Collected biographies Books

Book SynopsisTold alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin.Trade Review"The book is a masterful analysis of the consequences that traumatic shifts in power relations could have for the life of individuals." -- N. Pianciola, Nazarbayev University * Slavonic and East European Review *"This is a fascinating and well-researched exploration of the Russian [and] Chinese cultural encounter in Harbin, based on the extensive use of sources in both Russian and Chinese." -- Austin Jersild, Old Dominion University * H-Soz-Kult *"Specialists will draw much eclectic material about Harbin from Gamsa and enjoy the author’s often insightful ideas about cross-cultural contact and more." -- David Wolff, Hokkaido University * Slavic Review *"There are many reasons to like this book. The writing is elegant, with frequent memorable turns of phrase. The research in Russian, Chinese, and European-language sources is deep and rich, and Gamsa’s feel for his subject is remarkable. One senses on every page his balanced affection for Harbin and even for Budberg, despite his frankness about their many shared imperfections." -- Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinnati * Journal of Modern History *“The book builds on impressive research, contains stimulating discussions of the relationship between biography and general history, and thus deserves to be read not only as the story of a remarkable man but also, more broadly, as a fascinating attempt to understand the life of an individual in the context of his multicultural environment.” -- Stig Thøgersen, Aarhus University * H-Net Reviews *“Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is a remarkable feat of research across multiple languages and archives, as well as a compellingly original, stylishly written, and surprisingly intimate book.” -- Edward Tyerman, University of California, Berkeley * Twentieth-Century China *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Of Ethnicity and Identity 2. Beginnings 3. Intermediaries and Channels of Communication 4. A Chinese-German Flower 5. Daily Life in a Mixed City 6. Trials and Endings 7. Russians and Chinese under Japanese Rule 8. Kharbintsy and Ha’erbin ren Epilogue: The General and the Particular Notes Glossary of Chinese Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this highly entertaining biography, W.P.M. Kennedy emerges as a complicated yet compelling figure in the academic and legal history of Canada.Trade Review“[M]asterful biography…Friedland deftly weaves an account of Kennedy’s complex life with great insight and scholarship.” -- Bob Rae * Canada’s History *“[F]ascinating new biography… Friedland’s biography provides a meticulously researched evaluation of a man keen to obscure and rewrite his own past. Despite these challenges, Friedland succeeds in providing a vivid portrait of WPM Kennedy that places him in the context of his wider contribution to Canadian society.” -- Thomas Mohr * Dublin University Law Journal *“The book is skillfully written and very accessible. In fact, it is a real page turner in places….” -- Dr. Peter Ludlow, President-General of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association * Maritime Institute for Civil Society *“W.P.M. Kennedy is one of the most important Canadian legal figures that most Canadian legal academics have not heard of…Friedland deploys all his experience, ingenuity, and investigative skills to complete his ‘search for truth about the life of W.P.M. Kennedy.’” -- Adam M. Dodek * American Journal of Comparative Law *Table of ContentsW.P.M. Kennedy Timeline Preface 1. Coming to America 2. Earlier Years 3. After Trinity College Dublin 4. St. Michael’s College 5. Turning to the Canadian Constitution 6. Pauline Simpson 7. The Constitution of Canada and Beyond 8. Deeks v. Macmillan and H.G. Wells 9. The Irish Constitution 10. Productive Years 11. Lord Elgin and More 12. Starting a Law Program 13. Creating a Law School 14. More Projects 15. Running a Law School 16. Encouraging Scholarship 17. Rethinking the BNA Act 18. The War Years 19. The Changing Law School 20. The Cottage 21. The Family 22. Sidney Smith Arrives 23. Final Years as Dean 24. The Struggle Continues 25. Retirement 26. Final Days 27. Summing Up Endnotes

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Book SynopsisCrossing time and oceans, this fascinating history of the McIlwraiths tracks the family's imperial identities across the generations to tell a story of anthropology and empire.Trade Review"Writing the Empire is a masterpiece of archival research and reconstruction that illuminates and challenges broad-brush narratives of British imperial and colonial history and demonstrates how biography can, in fact, be more than minutiae without meaning." -- Ben Wilkie, La Trobe University * Journal of Australian Studies *"Kroller is to be commended for her exploration of the gendered relationships between family members and other intimate connections are well-explored in this book. She took on a monumental task to synthesize an enormous amount of material and pull out cohesive themes for each section, and yet she still managed to include an intersectional lens to her analysis." -- Victoria Seta Cosby * Ontario History *"Writing the Empire is a significant piece of scholarship and historians interested in empire and colonialism will benefit from engaging with it." -- Robert Hogg * The British Columbia Review *"Eva-Marie Kroller has drawn upon recent scholarship of imperial connections and networking, as well as extensive archival work, to produce an idiosyncratic and highly original history of the extended McIlwraith family." -- Barbara J. Messamore, University of the Fraser Valley * Canadian Historical Review *"A splendid accomplishment in literary analysis, family history, and the study of the anatomy of Empire." -- Andrew Holman, Bridgewater State University * British Journal of Canadian Studies *"Writing the Empire is a fascinating … history of a family that left its traces [in] Empire politics as well as the international academic and publishing worlds." * Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen *"What distinguishes this work from some family histories is its clear-eyed attention to the good and the bad, including the impact of empire on women, Black people, Indigenous people, and other ‘imperial subjects.’" -- Margery Fee * Canadian Literature *"Through her intricately woven cross-generational history of a single empire family, the Scottish McIlwraiths, Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948, Eva-Marie Kröller expertly demonstrates the roles and meanings of family and the trans-imperial networks that nineteenth-century families accumulated.” -- Ellen Smith, University of Leicester * Journal of British Studies *“As a multigenerational and collective biography, this volume does much to broaden our understanding of how family, friendship, and professional networks made empire.” -- Rob Kristofferson, Wilfred Laurier University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Permissions List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Australian McIlwraiths 2 The Ontario McIlwraiths 3 The “Family Album” 4 Jean McIlwraith’s Story 5 Beulah Gillet Knox in Dresden 6 The Wartime Letters of T.F. McIlwraith 7 T.F. McIlwraith at Cambridge Conclusion: Bella Coola and After Appendix: McIlwraith Genealogies Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBorn in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy’s story is largely a mystery. Weaving together a number of key events, Martin L. Friedland’s lively biography discusses Kennedy’s contributions as a legal and interdisciplinary scholar, his work at the University of Toronto where he founded the Faculty of Law, as well as his personal life, detailing stories about his family and important friends, such as Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Kennedy earned a reputation in some circles for being something of a scoundrel, and Friedland does not shy away from addressing Kennedy’s exaggerated involvement in drafting the Irish constitution, his relationships with female students, and his quest for recognition. Throughout the biography, Friedland interjects with his own personal Trade Review“[M]asterful biography…Friedland deftly weaves an account of Kennedy’s complex life with great insight and scholarship.” -- Bob Rae * Canada’s History *“[F]ascinating new biography… Friedland’s biography provides a meticulously researched evaluation of a man keen to obscure and rewrite his own past. Despite these challenges, Friedland succeeds in providing a vivid portrait of WPM Kennedy that places him in the context of his wider contribution to Canadian society.” -- Thomas Mohr * Dublin University Law Journal *“The book is skillfully written and very accessible. In fact, it is a real page turner in places….” -- Dr. Peter Ludlow, President-General of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association * Maritime Institute for Civil Society *“W.P.M. Kennedy is one of the most important Canadian legal figures that most Canadian legal academics have not heard of…Friedland deploys all his experience, ingenuity, and investigative skills to complete his ‘search for truth about the life of W.P.M. Kennedy.’” -- Adam M. Dodek * American Journal of Comparative Law *Table of ContentsW.P.M. Kennedy Timeline Preface 1. Coming to America 2. Earlier Years 3. After Trinity College Dublin 4. St. Michael’s College 5. Turning to the Canadian Constitution 6. Pauline Simpson 7. The Constitution of Canada and Beyond 8. Deeks v. Macmillan and H.G. Wells 9. The Irish Constitution 10. Productive Years 11. Lord Elgin and More 12. Starting a Law Program 13. Creating a Law School 14. More Projects 15. Running a Law School 16. Encouraging Scholarship 17. Rethinking the BNA Act 18. The War Years 19. The Changing Law School 20. The Cottage 21. The Family 22. Sidney Smith Arrives 23. Final Years as Dean 24. The Struggle Continues 25. Retirement 26. Final Days 27. Summing Up Endnotes

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Book Synopsis“Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we tell ourselves” writes contributor Madaline Harrison. Bodies of Truth continues this tradition through a variety of narrative approaches by writers representing all facets of health care.Trade Review"Those seeking a fuller picture of what it's like living with disease or disability, as well as educators looking for teachable essays for a medical humanities class or writing group, will find this work outstanding."—Aaron Klink, Library Journal“Bodies of Truth takes us to a world of miraculous drugs and drug addictions, of doctors who wonder how to shake hands with the prisoners they treat and nurses who come to confession because death has worked its way into their souls. Above all, it’s truth: that our bodies, and the bodies of those we love and care for, so often take us to places we never knew existed, to find strengths we never knew we had. If illness and death are lonesome roads we must at some point travel, I can’t think of a more fitting companion than this volume. The writers here come as strangers to us, but they bring us gifts—their stories—that connect us whether in pain or compassion.”—Paul Shepherd, editor of Hospital Drive and author of More Like Not Running Away“I read Bodies of Truth almost in one sitting, so compelling are the stories. To read this many of them—different illnesses and disabilities, and from different perspectives—is strangely heartening. This is all of us, represented here, wounded in one way or another or looking after the wounded. If we can say how it is, and be listened to, surely the exposure will heal a lot of festering. I am glad to have this beautifully orchestrated, passionately written collection.”—Fleda Brown, author of My Wobbly Bicycle: Meditations on Cancer and the Creative Life“Bodies of Truth offers personal accounts of individuals caught up in the lived experience of illness. . . . They are not necessarily asking us to judge, to change the world, or even to react. They merely ask, as did Coleridge’s ancient mariner, that we pause to hear the tale, setting aside for a moment the tasks at hand.”—Jacek L. Mostwin, professor of urology and the director of the Division of Neurological and Reconstructive Urology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and faculty affiliate of the Berman Institute of BioethicsTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Jacek L. Mostwin Preface Two Hearts Brian Doyle Spared Deborah Burghardt A Measure of Acceptance Floyd Skloot One Little Mind, Our Lie, Dr. Lie Matthew S. Smith Locked into Life Mark Brazaitis Rendered Mute Teresa Blankmeyer Burke Jamie’s Place Michael Bérubé A Day in the Grammar of Disease Sonya Huber Marked William Bradley 750 Words about Cancer Rebecca Housel The Power of a Handshake Hugh Silk Submerged Tenley Lozano Where Do You Go from Alston Street? Kat Moore Confession Diane Kraynak This Moment Adriana Páramo Sit Still and Uncover Your Eyes Elizabeth Brady Overtones Meredith Davies Hadaway The Way of the Spring Patrick Donnelly Type One Riley Passmore The Bad Patient Sandra Beasley A Tribute to the Pharmacist Taison Bell Flying into Jerusalem Katherine Macfarlane Reluctant Reliance Erin M. Kelly An Interview with My Mom Belinda Waller-Peterson Days of the Giants Madaline Harrison Source Acknowledgments List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. In a way all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, evocative and unforgettable.Trade Review"A motley collection of pieces. . . . Essayist Noble has a focused, tight style, often employing the technique of looking at somewhat discrete items (or memories) and seeking connections among them. . . . Unique eyes look at familiar things and somehow make them seem both odder and more familiar."—Kirkus"Be With Me Always works its magic in profound, subtle, seamless ways. The meticulous craftsmanship in the construction of these essays is equally matched by Noble's beautiful, confident, assured vision."—Christopher John Stephens, Pop Matters"Be with Me Always has much to teach its readers about longing, experimental writing, and the fruits of reading extensively. This collection is sure to be taught in writing classes far and wide. Noble teaches us the truths of the flaneur, to be a good outsider and essayist: It is important to watch and to try, to think and to create."—Gretchen Lida, Punctuate"The twenty-six essays in Noble's collection confront hauntings on a personal and literary scale. Famous figures of history and culture interweave with experiences that span Noble's girlhood to present day. She wrangles with the complexities of love, ambition, identity, rejection, legacy, and parenthood. At heart is the question of who's doing the haunting? Do we haunt ourselves? Why would we do that? . . . Noble powerfully reminds us that hauntings spring from the same desire that propels enduring essays, the desire to live an examined life."—Magin LaSov Gregg, Brevity"Like a girl, perfumed, attempting to become a flower, Noble's essays try to become the things they describe; her work reminds us of the labor, and the ingenuity, needed to thoroughly examine a life. . . . Be With Me Always will read like a best friend who understands you and your love of the quick, compressed, and strange."—Amy V. Blakemore, Barrelhouse Reviews"Noble gives us essays that elevate the rawness of real life with an overarching theme of hauntedness. From hard choices to characters in classic literature, from a near-death experience to past lovers, she has written a book that appeals to readers of both modern pop culture magazines and Emily Brontë."—Hannah Grieco, Washington City Paper"The essays in Randon Billings Noble's dazzlingly honest debut collection explore the varied hauntings that linger through the years and even centuries of human action."—Kari Hanlin, Mid-American Review"Noble and her collection are fascinating companions indeed."—Katy Major, River Teeth"Be with Me Always leaves ample room to breathe and stretch—both heart and mind."—Brandel France de Bravo, Salamander“In her brilliant collection Be with Me Always, Randon Billings Noble explores the frailty of romance, of the human body, and of us all, with startling honesty, admirable ingenuity, genuine insight, and, always, with energy and surprise.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and DesireTable of ContentsI. Whatever Bed The Split Mirror Glimpses Elegy for Dracula Ambush II. Shadows and Markings The Shadow of the Hours Leaving the Island Behind the Caves Marked III. Biologies The Heart as a Torn Muscle A Pill to Cure Love What of the Raven, What of the Dove? Assemblage Vertebrae IV. The Voice at the Window Yet Another Day at the Jersey Shore The Sparkling Future Widow Fantasies Striking V. On Looking On Looking The Ownership of Memory The Island of Topaz ShellsCamouflet VI. The Red Thread Knots 69 Inches of Thread, Scarlet and Otherwise On Silence Devotional Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book Synopsis When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz’s life, each heightened by its connection to historical, political, and social issues. These essays look both inward and outward so that these individualized tales tell a larger story—of assimilation, the women’s movement, racism, anti-Semitism, end-of-life issues, ethics in writing, digital and corporate challenges, and courtroom justice. A shrewd and discerning storyteller, Schwartz captures history from her vantage as a child of German-Jewish immigrants, a wife of over fifty years, a breast cancer survivor, a working mother, a traveler, a tennis player, a daughter, and a widow. In adding her personal story to the larger narrative of history, culture, and politics, Schwartz invites readers to consider her personal take alongside “official” histories and offers readers fresh assessments of our collective past. Trade Review"Although the essays are highly personal, most readers will relate to the larger pictures of human rights, racism, the women's movement, and a score of other topics. Expressive, intimate snapshots of one woman's life set atop the backdrop of global history."—Kirkus"It's all here—a whole life—and one imagines Schwartz's family must feel immense pleasure in having such a complete record to pass down to further generations. . . . Schwartz's work certainly could serve as inspiration for those keen to write memoirs of their own."—Laura Farmer, Gazette"The book offers a deep sense of place, whether that place is a chicken farm on Long Island, an historic home in Princeton, or the German village where the author's father spent his boyhood before World War II."—Johanna Ginsberg, New Jersey Jewish News"Schwartz opens herself and her life up to be examined and used to compare to your own life in a way that will allow you to see how you have influenced your own history and the world around you."—Nerdy Girl Express"Schwartz quite skillfully creates pictures with her words. In writing about issues large or small, her prose is a pleasure to read. She captures scenes and recounts dialogue in a way that makes each of these essays a jewel. Her ability to choose the telling detail—a phrase from a song lyric, the description of a tattoo used to hide a breast cancer scar, the words said by a nurse as her husband is dying—is the mark of an effective storyteller."—Vicki Mayk, Hippocampus Magazine“Perfect-pitch, impeccable observation, penetrating insight. . . . A fresh and vivid approach to many dominant themes long cherished by American writers—the dynamics of remembering and forgetting, the significance of place, the conflict of individuals and institutions, the inseparability of past and present.”—Robert Atwan, series editor of Best American Essays “How do you write personal history—memoir—without narcissism? I watch Mimi Schwartz do it with sheer enjoyment. In a world racked by conflict, Schwartz is a clear-eyed advocate of storytelling that connects things with their supposed opposites—sibling to sibling, white neighbor to black neighbor, Israeli to Palestinian, Jew to German, age to youth, a New England hair salon to the opiate epidemic, grief to renewal, and the individual self to the world. ‘Both sides’ is her mantra. And how write about aging without self-pity? With humor, thank you, and also—as in tennis—‘[while] leaning toward the ball, however hard and fast it comes.’”—Alicia Ostriker, author of Waiting for the Light “The essays in When History Is Personal, by turns incisive, sobering, funny, lyrical, and challenging, accrue to a complex inquiry that examines the way we negotiate between the ways we know ourselves and the identities we are assigned by history and culture. Schwartz shows us that the way to repair the disruptions of history is to look from within one’s own story. Her writing is vivid and compelling, but also something more, a re-substantiation of lives that mattered, a testament. Brava!”—Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House “In this absorbing, compelling set of twenty-five connected essays, Mimi Schwartz takes readers along on a journey across decades and continents to explore the ways in which the personal and historical, the familial and the political, shape us and anchor us in the world. As one essay opens into the next, Schwartz, a magnificent writer and storyteller, moves gracefully and effortlessly between narrating and reflecting, weaving her reflections into a most pleasurable and satisfying essay collection. This is creative nonfiction at its finest.”—Nancy Sommers, Harvard University Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part 1. Family Haunts My Father Always Said The Coronation of Bobby Love in a Handbag When to Forget “It’s Just Like Benheim” Part 2. In and Out My Front Door First Thanksgiving, 1962 Off the King’s Highway A Trunk of Surprise What’s a Rally to Do? Close Call At the Johnson Hair Salon Echo across the Road Part 3. Storyscapes Story on a Winter Beach Go Away, Bear Writing with Carly My Z Man Who Will I Be in Your Story? In the Land of Double Narrative Part 4. Border Crossings Ad In, Ad Out On Stage and Off Lessons from a Last Day Lyrics and the Way We Love A Vine of Roses Fix-It Fantasy How the Light Gets In Acknowledgments Source Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA biographical sketch of each head of Indian affairs between 1786 and 2021, including each commissioner’s political philosophy.Trade Review"Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021 is a straightforward and concisely written book that provides an important overview of those who have led U.S. administration of Indian Affairs. It is recommended as a possible companion to survey courses focused on federal Indian law and history to provide important contextual information for students. The chapters also contain information that scholars can expand upon in works with information that DeJong has helpfully provided in this text. In providing an almost encyclopedic administrative history of Indian Affairs leadership, DeJong offers an important source to scholars and students alike."—Brittani R. Orona, Journal of Arizona History"This work is an excellent reference volume and will be useful for scholars and students of history who wish to gain a better understanding of the individuals involved in the crafting of federal Indian policies over time."—Michelle M. Martin, Chronicles of Oklahoma“Invaluable to those researching Indian policy and its development. . . . This overview of how Indian policy developed highlights certain themes that transcend time and gives a fascinating peek into the people charged with making Indian policy.”—Carol L. Higham, author of Noble, Wretched, and Redeemable: Protestant Missionaries to the Indians in Canada and the United States, 1820–1900“Paternalism to Partnership is of high value as a library holding and will be of significance to specialists or students in the field of Indian affairs.”—Robert M. Utley, author of The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free LakotasTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface The Administration of Indian Affairs 1. John Harris, Superintendent of the Indian Trading Houses 2. William Irvine, Superintendent of the Indian Trading Houses 3. George W. Ingels, Superintendent of the Indian Trading Houses 4. William Davy, Superintendent of the Indian Trading Houses 5. John Shee, Superintendent of Indian Trade 6. John M. Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade 7. Thomas McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Trade/Chief Clerk 8. William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs 9. Samuel S. Hamilton, Chief Clerk 10. Elbert Herring, Chief Clerk, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 11. Cary Allen Harris, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 12. Thomas Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 13. William Medill, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 14. Orlando Brown, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 15. Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 16. George W. Manypenny, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 17. James W. Denver, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 18. Charles E. Mix, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 19. Alfred B. Greenwood, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 20. William P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 21. Dennis N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 22. Lewis V. Bogy, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 23. Nathaniel G. Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 24. Ely S. Parker, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 25. Francis A. Walker, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 26. Edward P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 27. John Quincy Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 28. Ezra Hayt, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 29. Roland E. Trowbridge, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 30. Hiram Price, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 31. John Dewitt Clinton Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 32. John H. Oberly, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 33. Thomas Jefferson Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 34. Daniel M. Browning, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 35. William A. Jones, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 36. Francis E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 37. Robert G. Valentine, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 38. Cato Sells, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 39. Charles Henry Burke, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 40. Charles James Rhoads, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 41. John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 42. William A. Brophy, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 43. John R. Nichols, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 44. Dillion S. Myer, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 45. Glenn L. Emmons, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 46. Philleo Nash, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 47. Robert F. Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 48. Louis Rook Bruce, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 49. Marvin L. Franklin, Assistant to the Secretary 50. Morris Thompson, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 51. Ben Reifel, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 52. Forrest J. Gerard, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 53. William E. Hallett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 54. Thomas W. Fredericks, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 55. Kenneth L. Smith, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 56. Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 57. Eddie F. Brown, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 58. Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 59. Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 60. Neil A. McCaleb, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 61. David W. Anderson, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 62. Carl J. Artman , Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 63. Larry J. Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 64. Kevin K. Washburn, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs 65. Tara MacLean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks. In this book, Ethel Morgan Smith shines light on unsung heroes of the civil rights movement, the ordinary citizens working behind the scenes to make an impact in their communities.

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Book SynopsisThis searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most notorious prison. Lakhdar and Mustafa were living quiet, peaceful lives in Bosnia when, in October 2001, they were arrested and accused of participating in a terrorist plot. After a three-month investigation uncovered no evidence, all charges were dropped and Bosnian courts ordered their freedom. However, under intense U.S. pressure, Bosnian officials turned them over to American soldiers. They were flown blindfolded and shackled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held in outdoor cages for weeks as the now-infamous military prison was built around them. Guantanamo became their home for the next seven years. They endured torture and harassment and force-feedings and beatings, all the while not knowing if they would ever see their families again. They had no opportunity to argue their innocence until 2008, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in their case, Boumediene v. Bush, confirming Guantanamo detainees' constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Weeks later, the George W. Bush–appointed federal judge who heard their case, stunned by the absence of evidence against them, ordered their release. Now living in Europe and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa are finally free to share a story that every American ought to know. Learn more at witnessesbook.com or donate to a crowdsourced restitution fund at GoFundMe.com/witnesses.Trade Review"The U.S. government didn't want you to hear about life in the 'legal black hole' of Guantanamo. Having won the right to a judicial hearing and secured their release, Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir tell the urgent, compelling story behind their detention and one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of this century. It's a revealing and moving look at what the U.S. government tried desperately to hide."—David Cole, Professor, Georgetown Law, and National Legal Director, ACLU"Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir are two of the most notorious victims of the U.S.'s post-9/11 program of rendition, torture, and indefinite detention. Kidnapped on groundless suspicions, they are perfectly placed to reflect on the horrors of Guantanamo and the 'war on terror.' With a warmth and intelligence sadly lacking in America's treatment of them, this powerful joint memoir exposes their captors' cruelty and the Kafkaesque twists and turns of the U.S. government's efforts to build a case against them."—Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison"Witnesses of the Unseen courageously exposes an ugly episode in U.S. history, restoring to Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir the humanity hijacked from them by the American government. This book transcends geography and time to take readers from Boumediene and Ait Idir's early years of innocence to their long imprisonment in the cages of Guantanamo. A must read for all people of conscience."—Shakeel Syed, Former Executive Director, Islamic Shura Council"This no-frills account of their time in Guantánamo is disturbing, as the authors detail their mistreatment at the hands of prison guards and interrogators and how they were held in outdoor cages as the prison was built around them. Readers will be shocked by the lack of evidence against the men and how the tenuous ties among a group of casual friends fueled the government's crusade against them. An intense, important read for anyone interested in the American government's misguided efforts at Guantánamo. "—Kirkus Reviews "This book gives us insight into a dark period of U.S. history that is bound to repeat itself, unless more people like Mustafa and Lakhdar agree to tell their stories. Through their compelling first person accounts, told with enormous sensitivity, we learn how a culture of fear and suspicion can result in cruelty, injustice, and total disregard for humanity. There is horror, but there is also immense hope in this world where dedicated people, including the victims who have suffered untold indignities, speak up and speak out."—John Heffernan, Executive Director, Speak Truth To Power, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights"In Guantanamo, Mustafa and Lakhdar often lifted my spirits and gave me reasons to smile and to laugh in the midst of so much pain and darkness. I urge everyone to read this moment of history, which is so beautifully and graciously captured by my two brothers and friends."—Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of Guantánamo Diary"This book is crucial reading for all Americans. From a faculty perspective, it is invaluable to students in a number of disciplines: political science, criminal justice, and public administration are ones that come readily to mind because of the constitutional issues raised. At its most basic, this book offers two compelling and disturbingly similar accounts of former Guantanamo detainees Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir about their imprisonment in the notorious gulag over seven years...This book would be an excellent resource for exploring issues of ethics, checks and balances, and other issues. Highly recommended"—S. E. Blankenship, Choice"There is much that shocks the conscience in Mr. Boumediene and Mr. Idir's book, even to those of us who have read nearly everything about Guantanamo in the 16 long years since it opened. Their resilience, and continuing recovery from the brutal treatment meted out by the United States government, is deeply moving." —Alka Pradhan, Human Rights Counsel, Military Commissions Defense OrganizationTable of ContentsEpilogue: Epilogue:

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Book SynopsisThe lives of African American gay men have greatly gone unnoticed in the American consciousness. Despite the fact that Black gay men have made great contributions to our global society. For example, James Baldwin served as a literature giant. Bayard Rustin was one of the key organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. Alphonso David is the first person of color to lead the HRC (Human Rights Campaign).The purpose of this book is to discuss the narratives of Black gay men. There is no doubt that American history has done a nonexistent job of portraying the lives of these Black gay men. Most of these lives have been relegated to the background of society. This book purposes to change that narrative by having 10 to 12 gentlemen discuss their background and how it brought them to where they are in life now. The goal of this book is to also discuss the victory for each of the authors.

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Book SynopsisThe lives of African American gay men have greatly gone unnoticed in the American consciousness. Despite the fact that Black gay men have made great contributions to our global society. For example, James Baldwin served as a literature giant. Bayard Rustin was one of the key organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. Alphonso David is the first person of color to lead the HRC (Human Rights Campaign).The purpose of this book is to discuss the narratives of Black gay men. There is no doubt that American history has done a nonexistent job of portraying the lives of these Black gay men. Most of these lives have been relegated to the background of society. This book purposes to change that narrative by having 10 to 12 gentlemen discuss their background and how it brought them to where they are in life now. The goal of this book is to also discuss the victory for each of the authors.

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Book SynopsisThis hands-on book takes a look at four brilliant women -- Ada Lovelace, Anna Atkins, Hildegard Von Bingen, and Maria Telkes -- and the world-changing innovations they created. Walk in their footsteps as you discover how these women became inventors, learn what inspired them, and then try your hand at recreating their most famous inventions -- computer programs, solar photography, codes and ciphers, and water purifiers.

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Book Synopsis“It was one of those periods that you got through, as opposed to enjoyed. It wasn’t an environment that . . . was nurturing, so you shut it out. You just got through it. You just took it a day at a time. You excelled if you could. You did your best. You felt as though the eyes of the community were on you.”—Glenda Wilson, East Side Junior High.Much has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in 1957. History has been silent, however, about the students who desegregated Little Rock’s five public junior high schools—East Side, Forest Heights, Pulaski Heights, Southwest, and West Side—in 1961 and 1962.The First Twenty-Five gathers the personal stories of these students some fifty years later. They recall what it was like to break down long-standing racial barriers while in their early teens—a developmental stage that often brings emotional vulnerability. In their own words, these individuals share what they saw, heard, and felt as children on the front lines of the civil rights movement, providing insight about this important time in Little Rock, and how these often painful events from their childhoods affected the rest of their lives.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II. The contributors study women as agents and representations of social change in a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez, Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Table of ContentsA Note on Translations … v Introduction ... 1 Jennifer SmithPart I: Modern Spanish Women Writers as Activists ... 26 One Gender, Race, and Subalternity in the Antislavery Plays of María Rosa Gálvez and Faustina Sáez de Melgar ... 27Akiko Tsuchiya Two Forging Progressive Futures for Spain’s Women and People: Sofía Tartilán (Palencia 1829-Madrid 1888) ... 55Christine Arkinstall Three Fashion as Feminism: Carmen de Burgos’s Ideas on Fashion in Context ... 94Roberta JohnsonPart II: Emilia Pardo Bazán as Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic ... 119 Four Pardo Bazán’s “Apuntes autobiográficos”and “El baile del Querubín”: A Theoretical Reexamination ... 120Susan M. McKenna Five The Twice-Told and the Unsaid in Pardo Bazán’s “Presentido,” “En coche-cama,” “Confidencia,” and “Madre” ... 147Linda M. Willem Six Emilia Pardo Bazán, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Stories of Conversion ... 175Denise DuPont Seven “A Most Promising Girl”: Gender and Artistic Future in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “La dama joven” ... 205Margot VersteegPart III:Representations of Female Deviance ... 237 Eight A Woman’s Search for a Space of Her Own in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Dos mujeres ... 238Rogelia Lily Ibarra Nine Caterina Albert i Paradís: Writing, Solitude, and Woman’s Jouissance, translated by Lourdes Albuixech... 261Neus Carbonell Ten The Obstinate Negativity of Ana Ozores ... 289Jo Labanyi Eleven Female Masculinity in La Regenta ... 307Jennifer Smith Afterword ... 333Acknowledgments... 337Bibliography ... 338Index ... 373About the Contributors ... 374

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II. The contributors study women as agents and representations of social change in a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez, Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"This book is a beautiful tribute to Maryellen Bieder, an important and significant scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish narrative by women. The essays in this book—by scholars and writers of several different generations who are also highly esteemed in the same and other areas—expand and continue Bieder’s research to new horizons. Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change is a very important contribution to the field: it continues current research, embarks on new areas of investigation, and employs distinct or innovative theoretical ideas." -- Sandra J. Schumm * author of Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels *"An outstanding work of collaborative scholarship and unreservedly recommended for community Women's Studies sections, as well as college and university library Literary & Iberian Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *"Jennifer Smith continues to vindicate the validity of feminism today. There is no doubt that Maryellen Bieder would be proud of the legacy passed on to her numerous disciples and colleagues." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *“An outstanding contribution of cutting-edge research to students and scholars of feminist discourses, gender studies, and modern Peninsular literatures and cultures.” * Hispania *"The volume adds to our understanding of nineteenth-century women’s agency and the lead roles played by women in conversations about modernity and national identity within the cultural, literary and political spheres. The volume also models the same kind of literary activism championed by some of the women whose work inspires its various chapters." * Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies *"The volume demonstrates the need to continue learning about the historical and cultural legacy of these women as agents of change and modernity to understand in more detail the role of Spanish women in the present moment, a moment that is challenging the anti-feminist and conservative discourse on both sides of the Atlantic as outdated." * Revista de Literatura *"Well-written and insightful." * Anales Galdosianos *"This book is a beautiful tribute to Maryellen Bieder, an important and significant scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish narrative by women. The essays in this book—by scholars and writers of several different generations who are also highly esteemed in the same and other areas—expand and continue Bieder’s research to new horizons. Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change is a very important contribution to the field: it continues current research, embarks on new areas of investigation, and employs distinct or innovative theoretical ideas." -- Sandra J. Schumm * author of Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels *"An outstanding work of collaborative scholarship and unreservedly recommended for community Women's Studies sections, as well as college and university library Literary Iberian Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *"Jennifer Smith continues to vindicate the validity of feminism today. There is no doubt that Maryellen Bieder would be proud of the legacy passed on to her numerous disciples and colleagues." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *“An outstanding contribution of cutting-edge research to students and scholars of feminist discourses, gender studies, and modern Peninsular literatures and cultures.” * Hispania *"The volume adds to our understanding of nineteenth-century women’s agency and the lead roles played by women in conversations about modernity and national identity within the cultural, literary and political spheres. The volume also models the same kind of literary activism championed by some of the women whose work inspires its various chapters." * Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies *"The volume demonstrates the need to continue learning about the historical and cultural legacy of these women as agents of change and modernity to understand in more detail the role of Spanish women in the present moment, a moment that is challenging the anti-feminist and conservative discourse on both sides of the Atlantic as outdated." * Revista de Literatura *"Well-written and insightful." * Anales Galdosianos *Table of ContentsA Note on Translations … v Introduction ... 1 Jennifer SmithPart I: Modern Spanish Women Writers as Activists ... 26 One Gender, Race, and Subalternity in the Antislavery Plays of María Rosa Gálvez and Faustina Sáez de Melgar ... 27Akiko Tsuchiya Two Forging Progressive Futures for Spain’s Women and People: Sofía Tartilán (Palencia 1829-Madrid 1888) ... 55Christine Arkinstall Three Fashion as Feminism: Carmen de Burgos’s Ideas on Fashion in Context ... 94Roberta JohnsonPart II: Emilia Pardo Bazán as Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic ... 119 Four Pardo Bazán’s “Apuntes autobiográficos”and “El baile del Querubín”: A Theoretical Reexamination ... 120Susan M. McKenna Five The Twice-Told and the Unsaid in Pardo Bazán’s “Presentido,” “En coche-cama,” “Confidencia,” and “Madre” ... 147Linda M. Willem Six Emilia Pardo Bazán, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Stories of Conversion ... 175Denise DuPont Seven “A Most Promising Girl”: Gender and Artistic Future in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “La dama joven” ... 205Margot VersteegPart III:Representations of Female Deviance ... 237 Eight A Woman’s Search for a Space of Her Own in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Dos mujeres ... 238Rogelia Lily Ibarra Nine Caterina Albert i Paradís: Writing, Solitude, and Woman’s Jouissance, translated by Lourdes Albuixech... 261Neus Carbonell Ten The Obstinate Negativity of Ana Ozores ... 289Jo Labanyi Eleven Female Masculinity in La Regenta ... 307Jennifer Smith Afterword ... 333Acknowledgments... 337Bibliography ... 338Index ... 373About the Contributors ... 374

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Book SynopsisBoth famous in their day, Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Western Australia and on the Nullarbor for decades, surrounded by her books, notes and artefacts. A self-taught ethnologist, desperate to be accepted by established male anthropologists, she sought to document the language and customs of the people who visited her camps. In 1935, Ernestine Hill, journalist and author of the bestselling book, The Great Australian Loneliness, coaxed Daisy Bates to Adelaide to collaborate on a newspaper series for The Advertiser. Their collaboration resulted in the 1938 international bestseller, The Passing of the Aborigines. This book informed popular opinion about Aboriginal people for decades, though Bates’s failure to acknowledge Hill as her co-author strained their friendship. Traversing great distances in a campervan, Eleanor Hogan reflects on the lives and work of these indefatigable women. From a contemporary perspective, their work seems quaint and sentimental, their outlook and preoccupations dated, paternalistic and even racist. Yet Hogan is reminded that Bates and Hill took a genuine interest in Aboriginal people and their cultures long before they were considered worthy of the Australian mainstream’s attention. With sensitivity and insight, she wonders whether their work speaks to us today and what their legacies as fearless female outliers might be.

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Book SynopsisDead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn; musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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Book Synopsis"The current compendium traces the development of the office's architectural practice and thinking through a series of completed buildings, works in progress and projects that, as yet, remain unrealised. The book illuminates its strategies of sustainable design, its multiple interventions in the post-industrial cityscape and the unfolding of an architectural language full of sense and sensuality that reacts to its physical and social context, as well as to functional, technical, spatial and sculptural considerations. The book reveals Sauerbruch and Hutton's understanding of their profession as an ongoing process of research into presence and future, and is the only comprehensive documentation of their numerous works."

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Book SynopsisIn 1974 the Queen's Gallantry Medal was instituted to replace awards for gallantry in the Order of the British Empire for actions not quite meriting the award of the George Medal. Since then it has been awarded on 1,044 occasions, which includes 38 posthumous awards and 19 second awards.Trade Review'I consider this fine book to be a deserved tribute to all recipients of the QGM. I commend it to all.' (Sir Ronnie Flanagan GBE, QPM.) '..a "must have" for the medal enthusiast and student of the better aspects of human nature. The author is to be congratulated on a most remarkable and valuable work.' (Professor Bernard de Neumann.) 'The book is a must for any recipient of the QGM, for which it will be a wonderful memento, for medal aficionado's, and for anyone who has an interest in the many and varied stories that resulted in the award.' (S. P. Holmes QGM.)

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Book SynopsisLas apasionantes vidas de cincuenta mujeres olvidadas que construyeron la historia de España.Una ilustradora antifascista, la pasión femenina de Lorca, la fusilera que fue azote de los franceses durante la guerra de la Independencia, la mejor trapecista del mundo, la guerrera de Lepanto, las hermanas Sorolla, la creadora de la muñeca Mariquita Pérez, la cantante de ópera que pudo ser reina o la esclava que se convirtió en la dramaturga más importante del Siglo de Oro son solo algunas de las 50 vidas que recoge este libro. Los sufrimientos, luchas, esperanzas e increíbles gestas de todas estas mujeres que, con su visión talentosa, a veces compleja y silenciosa, y siempre polifacética, trataron de construir un mundo más igualitario a través de su excelsa capacidad y de su excepcional talento creativo.Ninguna fue reconocida pero todas fueron ÚNICAS.ALICIA VALLINA es periodista e historiadora, además de doctora cum laude en Historia del Arte y Estudios del Mundo Anti

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Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1991, is an invaluable guide to biographies of scientists from a wide variety of scientific fields. These biographies are unique in that they explore the whole personality of the scientist, giving students a glimpse at the variety and drama of the lives beyond the well-known. Table of Contents1. Preface Cynthia A. Steinke 2. Introduction Tony Stankus 3. Mathematical Biographies: Profiles and Sources of Information on Eighteen Mathematicians Virgil Diodato and Michael Tolan 4. Computer Revolutionaries: A Guide to the Literature of Pioneers in Computing Charles Matthews 5. Biographies of Physicists: An Annotated Bibliography Donna E. Cromer 6. Lives of Chemists Gayle Baker and Marie Garrett 7. Biography in the Geological Sciences Flossie E. Wise 8. A Selection of Biographies of Animal Scientists Flora Cobb 9. Plant Breeders and Plant Geneticists: Biographical Information Dena Rae Thomas 10. Founders of Medical Techniques and Inventions: An Annotated Bibliography Andrea R. Testi

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“In his lively and engaging portrait of the two presidents Bush, Mark Updegrove has painted a compelling picture of political leadership in America. This isn’t just a work of history. It invites us to think about the leadership this country needs and deserves today.” -- William Kristol, Editor at large, The Weekly Standard“With unique access to the only father and son to serve as presidents in almost two hundred years, Mark Updegrove weaves a captivating, intimate portrait of one of the country’s most important political dynasties. The Bushes’ sense of public service as a high calling becomes all the more striking against the backdrop of today’s polarized party politics. This beautifully rendered story could not be more timely.” -- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Book SynopsisThe author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD. It is through their albums that Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, and the rest of the glorious honor roll of jazz and pop singers have been most tellingly and lastingly appreciated, and the history of the album itself, as Will Friedwald sketches it, can now be seen as a crucial part of musical history. We come to understand that, at their finest, albums have not been mere collections of individual songs strung together arbitrarily but organic phenomena in their own right. A Sinatra album, a Fitzgerald album, was planned and structured to show these arti

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Book SynopsisIn The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Morris’s eye for detail is a delight. He writes with a pleasingly conversational tone and a dry humour and affection that undercuts the more preposterous behaviour described here … Juicy little nuggets litter the book' - The Times'Concise, factual, witty and entertaining' - Art Book Review'Fascinating' - Mature Times'An exceptionally lively, crisply written, independent-minded survey of one of the most bizarre groups of misfits who ever lived' - Mail on Sunday'Gossipy, waspish, biased, score-settling and very entertaining' - Literary Review'Informative and intriguing' - The Lady'If you have a taste for zany characters, outlandish conduct and the partner-swapping of post-WW1 mavericks who stuck their fingers up at the establishment, then you will not experience a second’s boredom … this book is a carnival of wackiness' - Big Issue'Uproariously funny … [Morris’s] anecdotes are all told with a dry but good-natured humour … these figures make for highly entertaining company' - The Spectator'Vastly entertaining … Morris has all the scrupulousness of a scientist but he also has the eye of a novelist' - Financial Times'Vastly entertaining' - The Oldie'Peppered with personal anecdotes and colourful detail, this is a lighthearted and entertaining read' - Vanity Fair'Very moreish' - The Herald, Books of the YearTable of ContentsForeword • Introduction • Eileen Agar • Jean (Hans) Arp • Francis Bacon • Hans Bellmer • Victor Brauner • André Breton • Alexander Calder • Leonora Carrington • Giorgio de Chirico • Salvador Dalí • Paul Delvaux • Marcel Duchamp • Max Ernst • Leonor Fini • Wilhelm Freddie • Alberto Giacometti • Arshile Gorky • Wifredo Lam • Conroy Maddox • René Magritte • André Masson • Roberto Matta • Edouard Mesens • Joan Miró • Meret Oppenheim • Wolfgang Paalen • Roland Penrose • Pablo Picasso • Man Ray • Yves Tanguy • Dorothea Tanning • Major Surrealist Group Exhibitions

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Book SynopsisCroghan's marriage to Lucy Clark, George Rogers Clark's sister, solidified his position in society. Croghan remained at Clark's side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished.

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Book SynopsisFeatures 31 in-depth biographies of great historical and modern women physicians, surgeons, midwives, and medical researchers, and 113 miniature biographical portraits.

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Book Synopsis A big, beautifully designed book, kate spade new york’s SHE celebrates the women whose bold personalities and styles play an important role in the lives of women across the country. This “must-have tome . . . which pays homage to trailblazers as varied as Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton” (ELLE) invites readers into a way of living that is singularly joyous, distinctly feminine, and wildly interesting. Here the most exciting and vibrant women in America are the ones who stand out from the crowd. SHE pays tribute to: Revered activists like Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm Classic fictional characters like Mary Richards and Carrie Bradshaw Treasured icons like Marilyn Monroe and Nina Simone Contemporary firebirds like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dolly Parton With rich photography, spirited quotes and profiles, amusing anecdotes, words of wisdom, personaTrade Review“a must-have tome…which pays homage to trailblazers as varied as Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton” * ELLE *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is, quite simply, one of the finest books I’ve ever read about Hollywood. * Leonard Maltin *

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