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Acts of Conscience
World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors
Steven J. Taylor
In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the
psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the
squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals
and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual
disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and
magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change
public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional
staff.
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God and the Editor
My Search for Meaning at the New York Times
Robert H. Phelps
With candor and keen observation, Phelps chronicles both the
triumphant and the tragic events at the Times. He explains the
missed lessons of the Pentagon Papers, why the Times played catchup
with the Washington Post on the Watergate scandal but eventually
surpassed it on covering that seminal story, and how the Times failed
to report a key element of the riots at the 1968 Democratic convention.
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Governors Island
The Jewel of New York Harbor
Ann L. Buttenwieser
From its early days as the
site of a British fort in the 1700s, to its longstanding role as
a station for the U.S. Army and the Coast Guard, to its function as a
venue for political receptions and parties, the island has hosted a
dazzling parade of the brave and the dignified. Ann L. Buttenwieser brings this rich legacy to life, creating a striking portrait of the island through never-before-published photographs,
blueprints, architectural plans, and interviews with former residents.
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41 Shots. . .and Counting
What Amadou Diallo’s Story Teaches Us about Policing, Race, and Justice
Beth Roy
When four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in
1999, the forty-one shots they fired echoed loudly across the
nation. With lucid analysis, Roy explores events in the courtroom, in city hall, in
the streets, and in the police precinct, revealing the interlacing
conflict dynamics.
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We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns
The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Tracy Sugarman
In We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns, Sugarman chronicles the
sacrifices, tragedies, and triumphs of that unprecedented moment
in our nation’s history. Sugarman’s unique reportorial
art, in word and image, makes this book a vital record of
our nation’s past.
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Abel Kiviat, National Champion
Twentieth-Century Track & Field and the Melting Pot
Alan S. Katchen
Alan S. Katchen brings Kiviat’s fascinating story to life and re-creates a lost
world, when track and field was at the height of its popularity and
occupying a central place in America’s sporting world.
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Canceled Memories
A Novel
Nazik Saba Yared
Translated from the Arabic by Nadine Sinno
Set during the Lebanese civil war, this novel chronicles the splintering
of the Al-Mukhtars, a Lebanese family whose love and trust for one
another is strained by the increasing economic, social, and psychological
tensions that surround them.
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The Journals of Grace Hartigan, 1951–1955
Edited by William T. La Moy and Joseph P. McCaffrey
With an Introduction by Terence Diggory
Grace Hartigan emerged during the 1950s as a leading representative
of the "second generation" of the New York School of
abstract expressionist painters, a movement that achieved international
standing for American art. Published for the first time, Hartigan’s journals offer readers an intimate chronicle of the vibrant artistic and literary milieu of the
times.
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Looking for Lockerbie
Edited by Lawrence Mason, Jr. and Melissa Chessher
Photographs by Lawrence Mason, Jr.
Through stunning photographs and personal vignettes, Looking for Lockerbie introduces to the world some of Lockerbie’s most engaging personalities, events, and places...The book celebrates the connection between a "wee" Scottish town and an American university, forged from the grief and sorrow arising from a single horrific air disaster.
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The Best is Yet to Come
Marc Coleman
Ireland’s miracle is far from over. As
anxiety mounts about the end of
Ireland’s boom, The Best is Yet to
Come discusses how Ireland can
realize its economic future while
recovering its cultural past.
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Capitalising on Culture, Competing on Difference
Innovation, Learning and Sense of Place in a Globalising Ireland
Finbarr Bradley and James J. Kennelly
After two decades of exceptional
economic growth and cultural
change, Ireland faces the greatest
challenge yet: creating a sustainable
competitive advantage to guarantee
its success in the future.
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Saving the Future
How Social Partnership Shaped Ireland’s Economic Success
Tim Hastings, Brian Sheehan, and Padraig Yeates
Drawing on new insights from
political, business, and civic leaders
who helped turn Ireland into one
of Europe’s most successful
European economies, Saving the
Future describes the most striking
years of Ireland’s economic development.
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The Intentional Leader, 2009 Supplement
Kenneth A. Shaw
This supplement to The Intentional Leader offers new information and practical advice on the art and science of leadership, allowing readers to stay current with the latest developments in leadership thinking.
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In Foreign Parts
Art and Stories
Elisabeth Stevens
"A masterful collection of the
author’s most bizarre and often disturbing
pieces and it is aptly titled.
Reading these stories, one feels a
true sense of being in unfamiliar territory,
a trespasser in the more shadowy
regions of the imagination."
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The Night Lover
Art and Poetry
Elisabeth Stevens
"Elisabeth Stevens’ The Night Lover
has all the romantic elements of
classic love poetry, but newly added
is a woman’s emotional power.
Women once were the passive recipients
of love; this is literature with the
woman as hero and protagonist."
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Affirmation
Selected Poems 1986–2006
Haris Vlavianos
Translated from the Greek by Mina Karavanta
In this collection, featuring thirty poems
and one poetic narrative, Vlavianos
explores philosophy and the aesthetics
of writing with remarkable grace
and erudition.
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Music for Dogs
Work for Radio
Paula Meehan
Best known as one of the leading
Irish poets of her generation, Paula
Meehan is also an accomplished
and much-admired playwright.
Music for Dogs presents, for the first time
in print, a selection of work for radio
from this poet of "perfect pitch."
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Even So
New and Selected Poems
Mark Roper
With an Introduction by Carol Ramery
"Roper’s gift to his
adopted home, and to the great
poetic tradition of ‘nature writing’ in
these islands, is laid out here, in this
wonderfully varied miscellany of new
work and selections from his earlier
volumes."
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Ariadne’s Thread
Writing Women into Irish History
Margaret Mac Curtain
This book offers a collection of
Margaret Mac Curtain’s pioneering
essays in the field of Irish women’s
history.
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Tattoo : Tatú
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
In this bilingual collection, Tattoo,
the hidden stories of both famous
and ordinary women are teased out
in crafted, often wry, poems: Virginia
Woolf’s dying moments in Virginia’s
Last Walk, a woman’s arranged
marriage in Cleamhnas 1933.
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Swimming with Pelicans
Ag Eitilt fara Condair
Deirdre Brennan
Swimming with Pelicans is a remarkable
new dual-language collection
from Deirdre Brennan, one of
Ireland’s foremost writers in both
English and Irish.
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Why Irish?
Irish Language and Literature in Academia
Edited by Brian Ó Conchubhair
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The Weight of Feathers
Geraldine Mills
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Perplexed Skin
Patrick Cotter
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Belongings
Joan Newmann and Kate Newmann
"This joint collection, Belongings, is
an absolute joy to read and represents
some of Kate Newmann and
Joan Newmann’s finest work. . . ."
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Preparing for Spring
Nell Regan
"Preparing for Spring is an accomplished
book which will delight both
those readers who have already
admired her work . . . and those to
whom her voice is new."
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Uninhabited Ireland
Tara, the M3 and Public Spaces in Galway
Conor Newman and Ulf Strohmayer
This volume brings together two contributions
to a critically important
public debate on the ownership of
public spaces in Ireland and on the
custody and future of its archaeological
and cultural heritage.
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Dramai Thus Na Hathbheochana
Eadaoin Ni Mhuircheartaigh agus Nollaig Mac Congail
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
Claire Puccia Parham
The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior
industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway
and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most important
public works’ initiatives of the twentieth century.
In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of
the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters.
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Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive
Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings
Wendy Makoons Geniusz
Wendy Makoons Geniusz contrasts the way in which Anishinaabe botanical knowledge is presented in the academic record with how it is preserved
in Anishinaabe culture. In doing so she seeks to open a dialogue
between the two communities to discuss methods for decolonizing
existing texts and to develop innovative approaches for conducting
more culturally meaningful research in the future.
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At the Font of the Marvelous
Exploring Oral Narrative and Mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors
Anthony Wonderley
"Due to Anthony Wonderley’s efforts, we may now
glimpse a rich world of thought that had been lost. At the
Font of the Marvelous is a masterpiece."
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George Clinton
Master Builder of the Empire State
John K. Lee
With a Foreword by James B. Bell
This engaging biography, enriched with an array of illustrations,
shines a bright light on an early American politician whose remarkable
vision and leadership powerfully shaped the Empire State.
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An American Experience
Adeline Moses Loeb (1876-1953) and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors
John L. Loeb, Jr., Kathy L. Plotkin, Margaret Loeb Kempner, and Judith E. Endelman
With an Introduction by Eli N. Evans
Eight generations of a prominent American Jewish family unfold in this
captivating biography of Adeline Moses Loeb. Combining lively stories
by family members with archival and genealogical research, this book
is a glowing portrait of Adeline, the daughter of a successful banker,
and the family that shaped her.
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A View from The East
Black Cultural Nationalism and Education in New York City, Second Edition
Kwasi B. Konadu
With fresh insight and great detail, Kwasi B. Konadu excavates
the legacy of The East, exploring the confluence of cultural
nationalism, education, economic self-sufficiency, and the arts during
the Black Power period.
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The Great Experiment in Conservation
Voices from the Adirondack Park
Edited by William F. Porter, Jon D. Erickson, and Ross S. Whaley
With keen insight and deep passion, the authors reveal the Adirondack Park’s rich natural and cultural history in shaping conservation policy, providing vital contributions to the future study of land preservation.
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Ireland in Focus
Film, Photography, and Popular Culture
Edited by Eóin Flannery and Michael Griffin
With a Foreword by Colin Graham
Ireland in Focus is
the first book to address the diverse range of visual representations
of national and communal identity in Ireland.
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The Irish Bridget
Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840–1930
Margaret Lynch-Brennan
With a Foreword by Maureen O’Rourke Murphy
Drawing on personal correspondence and other primary sources, Lynch-Brennan gives voice to these young Irish women and celebrates their untold contribution to the ethnic
history of the United States.
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Making Ireland Irish
Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War
Eric G. E. Zuelow
Drawing on an extensive array of previously untapped or
underused sources, Eric G. E. Zuelow examines how a small group
of tourism advocates, inspired by tourist development movements
in countries such as France and Spain, worked tirelessly to convince
their Irish compatriots that tourism was the secret to Ireland’s
success.
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The Passing Game
Queering Jewish American Culture
Warren Hoffman
Tony Kushner’s award-winning epic play Angels in America was
remarkable not only for its sensitive engagement of Jewish-
American and gay culture but also for bringing these themes to a
mainstream audience. While the play represented a watershed in
American theater and culture, it belies a hundred years of previous
attention to queer Jewish identity in twentieth-century American literature,
drama, and film. In The Passing Game, Warren Hoffman
sheds light on this long history, taking up both Yiddish and English
narratives that explore the tensions among Jewish identity, queer
sexuality, performance, and American citizenship.
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Language, Absence, Play
Judaism and Superstructuralism in the Poetics of S. Y. Agnon
Yaniv Hagbi
With deep insight and lucid prose, Language, Absence, Play
demonstrates how the traditional and the contemporary forces
shaping Agnon’s literary art inform and transform each other.
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Murder Without Hatred
Estonians and the Holocaust
Anton Weiss-Wendt
In this detailed study of Estonians’ role in the Holocaust, Anton
Weiss-Wendt casts light on a largely unexplored subject. Narrating the history of Estonia’s involvement, Weiss-Wendt presents
lucid explanations regarding the relationships between nation-building,
mass violence, and the brutal effects of authoritarian
oppression on occupied states.
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Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland
Jack Jacobs
While many earlier works on the politics of Polish Jewry have suggested that Bundist victories were not of lasting significance or attributable to outside
forces, Jack Jacobs argues convincingly that the electoral success
of the Bund was linked to the work of the constellation of cultural
and other organizations revolving around the party.
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Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context
Edited by Eileen F. Babbitt and Ellen L. Lutz
Employing a case study approach, the contributing
authors examine three areas of conflict—Sierra Leone,
Colombia, and Northern Ireland—from the perspectives of participants
in both the peace-making and human rights efforts in each
country.
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National Minority, Regional Majority
Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel
Yitzhak Reiter
"A comprehensive, detailed, and solid analysis of the
exceptional conflict between the Jewish majority and the
Arab minority in Israel."
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Irony and Identity
In Modern Irish Drama
Ondrej Pilny
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Mind Factory
Edited by Louis Armand
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Monologues
Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity
Edited by Clare Wallace
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Technicity
Edited by Arthur Bradley and Louis Armand
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Suspect Cultures
Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama
Clare Wallace
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