Jon Snyder: 6 books

College guides written by students for students. Susquehanna University Students Tell It Like It Is This insider guide to Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics,...

Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which la**Movida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and...

Who needs sleep anyway? The men (and woman) who established a genre of television—comedy after dark—are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From pioneers Dick Cavett and Tom Snyder to the original meta-hosts David Letterman and Garry...

"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...

Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...

En la ingeniosa unión del pasado con el presente reside el secreto de la arrasadora y milagrosa fuerza vital del arte barroco del ingenio, que posee poderes casi divinos: las cosas mudas hablan; viven las insensatas, resurgen las muertas: las tumbas, los mármoles, las estatuas; de esta encantadora...