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An endangered right whale attempting to nurse her new calf in the December ocean, foxgloves blooming in different places from year to year, or the rescue of imperiled Kemp's ridley sea turtles – the bounty and cruelty of nature infuses this latest collection of poems from Brendan Galvin, which takes as its maxim finding the extraordinary in the ordinary all around us.

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Rich Dionne reframes the theatre production as a project and provides essential tools for understanding and managing it efficiently, whether it be a stage play, an opera, a dance piece, or other performance that requires the collaboration of the artists and artisans creating the visual and aural landscape for it.

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Utilizing an array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the microhistorical approach of this book records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle of a crop field, a sister searching her brother's face for signs of war, and an immigrant dying in an effort to become a good American citizen.

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Denied access to traditional advertising platforms by lack of resources, craft breweries have proliferated by embracing social media platforms, and by creating an obsessed culture of fans. In Craft Obsession, Jeff Rice uses craft beer as a case study to demonstrate how social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter function to shape stories about craft.

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In considering the films of Peter Weir, this text looks to the filmmaker's Australian heritage. The author also looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, to examine why many of Weir's films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity.

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The first English-language translation of a crucial medieval Arabic commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, with context on its contribution to intellectual history.

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Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the second sophists composed epideictic works for audiences across the Mediterranean world during the early centuries of the Common Era. In this study, Susan Jarratt argues that these discourses constitute intricate negotiations with the absolute power of the Roman Empire.

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A biography of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-20th-century author, poet, and playwright. Theatre historian Robert A. Schanke mines lost archival materials and interviews with de Acosta's intimates to correct established myths and construct an account of her life and loves on Broadway and in Hollywood.

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Charting the origins of serious theatre, drama pedagogy, and the nonprofit model, this illustrated volume argues that the Little Theatre movement was a national phenomenon, not just the result of aspirants copying the efforts of the much-storied Provincetown Players, Washington Square Players, Neighborhood Playhouse, and Chicago Little Theatre.

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In 1772/73, Immanuel Kant began lectures on anthropology, which he continued until 1776. His lecture notes and papers were first published in 1798. This present edition of the ""Anthropology"" is a translation of the text found in volume seven of the ""Kants gesammelte Schriften"".

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Typescripts, essays, and an authoritative edition of Knowing and the Known, Dewey's collaborative work with Arthur Bentley. In the introduction T.Z. Lavine defines the collaboration's three goals - the construction of a new language for behavioural inquiry, a critique of formal logicians, and a critique of logical positivism.

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Aided by a comprehensive filmography and production synopses, this work recounts an overlooked chapter in American cinema, not only detailing the business operations of Hal Roach's productions but also exposing the intricate workings of Hollywood's rivalrous moviemaking establishment.

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Deals with problems - psychology and spectatorship - central to cinema studies. The book is organized by areas that can be studied from a cognitive perspective - human perception, perception of images and sounds, continuity and narrativity, and character recognition and attribution.

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Over a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.

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In this riveting true story of coming of age in the Chicago Mob, Charles ""Charley"" Hager is plucked from his rural West Virginia home by an uncle in the 1960s and thrown into an underworld of money, cars, crime, and murder on the streets of Chicago Heights. Chicago Heights is part rags-to-riches story, part murder mystery, and part redemption tale.

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In this first study of Black radicalism in midwestern cities before the civil rights movement, Melissa Ford connects the activism of Black women who championed justice during the Great Depression to those involved in the Ferguson Uprising and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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This is the story of Dale Hamm, one of the the best-known market hunters (taking waterfowl out of season and selling them to restaurants). Learning his craft from his father, Hamm kept his family in the 1930s and 40s by poaching. Market hunting has died out, but Hamm's reminiscences are vivid.

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Contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (1896-1983).

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Twelve distinguished scholars and critics discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how movies have changed to reflect the new world climate.

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Examines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Taking on such issues as Hollywood blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics, this work presents fifteen critical essays that examine rhetoric's role in such films as ""The Fifth Element"", ""The Last Temptation of Christ"", and ""A Time to Kill"".

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Provides readings of the film rhetorics of auteurs George Romero, Wes Craven, and John Carpenter, showing how they engage the anxieties of contemporary culture in thematic explorations of the body, the Gothic, and the frontier.

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John Dewey's Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925. In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that ""Dewey's Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings.

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Although most Americans believe that the Battle of Gettysburg was the only turning point of the Civil War, the war actually turned repeatedly. Events unfolded in completely unexpected ways and had unintended consequences. Turning Points of the American Civil War examines key shifts and the context surrounding them, demonstrating that the war was a continuum of watershed events.

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Arguing that rhetorical listening facilitates conscious identifications needed for cross-cultural communication, the author establishes eavesdropping, and listening pedagogically as approaches to rhetorical listening. She defines rhetorical listening, addressing identifications with gender and whiteness within public debates and pedagogy.

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A diverse collection of provocative plays that respond to the highly charged, post 9/11 political landscape. Though not all of the plays deal explicitly with the Al Qaeda attacks, they collectively reveal themes of sorrow and anxiety, moral indignation, a

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In her first collection of poems, Kansas native Amy Fleury captures images of dragging clotheslines, baked lawns, and sweet potato babies, inserting them with an earnest dignity into her stories of midwestern life.

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Illuminates the pedagogical contributions of three newspaperwomen to show how the field became a dynamic site of public participation, relationship building, education, and activism in the 1880s and 1890s.

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A territory split by slavery, a state forged for union. Avenues of Transformation traces the surprising path, marked by shame, ambition, and will that led to Illinois’s admission to the Union in 1818. Historian James A. Edstrom guides the reader through this story by associating each stage of the narrative.

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Details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. This title argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor for how Americans interpreted contemporary race relations decades after the Civil War. It draws on postwar articles, books, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and speeches.

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In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln's political thought and practice was what he learned from the leading figures of and documents from the birth of the United States.

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In this broadly conceived study, Ralf Remshardt delineates the theatre's deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive relationship between performance and its 'other', the grotesque.

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Liberal German immigrants, having escaped the European aristocracy who undermined their revolution and the formation of a free nation, viewed slaveholders as a specter of European feudalism. By contextualizing German Americans in their European past and exploring their ideological formation in failed nationalist revolutions, Zachary Stuart Garrison adds nuance and complexity to their story.

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