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by Melissa R. Kerin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist community,...
American Post-Judaism
Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic...
Elie Wiesel
Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the...
Re-viewing Fascism
Italian Cinema, 1922-1943
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
When Benito Mussolini proclaimed that "Cinema is the strongest weapon," he was telling only half the story. In reality, very few feature films during the Fascist period can be labeled as propaganda. Re-viewing Fascism considers the many films that failed as "weapons" in creating cultural consensus...
The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner
Writer, Teacher, and Women's Rights Advocate
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This inspiring tale of grit and determination sprinkled with humor, wit, and a taste of irony is the story of Winifred Bryan Horner’s journey from a life of domesticity on the family farm after World War II to becoming an Endowed Professor. Her compelling story is one of a woman’s fight for equal...
Reality Check
How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A thought-provoking look at science denialism “for popular science readers who want better to be able to explain and defend science and scientific methods to others” (Library Journal).
The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative...
Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs
A Companion with Texts and Translations
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Sergei Rachmaninoff—the last great Russian romantic and arguably the finest pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—wrote 83 songs, which are performed and beloved throughout the world. Like German Lieder and French mélodies, the songs were composed for one singer, accompanied by a...
Jascha Heifetz
Early Years in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Notoriously reticent about his early years, violinist Jascha Heifetz famously reduced the story of his childhood to "Born in Russia. First lessons at 3. Debut in Russia at 7. Debut in Carnegie Hall at 17. That's all there is to say." Tracing his little-known upbringing, Jascha Heifetz: Early Years...
by David Neumeyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separate from sound or dialogue, but that all three are manipulated and continually interact in the larger acoustical world of the sound track. In a medium in...
French Cinema—A Critical Filmography
Volume 2, 1940–1958
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This invaluable resource by one of the world’s leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958)...
Historic Preservation in Indiana
Essays from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Over the last half century, historic preservation has been on the rise in American cities and towns, from urban renewal and gentrification projects to painstaking restoration of Victorian homes and architectural landmarks. In this book, Nancy R. Hiller brings together individuals with distinctive...
Obama on the Home Front
Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation’s 240-year history, is of special interest. Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political front,...
by Murray Grodner
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Murray Grodner draws on his distinguished career as a double bass musician and teacher in this compendium of performance philosophy, bowing and phrasing recommendations, tutorials on fingerings and scales, and exercises for bowing and string crossing. Grodner addresses technical obstacles in musical...
by Mhoze Chikowero
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in...