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MO - University of Illinois Press After the Strike
Book SynopsisExplores the effect of race, gender, and nationality in the long struggle for economic justice by men and women of the Pullman Company.Trade Review"This densely argued and richly documented study demands much of the reader, but it also yields substantial rewards that prod us to rethink what once seemed a familiar story."--American Historical Review"Hirsch's close analysis of payroll and employee service records. . .provides concrete evidence often missing from larger-scale studies of how management carefully manipulated the social division of labor in its quest to control the workplace."--Enterprise & Society"Hirsch covers broad topics so thoroughly, weaves them together with such skill, and supports her conclusions with such exhaustive research in primary and secondary sources, that the book stands as a remarkable achievement."--Maryland Historical Magazine"A solid case study that deserves readership."--Business History Review"Examining the developments within the Pullman Company before and especially after the events of 1894, this book constitutes an important case study in changing industrial relations in the United States."--David Montgomery, author of The Fall of the House of LaborTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Working for a Monopoly in Formation 7 2. Two Roads to the Open Shop 42 3. The State and Pullman Workers 70 4. Restoring the Open Shop 100 5. A New Deal for Pullman Workers! 128 6. The War at Home 156 7. The Last Pullman Workers 186 Conclusion 207 Appendix: The Pullman Repair Shop Databases 213 Notes 221 Index 287 Illustrations follow page 112
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Early Black History Movement Carter G.
Book SynopsisPero Gaglo Dagbovie examines the lives, works, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men''s personal papers as well as the materials of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), Dagbovie probes the struggles, sacrifices, and achievements of the black history pioneers and offers the first major examination of Greene''s life. Equally important, it also addresses a variety of overlooked issues pertaining to Woodson, including the historian''s image in popular and scholarly writings and memory, the democratic approach of the ASNLH, and the pivotal role women played in the association.Trade Review"Dagbovie . . . draws on the personal papers of these two seminal historians, along with materials from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), to chronicle the growth of the modern black history movement. . . . Recommended for all black history and historiography collections."--Multicultural Review "As scholar-activists, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo J. Greene used their professional historical training not only to establish and further the subdiscipline of African American history, but also to help African Americans understand the importance and significance of their role in U.S. development. . . . Dagbovie has done well to highlight their careers and contributions. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Dagbovie contributes benchmark research to US historiography. . . . [He] provides an unprecedented analytical account of two central black history innovators."--Journal of American History “In addition to a careful assessment of the personalities and motivations of Woodson and Greene, Dagbovie’s work provides a solid foundation and model for future work on black historians.”--The Journal of Southern History"Dagbovie's dual biography of two giants of the black history movement is an important work. . . . The Early Black History Movement gives deeper insight on iconic figures of the early black history movement while simultaneously serving as a rebuke to disinterested black scholars in the present."--Afro-Americans in New York Life and History"A welcome reminder of a period when scholars strove to advance knowledge and social justice. . . . Pero Dagbovie has recovered a vital chapter in that intellectual struggle, offering insight into the African American past and a reminder of roads not taken today."--A.M.E. Church Review"A vital study of black American intellectual life and black professional historians."--American Studies"Well-written and original, this dual biography of Carter G. Woodson and one of his leading disciples in the Black History Movement, Lorenzo Greene, allows historian Pero Dagbovie to explore new paths and places touched by Woodson's expansive vision of the importance of history to the overall social, economic, political, and psychological well-being and advancement of people of African descent. This is a major contribution to an overlooked and under-theorized area of African American intellectual history."--V. P. Franklin, editor of The Journal of African American History "This book brilliantly illuminates the early black history movement through the lives and scholarship of two of its pioneers. Dagbovie expertly helps us to understand and to appreciate the nature of that 'movement' for truth and social justice."--Robert L. Harris Jr., coeditor of The Columbia Guide to African American History since 1939
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Diary of a Philosophy Student
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for past volumes of the Diary “This indispensable volume offers a panorama of Beauvoir's intellectual preoccupations. The translators and editors are to be applauded for producing such a valuable contribution to Beauvoir studies.”--French Studies “This diary increases our admiration for Beauvoir's heroic determination to make something of herself. A precious document.”--Bookforum “This is a truly remarkable book, and a significant contribution to Beauvoir scholarship. Barbara Klaw’s excellent translation provides unique access to the formative years of one of the twentieth century's great philosophers, authors, and public intellectuals.”--Tove Pettersen, President of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society Table of ContentsForeword to the Beauvoir Series Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir Preface Margaret A. Simons Acknowledgments Reading Beauvoir’s 1926–30 Student Diary as Adventures in Literary Creation Barbara Klaw Beauvoir and #MeToo Margaret A. Simons Third Notebook: December 7, 1926–April 15, 1927 Simone de Beauvoir Fifth Notebook: October 31, 1927–August 30, 1928 Simone de Beauvoir Seventh Notebook: September 15, 1929–October 31, 1930 Simone de Beauvoir Bibliography Index
£40.50
Indiana University Press WorkerMothers on the Margins of Europe Gender
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anyone interested in the phenomenon of migration, particularly the gender dynamics of international migration and the politics of 'trafficking' in an era of globalization, will find this book an invaluable contribution... This is ethnography at its best." -Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The "Returns" of Mobile Mothers2. Uplift in Gagauz Yeri3. Desiring a New Domestic4. Working in Istanbul5. Managing MigrationConclusion: Driven Women
£45.00
Indiana University Press Muhammad and the Golden Bough Reconstructing
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people.Trade ReviewUntil now Arabian myth has been ignored at the same time that other ancient Near Eastern myths have been studied at length. Stetkevych (Univ. of Chicago) succeeds brilliantly in reconstructing the myth of the destruction of the Thamud, an ancient people of north Arabia. His key to this myth is a canonical story of the discovery by the prophet Muhammad of a golden bough at the very site where the Thamud are thought to have been destroyed by a scourge from God. Through careful philological, historical, and literary analysis he sets the story of this golden bough in an ever-widening context of myth and legend, reaching back to Gilgamesh, the Bible, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. James Frazer's The Golden Bough (1890, 1915) is examined and reevaluated in the light of the other golden bough myths. Stetkevych's argument for the existence of an autochthonous Arabian myth is entirely convincing, and this book will add a new dimension to the study of Near Eastern and Mediterranean myth and legend. Highly recommended for collections in folklore and mythology, ancient Near Eastern studies, and Islam.W. L. Hanaway, emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, 1997apr CHOICE.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reclaiming Arabian Myth1. The Textual Puzzle2. The Thamudic Backdrop to the Puzzle3. The First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on Tabuk4. The Totem and the Taboo5. Poeticizing the Thamud6. Demythologizing the Thamud7. The Scream8. The Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and GilgameshConclusion
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Site of the Social
Book SynopsisInspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life.Trade Review“Professor Schatzki’s The Site of the Social picks up where his groundbreaking Social Practices leaves off. Where the latter provided a compelling picture of how we are constituted by our social practices, his new book offers an ontology of the social itself. By including extended discussions of diverse social groupings such as Shaker herb practice and day trading on Nasdaq, Schatzki sketches a clear and compelling picture of what the nature of the social consists in. Essentially, The Site of the Social constructs an ontology that captures many of the features of the work of Foucault and Deleuze in such a way as to put them in dialogue with contemporary sociologists, biologists, and political theorists in the English-speaking world.”—Todd May,Clemson University“This is a book that any fan of Foucault, Deleuze, or Bourdieu, or for that matter Giddens, and anyone interested in the problem of the relevance of Heidegger to social theory, will find challenging—and essential. Schatzki makes an impressive case for a social ontology centered on practices, and in the course of it rethinks and convincingly critiques the thought of many of the contributors to ‘practice theory’ while showing its centrality to twentieth-century thought. But this book is not merely a book about books: Schatzki deals with real human material in a novel way.”—Stephen Turner,University of South Florida“This book is top-notch philosophical scholarship.”—R. F. White CHOICE“This is a book that any fan of Foucault, Deleuze, or Bourdieu, or for that matter Giddens, and anyone interested in the problem of the relevance of Heidegger to social theory, will find challenging—and essential. Schatzki makes an impressive case for a social ontology centered on practices, and in the course of it rethinks and convincingly critiques the thought of many of the contributors to ‘practice theory’ while showing its centrality to twentieth-century thought. But this book is not merely a book about books: Schatzki deals with real human material in a novel way.”—Stephen Turner,University of South Florida“Schatzki’s ideas continue to affect my thinking on the layers of complexity that practices represent; for others committed to engaging in broader explorations of education as a social practice and challenging reductionist viewpoints, his theoretical tools provide the ontological foundations from which to begin.”—Geoffrey Lewis Educational Review
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Pennsylvania State University Press Saint George Between Empires
Book SynopsisExamines the image networks of St. George in the eastern Mediterranean, revealing how the different portrayals became central to Crusader, East Christian, and Islamic visual cultures.Trade Review“This panoramic volume follows the images of military saints across Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Crusader, Georgian, Islamic, Syriac, and many other fields of study usually held separate. Badamo ties together the fragmented political map of the later medieval eastern Mediterranean in unexpected ways that cause us to rethink broader questions of global art and history.”—Benjamin Anderson,Cornell University“Saint George Between Empires particularly excels in highlighting the importance of Saint George / al-Khiḍr in both Christian and Islamic contexts, and is by far the most all-encompassing study on this subject.”—Dr. Mat Immerzeel,Fellow International Studies, Leiden University
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University of Texas Press The Memory of Bones Body Being and Experience
Book SynopsisThree leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.Table of ContentsPreamble Chapter 1. The Classic Maya Body Chapter 2. Bodies and Portraits Chapter 3. Ingestion Chapter 4. Senses Chapter 5. Emotions Chapter 6. Dishonor Chapter 7. Words on Wings Chapter 8. Dance, Music, Masking Epilogue: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya Bibliography Inde
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Princeton University Press The Drama of Celebrity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] inventive, stimulating book. . . . [Sharon] Marcus is a brilliant theorist and analyst of theater history."---Elaine Showalter, New York Times"[An] insightful and often entertaining take on celebrity. . . . The linchpin of the author's study is French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, a master of self-promotion. To the shelves of works about Bernhardt, Marcus brings a singular take—richly illustrated throughout by reproduced drawings, paintings, and photographs—that fascinates as it explains her concepts of celebrity." * Kirkus *"Marcus’s study of Bernhardt, a Jewish actress, is remarkable. Even though this is an academic text, it reads so well. And wow, could we read a bajillion more books on Sarah Bernhardt!!!"---Emily Burack, Alma"Marcus’s great achievement here is that she leads us on a journey of understanding celebrity and stardom with a richer history than we are often want to take."---D. Gilson, Lambda Literary"The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus is a hybrid of biography and sociological treatise on one of the most important phenomena of modern times . . . why we are attracted to — or, conversely, repulsed by — celebrity culture."---Kitty Kelley, Washington Independent Review of Books"[An] insightful and engaging examination of celebrity culture . . . Marcus augments her analysis by drawing on types of sources that are rarely used, such as scrapbooks, letters and life writing produced by fans of celebrities. The inclusion of normally neglected voices adds richness and depth to this work, ensuring it is more comprehensive than most earlier studies of this intriguing subject."---Eleanor Fitzsimons, Literary Review"You don’t have to be into celebrity culture to appreciate this readable study."---Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald"I love the book."---Radhika Jones"In lucid prose, [Marcus] describes celebrity as a drama with three main characters: celebrities, the public that adores and judges them, and the media producers who exalt, criticize and satirize . . . The star of the book is Sarah Bernhardt . . . The book reproduces a rich trove of archival material which, if it does not bring Bernhardt back to life, at least reveals the scintillating liveliness of her image a century ago . . . Spend 200 pages with Sarah Bernhardt, and Kim Kardashian’s provocations come to seem less shocking."---Irina Dumitrescu, Times Literary Supplement"[An] excellent new book . . . Marcus [has] performed a great service by illuminating the extraordinary gift possessed by [Sarah Bernhardt]."---Joseph Roach, Los Angeles Review of Books"The Drama of Celebrity is premised on a fundamental continuity between Bernhardt’s era and our own, and Marcus is surely right to contend that the star did much to invent what we now recognize as celebrity culture."---Ruth Bernard Yeazell, New York Review of Books"[S]parky, feisty and compelling . . . . Sharon Marcus’s book is tour de force and the author a total star."---Jonathan Margolis, Jewish Chronicle"Olivia Vinall delivers an engaging narration of Marcus's exhaustive research on the origins of modern celebrity culture . . . [her] pace and tone are just right for this fascinating investigation of celebrity in our media-driven world." * Audiofile Magazine *"The book will hold readers’ interest and change their understanding of the triangular interaction involving celebrities, media producers and the public."---Richard Weigel, Bowling Green Daily News"[In The Drama of Celebrity], Marcus challenges everything that has been thought about the obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories told about celebrities and fans. The result: A high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable." * Society’s Books of Note *"One of the most widely researched and acutely conceptualized books that I have had the pleasure to read in recent years."---Nicholas White, Modern Language Review"[In The Drama of Celebrity,] Marcus traces a long history of modern celebrity culture, which she triangulates in negotiations among stars, fans, and the media. The book is elegantly organized, with each chapter turning around a key 'configuration' of celebrity culture—defiance, sensation, intimacy, multiplication, judgment, and merit—and a key celebrity, the actress Sarah Bernhardt."---Lauren Eriks Cline, Victorian Literature and Culture"Marcus’ core thesis—that celebrity is a process rather than an individual—is a compelling one in that it challenges the reader to view fame as a social relationship, one in which we all play a role, regardless of whether or not we choose to engage with particular stars."---Andrea McDonnell, Journal of British Studies"Marcus’s book is necessary reading for anyone wishing to understand the workings of celebrity."---Kelly Boyd, Journal of Victorian Culture"A serious, sophisticated, and potentially game changing study of celebrity."---Mary Lynn Stewart, American Historical Review
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University of British Columbia Press The Last Suffragist Standing
Book SynopsisThe Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician and an illuminating work on the history of feminism, socialism, internationalism, and activism in Canada.Trade ReviewStrong-Boag's account of Jamieson's life deepens the appreciation of the ending of one phase of feminist activism and the passing of the torch to successor generations. -- Jane Arscott, Athabasca University * Histoire Sociale *[The Last Suffragist Standing] makes a valuable contribution to the wider historiography of women’s political activities in Canada and to British Columbia politics in general. Jamieson would undoubtedly be pleased with this study of her life and times. -- Patricia Roy, author and professor emeritus of History at the University of Victoria * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Girl from the Saugeen Peninsula, 1882–19112 The New Woman as Wife, Suffragist, and Activist, 1911–183 Still Bettering the World, 1918–264 Widowed Judge and Progressive Activist, 1927–395 The Challenge of Electoral Politics, 1927–396 Suffragist in the BC Legislature, 1939–417 Legislative Veteran, 1941–458 Taking on Post-war Misogyny and Vancouver Politics, 1945–649 Faithful Social Democrat, 1945–64ConclusionPostscript from Four Granddaughters / Dorothy O’Connell, Anne Jamieson, Karen Jamieson, and Marion-Lea JamiesonNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Unstable Properties Aboriginal Title and the
Book SynopsisUnstable Properties convincingly argues that the so-called land question in British Columbia cannot be resolved without understanding the fundamentally unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements on which the province rests.Trade ReviewThis is critical reading for legal scholars and anyone interested in Indigenous rights. -- S. Perreault, CHOICE ConnectA welcome addition to a literature that has been dominated by lawyers, historians, journalists, and political scientists. -- Bruce McIvor, UBC * BC Studies *The principles explored here are relevant to planners everywhere. * Plan Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paper Claims1 The Invention of British Columbia2 Calder, Churn, and Destabilization: 1973–973 Unsettled in the Wake of Delgamuukw4 The Politics of Refusal and the End of the Political Path, 2004–145 Property, Territory, Sovereignty, and CitizenshipConclusion: Reconciliation and Reimagining British ColumbiaReferences; Index
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Cornell University Press On Greek Religion
Book SynopsisA provocative and wide-ranging entrée into the world of ancient Greek religion.Trade ReviewAlthough one might expect a mere survey from the title, Parker delivers far more than a beginners' summary. Rather, this book is a probing exploration of the methodological and interpretive difficulties associated with Greek religion from the eighth through the second centuries BCE.... This work provides a wealth of insights from one of the leading experts in the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *On Greek Religion has all the virtues we have come to appreciate in his writings: a fruitful blend of the factual and theoretical; a simultaneous inclination towards and distrust of categories, schemes, and generalities; scrupulous attention to detail; an awareness of what we do and do not and cannot know about Greek religion; precise and generous but not uncritical discussions of others' views; the integration of literary and epigraphical sources; common sense; and a lively style with touches of whimsy. -- Jon D. Mikalson * The Classical Journal *This book derives from the Townsend Lectures given by Parker at Cornell in 2008, but its style is not noticeably different from that of Parker's two previous books.... Its scope is wider than those two works, both chronologically, dealing with material from the eighth to the second century BC, and geographically, covering the entire Greek world. Its ambition is also greater, in that its seven chapters and five appendices aim to provide an interpretation of Greek religion as a whole.... This is a very important book that everyone working in the field of Greek religion will have to read. -- Hugh Bowden * The Journal of Hellenic Studies *This book is an important step in its author's scholarly journey in the field of ancient Greek religion.... This work is outstandingly well-informed, well-written, clever and also very cautious. -- Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This work, derived from a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University in 2008, offers a discussion on a series of central questions in the domain of Greek religion. R. Parker achieves his goal with much maestria in this work, which is proof of an excellent knowledge of Greek religion, both ancient evidence and equal historiography, to which he returns frequently. To enrich his reflections, the author systematically echoes various interpretations of the issues he tackles, thus giving breadth to his analysis. All of these qualities make On Greek Religion an indispensable text for specialists in Ancient Greek religion, who will find in it abundant material for reflection. -- Stéphanie Paul * L'Antiquité Classique *Table of Contents1. Why Believe without Revelation? The Evidences of Greek Religion 2. Religion without a Church: Religious Authority in Greece 3. Analyzing Greek Gods 4. The Power and Nature of Heroes 5. Killing, Dining, Communicating 6. The Experience of Festivals 7. The Varieties of Greek Religious ExperienceAppendices 1. Seeking the Advice of the God on Matters of Cult 2. Accepting New Gods 3. Worshipping Mortals, and the Nature of Gods 4. Types of Chthonian Sacrifice? 5. The Early History of Hero CultBibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Experiences in Translation
Book SynopsisIn this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures.Trade Review"'Umberto Eco's Experiences in Translation is witty and engrossing, and it will inform and entertain readers who have ever wondered about the work that goes into transforming a text from a language they cannot read into one they can.' Jules Verdone, The Boston Globe 'This book is remarkably concise, yet rich, in its discussion of the enigma posed by translation. Eco has provided the reader with an informative and succinct discussion of translation. This work will help translators, literary specialists and scholars of comparative literature to understand the process of translation better.' Frank Nuessel, Journal of Literary Semantics"
£19.79
University of Nebraska Press Lakota Dictionary
Book SynopsisA complete and up-to-date dictionary of Lakota, this new edition of Eugene Buechel's classic dictionary contains some 30,000 entries.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Guide to Pronunciation; Guide to the use of the Dictionary; Grammar Section; Classes and Paradigms of Verbs; Word Sources; Abbreviations; Lakota to English; English to Lakota; Appendix A: Bible History references; Appendix B: Teton Lakota Society; Appendix C: Bibliography
£31.50
Indiana University Press Comprehensive EnglishYiddish Dictionary
Book Synopsis-Revised and expanded 2nd Ed of the award-winning, Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary. -Includes more than 85,000 words, and approximately 1000 new terms. First edition sold over 3500 copies.Trade Review"After the Declaration of Independence came Noah Webster's dictionaries, that proclaimed the independence of American English usage and spelling. After the mass Jewish immigration to America came the great lexicographers, who made America the most capacious home that the Yiddish language has ever known: Alexander Harkavy (1863-1939), Nahum Stutchkoff (1893-1965), Uriel Weinreich (1926-1967), Yudel Mark (1897-1995), and Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007). Other American languages should be so lucky. But none were so bold as the team of Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Paul Glasser, may they live and prosper, who turned Yiddish into any match for American English. Where English has only "furious," Yiddish has tsekokht, oyfgekokht, ongetsundn, oyser zikh, tsorndik, vild, mole-kaas, mole-retsikhe and mole-kheyme, to capture every possible nuance of displeasure. Where English has "flash drive," Yiddish has shlisldisk, which is so much more musical. You can cuddle up with a tselke far more easily than with a "cell phone." The Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary is American Jewry's Declaration of Equal Rights."—David G. Roskies - Sol & Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture, Jewish Theological Seminary"In my view, this magnificent dictionary is the most important contribution to the field of Yiddish Studies in the 21st century. It is indispensable for any student or scholar of Yiddish and will remain so for future generations. I always have it on my desk"—Mikhail Krutikov - Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
£26.59
Indiana University Press Sound in Motion
Book SynopsisAn insightful and imaginative study to deepen the performer's approach to musicTrade ReviewWell-written and opinionated treatise on almost every aspect of the art of musicianship, taking as its basis the methods of Tabuteau, but moving well beyond into discussions of auditioning, intonation, and an extended section on the Baroque performance movement.September 11, 2008 * PBDB Book Review *What is phrasing? What is line? What is music? Logically and with acute attention to detail, Sound in Motion takes the reader on a philosophical journey rooted in the teachings of Marcel Tabuteau, John deLancie, John Minsker, and Sol Schoenbach, the timeless performances of Maria Callas, deLancie, and others, as well as McGill's own career as an orchestral bassoonist. * The Double Reed *The book takes a modern look at Marcel Tabuteau's classic method. * Los Angeles Times *. . . offers a clean, modern take on Tabuteau's legacy, strong advice for aspiring wind players, and a range of observations that should inspire or provoke any serious musician. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1. A Style Is BornPart 2. What Is Music?Fun?Magic?Feeling?Talent?Selflessness?ProfessionalismMotionPart 3. Note GroupingSound Writing (?)What Is Note Grouping?Basic GroupingHarmonic GroupingRhythmic GroupingMotivic GroupingRange and ScalingThe Tabuteau Number SystemWhy Does Grouping Sound Natural?Part 4. The Larger PictureSound ConnectionType and FunctionSkeletal StructureWhat Is Phrasing?RepetitionWhat Is Line?The Four Elements of MusicPart 5. Wind TechniquesBreathingThe Long ToneThe Singing IntervalThe FingersScalesUsing the WindArticulationPart 6. ControversyToneIntonationVibratoOrnamentsWas There a Baroque Style of Playing?Music SpeaksPortato: Herald of a New Romanticism"Technique" vs. "Musicality"Part 7. The ProfessionPracticingAuditioningOrchestral ProtocolPerformingAccompanyingTeachingPart 8. The SearchPostscriptAppendix 1. Recommended RecordingsAppendix 2. Further StudyAppendix 3. To Clip or Not to ClipNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
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University of Texas Press Black Brown Beige
Book SynopsisThe first collection to document the extensive participation of people of African descent—including poets, painters, sculptors, theorists, critics, dancers, and playwrights—in the international surrealist movement over the past 75 years.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Invisible Surrealists Part 1. The First Black Surrealists Martinique Etienne Léro Légitime Défense Manifesto Civilization And the Ramps Abandon Put Simone Yoyotte Pyjama-Speed Pierre Yoyotte Theory of the Fountain Antifascist Significance of Surrealism Maurice-Sabas Quitman Paradise on Earth Jules Monnerot On Certain Traits Particular to the Civilized Mentality Indispensable Poetry Yva Léro Little Black Divers Aimé Césaire Négreries Jamaica Claude McKay Down to the Roots Cuba Juan Breá My Life Is a Sunday Thoughts Juan Breá and Mary Low Notes on the Economic Causes of Humor Trinidad C.L.R. James Introduction to Red Spanish Notebook Part 2. Tropiques: Surrealism in the Caribbean Martinique Aimé Césaire Panorama Introduction to Black American Poetry In the Guise of a Literary Manifesto Keeping Poetry Alive Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont Suzanne Césaire Poverty of a Poetry Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire et al. Voice of the Oracle René Ménil Introduction to the Marvelous The Orientation of Poetry What Does Africa Mean to Us? Poetry, Jazz & Freedom Lucie Thésée Preference Georges Gratiant Extinct Volcano Aristide Maugée Aimé Césaire, Poet Review of Reviews Georgette Anderson Symbolism, Maeterlinck & the Marvelous Stéphane Jean-Alexis A Note on Chance Cuba Wifredo Lam Picasso Arrows in Rapid Flight Agustín Cárdenas One, Two, Three Jacques Roumain When the Tom-Tom Beats Haiti Clément Magloire-Saint-Aude Utterances Talismans Not the Legend Three Poems The Surrealist Record On Poetry René Bélance Awareness Noise Encounter with Life Hervé Télémaque Why Are You Performing, Jean? Dominican Republic Aída Cartagena Portalatín Moon and Marble Trinidad John Jacob Thomas Creole Proverbs John La Rose Connecting Link Puerto Rico Luis A. Maisonet Freedom of Expression for Young Children Part 3. South America Brazil João Cruz e Souza Black Rose Tenebrous Rosário Fusco Wind in the Woods Sosígenes Costa The Golden Papyrus The Red Peacock Fernando Mendes de Almeida Phantom Carrousel Jorge de Lima Howling Dogs Guyana Léon-Gontran Damas For Sure Good Breeding A Caribbean View on Sterling A. Brown A Single Instant of Belief Negritude and Surrealism Wilson Harris Voodoo, Trance, Poetry and Dance Colombia Heriberto Cogollo The World of a Nohor Part 4. Africa Egypt Long Live Degenerate Art! Georges Henein Manifesto Art and Freedom Hot Jazz Between the Eagle's Nest and the Mouse-Trap Perspectives Jacques Vaché The Plain Truth A Tribute to André Breton Ikbal El Alailly Portrait of the Author as a Young Rabbit Post-Scriptum Anwar Kamel The Propagandists of Reaction and Us Ramses Younane What Comes After the Logic of Reason? Victor Musgrave Voices in the Twilight Albert Cossery The House of Certain Death Joyce Mansour Floating Islands Fresh Cream Forthwith to S North Express Response to an Inquiry on Magic Art Morocco Robert Benayoun No Rhyme for Reason! The Obscure Protests Letter to Chicago The Phoenix of Animation Too Much Is Too Much Comic Sounds Abdellatif Laâbi Rue du Retour Tunisia Farid Lariby Pome Brut Algeria Henri Kréa Never Forever Once More Oh Yes Jean-Michel Atlan The Time Has Come to Call Up a World Baya The Big Bird Habib Tengour Maghrebian Surrealism Senegal Cheikh Tidiane Sylla Surrealism and Black African Art The Spirit of Unity---For Freedom Congo Tchicaya U Tam'si Against Destiny Mozambique Inácio Matsinhe Painting as a Contribution to Consciousness I Became a Tortoise to Resist Torture The Snake Angola Malangatana Valente Ngwenya Survivor among Millions Amílcar Cabral National Liberation and Culture Antonio Domingues The Influence of Aimé Césaire in Portuguese-speaking Africa Madagascar Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo A Purple Star South Africa Dennis Brutus The Sun on This Rubble Poet against Apartheid Part 5. Surrealist Beginnings in the United States, 1930s-1950s Fenton Johnson The Phantom Rabbit Tired George Herriman Positivilly Marvillis Jean Toomer Essentials Zora Neale Hurston How the Gods Behave Richard Wright Lawd Today Ralph Ellison The Poetry of It Bearden & the Destruction of the Accepted World Russell Atkins Upstood Upstaffed Part 6. The 1950s Surrealist Underground in the United States Ted Joans Ted Joans Speaks Bob Kaufman Abomunist Manifesto $$ Abomunus Craxioms $$ Abomunist Election Manifesto Tom Postell Gertrude Stein Rides the Torn Down El to NYC Harmony Percy Edward Johnston Variations on a Theme Part 7. Surrealism, Black Power, Black Arts Ted Joans Proposition for a Black Power Manifesto Hart Leroy Bibbs Hurricane Black Spring Jayne Cortez National Security Making it St. Clair Drake Negritude and Pan-Africanism Edward A. Jones The Birth of Black Awareness Ishmael Reed Boxing on Paper Katherine Dunham Ballet Nègre Notes on the Dance Melvin Edwards Lynch Fragments Joseph Jarman Odawalla Oliver Pitcher Jean-Jacques Frank London Brown Jazz Pony Poindexter Jazz Is More French Than American Anthony Braxton Earth Music Thelonious Monk Three Score Cecil Taylor The Musician Ornette Coleman Harmolodic = Highest Instinct Sun Ra Cosmic Equation The Endless Realm Babs Gonzales I Paid My Dues A. B. Spellman The New Thing in Jazz Dizzy Gillespie Gertrude Abercrombie Part 8. Toward the New Millennium: The Mid-1970s through the 1990s Aimé Césaire My Joyful Acceptance of Surrealism Homage to Frantz Fanon Jayne Cortez There It Is What's Ugly Poetry Music Technology Everything Can Be Transformed Taking the Blues Back Home Léon Damas Mainstream Statement Larry's Time Amiri Baraka The Changing Same James G. Spady Larry Neal Never Forgot Philly Charlotte Carter On Film Robin D. G. Kelley Reflections on Malcolm X Norman Calmese My Discovery of Surrealism Cheikh Tidiane Sylla Time-Traveler's Potlatch Ted Joans Kaufman Is a Bird Called Bob Cogollo Part 9. Looking Ahead: Surrealism Today and Tomorrow Aimé Césaire I Do Not Agree to Receive the Minister Robin D. G. Kelley Surrealism Ayana Karanja Contemplation Melvin Edwards Thinking about Surrealism T. J. Anderson III At Last Roundup Vaudeville 1951 Michael Stone-Richards Surrealist Subversion in Everyday Life (with Julien Lenoir) Ron Allen Revelation Conversation between Eye and Mouth Anthony Joseph How Surrealism Found Me Extending Out to Brightness Patrick Turner Unrestricted Images Adrienne Kennedy People Who Led Me to My Plays Tyree Guyton There Is a True Magic Here Henry Dumas Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Deusdedit de Morais Café de Cherbourg Jayne Cortez Poetry Coming as Blues and Blues Coming as Poetry Free Time Friction Afterword: Surrealism and the Creation of a Desirable Future, by Robin D. G. Kelley Bibliography Index
£27.90
University of Texas Press How Writing Came About
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking theory on the origins of writing, now presented for a general audience.Trade ReviewDiscoveries in the history of writing are rare, but Denise Schmandt-Besserat made one in realizing that phonetic writing in the West descends not from pictography, a view repeated everywhere, but from abstract, nonphonetic, mostly noniconographic accounting tokens used in Neolithic farming communities of the Near East beginning from about 8000 B.C. A condensation of volume I of Before Writing ...this book is a perfect production, utterly lucid, thoughtfully illustrated, and thoroughly convincing. * American Journal of Archaeology *Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Tokens, a New Theory The Myths The Pictographic Theory Tokens Part One: The Evidence 1. What Are Tokens? Types and Subtypes Evolution from Plain to Complex Materials Manufacture The Token Collection under Study 2. Where Tokens Were Handled and Who Used Them Types of Settlements Distribution within Settlements Structures Token Clusters Containers Holding Tokens Associated Assemblages Tokens as Funerary Offerings 3.Strings of Tokens and Envelopes Strings of Tokens Envelopes 4. Impressed Tablets Number Context Chronology Description The Signs Beyond the Impressed Tablets: Pictography The Meaning of Signs and Their Corresponding Tokens The Place of Impressed Tablets in the Evolution of Writing Part Two: The Interpretation 5. The Evolution of Symbols in Prehistory Symbols and Signs Lower and Middle Paleolithic Symbols Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Symbols Neolithic Symbols A Turning Point in Communication and Data Storage 6. Tokens: The Socioeconomic Implications Reckoning Technology and Economy Reckoning Technology and Social Organization 7. Counting and the Emergence of Writing The Various Modes of Counting The Sumerian Philological Evidence The Near Eastern Archaeological Data 8. Conclusions: Tokens, Their Role in Prehistory and Their Contribution to Archaeology Economy Political Structure Mathematics Communication Part Three: The Artifacts Cones Spheres Disks Cylinders Tetrahedrons Ovoids Quadrangles Triangles Biconoids Paraboloids Bent Coils Ovals/Rhomboids Vessels Tools Animals Miscellaneous Notes Glossary Index
£21.59
University of California Press Offshore Attachments Oil and Intimacy in the
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: “Oil Is the Lubricant” 1. Crude Bargains: Sex and the Making of an Oil Economy 2. Diminishing Returns: Domesticity on the Edge of Whiteness 3. Manufacturing Surplus: Population and Development in the Downstream 4. “Sexuality, Yes! Slavery, No!”: Erotic Rebellion and Economic Freedom 5. Dutch Diseases: Race, Welfare, and the Quantification of Kinship Conclusion: Acts of Attachment Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
Princeton University Press Ibn Khaldun
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' Picks""One of Asian Review of Books' Books of the Year (Biography & Memoir)"
£15.19
Princeton University Press A Matter of Obscenity The Politics of Censorship
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A History Today Book of the Year""A fascinating study of censorship in modern Britain"---Hannah Rose Woods, History Today"A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England refashions developments in the law into a lucid and engaging cultural history."---Thomas J. Sojka, Los Angeles Review of Books"The description of obscenity trials famous and less well-known is superbly rendered, as is Hilliard’s analysis of the ever-changing link between social morality and the law"---Matthew D’Ancona, Tortoise Media"A Matter of Obscenity is an informative, even-handed and lucid study of British censorship in the 20th century. It is highly recommended, wherever you draw your personal lines regarding the division between the acceptable and unacceptable."---Alexander Adams, Spiked"Christopher Hilliard’s A Matter of Obscenity is an engaging read, full of compelling details about the authors and publishers accused of trafficking in obscenity and about the politicians and judges who claimed to know it when they saw it"---Emily Rutherford, History Today"Hilliard offers a fascinating romp through pornography, gangster comics, naughty postcards, avant garde plays, lewd cinema and modernist literature to demonstrate how ‘obscenity law reflected uncertainties about what could be said – and, crucially, how and to whom – in a changing society"---Alecia Simmonds, Literature and History
£28.80
Princeton University Press Ways of Hearing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Startling insights on every page."---Henrietta Bredin, Country Life Magazine"A provocative and beautiful collection of twenty-six often deeply personal essays. . . . The works in Ways of Hearing point to the magic in music . . . its ability to enrich and affirm life, to express depths that words cannot reach, to provide hope and healing, and perhaps most importantly, to connect us to other people, near and far, and to all that exists and moves around us. . . . The volume . . . is a pleasure."---Thomas M. Kitts, Popular Music and Society"Across the 26 easily digestible essays that span subjects from Olivier Messiaen to Charles Mingus, this book gives the reader a unique insight into the role music plays in the lives of some of the world’s great artists and thinkers."---Angus McPherson, Limelight Magazine
£13.29
Human Kinetics Publishers Adventure Education
Book SynopsisAimed at undergraduate students in physical education, as well as outdoor recreation professionals, this book provides strategies for adventure activities in a variety of recreational, educational, leisure and community settings. It explores the role of games, activities and initiatives in the practical application of outdoor adventure pursuits.Table of ContentsPart I. Exploring Adventure EducationChapter 1. Introduction to Adventure EducationDick ProutyChapter 2. Philosophy and Theory of Adventure EducationAlan Ewert and Dan GarveyChapter 3. Cornerstones of Adventure EducationJane PanicucciChapter 4. Risk and Safety in Adventure ProgrammingCharles R. GreggChapter 5. Individual Outcomes of Participating in AdventureJim Stiehl and Melissa ParkerPart II. Defining Skills and Competencies for Adventure PractitionersChapter 6. Responsibilities of Adventure Education LeadersDenise Mitten and Kent ClementChapter 7. Facilitating the Adventure ProcessMichael A. Gass and Cheryl A. StevensPart III. Planning and Implementing Adventure ExperiencesChapter 8. Portable Adventure ActivitiesLisa Faulkingham HuntChapter 9. Low-Element Challenge CoursesAlison RheingoldChapter 10. High-Element Challenge CoursesChristopher J. DamboiseChapter 11. Teaching and Leading Outdoor Adventure PursuitsMark Wagstaff, Aram Attarian, and Jack K. DruryChapter 12. Adventure Education Programming and Career PathsSteven Guthrie and Rita YerkesAppendix: Overview of the Accreditation Standards of the Association for Experiential Education
£35.10
Human Kinetics Publishers Youth Strength Training
Book SynopsisOne out of three children are challenged by excessive body fat and these boys and girls are poorly suited for endurance-type exercise which they are typically asked to perform and which they are typically avoid at all costs. This book presents a myriad of resistance exercises which they tend to enjoy more.Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Fitness FundamentalsChapter 1. Ready to TrainStrength Training Versus Weightlifting, Powerlifting, and BodybuildingFUNdamental FitnessMuscles, Bones, and Connective TissueProgram AssessmentGetting ReadySummaryChapter 2. Program PrescriptionsTraining GuidelinesProgram ConsiderationsPlay EducationSummaryChapter 3. Exercise Technique and Training ProceduresUnderstanding ChildrenBeing a TeacherDeveloping the Fitness WorkoutUsing Equipment SafelyKeeping It ProgressiveSummaryPart II Exercises Chapter 4. Free WeightsTraining With Free WeightsFree-Weight ExercisesSummaryChapter 5. Weight MachinesTraining on Weight MachinesWeight Machine ExercisesSummaryChapter 6. Elastic Bands and Medicine BallsTraining With Elastic Bands and Medicine BallsElastic Band ExercisesMedicine Ball ExercisesSummaryChapter 7. Body-Weight TrainingUsing Body Weight as ResistanceBody-Weight ExercisesSummaryPart III Program DesignChapter 8. General PreparationPreparatory ConditioningTraining YouthDynamic MotivationSummaryChapter 9. Basic Strength and Power for Ages 7 to 10Components of the Warm-Up and Cool-DownStrength-Training ProgramStrength-Training ExercisesTraining ConsiderationsSummaryChapter 10. Intermediate Strength and Power for Ages 11 to 14Components of the Warm-Up and Cool-DownStrength-Training ProgramMachine Strength-Training ExercisesMedicine Ball Strength-Training ExercisesTraining ConsiderationsSummaryChapter 11. Advanced Strength and Power for Ages 15 to 18Components of the Warm-Up and Cool-DownStrength-Training ProgramMachine and Free-Weight Strength-Training ExercisesMedicine Ball and Elastic Band Strength-Training ExercisesTraining ConsiderationsSummaryChapter 12. Sport-Specific Power and Strength for Young AthletesTraining for Sport ConditioningBaseball and SoftballBasketball and VolleyballDancing and Figure SkatingFootball and RugbyIce Hockey and Field HockeySoccerSwimmingTennisTrack: Sprints and JumpsTrack: Distance RunningSummaryPart IV Long-Term Planning and Nutritional SupportChapter 13. Periodization and RecoveryOverreaching and OvertrainingModels of PeriodizationRest and RecoveryLong-Term DevelopmentSummaryChapter 14. Eating for Strength and PerformanceBasics of Healthy EatingChildren's Nutritional NeedsHydrationSnack FoodsSummaryAppendix A: Sample Workout Log Appendix B: Suggested Readings IndexAbout the Authors
£23.39
Human Kinetics Publishers Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance
Book SynopsisProvides dancers and dance teachers with an understanding of how they can use imagery to improve their dancing and artistic expression in class and in performance. This book features 300 illustrations that cover the major topics, showing exercises to use in technique, artistic expression and performance.Trade ReviewThe Franklin method has proved invaluable to our students at the Juilliard School in New York City for the past several years. Learning how to use mental imagery and functional anatomy for dance augments our training program beautifully because it is clear, precise, and useful in every way for any dancer. The students have found it revelatory!Lawrence Rhodes--Director of the Dance Division, The Juilliard School Table of ContentsPart I. Art and Science of Imagery; Part II. Discovering and Exploring Imagery; Part III. Imagery in Dance Technique Classes Connecting With Your Partner; Part IV. Imagery in Choreography, Rest, and Regeneration.
£31.50
Human Kinetics Publishers Swimming Anatomy
Book SynopsisIncludes 74 effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-colour anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action. This book helps swimmer learn how exercises can be modified to target specific areas, improve form in the water and minimise common swimming injuries.Trade Review"With full-color exercises and drills, Swimming Anatomy takes an inside look at the muscles you need to strengthen in order to swim your best. This is a must-have guide for every swimmer." Jason Lezak 2008 Olympic Bronze Medalist in 100-meter freestyle 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist (World Record) in 4 X 100 freestyle relay 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist (World Record) in 4 X 100 medley relay "Ian McLeod, one of the most intelligent minds in swimming, demonstrates how to care for swimmers both in and out of the water, making Swimming Anatomy an essential resource for anyone involved in competitive swimming." Keenan Robinson Athletic Trainer for University of Michigan Swimming and Diving "Buy Swimming Anatomy and treat it as the authoritative liftoff into the world of aquatic strength and conditioning." Swimming World magazine Table of ContentsExercise Finder Foreword Chapter 1. The Swimmer in MotionChapter 2. Arms Chapter 3. ShouldersChapter 4. ChestChapter 5. AbdomenChapter 6. BackChapter 7. LegsChapter 8. Whole-Body TrainingAbout the Author
£19.79
Human Kinetics Publishers NSCAs Guide to Tests and Assessments
Book Synopsis Developed by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), this comprehensive text offers extensive information on performance-related assessment and testing for strength and conditioning professionals in measuring key fitness components. Trade Review“This book takes an aggressive, holistic approach to the longstanding profession of strength and conditioning. The authors make a first-rate effort to move the profession of strength and conditioning forward into a new realm of expertise as professionals in the business of getting athletes to perform beyond their own expectations.”-- Doody’s Book ReviewTable of ContentsChapter 1: Tests, Data Analysis, and Conclusions Matt Rhea, PhD, and Mark Peterson, PhD Screening Tests Data Evaluation and Statistical Analysis Normalizing of Fitness Data Tracking Data Over Time Summary Chapter 2: Body Composition Nick Ratamess, PhD Sport Performance and Body Composition Body Composition Measurement Measuring Height, Body Weight, and Body Mass Index Body Fat Standards Comparison of Body Composition Techniques Summary Chapter 3: Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Dan Drury, DPE Heart Rate Control Exercise Intensity and Heart Rate Sport Performance and Heart Rate Heart Rate Measurement Blood Pressure Summary Chapter 4: Metabolic Rate Wayne Miller, PhD, EMT Components of Energy Expenditure Sport Performance and Metabolic Rate Measurement of Energy Expenditure Prediction of Energy Expenditure Estimation of 24-hour and Physical Activity Energy Expenditure Relevance and Applications for Metabolic Testing Summary Chapter 5: Aerobic Power Jonathan Anning, PhD Regression Equation Variables Maximal Exercise Testing Methods Submaximal Exercise Testing Methods Regression Equation Calculations Summary Chapter 6: Lactate Threshold Dave Morris, PhD Energy Pathways and Lactate Metabolism Sport Performance and Lactate Threshold Performing a Lactate Threshold Test Maximal Lactate Steady State Using Lactate Threshold Data Summary Chapter 7: Muscular Strength Gavin Moir, PhD Definition of Muscular Strength Factors Affecting Muscular Force Production Sports Performance and Muscular Strength Methods of Measurement Field Tests for Muscular Strength Predicting 1RM Values from Multiple Repetitions Laboratory Tests for Maximal Muscular Strength Isokinetic Strength Testing Summary Chapter 8: Muscular Endurance Gavin Moir, PhD Definition of Muscular Endurance Field Tests for Muscular Endurance Laboratory Tests for Muscular Endurance Summary Chapter 9: Power Mark D. Peterson, PhD Operationalizing Power Mechanisms of Power Production and Expression Types and Factors of Power Sport Performance and Power Tests for Power Lower Body Tests Upper Body Tests Warm-Up and Postactivation Potentiation (PAP): A Special Consideration for Testing Power Summary Chapter 10: Speed and Agility N. Travis Triplett, PhD Speed Agility Sport Performance and Speed and Agility Test Selection Methods of Measurement Summary Chapter 11: Mobility Sean P. Flanagan, PhD Fundamental Concepts of Mobility Sport Performance and Mobility Mobility Testing Range of Motion Tests Interpretation of Results Comparing Mobility Measurement Methods Summary Chapter 12: Balance and Stability Sean P. Flanagan, PhD Body Mechanics Control Theory Balance and Stability Tests Sport Performance and Balance and Stability Measuring Balance and Stability Interpreting the Results
£42.30
Pluto Press From Printing to Streaming
Book SynopsisExplores the impact of digital technologies on the logic of cultural capitalismTrade Review'Chanan's rich historical investigations of the evolving technologies of artistic production provide a fascinating new basis for a politics of culture' -- Michael Hardt, author of 'The Subversive 70s''Drawing on nearly fifty years of writing and teaching about the media and making films, Michael Chanan presents us with a series overlapping histories of different media technologies, which is both authoritative and original' -- Julian Petley, Honorary and Emeritus Professor of Journalism at Brunel University, London'Michael Chanan's brilliant synthesis, replete with fascinating detail, both boggles the mind and deeply educates' -- Claudia Gorbman, Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Washington TacomaTable of ContentsSeries Preface Preface 1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic 2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production 3. Cultural Commodification 4. Countercurrents 5. From Analog to Digital 6. Creativity Reconsidered Bibliography Notes
£17.99
Pluto Press Capitalism in the 21st Century Through the Prism
Book SynopsisA sweeping, authoritative and accessible overview of major issues in the global economy from a Marxist perspectiveTrade Review'A tour de force. This Marxist analysis is both a significant addition to the literature on Marx's theory of value and an accessible introduction to why it is essential to understanding the multiple crises of twenty-first century capitalism' -- Murray E.G. Smith, Professor of Sociology at Brock University'Carchedi and Roberts make killer arguments that Marx's labour theory of value is indispensable for understanding capitalism's environmental destructiveness, economic crises, impact on knowledge production and aspects of its financial processes' -- Rick Kuhn, author of the Deutscher Prize winning 'Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism''Fundamental. Roberts and Carchedi explains the characteristics of the current world through its most objective dimension - the theory of value - which, in an anti-dialectical way, has been forgotten by the left in recent decades' -- Raquel Varela, author of 'A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution''Offers a rigorous Marxist interpretation of some of the major issues in contemporary capitalism. Its analysis is firmly based on the Marxist labour theory of value and is coupled with meticulous empirical support' -- Satvros Mavroudeas, Professor of Political Economy at Panteion University, Greece'Two of the most accomplished and prominent Marxist authors' -- Lefteris Tsoulfidis, Professor of Economic Thought, University of Macedonia, Greece'Capitalism will always be capitalism, but in the 21st century new forms, controversies and challenges have appeared ... This book masterfully shows the strength of Marx’s law of value and the alternative socialist planning' -- Juan Pablo, Professor of Applied Economics, Complutense University of Madrid'Brilliant Marxian theoretical and empirical analysis ... as if updating Ernest Mandel’s Late Capitalism for the 21st century' -- Seongjin Jeong, Professor of Economics, Gyeongsang National University'Restates Marx’s critique of political economy for today, displaying formidable theoretical rigour and command of the empirical evidence. Roberts and Carchedi offer challenging analyses of ecological catastrophe, economic crises, imperialism, robots, and socialism from which everyone will learn' -- Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies, King’s College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Nature and value 2. Money, prices and value 3. Crises and value 4. Imperialism and value 5. Robots, AI, knowledge and value 6. Socialism and value Appendix 1: The value theory of inflation Appendix 2: Measuring unequal exchange of value in international trade
£20.69
Pluto Press The PalestineIsrael Conflict
Book SynopsisA balanced and accessible introduction to the Palestine-Israel conflictTrade Review'This superior and remarkably thorough, if brief, study of the Holy Land enigma is strongly recommended as an introduction' -- CHOICE'A tour de force in the depth and breadth of its research and in its clarity' -- Gabriel Kolko, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto and author of The Age of War'Gregory Harms has taken an enormously complex issue and made it engagingly accessible. An intelligent, thoughtful and comprehensive introduction to a terribly and consistently misunderstood conflict' -- Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and author of Failing Peace.'An approachable, balanced guide for the perplexed public' -- Journal of Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgements Preface to the Fourth Edition Introduction Part I: Regional History 1. Canaan-Palestine: Ancient History - Todd M. Ferry 2. Muhammad, Islam and the Arab Empire 3. The Crusades to the Ottoman Empire Part II: Origins 4. Jewish Persecution and Zionism 5. Palestine 6. The Genesis of Conflict: Across Two World Wars Part III: Conflict 7. Partition, Israeli Statehood and the Six-Day War: 1947-1967 8. The Continuation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1967-Lebanon 1982 9. The First Intifada and the Peace Process 10. The Second Intifada, Gaza and the Obama Years: 2000-2016 Conclusion Appendices Notes Suggested Reading Select Bibliography Index
£22.49
Cornell University Press The Nature of the Chemical Bond An Introduction
Book SynopsisThe pre-publication announcement of the third edition of The Nature of the Chemical Bond resulted in the largest advance sale of any technical book in the history of Cornell University Press.
£88.20
Cornell University Press White World Order Black Power Politics
Book SynopsisRacism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social Darwinism, and racial anthropology had been dominant doctrines in international relations from its beginnings; racist attitudes informed research priorities and were embedded in newly formed professional organizations. In White World Order, Black Power Politics, Robert Vitalis recovers the arguments, texts, and institution building of an extraordinary group of professors at Howard University, including Alain Locke, Ralph Bunche, Rayford Logan, Eric Williams, and Merze Tate, who was the first black female professor of political science in the country.Within the rigidly segregated profession, the Howard School of International Relations represented the most important center of opposition Trade ReviewDefying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice. -- Carol Polsgrove * American Historical Review *The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline.... Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. * National Polticial Science Review *Robert Vitalis wants his discipline to understand not only how central the category of race and the structures of racism were to its founding institutions and paradigms but also to see the erasure of that history not as progress but as repression, a willful forgetting that has if anything made it less equipped to comprehend (much less to address) the shocking racial inequities that still mark both the American and the global order. If international relations scholars want to understand the racial politics that made their field what it is today, there is no better place to begin than with this righteously angry book. -- Susan Pederson * London Review of Books *There is much to commend in Vitalis' book which is filled with fascinating vignettes and unexpected connections. He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book's opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander. -- Jake Hodder * Journal of Historical Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Mongrel American Social SciencePart I. The Noble Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development1. Empire by Association2. Race ChildrenPart II. Worlds of Color3. Storm Centers of Political Theory and Practice4. Imperialism and Internationalism in the 1920sPart III. The North versus the Black Atlantic5. Making the World Safe for "Minorities"6. The Philanthropy of MastersPart IV. "The Dark World Goes Free"7. The First but Not Last Crisis of a Cold War Profession8. Hands of Ethiopia9. The Fate of the Howard SchoolConclusion: The High Plane of Dignity and DisciplineNotes Bibliography Index
£17.84
Cornell University Press Algeria 18302000
Book SynopsisA particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher.Trade ReviewAs one of France's leading historians of Algeria, and more broadly of French decolonization, Stora is well equipped to tell the story of these two terrible conflicts and of the thirty-year period that separates them, when the country was a one-party state struggling to create a post-colonial identity. -- Roger Hardy * International Affairs *
£20.79
Cornell University Press The Reenchantment of the World
Book SynopsisThe Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves...Trade Review"This pioneering holistic work is still one of the best discussions of the spiritual havoc wrought by the 'disgodding' of nature and the split in the Western mind between facts and values."—Chip Brown, The List"Morris Berman's book addresses what I consider to be the most important topic at our present moment in history. He is searching for the underpinnings of a new world view that can give rise to a culture capable of relating gently and self-sustainingly to the earth."—Frederick Ferré
£23.74
Indiana University Press Mele on the Mauna
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£17.99
University of Wisconsin Press The Road to Home Rule Antiimperialism and the
Book SynopsisIn the 1870s and 1880s, in Irish eyes, misrule by British officials and absentee landlords mirrored imperial oppression across the globe. Paul Townend shows that a growing critique of British imperialism shaped a rapidly evolving Irish political consciousness and was a crucial factor giving momentum to the Home Rule and Land League campaigns.Trade Review“A bold and original interpretation in which empire emerges as the essential context—rather than a mere sideshow or backdrop—for the rise of Irish nationalism. To find the origins of Home Rule, we will now need to look not simply at the internal politics of the United Kingdom but at Irish responses to events in India, Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa.”—Kevin Kenny, Boston College“Thoroughly engaging. . . . The work is a major step forward in its discernment that a radical, principled anti-imperialism lay at the heart of the constitutional nationalist tradition in the latter years of the nineteenth century.”—Breac
£52.00
University of Wisconsin Press Against a Sharp White Background Infrastructures
Book SynopsisCovers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.Trade ReviewOffering wide-ranging subjects and approaches, these essays usefully extend conversations in print culture studies that have grown even more intense and even more important over the last decade. This is a powerful collection."" - Eric Gardner, author of Black Print Unbound: The ""Christian Recorder,"" African American Literature, and Periodical Culture""This is an important field, and the work collected here is exciting in its range and diversity of voices, methods, and insights."" - Stephanie Browner, The New School
£60.00
University of Wisconsin Press Fagen An African American Renegade in the
Book SynopsisIn 1898 the US sent troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the “Buffalo Soldiers”. Among them was David Fagen. The outlines of Fagen's legend have been known for more than a century, but the details of his military achievements, his personal history, and his fate have remained a mystery - until now.Trade ReviewWith dedicated sleuthing, informed speculation, and gifted storytelling style, Morey sheds new light on David Fagen, an African American insurgent against U.S. colonialism, who has long remained as elusive to historians as he was to the American soldiers that chased him through Philippine forests over a century ago."" - Paul Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines""A model for how to take a mythic figure, about whom very little documentation exists, and successfully transform him into a living, breathing man whose life is a window to understanding the meaning of race, war, and masculinity in American society."" - Jennifer D. Keene, author of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of AmericaTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part One: The Young Man from Tampa 1 The Young Man from Tampa 2 Santiago 3 The Far Side of the World 4 Westward 5 The Waiting Game 6 Permissions to Hate 7 Benevolent Assimilation 8 Snowbound 9 “Fighting Fred” Funston 10 Slander 11 Stalemate 12 Sequoia 13 The White Man’s Burden 14 Aguinaldo Adrift 15 Over the Hill Part Two: Renegade 16 Another Kind of War 17 Billet Doux 18 The Death of Captain Godfrey 19 “The Afro-American Traitor Called David” 20 Urbano Lacuna 21 Mount Corona 22 Alstaetter 23 Funston’s Great Roundup 24 Sergeant Washington and Captain Fagen 25 Fall Offensive 26 Old Scores 27 “General Fagan” 28 “Negritos Soldados” 29 “The Courage of His Convictions” 30 Alstaetter Revisited 31 A Christmas Souvenir 32 The Revolution Falters 33 The Road to Palanan 34 Surrender Part Three: Ladrone 35 Ladrone 36 The Renegade Comes to Town 37 A People’s War 38 “The Old Arch-Renegade Fagan” Afterword A Note on Sources Notes Index
£29.56
University of Wisconsin Press Citizen Countess Sofia Panina and the Fate of
Book SynopsisBased on detailed research in archival collections, this book establishes Sofia Panina as an astute eyewitness to and passionate participant in the historical events that shaped her life. Her experiences shed light on the evolution of the European nobility, women's emancipation and political influence, and the fate of Russian liberalism.
£31.96
University of Wisconsin Press The Divided States Unraveling National
Book SynopsisThe tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since its inception. In The Divided States, leading scholars and critics argue that the US is, and has always been, a site where multiple national identities intersect in productive and challenging ways.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Contested Lives, Contesting Lives Ricia Anne Chansky and Laura J. Beard Section One: Tracing Patterns Dakobijigaade mii miinawaa Aaba’igaade Gichimookomaanakiing: Tied and Untied in America Margaret Noodin Negotiating National Identity and Well-Being in US Black Women’s Diaries Joycelyn K. Moody The Legacy of Conquest in Comics: Texas History Movies, Jack Jackson, and Revision Daniel Worden “Strange Juxtapositions”: Elliott Erwitt’s Visual Diary of Cold War America Steven Hoelscher We Have Never Been a Nation of Immigrants: Refugee Temporality as American Identity Elizabeth Rodrigues “A small flashlight in a great dark space”: Elizabeth Warren, Autobiography, and Populism Rachael McLennan Indians in Monumental Places: Heid Erdich and Jeff Thomas Laura J. Beard Juneteenth Angela Ards Archival Intervention: Surviving the “Savage Splintering” in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians Hertha D. Sweet Wong Section Two: Facing Forward Moving Beyond the Urban/Rural Divide in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Katie Hogan White Privilege and J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy Stephanie Li) Getting Schooled: Responses to Education as Neoliberal Identity-Formation in US Life Narratives Megan Brown Disabling Birth: Prognostic Certainty and the Gestating Citizen of the Contemporary Midwifery Movement Ally Day Afterword Days of Reckoning: Prospects for Life Narrative 2020 Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson Contributors Index
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The University of Michigan Press Fictions of Affliction Physical Disability in
Book SynopsisReveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?'Trade ReviewHighly recommended... Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. - Choice ""An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."" - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University ""Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability... We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."" - Victorian Studies
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The University of Michigan Press The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus
Book SynopsisArt and architecture are mirrors of a society. They reflect the state of its values, especially in times of crisis or transition. Upon this premise Paul Zanker builds an interpretation of Augustan art as a visual language that both expressed and furthered the transformation of Roman society during the rule of Augustus Caesar.
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Melbourne University Publishing Australia And The Great War Identity Memory and
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