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On Writing Short Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bailey, Tom, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, ong>USong>A, On Writing Short Stories offers a fascinating introduction to writing fiction and the short story by bringing together 9 original ong>essaysong> by professional writers and 30 exemplars of short fiction. The first part features original ong>essaysong> by well-known authors such as Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubong>usong> that take the student through the process of writing These ong>essaysong> focong>usong> on the characteristics and craft of the short story and its writer, and take the student from the workshopping process all the way through the experience of working with agents and publishers. The second part of the text is an anthology of stories-many referred to in the ong>essaysong>-that gives readers dynamic examples of technique brought to life. In this second edition, Bailey brings the text up-to-date with new and revised ong>essaysong> and a freshened anthology that retains many of the classics, but adds in new styles and diverse voices-from short short fiction to the postcolonial writing of non-Western authors. In doing so, Bailey gives readers a broader scope of the short fiction landscape. The first part of the text now features Bailey's updated essay on the elements of fiction, which incorporates many of the nw stories in the anthology. There are also two new ong>essaysong> that expand on the workshopping process: "Whose Story Is It? The Anonymoong>usong> Workshop" by Antonya Nelson and "After the Workshop: Transitional Drafts" by Robert Nelson. C. Michael Curtis also updates his essay on "Publishers and Publishing" from the first edition, bringing in the latest innovations in electronic and online publishing.

Who Was Who in Native American History: Indians and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Waldman, Carl, PUBLISHER: Facts on File, Spanning more than four centuries, Who Was Who in Native American ong>Historyong> identifies everyone who has had an impact on Native American ong>historyong> from to the start of the twentieth century.

A Thumbnail History of the City of Houston, Texas

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Young, Samuel Oliver / Pong>usong>ateri, Mark A., PUBLISHER: Copano Bay Press, Originally published in to debunk myths that had been floated about Hoong>usong>ton's founding and earliest years, it is now considered a mong>usong>t-have book for collectors of Hoong>usong>ton ong>historyong>. Nearly all later works on Hoong>usong>ton cite Dr. Young's excellent work. The text covers the city's founding, the early mayors, Civil War and Reconstruction. There are sections on early buildings, bridges, the development of railroads and fire companies. It covers Hoong>usong>ton's early physicians and lawyers, the many, many newspapers, and the first banks. There is much on Hoong>usong>ton's military ong>historyong>, its sawmills and cotton indong>usong>try. Read about early literary efforts in Hoong>usong>ton, the Lyceum, Carnegie Library, and the founding of the Rice Institute. Want to know about about early ong>laborong> unions? The first telegraphs? About how the telephone and electric lighting came to town? It's all here. Acquista Ora

Cambridge and the Torres Strait: Centenary Essays on the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Herle, Anita / Roong>usong>e, Sandra / Anita, Herle, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Torres Strait has an established place in the ong>historyong> of anthropology becaong>usong>e of its association with the Cambridge University Expedition of organised by A. C. Haddon. This early British anthropological expedition is regarded as a seminal event in the formation of academic anthropology in Britain. Its goal was to make an unprecedentedly comprehensive anthropological study embracing ethnology, physical anthropology, psychology, linguistics, sociology and ethnomong>usong>icology. The nine interdisciplinary ong>essaysong> in this centenary volume offer ways of looking at and situation the Expedition's work in historical and intellectual debates. Central themes covered are the relationship between the expedition members and the Torres Strait Islanders: the innovations associated with the Expedition and the Expedition's influence on the development of anthropology and psychology. One hundred years on, the results of the Expedition have a contemporary relevance for anthropology and for the Torres Strait Islanders.

Essays on Medieval German Literature and Iconography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pickering, F. P., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In making this selection of twelve ong>essaysong> spanning the period , Professor Pickering has borne in mind that many of his recent readers are not students of German, but of comparative literature, art, ong>historyong> or theology, and he has translated three of the twelve for the occasion. He has grouped them according to their 'approach' and introduced each with reference to his other writings.

The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: May, Charles E., PUBLISHER: Routledge, The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives ong>usong> an understanding of the ong>historyong> and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general ong>historyong> of the genre, he moves on to focong>usong> on the nineteenth-century when the modern short story began to come into focong>usong>. From there he moves on to later nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century formalism and finally to the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's ong>historyong>, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.

Renaissance Essays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wiener, Philip P. / Kristeller, Paul Oskar, PUBLISHER: University of Rochester Press, The Journal of the ong>Historyong> of Ideashas, over the years, published many important articles on the Renaissance; this selection provides a significant index of American scholarship in the field in the first twenty-five years of the journal's publication. Apart from the quality of the papers, the main criterion of selection has been their diversity. The editors aimed to present a broad cross-section of the intellectual ong>historyong> of the Renaissance, and have on the whole preferred comprehensive rather than monographic studies. The so-called problem of the Renaissance is represented by FERGong>USong>ON; the historical thought of the period by WEISINGER, BARON, and REYNOLDS; its social, moral and religioong>usong> thought by ADAMS, RICE and TRINKAong>USong>; humanism by GRAY; philsophy and science by CASSIRER, RANDALL and BOUWSMA; literature by TUVE; the visual arts by SCHAPIRO; and mong>usong>ic by LOWINSKY. First published .

Genders 24: On Your Left: The New Historical Materialism

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kibbey, Ann / Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi / Siegel, Carol, PUBLISHER: New York University Press, In these spirited and powerfully written ong>essaysong>, a new generation of intellectuals makes its mark, challenging conservatives and liberals alike to chart a new course for a responsible politics in contemporary society. A new intellectual movement on the left emerges here. No longer trapped by the old polarizing antagonism between Marxism and feminism, these authors demonstrate as never before the need for an awaremess of gender as it affects every aspect of our society. At the same time, these paradigmatic ong>essaysong> map out a new terrain for feminist thinking, one that fully recognizes the complex workings of gender and leaves oppositional feminism far behind. In the keynote essay, Ambivalence as Alibi, Rosemary Hennessy challenges the most basic assumptions of postmodern sophistication to forge a compelling sytheseis of political, economic, and artistic theory. Betty Joseph, Jennifer Brody, and Poonam Pillai break through the shibboleths of Western liberal tolerance to describe gender inequalities that are intrinsically inter-cultural. Eileen Cleere demonstrates that novels are an important source for understanding how people interpret the economic conditions in which they live, linking social ong>historyong> and literary criticism in a provocative new way. Bridget Elliott uncovers the unong>usong>ual social and artistic imagination of Marie Laurencin, an artist who was both working-class and avant-garde, and who makes ong>usong> rethink basic assumptions of artistic form in the visual representation of women. Laura Lyons, analyzing the no-wash protest among IRA prisoners, discovers a new kind of political protest that draws on performance art and the discourse of the body for its political symbolism. And Joseph Litvak, in a highly suggestive critical reading, makes ong>usong> wonder if the New Historicism may possibly owe its greatest debt to the charming young men of Jane Aong>usong>ten's fictitioong>usong> world. > go to the Genders website] Acquista Ora

Modern Times, Ancient Hours: Working Lives in the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Basso, Pietro / Donis, Giacomo, PUBLISHER: Verso, It is a commonly expressed view that the sickness of our society is unemployment. Less frequently argued is the fact that we are, at the same time, suffering from overwork. It is even more rare to hear that the two sicknesses, unemployment and overwork, feed off one another and jointly attack the working classes worldwide. In Modern Times, Ancient Hours Pietro Basso argues convincingly that the average working time of wage labourers is more intense, fast-paced, flexible, and longer than at any period in recent ong>historyong>. This is true, he posits, not only in indong>usong>try and agriculture, but also, and particularly, in the service indong>usong>try. In this comprehensive survey of all the Western countries, not jong>usong>t the ong>USong>, he demonstrates that extraordinary work pressure is increasing throughout. The introduction of the thirty-five-hour working week in France notwithstanding, all the signs of a creeping deterioration in the working lives of millions of people are explored: a reduction in the purchasing power of wages, the mass downsizing of corporations, the continual erosion of company and state-ensured benefits, and finally the availability of much cheaper labour from Latin America, Asia, Africa and eastern Europe. The only sensible response is a renewal of the working-class struggle. Modern Times, Ancient Hours forcefully reminds ong>usong> that the human aspiration to do work that does not break the body or the spirit is universal and deep-rooted. Workers will rise, Basso argues, if they continue to be pong>usong>hed beyond their limits.

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Horseracing and the British

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Huggins, Mike, PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press, From the prize-winning author of "Flat Racing and British Society ," this is the first book to provide a detailed consideration of the ong>historyong> of racing in British culture and society and to explore the cultural world of racing during the inter-war years. It breaks new ground by showing how racing's pleasures were enjoyed even by the supposedly respectable middle classes, and gave some working-class groups hope and consolation during economically difficult times. Regular attendance and increased spending on betting were found across class and generation, and women too were keen participants. Enjoyed by the Royal Family and controlled by the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee, racing's visible emphasis on rank and statong>usong> helped defend hierarchy and gentlemanly amateurism, and provided support for more conservative British attitudes. The mass media provided a cumulative cultural validation of racing, helping define national and regional identity, and encouraging the affluent consumption of sporting experience and frank enjoyment of betting.

Current Biography Special Issue Obama Administration

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thompson, Clifford, PUBLISHER: H. W. Wilson, oseph R. Biden, Vice president of the United States Steven Chu, ong>USong> secretary of energy Hillary Rodham Clinton, ong>USong> secretary of state Shaun Donovan, ong>USong> secretary of hoong>usong>ing and urban development Arne Duncan, ong>USong> secretary of education Rahm Emanuel, White Hoong>usong>e chief of staff Robert M. Gates, ong>USong> secretary of defense Timothy F. Geithner, ong>USong> secretary of the treasury Eric H. Holder Jr, ong>USong> attorney general Ray LaHood, ong>USong> secretary of transportation Janet Napolitano, ong>USong> secretary of homeland security Barack Obama, President of the United States Ken Salazar, ong>USong> secretary of the interior Eric K. Shinseki, ong>USong> secretary of veterans affairs Hilda L. Solis, ong>USong> secretary of ong>laborong> Tom Vilsack, ong>USong> secretary of agriculture

Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fletcher, Anthony / Roberts, Peter, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher. Several present reviews of major areas of debate: of the significance of the regulations which determined the social and legal statong>usong> of professional actors in Elizabethan England, of Protestant ideas about marriage, of the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union, of relations between the Churches of England, Scotland and Ireland under the early Stuarts, and of the riddle of the inner dynamic of the experience of emigration of New England. Case-studies in the social and religioong>usong> ong>historyong> of the period include the relationship between ideas of cleanliness and godliness, the flowering of the notion of unitive Protestantism in two declarations on behalf of the National Church and provincial preaching at a moment of political crisis in the north of England. Three ong>essaysong> draw on literary evidence to explore attitudes to men of war, the ong>usong>e of the murder pamphlet as a Puritan conversion narrative and the service provided by scholarly readers for politically influential public figures. Two ong>essaysong> make impressive ong>usong>e of fieldwork to reveal how the churches of James I and VI's two kingdoms were furnished and how the gardens of Sir Nicholas and Sir Francis Bacon illuminate their minds and attitudes. The European dimension is represented by an essay on Nicolas Pithou's ong>historyong> of the Reformation in the city of Troyes. This very wide-ranging and fascinating collection of ong>essaysong> will appeal both to specialists in the period and to those interested in the social and cultural ong>historyong> of early modern Britain.

The Other Side of Midnight: Taxi Cab Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heffernan, Mike, PUBLISHER: Creative Publishers (India), The first St. Johna€(TM)s taxi stand started up in the early-20th Century and greatly expanded prior to the Second World War. There are now almost four hundred taxis operating within the city limits. The Other Side of Midnight: Taxi Cab Stories is not a traditional ong>historyong> of taxi cabs in St. Johna€(TM)s. It describes the commonly shared experiences of an underwritten portion of Newfoundlanda€(TM)s working class while presenting St. Johna€(TM)s from the front seat of a taxi cab. It will explore the working lives of its subjects, as well as their thoughts and feelings about their choice of career and their clients. Every segment of our society utilizes their services, from the social elite to the social obsolete: bong>usong>inessmen, drug pong>usong>hers, prostitutes and forlorn lovers. They are witnesses to the best and worst in all of ong>usong>. They are trained listeners to troubled people, as well as cheerleaders and goodwill ambassadors. Individuals will emerge, as well as equally unique understandings of their working lives. Comical, absurd and often dramatic, many of their reminiscences will be of long hours and years on the job, their hopes and decayed dreams.A A A A A A A A A A A

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Katie Fforde A novel on a trio of women working for London's Quality Cleaners, an establishment supplying maids with high-class accents to the well-to-do. The three are a novelist, an artist and the owner of a hoong>usong>eboat. The novel follows them as they was (cod. I_)

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Michael Jackson "VIDEO ong>HISTORYong> ON FILM VOLUME II" (videocassetta): ong>HIStoryong> on Film, Volume II, raccolta di video mong>usong>icali di Michael Jackson pubblicata in seguito all'ong>usong>cita dell'album "Blood On The Dance Floor". Anno .

Essays Politic and Moral, and Essays Moral and Theological

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tuvill, Daniel, PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press, These two sets of ong>essaysong> by the seventeenth-century clegyman Tuvil illong>usong>trate literary tastes and fashions of the time and offer examples of such popular genres as the sermon, the resolve, and the meditation.

Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Follett, Richard / Foner, Eric / Johnson, Walter, PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in , rescuing them, as ong>historyong> tells ong>usong>, from a brutal and inhuman existence with the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? "Slavery's Ghost" explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crong>usong>hing effects of slavery on race relations in American ong>historyong>. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative ong>essaysong>, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. "Slavery's Ghost" asks important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these ong>essaysong> offer fresh approaches to questions of local political power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the ong>historyong> of black freedom. Written by three prominent historians of the period, "Slavery's Ghost" forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Acquista Ora

The Five Senses

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gonzalez-Crong>usong>si, F., PUBLISHER: Kaplan Publishing, "Extraordinary on first reading, even more so on a second... the sort of book one wants to pick up again and again."--Oliver Sacks "Lively and erudite."--"The New York Times Book Review " "Gonzalez-Crong>usong>si writes ong>essaysong> that fong>usong>e science, literature, and personal ong>historyong> into highly civilized artifacts. Here are five such pieces... all of them informative, none of them predictable."-- "The Washington Post " "A meditation on sensory experience by a Mexican-born pathologist who weaves personal experiences with ong>historyong>, science, philosophy and theology for a wide-ranging approach to our centuries-old but undissipated curiosity about the origins of pain and pleasure.... An erudite work."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review "

Manifesto of the Communist Party

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich, PUBLISHER: Wilder Publications, The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ruling class of bourgeoisie and to eventually bring about a classless society.

The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tabor, James, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schong>usong>ter Audio, Based on a careful analysis of the earliest Christian documents and recent archaeological discoveries, "The Jesong>usong> Dynasty" offers a bold new interpretation of the life of Jesong>usong> and the origins of Christianity. The story is surprising, controversial and exciting as only a long-lost ong>historyong> can be when it is at last recovered. In "The Jesong>usong> Dynasty," biblical scholar James Tabor brings ong>usong> closer than ever to the historical Jesong>usong>. He sheds new light on Jesong>usong>' relationship with John the Baptizer, the role played by his brother James, and how Paul's ministry transformed Jesong>usong>' message, into what would become Christianity. James Tabor has studied the earliest surviving documents of Christianity for more than thirty years. He reconstructs for ong>usong> the movement that sought the spiritual, social, and political redemption of the Jews, a movement led by one family. "The Jesong>usong> Dynasty" offers an alternative version of Christian origins, one that takes ong>usong> closer than ever to Jesong>usong> and his family and followers. This audiobook will change our understanding of one of the most crucial moments in ong>historyong>.

Aspects of Malory

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Takamiya, Toshiyuki / Brewer, Derek, PUBLISHER: Boydell & Brewer, This volume of ong>essaysong> is aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory, an author who has always been enjoyed by the common reader, but is still sometimes underestimated by the critics. Despite an increasing number of articles on Malory, there is a need for a general survey of recent research, whichl> Aspects of Malory /l>provides. The volume opens with a note by the late Professor Vinaver on Malory's prose, and three ong>essaysong> on Malory's Englishness and his English sources, including an essay by P. J. C. Field which argues for an English rather than a French origin for the l>Tale of Gareth/l>. This is followed by two ong>essaysong> on Malory's French sources, by Jill Mann and Mary Hynes-Berry. Therence McCarthy re-exasmines the sequence of the tales, and three further ong>essaysong> look at the scribal and textual tradition of Malory's work, in particular the relationship between the Winchester MS, Caxton's printed version, and the ong>historyong> of the MS. Finally, Richard R. Griffith reconsiders the authorship question, and proposes a long-forgotten Thomas Malory as the most likely candidate. There is a bibliography of recent research compiled by Professor Takamiya.Full of sound scholarship'. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTVolume of ong>essaysong> aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory and providing a general survey of critical research; topics covered include Malory's sources, both French and English, the scribal and texual tradition of his work, and the question of authorship.

Social Ecology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Guha, Ramachandra, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, ong>USong>A, Social Ecology brings together a selection of pioneering ong>essaysong> on a subject of increasing interest to sociologists and social anthropologists. With the growing awareness of the caong>usong>es and consequences of environmental degradation, the once neglected field of social ecology has assumed enormoong>usong> theoretical and practical importance. The ong>essaysong> assembled in this anthology provide a state of the art survey of the field as well as an orientation to future research. As the first such anthology of its kind, it provides a compact and analytically sophisticated overview of environment and society in contemporary India. It should be of great interest to administrators, activists, and development professionals as well as students and scholars working in the field.

Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kallen, Stuart A., PUBLISHER: Lucent Books, African-American ong>historyong> is significant and integral to the larger ong>historyong> of the United States. Emboldening this dynamic, the Lucent Library of Black ong>Historyong> Places important topics in context so that readers will understand the connection between black ong>historyong> and the sweep of America's story. This high-quality series focong>usong>es on both broad movements like Civil Rights, as well as more narrowly defined events such as the Tong>usong>kegee Study.

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