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With expository grace, David Ohana has penned an analytically supple and compelling intellectual portrait of a woman who embodied the vision of Israel's integration in an irenic multicultural universe of the Levant."—Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago"By sympathetically recounting the life and thought of the cosmopolitan Levantine intellectual Jacqueline Kahanoff, David Ohana blows on the dying embers of 'Mediterranean humanism' in the hope that they may still burst into glorious flame."—Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley."This engaging biography of Jacqueline Kahanoff lays out her extraordinary journey between countries, languages, and intellectual milieux that shaped her rise as an independent-minded essayist and writer whose views on Levantinism and modernity attracted attention in Israel and beyond. An important book that deserves a wide readership."—Yael Zerubavel, Author of Desert in the Promised LandTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Levantinism—Ex oriente lux1. A Tale of Four Cities2. Levantinism: A Cultural Theory3. Kahanoff's Poetic Journey4. "Where Can I Feel at Home?"5. Being a Modern Woman6. Beyond the Levant7. Life at the Edge of the LineEpilogue: Kahanoff and the Humanist Mediterranean HeritageNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Jacqueline Kahanoff
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With expository grace, David Ohana has penned an analytically supple and compelling intellectual portrait of a woman who embodied the vision of Israel's integration in an irenic multicultural universe of the Levant."—Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago"By sympathetically recounting the life and thought of the cosmopolitan Levantine intellectual Jacqueline Kahanoff, David Ohana blows on the dying embers of 'Mediterranean humanism' in the hope that they may still burst into glorious flame."—Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley."This engaging biography of Jacqueline Kahanoff lays out her extraordinary journey between countries, languages, and intellectual milieux that shaped her rise as an independent-minded essayist and writer whose views on Levantinism and modernity attracted attention in Israel and beyond. An important book that deserves a wide readership."—Yael Zerubavel, Author of Desert in the Promised LandTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Levantinism—Ex oriente lux1. A Tale of Four Cities2. Levantinism: A Cultural Theory3. Kahanoff's Poetic Journey4. "Where Can I Feel at Home?"5. Being a Modern Woman6. Beyond the Levant7. Life at the Edge of the LineEpilogue: Kahanoff and the Humanist Mediterranean HeritageNotesBibliographyIndex
£29.70
Indiana University Press Funny Woman Paper
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGrossman's entertaining, scrupulously documented study—a Jewish Book Club selection in cloth—portrays vaudeville and radio star Brice's talent, determination and legend-building. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Early Years: Birth to Burlesque 2. A oCollege GirlO on the Wheel 3. The Ziegfeld Connection: The Follies of 1910 and 1911 4. Dramatic Doldrums: 1912-1916 5. oA Cartoonist Working in the FleshO: The Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 and 1917 6. Disappointments, Debacles, and oThat Immortal SongO 7. Plastic Surgery for the Stage 8. Trying to Reach othe Hillbillies and the Haute MondeO: 1927-1933 9. oA Burlesque Comic of the Rarest VintageO: The Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 and 1936 Conclusion: oI Knew What I Was Doing--I ThinkO Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow Chapter Six
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University of Notre Dame Press Saints As They Really Are
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this profoundly engaging and moving book, Michael Plekon looks at a range of contemporary writers who have charted their own paths in ‘holy living’ in the context of a fast-changing church and world. He introduces us to the three-dimensional reality of some of those who have explored God’s ways with us in recent decades and distills a great deal of significant theological and spiritual wisdom. And, above all, he boldly argues that what he has been describing is seriously good news about the future of Christian discipleship in the supposedly secular North Atlantic world. This is a book to unsettle us and inspire us: that is, it is a Christian book." —Archbishop Rowan Williams “This is the third in a series of books on holiness and the adventures of people of faith as they put their spirituality to work in a world badly in need of love and repair. . . . These contemporary saints live messy lives of imperfection but stretch their souls and ours with their exquisite writings.” —Spirituality and Practice"The format of the book is like a triptych. Two wings recounting these encounters frame a mesmerising central section, by far the longest chapter, in which Plekon recounts his own education as a Carmelite, first at school, then seminary—but he left before ordination. His criticism of the order is sharp, yet constructive; and the spiritual journey is told in a detail that leaves an indelible impression. Even today, he retains many positives in assessing his spiritual formation for life." —The Church Times "The most interesting pages—and the reason I would recommend this study to anyone interested in how personal narratives reflect the divine at work—are those in which Plekon shares stories of his own religious disappointment and spiritual aspiration during his years in Carmelite formation as a younger man. This is the bulk of the book's middle. Plekon tells his story with honesty and careful attention—and without regard for self-image. He's learned much from the best-selling memoirists to whom he devotes so much space elsewhere in the book. He offers up religious ugliness as well as the good and the beautiful and hopes to learn from it all. He acknowledges again and again the essential dichotomy of our existence as spiritual people: being human, we are fallible, proud and selfish, and yet God is teaching us to be like God. That's sainthood. Or holiness." —Christian Century"Plekon ultimately paints a rich portrait of what holiness is and could be for all the body of Christ in the 21st century. As he writes, "Sanctity is not a moral achievement but more like a seal, a stamp, being marked and set apart as God's own." The stamp stays on us whether we are laity or clergy, young or old, married or single, working or homemaking, resting or fighting, succeeding or failing. But being set apart does not mean being set alone. Plekon does well to remind us of Tertullian's old adage: 'Solus christianus, nullus christianus: There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.'" —Books and Culture“The third book in Father Michael Plekon’s critically acclaimed series Saints As They Really Are explores the lives of Dorothy Day, Peter Berger, Thomas Merton, Kathleen Norris, and Barbara Brown Taylor, among others, using these American Christians’ memoirs and other writings to shine light on their pursuit of holiness even in the midst of their doubts and imperfections. The power of their stories offers a strong argument for the author’s contention that weaknesses and failings are not disqualifying factors for holiness.” —Liguorian “Plekon’s Saints As They Really Are is a continuation of his writing on saints and holiness. The book also includes some autobiographical material from the author’s life as a Carmelite seminarian and brother and now as an Orthodox priest. He stresses that saints do not have to be super-holy or without failings in order to lead a good life.” —Catholic Missourian“This engaging volume explores the practice of Christian holiness amid the hustle and bustle of the real world. Plekon argues that Eastern and Western churches often grant the ‘official’ title of saint to radical ascetics who forsake responsibilities to families, congregations, and secular professions to pursue holiness in places walled off from the world. . . . This is an engaging book on the search of God and the holy amid confusing complexity.” —Religious Studies Review“The heartbeat of this wide-ranging study is Plekon’s unwavering commitment to self-examination over fear, a desire to lay bare the search for God in every season of human life, even, if not especially, the sinful and despairing. . . . Each of [Plekon’s] favored writers, in very distinctive ways, gives us permission to examine both the wheat and the chaff of our personal and ecclesial lives for signs of God’s mercy and grace.” —The Living Church“An educator, an ordained priest of the Orthodox Church of America, and a Christian philosopher of notable stature, Michael Plekon provides in his award-winning book an intuitive observation of the lives of contemporary Christians, giving valuable models and hope to many in this country and beyond its borders.” —Slavic and East European Journal
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University of Texas Press For Glory and Bolívar
Book SynopsisA sweeping biography of Simón Bolívar’s most passionate revolutionary, the Colombian precursor to Eva Perón.Table of Contents Foreword by Fredrick B. Pike Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings, 1797-1822 2. Libertadora, 1822-1827 3. Colombian Crucible, 1827-1830 4. The Liberals' Revenge, 1831-1835 5. Exile and Vindication, 1835-1845 6. Finding Home, circa 1845-1856 7. Afterlife Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press A Gringa in Bogot225 Living Colombias Invisible
Book SynopsisA multifaceted look at a city that has become a model for urban reform even with a war on its doorsteps, interwoven with thought-provoking meditations on living “on the hyphen” between U.S. and Colombian cultures.Table of Contents Foreword: A City on Display, by Herbert Tico Braun Preface Acknowledgments La Primera Ronda My Gringa Accent Life and Rules Looking for Maria View from My Window Dreaming of Journalism War and Peace Life on Movie Row Redprodepaz: Knitting Peace Dogs TransMilenio Three Tall Buildings Displaced Time Plaza de Bolívar Horses and Other Animals El Chocó: Never to the Jungle Artists: Beyond the Invisible Door Dogs II A City of Many Hues Robberies Random Acts of Kindness Upstairs, Downstairs Ciclovía Bombs and Other Loud Noises TransMilenio II Theatre Red, Yellow, and Blue Disappeared Good Friday: The Passion Books Gabo Santa Marta: Listening to Students The Strike Remolinos Abortion and Citizens' Rights Catcalls and Unwelcome Whistles Electing Álvaro Jamundí TransMilenio III Truth and Reparations Dreaming of Journalism II CAFAM Epilogue
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University of Washington Press Firebrand Feminism
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University of Washington Press Firebrand Feminism
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University of Washington Press Anyans Story
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Virginia Drew translates a first-person account of a Tairora woman's life lived in the highlands of New Guinea. The details of her life story are richly interspersed with myth and lore, culture, psychology, and b photographs of her and her fellow villagers. Annotation c. by Book NewsTrade Review"In Albert Hofstadter's excellent translation, we can listen in as Heidegger clearly and patiently explains why one must deconstruct traditional epistemological concern with the relation of subjective content to transcendent object in the name of a distinction, never before made in philosophy, which he calls ontological difference." - Hubert L. Dreyfus, Times Literary Supplement "... the best introduction to [Heidegger's] thought that has yet appeared." - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, New School for Social Research "... for all students and scholars Basic Problems will provide the 'missing link' between Husserl and Heidegger, between phenomenology and Being and Time." -Teaching Philosophy "Perhaps the most generally accessible text that Heidegger published ... the translation is superb."-The Key Reporter A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In Basic Problems Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of philosophy, which he treats by means of phenomenology, and which he defines and explains as the basic problems of ontology.Table of ContentsMap Preface Introduction 1. All Play, No Work 2. Pain: Tairora and Western 3. One Rite After Another 4. To Kainantu and Motherhood 5. For the Greater Glory 6. To the Coast: Another First 7. Big Man Passing 8. Into a Widening World 9. My Two Lives Epilogue Glossary Notes Supplementary Reading Index
£32.73
University of Washington Press Vagabond Life
Book SynopsisA fascinating collection of the travel writings of George Kennan, America's leading expert on Russia in the late 19th century.Trade Review"These transcribed journals of a journey from Daghestan to Georgia to Russia have preserved a number of priceless snapshots of communities and customs now disappeared. . . . This is an impressively researched and intelligent book." -- Peter Nasmyth * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Editorial Note Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology of Kennan's 1870 Travels The Caucasus Writings of George Kennan Journey to the Caucasus Across the Main Caucasus Ridge, with Prince Jorjadze Through the Lands of Chechnya to the Dagestan Highlands Appendix Afterword References Index
£110.48
