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Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus
Fordham University Press
What one cannot compute, one must poetize: this essay theorizes the extraordinary regimes of human mental experience by putting the emphasis on poetry. Poetry grants us the ability to move beyond the limits of thought and to explore the beyond …
View book details for Sexual Disorientations
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Fordham University Press
Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction …
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One-Click Democracy
Fordham University Press
Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy. In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical …
View book details for The Watchdog Still Barks
How Accountability Reporting Evolved for the Digital Age
Fordham University Press
Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog roleits ability to monitor the work of the government. It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing powerwasting public funds and making poor decisionsif …
View book details for Members of His Body
Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy
Fordham University Press
Building on scholarship regarding both biblical and early modern sexualities, Members of His Body protests the Christian defense of marital monogamy. According to the Paul who authors 1 Corinthians, believers would do well to remain single and focus instead on …
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New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Fordham University Press
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its marble palace for book lovers on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the citys first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every …
View book details for Who Can Afford to Improvise?
James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners
Fordham University Press
More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlic offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, …
University Press of Mississippi
Conversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the …
View book details for Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
University Press of Mississippi
In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into …
View book details for Selling Folk Music
An Illustrated History
University Press of Mississippi
Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the …
View book details for Salvage Work
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
Fordham University Press
Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the laws construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a …
Fordham University Press
This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an …
View book details for A Year in Nature with Stan Tekiela
A Naturalist's Notes on the Seasons
Adventure Publications
Stan Tekiela, acclaimed naturalist and wildlife photographer, informs and entertains you in these monthly observations of nature. Let him guide you through the seasons with 64 of his most engaging accounts of up-close-and-personal observations and experiences with nature. The month-by-month …
University Press of Mississippi
In Forty Acres and a Goat, Will D. Campbell (19242013) picks up where the award-winning Brother to a Dragonfly leaves off, accounting his adventures during the tumultuous civil rights era. As he navigates through the explosive 1960s, including pivotal moments …
View book details for Freelancing for Newspapers
Writing for an Overlooked Market
Linden Publishing
Pick up the Sunday paper and consider how many stories it takes to fill all those pages. How can any newspaper staff produce so many stories every day, every week, every month of the year and keep up with breaking …
View book details for Black Diva of the Thirties
The Life of Ruby Elzy
University Press of Mississippi
While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first Black artists to appear in grand opera. Although now in the shadows, she …
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The 30-Minute Shakespeare
Nicolo Whimsey Press
"A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience . . . guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator."Library Journal
View book details for The Winner's Toolbox
How to Create Success, Sustain High Performance and Achieve the Life You Desire
Ryan C. Kunk
Do you feel like youre building your life without a blueprint?If so, youre not alone. You dont have to stay stuck. Its time to access the tools you need to create the life you wantmentally, professionally, emotionally, and physically. The …
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NASA, the Navy, & Space Flight Recovery
Turner Publishing Company
This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navys role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from Alan Shepherds initial suborbital mission to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which inaugurated the first space collaboration between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. …
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The Latest in Linguistics
De Gruyter
The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for everyone who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field …
Turner Publishing Company
The largest city in the United States to be developed entirely within the twentieth century, Las Vegas has always been a unique place. From its beginnings, when two town sites competed to become the new community rising from the desert, …
View book details for American Holistic Nurses' Association Guide to Common Chronic Conditions
Self-Care Options to Complement Your Doctor's Advice
Turner Publishing Company
go beyond standard medical treatment to treat yourself to wellnessSuffering from a serious condition? Do you have questions that your doctor may not have answered-and are you wondering if you're doing everything you possibly can to get and stay well?Turn …
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The Perfect Fitness and Nutrition Game Plan for Your Unique Body Type
Turner Publishing Company
"No one understands what it means to be fit and female better than Geralyn Coopersmith. Her work has brought results to women nationwide."-Carol Espel, MS, National Director of Group Fitness for Equinox Fitness Clubs"Every woman should read Geralyn's book."-Michael Boyle, …
De Gruyter
Con la intencion de mostrar las tendencias actuales de la linguistica historica iberorromanica, este volumen presenta una gama amplia y actual de estudios centrados en cuestiones relacionadas con los corpus diacronicos del espanol, portugues, catalan y gallego, escritos por 30 …
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