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The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Vol. VII: Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, pt. 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and...
The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Vol. V: The Music of the Folk Songs
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development was created in 1987 to analyze development in the region and to make recommendations to the region’s governments and to the international community. The essays in this volume were written by experts in Central American development,...
The Journey is Everything
A Journal of the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 1983
“What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?” Helen Bevington asks. “I’ve taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncomplimentary and increasingly anxious remarks were made by us all--you, me, and the media.”
This...
Dissing Elizabeth
Negative Representations of Gloriana
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Dissing Elizabeth focuses on the criticism that cast a shadow on the otherwise celebrated reign of Elizabeth I. The essays in this politically and historically revealing book demonstrate the sheer pervasiveness and range of rhetoric against the queen, illuminating the provocative discourse of disrespect...
by Sanford Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
“Diversity” has become a mantra within discussions of university admissions policies and many other arenas of American society. In the essays collected here, Sanford Levinson, a leading scholar of constitutional law and American government, wrestles with various notions of diversity. He begins...
Chalk Lines
The Politics of Work in the Managed University
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The increasing corporatization of education has served to expose the university as a business—and one with a highly stratified division of labor. In Chalk Lines editor Randy Martin presents twelve essays that confront current challenges facing the academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities...
by Jerry G. Gaff, Samuel Schuman, Stanley Hauerwas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This new, revised, and expanded edition of the popular Academic’s Handbook is an essential guide for those planning or beginning an academic career.
Faculty members, administrators, and professionals with experience at all levels of higher education offer candid, practical advice to help...
by Derek Bok
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Since World War II, says the author, industrialized nations have come to depend so heavily on expert knowledge, scientific discovery, and highly trained personnel that universities have become “the central institution in postindustrial society.”
“If universities are so important to society and...
Failing the Future
A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny’s Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author’s experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist thinker, and an innovative administrator...
Mondo Exotica
Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them—Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio...
The Fruit Machine
Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2000
For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism,...
Listening for Africa
Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham,...
Turning South Again
Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute...