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Cambridge University Press African Military Politics in the Sahel
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£80.75
Cambridge University Press Food in Ancient China
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£17.00
Cambridge University Press Chinas Gambit
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£80.75
Cambridge University Press Food in Ancient China
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Circling the Square
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Penguin Publishing Group Bending Adversity Japan and the Art of Survival
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Penguin Putnam Inc Capital
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Penguin Books Canada Ltd Party of One
Book SynopsisIn time for the federal election that promises to be a referendum on Stephen Harper's tenure, Party of One is a scathing look at the majority government of a prime minister determined to remake Canada. In Party of One, investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Stephen Harper's policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political principles and his practices. He argues that Harper is more than a master of controlling information; he is a profoundly anti-democratic figure. In the F-35 debacle, the government's sin wasn't only in keeping the facts from Canadians, it was in inventing them. He illustrates how Harper has made war on every independent source of information in Canada since coming to power. H
£18.00
Random House Australia Rusted Off Why Country Australia Is Fed Up
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Book of American Poetry
Book SynopsisFeaturing the work of more than 200 poets, and including a head note introducing each author, this is an anthology of American poetry. It is suitable for interested in American literature.Trade Reviewa magnificent feat of book publishing...splendid book Gerald Dawe, Irish Times
£38.93
The University of Chicago Press Yayas Story The Quest for WellBeing in the World
Book SynopsisOffers a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, this title tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being.Trade Review"Yaya's Story is not only highly original, it is emotionally engaging and profound. Stoller reveals the tensions between the yearning for meaningful relationships in Niger and the clinical care afforded by New York City. In so doing he demonstrates just how complex is the creation of well-being in the modern world. This is a truly remarkable book by a most gifted storyteller." (A. David Napier, author of Making Things Better)"
£80.00
University of Chicago Press Harlemworld Doing Race and Class in Contemporary
Book SynopsisMany experts believe that black America consists of two geographically distinct populations: a neglected underclass living in urban poverty, and a middle class of graduates and professionals. Through fieldwork and interviews with denizens of Harlem, this book aims to explode these presumption.
£35.87
University of Chicago Press Restless Nation
Book SynopsisIn this work, the author discovers that the American character is full of paradoxes. He states that this elusive national character can be found in Americans' faith in moving. He portrays this character through the lives of America's famous and not-so-famous nomads, and facts and statistics.Trade Review"Jasper's thesis... is strong and tantalizing. He does not restrict himself to a single discipline or line of argument, but dazzles readers with a stunning combination of literary critique, cultural analysis and economic estimation." - Publishers Weekly "Jasper travels across the American psyche to explore our unique infatuation with movement and personal reinvention.... To the author, this undergirds the cult of individualism as well as conservative, antigovernment politics in America.... The fluidity contributes to the dynamism of U.S. society but ensures a weak sense of community.... Restless Nation is an engaging essay on why we move so much." - Library Journal
£32.81
The University of Chicago Press Kinshasa in Transition Womens Education
Book SynopsisKinshasa is now the second largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa, with a population around five million. The authors trace the impact on women's lives of social, economic and demographic changes that have resulted from the rapid expansion of the city.
£59.18
The University of Chicago Press Infamous Desire
Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press An Amorous History of the Silver Screen Shanghai
Book SynopsisIllustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.Trade Review"An Amorous History of the Silver Screen will be an instant classic. This lively yet rigorous work of original scholarship reconfigures the field of Chinese silent cinema. It constitutes an exciting new work at the cutting edge of the emergent transnational field of Chinese cinema studies." - Chris Berry, editor of Chinese Films in Focus"
£999.99
Vintage Canada The Moral Lives of Israelis Reinventing the Dream
Book SynopsisThe Moral Lives of Israelis explores the last ten years of life in Israel, a sixty-one-year-old country that has never not been in a state of war. The last words given to David Berlin by his father, a Sabra who had fought for Israel's independence, were not words of love for his son and his grandchildren, but this command: Look after my little country. These words set off a huge voyage of exploration and remembrance for Berlin. The result is a thrilling blend of memoir, reportage and original thinking on the place of Israel in the world. The fundamental question that floats over every page of this passionate book is, with so many missteps and in a region deeply fraught with antagonism, racism and misunderstanding, how can Israel move forward? After many dead ends and twists and turns, it is the nineteenth-century visionary father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who ultimately sparks Berlin's dream for Israel in the twenty-first century--i
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Random House Canada Dont Panic
Book SynopsisIt took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called Islamic State into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist extremists? With the rise of ISIS, a new style of terrorism that publicly gloats over acts of extreme cruelty has reawakened the fears of the global audience. But in Don't Panic, Gwynne Dyer argues that the advent of Islamic State and its clones does not substantially raise the risk of major terrorist attacks in Western countries. It does, however, pose a grave threat to the Arab countries of the Middle East. In Don't Panic, Dyer first explains why the Middle East has become the global capital of terrorism. He then examines how terrorist organisations in the Arab world have evolved over time, with particular emphasis on the events of
£14.61
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Tombstone
Book SynopsisThe much-anticipated definitive account of China''s Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China''s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early ''60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as the three years of natural disaster. As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China''s totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest. Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. Stunni
£20.90
WW Norton & Co The Nine Lives of Pakistan
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country.Trade Review"A vivid, complex portrait of a country at a crossroads….Walsh’s writing is elegant and expressive. It does what the best foreign correspondence should: transport the reader." -- Amna Nawaz - New York Times Book Review"Walsh is an engaging guide....Nine Lives of Pakistan is an unquestionably illuminating and engaging book…an elegantly crafted memoir of a gifted journalist." -- Bilal Qureshi - Washington Post"An irresistible combination of storytelling panache and in-depth knowledge; Declan Walsh brings vividly to life characters and situations that illuminate some of the most significant phases of Pakistan’s history." -- Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire"A wonderful book which sets a new benchmark for non-fiction about the complex palace of mirrors that is Pakistan. Star New York Times foreign correspondent Declan Walsh has a rapier wit, a talent for skillfully sketched pen portraits and a sharp eye for tragedy, paradox and absurdity. With The Nine Lives of Pakistan he has produced a beautifully, lightly, fluently written book that is as profoundly nuanced as it is sharply perceptive." -- William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire"In The Nine Lives of Pakistan, Declan Walsh describes, with intellectual power and cool elegance, a much-misunderstood country. All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read [this book]." -- Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger"Captivating.... Walsh is a wonderful writer, with a gift for sketching an impression of a place, time and ambience with a few brief lines. He knows how to interweave travelogue with an account of the relentless tensions that always threaten to burst through each vignette in the book. What also shines through is the relish with which Walsh throws himself into the far corners of Pakistan, into crowds, celebrations and rites, with a drive born of fascination with the land and its people." -- Julian Borger - Guardian"If you want to read one book about contemporary Pakistan, it has to be The Nine Lives of Pakistan, an intimate yet sweeping account of Pakistan’s contemporary history. Walsh is a rare foreign correspondent who doesn’t condescend, a storyteller who lets his characters speak. Although I am familiar with most of the events and characters Walsh writes about, his retelling left me breathless." -- Mohammed Hanif, author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes"An enthralling account of Mr. Walsh’s near-decade as a correspondent." -- Tunku Varadarajan - Wall Street Journal"[A] thrilling, big-hearted book....If Walsh’s guts take him places others have not reached, his prose – vigorous, cockeyed and clear – brings it home to the reader....This is not just a book for someone wanting to find out about Pakistan, although it performs that job admirably. It is also a richly observed study of how humans respond to the extraordinary pressures of a sometimes-choking society; empathetic, but hard-nosed and never veering into hagiography." -- Memphis Barker - Telegraph"An immersive and splendidly written portrait of Pakistan….Rich with incisive historical context, astute cultural analysis, and evocative language, Walsh’s account brings Pakistan’s contradictions to fascinating life. This masterfully reported account deserves a wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
£22.79
Random House USA Inc Secondhand Time
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The University of Michigan Press The Taiwan Voter
Book SynopsisExamines the critical role ethnic and national identities play in politics, utilizing the case of Taiwan. Critiquing the conventional interpretation of politics as an ideological battle between liberals and conservatives, The Taiwan Voter demonstrates in Taiwan the party system and voters' responses are shaped by one powerful determinant of national identity - the China factor.Trade ReviewThe Taiwan Voter makes a tremendous contribution to the Taiwan literature as a culmination of nearly three decades of scholarly research of public opinion on Taiwan. It appeals to those interested in Taiwan, party identification, voting behavior, and electoral reform. Each chapter provides useful data and solid analysis with findings conveniently synthesized in the conclusion."" - Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas""This book demonstrates forcefully how identity politics dominate the political structure of Taiwan. With the current global rise of identity politics, I am confident that this volume will occupy a prominent spot in the standard voting behavior canon for at least the next generation."" - Nathan F. Batto, Academia Sinica
£31.50
The University of Michigan Press Searching for Lifes Meaning
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThe Journey. I--Don't--Believe!"" ""What Is the Meaning of Life?"" ""What Kind of Life-Style Should Youth Have?"" ""I Have Nothing"" -- The issues. Trends and Contradictions. The Third and Fourth Generations. Rural Youth in Social Metamorphosis. The Influences of Western Cultures. Epilogue.
£76.95
Random House USA Inc Between East and West
Book SynopsisIn 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia.An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia—an area defined throughout its history by colliding empires. Traveling from the former Soviet naval center of Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Black Sea port of Odessa, Anne Applebaum encounters a rich range of competing cultures, religions, and national aspirations. In reasserting their heritage, the inhabitants of the borderlands attempt to build a future grounded in their fractured ancestral legacies. In the process, neighbors unearth old conflicts, devote themselves to recovering lost culture, and piece together competing legends to create a new tradition. Rich in surprising encounters and vivid characters, Between East and West brilliantly illuminates the soul of the borderlands and the shaping power of the past.
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Penguin Putnam Inc City at the Edge of Forever
Book SynopsisAn engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los AngelesHow did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe''s supercities - with unparalleled cultural, economic, and technological reach? In City at the Edge of Forever, Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences. In its pages, modernist architecture and lifestyle capitalism come together via a surfer girl named Gidget; Joan Didion''s yellow Corvette is the brainchild of a car-crazy Japanese-American kid interned at Manzanar; and the music of the Manson Family segues into the birth of sci-fi fandom.One of the book''s innovations is to brand Los Angeles as the alchemical city. Earth became real estate when the Yankees took control in the nineteenth century. Fire fueled the city''s early explosive
£16.20
Random House USA Inc Blowout Corrupted Democracy Rogue State Russia
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today.”—The New York Times Book Review In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, revolutionaries in Ukraine raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the u
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Random House USA Inc Arab and Jew
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Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. Ramp Hollow
Book SynopsisShort-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee ownersincluding George Washington and other founderswho laid claim to the region. Even as Daniel Boone became famous as a backwoods hunter and guide, the economy he represented was already in peril. Within just a few decades, Appalachian hunters and farmers went from pioneers to pariahs, from heroes to hillbillies, in the national imagination, and the area was locked into an enduring association with poverty and backwardness. Stoll traces these developments with empathy and precision, examining crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion, the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating scramble for Appalachia.At the center of Ramp Hollow is Stoll's sensitive portrayal of Appalachian homesteads. Perched upon ridges and tucked into hollows, they combined small-scale farming and gardening with expansive foraging and hunting, along with distilling and trading, to achieve self-sufficiency and resist the dependence on cash and credit arising elsewhere in the United States. But the industrialization of the mountains shattered the ecological balance that sustained the households. Ramp Hollow recasts the story of Appalachia as a complex struggle between mountaineers and profit-seeking forces from outside the region. Drawing powerful connections between Appalachia and other agrarian societies around the world, Stoll demonstrates the vitality of a peasant way of life that mixes farming with commerce but is not dominated by a market mind-set. His original investigation, ranging widely from history to literature, art, and economics, questions our assumptions about progress and development, and exposes the devastating legacy of dispossession and its repercussions today.
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University of Arizona Press The U.S.Mexico Transborder Region
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Tangled Roots of Feminism Environmentalism
Book SynopsisContemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development.Trade Review“In examining the ‘tangled roots’ of ecological feminism, the author brings together a wealth of primary materials—archival documents such as journals, photographs, letters, and diaries and marginalized published work.… [T]he archival work is superb, and the modeling of feminist methodology is admirable.… Summing up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *Only a superficial observer could fail to understand that the mountain people really love the wilderness—love it for its beauty, for its freedom. * The Spirit of the Mountains *“Engelhardt’s book is readable, engaging, provocative...a notable contribution to the cultural history of Appalachia.”
£57.90
MJ - Ohio University Press Red White Black and Blue
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking approach to studying not only cultural linguistics but also the cultural heritage of a historic time and place in America. It gives witness to the issues of race and class inherent in the way we write, speak, and think.Trade Review“An extremely accessible and compelling work.” * Journal of Appalachian Studies *
£49.27
MJ - Ohio University Press Teller Tales Histories
Book Synopsis“All my work fits in my mouth,” Jo Carson says. “I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other characters’ voices … they are first to be spoken aloud.”Trade Review“Jo Carson is one of the nation’s premier playwrights and storytellers. Her roots as a writer reach back to the American traditional narrative styles, and her dramatic works drawn from American frontier history are brilliant in their originality.”“Jo Carson is one of Appalachia’s most gifted and original playwrights.” * Journal of Appalachian Studies *“Carson deftly leads the Teller Tales audience through the thicket, occasionally and suddenly bringing us out into a linguistic clearing before plunging us back into the laurel. This narrative inventiveness makes reading Teller Tales an exhilarating experience.” * Appalachian Journal *“This work is not a standard history text. Instead, it is an engaging, almost poetic, pair of narratives that relate historic events told as though the reader is a guest at a kitchen table. Perfect as an easy supplemental read for high school or college history classes, or for any history buff.”
£31.96
MJ - Ohio University Press Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of
Book SynopsisStories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music is a treasury of American traditional music and Ohio’s folklife heritage.TravelingTrade Review“Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection is an excellent introduction to Grimes’s fieldwork as well as a tribute to some wonderful and diverse singers from the Buckeye State who have contributed to a facet of culture which this country prides itself on: American folk music.” * Appalachian Journal *“I love this book. It captures Anne Grimes’ spirit and presents her work in a way she would have been proud of; not surprisingly, since her children who have assembled it were engaged in her work. The body of materials presented here includes a wide variety of folksong materials from a number of different traditions, and will be of interest to scholars, collectors, performers, and students of Ohio history and culture. The photographs provide an extremely valuable complement to the descriptive text and song lyrics.”“Anne Grimes was, quite obviously, a dynamo.… This book is a treasure.” * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *Anne's work lives on. What a wonderful book this is. I'm proud to be a part of it.“Every lover of folk music owes Anne Grimes and her daughters an incalculable debt…. Most of the text of the book consists of first-hand descriptions of many of her informants, their lives and worlds, and their music. It makes wonderful reading, and demonstrates the richness that has been added to our knowledge of folk music as collecting has moved from text to context…. dulcimer lovers, you must get this book and its accompanying record. Get it today!” * Dulcimer Player’s News *“The book and CD are a rich collection of stories by Grimes and the songs of (mostly) her Ohio neighbors, a vivid indication that ballad collecting could lead to such a rich trove in a northern state in the mid-20th Century.” * Sing Out! *“Those interested in the history of American folk music and the history of Ohio will find the volume a rich source of information.” * Choice *“The ways in which (Anne Grimes) describes her fieldwork experiences and relationships with her contributors reveal her sensitive, caring nature as well as her emotional investment in the music itself…. This book is evidence that such a personal identification can lead to a lifetime of outstanding and irreplaceable ethnographic work.” * Journal of Folklore Research *“Among the great pioneers of folklore and song collecting in the United States, it is easy to overlook more modest folks who captured the lore of their native regions, stalwarts like Ruby Pickens Tartt in Alabama, Max Hunter and Mary C. Parler in the Ozarks, Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin in California, Mary Elizabeth Barnicle in Appalachia, Alta and Austin Fife in Utah. Add to them now another whose wisdom, whose foresight, whose love of the ‘old songs’ enriches our times with this first publication of Anne Grimes’s treasures from Ohio.”“If Ohio’s place in folksong is near to your heart, Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music will bring you hours of pleasure. If you are a scholar of rare songs or a seeker of ballads, this well-documented resource can steer you to more gems in your own backyard.” * WVXU, Cincinnati NPR *“Perhaps no one has done more to protect and preserve Ohio’s rich history of folk music than former Upper Arlington resident Anne Grimes.” * Upper Arlington News *“My experience in reading and hearing these words was like stepping into a time machine and traveling back to the mid-1900s to drop in for a relaxing afternoon with friends. I can’t recommend it highly enough.” * Dulcimer Players News, “Editor's Letter” *Anne Grimes’ book opens up a remarkable new frontier in our ongoing efforts to understand and reclaim the dulcimer’s lost history. Her successful search for both old dulcimers and traditional players in Ohio, where other researchers had scarcely bothered to look, has added a surprising and highly important chapter to the dulcimer’s fascinating story. * author of Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions *
£58.00
MJ - Ohio University Press Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of
Book SynopsisStories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music is a treasury of American traditional music and Ohio’s folklife heritage.TravelingTrade Review“Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection is an excellent introduction to Grimes’s fieldwork as well as a tribute to some wonderful and diverse singers from the Buckeye State who have contributed to a facet of culture which this country prides itself on: American folk music.” * Appalachian Journal *“I love this book. It captures Anne Grimes’ spirit and presents her work in a way she would have been proud of; not surprisingly, since her children who have assembled it were engaged in her work. The body of materials presented here includes a wide variety of folksong materials from a number of different traditions, and will be of interest to scholars, collectors, performers, and students of Ohio history and culture. The photographs provide an extremely valuable complement to the descriptive text and song lyrics.”“Anne Grimes was, quite obviously, a dynamo.… This book is a treasure.” * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *Anne's work lives on. What a wonderful book this is. I'm proud to be a part of it.“Every lover of folk music owes Anne Grimes and her daughters an incalculable debt…. Most of the text of the book consists of first-hand descriptions of many of her informants, their lives and worlds, and their music. It makes wonderful reading, and demonstrates the richness that has been added to our knowledge of folk music as collecting has moved from text to context…. dulcimer lovers, you must get this book and its accompanying record. Get it today!” * Dulcimer Player’s News *“The book and CD are a rich collection of stories by Grimes and the songs of (mostly) her Ohio neighbors, a vivid indication that ballad collecting could lead to such a rich trove in a northern state in the mid-20th Century.” * Sing Out! *“Those interested in the history of American folk music and the history of Ohio will find the volume a rich source of information.” * Choice *“The ways in which (Anne Grimes) describes her fieldwork experiences and relationships with her contributors reveal her sensitive, caring nature as well as her emotional investment in the music itself…. This book is evidence that such a personal identification can lead to a lifetime of outstanding and irreplaceable ethnographic work.” * Journal of Folklore Research *“Among the great pioneers of folklore and song collecting in the United States, it is easy to overlook more modest folks who captured the lore of their native regions, stalwarts like Ruby Pickens Tartt in Alabama, Max Hunter and Mary C. Parler in the Ozarks, Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin in California, Mary Elizabeth Barnicle in Appalachia, Alta and Austin Fife in Utah. Add to them now another whose wisdom, whose foresight, whose love of the ‘old songs’ enriches our times with this first publication of Anne Grimes’s treasures from Ohio.”“If Ohio’s place in folksong is near to your heart, Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music will bring you hours of pleasure. If you are a scholar of rare songs or a seeker of ballads, this well-documented resource can steer you to more gems in your own backyard.” * WVXU, Cincinnati NPR *“Perhaps no one has done more to protect and preserve Ohio’s rich history of folk music than former Upper Arlington resident Anne Grimes.” * Upper Arlington News *“My experience in reading and hearing these words was like stepping into a time machine and traveling back to the mid-1900s to drop in for a relaxing afternoon with friends. I can’t recommend it highly enough.” * Dulcimer Players News, “Editor's Letter” *Anne Grimes’ book opens up a remarkable new frontier in our ongoing efforts to understand and reclaim the dulcimer’s lost history. Her successful search for both old dulcimers and traditional players in Ohio, where other researchers had scarcely bothered to look, has added a surprising and highly important chapter to the dulcimer’s fascinating story. * author of Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions *
£36.27
University of Exeter Press New Arabian Studies Volume 6
Book SynopsisNew Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.Trade Review Table of Contents
£88.47
University of Exeter Press Cornish Studies Volume 10 Cornish Studies Ten
Book SynopsisThe tenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.Trade Review 'Congratulations are due to Professor Philip Payton, the Institute of Cornish Studies and University of Exeter Press on this, the tenth volume in the series Cornish Studies. Its publication marks an important milestone in the development of Cornish Studies as an area of academic activity. Over the last decade or so we have seen the emergence of an energetic 'new' Cornish Studies, which has sought to engage with major scholarly debates such as those surrounding 'Britishness', 'Celticity', identity, gender, the politics of the periphery, language revival, and ethnicity and emigration. Often courageous and always innovative, these new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to studying Cornwall and the Cornish have allowed Cornish Studies to escape the narrow confines of 'English local history' to embrace what have been termed the 'new Cornish historiography' and the 'new Cornish social science'. Nowhere has this been more evident than within the pages of Cornish Studies itself, the series becoming a showcase for the latest and best Cornish work as well as placing consideration of Cornwall and the Cornish very firmly within the wider context of the 'Atlantic Archipelago'. (Professor Máiréad Nic Craith, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster) 'The outcome and intention has been to place Cornwall squarely in new debates about the nature of 'Britishness' and the territorial identities' (Western Morning News) '. . . essential reading for any ‘student of Cornwall’' (Cornish Studies Six Cornish Forefathers Society, April 1999) ‘Its tenth anniversary edition, now out from the University of Exeter Press, essentially seeks to define where “New Cornish Studies” has travelled over the past decade and where it ought to be travelling in the decade to come.’ (Cornish Studies Ten, Western Morning News, February 2003) ‘The outcome and intention has been to place Cornwall squarely in new debates about the nature of “Britishness” and the territorial identities’ (Cornish Studies Ten, Western Morning News, February 2003) Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The New Cornish Studies: New Discipline or Rhetorically Defined Space? Bernard Deacon 3. The New Cornish Social Science, Malcolm Williams 4. On Ideology, Identity and Integrity, Colin H. Williams 5. Cornish Archaeology at the Millennium, Charles Thomas 6. Looking Forward to Looking Back: The Study of Medieval History in Cornwall, Allen Buckley 7. Re-discovering Difference: The Recent Historiography of Early Modern Cornwall, Mark Stoyle 8. Industrial Celts? Cornish Identity in the Age of Technological Prowess, Philip Payton 9. Cornish Migration Studies: An Epistemological and Paradigmatic Critique, Sharron P. Schwartz 10. The Making of Modern Cornwall, 1800-2000: A Geo-Economic Perspective, Ronald Perry 11. Party, Personality and Place: Researching the Politics of Modern Cornwall, Garry Tregidga 12. Brian Elvins and Nineteenth-Century Cornish Electoral Politics, Edwin Jaggard 13. 'In Some State...': A Decade of the Literature and Literary Studies of Cornwall, Alan M. Kent 14. Cornish Studies and Cornish Culture(s): Evaluations and Directions, Amy Hale 15. Defining the Spectre: Outlining the Academic Potential of the 'CAVA Movement', Treve Crago 16. Cornish at its Millennium: An Independent Study of the Language Undertaken in 2000, Kenneth MacKinnon 17. Fatel Era Ny A Keel? Revived Cornish: Taking Stock, Neil Kennedy Notes on Contributors
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The University of Michigan Press The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto Rajasthan v. 1 2
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£105.11
The University of Michigan Press At Middle Age A Learning Guide Film Guides for
Book SynopsisThe Chinese film Rendao Zhongnian is based on Chen Rong's acclaimed novella about two women coping with the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. This edition incorporates script, vocabulary, and exercises into a single volume and includes a new section that provides a scene-by-scene description of the action using simple vocabulary.
£29.10
University of Michigan Press Under the Bridge A Study Guide for the Film Film
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£29.51
Texas Peacemaker Publications, LLC, Div of Dippel Venture Capital Corp The New Legacy
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£17.36
St Martin's Press Let There Be Water
Book SynopsisAn essential look at the unknown story of how Israel has avoided the coming water crisis despite being mostly desert.
£20.89
History Press Marthas Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties
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History Press Making Long Island
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Simon & Schuster Whats Happened to Politics
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University of Massachusetts Press Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian
Book SynopsisAn old Indian woman comforts two young white children she finds lost in the woods and lovingly carries them back to their eager parents. A frontiersman sheds tears over the grave of a Mohican youth, holding hands with the mourning father.According to Laura L. Mielke, such emotionally charged scenes between whites and Indians paradoxically flourished in American literature from 1820 to 1850, a time when the United States government developed and applied a policy of Indian removal. Although these ""moving encounters,"" as Mielke terms them, often promoted the possibility of mutual sympathy between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, they also suggested that these emotional links were inherently unstable, potentially dangerous, and ultimately doomed. At the same time, the emphasis on Indian-white sympathy provided an opportunity for Indians and non-Native activists to voice an alternative to removal and acculturation, turning the language of a sentimental U.S. culture against its own imperial impulse.Mielke details not only how such writers as James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft forecast the inevitable demise of Indian-white sympathy, but also how authors like Lydia Maria Child and William Apess insisted that a language of feeling could be used to create shared community or defend American Indian sovereignty. In this way, ""Moving Encounters"" sheds new light on a wide range of texts concerning the ""Indian Question"" by emphasizing their engagement with popular sentimental forms and by challenging the commonly held belief that all Euro-American expressions of sympathy for American Indians in this period were fundamentally insincere. While portraits of Indian-white sympathy often prompted cynical rejoinders from parodists, many never lost faith in the power of emotion to overcome the greed and prejudice fueling the dispossession of American Indians.Trade ReviewMielke's scholarship is exemplary. She shows broad knowledge of historical and literary scholarship in Native American studies and in American history and literature.... This text could be quite useful in advanced undergraduate seminars in nineteenth-century literature, and it will certainly be a must-have book for scholars in the field. - Renee Bergland, author of The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects
£32.11
Berrett-Koehler America as Empire
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Smithsonian Books The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and
Book SynopsisA former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continent is engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic.Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that cripple so many African nations, posing a provocative theory that Africans have been impoverished largely by their own leaders' abuses of power. From the minefields of Angola to the barren wheat fields of Zimbabwe, Guest gathers startling evidence of the misery African leaders have inflicted on their people. But he finds elusive success stories and examples of the resilience and resourcefulness of individual Africans, too; from these, he draws hope that the continent will eventually prosper. Guest offers choices both commonsense and controversial for Africans and for those in the West who wish Africa well.
£18.66
Other Press LLC Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline
Book Synopsis**NAMED NPR BEST BOOKS OF 2017**From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age — the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power. This shift to the East is shaping the lives of people all over the world, the fate of nations, and the great questions of war and peace. A troubled but rising China is now challenging America’s supremacy, and the ambitions of other Asian powers — including Japan, North Korea, India, and Pakistan — have the potential to shake the whole world. Meanwhile the West is struggling with economic malaise and political populism, the Arab world is in turmoil, and Russia longs to reclaim its status as a great power. As it becomes clear that the West’s historic power and influence is receding, Gideon Rachman offers a road map to the turbulent process that will define the international politics of the twenty-first century.
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