James Newman: 45 books

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...

Biographical sketches, descent information, and references for the forebears, siblings, and cousins of Roda Selleck (1877–1970) and her husband, James Barkley Pollock (1863–1934). Includes families of Henry Selleck of Bay City, Michigan (1851–1907); Franklin Selleck of Utica, Michigan (1811–87);...

In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Gödel received public recognition of...

Letters and documents related to Roda Selleck Pollock (1877–1970), her husband, James Barkley Pollock (1863–1934), Ann Arbor, Michigan; their families, including John and Margaret Allen, Ann Arbor; Cathelia Selleck, Ann Arbor; Anne Finlayson Bennett and Junia Bennett, Farmington, Arkansas; John Isaac...

Letters and documents related to Roda Selleck Pollock (1877–1970) of Ann Arbor, Michigan, James Barkley Pollock (her husband), Florence (her stepdaughter) and Cathelia and Nina (her daughters). Includes letters from and about Roda E. Selleck, Indianapolis; Clara Selleck Colquitt; Anne Finlayson Bennett...

Transcriptions of the letters of Lucia Rebecka Brown (1894–1986) describe growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota, attending Macalester College, teaching high school in small Minnesota towns, seeking jobs during the Depression, and selling magazines. Includes some letters of her father, Dr. LeRoy Brown (1855–1932);...

Letters and documents related to Roda Selleck Pollock (1877–1970), Ann Arbor, Michigan; her daughters, Cathelia and Nina; Roda’s stepdaughter, Florence Pollock Borel (including letters from Hawaii); Clara Selleck Colquitt; Grace Sheldon Vogt; Lois Graves Hopkins; and Prof. Harley Harris Bartlett.

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...

Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...

Bangkok Express is an often hilarious, always dangerous, fast moving tale of the tricks and turns in an exotic land where what meets the eye often fools, if not confuses, the observer. Joe leaves behind a life of commuter trains, a messy divorce, and an egotistical boss to undertake an assignment...

Monica just wants to be loved like all the other pretty girls in Bangkok City. But sometimes getting what you want isn’t healthy. Her body is discovered decapitated in her cold-water apartment room. A briefcase stuffed with cash is missing from the scene. P.I Joe Dylan ventures into the Bangkok...

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they...

Recovering the Personal will be of interest to a broad range of intellectual readers with interests in philosophy, psychology, theology, and the humanities.