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Atria Books I Had to Survive
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Simon & Schuster African Stories
Book SynopsisLong considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories—a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer—is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life.This is Doris Lessing’s Africa—where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa. First published in 1965, and out of print since the 1990s, this collection contains much of Ms. Lessing’s most extraordinary work. It is a brilliant portrait of a world that is vital to all of us—perceived by an artist of the first rank writing with passion and honesty about her native land. African Stories includes every story Doris Lessing has written about Africa:
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Atria Books The Face That Changed It All A Memoir
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Simon & Schuster What Comes Next and How to Like It
Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade Review"What Comes Next and How to Like It is a beautifully felt, deeply moving memoir, the best work yet by a woman who has already done some of the best work in the field. It's about friendship, and the shocks friendship can endure when it's true and deep. It's about the rueful pleasures (not to mention the jarring pitfalls) of getting old. It's about enduring tragedy, sickness, and loss. Thomas speaks of these big things by scattering the ordinary jewelry of everyday life: loving dogs (even when they chew your most precious possessions), Googling old boyfriends, rescuing an orphan mouse, and trees that try to grow in the crack between boards. Small speaks for large here, in a calm voice that talks to the mind while it fills the heart. Abigail Thomas is the Emily Dickinson of memoirists, and so much of this book's wisdom is between the lines and in the white spaces. It may only take you two days to read, but the impact will stay with you for a long, long time. Abigail Thomas fills memory with living breath." -- Stephen King"This may be the most honest book I've ever read, by one of the most beautiful writers I know-- dizzyingly truthful, often funny, lyrical, wise." -- Anne Lamott"I would follow Abigail Thomas on any journey she ever takes. The arrival of a new book from this master is always a cause for celebration, because I know right away that I'm about to learn something important about the art of writing and the art of living, both. I come to her books as though to a feast, and leave fulfilled and transformed." -- Elizabeth Gilbert"This episodic memoir is full of love and life. Readers will identify with the feelings and the people even as they realize how different they are, how wondrous." -- Eloise Kinney * Booklist *“Bighearted…frank and funny andunpretentious…[Thomas’s] gratitude and amazement abound.” -- Catherine Newman * More *“A former book editor and memoirist's accountof the remarkable 35-year friendship that sustained her through the trials andtribulations of adult life…A moving andeloquent memoir.” * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *“Irreverent, wise, and boundlessly generous." -- Elissa Schappell * Vanity Fair *"Infused with [Thomas’s] signature sense of mordancy and wit…. all about depth offeeling, the experience of being a mother and a friend…its disparate piecesfall into exquisite place." -- David Ulin * Los Angeles Times *“Full of love, humor, anger and a certain amount of uncertainty…. Although most of these passages are very short and read almost like journal entries, the overall picture Thomas conveys is that of the deep, soul-level relationships that exist between her and her family and with Chuck, connections that make all the highs and lows of life livable." -- Lee E. Cart * Shelf Awareness *“A keenly observed memoir…[Thomas] writes of the changes aging brings us all and of coping through love: of family, dogs, a well-turned phrase. She is superb company." * People Magazine *"Beautifully written...wry...resilient. Her mature bones may not be all that flexible but her topics and sentences flip and cartwheel with the greatest of ease." -- Maureen Corrigan * Fresh Air *“What Comes Next and How to Like It is the story ofhow Abigail Thomas manages to survive all the beauty and sadness life has givenher. If you only read one book this year, make it this one.” -- Ann Patchett"I want to grow oldthe way Abigail Thomas is growing old — with grace and wit, humor and honesty,dogs and dear friends. What Comes Next and How to Like It is plain-spoken and wise. Thomas's chapters are brief (some just a paragraph, none longer than three pages), but they feel complete and full. She says what she means and no more. (But she says it beautifully.)” -- Laurie Hertzel * Minneapolis Star Tribune *"A nearly unforgivable betrayal in the middle of [a] long friendship somehow didn’t end it… and it’s this spirit of stalwart love and loyalty that makes Thomas’s work so moving... The result is a book that reads very quickly, but lingers long after." -- Kate Tuttle * Boston Globe *“Abigail Thomas knows adversity and how to make some kind of joy out of it… a meditation on aging and family that brings to mind Anne Lamott or Anna Quindlen… her gift is to never ponder too long on life’s woes." -- Nora Krug * The Washington Post *“Hilarious, wise, generous…full of interesting places and people and art and feeling and moment and thought." -- Dinah Lenney * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[Thomas] is in total control of the narrative even when she feels that she’s not—a string of tragedies pieced together with undeterred grace.…each scene feels fresh and alive.” -- Alex Layman * Kirkus Reviews *“Thomas has another winner with WHAT COMES NEXT AND HOW TO LIKE IT… a rich, multifaceted portrait of the author’s daily life in Woodstock, New York, with her beloved dogs. She is both forthright and self-deprecatingly funny … readers will treasure this journey with a writer who comes across as a compelling, lively friend." -- Alice Cary * Bookpage *“Beautiful… Thomas writes arrestingly about the trials and gifts of friendship What Comes Next and How to Like It is ultimately about how to live with the hand one is dealt: its disappointments and surprises, the grief and the grace... The result is a thing of beauty, largely owing to the author’s utter fearlessness in the face of the unexpected.” * The Economist *“The astonishingly rhapsodic What Comes Next and How to Like It is this master stylist's best work yet…One of the many gifts of What Comes Next is the news Thomas brings us from the front lines of old age, peppery and witty, neither romanticized nor denied." -- Meredith Maran * Chicago Tribune *
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Gallery Books After Perfect A Daughters Memoir
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Simon & Schuster Janis
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Atria Books The One True Barbecue Fire Smoke and the
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Gallery/Jeter Publishing No Excuses
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Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing Bev
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Atria Books Yesterday Today Tomorrow My Life
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Xlibris Corporation Spencer Tracy a Life in Pictures Rare Candid and Original Photos of the Hollywood Legend His Family and Career
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University of Texas Press J. Frank Dobie
Book SynopsisTaking a fresh look at a landmark Texas writer who hasn’t been the subject of a biography since Lon Tinkle’s 1978 An American Original, this book reveals J. Frank Dobie as a “free-range thinker” who fought for liberal political causes.Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Liberated Mind Part 1: Rebel of the Lost Cause Chapter 1: Along the Ramirenia Chapter 2: The Education of a Brush Countryman, 1904-1912 Chapter 3: From Texas to New York, 1913-1914 Chapter 4: Fighting Conformity, Courting Bertha, 1914-1916 Chapter 5: The Great War, 1915-1919 Part 2: The Rising Star Chapter 6: A Rangeland Epiphany, 1920-1921 Chapter 7: The Making of a Folklorist, 1921-1923 Chapter 8: The Rising Star, 1923-1926 Chapter 9: Voices of the Southwest, 1926-1930 Chapter 10: Regionalism Goes National, 1929-1930 Part 3: Mr. Texas Chapter 11: Dobie in Bloom, 1930-1934 Chapter 12: Into Mexico, 1933-1935 Chapter 13: The Flavor of Texas, 1936 Chapter 14: The Austin Liberals, 1936-1938 Chapter 15: Apache Gold vs. Pale Horse, 1937-1939 Part 4: Texas Needs Brains Chapter 16: The Longhorns, 1939-1941 Chapter 17: True Patriotism and the Singing Governor, 1940-1941 Chapter 18: The Liberal Hero, 1941-1943 Chapter 19: A Contemporary of Himself, 1943-1946 Chapter 20: A Texan in England, 1943-1946 Chapter 21: Texas Needs Brains, 1946-1947 Part 5: Elder Statesman Chapter 22: Coyote Wisdom, 1948-1953 Chapter 23: Elder Statesman, 1951-1958 Chapter 24: Literary Dictator, 1952-1960 Chapter 25: End of an Era, 1955-1959 Part 6: Twilight Chapter 26: One Touch of Nature, Plus, 1960-1962 Chapter 27: Sunset, 1962-1964 Chapter 28: Dobie's Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Barbara Jordan
Book SynopsisA collection of stirring speeches by former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that speaks to issues—ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values—still under intense debate in the twenty-first century.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Biography of Barbara Jordan, with Student Comments My Personal Introduction of Barbara Jordan Erosion of Civil Liberties: Commencement Speech, Howard University, May 11, 1974 The National Political Stage Rising to the Occasion: The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings, July 25, 1974 Center Stage: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, July 12, 1976 The Spotlight after Congress: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, July 13, 1992 Barbara Jordan's Take on Three Twenty-First-Century Political Issues Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices: Testimony in Opposition to the Nomination of Robert Bork, September 17, 1987 Immigration Reform: Congressional Testimony as Chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, March 29, 1995 Religious Faith and Politics: Prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1978; Address at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1984 The Sylvanus Thayer Award Unswerving Dedication to Principle: 1995 Sylvanus Thayer Award Citation, West Point, October 5; Barbara Jordan's Thayer Award Acceptance Epilogue: Remarks of Bill Moyers at the Memorial Service for Barbara Jordan, University of Texas at Austin, January 28, 1996 Notes
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University of Texas Press A Pure Solar World Sun Ra and the Birth of
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University of Texas Press Winifred Sanford
Book Synopsis Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in his magazine, The American Mercury, many of Sanford’s stories were set during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s and 1930s and offer a unique perspective on life in the boomtowns during that period. Four of her stories were included in The Best American Short Stories of 1926. Questioning the sudden end to Sanford’s writing career, Wiesepape, a leading literary historian of Texas women writers, delved into the author’s previously unexamined private papers and emerged with an insightful and revealing study that sheds light on both Sanford’s abbreviated career and the domestic lives of women at the time. The first in-depth account of Sanford’s life and Trade ReviewWinifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer is a well-researched and thorough account of Sanford’s life…If you are part of the ever-growing community of scholars who can’t help but puzzle over the shortage of women writers, especially Texas women writers, then this biography may be for you. * Texas Books in Review *Wiesepape’s methodology in bridging Sanford’s private and public life proves to be highly effective, as she leaves few gaps in Sanford’s life unaccounted for. * Great Plains Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: The Story BeginsChapter Two: A Wonderful TimeChapter Three: Keeping HouseChapter Four: Difficult AdjustmentsChapter Five: The American Mercury AdventureChapter Six: Plans, Pressures, and ExpectationsChapter Seven: Unexpected InterruptionsChapter Eight: Pieces of the PuzzleChapter Nine: One Story Ends and Another BeginsConclusionA List of Winifred Sanford’s PublicationsA List of Stories and Novels That Winifred Sanford Wrote but Never PublishedAppendix A: Letters Exchanged Between Winifred Sanford and the Editors of The American MercuryAppendix B: Lagniappe: Two Unpublished Stories by Winifred SanfordAppendix C: Two Nonfiction Articles for WritersBibliography
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Never Mind the Balkans Heres Romania
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Duke University Press My Butch Career
Book SynopsisEsther Newtona pioneer figure in gay and lesbian studiestells the compelling and disarming story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her lesbian identity during one of the worst periods of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century.Trade Review"Newton is not afraid to get personal and offer her mistakes, personality development, and failed relationships for contemplation. After decades of personal and professional struggle, Newton finds a scholarly community in an evolved culture and helps to create the academic study of gender and sexuality. This book is simultaneously a memoir and an exemplar of this important field." -- Emily Dziuban * Booklist *"In the tradition of the best memoirs, it is chattily engaging, historically illuminating, and deeply, provocatively ruminative. . . . My Butch Career feels intoxicatingly, palpably real: It’s a story we can reach out and touch and one we can also situate ourselves in, even if we’re decades younger than the 78-year-old Newton. What makes My Butch Career so compelling is that while writing about herself, Newton is also examining her milieu with the eye of the cultural anthropologist she became. The story she tells is as much our story as it is hers." -- Victoria A. Brownworth * Curve *"The most captivating part of the book sees Newton circulating through second-wave feminist and lesbian circles in New York and Paris, where the debates, social hierarchies, and tangled affairs she encounters bring her to a late coming of age. In the eighties, her scholarship, once ignored, achieves recognition with the rise of gender and sexuality studies. The book is a thoughtful examination of how personal experiences spur intellectual progress." * The New Yorker *"Throughout My Butch Career, Newton is remarkably candid about the ways that class has influenced her work and perspective on the historical events unfolding around her. . . . It’s a testament to just how great an anthropologist and chronicler of queer life she is that Newton makes sure to include the kinds of details that paint a more complete and complex picture of the world as she’s experienced it." -- Alexis Clements * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Disarming and compelling. . . . My Butch Career is the humorous and graceful story of a gender outlaw in the making, blazing the trail in queer academia." * The Advocate *"My Butch Career joins a distinguished list of lesbian herstories. . .. It is for readers interested in the psychological and cultural challenges for an individual who identifies as a butch lesbian, as well as readers who are interested in lesbian herstory within the greater context of thegay rights movement." -- Cassandra Langer * Gay & Lesbian Review *"My Butch Career is an important narrative of liberation that contributes singularly to the growing body of collective LGBTQ history. It covers the first forty-one years of the writer’s life, a time frame that calls out for a sequel. Newton concludes her memoir with a tribute to the queer writers who have preceded her. With this work, she has secured her place in that pantheon." -- Anne Charles * Lambda Literary Review *“My Butch Career is an arrival story.... All anthropologists, students as well as educators, should read this because it calls attention to what has changed and shows the importance of LGBT/queer social movements and networks of non-normative communities.” -- Anika Keinz * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. A Hard Left Fist 18 2. A Writer's Inheritance 33 3. Manhattan Tomboy 56 4. California Trauma 72 5. Baby Butch 81 6. Anthropology of the Closet 102 7. Lesbian Feminist New York 119 8. The Island of Women 160 9. In-Between Dyke 183 10. Paris France 198 11. Butch Revisited 237 Notes 249 Bibliography 261 Index 265
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Duke University Press Mendings
Book SynopsisMegan Sweeney tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and love and loss, showing how her lifetime practice of sewing and mending clothes becomes a way of living.Table of ContentsA Note on Ornaments ix Piecing. A Prologue 1 1. Selvedge 10 2. Salvage 75 3. Redress 113 4. Threads 137 5. Mending 177 Hem. Acknowledgments 209 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 231
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Duke University Press Mendings
Book SynopsisMegan Sweeney tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and love and loss, showing how her lifetime practice of sewing and mending clothes becomes a way of living.Table of ContentsA Note on Ornaments ix Piecing. A Prologue 1 1. Selvedge 10 2. Salvage 75 3. Redress 113 4. Threads 137 5. Mending 177 Hem. Acknowledgments 209 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 231
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Outskirts Press Vietnam War Defining Moment for America Remembrances and Reflections of an Army Intelligence Officer
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Outskirts Press BACK HOME in Amite County Mississippi
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Outskirts Press Shatter the Silence
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Hachette Audio Villa America
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Grand Central Publishing Stronger
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Grand Central Publishing Stronger
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Little Brown and Company The Targeter LIBE
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Xlibris Mafia Wife
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AuthorHouse Oh God My Husband is Gay
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AuthorHouse Nine Gates of Asia
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AuthorHouse The Leaving of Loughrea
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AuthorHouse The Leaving of Loughrea
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Life of the Mystic Luisa Piccarreta Journeys in the Divine Will the Middle Years PartA
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Protea Boekhuis Bailies Party The Old World 17571819 Book 1
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Protea Boekhuis Bailies Party The New Land 18201834 Book 2
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Protea Boekhuis Bailies Party The frontiers 18341852 Book 3
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Protea Boekhuis The Seed is Mine The Life of Kas Maine a South
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Protea Boekhuis J.M. Coetzee
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Word Alive Press From the Unimaginable to the Extraordinary
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House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Arrival
Book SynopsisThe most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy. Winnipeg Free PressA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookNational Post 99 Best Books of the YearIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?Written with wit and panache, Arrival tells the story of Canada's literary awakening. Interwoven with Mount's vivid tale are enlightening mini-biographies of the people who made it happen, from superstars Leonard Cohen and Marie-Claire Blais to lesser-known lights like thTrade ReviewArrival: The Story of CanLit is a fine gathering together of so many people — critics, publishers and, of course, writers — to explore and explain the eruption that took place in the 1960s and early 70s in our culture. . . . A kaleidoscope of fascinating people who shaped our country’s growth into a literature respected around the world. * Globe and Mail *[A] quick and genuinely informative read, even for those who think they know the story [of CanLit] well. * Toronto Star *[Arrival offers] a vivid sense of the times. . . . Hats off to Arrival for its engaging coverage of a pivotal period in Canadian letters. * Literary Review of Canada *Arrival: The Story of CanLit . . . transform[s] our literature into a hothouse of eye-catching personalities. . . . Not only is Mount’s prose readable, but he has a Malcolm Gladwell–esque flair for mining history for little-known anecdotes. * The Walrus *There’s passion in these pages that’s infectious to read . . . Arrival is Mount's second book and, in many ways, he’s the only one who could possibly have written it. By turns professor, editor, advocate and critic, Mount's voice is rarely absent from any meaningful discussion of Canadian literature. * National Post *The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature … Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy. * Winnipeg Free Press *
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University of Toronto Press Hannah Arendt
Book SynopsisIn this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt''s work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. Kristeva''s aim is to clarify contradictions in Arendt''s thought as well as correct misapprehensions about her political and philosophical views.The first two chapters describe how Arendt followed an original conception of human narrative, such that life, action, and even thought, are only human when they can be narrated and thus shared with other persons who, through the evocation of memory, complete the story and make history into a condensed sign, into a revelation of the ''who.'' The third chapter concentrates on Arendt''s work in relation to her twentieth-century contemporaries, especially Isak Dinesen, Brecht, Kafka, and Nathalie Sarraute. In the last two chapters, on the body and the Kantian concept of judgm
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University of Toronto Press Dancing Queen
Book SynopsisUnder glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Médicis prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women’s and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie’s ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women’s semi-official status as political agents, Marie’s ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen’s productions cTrade Review"The book can be read by historians more generally as well as scholars who specialize in dance history. They will all find an interest in the way Marie de Médicis contributed to dance history, on the one hand, and to French history, on the other. Gough succeeds in reconsidering the queen not simply as a patron of the arts but also as a cunning performer, whose intentions were at once artistic and political. Furthermore, this monograph opens the way to the reconsideration of the role and place of women’s court entertainments, as Gough suggests, in order to ‘encourage future works on the topic.’" -- Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme, Université Clermont Auvergne * Renaissance Quarterly, Summer 2020 *"Dancing Queen offers a new reading of the history of France at a time of enormous change. Thanks to the close reading and analysis of details that, at first, may seem to be not very significant, and thanks to a brilliant ability to connect details that may not, at first, seem linked together, Dancing Queen offers a much richer understanding of Marie’s role as queen, the difficulties she had to face, and the results she obtained through her creation of an ‘alternative center’ of power at court. Thanks to this volume, scholars will now be able to understand more clearly the social and political significance of the court ballets Marie sponsored, which will provide an additional and important source for our understanding of France in the early seventeenth century." -- Elena Brizio, Georgetown University * Renaissance and Reformation *"Dancing Queen's fascinating account of how ambiguity was deliberately exploited to convey different messages to different audiences raises a question that deserves a bit more attention: how intelligible were these often subtle messages to each ballet's intended audience? There is no doubt, however, that Gough has made them substantially more intelligible to her intended audience in this scholarly, informed and illuminating book." -- Julia Prest * Times Literary Supplement *"Through meticulous, wide-ranging interdisciplinary research, Melinda Gough builds a compelling case in the five chapters of this book that Marie de Médicis used to advance both her own status as queen consort of France, and the interests of the French monarchy in the fraught political period of the early 1600s." -- Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York * English Historical Review *"As a detailed study of a genre of performance that had a bearing on elite entertainments at the Caroline court, this book should be of contextual interest to Milton scholars, especially in its welcome understanding of the complex socio-political interactions between the various European powers." -- Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Milton Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Principles of Transcription and Translation Introduction 1 Magnificence, Mistresses, and Marie’s Dance of Maternity 2 Royal Women’s Ballet and/as Royal Ceremonial 3 Alliances and Others 4 Eros and “Absolutism” 5 Dances of Diplomacy: London, Valladolid, Paris Conclusion Appendices Appendix 1: Verse Texts for the Ballet of the Sixteen Virtues (1602) Appendix 2: Verse Texts for the Ballet of Diana and her Nymphs (1609) Appendix 3: Verse Texts for the Ballet de Madame (1609) Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Muiwlanej kikamaqki Honouring Our Ancestors
Book SynopsisThis important book offers new insights into Indigenous lives and actions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an era of major change along the Atlantic seaboard.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Part One: Kespukwitk – Southwestern Nova Scotia 1. Charles Alexis and the Bartlett and Charles Families Janet E. Chute and Travis Pinn 2. Jehan Grand Claude: Patriarch of the Claude/Glode/Gloade Family of Southwestern Nova Scotia Janet E. Chute and Carrie Gloade 3. Paul Guédry dit Labrador and the Mi’kmaw Labrador Family of Nova Scotia Janet E. Chute and Doris Labrador 4. Marguerite Guedry Anne Marie Lane Jonah 5. Pierre Momcharret, Chief of Minas Janet E. Chute and Doris Labrador 6. François Mius: Forest Aristocrat Janet E. Chute 7. The Panuke Lake–St. Margaret’s Bay Connection: The Thoma/Thomas and Phillips Families of Southwestern Nova Scotia Nik Phillips and Janet E. Chute, with the assistance of Carrie Gloade 8. Bernard Argomartin and the Pennel Family of Southwestern Nova Scotia Janet E. Chute and Brittany Pennel 9. Stephen Knockwood Jr. of Kings County, Nova Scotia Janet E. Chute and Doris Labrador Part Two: Wagobagitk, Sipekne’katik aqq Eskikewa’kik – Cobequid, the Shubenacadie District, and Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore 10. Paul Peminout and the Peminout Pauls of the Sipekne'katik District Janet E. Chute, Courtney Brooks-Monteith, Brittany Pennel, and Mary Wells 11. John W. Johnson Mora Dianne O’Neill 12. The Man at the Centre: Chief Joseph Julien and the “Eastward Tribe,” the “Halifax County Band,” and the Rise of the Millbrook Community Janet E. Chute, assisted by Vernon Cope, James Howe Sr., Donald M. Julien, and Heather Sutherland Part Three: Siknikt, Ulustuk, Piktuk Aqq Epexiwitk – Chignecto District, Northern Maine, the Northumberland Strait Area, and Prince Edward Island 13. The Times, Policies, and Legacy of Joseph Argimault (1707–c.1763), Chief of Siknikt (Chignecto) Janet Chute, assisted by Greg Solomon and Sherise Williams 14. Jean-Battist Bouta: Founder of the Paq’tnket Community of Antigonish County Janet Chute, assisted by Natalie McConnell 15. Donald Sanipass Bunny McBride, with photographic portrait by Harald Prins Part Four: Kespek (Gespe'g) – Northeastern New Brunswick and Southern Quebec 16. Nicholas Prisk II Ouiouche: Community Rebuilder Janet E. Chute and Carrie Gloade, assisted by Joseph-Nicholas Prisk Part Five: Unama’ki aqq K’Taqmkuk – Cape Breton and Newfoundland 17. Capisto Berton A. Balcom 18. Isidore Berton A. Balcom 19. Francois N’8gin’tok Berton A. Balcom 20. Jacques Padanuques Berton A. Balcom 21. Jean Michau Berton A. Balcom 22. Michel Michau Berton A. Balcom 23. Denis Michau Berton A. Balcom 24. Marie Joseph Borgne de Belisle Anne Marie Lane Jonah 25. Marguerite, servant at Louisbourg Anne Marie Lane Jonah 26. The Diplomatic, Trade, and Emigration Policies of Unama’ki District Chief, Jeannot Pequidalouet Janet E. Chute, Richard Denny, Vernon Cope, Marjorie Gould, Natalie McConnell, and Mary Wells, with professional assistance from Berton A. Balcom and Charles A. Martijn 27. Thoma Denny Janet E. Chute 28. Michel Thoma Denny Sr. Janet E. Chute 29. Michel Thoma Denny Jr. Janet E. Chute 30. Francis Thoma Denny Janet E. Chute, assisted by Alison Lloy and Lillian Marshall 31. John Denny Sr. Janet E. Chute 32. John Denny Jr. Janet E. Chute, assisted by Richard Denny, Marjorie Gould, Alison Lloy, and Natalie McConnell 33. Beloni Thoma Janet E. Chute 34. Peter Googoo, Chief of Whycocomaugh Janet E. Chute 35. Andrew Alex, Record Keeper Janet E. Chute, assisted by Victor Alex and Marjorie Gould 36. Gabriel Sylliboy Janet E. Chute, assisted by Mary-Ellen Googoo and AlisonLloy Part Six 37. Mi’kmaw Worldview Diane Chisholm Afterword Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Notes on Authors
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University of Toronto Press Theodahad
Book SynopsisEducated in Platonic philosophy rather than the military arts, the Ostrogothic king Theodahad was never meant to rule. His unexpected nomination as co-regent by his cousin Queen Amalasuintha plunged him into the intrigues of the Gothic court, and Theodahad soon conspired to assassinate the queen. But, once alone on the throne, his lack of political experience and military skill made him ineffective at best and dangerously incompetent at worst. Defeated by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, Theodahad was killed by his own subjects.In Theodahad, Massimiliano Vitiello rigorously investigates the ancient sources in order to reconstruct the events of Theodahad’s life and the contours of sixth-century diplomacy and political intrigues. Painting a picture of an unlikely king whose reign helped spell the end of Ostrogothic Italy, Vitiello’s book not only illuminates Theodahad’s own life but also offers new insight into the sixth-century Mediterranean world.
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University of Toronto Press Its All about the Land
Book SynopsisIlluminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It’s All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred explains how the Canadian government’s reconciliation agenda is a new form of colonization that is guaranteed to fail.Bringing together Alfred’s speeches and interviews from over the past two decades, the book shows that Indigenous peoples across the world face a stark choice: reconnect with their authentic cultures and values or continue following a slow road to annihilation.Rooted in ancestral spirit, knowledge, and law, It’s All about the Land presents a passionate argument for Indigenous Resurgence as the pathway toward justice for Indigenous peoples.Trade Review“It’s All about the Land serves as a powerful voice in the discourse surrounding Indigenous rights and identity. The book champions the concept of Indigenous resurgence – a pathway toward justice that emphasizes reconnecting with authentic cultures and values. Alfred’s message is a rallying cry for Indigenous Peoples to reclaim their ancestral spirit, knowledge, and governance.” -- Karine Alhakim, University of Toronto Mississauga * The Medium *Table of ContentsForeword: The Battle to Decolonize Ourselves Inside and Out Pamela Palmater Introduction Ann Rogers Wasáse Redux June 2005, TV Ontario From Noble Savage to Righteous Warrior March 6, 2010, Vancouver, BC The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism November 9, 2011, Ottawa Practical Decolonization April 9, 2012, Kingston, ON Warrior Scholarship March 18, 2013, Victoria, BC Constitutional Recognition and Colonial Doublespeak November 27, 2013, Melbourne, Australia On Being and Becoming Indigenous November 28, 2013, Melbourne, Australia Reconciliation as Recolonization September 20, 2016, Montreal, QC From Red Power to Resurgence November 2, 2018, Vancouver, BC Rebuilding the Fire: In Conversation with Pamela Palmater July 5, 2019, Warrior Life Podcast Ronón:kwe January 19, 2021, The Mythic Masculine Podcast Rooted Responsibility March 2021, Victoria, BC You Can’t Decolonize Colonization September 16, 2022, The Decolonized Buffalo Podcast Afterword: Wa'tkwanonhwerá:ton Taiaiake Alfred Bonus Track: The Four Intuitions April 20, 2003, TV Ontario A Note on the Sources Index
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University of Toronto Press On Canada
Book SynopsisIn his fifty-year career, Frank Underhill has contributed a great deal to freeing Canada from its colonial past. He has acted the part of a gadfly, incessantly stinging Canadians for their complacency, and has been the master of metaphor and the ironical use of cliché in his lecture and broadcasts, essays and book reviews. His clarity and cool wit are often devastating in their penetration, and he has poured an incredible energy into his speeches and writing, as the bibliography in this volume testifies. They remain a witty and penetrating commentary on world affairs.His principle targets over the years were small-town colonialism, anti-Americanism, the depression, and post-war threats of totalitarianism. Much of his writing and speaking has centred on the political and moral life of the community: his aims have been the preservation of freedom and the creation of a climate of opinion that would foster excellence in individual and collective accomplishments.This volume
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University of Toronto Press Spensers Famous Flight
Book SynopsisIn Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation.Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser embarks upon and completes a daring progress that secures his status as an Orphic poet.In October, Spenser calls his idea of a literary career the 'famous flight.' Both classical and Christian culture has authorized the myth of the winged poet as a primary myth of fame and glory. Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal.
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University of Toronto Press Saturdays Child
Book SynopsisEllen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister. John Diefenbaker appointed her Secretary of State in 1957. In the course of her career she also served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Minister responsible for Indian Affairs, and was in charge of the National Gallery, the National Film Board, the Dominion Archives, and the National Library. She was also a chartered accountant, a business woman, a local politician in Hamilton, and a wife and mother. At a time when many people believed that a woman's place was in the home, she successfully balanced family obligations with a career in the largely male world of federal politics.Writing with the style and wit for which she was famous as a politician, Ellen Fairclough, now ninety, tells her story. Her reminiscences describe her early life, her efforts to become a business woman, and her experiences as a Progressive Conservative member for the constituency of Ham
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