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View book details for Dictatorships in the Hispanic World
Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial accounts of violence and …
View book details for Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries
Critical Essays
Scarecrow Press
Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, but the previously neglected subgenre of the documentary has become increasingly popular in the last several years. Despite such recent successes as Senna, Undefeated, and ESPNs 30 for 30 series, however, …
AltaMira Press
Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement is an indispensable resource for archaeologists and the communities in which they work. The authors are intensely committed to developing effective models for participating in the civic renewal movement - through active engagement …
Scarecrow Press
The period from 1925 to 1960 was the heyday of the American Radio Soap Opera. In addition to being part of popular culture, the soap opera had important commercial aspects as well that were not only related to their production, …
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
As a major member of the New York School, Barnett Newman is celebrated for his radical explorations of color and scale and, as a precursor to the Minimalist movement, for his significant contribution to the development of twentieth-century American art. …
View book details for Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957
Conversion in Theory and Practice
UPA
Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957: Conversion in Theory and Practice uses historical perspective to explore strategies and methods of the Protestant and the Roman Catholic missionaries in Igboland and the Igbo response during the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. …
Scarecrow Press
A History of the Trombone, the first title in the new series American Wind Band, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone from its initial form as a 14th-century Medieval trumpet to its alterations in the 15th …
View book details for Paris in American Literatures
On Distance as a Literary Resource
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Paris could be the first word of an epic poem. While there are many cultural pilgrimages in Western Arts (The Alhambra, Venice, Mumbai, Machu Picchu, and others), Paris stands above others, flourishing as an image of possibility and sophistication. The …
View book details for Persons and Liberal Democracy
The Ethical and Political Thought of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II
Lexington Books
Fundamentally, Persons and Liberal Democracy is an explication and defense of classical liberalism. It explains the relatively recent shift in the Church's political theory and, in the process, defends what could be deemed a non-statist form of welfare liberalism. After …
View book details for Physical Hazard Control
Preventing Injuries in the Workplace
Government Institutes
People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas. In any situation, people face potential hazards-often more than one hazard in each situation-and these hazards often lead to …
Scarecrow Press
The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island …
Scarecrow Press
The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice it was drawn into "foreign entanglements" wars it initially thought were …
View book details for The Blessed Human Race
Essays on Reconsideration
Hamilton Books
Professor George Jochnowitz and his daughter Miriam were teaching in China at the time of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. The experience drastically changed the author's way of thinking about Marxism. Professor Jochnowitz saw that the rulers of China were …
UPA
Conceptions of Happiness, Revised Edition presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. When asked …
View book details for The Beatles and McLuhan
Understanding the Electric Age
Scarecrow Press
In the 1960s, The Beatles would address like no other musical act a radical shift in the cultural mindset of the late twentieth century. Through tools of electric technology, this shift encompassed the decline of visual modes of perception and …
Scarecrow Press
The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic …
View book details for Cuban Flute Style
Interpretation and Improvisation
Scarecrow Press
Richard Egues and Jose Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachacha. Despite the commercial success of their recordings …
View book details for Manual of Museum Planning
Sustainable Space, Facilities, and Operations
AltaMira Press
As museums have taken on more complex roles in their communities and the number of museum stakeholders has increased to include a greater array of people, effective museum planning is more important than ever. The Manual of Museum Planning has …
View book details for The Correspondence of Sarah Helen Whitman and Julia Deane Freeman
Writer to Writer, Woman to Woman
University of Delaware Press
The eighty-one manuscript letters, drafts, notes, and fragments comprising the correspondence between Sarah Helen Whitman (Poes onetime fiancee) and Julia Deane Freeman span a tumultuous time in American history, 18561863. A veritable Whos Who in literature during the period, the …
View book details for The Picnic
A History
AltaMira Press
Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty …
View book details for Borderlands
Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power, and Identity
UPA
Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, and danger. Yet, they increasingly attract the attention of ethnographers as a unique lens through which to view the intersections of the national, transnational, and global forces that shape the …
View book details for Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English
Strategies and Sources
Scarecrow Press
Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule. In previous volumes of this series, the research literature of former British colonies Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New …
View book details for Democracy Gone
A Chronicle of the Last Chapters of the Great American Democratic Experiment
Hamilton Books
In Democracy Gone, Abele argues that the last eight years in particular have shown us that our democracy has largely disintegrated, leaving behind only an exoskeleton that was once its original vertebrae of ends and principles. This book questions whether …
View book details for Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature
A Translator's Visible Legacy
Bucknell University Press
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de soledad, Jose Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortazar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has …
Scarecrow Press
For Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War altered forever the history, topography, people, economy, and politics of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), Cambodia, and Laos. That the war was controversial is an understatement as is …
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