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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A uniquely valuable intervention. Those of us--and I would say that is the majority of us who live our lives ‘in freedom’--are importuned by the book’s address, to wake up, to care, because what we perceive as our ‘freedom’ made available, so we think, as a consequence of living in the crucible of liberal ideals and beliefs--is inextricably bound up with the logics of incarceration.”--Fawzia Afzal-Khan, author of Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women SingersTable of ContentsForeword Demita Frazier Acknowledgments Introduction Shreerekha Pillai Part One: Carceral Narratives and Fictions Poems: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Pantoum for a Black Man on a Greyhound Bus” and “Lost Letter #27: John Peters, Boston-Gaol to Phillis Wheatley Peters, Boston, December 3, 1784″ 1. Carceral Trauma at the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Maternity Cassandra D. Little 2. Prisons and Politics: Conceptualizing Prison Memoirs Shailza Sharma 3. Seeing Orange: Mediatizing the Prison Empire Shreerekha Pillai 4. Emptied Chairs and Faceless Inmates: A Critical Analysis of the Texas Prison Museum Beth Matusoff Merfish Poems: Ravi Shankar, “Against Innocence” and “Sunday School” The Stories that will not be Confined Poems: Solmaz Sharif, “Reaching Guantánamo” Part Two: Carceral Bodies and Systems Poem: Jeremy Eugene, “Space” 5. These Stories Will Not Be Confined Joanna Eleftheriou 6. Cornered: Day Laborers, Criminalization and Rituals of Democracy in Texas Francisco Argüelles Paz y Puente, aka Pancho 7. Resisting Criminalization: Principles, Practicalities, and Possibilities of Alternative Justices Beyond the State Autumn Elizabeth, Zarinah Agnew, D Coulombe 8. Going Carceral? Analyzing Written and Visual Representations of Prison Yoga Programs Tria Blu Wakpa and Jennifer Musial 9. Vacant Refuge, Unfinished Resettlement: Gendered Nativism and the Experience of Ambivalence among Displaced Syrian Iraqi and Women and Children in Houston, Texas Maria F. Curtis 10. Gendered Punishment and Social Control: Silenced Memories of Women in Wartime Peru Marta Romero-Delgado 11. Bad Girls of Pindra Tod Alka Kurian Poem: Javier Zamora, “Citizenship” Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Noura Erakat's incisive exploration of the role of law in shaping the development of Israel/Palestine reveals the consistent genuflection of international legal institutions to Israel's reliance on well-established colonial practices. She also forcefully argues that the skillful use of international law as a tool of struggle can be generative of hope and possibility—for Palestine and the world. Justice for Some is precisely the book we need at this time."—Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement"A radical rethinking of the role of law and legal advocacy in the struggle for Palestinian rights. Noura Erakat tells how a refugee problem became a national liberation movement, and the tragic story of how initiative and momentum were squandered after Oslo. Brilliant, inspiring, coldly realistic—and hopeful."—Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Emeritus, Harvard Law School"Without any doubt, Justice for Some is the best book on the law and politics of the Palestine/Israel struggle—sophisticated, learned, humane, and creative. Noura Erakat makes a profound contribution to our general understanding of the paradoxical role of law in the contemporary world."—Richard Falk, Former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, author of Palestine's Horizon: Toward a Just Peace"Anyone wondering how and why international law has failed so miserably to curb Israeli violations in Palestine and the deleterious effect this has had on the law itself should read this book. Noura Erakat communicates...with the skill of a lawyer and the passion of an activist. Justice for Some is both enriching and inspiring."—Raja Shehadeh, founder of Al-Haq, author of Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine"Through a brilliant and bracing analysis of the Palestine question and settler colonialism, Noura Erakat offers a compelling story of how the antinomies of structure and indeterminacy shaped international law and its possibilities. Justice for Some is a vital lens into movement lawyering on the international plane. At once tragic and inspiring, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in decolonization and the politics of international law."—Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)"Noura Erakat brings a sophisticated understanding of the role of international law over the last century in the Question of Palestine. This brilliant book will be of great interest to anyone seeking to understand why the outcome, thus far, to the disposition of the Palestine problem has not been a just one."—Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017"Erakat's dissection of these legal and political histories is careful and captivating....This book asks that the Palestinian liberation struggle and Jewish-Israeli society each reckon with the impossibility of a two-state future, reimagining what their interests are—and what they could become. In rejecting the zero-sum formula's inevitability, Erakat sees, and demands, an alternative."—Amanda McCaffrey, Jewish Currents"[A] major scholarly contribution to the critical literature devoted to resolving the Israel/Palestine struggle in line with the dictates of justice....[I] urge a careful reading of Justice for Some by all those interested in the Palestinian struggle as well as those curious about the way law works for and against human wellbeing."—Richard Falk, Mondoweiss"[Erakat] meticulously reveals how Israel ignored international law, the laws of war, duties of an occupying power, and efforts brought through the United Nations to censure its actions....The book will interest those concerned with the law and ethics of war, international law, terrorism laws, and observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its treatment by international bodies. Highly recommended."—S. Zuhur, Choice"Erakat's detailed analysis paints a dismal reality, yet it is one that must be acknowledged and worked from. Her meticulous discussion on the inherent injustice in international law propels attention towards what so far remains overlooked and calls the reader to reflect upon action that veers away from what the international community keeps demanding of Palestinians."—Ramona Wadi, Middle East Monitor"That international law is not an effective starting point for achieving justice in Palestine is a vital insight for leftists developing a progressive foreign policy.Justice for Somemakes clear that winning Palestinian freedom will require confronting the geopolitical power structure that gives international law its meaning."—Gunar Olsen, Jacobin"Noura Erakat eloquently shows that, yes, the Israeli state project has been consolidated and expanded on a platform of might making right since 1948—but not only that. Israeli governments have also actively sought to craft legal justifications for the conquest and colonisation of territory, and to harness international law in their favour....[Erakat] has written a book that is a story of Palestine but is also a story of international law itself. Some of its most important insights are more universal than specific. They are major conceptual contributions with value well beyond the immediate case study."—John Reynolds, Dublin Review of Books"Erakat's critical perspective on international law and the focus on how Palestinians have used it to support their cause is a much-needed addition to the international law literature on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict....This is a book brimming with acute insights that deserves the widest possible readership."—Markus Gunneflo, Journal of Conflict and Security Law"Justice for Some challenges the not infrequent characterization of efforts to resolve the struggle over Palestine as a dichotomy between law/politics, principle/pragmatism or an imposed/negotiated solution. As [Erakat's] incisive analysis points out, these binaries, while not completely inaccurate, are incomplete in that they mask Israel's skilled use of the law to advance its interests while overlooking the political reasons for shortcomings in the Palestinian leadership's use of law as a form of resistance."—Terry Rempel, The Middle East Journal"In this elegantly written and carefully argued book, Erakat strikes a delicate balance that makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on both Palestine and critical international law....[Her] clear-eyed analysis is not only an excellent account of the law and politics of the Palestinian struggle but also a remarkable and often inspiring assessment of the relationship between law and liberation."—Asla Bâli, Journal of Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Colonial Erasures and the Struggle for Self-Determination 2. Permanent Occupation 3. Pragmatic Revolutionaries 4. The Oslo Peace Process 5. From Occupation to Warfare 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA new translation of Heidegger's monumental workTrade Review[This book is] an impressive achievement. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslators' IntroductionI. ProspectII. The ReasoningIII. The InterplayIV. The LeapV. The Groundinga. Da-sein and the projection of beingb. Da-seinc. The essence of truthd. Time-space as the abyssal grounde. The essential occurrence of truth as a shelteringVI. The Future OnesVII. The Last GodVIII. BeyngEditor's AfterwordGerman-English GlossaryEnglish-German GlossaryGreek-English GlossaryLating-English GlossaryBibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain - on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? This book considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of light and luminosity on place.Trade Review"Beautifully conceived and written. Sallis engages the elemental interplay of earth and sky, translucence and obscurity, airiness and density, height and depth, wet and dry, gods and mortals, storms and clouds, rivers and fog, plains and mountains-nature in its expansive, indefinable materiality and ephemeral intangiblity." -Charles E. Scott, Vanderbilt University "A profound and exceptionally nuanced piece of writing that brings philosophy and art into close proximity. Decades of Sallis's remarkable philosophical thinking are at work and play." -Jason M. Wirth, Seattle UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAnagoge1. Clouds2. Caves3. Exorbitant Points4. Poseidon5. Blues6. City of Lights7. Time's Shadow8. The Light Spread of Time9. Heights10. Summer Snow11. Dark Light12. At Sea13. Seacoves14. Sunspots15. Visible Time16. Wild17. Quiet18. White

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSuperb! Very inspired material eloquently written. Stanley Ritchie explains each movement of Bach's solo violin Sonatas and Partitas with such clarity and understanding in the thought process without being in any way 'dry'. * Stringendo AUSTA *For any violinist, this book is a practical delight. It deserves to join the great works by Leopold Mozart, Editha Knocker, Leopold Auer, Pierre Baillot, Joseph Szigeti, and their peers, which are on every serious player's shelf. * Fontes Artis Musicae *Table of ContentsForeword / Mauricio FuksAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Principles of InterpretationNotationPolyphonyHarmonyMetreDynamicsInequalityFingeringNote LengthBow DirectionArticulationsOrnamentation2. Dance FormsAllemandaBourée/BoreaCiacconaCorrenteGavotteGigue/GigaLoureMenuetSarabanda/SarabandeSicilianaDoublePreludio3. Analytical Methods and ExercisesG-Minor AdagioG-Minor FugaD-Minor Allemanda4. The Improvisatory MovementsG-Minor Sonata: AdagioA-Minor Sonata: Grave 5. The FuguesG-MinorA-MinorC-Major6. The Ostinato MovementsPartita II: Ciaccona Sonata III: Adagio7. The Dance-like MovementsBourée and BoreaTempo di BoreaB-Minor CorrenteD-Minor CorrenteGavotte en RondeauThe GigaThe GigueThe LoureThe MenuetsThe Sarabande and SarabandaThe B-Minor Sarabande The D-Minor Sarabanda8. The Virtuoso MovementsG-minor Sonata: PrestoB-Minor Corrente - DoubleThe A-Minor FinaleThe C-Major Allegro assaiThe E-Major Preludio9. The Philosophical MovementsThe AllemandaB-Minor PartitaD-Minor Partita10. The Lyrical MovementsThe SicilianaA-Minor Sonata: Andante The C-Major Sonata: Largo11. Right-hand TechniquePolyphonyChordal TechniqueMartelé and SpiccatoSautilléBariolageOndeggiando12. Left-hand TechniqueThe Role of VibratoHalf-PositionChoice of FingeringsIntonationTuningLast Words Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCombining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party's experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko have written a long-overdue analysis of Cold War popular music which combines insightful analysis of individual songs and popular musical genres expertly embedded within their political and historical contexts. Their discussions of women's voices, of novelty songs, country and gospel music and other categories are balanced in a way that accommodates many different perspectives, both left wing and right. If you lived through the Cold War or approach it from a historical and musicological perspective, the Smolkos, along with the songs they explore, provide what they call a 'visceral sense of what it was like to live through the Cold War.' A very important work."—Russell Reising, University of Toledo professor emeritus of American culture and Asian studies"Tim and Joanna Smolko's book is a welcome and well-researched study on the role that the Cold War played in American and British popular music. The Smolkos take on topics such as communism and the Red Scare, civil defense, and nuclear fear in a study that places popular and folk music at the center of its contemporary social history in a way no other book has done before. They consider society, politics, race, and place are at the core for understanding the composition and performance of Cold War popular music, from satire to serious. Their book probes the essential questions we likely didn't know we had about the role of music in one of the most fraught eras in world history."—Reba Wissner, author of Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969, Columbus State University"In this immaculately researched book, Tim and Joanna Smolko examine how Cold War anxieties shaped songs by an incredibly diverse range of musicians—from earnest folkies and jokey rock 'n' rollers, to long-haired metalheads and political punks. The book's scope and thematic range is impressive, and even the biggest fan of this music will discover new insights—and tunes!—through the authors' in-depth discussions of the musical and social significance of these songs. In addressing a major gap in the burgeoning literature on Cold War-era music-making, Atomic Tunes should be essential reading for historians, musicologists, and fans alike."—Nicholas Tochka, author of Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania, Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music"Richly detailed and meticulously researched, Atomic Tunes provides an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American popular music in the Cold War era. The book's sweeping survey of songs, ranging from country and comedy to punk and heavy metal, captures all the vivid anxiety, paranoia, fear, fantasy, and dark humor of this vital period of global history, and makes for an endlessly fascinating read."—Theo Cateforis, author of Are We Not New Wave: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Fine Arts and Music History at Syracuse University"Atomic Tunes is unparalleled as a sweeping inquiry into popular music's response to the Cold War and the arms race. Tim and Joanna Smolko deftly combine social and political history with musical analysis, stressing that the words and music mattered as artists and listeners tried to make sense of an anxious and confusing time in world history."—Steve Waksman, author of This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and PunkTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cold War History in Music and Lyrics1. Folk: From Paul Robeson to Bob Dylan2. Folk: Women's Voices3. Country: The Conservative Stance4. Novelty and Comedy Songs: The Cold War as a Big Joke5. Early Rock and Other Styles: Rocking the Bomb6. Mainstream Rock: Bowie, U2, Sting, Billy Joel, and Springsteen7. Hard Rock and Heavy Metal: The Electric Guitar as the Bomb8. Punk Rock: Three Chords and the Apocalypse9. Electronic and New Wave: The Cold War in a Synthesizer10. Wind of Change: The Fall of the Wall and the End of the Cold WarConclusionBibliography, Discography, VideographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow to Measure a World? examines the vastness of the Jewish philosophical record and the full intellectual scope and range of Emmanuel Levinas's claim that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism.Trade ReviewAn introductory study that will have enormous appeal for both students and non-specialist general readers, How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism is as informative as it is thought-provoking, and very highly recommended * Midwest Book Review *Overall, this book is a valuable contribution to not only modern Jewish studies, but also the broader field of continental philosophy of religion. With a clear mastery of his sources, Shuster carefully weaves his thesis through deeply complicated figures in a way that is both artful and textually sound. -- Josiah Solis * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionHaving a World1. Wonder and World: Maimonides's Phenomenology2. Suffering and World: Adorno's NegativityPreconditions of Having a World3. History and World: Benjamin and Adorno on Ethical Depth4. Language and World: Levinas and Cavell on Ethical FoundationsConclusionWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisGo East! provides fresh insight into Turanism's key political and artistic influences in Hungary and illuminates the mark it has left on history.Trade Review"A long-awaited history of Turanism in Hungary that conjures cultural history and politics across two full centuries. A fascinating travel into a key concept of modern Hungary's ideological roots."—Marlene Laruelle, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsMapsAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. A Batch of Bread2. György Ilosvay Writes a Letter3. The Moment4. Silver Age5. Székelys, Pagans and Hunters6. Everyday Life and Holidays in Turania7. Dévény and Tokyo8. Waiting for the Winds to Change9. Renaissance and MannerismBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book succeeds . . . by discussing the material world and practices of classical music. In setting forth concrete details and eschewing the hyperbolic and metaphoric, Stefaniak brings classical music back to life. -- M. Dineen * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronologyIntroduction1. Schumann's Early-Career Concert Vehicles: Transcendent Interiority and the Cutting Edge of Popular Pianism2. The Imagined Revelation of Musical Works3. The Compositional Agency of the Revelatory Interpreter4. Clara Schumann's 1840s Compositions and her Midcentury Persona5. Navigating and Shaping Local Concert Scenes and Canons: Clara Schumann's 1854-56 Tours6. Revelatory Interpretation and the Performance of MemoryEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn a deft blend of history and imagination, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew brings to life a young woman who defied the conventions of her time, ultimately braving torture and the fire of martyrdom for her convictions.Trade Review“Society’s net gradually and then violently tightens around a woman who desires no more—and no less—than freedom of movement, speech, conscience, and faith. In Rilla Askew’s riveting Prize for the Fire, the struggles of this sixteenth-century protagonist echo in contemporary battles over women’s voices and bodily autonomy. A deeply sensitive and ambitious act of historical imagination.”—Pamela Erens, author of The Virgins and Eleven Hours “Prize for the Fire is a triumph. Rilla Askew has captured the unquenchable spirit of a singular woman, Anne Askew, as she stands alone against the violent, tumultuous England of Henry VIII’s final years. Readers of literary and historical fiction will find that this deeply researched novel and its passionate, elegiac prose will stay with them long after they close the book on Anne’s story. Highly recommended.”—Mary Anna Evans, author of the Faye Longchamp Mystery series“With poise and restraint, Rilla Askew’s historical novel Prize for the Fire tells the brilliant, multifaceted story of an intelligent, virtuous, and indomitable woman.”—Foreword Reviews“The novel deftly shows the insecurity of the times. It succeeds in taking us inside the head of a religious fanatic, making her credible, sympathetic, and, in a way, inspiring. Highly recommended.”— ReadingWorld with Susan Coventry“The author writes powerfully of this world of diminished and marginalized women… Prize for the Fire has the tone and feel of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and it stands tall among the best of Tudor historical fiction.”—Historical Novel Society“Like the gospel translators who changed Anne’s life, Askew portrays a principled life and dramatic era in clear, vivid prose. The themes remain pertinent – the suppression of women’s voices and the struggle for freedom in thought and religion. Askew has found in one Lincolnshire woman a symbol of courage and independence we would do well to remember.”—Lincolnshire Life Magazine“A page-turner. Prize for the Fire is a gripping saga—a very fine book and a major accomplishment.”—Story Circle Network

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnyone with a serious interest in the Yiddish diaspora from Eastern Europe and Russia should treat this as required reading. * The Reading Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments: Yiddish Culture, Interwar Paris, and the Crisis of BelongingList of Organizations and Groups Named by AcronymIntroduction1. Institutionalizing Yiddish Cultural Life in Paris2. Cultural and Intellectual Strongholds Are Stronger than all Others3. Drama in Yiddish Paris4. Singing for the People and Against Fascism5. Parisian Yiddish Culture on the World's StageConclusion: From Rassemblement to RésistanceEpilogue: The Marianne of YiddishlandIndex

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Book SynopsisAs one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in the world, the State of Israel faces serious land policy challenges and has a national identity laced with enormous internal contradictions. In Land Law and Policy in Israel, Haim Sandberg contends that if you really want to know the identity of a state, learn its land law and land policies. Sandberg argues that Israel's identity can best be understood by deciphering the code that lies in the Hebrew secret of Israeli dry land law. According to Sandberg, by examining the complex facets of property law and land policy, one finds a unique prism for comprehending Israel's most pronounced identity problems. Land Law and Policy in Israel explores how Israel's modern land system tries to bridge the gaps between past heritage and present needs, nationalization and privatization, bureaucracy and innovation, Jewish majority and non-Jewish minority, legislative creativity and judicial activism. The regulation of property and the dTrade Review"To seriously understand a country, one ought to understand it's land laws and policies. Professor Sandberg provides a deep professional historical and legal picture of Israeli land issues. This book must be a must for whoever is interested in the subject in all it's aspects, including the Arab-Israeli conflict."—Justice Prof. Elyakim Rubinstein, Deputy President (ret.) The Supreme Court of Israel"Professor Sandberg, one of the most prominent property law experts in Israel, shows in his book how the small, crowded, and often threatened Jewish State succeeds against all odds amidst extraordinary challenges facing its land policy in the third millennium. A must-read book not only for those interested in Israel and its land law but for anyone who wants to understand how internal contradictions in a country's identity affect its land policy."—Ruth Lapidoth, Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Translation and Internet HyperlinksIntroduction: Land Law and Land Policy1. The Fingerprints of History in Land Inventory2. Culture, Nation, and Socialism in the Administration of Public Lands3. Privatization of Public Lands4. National Land Planning in a Small Country5. Jewish and Democratic6. Creative JudiciaryEpilogue: Identity in FluxBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFor a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps tells the story of that moment in the military history of modern China - how it came to be, why it ultimately failed, and what it meant for China at home and abroad.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection of valuable studies shows how the German universities—already home to many conservative-nationalist and anti-democratic faculty as well as nazified students before 1933—welcomed the onset of the Nazi dictatorship and pursued a course of "self-coordination" in purging Jews and political opponents. Within the humanities, a core of Nazi activists in major disciplines such as theology, law, archeology, and history certainly exercised an inordinate influence over hiring, funding, and curriculum, but numerous opportunists and fellow travelers even in smaller departments adopted Nazi racial rhetoric and sought to demonstrate their "relevance" and "usefulness" to the Nazi cause. In the post-war period a few of the most egregious academic Nazis served as useful scapegoats, but the vast majority of faculty viewed themselves as the double victims of Hitler's dictatorship and war on the one hand and the Allies' unfair denazification on the other. But at least, in a second act of self-coordination, they sanitized their vitas, forgot their past complicities, and began to act like the non-Nazi, apolitical scholars they now claimed to have been all along."—Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This is a sobering study of how quickly and completely German universities and the humanities were corrupted by Nazi ideology and policies during the National Socialist era. Led by some of the most prominent scholars in their fields, entire scholarly disciplines conformed to Nazi rule, leading to the broader perversion of humanistic values, standards and ethics throughout Germany. Thoughtful and profound, the essays in this volume explore this history as a warning for our own times."—Victoria J. Barnett, Director (retired), Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum"As I read this rich collection, I found myself learning at nearly every turn, even from many of the footnotes. These are serious, well-researched and well-written studies; their authors draw upon both primary sources (not infrequently unpublished archival items) and secondary sources in the original languages to construct their arguments. Taken together, this is a compelling collection of serious essays from which readers, whether specialists or non-specialists, will learn much. The essays complement each other and even build on each other."—Saul M. Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University"With Jewish students under assault on campuses across the United States, The Betrayal of the Humanities demonstrates the role academicians can play in "validating" antisemitism and producing research to underpin genocidal worldviews."—The Times of Israel"The Betrayal of the Humanities is a testimony to what can go wrong if humanistic education is separated from ethics, from moral imperatives, and from the face of one's neighbor. We would do well to heed its warning."—Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Review of Biblical LiteratureTable of ContentsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceI. Nazi Germany and the Historical Humanities1. The History of the Humanities in the Third Reich, by Alan E. Steinweis2. The "Orient" and "Us", by Suzanne L. Marchand3. Luther Scholars, Jews, and Judaism during the Third Reich, by Christopher J. Probst4. Gerhard von Rad's Struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament, by Bernard M. Levinson5. Jewish Studies in the Service of Nazi Ideology, by Anders Gerdmar6. Hermann Grapow, Egyptology, and National Socialist Initiatives for the Humanities, by Thomas Schneider7. German Assyriology, by Johannes Renger8. National Socialist Archaeology as a Faustian Bargain, by Bettina ArnoldII. Law, Music, and Philosophy in the Third Reich9. Hitler's Willing Law Professors, by Oren Gross10. The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, by Michael Cherlin11. Political Philosophy, by Emmanuel FayeIII. Nazi Germany and Beyond12. The Nazification and Denazification of the University of Göttingen, by Robert P. Ericksen13. The University of Göttingen and Its Postwar Response to Persecuted Colleagues, by Aniko Szabo14. Italian Fascism, by Franklin Hugh Adler15. Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?, by Alvin H. RosenfeldIndex of Scholars and Related Academic Figures ExaminedIndex of Paramilitary and Military Roles HeldIndex of Universities and Academic Institutions Examined Index of AuthorsSubject Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helping Familiar Strangers unravels the motivations and dynamics that inform acts of helping, with a specific focus on refugee diaspora humanitarianism. . . . Olliff's argument is convincing and well-grounded."—Antonio De Lauri, author of The Politics of HumanitarianismTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Humanitarianism and the international refugee regime2. The ecology of refugee diaspora humanitarianism3. Forces that compel4. Modalities: governance and economies5. Modalities: mobility, (in)visibility, knowledge, and networks6. Implications and imaginings7. Helping familiar strangersEpilogueAppendixBibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this engaging narrative, acclaimed historian R. David Edmunds combines careful research with creative storytelling to give voice to indigenous individuals and families and to illustrate the impact of pivotal events on their lives. A nonfiction account accompanies each narrative to provide necessary historical and cultural context.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis beautifully rendered ethnography makes visible the haunting social challenge of infertility for Indian women, and especially Muslim minority women, whose reproduction is always suspect. Stories of women's secret but valiant attempts to conceive animate the pages of this book, which is essential reading for scholars of gender, kinship, and religion in South Asia, as well as those interested in reproductive justice in the Global South. -- Marcia C. Inhorn, author of Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global DubaiBy focusing on infertility, this book fills a huge gap in the study of reproduction in India. Bringing together material from Indian films, literature, extensive ethnography, and her own experiences as a daughter-in-law in India, Holly Donahue Singh weaves an anthropologically informed and fascinating account of people's reproductive desires framed by the real world of inequalities and lack of reproductive justice. Yet, it is not all doom and gloom as people forge their way out of difficulties or find new paths outside of reproductive mandates. -- Ravinder Kaur, Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Indian Institute of Technology DelhiWhile the story of female reproductive systems has multiple dimensions, Holly Donahue Singh's narrative introduces us to a fascinating picture of how such dimensions find expressions in everyday life and popular cultures. With an in-depth understanding of vernacular symbols, metaphorization, and narrative strategies, this book moves the reader closer to a setting where the ordinariness of life emerges as an intriguing space to rethink various complex processes. In addition, this book provides a gendered lens to translate multilayered theoretical aspects. Singh's sensibilities and careful observations make this work more accessible as well. -- Afsar Mohammad, author of The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South IndiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Hiding Reproduction1. Aulad: Reproductive Desires2. Preludes to Aulad: Making Mothers3. Clinical Dreams: Measuring Hope4. Reproductive Realities: Managing Inequality5. Quietly Planning Families: Misdirecting ConventionConclusion: Reproductive Openings and Reproductive Justice in Contemporary IndiaAfterword: Family Plans, Or, Waiting for AuladGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shmuel Feiner gives us a capacious and methodologically innovative volume on the "modernity" of the Jewish eighteenth century by juxtaposing myriad events across disparate regions recounted through a captivating panoply of personalities."—David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University"Extraordinarily erudite and compulsively readable, this book transforms everything we thought we knew about the Jewish eighteenth century. A remarkable achievement."—Yair Mintzker, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: 1750–17631. Three Astounding Proclamations: Class Division, Pressure from the State, and a Rift in the Rabbinical Elite2. The Specter: Earthquake, the Horror of War, and Patriotism3. The Pursuit of Honor and the Masked Ball: Azulai and Geldern Wander About in Europe and the East4. Get Out, Jews! Tests for Tolerance between London, Zhitomir, Yampol, and Rome5. Blood for Blood: The Frankist Scandal and the Subversiveness of Religious Awakening6. Intimate Life: Bodily Ailments, Quarrels, Crime, and Emigration7. "We Are All Citizens of the World": The Jewish Question in the Age of the PhilosophesPart II: 1764–17808. "The Great Change": The Crisis in Poland, Awareness of Progress and Humanistic Sentiment9. "They Made My Flesh and Blood Fair Prey": Tolerance and Fissures in the Walls of Society10. 1772: A Year That Challenged the Old Order11. "Let Every Man Do as He Pleases": The Winds of Revolt12. Curing the "Malady of My Nation": Days of Individualism and ReformPart III: 1781–180013. "Great Thoughts Bubble Up and Awaken": The Tangle of the Years 1781–178214. The Eve of Revolution: "The Happiest Period" or "The Great Confusion"?15. From the Boxing Ring to the Halls of Parliament: Confrontations and Initiatives for Regeneration and Citizenship16. "A Generation of Upheavals": Euphoria, Terror, and the Rebellion of the Young in the 1790s17. The Future of the Jews: A New Politics, a Religion in Dispute, and Freedom of the Individual18. The Three Last Years: "We Have Reason to Congratulate Ourselves, That We Were Born in This Enlightened Period"Conclusion: "No More Fear, No Shame . . . I Live in Peace with Everything around Me"Index

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Book SynopsisTracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks - and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade.Trade Review“Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis gets to the heart of one of the great debates in the history of conservation: whether there are any true ‘wildernesses’—pristine natural areas untouched by human hands—and, when we set aside protected areas like national parks, whether we should remove evidence of human occupation. The author does a marvelous job weaving O’odham oral traditions and histories into this historical account of Quitobaquito.”—Thomas E. Sheridan, author of Arizona: A History“With engaging prose, Jared Orsi excavates the layers of Indigenous history that underlie this seemingly ‘untouched’ nature reserve, details the environmental and cultural devastation of an increasingly hardened border, challenges the National Park Service—and us—to reckon with its colonial past, and points the way toward reconciliation with the O’odham peoples. The result is a fascinating study of a little-known place in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.”—Marsha Weisiger, author of Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country“Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis provides a trenchant analysis of how cultural heritage, modern management policies challenging that heritage, and local to international forces combined to shape a small, contested desert oasis. Quitobaquito is a tiny and unfamiliar space with lessons for the world.”—Lary M. Dilsaver, author of Preserving the Desert: A History of Joshua Tree National Park

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Everything Is Sampled deploys the idea of production in deft and thoughtful manners to think together African arts, the integrity of the discrete aesthetic phenomenon, and the historical matrix within which aesthetic objects gain life. Everything Is Sampled adopts and rechannels terms implicated in the workings of text-making practices like curation, translation, media and modes (streaming technologies included), to establish patterns of changes and regularities in drama, film, video, poetry, and art installation. Individuals interested in lucid cultural analysis ought to find the eminently accessible style of presentation very appealing."—Adeleke Adeeko, Ohio State University"Everything Is Sampled will make significant contributions to African literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature studies. It's central objects of analysis extend over an impressively wide range of artistic productions in sub-Saharan Africa, from the mid twentieth-century to the contemporary moment of globalization and digital culture. This unusual capaciousness is risky but exciting. Adesokan's work takes on this ambitious task with a flair that is at once substantive and stylistic."—Olakunle George, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The New Terrains of African Arts and LettersPart One: Shifting Margins1. Modes of Creative Practice2. Spatial Assemblages: Festivals as CurationPart Two: Across the Digital Divide3. The Griot's Compositions in Time4. Adaptation or Remake: New Formats for Old Prints5. Approaching the World as Platform, Literally6. The Remix: Of New Identities and Technologies of ReuseEpilogue: In Relative AccountAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hosting States and Unsettled Guests unpacks the complex temporalities of migration. Temporal discombobulation begins under repressive rule in Eritrea. In Ethiopia, refugees' briefly-regained agency is lost in the face of sluggish humanitarian bureaucracy, and troubled relations with the unstable host country. In deftly documenting refugee agency, precarious journeys, and the systemic odds migrants encounter, Riggan and Poole make tremendous contributions to refugee studies and studies of the contemporary Horn of Africa."—Awet T. Weldemichael, Queen's University-Canada, author of Author of Piracy in Somalia."In this exemplary ethnography, replete with vivid details and theoretical nuance, Riggan and Poole analyze how Eritrean refugees weather Ethiopia's shifting paradigms of refugee management and pursue pragmatic visions of their possible futures in a time of political and economic instability. This book is a deft and absorbing piece of anthropological and international scholarship."—Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Editor of Humanizing Education for Refugee and Immigrant Youth"The book provides detailed, nuanced, and critical perspectives on some of the most important challenges of refugee life and refugee policy today: what it means to live as a refugee, how to work with host countries in the global south to ensure refugee's rights and needs are met, how to design education and economic opportunities for refugees, and how to ensure refugees' hopes and dreams for the future are not cruelly disregarded or undermined."—Lauren Carruth, author of Love and Liberation"In a detailed ethnography that profoundly reconceptualizes time and temporality, Riggan and Poole show us the political reality and predicament of life and struggle in refugee camps in northern Ethiopia. This book is a welcome contribution to the field of forced migration studies."—-Shahram Khosravi, author of Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran"Through the moving stories that they collected between 2016 and 2019, Riggan and Poole's engaging ethnography traces the fate of Eritrean refugees in a very unstable Ethiopia. The authors brilliantly examine how temporality (and not just spatiality) plays key roles in understanding Eritrean refugees' everyday lives in refugee camps and urban settings in the years that led up to a devastating war. The authors unveil how Eritrean refugees inescapably experience temporal suffering and teleological violence within these structural barriers, while their present becomes ungraspable and thus unmovable."—Sabina M. Perrino, Binghamton University, SUNY

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Book SynopsisTells a story in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.Trade ReviewAnchored in recovered primary sources, and clear and compelling in argument, Dirty Deeds brings to light the full story of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856. Later generations will regard this narrative as the definitive study of vigilantism in the West as well as a tour de force of urban history." - Kevin Starr, University Professor and Professor of History, University of Southern California, and author of California: A History"A page-turning narrative of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856, Dirty Deeds reveals a secret agenda of the committee Executives—to resolve conflicting property titles in a manner protecting their own landholding." - Roger D. McGrath, author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier

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Book SynopsisSince slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses. Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his theories, we know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in ways often entirely different than for white viewers. Contributors to this volume cover a range of cases representing African American humor across film, television, digital media, and stand-up as Black comic personas try to work within, outside, and around culture, tilling for content. Essays engage with the complex industrial interplay of Blackness, white audiences, and comedy; satire and humor on media platforms; and the production of Blackness within comedy through personal stories and interviews of Black production crew and writers for television comedy. Rolling

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLélia is the story of woman's search for meaning in life, religious certainty, and sexual fulfillment . . . it is a strangely beautiful work, remarkable for its philosophcial depth and lyric intensity and for the insight it lends to the complex character of George Sand. * New Directions for Women *Maria Espinosa's translation . . . is remarkable for coming very close to the resonant vocabulary and its extraordinary images. -- V.S. Pritchett * The New York Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisOffers a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practiceTrade Review"[Nichols'] has written a road-block of a book which reconfigures the debate on the documentary at a new level of sophistication and complexity which can only be ignored at the risk of ignoring the whole area of documentary film." -- Sight and Sound " ... the most important book on documentary film yet published." -- Canadian Journal of Film Studies "... a valuable and important book ..." -- The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

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Book SynopsisA study of Nazi heroic mythology that focuses on the dark, death-enthralled underpinnings of the German political and cultural psyche during the years 1918-45.Trade Review"In this chilling study of Nazi heroic mythology, Baird sheds a bright light on the dark, death-enthralled underpinnings of the German political and cultural psyche during the years 1918-45." Booklist "Baird blends first-rate historical reconstruction with expert cultural analysis." American Historical Review "Baird's fascinating account of Nazi heroism provides real understanding of the Nazi employment of aesthetics as politics and will be welcomed by students of twentieth-century German and European culture." The HistorianTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. The Myth of LangemarckII. The Maryrdom of Albert Leo SchlageterIII. Sacrifice at the Feldherrnhalle: The Nazi Immortals of 9 November 1923IV. Goebbels, Horst Wessel, and the Myth of Resurrection and ReturnV. The Death and Transfiguration of Hitler Youth Herbert NorkusVI. Gerhard Schumann: Elitist Poet of the Volk CommunityVII. Hans Baumann: Troubadour of the Hitler YouthVIII. Karl Ritter and the Heroic Nazi CinemaIX. Hitler, Heroes, and Heldentod: The Myth of Death in World War IIEpilogueAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFirst interdisciplinary study of the Kalevala to appear in English.Trade Review"Pentik einen's exceptional interdisciplinary study will richly reward those interested in the dynamics of artistic creation and cultural construction, ethnic emergence and political nationalism, and shamanistic belief systems." - American Anthropologist " ... a splendid contribution to the literature on folk epics ... " - The Scandinavian-American Bulletin

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Book SynopsisProvides a descriptive treatment of varieties of human memory, including recognising and reminding, reminiscing and commemorating, body memory and place memory. Bringing to light forgotten aspects of human memory - everyday occurrences as well as unusual instances - this study demonstrates that nothing in our lives is unaffected by remembering.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Book "An excellent book that provides an in-depth phenomenological and philosophical study of memory." --Choice "... a stunning revelation of the pervasiveness of memory in our lives." --Contemporary Psychology "[Remembering] presents a study of remembering that is fondly attentive to its rich diversity, its intricacy of structure and detail, and its wide-ranging efficacy in our everyday, life-world experience... genuinely pioneering, it ranges far beyond what established traditions in philosophy and psychology have generally taken the functions and especially the limits of memory to be." -- The Humanistic PsychologistTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction Remembering Forgotten: The Amnesia of AnamnesisPart One: Keeping Memory in Mind1. First Forays2. Eidetic Features3. Remembering as Intentional: Act Phase4. Remembering as Intentional: Object PhasePart Two: Mnemonic ModesPrologue5. Reminding6. Reminiscing7. RecognizingCodaPart Three: Pursuing Memory beyond MindPrologue8. Body Memory9. Place Memory10. CommemorationCodaPart Four: Remembering Re-membered11. The Thick Autonomy of Memory12. Freedom in Remembering

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Book SynopsisFeatures several women composers, performers, and patrons, musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, this book is useful for scholars, a source of programming ideas for performers, and of service to music lovers.Trade Review" ... a thorough, insightful study of the rich musical heritage created by women." N. American Music TeacherTable of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsFeminist Aesthetics1. Recovering Jouissance: Feminist Aesthetics and Music / Renée Cox LorraineAncient and Medieval Music2. Women and Music in Greece and Rome / Ann N. Michelini3. Women in Music to ca. 1450 / J. Michele EdwardsThe Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries4. Musical Women in Early Modern Europe / Karin Pendle5. Musical Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Barbara Garvey JacksonThe Nineteenth Century and the Great War6. European Composers and Musicians, ca. 1800-1890 / Nancy B. Reich7. European Composers and Musicians, 1880-1918 / Marcia Citron8. Women in American Music, 1800-1918 / Adrienne Fried Block, assisted by Nancy StewartModern Music around the Globe9. Contemporary British Composers / Catherine Roma10. Composers of Modern Europe, the Near East, Australia, and New Zealand / Karin Pendle and Robert Zierolf11. North America since ca. 1920 / J. Michele Edwards, with contributions by Leslie Lassetter12. American Popular Music in the Twentieth Century / S. Kay HokeWomen in the World of Music: Three Approaches Introduction / Robert Whitney Templeman13. Women and Music around the Mediterranean / L. JaFran Jones14. Women in the World of Music: Latin America / Robert Whitney Templeman15. American Women in Blues and Jazz / Michael J. BuddsThe Special Roles of Women16. Women's Support and Encouragement of Music and Musicians / Linda WhitesittGeneral BibliographyRecordingsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisHeidegger's engagement with religionTrade ReviewScrupulously prepared and eminently readable. What Heidegger undertakes here is nothing less than a phenomenological destruction of the history of religion. —ChoiceTable of Contents1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION2. AUGUSTINE AND NEO-PLATONISM3. THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a number of literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), the author makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. It examines fantasies by Ursula K Le Guin, John Crowley, JRR Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, and Gene Wolfe, among others.Trade ReviewThis is one of the most persuasive and well-reasoned accounts of how and why fantasy works and what its relationship is to canonical literature. -- Gary K. Wolfe

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Book SynopsisProbes into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. This book presents an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide.Trade Review"On Suicide seeks to explore the state of mind those who are suicidal. It moves beyond the science to plumb the depths and explore the contradictions of the person facing such angst... The closed and dark is seen from within and for that it is immensely moving and fascinating."--The Expository Times, May, 2000 "On Suicide seeks to explore the state of mind those who are suicidal. It moves beyond the science to plumb the depths and explore the contradictions of the person facing such angst... The closed and dark is seen from within and for that it is immensely moving and fascinating."--The Expository Times, May, 2000Table of ContentsTranslator's PrefaceTranslator's IntroductionPrefaceI. Before the LeapII. How Natural is Death?III. To Lay Hands on OneselfIV. Belonging to OneselfV. The Road to the OpenNotes

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Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the technique of world-renowned pianists from the last two centuriesTrade Review. . . [a] classic study of keyboard technique . . . . -- Patricia Stroh * Beethoven Journal *This book was eye-opening when the first edition . . . appeared, and it remains so today. . . . The new edition is somewhat enhanced with the addition of a short foreword by Alan Walker and a number of appendixes that refer the reader to specific discussion areas such as 'the aesthetic imperative, mental and psychological control, isolated movements, coordinated movements, posture,' and so on. . . . Recommended. . . . * Choice *. . . the expanded part of Gerig's book [is] so impressive that this section by itself is worth more than the price of the book. Just one of the cross-referenced ideas would be enough to spur a thesis, dissertation, or lecture-recital. . . . Scholars will not be disappointed at the array of obscure facts and hard-to-locate bibliography. Pedagogues will relish this text as an indispensable reference for their courses and daily work. Pianists will be able to constantly refer and return to their historical heritage. Gerig's book has not only withstood the test of time, but will continue to do so. * Piano Journal *For both amateurs and professionals, Professor Gerig's book is entertaining and informative reading. Serious students of the instrument should place a high priority on owning this revision and reading it from cover to cover. From Mr. Gerig's enlightening narrative we learn as much about the lives of legendary pianists and pedagogues, their performing, and their teaching as we do about piano technique. Lastly, the paperback cover keeps the cost of the volume reasonable.Vol.25.1 Winter/Spring 2009 -- Reid Alexander * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Called 'the bible of piano technique' by Maurice Hinson, this book is a comprehnsive resource for the student, teacher and professional pianist. January 7, 2011 * The Washington Times *Table of ContentsForeword by Alan WalkerPreface and Acknowledgments1. The Meaning of Technique2. The Early Clavier Methods3. The Beginnings of the Piano4. Mozart and the Early Piano Technique5. Hummel: The Culmination of the Viennese Era6. The Dynamic Beethoven Technique7. Czerny: Technique Personified8. The Early Methodology9. The Lyricism of Chopin10. Liszt and Virtuoso Technique11. The Schumann Circle12. The Beginnings of Modern Technical Methods13. The Leschetizky Influence14. Russian Nationalism15. The French School16. Breithaupt and Weight Technique17. The English School: Matthay; His Pupils and Colleagues18. Ortmann: Piano Technique Comes of Age19. Contemporary Technical Thought20. The Perspectives of an Enlightened Piano TechniqueAppendices1. The Aesthetic Imperative2. Mental and Psychological Control3. An Intellectual Grasp of Basic Technical Knowledge4. Isolated Movements5. Coordinated Movements6. Muscular Coordination7. The Kinesthetic Sense8. Posture9. Means for Specific Technical Development10. Historical Concepts and Perspectives of Piano Technical Thought11. Supplementary BibliographyBibliographyGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisThe New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since ""argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced"", says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca. They rely for their theory of argumentation on the twin concepts of universal and particular audiences.Trade Review". . . a readable English translation of this highly influential work in which Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca point out historical and systematic inadequacies in much of contemporary logic and methodology." —The Review of Metaphysics"It is difficult to see how any rhetorician, rhetorical critic, logician interested in verbal logic, or student of either philosophical or popular argument can claim full competence without familiarity with this work. It challenges the orthodoxies of all and suggests fresh modes of inquiry to all." —The Quarterly Journal of Speech"An important work representing the recent increase of interest in rhetorical studies among Continental scholars. . . . The interest of philosophers of the rank of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca in rhetoric marks a significant break from the influence of Ramus and Descartes upon Western philosophy's concept of reason and reasoning. An important work, highly recommended." —Choice"One of the best features of the book is that the authors have not merely described kinds of argument used in persuasive discourse, but have constantly shown how such arguments can be countered—and not merely by one's saying 'but that doesn't follow logically'. Even if we abandon the slogan 'deductive or defective' we are not required to abandon all criticism of nondeductive arguments. The non-logical has its own logic." —Mind"An important book, which should initiate re-estimation of the importance of a liberal art central to antiquity and the Renaissance, latterly eclipsed by the . . . logic of science and mathematics. . . . Dealing primarily with the written word, the authors analyze the constant and the variables in all argumentation, whether addressed to a universal audience or to one's self. Perelman claims that this work marks a break with a concept of reason which has dominated Western thought for three centuries. In 550 pages, he makes a good case for the claim." —The Key Reporter“Readers will find this volume a fascinating and firm first step toward the solution of some important philosophical problems."—Philosophy and Rhetoric

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Book SynopsisOffers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular.Trade Review“Tomás Ó Cathasaigh is that rare scholar in Celtic studies whose work has much to say not only to advanced scholars in the field but also to specialists dealing with other literatures, comparative mythologists, and undergraduates. Our understanding of medieval Irish epic and saga is immeasurably enriched by his elegant writing style, his erudition, and his wide-ranging critical eye. It is indeed a bounteous blessing, then, to have collected in this volume Ó Cathasaigh’s best, most representative, and most useful work." —Joseph Nagy, University of California, Los Angeles"A turning-point in Celtic studies occurred in 1981 when Tomás Ó Cathasaigh began a series of thematic studies of Irish sagas, starting with ‘The Theme of Lommrad.’ Now, three decades later, his ground-breaking collection of essays has been gathered together in a book. The student experience has been transformed. No essay or article on Irish sagas can be written without consulting Professor Ó Cathasaigh’s close readings. We are all in debt to him, Matthieu Boyd, and the University of Notre Dame Press." —Patrick Sims-Williams, Aberystwyth University, Wales"Tomás Ó Cathasaigh has long been known for his sensitive and superbly nuanced readings of early Irish literature. This impeccably edited collection brings together his most important articles of the past thirty years, many of which appeared originally in anthologies and periodicals not always easy to find outside Ireland. Ó Cathasaigh's deep learning and profound insights are evident on every page. This is truly a 'must-have' book both for specialists in Celtic and for all medievalists interested in vernacular culture and the intersection of native and Latin traditions." —Robin Stacey, University of Washington"To read Tomás Ó Cathasaigh’s essays gathered and ordered in this splendid volume is to explore the web of early Irish literature with a learned and witty guide. Each chapter stops at a particular point in the early Irish literary record, but the light that Ó Cathasaigh sheds on each text or theme illumines the entirety of the landscape. His close attention to the nuances of language and his finely tuned sense of social relationships in medieval Ireland are but two of the qualities that make Ó Cathasaigh perhaps the most skilled reader that early Irish literature has ever had. Coire Sois will be an indispensable vade mecum for generations of students and scholars to come." —Catherine McKenna, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University“This book is a credit to its editor, publisher, and (above all) to its author, whose perceptive interpretations and civilized discussions lead the reader to an appreciation of the breadth of early Irish saga literature. It is a book that can and should be read by all those who seek insight into the literature and culture of medieval Ireland.” —breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies“This is a book that should be acquired by anyone who is concerned with the study of early Irish literature . . . . This is a very special book, indeed, its sum greater than its already outstanding parts.” —Parergon“This collection of essays, originally published between 1976 and 2011, reflects the life’s work of one of the most perceptive and subtle readers of early Irish literature of the last fifty years . . . . Ó Cathasaigh’s expository style, his close reading of a wide range of texts, and the enduring authority of these essays certainly does provide the reader with a lucid guide to some of the most important debates and texts in the field.” —SHARP News“Ó Cathasaigh’s work combines aspects of the traditional philological and etymological studies of early Irish myth and saga with interpretations of these works as literary works in their own right. Ó Cathasaigh is an excellent guide through the complexities of early Irish literature, whether it be on general issues such as he addresses his essays on The Semantics of síd, The Concept of the Hero in Early Irish Literature, and Early Irish Literature and Law, or more specific themes, such as ‘Cath Maige Tuired’ as Exemplary Myth, Mythology in ‘Táin Bó Cúailgne’, and The Rhetoric of ‘Fingal Rónáin’.” —Fabula

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