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by John Sallis
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain—on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? John Sallis considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of light...
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume X
Volume X: The Memoirs of Han China, Part III
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In The Grand Scribe’s Records: Volume X, readers can follow Ssu-ma Qian’s depiction of the later years of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (r. 140–87 BC). The volume begins with four chapters describing the Han’s attempts to subdue states north, east, south and west of the empire. The subsequent...
The War of 1948
Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representations of Israeli-Palestinian memory of that cataclysmic event and its consequences. The contributors map and analyze a range of perspectives of the 1948 War...
The Long 1968
Revisions and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on...
Schumann's Virtuosity
Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Considered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810–1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations...
Latin American Women Dramatists
Theater, Texts, and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." —Times Literary Supplement
This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful...
China's Battle for Korea
The 1951 Spring Offensive
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Between November 1950 and the end of fighting in June 1953, China launched six major offensives against UN forces in Korea. The most important of these began on April 22, 1951, and was the largest Communist military operation of the war. The UN forces put up a strong defense, prevented the capture...
by David Dolata
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Written for musicians by a musician, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols demystifies tuning systems by providing the basic information, historical context, and practical advice necessary to easily achieve more satisfying tuning results on fretted instruments. Despite the overwhelming organological...
FTM
Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they...
Globalizing Music Education
A Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel’s vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language...
Forest and Labor in Madagascar
From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest...
Race and the Literary Encounter
Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison’s words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be ‘universal’ or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes...
Ecocritical Aesthetics
Language, Beauty, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and...
Voice of Business
The Man Who Transformed the United States Chamber of Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
From small-town life to the world stage, Richard Lesher’s inspiring tale is one of dogged determination. The son of an alcoholic and violent father in Depression-era Pennsylvania, Lesher worked his way through school, eventually overseeing NASA’s vital technological transfer program during the...