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Beauty and the Beast
Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905–193
Arnold Arluke and Robert Bogdan
Wide-ranging in
scope, Beauty and the Beast looks at the variety of roles animals played
in society, from pets and laborers to symbols and prey. The authors
discuss the contradictions, dualisms, and paradoxes of our relationship
to animals, illustrating how animals were distanced and embraced,
commoditized and anthropomorphized.
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The Imprint of Alan Swallow
Quality Publishing in the West
W. Dale Nelson
This outstanding biography is the first to explore the fascinating life of
Alan Swallow, a pioneering western publisher whose authors included
such literary luminaries as Anaïs Nin, Allen Tate, and Yvor Winters. Moving
to Colorado, Swallow founded the Swallow Press and dedicated
himself to bringing literary authors, both regionally and nationally recognized,
to print in high-quality yet affordable books.
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The Day My Mother Cried
and Other Stories
William D. Kaufman
With Forewords by Baruch Feldstern and Peter Pitzele
The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal
incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural
tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents’ homeland
in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels.
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When the Danube Ran Red
Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
With a Foreword by David Patterson
As a scholar, critic, and translator, Ozsváth has written extensively
about Holocaust literature and the Holocaust in Hungary. Now, she
records her own history in this clear-eyed, moving account. When the
Danube Ran Red combines an exceptional grounding in Hungarian history
with the pathos of a survivor and the eloquence of a poet to present
a truly singular work.
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A Millennium of Turkish Literature
A Concise History
Talat S. Halman
Edited by Jayne L. Warner
A Millennium of Turkish Literature tells the story of how literature
evolved and grew in stature on the Turkish mainland over the course
of a thousand years. The book features numerous poems and extracts,
most in fluid translations by Halman. This volume provides a concise,
but captivating, introduction to Turkish literature and, with selections from
its extensive "Further Reading" section, serves as an invaluable guide to
Turkish literature for course adoption.
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Loom
A Novel
Thérèse Soukar Chehade
"In Loom Lebanon and North America flare to life,
illuminating each other. With a wonderfully assured
touch Chehade weaves the pain and joy of familial
bonds around stories of war and migration. A beautiful
novel."
—Kamila Shamsie, author of Burnt Shadows: A Novel
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Winslow Homer in London
A New York Artist Abroad, 1881–1882
David Tatham
"Most exciting are the new discoveries that have enabled
Tatham to track and place Homer in London with hitherto
impossible precision. Using this fresh, compelling evidence,
the author makes new and vital sense of Homer’s
English period as the true pivot point of the artist’s
career."
—Sarah L. Burns, author of Painting the Dark Side: Art and the
Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
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My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White
Andrew Furman
In My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White, the high school’s
basketball team serves as the entry point for a trenchant exploration of the
judicial, legislative, and neighborhood battles over school desegregation
that gripped the city in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education and
that continue to plague our "post-racial" nation. Furman accesses a diverse
array of opinions on these years and on the current crisis of race and
public education by examining landmark judicial decisions, public policy
studies, and newspaper articles, and by interviewing key community leaders....
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The Republic of Letters
Working Class Writing and Local Publishing
Edited by Dave Morley and Ken Worpole
The Republic of Letters examines how in recent years working-class people
have begun to develop new forms of writing, new models of local, collective
publishing, and alternative distribution networks—the elements of a movement
that aims to "disestablish" literature, making writing a popular form of expression
and not the preserve of a privileged metropolitan elite.
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Greek
Theo Dorgan
"Theo Dorgan’s Greek is a
vivid, sensual, technically
brilliant new collection which
transports the reader through
time and space, history and
myth, love and death. The
Greek Gods and Goddesses
walk again, as real as we
are, in the islands of twenty-first-
century Greece in a
poetry which is singingly alive
to the pleasures of being here
now."
—Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s
Poet Laureate
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What This Earth Cost Us
Theo Dorgan
"The blend of street-warrior
and muse poet is extraordinarily
appealing. His is an
Irish urban voice which can
reach far into Russia as well
as into the enchanted garden
of Sufi love."
—John Montague,
author of A Ball of Fire
What This Earth Cost Us gathers the
poems from Dorgan’s first two collections,
Ordinary House of Love and Rosa
Mundi, into one volume.
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Like a Man Gone Mad
Poems in a New Century
Samuel Hazo
Taking up the theme of time, the poems carry the reader back and
forth through personal and historical time, offering glimpses of a wide
range of figures, from Pascal and Heraclitus to John F. Kennedy and
Clark Gable. From each vantage point, Hazo meditates on themes
of vitality and longevity, legacy and oblivion, and the enduring folly of
both the individual and society. Accessible and eminently readable,
the poems in Like a Man Gone Mad embody a rich intellectual and
emotional curiosity.
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The End of the Innocence
The 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair
Lawrence R. Samuel
From April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from around
the world flocked to the New York World’s Fair, an experience that lives
on in the
of many individuals and in America’s collective consciousness.
Taking a perceptive look back at "the last of the great world’s
fairs," Samuel offers a vivid portrait of this seminal event and of the
cultural climate that surrounded it. He also counters critics’ assessments
of the fair as the "ugly duckling" of global expositions.
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Stone Canoe
A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York,
Number 4
Edited by Robert M. Colley
Stone Canoe showcases the work of a broad spectrum of writers
and visual artists with connections to Upstate New York. In
this issue, Mary Gaitskill talks with Jennifer Pashley, Brooks Haxton
remembers Hayden Carruth, and Doran Larson introduces
new prison writing. In addition to new poetry and fiction, this
issue showcases the work of twenty-five visual artists working
in—and out of—the upstate region.
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The Urban Colonists
Italian American Identity and Politics in Utica, New York
Philip A. Bean
"A major contribution to the field of Italian American
history as well as local history, ethnic and interethnic
studies, urban history, and the evolution of conflicting
forces of ethnic maintenance versus assimilation."
—Frank J. Cavaioli, Farmingdale State College, SUNY
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Watching TV
Six Decades of American Television, Expanded Second Edition
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik
Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season survey,
capturing the essence of television from its inception to the present.
By presenting every prime-time schedule, season
by season, from the fall of 1944, Watching TV provides a fascinating
history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key
events have evolved during the past six decades.
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Modern Irish Drama
W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr, Second Edition
Sanford Sternlicht
Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr presents a thorough
introduction to the recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and
theatrical traditions in Western culture. Originally published in 1988, this
updated edition provides extensive new material, charting the path of
modern and contemporary Irish drama from its roots in the Celtic Revival
to its flowering in world theater. The lives and careers of more than fifty
modern Irish playwrights are discussed along with summaries of their
major plays and recommendations for further reading.
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Memory Ireland
Volume 1: History and Modernity
Edited by Oona Frawley
"The essays in this collection represent a rich and
fascinating survey of the landscape of Irish cultural
memory . . . its sweep is both extensive and intensive."
—Michael Mays, author of Nation States: The Cultures of Irish
Nationalism
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America in the Sixties
John Robert Greene
"Perceptive, judicious, and written with an engaging
flair, master historian John Robert Greene’s America in
the Sixties vividly brings to life arguably the most important
and complex decade of the twentieth century."
—Melvin Small, author of The Presidency of Richard Nixon
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Tabernacle of Hate
Seduction into Right-Wing Extremism, Second Edition
Kerry Noble
With an Introduction by Jean Rosenfeld
Written after his release from prison, the author’s cogent narrative
reveals the deceptive allure of extremist movements and the unmatched
power of charismatic leadership. Noble chronicles the intense stand-off
with federal agents at the group’s compound in northern Arkansas in April
1985. As the group’s spiritual leader, he helped mediate the peaceful surrender
of its military leader, Jim Ellison, and many of the group members....
Originally published in 1998, this second edition includes an
authoritative introduction placing Noble’s narrative and the CSA into the
broader picture of American religio-political extremism.
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The Education of Women and The Vices of Men
Two Qajar Tracts
Translated from the Persian and with an Introduction by Hasan Javadi and Willem Floor
At the close of the nineteenth century, modern ideas of democracy and
equality were slowly beginning to take hold in Iran. In apparent response to this emerging
independence of women, an anonymous author penned The Education
of Women .... instructed women on how to behave
toward their husbands, counseling them on proper dress, intimacy, and
subservience. One woman, Bibi Khanom Astarabadi, took up the author’s challenge
and wrote a refutation of the guide’s arguments.... Astarabadi established the first school for girls in Tehran and often advocated for the rights of women. In The Vices of Men, she details the
flaws of men, offering a scathing diatribe on the nature of men’s behavior
toward women.
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Arab and Arab American Feminisms
Gender, Violence, and Belonging
Edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany,
and Nadine Naber
In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate
experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about
gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered
struggles.... Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between
gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and
the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. This book asks
how members of diasporic communities navigate their sense of belonging
when the country in which they live wages wars in the lands of their
ancestors. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibilities
for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives
at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies,
and ethnic studies.
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Abundance from the Desert
Classical Arabic Poetry
Raymond Farrin
Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to
classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering
the period roughly of 500–1250 c.e., it features original translations
and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems
from a variety of genres....This pioneering book marks an important step forward in the study of
Arabic poetry. At the same time, it opens the door to this rich tradition for
the general reader.
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Contesting Realities
The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen
Susanne Dahlgren
As a resident of Aden for more than three years spanning the late
years of Marxist South Yemen, Dahlgren presents the reader with an intimate
portrait of Yemeni men and women in the home, in the factory, in
the office, and in the street, demonstrating that Islamic societies must be
understood through a multiplicity of social spheres and morality orders.
Within each space, she examines the range of legal, political, religious,
and social regulations that frame gender relations and social dynamics.
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American Hebrew Literature
Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States
Michael Weingrad
With a Foreword by Alan Mintz
Weingrad explores Hebrew literature in the United States from the
emergence of a group of writers connected with the Hebraist movement
in the early twentieth century to the present. Radically expanding
and challenging our conceptions of American and Jewish identities in
literature, the author offers wide–ranging cultural analyses and thoughtful readings of key works. American Hebrew Literature restores a lost piece
of the canvas of Hebrew literature and Jewish culture in the twentieth
century and invites readers to reimagine Jewish-American writers of our
own time.
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Hegel and the Third World
The Making of Eurocentrism in World History
Teshale Tibebu
"This is a remarkable book. . . . a powerful cri de
coeur that is based on a serious reading of Hegel. It
may open up the debate because, unlike so many anti–Eurocentric presentations, it does not fall prey to a simple
upside down reading of either modern philosophy or
world history."
—Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
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Back Channel Negotiation
Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process
Anthony Wanis-St. John
"Large scale conflict is always complex, and Back Channel
Negotiation is a rare and brilliant example of accepting
and using that complexity. Starting with a detailed
and thoughtful narrative of back channel negotiations in
the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Wanis–St. John then builds
convincing and provocative theory tightly linked to that
narrative."
—David Matz, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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