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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Hidden History African American Cemeteries in
Book SynopsisExplores the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Lynn Rainville’s research are not statesmen or plantation elites; they are hidden residents, people whose stories are essential for a complete understanding of our past.Trade ReviewRainville’s Hidden History presents a well-written, engaging, and at times truly revelatory study. Her careful research was conducted over a span of several years, which allows her observations to go beyond the superficial and the obvious. With a focus on local contexts, but deriving universal insights into history, heritage, memory, and preservation, Rainville’s work is an exemplar of the best sort of research."" — James Davidson, University of Florida""Lynn Rainville takes us on a walking tour of African American cemeteries in central Virginia. She tells us about individual lives marked by headstones, fieldstones, and depressions in the sacred spaces where they continue to be part of a living community. She tells their stories, in slavery and freedom, while walking through their cemeteries, each of which connects individuals to families, locality, and region. Even the cemetery itself has a life defended against waves of migration and development. All of these stories are richly textured with detailed information about these sites and their communities, chosen with the eye of an academic authority who writes beautifully for everyone. Traversing these juxtapositions is Rainville’s personal twenty-year journey of encounters with these enduring yet vulnerable features on the intimate historic landscape of African America in Central Virginia."" — Michael Blakey, College of William and Mary
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Slavery in the City Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America
Book SynopsisCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period.Trade Review“This is a timely collection that will redefine slavery as most Americans understand the term.” —Robert Blair st. george, University of Pennsylvania
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia What Time and Sadness Spared Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust
Book SynopsisRoma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. What Time and Sadness Spared is a journey of both loss and endurance, moving with shocking speed from a carefree adolescence in upper-middle-class Warsaw to the horrors of the Final Solution.
£19.88
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Higher Calling
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Women Fight Women Write
Book SynopsisIn her gripping study of unsung female narratives of the Algerian War, Mildred Mortimer excavates and explores the role of women's individual and collective memory in recording events of the violent anticolonial conflict.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Road to Charleston
Book SynopsisBy the time the British evacuate Charleston - and Greene and his ragged, malaria-stricken, faithful Continental Army enter the city in triumph - the reader has witnessed in telling detail one of the most punishing campaigns of the Revolution, culminating in one of its greatest victories.Trade ReviewUsing primary sources along with historian analysis, Buchanan presents a lively chronicle of the arduous fight of the Americans to reclaim Georgia and the Carolinas…. With a colorful cast of characters...[t]his engaging read for military and American history enthusiasts provides an in-depth review and argument for the criticality of Greene’s contribution to American Independence." - author of Library Journal ""Outstanding-easily the best in the literature on the subject. Buchanan argues persuasively that human agency is as vital a factor in war as chance, and that Greene’s decisions, both good and bad, were critical in the eventual American success in the southern theater. His book is military history at its best." - Mark Edward Lender, Kean University, coauthor of Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle "Written in the same lively, engaging style as his prior "Road to" books on the American Revolution, Jack Buchanan's The Road to Charleston will likewise become essential reading for anyone interested in the Revolution's Southern Campaign. The author does not shy from taking an opinionated stand (always well supported) on controversial or long disputed issues, such as the Waxhaws massacre, the Siege of Ninety Six, and--in a particularly masterful chapter--the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the most important of Nathanael Greene's South Carolina engagements. What emerges is a vivid portrait of Greene--"a great and good man" who, through genius and persistence, drove the British from Charleston." - John Oller, author of The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution and American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague--Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal "The Road to Charleston stands as an imposing sequel to Buchanan's classic earlier works on the American Revolutionary War. This authoritative and engaging volume represents a magisterial study. Must read history at its very best." - James Kirby Martin, University of Houston, author of Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered "The story of Yorktown and of Lord Cornwallis’s surrender there in October 1781 is one that most of us know.... The part of the story many Americans don’t know is that the Revolutionary War dragged on for another year and three months, more or less, with a lot more fighting in the South, where the British continued to do battle in the hope that Americans who remained loyal to the crown would join them in putting down the rebellion..... John Buchanan chronicles this post-Yorktown period of the war in The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution, and it is a chilling tale." - author of Wall Street Journal "[A] thoughtful and reasoned approach essential to producing quality historical scholarship.... Readers will not be disappointed with this book. In both style and substance, John Buchanan produced a wonderfully written account of the Southern theater worthy of the discriminating reader." - author of Journal of the American Revolution "Buchanan’s tone of familiarity and interpretive commentary on the events and historical personages involved reveal his erudition and thoughtful reflections on the many primary sources used.... This is a readable scholarly narrative history, including portraits and maps, likely to arouse the interest of students and general readers." - author of CHOICE "Pack such information into a book combining good writing with good research and that volume's appeal is magnetic. The Road to Charleston is such a book." - author of American History Magazine " The Road to Charleston is wide-ranging, persuasive, and clever. Academic historians will... appreciate this updated treatment of the Continental Army's final major campaign. Popular audiences will also learn much from his sophisticated history." - author of The Journal of Military History "The final stages of the Revolutionary War in the southern states has been a rather neglected topic, and the author is well qualified to pen this volume. A knowledgeable historian, thorough researcher, and lively writer, Buchanan has written what is likely to remain the authoritative account of the topic. Readers will discover a captivating tale as they follow the heroic struggle for liberty on The Road to Charleston." - author of Muzzleloader "The writing style is engaging, offering vivid descriptions of the key military and political figures of the southern campaign.... For those interested in military history, and particularly the war in South Carolina, this book offers an excellent resource." - author of Journal of Southern History "Buchanan's The Road to Charleston is a military history of those grim years and of General Nathanael Greene's ultimate victory there. In this narrative, Buchanan makes a solid case for Greene (August 7, 1742-June 19, 1786) as an indispensable aid to victory in the South.... [An] absorbing account." - author of American Spirit Magazine
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Toxic Matters
Book SynopsisExplores the interplay between bodies, soil, industrial emissions, and the wealth of dynamic particulate matter that passes in between. At the same time, the book emphasizes the crucial function of narrative expression for making sense of this modern-day reality and for shifting existing power dynamics as exposed communities exercise their voices.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Age of Hubris
Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and colonial hegemony.Trade Review“Colonialism, Christianity and the Xhosa is an accessibly written and compelling synthesis that makes important contributions to several bodies of scholarship that have preoccupied generations of scholars interested in South African history as well as the intersections of empire and Christian evangelism.” - Fiona Vernal, University of Connecticut, author of The Farmerfield Mission: A Christian Community in South Africa, 1838-2008“Timothy Keegan’s book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamic interactions between the Xhosa chiefdoms and the European colonial and missionary enterprise during the first half of the nineteenth century. It explores more fully the Xhosa side of this complex history—how they encountered, rejected, or inculturated Christianity in the rapidly changing world created by European colonial and capitalist expansion. Minutely researched and written in highly accessible prose, the book is a welcome addition to the historiography of South Africa’s coastal belt and should be read eagerly by specialists and non-specialists alike.” - Jochen S. Arndt, Virginia Military Institute, author of Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa IdentitiesTable of Contents Introduction 1. The Meanings of Conversion 2. The Xhosa and their History 3. Colonial Contacts, Colonial Influences 4. The Missionaries and the Chiefs 5. Translations and Conversations 6. The Pull of the Mission 7. Moralizing Africa 8. Aftermaths and Conclusions
£39.34
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Searching for Jimmie Strother
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Sustaining the Chesapeake Environmentalism
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John Wiley & Sons The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil Volume 2
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John Wiley & Sons The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil Volume 2
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John Wiley & Sons Words Colliding
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John Wiley & Sons The Gendered Republic
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John Wiley & Sons Barbary Entanglements
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John Wiley & Sons Creating an Informed Citizenry
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John Wiley & Sons Genre Theory and Historical Change
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John Wiley & Sons Lafayette
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Wayne State University Press Bloody News from My Friend Poems by Siamanto
Book SynopsisSiamanto was one of the 250 Armenian intellectuals and leaders executed by the Turkish government at the onset of the century's first genocide. This collection of poetry depicts the atrocities committed by the Ottoman Turkish government against its Armenian population during the early-1900s.
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MI - New York University AfricanAmericans and the Quest for Civil Rights 19001990
Book SynopsisSurveys the history of African-American civil rights in the United States in the 20th century. Beginning with the period of segregation, it examines the contribution of principal figures in the movement and describes the shift in its emphasis from civil rights to Black Power and Pan-Africanism.
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MI - New York University Holocaust Theology
Book SynopsisWhere was God during the Holocaust? And where has God been since? Holocaust Theology provides a panoramic survey of the writings of more than one hundred leading Jewish and Christian thinkers on these profound theological problems.Trade Review""Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has provided a much needed and indeed "panoramic survey of Holocaust theology" (1) that offers a comprehensive overview of excerpts from representative writings in the field. Holocaust Theology: A Reader provides a fine, comprehensive overview of the interpretive possibilities."" * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *""Holocaust Theology: A Reader should prove useful as an introductory text which grapples with complex issues."" * SHOFAR *""This anthology does indeed offer a panoramic survey, and thus is a valuable contribution to Holocaust literature.]"" * The Princeton Seminary Bulletin *
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MI - New York University Daddy Grace
Book SynopsisCharles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace founded the United House of Prayer for All People in Wareham, Massachusetts, in 1919. This book examines the religious nature of the House of Prayer, the dimensions of Grace's leadership strategies, and the connections between his often ostentatious acts and the intentional infrastructure of the House of Prayer.Trade ReviewDallam has uncovered an aspect of the African American past about which we have long known too little. In doing so she has made a substantial contribution to the study of twentieth-century African American religion. Assiduously researched and carefully written, Dallams book finally elevates the scholarship on ‘Sweet’ Daddy Grace to the level of that of his rival and contemporary, Father Divine. -- Wallace D. Best,Harvard Divinity SchoolProvides significant insights for our understanding of Daddy Grace and the House of Prayer. This well-researched, clearly written text is a valuable scholarly resource for those interested in New Religious Movements, American Religion, and African American Religion. -- Sandy Dwayne Martin,author of For God and RaceThis edgy and resourceful analysis of Daddy Grace, a misunderstood yet highly significant religious luminary, expands our understanding of a critical period in the black church experience. Dallams meticulous scholarship fills in many crucial pieces and refutes longstanding inaccuracies regarding Grace's life, message, and legacy. -- Shayne Lee,author of T. D. Jakes: America's New PreacherDallam has made a major contribution to the scholarship and literature on Daddy Grace and the United House of Prayer for All People. * Choice *Dallam has done a great service in providing a detailed scholarly study of ‘Sweet Daddy’ Grace and his church. . . . A thoughtful study that should henceforth make it impossible to dismiss Grace as a ‘cult leader’ who had little religious significance in his lifetime or beyond. * Journal of American History *This useful book should promote further serious study of Grace as a religious leader and of the church he founded. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Call of God Brought Him 2 The Usual Miracles 3 Led by a Convicted Man 4 He Ousted God from Heaven 5 My Joy Is Completed in Charlotte6 Chaotic Confusion Conclusion An Essay on Sources Notes Bibliography IndexAbout the Author
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MI - New York University The Latinoa Condition A Critical Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index
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MI - New York University The American Title Insurance Industry How a Cartel Fleeces the American Consumer
Book SynopsisPresents evidence that improvements in recordkeeping over the years - particularly the advent of computers-have reduced the likelihood of a defective title going unnoticed in a property transaction. This title examines the ignored role that the federal and state governments play in perpetuating the title insurance industry's unfair practices.Trade Review[A] work that provides newly detailed history and analysis of title insurance, a little-studied industry. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword by Tom Miller List of Abbreviations Introduction: Titling America 1 Title Insurance as a For-Pro?t Business 2 Alternative Title Guarantee Models 3 Title Insurance as a Government Service 4 Title Insurance: The Legal Dimension 5 Title: The Administrative Dimension 6 Title Interest Groups 7 Title Income and Losses 8 Title Reform Is a De?nite Maybe 9 The Future of Title Insurance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors
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MI - New York University Deeper Shades of Purple
Book SynopsisWomanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. This volume explores the achievements of this movement, and evaluates some of the leading voices and different perspectives within this field.Trade ReviewA must-have collection for readers who want to see womanist theology in all of its rich purple hues. * WATERwheel *A stunningly original work that carries & womanist and & womanism to a new level of thinking. . . . It not only provides multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the womanist idea but charts path-breaking directions for religious thought, ethics, and cultural analysis. -- Cheryl Townsend Gilkes,author of If It Wasn't for the Women: Black Womens Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and CommunityAn important collection of the leading scholars in Womanist religion, ethics and theology. A must read! -- James H. Cone,Union Theological SeminaryDrawing on a wealth of womanist criticism that rekindles Walkers Womanism, this valuable collection of essays brings together a wide range of womanists and womanist perspectives from different sectors, providing readers with an excellent list of references on the theme of Womanism and womanist activities. -- Jaehwan Han * African American Review *Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas is to be commended for bringing together such a powerful group of religious scholars who practice, define, and critique womanist theoretical discourse. * Journal of African American History *An important and fine collection. . . The volume is marked by its inclusiveness of ideas and not just from the perspectives of black women * Christianity and Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Wisdom Rocked Steady [poem] Nancy Lynne WesteldIntroduction: Writing for Our LivesPart I Radical SubjectivityWhen Mama Was God [poem] 1 Structured Academic Amnesia2 From "Force-Ripe" to "Womanish/ist"3 Womanism Encounters Islam4 Standing in the Shoes My Mother MadePart II Traditional CommunalismRe?ecting\Black [poem] 5 Dancing Limbo6 Hospitality, Haints, and Healing7 Lessons and Treasures in Our Mothers' Witness8 "Mama Why ... ?" Part III Redemptive Self-LoveI've Been Mixed Like Cornbread [poem] 9 Twenty Years a Womanist: An Af?rming Challenge 10 A Womanist Journey 11 Quilting Relations with Creation12 The Sweet Fire of HoneyPart IV Critical EngagementNevertheless, in Stark Contradiction [poem] 13 Womanist Humanism14 A Thinking Margin15 The Womanist Dancing MindPart V Appropriation and ReciprocityThey Came Because of the Wailing [poem] 16 Womanist Visions, Womanist Spirit17 Lavender Celebrates Purple18 Womanists and Mujeristas, Sisters in the Struggle19 Mining the Motherlode20 What's the Theological Equivalent of a "Mannish Boy"?21 Lies above Suspicion: Being Human in Black Folk Tales22 Is a Womanist a Black Feminist? Selected Womanist Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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MI - New York University Occult Roots of Nazism
Book SynopsisThis work traces the intellectual roots of Nazism back to a number of influential occult and millenarian sects in the Hapsburg Empire during its waning years. These sects combined notions of popular nationalism with an advocacy of "Aryan" racism and a proclaimed need for German world-rule.Trade Review"If anyone still questions the power which myth exercises over the human mind, he should read The Occult Rules of Nazism." -- Anthony Storr"An extensive survey of . . . theosophy, astrology, and `ariosophy' (Aryan-racist-occult theories) . . . An intriguing study of apocalyptic fantasies." * Times Literary Supplement *
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New York University Press Lavender Culture
Book SynopsisThe reissue of this anthology serves as a provocative and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before gay life became "chic". It demonstrates the influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature, theatre, poetry, dance, music and the arts.Trade Review"To read this book is to glimpse gay culture in its first morning. . . . It offers a comprehensive and poignant overview of a very special moment in gay culture. Read it, and if you're still too macho to weep, or too insufficiently radical/feminist to scream, at least shed a tear for lost innocence." * The Advocate *
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MI - New York University Single Mother The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual
Book SynopsisDescribes the contemporary cultural valorization of the figure of the single mother that has emerged as the unlikely heroic and seductive voice of the American family. Drawing on interviews with many single mothers, and policies on welfare, childcare, and child custody, this book shows the remarkable organizing skills of these new mothers.Trade ReviewIlluminating cultural study of single motherhood. . . . [Juffer] explores the experiences of single mothers across various social and economic conditions, taking a critical look at current social policy. * Library Journal *Juffer points to a new formationthe domestic intellectualand in that gesture opens up the concept of the intellectual to a more complicated theoretical engagement. With it, she re-imagines marriage, mothering, and the spatial dynamics of private life, and returns them to a possibly radical and liberatory space. This powerful and transformative work adds to our understanding of the value of learning from ordinary life. -- Wahneema Lubiano,Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Domestic Intellectuals: Freedom and the Single Mom Part I Keyword: Everyday Life 1 Representing the Single Mom (and Watching TV with Alex) Part II Keyword: Spaces 2 The Corporate University 3 The U.S.-Mexican Border 4 Puerto Rican Chicago Part III Keyword: Ethics 5 Mothers and Sons 6 Choice Conclusion: From Identity Politics to Human Rights Notes Works Cited Index About the Author
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MI - New York University Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis Charles Williams and Graham Greene
Trade Review"A remarkable study, one that I recommend to any reader fascinated by the shaping of culture and the power of the psyche." --The Forward
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MI - New York University The Idea of the Past History Science and Practice in American Psychoanalysis
Trade ReviewCombines a clinician's shrewd understanding of the realities of psychotherapy and a scholar's pleasure in tracing the intricacies of psychoanalytic theories of explanation. In his conversational and witty style, the philosophy of social science comes to life. -- Donald J. Cohen,M.D., Director, Yale Child Study Center, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale University
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New York University Press Sex Fiends Perverts and Pedophiles Understanding
Book SynopsisInvestigates whether tough punishments for sex offenders in America are undermining public safetyTrade Review"Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophilesis an ambitious analysis of the get-tough approach to sexual offending...it is an interesting and important addition to a body of works published just this year on the legal response to sex offending." -- Mary de Young * American Journal of Sociology *"I recommend this work to several audiences...the reader who has a general interest in the erratic development and enforcement of policies on sex crimes will gain much from Leon's comprehensive historical outline of the subject...policy analysts and scholars will appreciate not only the candor and clarity that she brings to the subject, but especially the objectivity that she demonstrates in carefully presenting her research findings." -- Michael J. Bolton * Par Public Review *"This book is an interesting and informative narrative of sex offender as it emerged throughout the 20th century." -- Jill S. Levenson * Criminal Justice Review *"The central chapters of Leon's study provide an illuminating analysis of public discourse and policy change...Leon providesa very readable and erudite history of sex crime policy in the U.S. since 1930...[she] makes an original contribution on a number of fronts." -- R.P. Weiss * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Punishment Stories 2 The Sexual Psychopath Era: 1930-1955 3 The Era of Rehabilitative Debate: 1950-1980 4 Sex Offender Rehabilitation in California and How It Worked: 1950-1980 5 Sex Offender Policy in the Containment Era: 1980-Present 6 Experts and Governance: Shifting Politics and Disappearing Strategies 7 Chilling Effects 8 National Sex Offender Punishment Trends since 1920 9 Conclusion Appendix A: Research Methodology Appendix B: Timeline: Contexts of Sex Crime Policy Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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MI - New York University Female Intelligence
Book SynopsisPresents the history of the female spies who served Britain during World War I, focusing on both the powerful cultural images of the woman spy and the realities, challenges, and contradictions of intelligence service. This book interrogates contradictory constructions of gender in the competing spheres of espionage activity.Trade Review"How did women's work contribute to the propagation of war, and impact their own changing relation to the nation-state? How did women themselves, their contemporaries and popular culture represent their war work in gendered terms? Tammy Proctor addresses these significant questions in her intriguing study of women spies. As Proctor shows, women's substantial work for the developing British intelligence service belied the figure of the treacherous and seductive woman spy." -- Angela Woollacott,author of On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War"This engaging and intelligent study of women in espionage adds to our understanding of the experience of women during the First World War and of the legacy of their work, both mythic and real. Proctor carefully explores why the image of the female spy seductressnotably the iconic Mata Harihas endured and uncovers the largely unknown history of this pivotal generation of women intelligence workers." -- Susan R. Grayzel,author of Womens Identities At War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War"Retells forgotten stories and unearths new evidence of intrepid female field agents. . . . Proctors archival discoveries hint at countless small acts of audacity and defiance. . . . Thanks to books like this one, the history of female espionagefrom Aphra Behn to Elizabeth Van Lew to Lotus Blossum to Stella Rimingtonis slowly being filled out." * London Review of Books *"In Female Intelligence, Tammy Proctor attempts to rescue female spies from cliches that classed them as either sexual predators or martyred virgins, manipulators or dupes, heartless vamps or emotional basket cases." * New Yorker *"A useful and engaging history of women in the British intelligence service during World War I. The book is an important contribution to the history of British intelligence and sheds light on the unglamorous reality of a highly romanticized aspect of women's work." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContentsPreface List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Timeline Introduction 1 Intelligence before the Great War 2 DORA's Women and the Enemy within Britain 3 Women behind the Scenes4 Soldiers without Uniforms5 Spies Who Knew How to Die 6 Intimate Traf?c with the Enemy Conclusion: "Perpetual Concubinage to Your King and Country" NotesBibliography Index About the Author
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Literary Awakenings Personal Essays from the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The collection makes a strong case for the centrality of reading to human life . . . to argue for literature’s importance in an increasingly post-literate age.” —Jeff Porter, associate professor of English, University of Iowa
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John Wiley & Sons Red Shoes for Rachel
Book SynopsisThis award-winning collection of three novellas features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles. Zumoff's translation of Sandler's original Yiddish collection makes the J.I. Segal Award-winning volume available to English readers for the first time.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Race across America
Book SynopsisOn April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie ""the Sheik"" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race. Kastner traces Gardner's remarkable journey from his birth in 1897 to his success as a long-distance runner.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Mother India
Book SynopsisLiterary, lyrical, and satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and release from the sufferings of life. Narrated by Meena, a Jewish American lesbian who has claimed India as her home, the novel is vividly populated by the darkly comic universe of three generations of women.Trade ReviewRelentlessly daring and stylistically hypnotic, Mother India from its earliest passages releases imaginative floods of extravagant pageantry—the turbulent sounds and smells and colors of the Varanasi ghats seem to float up from the page to dizzy the senses. And yet bloody contemporary headlines are also in the mix: the jihadist bombing of Mumbai. In this, her newest novel—passionate and hilarious and wildly original—Tova Reich dazzlingly surpasses even herself.|Tova Reich writes like no one else I know writing today (or yesterday). She is singular and superb.|Within each surging, antic, visceral scene, rendered with ferocious specificity, Reich, on the same frequency as Cynthia Ozick, maintains the focus of a sharpshooter, targeting the power of the guru, the corruption of faith, the hubris of do-gooders, epic poverty, sexual violence, and life’s endless cycle of sorrows. Reich’s saga of family, loss, and the search for enlightenment is unrelenting in its invention, jolting clarity, dark absurdity, and deep compassion.|Sensual, satiric, and deeply reflective, Mother India is Tova Reich at her most provocative and wise. "Nobody comes to India and is not in some way changed," her main character tells us; nobody can read a Reich novel and not be utterly transformed.|Few contemporary writers are truly original. Tova Reich is one of them. Mother India is a stunning achievement.|Mother India is brilliantly allusive, boldly irreverent, and mordantly funny. Tova Reich once again lifts her woman'snaked voice, this time to situate three generations of strong-minded heroines amidst the rickshaws, ashrams and cremation pyres of Varanasi and Mumbai, home to American Jews and Israelis, firewalkers and gurus.|The endlessly brilliant and inventive Tova Reich has written a totally unexpected yet deeply characteristic novel. Mother India is the story of three generations of Israeli Jewish women in India—the imperious Ma; her daughter the gay activist Meena; and her radical activist granddaughter Maya. Each is committed to a series of quests—for a child’s admission to a good college, for a good death, for a lost daughter, for spiritual release—in which the traditions and values of Judaism and India inter-assimilate. The book is at once fantastical in the magic transformations of its characters and grittily realistic in rendering the shocks of Indian life. Though Mother India, like all Reich’s work, is richly witty it is also deeply philosophical in its examination of exactly what holds us to life, a question made exigent by its Indian setting. |Powerful, evocative and daring, Mother India is a hypnotic tale of family, culture and identity, a compassionate portrayal of the ties that bind us then ultimately set us free. Reich’s language is resonant and sensorial, her characters vivid and memorable. An unflinching, often hilarious novel that manages to be both political and personal, while daring to explore some universal truths of our humanity.|From the value placed on motherhood in orthodox Jewish and Indian traditions to Meena and her twin brother’s dynamic, Reich juxtaposes unexpected elements of faith, society, and personal identity to harrowing effect.|A superbly written novel...incisive and unflinching.|Reich has an unusual imagination, a rich vocabulary…and a knack for story-telling.….This is a novel such as neither you nor I have ever read before.|Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life....Reich offers us her most poignant and astonishing novel to date.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Finding Judge Crater A Life and Phenomenal
Book SynopsisDrawing on new sources, including NYPD case files and court records, and overlooked evidence discovered years later, Riegel pieces together the puzzle of what likely happened to Joseph Crater and why. To uncover the mystery, he delves into Crater's ascension into the scintillating and corrupt world of Manhattan in the Roaring Twenties and Jazz Age.Trade ReviewStephen Riegel tackles one of the country’s most enduring and perplexing missing-person cases. His fascinating blend of history and mystery is a story to savor, enjoy and revisit. An intriguing and substantial chronicle of the once-notorious disappearance of Judge Joseph F. Crater in 1930. With his deep knowledge of New York politics and its judicial system, Stephen Riegel explains how Judge Crater rose to prominence, and what led to his disappearance. The raucous world of Jazz Age Manhattan rushes forth from the pages of this enjoyable narrative—from Tammany politicos and Broadway gadabouts to good government reformers and desperate entrepreneurs, Riegel brings to life a colorful cast of characters and momentous episodes that make this story unforgettable.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Packaged Lives Ten Stories and a Novella
Book SynopsisThe carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer. She portrays her subjects keenly, sensitively, and lovingly but without compromise. Iraqis living in exile come to life in her narratives as men and women who are caught between two worlds.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Adirondack Photographers 18501950
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive look at the first one hundred years of photography through the lives of those who captured this unique rural region of New York State. Svenson’s fascinating biographical dictionary is enriched with over seventy illustrations.
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John Wiley & Sons Sour Grapes
Book SynopsisA collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Evoking under-ripened and immature fruit, the collection’s title serves as a bittersweet metaphor for a world that possesses the seeds of change but is unprepared for the harvest.
£14.20
John Wiley & Sons A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
Book SynopsisWhen the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked.Trade ReviewThese wonderful and unique stories describe a Jewish world rarely seen in Yiddish letters, a world of women writers and dreamers. Kirzane’s translations bring these stories to life for the contemporary reader." - Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University"An important work of feminist excavation that is so much more fun than that phrase implies, giving us a chance to read the words of a lively, complex writer in her prime. Kirzane’s translation makes the Yiddish inflections sing with life, and made me feel a warm connection to a writerly foremother I barely knew before." - Sarah Seltzer, executive editor, Lilith MagazineTable of Contents Acknowledgments Translator’s Note Introduction Part 1. A Provincial Newspaper Part 2. My Three Years in the Land of Israel Part 3. Other Stories A Marriage and a Divorce In a Country Town Just Like the Young Folks Do Man and Radio Perfectly Suited A Promise Kept Victims of Love They Both Were Married Good News—and Bad We’re People, After All From the Same Yikhes A Clever Mother Old Sarah The Old Man Ran Away A Kosher Swimming Pool (A Scene in Coney Island) The Shadkhn She Was in Paris The Invitation For a Bit of Respect Glossary
£20.66
John Wiley & Sons The Tears and Prayers of Fools A Novel
Book SynopsisThis extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich’s ‘Litvak saga’, his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins with the arrival of a stranger who sets everyone on edge and seems to know their secrets.Trade ReviewKanovich saved us, ‘Jews of silence,’ from forgetting our very selves during the most difficult times of antisemitism and dictatorship. The Tears and Prayers of Fools became at once a biblical parable for our time and a Chagall painting restored to life in words—the eternal flight of a free human above a tragic age." - Vitaly Portnikov, Ukrainian journalist and writer"‘Shtetl noir’ meets Hasidic legend in this deeply philosophical work. In a word, this novel is the work of an exceptional writer with a unique voice." - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor Emerita, New York University"When The Tears and Prayers of Fools came out in Russian in Vilnius in 1983, I was fortunate to be able to purchase a copy of this novel in Lithuania (back then, Kanovich’s books were not sold in Moscow) and was completely overwhelmed by its stylistic originality, richness of detail, and philosophical depth." - Mikhail Krutikov, University of MichiganTable of Contents Map of the Pale of Settlement A Note on History and Transliteration Acknowledgments, Dmitri Kanovich The Tears and Prayers of Fools Glossary List of Characters
£28.86
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Teach Me How to Whisper
Book SynopsisFrederick Turner, a prizewinning Anglo-American poet, critic, and translator, has translated this generous collection of Gjeke Marinaj’s major poems into English with the close collaboration of the poet himself
£28.86
John Wiley & Sons Missing Persians Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History
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£21.53
Syracuse University Press Peoples Peace
Book SynopsisArgues that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence.
£41.82
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Origins of the Iroquois League
Book SynopsisThe League of the Iroquois, the most famous native government in North America, dominated intertribal diplomacy in the Northeast and influenced the course of American colonial history for nearly two centuries. In this highly original book, two anthropological archaeologists synthesize their research to explore the underpinnings of the confederacy.Trade ReviewThis study cuts through this confusing and contradictory body of literature to present a convincing scenario of League formation. In my view, Wonderley and Sempowski have nailed it. This is an extremely important book.
£32.36
