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Penn State University Dynamic Matter Transforming Renaissance Objects Cultural Inquiries in English Literature 14001700
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Penn State University The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson
Book SynopsisExplores the work of professional blues musician Lonnie Johnson, demonstrating how his recorded works reveal lyrical and musical themes that call into question critical assumptions about the genre.Trade Review“With an impressive command of primary and secondary literature, including archival materials, The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson makes an original contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarly work that seeks to understand music’s connection to politics, society, and ethnicity. Simon’s work is subtle and sophisticated.”—Charles Hersch,author of Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity“A scrupulously researched, exceedingly well-written, and deeply insightful work of original scholarship. Surprisingly, there is very little written about Johnson; Simon’s book thus fills a giant hole in the literature on American jazz, blues, and popular music from the first part of the twentieth century.”—Andrew Berish,author of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s“[A]n engaging and informative read for the hobbyist and novices to the history of blues music.”—Monica F. Ambalal Journal of Jazz Studies
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Pennsylvania State University Press Reading Mennonite Writing
Book SynopsisExamines Mennonite fiction, poetry, film, and criticism from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Trade Review“Reading Mennonite Writing is an exciting, daring book that anyone interested in North American literary studies should read.”—Daniel Shank Cruz Ancillary Review of Books“This book establishes Zacharias’s position as the next generation’s leader in the field, even as it recognizes his predecessors.”—Julia Spicher Kasdorf The Mennonite Quarterly Review“Robert Zacharias demonstrates a truly impressive knowledge of the history of Mennonite publishing and reception. Extremely well read in a wide variety of Mennonite literary genres—what he terms a minor literature—he does valuable work in positioning this literature as fully engaged with transnational concerns and in attending to forgotten or neglected works within the field, while simultaneously positioning them alongside better- or well-known texts.”—Grace Kehler,McMaster University
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Penn State University Combating Hate A Framework for Direct Action Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
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Pennsylvania State University Press Milton Materialism and Embodiment One First
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Pennsylvania State University Press Religion Around Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisExamines the historical, cultural, and religious context of the life and work of German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).Trade Review“What this book adds to the vast literature on Benjamin is more than a tremendously learned and carefully crafted examination of contexts and intersecting dynamics of religion, culture, and politics that influence him. . . . Zooming in on continuing forms of religiosity usually obscured by the dominant narrative of secularization, Britt provides an original perspective—and undertakes a rescue project in its own right.”—Doris McGonagill Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature“An excellent sourcebook for students and readers of Benjamin coming at his life and writing for the first time. Almost every source that could be called ‘religious’ or ‘religion’ in circles close to him, circles he may have crossed, and circles far from him is given a nod.”—Paul North,author of The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation“This book is an excellent case study for the fate of modern religion at the crossroad of social practice and personal experience. Depicting the rich and diverse religious landscape it reveals new perspectives on an epoch that is still central for our critical thought. It stresses the importance of religion for intellectual history, in particular of those small religious practices that Britt's careful reconstructions bring back to life.”—Daniel Weidner,author of Bibel und Literatur um 1800“Britt’s book elegantly navigates the different expressions of religion that surrounded Benjamin’s writing and life. This rigorous work manages to bring together his engagement with religious ideas, metaphors, practices and influences, shedding new light on some of Benjamin’s most renowned ideas. Going both with and against Benjamin, Britt draws a compelling and illuminating account.”—Ilit Ferber,author of Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language
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Penn State University The Living from the Dead Disaffirming Biopolitics
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Penn State University The Living from the Dead
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Pennsylvania State University Press Notes on Footnotes Annotating EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers and users of explanatory annotations.Trade Review“This collection synthesizes key issues of scholarly annotation for the first time, not by providing a single definitive set of rules and procedures but by setting out the broad spectrum of considerations that should be in the minds of editors (and publishers). It is by far the most comprehensive treatment of these issues to date and thus fills a long-felt want.”—Pat Rogers,author of Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne“Every single essay in Notes on Footnotes is not just readable but entertaining, not just learned but intelligent, not just well-argued but compelling. This will be a book with appeal far beyond fellow-editors; it will make eager annotators of us all.”—Cynthia Wall,author of Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque“A really fascinating look at a subject that few have given more than a passing thought to, Notes on Footnotes is a worthy addition to your bookshelf.”—Cliff Cunningham Sun News Austin
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Penn State University A Constellation of Authority
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Pennsylvania State University Press Rhetoric in Debt RSA Series in Transdisciplinary
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between rhetoric and debt, arguing that they are fundamentally entangled in producing and disciplining who is deemed worthy of credit and how debt materializes differentially: as a credit to some and condemnation of others. Trade Review“To those interested in affect studies, this book offers an original application of two concepts: stickiness and circulation. To those interested in debt, this study offers a close analysis of how indebted subjectivity is created through everyday assumptions and rhetorical artifacts. Rhetoric in Debt gets to the granular level, explaining not only how indebted subjectification happens but also how we might look for indebted subjectification in other places. To those interested in the rhetoric of economics, this book offers a new topic and a fresh analytical method.”—Mark Garrett Longaker,author of Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue: Capitalism and Civil Society in the British Enlightenment
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Penn State University The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha
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Penn State University Sound Tactics
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Penn State University Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Romans and Barbarians The Decline of the Western
Book SynopsisThis text presents the fall of the Roman Empire from the barbarians perspective. Aimed at students of the late Roman Empire, of early Germanic history and society and the early medieval history of the Mediterranean area, the book is an attempt to penetrate the minds and attitudes of the barbarians.Trade Review"Romans and Barbarians can and should be recommended to students of the late Roman Empire, of early Germanic history and society, and of the early medieval history of the Mediterranean area and of western and central Europe.... Thompson himself points out that very rarely if ever can we penetrate into the minds and attitudes of the barbarians whom we are trying to understand. In this and other writings. Thompson has come as close to achieving this ideal as anyone is likely to." - Welden A. Ernest, German Studies Review
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Chemical Demonstrations Volume One A Handbook
Book SynopsisThis work offers useful practical advice for teachers of chemistry.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Ulysses The Mechanics of Meaning
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Spanish Catholicism An Historical Overview
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs
Book SynopsisA collection of essays addressing the role of rhetoric for inquiries of all kinds in various disciplines, ranging from sociology and political science, through anthropology and psychology, to mathematics and economics. It also explores communications in women's issues, religion and law.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Kingdoms of the Yoruba
Book SynopsisThe twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. The third edition of this history of the Yoruba, described as a ""minor classic"", has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin War and Diplomacy in PreColonial West Africa
Book SynopsisThis study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith addresses outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition and the establishment of colonies.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Sharing the Dance Contact Improvisation and
Book SynopsisContact improvization is an underground, experimental movement in modern dance, that captures artistic and social forces in transition. This book considers the development of this dance form within its historical, social and cultural contexts.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Chemical Demonstrations Volume Four A Handbook
Book SynopsisThis volume demonstrates clock reactions, batteries, electrolytic cells, and plating. All demonstrations are in the format used in previous volumes: brief description, materials list, preparation procedures, instructions for presentations, information about potential hazards.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThe Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana. The large body of scholarship on Hausa society has assumed the subordination of women to men. This work challenges the notion that Hausa women are pawns in a patriarchal Muslim society.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Livin the Blues Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet
Book SynopsisA portrait of Frank Marshall Davis, prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene in the 1920s through the 1940s. Davis was an intimate of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright and an influential editor at a number of American newspapers.Trade Review"Adds a fearless new voice to the Black Renaissance." - Kirkus Reviews; "Both a social commentary and intellectual exploration into African American life in the twentieth century." - Charles Vincent, Atlanta History
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Spains First Democracy The Second Republic 193136
Book SynopsisPayne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a consistent and detailed interpretation, demonstrating striking parallels to the German Weimar Republic.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Conversos Inquisition and the Expulsion of the
Book SynopsisIn this work, Norman Roth traces the chain of events that led to mass conversions of Spanish Jews to Christianity in the 14th and 15th centuries, the rise of animosity against them, the establishment of the Inquisition, and, finally, the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Game of Death in Ancient Rome Arena Sport and Political Suicide
Book SynopsisOffering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A History of Fascism 1914 1945
Book SynopsisLooks at fascist movements around the world, focusing on Mussolini's dictatorship and Hitler's Nazi regime, and argues that Lenin's political model is responsible for fascist practices and institutions.Trade Review“Likely to be the definitive study of its subject for a considerable time.”—New York Times Book Review
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Boyhood Growing Up Male A Multicultural Anthology
Book SynopsisThis volume chronicles the road to manhood through the personal narratives and poems of writers from around the world. Contributors include Shepherd Bliss, Robert Bly, Edward Field, John Gilgun, Fred Wei-han Ho, Terry A. Kupers, Rakesh Ratti, John Silva, Malidoma P. Some, and Sy Safransky.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Theatre of the Holocaust v. 2 Six Plays
Book SynopsisThis second volume of ""The Theatre of the Holocaust"", when combined with the first, represents an international collection of plays on the Shoah. Editor Skloot presents and comments on six plays that acknowledge the theatrical forms of the postmodern age.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Virginia Woolfs Women
Trade Review"Vanessa Curtis's portrait of Woolf, her family, and her friends is quite compelling. What I found most distinctive is Curtis's fine appreciation of the emotional tissue that connected Woolf to the women who loved her. . . Using diaries and letters, Curtis illuminates these varied relationships."—Lynn K. Talbot, Roanoke College, coauthor of Living at the Edge
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Friend of Kissinger A Novel
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Tieta The Americas
Book SynopsisBanished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after 26 years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development.Trade ReviewLusty . . . strenuous comedy . . . Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist." —New York Times
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Eternal Paddy Irish Identity and the British
Book SynopsisDrawing on more than 90 newspapers, this is a detailed analysis of British press coverage of Ireland over the course of the 19th century. It traces the evolution of popular understandings and proposed solutions to the ""Irish question,"" focusing particularly on the interrelationship between the press, the public, and the politicians.Trade Review"An island, a social state, a race is to be changed" - Times, London, October 7, 1846; "The standard of scholarship is high, combining breadth and depth of analysis with an acute eye for detail." - Roger Swift, Chester College, United Kingdom"
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Sor Juanas Love Poems
Book SynopsisThese love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the 17th-century nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. In this volume they are translated into the idiom of our own time by poets Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Harriet Tubman The Life and the Life Stories
Book SynopsisJean Humez's comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both an important biographical overview based on extensive new research and a complete collection of the stories Tubman told about her life - a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources.Trade Review"The definitive scholarly work." - Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University "Presented as a chronology of her life, these materials paint a far more vivid portrait than any biographer's account." - New York Times Book Review; "An excellent resource for students as well as for the general reader." - Black Issues Book Review; "An invaluable resource for understanding the real Harriet Tubman." - Library Journal"
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin How to Learn More in Less Time
Book SynopsisThe Study Smart Series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Countering the Counterculture Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera
Book SynopsisRebelling against bourgeois vacuity, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Juxtaposing them with Chicano rationalists and Mexican migrant writers, this text offers a challenge to this view and uncovers reactionary strains in the Beats' vision.Trade ReviewA fresh and compelling perspective on social dissent in postwar America. - Albert Gelpi, Stanford University; ""A totally original and brilliant revision of American cultural studies and Chicano studies."" - Jose E. Limon, University of Texas at Austin
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Limits to Interpretation The Meanings of Anna
Book SynopsisVladimir E. Alexandrov advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach designed to minimize the circularity of interpretation inherent in the act of reading. He illustrates this method with the example of Tolstoy's classic novel, Anna Karenina, via a detailed “map” of the different possible readings that the novel can support.Trade ReviewA major contribution to Tolstoy studies. ... Essential."" - Choice""I find this book particularly attractive because it is rooted in formalist and structuralist theory, skeptical about both the premises and the results of much (especially American) later criticism, and respectful of the text of Anna Karenina."" - Slavic Review""Alexandrov does not insist on the resolution of the novel's basic contradictions but leaves it to his reader what to make of Anna Karenina: a work whose tumult of meanings ultimately undoes it or makes it mysterious and rich, like life."" - Modern Philology
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration
Book SynopsisLocated about fifty miles north of Berlin, Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Reclaiming the lost voices of the victims and the personal accounts of the survivors, this is a story of daily camp life with the women's thoughts about food, friendships, fear of sexual abuse, hygiene issues, resistance, and staying alive.Trade ReviewSaidel's goal is to make visible a previously ignored aspect of women's Holocaust history.... In bringing to light the experiences of the women of Ravensbruck concentration camp, Saidel adds to our knowledge of Jewish survival in the genocidal conditions created by the Nazis. - Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Women's Review of Books ""Thanks to Rochelle Saidel's sensitive interviews and meticulous research, together with the many previously unpublished photographs and haunting drawings by the inmates, this book will increase public recognition of Ravensbruck's victims and survivors. With this, The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp takes its honorable place in the growing genre of gender study of the Holocaust."" - Eetta Prince-Gibson, Jerusalem Post ""Brings to light for the first time the stories of the Jewish women who were imprisoned in Ravensbruck."" - Ruth Almog, Haaretz
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University of Wisconsin Press Spectral America Phantoms and the National
Book SynopsisFrom essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Controversies in Science and Technology v. 1 From Maize to Menopause
Book SynopsisWritten for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from scientists and experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Giant George Stevens a Life on Film
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Jews and Other Germans Civil Society Religious Diversity and Urban Politics in Breslau 18601925
Book SynopsisProbes the parameters of Jewish integration in the half century between the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the early Weimar Republic. This book revises the chronology of anti-Semitism in Germany, showing that Jews only began to experience exclusion from Breslau's social world during World War I.Trade ReviewA pathbreaking book in German-Jewish history. - David Sorkin, author of The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 ""This sophisticated and original work traces new paths through German-Jewish and general German history in the imperial period. May anglophone historians follow van Rahden's lead."" - William W. Hagen, Social History
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers Folk Traditions of Michigans Upper Peninsula
Book SynopsisRemote and rugged, Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been home to a rich variety of indigenous peoples and Old World immigrants. This book presents and ponders the folk narratives of the region's loggers, miners, lake sailors, trappers, and townfolk.Trade ReviewAn important re-introduction of an American folklore classic. - Carl Lindahl, University of Houston ""A collection of traditions, tales, superstitions, practices, and folk biographies that range from the slyly humorous to the bawdy.... These are human beings, a folk, not sitting for a portrait, but caught alive as it were in fine amber, a permanent possession."" - Thelma G. James, Journal of American Folklore
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin United Artists v. 1 19191950 The Company Built
Book SynopsisUnited Artists was a unique motion picture company in the history of Hollywood. Providing the history of United Artists from 1919 through 1951, this title chronicles the company's struggle for survival, its rise to prominence as the Tiffany of the industry, and its near extinction in the 1940s.Trade ReviewA book of distinct value to all who have a serious interest in the history of motion pictures. - Ben Irwin, Los Angeles Times ""Exhaustive research conveyed in bright prose.... A particular strength is the psychological insight gained into the personality of the principals of the boardroom."" - The Hollywood Reporter
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Amazons of the Huk Rebellion Gender Sex and
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