Fairleigh Dickinson University Press imprint: 249 books

Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future

Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams

by J. Michael Adams, Dame Glynis Breakwell, Angelo Carfagna
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016

This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...

The Supernatural Revamped

From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

by Simon Bacon, Jessica Birch, Scott Culpepper
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...

Apocalyptic Chic

Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

by Alex M. Milmine, Katherine Allocco, Tanner Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s...

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

Images from Literature and Visual Arts

by Dan M. R. Abitz, Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019

*Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:*Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place”...
by Shawn Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

In examining the era’s multivalent tropes of seams and seamlessness, Thomson provides an innovative understanding of the interplay between division and unity in the thought, culture, and literature of the American Renaissance. New insights are offered on works by major authors such as Nathaniel...

Ollam

Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

by Anders Ahlqvist, Fergus Kelly, Patricia Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature....

Town and Gown

The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, and Higher Education

by Robert D. Parmet
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

Town and Gown is the story of the birth in the 1960s and survival through the 1970s of an inner city college, York College of the City University of New York, in Jamaica, Queens. Created as a liberal arts college to provide increased access to minority students, it was placed in a mainly minority...

Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896–1946

Founder of North Carolina Central University

by Lenwood G. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012

James Edward Shepard was an African-American leader between 1900 and 1947. He was, however, more than a race leader. Shepard was a minister, politician, pharmacist, entrepreneur, world traveler, civil servant, businessman, one of the founders of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (the world's...

William Ellery Leonard

The Professor and the Locomotive-God

by Neale Reinitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013

William Ellery Leonard was an eccentric poet, professor, and critic whose romantic ideals were set against a world whose aesthetics were fast turning away from his own. He lived a life marked by both success and dramatic failure, both personally and professionally. His first wife’s suicide would...
by Daniel Derrin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within...

Norman B. Ream

Forgotten Master of Markets

by Paul Ryscavage
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012

Norman Bruce Ream was born in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1844, the son of a farmer. He exhibited a commercial sense, but the Civil War interrupted his ambitions. Wounded twice, he returned home a hero. After some unsuccessful business ventures out west, he went to Chicago in 1871 and became...

Death of a Rebel

The Charlie Fenton Story

by Scott Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismatic teacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. At the time he was apparently at the peak of his career. He had written excellent...

Exile in the Maghreb

Jews under Islam, Sources and Documents, 997–1912

by Paul B. Fenton, David G. Littman
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

The Exile in the Maghreb entails the first attempt at describing the historical reality of the legal and social condition of the Jews in the Muslim countries of North Africa (principally Algeria and Morocco) over a thousand year period from the Middle Ages (997 C.E.) to the French colonization (1830...

Digination

Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains

by Robert C. MacDougall
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011

The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg’s printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world. Some commentators have argued that this shift from orality to literacy marked a much broader,...
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