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Notice to Quit: The Great Famine Evictions

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Report copyright infringementby L. Perry Curtis (Author)Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852--the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history...

Black Roads: The Famine in Irish Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Smart (Author)Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852--the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, a...

This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Elias Jahshan (Editor)This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we findheart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploringthe challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab.From a military base in the Gulf toloving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from touring overseas as adrag queen to a concert in Cai...

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne Miller (Editor)Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations.Issue 26 of Copper Nickel features a diverse collection including translation "folios" of work by Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Gaugen, Franco-Algerian poet Samira Negrouche, and Austrian poet Elisabeth Schmeidel; poems by National Book Award and National Book Crit...

Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

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Report copyright infringementby John Rieder (Author)Groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialismThis is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction's relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is an important and relevant part of its historical context, and recent scholarship has emphasized imperialism's ...

Brooding: Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Martone (Author)This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut. Throughout the essays, Martone's style expands with the incorporation of new technological platfor...

What Persists: Selected Essays on Poetry from the Georgia Review, 1988-2014

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Report copyright infringementby Judith Kitchen (Author)What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and many of whom were not yet part of the contemporary canon. Her essays reveal a cultural history from the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, throug...

Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Martone (Author)Is it truth or fiction? Memoir or essay? Narrative or associative? To a writer like Michael Martone, questions like these are high praise. Martone's studied disregard of form and his unruffled embrace of the prospect that nothing--no story, no life--is ever quite finished have yielded some of today's most splendidly unconventional writing. Add to that an utter weakness for pop Americana and what Louise Erdrich has called a "deep affectio...

My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938

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Report copyright infringementby Carmaletta M. Williams (Editor), John Edgar Tidwell (Editor)My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston--Harlem Renaissance icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer, and essayist--played in his work. The more than 120 heretofore unexamined letters p...

Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

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Report copyright infringementby Priscilla Long (Author)The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins. Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an i...

Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Hurd (Author)Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world. As in Hurd's other books, the previously unknown or the barely known becomeless mysterious but stil...

Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina

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Report copyright infringementby John Wharton Lowe (Editor)In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of French territory in what became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Although today Louisiana makes up only a small portion of this immense territory, this exceptional state embraces a larger-than-life history and a cultural blend unlike any other in the nation. Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina, a collection of fourteen essays compiled and edited by John...

The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876-1909

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Field (Author), Sharon Bickle (Editor)Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) coauthors and lovers for the poetry and verse drama they published. This edition of the love letters of Michael Field brings together for the first time a personal correspondence thought lost by critics. As the first modern scholarly edition of any of Michael Field's writings, the 168 letters represent a treasure trove...

Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: Letters to the Editor 1904-1969

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Report copyright infringementby Bertrand Russell (Author), Ray Perkins (Editor)Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest philosophers of our time. In addition, he engaged in a lifelong battle with the forces of injustice -- emphasizing the importance of practice as well as theory. His most effective weapon in this struggle was letters to newspapers and magazines, most of which are collected in this volume. Russell exposes the irrationality of leaders and defends the public against the evils of...

Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Abugo Ongiri (Author)Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry,...

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Report copyright infringementby David Shulman (Translator), Velcheru N. Rao (Translator), Kali Dasa (Translator)One of the three surviving plays by Kalidasa (fifth century), universally acknowledged as the supreme poet in classical Sanskrit, How Urvashi Was Won, like the other two, is a masterpiece of lyricism, subtle characterization, and the working through of a bold theme. How Urvashi Was Won is the story of King Pururavas and his love for an immortal, the dancer Urvashi, who normally live...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Garbutt (Translator)The Book of Viráta details the Pándavas' 13th year in exile, when they live disguised in King Viráta's court. They suffer the humiliation of becoming servants; a topic explored both through comedy and pathos. Having maintained their disguise until the very end of the year, then their troubles really begin. Bhima is forced to come to Dráupadi's rescue when King Viráta's general, Kíchaka, sets his sights on her. Duryódhana and the Tri...

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Report copyright infringementby Kali Dasa (Author), Daniel Balogh (Translator), Eszter Somogyi (Translator)Its frivolous subject may have been the reason why Malavika and Agni mitra is sometimes considered to be the least significant of the three dramas of Kali dasa, the poet laureate of Indian antiquity who probably lived in the fifth century CE. Yet the play's lively and playful plot more than makes up for its lack of deities, heroic prowess and pathos. The machinations of King Agni mitra's...

African Americans in Fort Wayne: The First 200 Years

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Report copyright infringementby Dodie Marie Miller (Author)The history and contributions of African Americans in northeast Indiana have been largely overlooked. This new publication, African Americans in Fort Wayne: The First 200 Years, does not claim to be a definitive history of the topic. It does, however, recognize and honor the pioneers who have made the African-American community in Fort Wayne what it is today. Through diary excerpts, oral histories, and studies of social organizations,...

Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys Into the West

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Report copyright infringementby Daryl Farmer (Author)On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of pursuing that distant summer and that distant dream of home, where home i...

A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather

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Report copyright infringementby Willa Cather (Author), Janis P. Stout (Editor)An infamous clause in Willa Cather's will, forbidding publication of her letters and other papers, has long caused consternation among Cather scholars. For Cather, a complex and private person who seldom made revelatory public pronouncements, personal letters provide-or would provide-an especially valuable key to understanding. But because of the terms of her will, that key is not readily available. Cather's letters...

Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior

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Report copyright infringementby Brandon R. Schrand (Author)"Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are those books that serve as Schrand's signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood (with a stop along the way to buy a five-dollar mustard-colored M. C. Hammer suit, so he'll fit in at...

Sink 'Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

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Report copyright infringementby Charles A. Lockwood (Author)Sink 'Em All by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the US Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War 2, is the exhaustive and definitive account of submarine warfare between the US and Japanese 1942-45. Lockwood'tells the story of every submarine in the US fleet and what they did during the war, their misses, near misses, and hits. His vivid prose takes us into the cramped quarters of mess-halls and control rooms a...

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Report copyright infringementby Welthy Honsinger Fisher (Author)In this inspiring memoir, Welthy Honsinger Fisher, a humanitarian and peace activist, recounts her experiences traveling to war zones and disaster areas around the world to provide aid and support to those in need.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly oth...

The Painter's Palette: A Theory of Tone Relations, an Instrument of Expression

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Report copyright infringementby Denman Waldo Ross (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is import...

The New Housekeeping: Efficiency Studies in Home Management

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Frederick (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impo...

Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie LeMenager (Author)Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels, and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory, and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the preeminent modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called "Tough Oil."...

Upon a Midnight Clear: More Christmas Epiphanies

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Report copyright infringementby Jj Lee (Editor)In this second volume of the Better Next Year collection of true stories, discover more dashed holiday hopes, Christmas catastrophes, and slender, heartbreaking shards of joy. Upon A Midnight Clear brings together emerging authors from across the country who share their experiences of Christmases gone wrong. These tales--sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always poignant--celebrate the spirit of the season and will warm your heart on even the coldes...

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Report copyright infringementby Spencer Gerhardt (Author)A collection of writings by the mathematician and composer linking notions of continuity and construction across math, minimalist music and contemporary artNoted mathematician and composer Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays linking notions of continuity and construction across the boundaries of math, art, music and philosophy. Gerhardt offers new, deeply informed analysis of the 1960s New Yor...

Buzzelli Collected Works Vol. 3: The Revolt of the Wretched

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Report copyright infringementby Guido Buzzelli (Author), Jamie Richards (Translator)Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called "the Michaelangelo of monsters," "the Goya of comics," and "the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists."A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns and science fiction to Rennaisance art and...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Swanton (Author)An introduction to Old English and a starting-point for the discussion of life and literature in Anglo-Saxon England; this book offers seven passages suitable for weekly or fortnightly work; each page is accompanied by a facing glossary. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle traces the history of early England from the migration of the Saxon war-lords, through Roman Britain, the onslaught of the Vikings, the Norman Conquest and on through the reign ...

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Report copyright infringementby Imogen Corrigan (Introduction by), J. K. Jackson (Editor)The mysterious tale of a great leader, martyred for her cause, and often regarded as a woman beyond her time. Patron saint, visionary, defender of a nation, political symbol, feminist icon, martyr - Joan of Arc is all these things and more. A saviour of France who would be burned at the stake, her gripping story has inspired countless works of literature, art and music. And yet myths will forever shroud t...