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Book SynopsisIn An English Made in India, the author delves into the various aspects of Indian English asingua franca, colonial bequest, theanguage of the elite and those who aspire to elite status. She explores the Englishanguage''s earliest influences on Indiananguages (and vice versa), the evolution of Indian English after independence and the way theanguage is spoken today. She talks to people from different parts of the country to create a colourful portrait of the ways in which the Englishanguage has influenced different segments of Indian society. The book is an entertaining narrative about the myriad Indianisms to be found in the English used by aarge percentage of Indians; the growing importance of Indian English in a world of many Englishes; the ongoing tussle between the elite who speak the King''s English and those who speak in their mother tongue or mother-tongue-accented English; the effect of the IT boom on global English; and the changing attitudes of young Indians towards aanguage introduced by the Raj hundreds of years ago.

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Book SynopsisThe presidential years gives a fascinating account of how one of the country most respected veteran politicians reshaped the functioning of Rashtrapati Bhavan and responded to tumultuous events as the country first citizen,eaving behind aegacy that will be hard to match. Pranab Mukherjee became President of India after having spent several decades in politics, and there was great speculation over how he would approach his new bipartisan role after having been associated with a political party for so many years of hisife. By the time he had served his Term, Mukherjee had won the respect and admiration of people from across the political spectrum, including those who were his rivals when he was a political figure. He had the occasion to work with two prime ministers, belonging to two parties who were (and are) fiercely opposed to each other, and he managed to do so with aplomb.

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Book SynopsisThe Indian economy was already dealing with the challenge of a growth slowdown when Pandemic struck. To contain the spread of the pandemic, the Indian government imposed a comprehensiveockdown of all activity in March 2020. While the rest of the world also imposed a range of restrictions, India''s overnightockdown was the severest. The drastic contraction in economic activity has meant that in Fiscal year 202021, India may end up with a negative rate of growth of up to -10 per cent. What has been the impact of the pandemic on the economy and how can the momentum of growth be restored? In this volume, Sanjaya Baru brings together essays by several eminent and highly regarded contributorsike C. Rangarajan, Subramanian Swamy, bibek Debroy, Meghnad Desai, Amitabh Kant, Indira rajaraman, Rama bijapurkar, Omkar Swami and many more,ooking at various dimensions of the pandemic economic and social impact and of the macroeconomic policy response required for an atmanirbhar Bharat.

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Book Synopsis"Don't be a coward. What are you afraid of? Never mind if people do not take favourably to what you have to share. Just be honest and truthful, don't embellish but humbly present your story." This was how Winston Choo convinced himself to write this memoir. As a boy, all he wanted was to be a soldier. Never in his wildest dream did he imagine that he would, one day, have three stars on his shoulders. He tells how he was groomed by Dr Goh Keng Swee to lead the Singapore Armed Forces - and yet had to surmount hurdles within both the military and civilian administration. He relates how he shaped the structure, values and culture of the SAF by focusing on people and esprit de corps, and taking a strategic yet pragmatic approach. After 33 years being a man of war, he found himself once again handpicked, this time to be a man of peace - first in the diplomatic service, then as Chairman of the Singapore Red Cross. His novel experience of being ADC to President Yusof Ishak and his astute dealings with the military around the world for the SAF ensured his success in making friends for his homeland. Stricken with cancer, but ever disciplined and never ready to surrender, Winston Choo shares what keeps him soldiering on.

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Book SynopsisKarpal Singh is widely regarded as Malaysia’s best criminal and constitutional lawyer. His sudden death on 17 April 2014 in a horrific car accident – just a month after he was convicted of sedition in the High Court – shocked and saddened Malaysians to the core and left a deep void in the country’s legal and political landscape. Karpal was a fearless advocate for justice and a defender of human rights in South East Asia and has appeared in the Privy Council in London on a number of occasions before such appeals were abandoned by Malaysia. He is renowned for his defence of many people from many nations who have faced the death penalty under Malaysia's Dangerous Drugs Act. In recent years, one of his biggest achievements was his successful defence of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on two charges of sodomy in 2012. On the night he died, Karpal was still fighting for Anwar, who had been convicted once again of sodomy, and seeking to reassure him. He told the Opposition leader in a telephone call he would do his best in the prosecution’s `fast-tracked’ Federal Court of Appeal. Indeed, Karpal had Anwar’s files with him in his vehicle when the fateful crash occurred. In this edition with a new foreword by Karpal’s son, Gobind Singh Deo, veteran journalist Tim Donoghue completes the biography of Malaysia’s tenacious and principled lawyer-politician

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Book SynopsisOver the past century, Malaysia has seen criminal cases that have gripped the attention of the entire nation and beyond. These crimes vary in nature and details, and in some instances, the perpetrators have been caught and punished, while others remain unresolved. What most of them have in common is that they were real life dramas played out through the media and carried into every home. This compilation brings together 42 of the most well-known and notorious cases, based on the authors’ research and consultations with some of the most eminent historians, criminal lawyers, crime reporters and police officers in the country, who were able to breathe new life into some of the cases and shed new light on the notorious events. These cases go as far back as 1875, beginning with colonial-era intrigues that remain unresolved to this day, and investigate over a century of Malaysian murders and mysteries.

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Book SynopsisA compelling insider’s account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America’s presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture.Ken Khachigian has written the most lucid, most important work about the postwar period. For an inside look at how ugly politics can be--and how noble--you cannot miss this book. I still love Ken after fifty years and you will, too, when you read this jewel of a memoir. —Ben Stein, Economist, law professor, multi Emmy awarded actor, speechwriter for Presidents Nixon and Ford, novelist, and screenwriter This is essential reading for anyone wanting to know how Ronald Reagan shaped his crusading message of economic growth through tax cuts and limited government. Khachigian’s is a fascinating account by one who takes you in

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Book SynopsisA unique sourcebook designed to raise issues of nationalism and sexuality in Canada through a rich and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and history. Structured so as to provide an interactive study of these issues, the collection considers topics as wide-ranging as First Nations sexuality, censorship, assisted reproduction, and religion.Literary works by Alice Munro, Jane Rule, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Turner, and many others are juxtaposed with criticism and historical documents, many of which were previously out of print or unavailable. Selections include Marshall McLuhan's 1967 article "The Future of Sex" and excerpts from Stan Persky and John Dixon's Kiddie Porn, SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, and Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale.Trade Review“I read this brave book in a canoe. A tribute both to its Canadianness and to Cavell and Dickinson’s balancing act in assembling this rich stew of literary nuggets and historical analysis. Sexing the Maple will be an indispensable resource for any future exploration of sexuality and gender in English Canada whether through a cultural or a historical point of view. Indeed its provocative lesson is that the two cannot be separated in any serious excursion into sexuality in this country or any other. Canonical and non-canonical, queer, queering and beyond, here is a sturdy paddle for those upcoming rapids.” — Thomas Waugh, Concordia University“Sexing the Maple takes sex out of Canada’s cultural closet. Richard Cavell and Peter Dickinson have assembled an outstanding anthology with fiction and poetry by leading Canadian writers, rare and out-of-print material, and a superb selection of critical articles. The historical and cultural range of topics is impressive, covering the gamut of Canuck sex from anti-masturbation tracts and weird sex in Canadian film to reproductive laws and transgender surgery. This is the first book to theorize and document how stories about our sexualities articulate our sense of Canadian nationhood. The research is impeccable, the theorizing trailblazing, the writing compelling. This book is bold, ambitious, and provocative.” — Irene Gammel, Ryerson UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSex and Canada: A Theoretical IntroductionSex and the FamilyAlice Munro, “Family Furnishings,” Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)Ivan E. Coyote, “Just Like My Dad,” Boys Like Her (1998)Gertrude Pringle, from Etiquette in Canada (1949)Michael Bliss, “‘Pure Books on Avoided Subjects’: Pre-Freudian SexualIdeas in Canada,” Historical Papers (1970)Mariana Valverde, “Families, Private Property, and the State:The Dionnes and the Toronto Stork Derby,” Journal of CanadianStudies 29.4 (1994–95)Sex and MediaIrving Layton, “The Improved Binoculars,” Collected Poems (1971)Persimmon Blackridge, from Prozac Highway (1997)Nicole Markotic, from Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions (1995)Marshall McLuhan and George B. Leonard, “The Future of Sex,”Look Magazine (1967)Katherine Monk, from Weird Sex and Snowshoes (2001)Sex and MedicineDerek McCormack, “Stargaze,” Dark Rides (1996)Trish Salah, “Surgical Diary,” Wanting in Arabic (2002)Patricia Baird, et al., Proceed with Care: Final Report of the Royal Commissionon New Reproductive Technologies: Summary and Highlights (1993)John Colapinto, from As Nature Made Him (2000)Sex and GenderDorothy Livesay, “On Looking into Henry Moore,” Collected Poems (1972)Jane Rule, “The Killer Dyke and the Lady,” Outlander (1981)Daphne Marlatt, from Ana Historic (1988)Lyndell Montgomery, “Border Crossing: On the Edge,” Boys Like Her (1998)Roberta Hamilton, “Representation and Subjectivity: Women as SexualObjects,” Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on CanadianSociety (2004)Sex and RaceSKY Lee, from Disappearing Moon Café (1990)Ian Iqbal Rashid, “An/other Country,” from Black Markets, White Boyfriendsand other acts of elision (1991)Gregory Scofield, from Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a MétisChildhood (1999)Martin Cannon, “The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality,” CanadianJournal of Native Studies 18.1 (1998)Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz, “‘It was Only a Matter of Passion’:Masculinity and Sexual Danger,” Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays inFemininity and Masculinity in Canada (1999)Sex and ReligionTimothy Findley, from Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)Leonard Cohen, from Beautiful Losers (1966)Margaret Atwood, from The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)Nancy Christie, “Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatizationof the Family in Post-War Canada,” Households of Faith (2002)Iain A.G. Barrie, “A Broken Trust: Canadian Priests, Brothers,Pedophilia, and the Media,” Sex, Religion, Media (2002)Sex and the LawMichael Turner, from The Pornographer’s Poem (1999Lynn Crosbie, from Paul’s Case (1997)Jane Rule, Detained at Customs: Jane Rule Testifies at the Little Sister’s Trial (1995)Gary Kinsman, “‘These Things May Lead to the Tragedy of Our Species’:The Emergence of Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and Heterosexualityin Canada,” The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities (1996)Stan Persky and John Dixon, from On Kiddie Porn (2001)Sources

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Book SynopsisThe Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form, such as characterization, plot construction, and narration; and questions about the morality of fiction. The editor discusses where Victorian writing on the novel has been placed in accounts of the history of criticism and then suggests some reasons for reconsidering this conventional evaluation. Among the featured essayists and critics are John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, George Henry Lewes, Leslie Stephen, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Louis Stevenson; the classic essays include George Eliot’s “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” and Henry James’s “The Art of Fiction.”Trade Review“The aura of the magnificent novels of the Victorians sometimes obscures the analytic thinking about the genre that one knows had to accompany all the imaginative glory. Too often it is only the amusing obtuse contemporary review that gets remembered. From the year of Vanity Fair (1848) until Henry James’s proto-modern “Art of Fiction” of 1884, Rohan Maitzen’s important new anthology drawn from Victorian periodicals gives us the critical work that accompanied and shaped mid-Victorian fiction. A clear introduction and concise and accurate notes contextualize and enhance the criticism, and make this a book that should be useful for years to come.” — David Latané, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextsIntroduction Anonymous, Review of Jane EyreChristian Remembrancer (1848) David Masson, Thackeray and DickensNorth British Review (1851) George Henry Lewes, The Lady NovelistsWestminster Review (1852) Anonymous, The Progress of Fiction as an ArtWestminster Review (1853) Theodore Martin, Thackeray’s WorksWestminster Review (1853) C.W. Russell, Novel-Morality: The Novels of 1853Dublin Review (1853) Margaret Oliphant, Modern Novelists—Great and SmallBlackwood’s Magazine (1855) Marian Evans [George Eliot], The Natural History of German LifeWestminster Review (1856) Marian Evans [George Eliot], Silly Novels by Lady NovelistsWestminster Review (1856) W.R. Greg, False Morality of Lady NovelistsNational Review (1859) David Masson, fromBritish Novelists and Their Styles (1859) Walter Bagehot, The Novels of George EliotNational Review (1860) Henry Mansel, Sensation NovelsQuarterly Review (1863) Justin McCarthy, Modern Novelists: Charles DickensWestminster Review (1864) George Henry Lewes, Criticism in Relation to NovelsFortnightly Review (1866) R.H. Hutton, The Empire of NovelsThe Spectator (1869) Edward Dowden, George EliotContemporary Review (1872) Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library: Charlotte BrontëCornhill Magazine (1877) Anthony Trollope, Novel-ReadingThe Nineteenth Century (1879) John Ruskin, Fiction—Fair and FoulThe Nineteenth Century (1880) Robert Louis Stevenson, A Humble RemonstranceLongman’s Magazine (1884) Henry James, The Art of FictionLongman’s Magazine (1884) Biographical NotesWorks Cited and Further ReadingSourcesAuthor Index

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Book SynopsisAfrican American women have been “up and doing” for their communities for as long as they have been in the United States, and their ability to resist the institution of slavery was central to the survival of African Americans. This anthology gives readers access to African American feminist thought in its foundational period by drawing together key documents from the late 1820s through the 1920s.Going beyond a focus on the “greats” of black feminism to include lesser known figures, “We Must Be Up and Doing” offers a broad and contextualized look at the critical mass early black feminism achieved by including a variety of genres, such as the spiritual autobiography, the platform speech, periodical articles, pamphlets, fiction, and excerpts from convention and conference proceedings.Trade Review“From a rich but generally unknown tradition of African American women’s political and social writing, Teresa C. Zackodnik has chosen judiciously to bring us a volume that is both instructive and interesting. ‘We Must Be Up and Doing’ takes its rightful place in the twenty-first-century renaissance of Black Women’s Studies that bridges dangerous gaps between theory and practice, town and gown, us and them.” — Frances Smith Foster, Emory University“This is a very important book, not least of all for its inclusion of nineteenth-century women preachers named as and among early black feminists. Teresa C. Zackodnik does an excellent job of situating their reform efforts in the appropriate contexts of white women’s abolitionism, black male Protestantism’s religious missions, and US religious revivalism more broadly. I continue to be amazed by the difficult terrain early black feminists had to traverse, and more so by the ground they did cover despite the difficulty. As Zackodnik ably demonstrates, these women showed a dexterity and flexibility, a nimbleness of vision and thought without compromising conviction or goal, that few others were required to exert.” — Joycelyn Moody, University of Texas at San Antonio“‘We Must be Up and Doing’ will be of immense value to anyone interested in American literary and cultural history, and it will be an essential book for anyone interested in the history and diversity of African American feminist thought. Superbly edited and annotated by Teresa C. Zackodnik, this collection makes available many previously inaccessible orations and essays that place the better known feminist statements, also included here, in useful context. Like only a handful of other publication ventures over the past few decades, ‘We Must be Up and Doing’ will encourage, aid, and direct scholarship on the subject for years to come.” — John Ernest, West Virginia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of PhotographsIntroductionCHAPTER 1Roots of Reform and Early African American FeminismWOMEN AND THE CHURCHMaria W. Stewart, “Cause for Encouragement” (1832)Jarena Lee, Excerpts from The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of her Call to Preach the Gospel (1836)Zilpha Elaw, Excerpts from Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experiences, Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, An American Female of Colour: Together with Some Account of the Great Religious Revivals in America (1846)Julia Foote, Excerpts from A Brand Plucked From the Fire. An Autobiographical Sketch (1879)FEMALE BENEVOLENT AND LITERARY SOCIETIESMaria W. Stewart, “An Address Delivered Before the Afric-AmericanFemale Intelligence Society of Boston” (1832)Sarah Mapps Douglass, “Mental Feasts” (1832)Anonymous, “Address to the Female Literary Association ofPhiladelphia, On their First Anniversary: By a Member” (1832)ABOLITIONSarah Forten [“Magawisca”], “The Abuse of Liberty” (1831)Sarah Mapps Douglass [“Zillah”], “A Mother’s Love” (1832)Lucy Stanton, “A Plea for the Oppressed” (1850)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Colored People in America,”Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Could we trace the record of everyhuman heart …” (1857)Sojourner Truth, “Pro-Slavery in Indiana” (1858)Sarah Parker Remond, Three Lectures (1859)1. “Lecture on American Slavery by a Colored Lady”2. “A Second Lecture by Miss Remond”3. “The Lecture at the Lion Hotel”Sarah Parker Remond, “Miss Remond in Manchester” (1859)CHAPTER 2Feminist Black NationalismEMIGRATION AND COLONIZATIONSojourner Truth, “Lecture by Sojourner Truth” (1853)Mary Ann Shadd Cary, “The Humbug of Reform” (1854)Mary Ann Shadd Cary, “A Voice of Thanks” (1861)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Mrs. Frances E. Watkins Harper on the War and the President’s Colonization Scheme” (1862)Elizabeth J. Jennings, “Thoughts on Colonization” (1862)EDUCATIONMaria W. Stewart, “Mrs. Steward’s Essays” (1832)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Letter from Miss Watkins” (1859)Katie S. Campbell, “Our Educational Interests” (1873)Anna Julia Cooper, “The Higher Education of Women” (1891)Nannie Helen Burroughs, “Industrial Education — Will it Solve the Negro Problem” (1904)Fannie Barrier Williams, “Industrial Education — Will it Solve the Negro Problem” (1904) Josephine B. Bruce, “What Has Education Done for Colored Women” (1904)LABOR AND EMPLOYMENTMaria W. Stewart, “Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall” (1832)Lucy Parsons, “Mrs. Parson’s Lecture [I am an anarchist … ]” (1886)Nannie Helen Burroughs, “The Colored Woman and Her Relationto the Domestic Problem” (1902)Mary Church Terrell, “What it Means to Be Colored in the Capital ofthe United States” (1907)Addie Hunton, “Employment of Colored Women in Chicago” (1911)A Negro Nurse, “More Slavery at the South” (1912)MIGRATIONGertrude Mossell [Mrs. N.F. Mossell], “Our Woman’s Department … A Word of Counsel” (1886)Victoria Earle Matthews, “Some of the Dangers Confronting Southern Girls in the North” (1898)Fannie Barrier Williams, “Social Bonds in the ‘Black Belt’ of Chicago” (1905)CHAPTER 3LynchingFrances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Duty to Dependent Races” (1891)Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)Ida B. Wells [Barnett], “The Negro’s Case in Equity” (1900)Mary Church Terrell, “Lynching from a Negro’s Point of View” (1904)The Anti-Lynching Crusaders, “The Anti-Lynching Crusaders” (1922)CHAPTER 4Defending Black Womanhood and the Black Women’s Club MovementDEFENSE OF BLACK WOMANHOODFannie Barrier Williams, “The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation”(1894)Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “A Charge to be Refuted” (1895)Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman” (1899)Addie Hunton, “Negro Womanhood Defended” (1904)CLUB MOVEMENTMary Church Terrell, “The Duty of the National Association of Colored Women to the Race” (1900)Margaret Murray Washington, “The Gain in the Life of Negro Women” (1904)Josephine Silone-Yates, “The National Association of Colored Women” (1904)CHAPTER 5Woman’s Rights, Suffrage, TemperanceWOMAN’S RIGHTSSojourner Truth, “Woman’s Rights Convention” (1851)Sojourner Truth, “Woman’s Rights Convention. Meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle” (1853)Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl” (1863)Frances D. Gage, “Sojourner Truth” (1863)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “We Are All Bound Up Together” (1866)SUFFRAGESojourner Truth, “Female Suffrage” (1867)Naomi Talbert, “A Colored Woman’s Voice” (1869)Mary Ann Shadd Cary, “Speech to Judiciary Committee Re: The Right of Women to Vote” (1874)Mary E. (“Meb”) Britton, “Woman’s Suffrage. A Potent Agency in Public Reforms” (1887)Anna Julia Cooper, “Woman versus the Indian” (1892)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Woman’s Political Future” (1894)Adella Hunt Logan, “Woman Suffrage” (1905)Mary Church Terrell, “Woman Suffrage and the 15th Amendment” (1915)TEMPERANCEFrances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Colored Woman” (1888)Ida B. Wells, “All things considered … ” (1891)Carrie W. Clifford, “Love’s Way (A Christmas Story)” (1905)References and Further ReadingsIndex of Names

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Book SynopsisIn 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her coming-of-age story, she insisted upon biographical accuracy and bold creativity telling the truth while giving herself and others fictionalized names. She also adapted conventions from other popular genres, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative. Then, despite facing obstacles not encountered by Black men and white women, she orchestrated the book's publication and became a traveling bookseller in an effort to inspire passive Americans to support the abolition of slavery.Engaging with the latest research on Jacobs's life and work, this edition helps readers to understand the enormity of Jacobs's achievement in writing, publishing, and distributing her life story. However, it also shows how this monumental accomplishment was only the beginning of her contributions, given her advocacy work over the nearly forty years that she lived after its publication. As a survivor of sexual abuse who became an advocate, Jacobs laid a foundation for activist movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. This edition also features six appendices, placing resources at readers' fingertips that further illuminate the issues raised by Jacobs's remarkable life and legacy.Trade Review“Those familiar with Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography will discover new, vital details about her lifelong struggle in defense of Black women and Black people. Those encountering this work for the first time will be profoundly altered by Jacobs’s relentless pursuit of equal rights and justice. This beautifully rendered edition is a must-read for all.” — Kali Gross, Emory University“Koritha Mitchell is a brilliant literary historian and theorist. With breathtaking sensitivity to the forces, conditions, and places in Jacobs’s life, Mitchell breathes new life—and brings deeper understanding and refreshing insight—into this classic narrative. Though it is over a century and a half old, through Mitchell’s keen critical lens, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains relevant and impactful. Black women’s lives and letters are in the very best of hands with Professor Koritha Mitchell.” — Imani Perry, Princeton University“Koritha Mitchell’s exemplary edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is what happens when a Black feminist-activist sharpens her pencil today. Engaging with an expansive array of archival documents and current scholarship, Mitchell goes beyond excellent historicizing to deftly demonstrate how ‘[US] society doles out life chances according to identity.’ It’s the best edition I’ve seen to date, in large part because of Mitchell’s introduction.” — Joycelyn Moody, University of Texas San AntonioTable of ContentsAppendix A: Historical Contexts 1. 'Handed by The Blacks of New Haven City,' petition, 1788 2. From the Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 3. Notice warning Black people in Boston to be on guard after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, 24 April 1851 4. United States Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney, the Dred Scott decision, 6 March 1857 5. From the First Confiscation Act, 1861 6. From the Second Confiscation Act, 1862 7. The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 8. From the Freedmen's Bureau Act, 1865 9. The Thirteenth Amendment, 1865 10. From the Fourteenth Amendment, 1868 11. From the Fifteenth Amendment, 1870 12. From United States Supreme Court Justice Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 Appendix B: Other Historical Connections 1. Laws of Virginia, Act XII, 1662 2. From Olive Gilbert, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth,1850 3. Documents regarding Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 a. 'Anonymus' to Governor John Floyd, 28 August 1831 b. Proclamation by Governor John Floyd, 17 September 1831 4. Advertisement, American Beacon, 30 June 1835 5. South Carolina Negro Seamen Act, 1822 Appendix C: The Composition, Publication, and Reception of Incidents1. Harriet Jacobs's First Forays into Writing for Publication a. From New York Daily Tribune, 21 June 1853 b. New York Tribune, 25 July 1853 2. Correspondence from Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post a. From Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post, after 28 December 1852 b. From Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post, 14 February 1853 c. Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post, 4 April 1853 d. From Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post, c. May 1853 e. From Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post, 9 October 1853 f. From Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post, March 1854 3. Correspondence from Lydia Maria Child to Harriet Jacobs a. Lydia Maria Child to Harriet Jacobs, 13 August 1860 b. Lydia Maria Child to Harriet Jacobs, 27 September 1860 4. Original Title Page 5. Correspondence from John Greenleaf Whittier to Lydia Maria Child, 1 April 1861 6. William C. Nell, 'Linda, the Slave Girl,' Liberator, 24 January 1861 7. From unsigned book review, Weekly Anglo-African, 13 April 1861 8. From unsigned book review, Anti-Slavery Advocate, 1 May 1861 Appendix D: Life after Incidents 1. From Linda [Harriet Jacobs], 'Life Among the Contrabands,' Liberator, 5 September 1862 2. From 'Jacobs (Linda) School, Alexandria, Va,' Freedmen's Record, February 1865 3. 'From Harriet Jacobs,' Freedman, February 1866 4. 'From Louisa Jacobs,' Freedmen's Record, March 1866 5. Linda [Harriet] Jacobs, 'Savannah Freedmen's Orphan Asylum,' Anti-Slavery Reporter, 2 March 1868 6. Letters by an Adult Louisa Jacobs (1880-84) a. 'Ah me!' 25 March 1880 b. 'Rest and quiet is what she needs,' 7 September 1884 c. 'I was sure Mother would not refuse him,' 21 December 1884 7. Remembrances upon Jacobs's Death a. From the Eulogy by Reverend Francis Grimké b. From the Obituary for Harriet Jacobs, Woman's Journal, May 1897 Appendix E: Enduring Legacy 1. From Ellen Driscoll, 'The Loophole of Retreat' 2. From Lydia Diamond, Harriet Jacobs: A Play, 2011 3. Quotations from Lorna Ann Johnson, Freedom Road, 2004 Appendix F: People and Places Relevant to Incidents 1. Who Is Who in Incidents 2. Image of Dr. Norcom 3. Image of Louisa Jacobs 4. Visual Rendering of Floor Plan of Grandmother's House and Hiding Place 5. Visual Rendering of the Edenton Neighborhood in Which Jacobs Was Born and Hid 6. Image of Amy Post 7. Image of Harriet Beecher Stowe 8. Image of Lydia Maria Child

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Book SynopsisIn their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More's 'Tawney Rachel,' for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie's 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' a young woman is rewarded for a charitable act with a desirable marriage; and in Edgeworth's 'The Dun,' a wealthy man's selfishness destroys a poor family before he finally sees the error of his ways.This edition offers a selection of five short fictions by More, Opie, and Edgeworth-the best-known writers of the moral tale-prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period. The volume concludes with a variety of background materials that help situate the moral tale in its late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary contexts, including moral tales for children, theories of education, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book. Arguing that writing moral tales was women writers’ solution to the disparagement of the novel, Robin Runia’s selection of stories by Hannah More, Amelia Opie and Maria Edgeworth, three popular authors, provides interesting and stimulating illustrations of their different use of the genre. However, Runia does more than this: she includes, for each writer, excerpts from contemporary critical reviews. This gives us an insight not just into the contemporary reception of their work but into the criteria that critics used for these judgements, a most important one being educating and improving the reader. Unusually but commendably, Runia includes in her discussion the moral tales for children by Edgeworth and Opie, providing as context the didactic advice about suitable reading for children and about female education purveyed in two of the most important educational texts of the late 18th century, Practical Education and Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. This book will be ‘amusing and instructive’ to scholars, students, and general readers alike.” — Michele Cohen, UCL Institute of Education"Professor Robin Runia’s Broadview edition of Moral Tales will appeal to a broad range of readers with interests in the long eighteenth century and Romanticism, the histories of the novel, gender, popular culture and education, and in the distinctive works of Hannah More, Amelie Opie, and Maria Edgeworth, the writers featured in the volume. The stories included are fascinating, rich and compelling, the notes helpful, the contexts (with contemporary reviews, illustrations and commentary) illuminating. Runia’s splendid introduction alone, lucidly placing the moral tale and writers in their respective contexts, is worth the price of the volume. This book should be required reading for any student interested in the long eighteenth century and in how the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries understood themselves." — Christopher Fox, University of Notre Dame“Robin Runia’s Moral Tales provides an excellent introduction to Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth—three leading female authors at the turn of the nineteenth century—and some of their short fictions from the oft-neglected, though popular didactic genre. The contexts from contemporary reviewers and conduct books, as well as their connections to early children’s literature, are useful for student readers and convincingly demonstrate the significance of these works.” — Hilary Havens, University of Tennessee“This well-researched edition shows how moral tales became a mode of resistance to derogatory perceptions of women writers and readers of the English sentimental novel in the late eighteenth century. Runia shows how the moral tale was developed in reaction to the English sentimental novel; how it broadened women’s authority; and how it became a highly versatile form that could be adapted to suit the political positions of writers as diverse as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth. In an introduction that clearly demonstrates how the moral tale was used for diverse purposes, Runia places the moral tale beside the sentimental novel, not apart from it. This fine and readable edition also includes contemporaneous reviews and selections from other texts by the three writers, which add literary and social context that expands our knowledge of the history of genre, gender, and the English novel.” — Rebecca Shapiro, City University of New York“The rise of the British ‘moral tale’ in the early nineteenth century promoted powerful female authors, advanced far-ranging pragmatic educational theories, and established the genre that flourished in the following decades as the Golden Age of children’s literature. Robin Runia’s collection, Moral Tales, focuses on three influential figures: Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth, supplying biographical information, cultural context, and readable samples from each one. This book will be a useful reference guide for advanced scholars; Runia has employed extensive archival knowledge to excavate both the most essential and the most accessible materials. Professors teaching Women’s and Gender Studies, Education, and Romantic Literature will find it invaluable, since the material deals explicitly with issues of class, gender, and the impact of military service. They show a side of the period erased by canonical Romantic fiction and will provoke passionate discussions among twenty-first century students.” — Katharine Kittredge, Ithaca College“Robin Runia’s Broadview edition of Moral Tales reminds scholars and students that the Romantic-era’s publishing landscape was rich and diverse. It is past time that scholars set the essays, poetry, and novels of Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth into conversation with their tales, and this ground-breaking teaching edition allows us to do so.” — Roxanne Eberle, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction The Moral Tale Hannah More Amelia Alderson Opie Maria Edgeworth Moral Tales: A Selection Hannah More, 'Tawney Rachel,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) Hannah More, 'The Servant Man Turned Soldier,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) Amelia Opie, 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' Simple Tales (1806) Amelia Opie, 'The Soldier's Return,' Simple Tales (1806) Maria Edgeworth, 'The Dun,' Tales of Fashionable Life (1809) In Context A. Contemporary Reviews 1. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' The Evangelical Magazine (October 1795) 2. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' Critical Review (October 1797) 3. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Literary Journal (August 1806) 4. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Edinburgh Review (July 1806) 5. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' The Critical Review (August 1806) 6. from anonymous, review of 'Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review (July 1809) 7. from anonymous, 'On Edgeworth's Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature (October 1809) B. Illustrations 1. Title page, 'Tawney Rachel,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) 2. Title page, 'Servant Man Turned Soldier,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) 3. Valentine Green after John Opie, 'A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children' (1785) 4. William Harvey, 'Ennui' [Frontispiece engraving], in Maria Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, Volume 6 (1832) C. Tales for Children 1. Maria Edgeworth, 'Tarlton,' The Parent's Assistant (1796) 2. Amelia Opie, 'The Little Boy and His Lame Dog,' Tales of the Pemberton Family (1825) D. Educating Readers 1. from Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education (1798) 2. from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with a View to the Principles and Conduct of Women of Rank and Fortune (1799; 1809)

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Book SynopsisA privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.Best known during his lifetime as an experimental filmmaker and Folkways Records music anthologist, Harry Smith (1923–1991) was a spiritual outsider and one of the most original, influential artists of the mid-century American avant-garde. An avid, inspired collector of old blues and hillbilly recordings during his youth, he became a fan of such bebop jazz as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and began making avant-garde film animations featuring patterns painted directly onto the negatives as visual accompaniments to jazz performances. Smith crossed paths with nearly everyone central to the cultural avant-garde; he lived for art and gnosis with little thought for practical consequences. In 1991, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards in New York.Five years after Smith’s death, the poet Paola Igliori began conducting intimate interviews with the filmmakers, musicians, poets, and artists who knew him best. The result, American Magus Harry Smith, offers a privileged look not only into Smith’s life and artistic practice, but also into his era and the informal economy of influence that operated during that time. It provides invaluable insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic polymaths. This expanded edition includes photos of Smith and many other color images.

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Book SynopsisHeartwarming and charming stories of dogs and books from the bestselling author of The Bookseller at the End of the World.Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw''s three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet.Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hunza, the dog who worked with troubled teens alongside Ruth when she was a youth worker.This is a window into the wonderful world of Ruth and her generous love of people, books and dogs. It''s a must-read for dog fans, book fans and anyone who loved her first book, The Bookseller at the End of the World.

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Book SynopsisThe poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, bringing romantic modernism and structural experimentation to Greece. Collected here are the two speeches Elytis gave on his acceptance of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, which are still strikingly relevant today. He addresses a hypertrophic and atrophic Europe in moral chaos, with as many coexisting values as languages-and to this he offers the "common language" that is found in poetry, in art, and in their base materials of sense, aesthetic, intuition. Ultimately, his is a powerful ode to beauty amid utilitarianism, and the need for poetry as "the art of approaching that which surpasses us" and "puts us at the threshold of the deepest truth".Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Poet Odysseus Elytis; A Thirst for Miracles; In the Name of Luminosity and Transparency; Chronology of Elytis Life; Book-length Translations of Elytis Work in English

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Book SynopsisIn all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field.The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes.In the revised third edition of this volume, the term 'Anglo-Saxon' has been removed from our editorial apparatus - a change made in response to recent scholarly work that has drawn attention to the term's historical and current usage by white supremacists. We have also taken the opportunity to implement a small number of additional improvements. We have also taken the opportunity to implement a small number of additional improvements; the pagination, however, remains the same.Trade ReviewBroadview offers the best selection of Old English texts I’ve ever seen in an anthology of this nature … Well done!"—Robert W. Barrett, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"With the publication of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies from Norton and Longman. Having adopted the first two volumes for an early period survey course last year, I had no hesitation in repeating the experience this year. The medieval volume, in particular, is superb, with its generous representation of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman literary culture, as well as its growing collection of texts from the too little-known fifteenth century. This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement."— Nicholas Watson, Harvard University"The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Medieval Period offers remarkable features that make it an excellent choice for instructors. The anthology includes eight Canterbury Tales, compared to Longman’s six and Norton’s seven, enabling students to experience Chaucer’s generic and linguistic range much more fully. The footnotes to The Canterbury Tales are more comprehensive than those in either Longman or Norton, explaining clearly each pilgrim’s profession (not always included in other anthologies); pointing out ambiguous syntax and offering alternative readings. In addition, I was impressed that the editors indicate in the footnotes passages that are not included in Ellesmere, but are considered by some critics as late additions. This attention to scholarly detail models just the kind of accuracy we demand from ourselves and students while researching. The full manuscript page reproductions further enhance the students’ experience with medieval manuscript culture, opening the door to further discussion of this aspect of the written tradition. I especially appreciate the extensive and inclusive “Contexts” sections … [Overall,] The Broadview Anthology certainly contains the most up-to-date and comprehensive selections of medieval texts, with excellent introductory notes and reader-friendly organization."—Eileen S. Jankowski, Chapman University"Comments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:“ … sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured."—Graham Hammill, SUNY Buffalo"With the publication of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies by Norton and Longman. … This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement."—Nicholas Watson, Harvard University"an excellent anthology. Good selections for my purposes (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable—and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again."—Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia

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Book SynopsisThe moving story of a bond between sportswriter and fan that grew over several decades into an extraordinary friendship.

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Book SynopsisCommissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in three-volume paperback.George R.R. Martin is the bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's hit series GAME OF THRONES.This second volume features an original short story by Megan Lindholm (who also writes as Robin Hobb). In the bittersweet Neighbors' Sarah, a rather strange widow, lives isolated and alone, surrounded by young families. But is the old lady afflicted by dementia or by something far more odd?Other contributors to this volume of stories of formidable women include worldwide bestselling authors Diana Gabaldon, with an Outlander story, Sharon Kay Penman and Lev Grossman.DANGEROUS WOMEN 2Gardner Dozois's introductionMegan Lindholm, Neighbors'Lev Grossman, The Girl in the Mirror'Sharon Kay Penman, A Queen in Exile'S. M. Stirling, Pronouncing Doom'Caroline Spector, Lies My Mother Told Me'SamTrade Review‘This meaty collection delivers something for nearly every reader’s taste as it explores the heights that brave women can reach and the depths that depraved ones can plumb’Publisher’s Weekly ‘Reads like Martin’s outline for a Game of Thrones prequel that never wasEntertainment Weekly

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Book SynopsisThe Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her father’s intense private life and explores how his life and work illuminate the broader reaches of Freudian ideas in the United States.Trade ReviewAn astute inquiry into both the life of her father, an accomplished Freudian psychoanalyst, and the author’s own memories, Alice Wexler’s biographical memoir is almost impossible to put down. Ceaselessly fascinating, the story offers rare insight into the mid-twentieth-century clinical practice of “talk therapy,” especially Milton Wexler’s uncommon focus on schizophrenia and his unusually close relationships with clients. With access to an amazing array of sources, including her father’s letters and her own diaries, Alice Wexler fearlessly explores his other passion, his advocacy for research into Huntington’s disease, which took his ex-wife and shaped the lives of their two potentially vulnerable daughters. A skilled biographer, Alice Wexler tells a thoroughly compelling story covering nearly a century of her father’s long and accomplished life. -- Mari Jo Buhle, author of Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with PsychoanalysisIn this memoir of her father, one of LA’s most prominent analysts, the historian Alice Wexler gives us a revealing and vivid portrait of a time when psychotherapy loomed large in America. Poignant, engrossing, and very smart! -- Alice Echols, author of Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975Weaving the history of her family into a courageous story, Alice Wexler captures her father’s efforts to find a path through psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the years following World War II. The result is a heart-rending tale that reveals how one family coped with personal loss in the face of dramatic cultural transformation. This is history and biography at its best. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian HellmanThis eloquent, tender, and piercing portrait of a father by his daughter offers an intimate perspective on a family profoundly affected by a devastating hereditary condition and a front-row seat to the fraught and kaleidoscopic history of psychotherapy across the twentieth century. -- Alexandra Minna Stern, associate dean for the humanities and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann ArborA probing biography of her father, psychoanalyst Milton Wexler… Wexler’s keen reflections make for a powerful portrait. Readers interested in the history of psychoanalysis will want to check this out. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPrologue1. On the Road to Topeka2. Out of Brooklyn3. Becoming Freudian4. The Slap, Explained5. Ex-Topekan6. Losing the Road Map7. Freudian Fathers and (Proto-) Feminist Daughters8. Revelations9. The Big Freedom10. (A) Challenging Fate11. Workshops of the Possible12. Making Friends, Making Love13. Retelling Lives14. Life Underwater15. The Old LeafEpilogueAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Sayings of Milton WexlerPublished Papers and Reviews by Milton WexlerList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHeavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participating in hastily staged saloon bouts against miners and lumberjacks. This biography charts the life and career of a man widely regarded as one of the toughest ever to enter the ring.Trade Review"In a creative and flowing literary style, but with keen attention to detail and judicious analyses of his material, Roberts approaches the heralded heavyweight champion as a legend and symbol of his age... Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler is a first-rate slice of Americana. It is fresh, witty, entertaining, and serious." --Washington Post Book World

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Book SynopsisRevered in South Africa as 'An African American Mother of the Nation,' Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women''s activism. Wanda A. Hendricks''s biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women’s League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma’s life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women’s activism, and of South Africa and the United States.Trade Review"This is the long-overdue biography of Madie Hall Xuma, who took her social justice work in the Jim Crow U.S. South to South Africa during the height of apartheid. " --Ms."An amazing narrative undergirded by unparalleled research on Hall Xuma and the locations in which it takes place. This book allows the reader to immerse themself in life as it was lived in Jim Crow and in apartheid. Despite the fact that it centers on one woman, the author has taken great care to create both of the worlds in which Hall Xuma lived, as well as a non-geographical world of Black women’s affiliations, social service activities, families, and friendships. Hendricks has been ambitious, and it has paid off."--Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950"The Life of Madie Hall Xuma is the long-overdue first biography of a remarkable leader who fought across the global stage for racial justice, gender equity, and human rights in Jim Crow America and apartheid South Africa. Madie Hall Xuma has heretofore been ignored by scholars of American history and known primarily to South Africanists as the second wife of former African National Congress president Alfred B. Xuma, but Hendricks's intimate portrayal of Hall Xuma's compelling transnational political, civic, religious, and domestic life powerfully illustrates the intertwined histories of African and African American women’s political activism across the global color line."--Robert Trent Vinson, author of Albert Luthuli: Mandela before Mandela"The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid makes an invaluable contribution to the body of literature that explores the transnational nature of Black women's activism. . . . The breadth of archival material utilized by Hendricks is extensive, and the book is very well researched." --Journal of Southern History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“When you read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn you know that you are reading and being read by one of the greatest men of the bloody 20th century. . . . He wouldn’t be muzzled. . . . He is also frank. Solzhenitsyn never hesitated to reveal to his readers the truth of things, including his own soul.” —The American Conservative“This long-awaited translation does not disappoint, offering insights into [Solzhenitsyn’s] work on The Red Wheel, his family life in Vermont, and his responses to the rapidly evolving political circumstances of what proved to be Soviet Communism’s waning years. . . . Between Two Millstones provides interesting insights into not just Solzhenitsyn but also the landscape he inhabited . . . [and] may be the most pleasurable read in his catalog—an opportunity to spend time with the writer in pleasant refuge.” —The American Spectator“In Between Two Millstones Solzhenitsyn blends several literary genres—autobiography, essay, and a touch of diary. . . . Readers encounter a great-souled Russian and Christian man in medias res, as he thinks, feels, lives his way through the years of separation from his beloved homeland.” —Will Morrisey Reviews"Outsiders see things those on the inside cannot see. Alexis de Tocqueville penetrated American democracy as no American could. In a similar fashion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Millstones[, Book 2]: Exile in America, 1978-1994 presents a view of America that few Americans could have grasped." —Law & Liberty“The thread unifying the second volume of Between Two Millstones . . . is Solzhenitsyn’s ongoing research and writing of The Red Wheel, his cycle of four novels (with more planned) spanning Russian history from the eruption of World War I in August 1914 to December 1917, just after the Bolshevik Revolution. . . . For Solzhenitsyn, fiction can be an instrument of truth, as it was for many of his Russian predecessors.” —Los Angeles Review of Books"Solzhenitsyn assumes a Tolstoyan mien (unwittingly or deliberately?). Striving for his works’ publication in Russia, he envisioned his exegi monumentum would restore Russia’s glory and soul. Thus in this second book . . . he corrects the lies and misinterpretations his works and appearances suffered from Soviet invectives as well as Western misperceptions. . . . Recommended." —Choice"This memoir exemplifies the difficult question of belonging. Without slipping into clichés, Solzhenitsyn challenges both émigré and American alike to seek the truth, not only of one’s own existence, but also that of a nation." —Modern Age“Today, as America seems more fractured than ever before, Solzhenitsyn’s reflections on how to restore Russia to a state of ordered liberty seem especially pertinent. . . . Solzhenitsyn is an inspiration—as a thinker, an artist, and a warrior who never tired of the battle.” —City Journal"Perhaps the lengthiest but most important single episode recounted in Book 2 is Solzhenitsyn’s account of working with his biographer, Michael Scammel. For anyone familiar with this affair, reading this autobiographical account offers a fascinating first-hand view into the complicated professional relationship between the two men. For those who are unfamiliar, it is an edge-of-your-seat intellectual thriller, a rollercoaster of literary intrigue." —The University Bookman“The last volume of Solzhenitsyn’s memoirs, the recently translated second part of Between Two Millstones, . . . casts the Gorbachev years as an eerie repeat of 1917.” —The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsPublisher’s Note Foreword to Book 2 PART TWO (1978–1982) 6. Russian Pain 7. A Creeping Host 8. More Headaches PART THREE (1982–1987) 9. Around Three Islands 10. Drawing Inward 11. Ordeal by Tawdriness 12. Alarm in the Senate 13. Warm Breeze PART FOUR (1987–1994) 14. Through the Brambles 15. Ideas Spurned 16. Nearing the Return APPENDICES List of Appendices Appendices (25–36) Notes to the English Translation Index of Selected Names General Index

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Book SynopsisStephen 'Steve-O' Glover—social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass—delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be dead. Steve-O is best known for his wildly dangerous, foolish, painful, embarrassing, and sometimes death-defying stunts. At age 48, however, he faces his greatest challenge yet: getting older. A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions is a captivating exploration of life and how to live it by an individual who has already lived way more than a lifetime’s worth of extreme experiences. Steve-O grapples with the right balance between maturity and staying true to yourself, not repeating your “greatest hits,” maintaining sobriety and a healthy regimen, avoiding selfishness, and finding the right partner for life.   Having built a gargantuan and loyal social media following while establishing a successful stand-up career—all after a couple of decades of dubious behavior—Steve-O is proof that anyone can find meaning and fulfillment in life, no matter what path they choose. Packed with self-deprecating wit and gruelingly earned wisdom, A Hard Kick in the Nuts will reverberate with readers everywhere who have lived a lot (sometimes too much) and are now wondering how to approach the years to come. Or maybe just need some good motivation to get out of bed tomorrow. One of many tips: Be your own harshest critic, then cut yourself a break, and enjoy this book.

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Book SynopsisThey say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn''t listen.From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively popular pop culture-professional wrestling-starring the Iron Sheik, Hulk Hogan, Tito Santana, and many more larger-than-life characters of the WWF of the 1980s.In 2005, Brad Balukjian left his dream job as a magazine fact-checker to pursue another dream: partner with his childhood hero, The Iron Sheik (whose real name is Khosrow Vaziri), to write his biography. Things quickly went terribly wrong, culminating in the Sheik threatening Balukjan''s life. Now seventeen years later, Balukjian returns to the road in search of not only a reunion with the Sheik, but something much bigger: truth in a world built on illusion. He seeks out six of the Sheik''s contemporaries, fellow witnesses to the World Wrestling Federation''s (WWF) explosion in the mid-80s, along with the ma

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Book SynopsisIn this “gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting” (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. ​   For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it. Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with inve

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Book SynopsisRenzo Piano is one of the world’s greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Written and created in collaboration with the Piano Foundation in Genoa, this richly illustrated volume covers the early work as well as the most recent designs, making a complete survey of his career to date. Starting with his beginnings with the Pompidou Centre in the 1970s (in collaboration with Richard Rogers) the story continues up to construction of one of his latest works, a spectacular new bridge in Genoa in 2020.   The book explores all of the studio’s main projects: the public spaces and museums, airports, theatres, and libraries. As well as giving unique insights into the creative process of Piano himself, the book includes numerous unpublished designs and Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION PREHISTORY THE POMPIDOU CENTRE: A BOLT FROM THE BLUE THE WILDERNESS YEARS TURNING POINT: THE MENIL COLLECTION SCALING UP: OSAKA AND BERLIN BUILDING AROUND AN EMPTY SPACE PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE: RECENT ACTIVITIES END MATTER

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Book SynopsisA ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century''s most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness.Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway''s work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature. They are the writer''s private signature, their authorial fingerprint.In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing new biography, including previously unpublished letters from the HemingwTrade ReviewA blistering, rollicking, horribly convincing account of a compelling literary monster ... [a] fascinating book. * The Sunday Times *In a new revisionist biography by Richard Bradford, we learn, from his astute analysis of previously unpublished letters from the Hemingway archive that there is indeed a good deal more to know about this ‘scrapper intellectual’, and ‘role player’. * The Irish Independent *Vivid and pugnacious... it will ruffle a few feathers among those wedded to the image of him as all-American literary hero -- Martin Stannard, author of Muriel Spark: The BiographyTable of ContentsList of Plates List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Young Deceiver 2 An American in Paris 3 Key West 4 Conflicts 5 War: With Martha 6 Secrets and Lies 7 Everywhere and Nowhere Epilogue Bibliography Index

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