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History, Criticism, Arts and entertainment
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Anthologies, Poetry
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Asian history, Politics and government
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleSince the first airplane hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation… of Palestine in September 1970, Middle Eastern terrorists have sacrificed innocent human lives in the name of ideology. From Black September to the Munich Olympics, to the embassy bombing in Beirut, to the devastating attacks of September 11 and beyond, terrorism has emerged as the most important security concern of our time."Where did this come from?" Inspired by a student's question on the morning of September 11, 2001, Mark Ensalaco has written a thoroughly researched narrative account of the origins of Middle Eastern terrorism, addressing when and why terrorists started targeting Americans and American interests and what led to the September 11 attacks.Ensalaco reveals the changing of motivations from secular Palestinian nationalism to militant Islam and demonstrates how competition among terrorists for resources and notoriety has driven them to increasingly extreme tactics. As he argues, terrorist attacks grew from spectacle to atrocity. Drawing on popular works and scholarly sources, Middle Eastern Terrorism tells this story in rich detail and with great clarity and insight.
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Asian history, History
Khalidi (Arab studies, Columbia U.) explains why the Palestinians failed to achieve independence prior to 1948, the date of the… establishment of Israel. Rather than "compare the incomparable"--the Palestinians and the Zionist movement--he provides thematically comparisons of the Palestinians to other Arab societies at analogous stages of development. His major themes include the failure of the Palestinians to successfully challenge the legal structure of the mandatory regime, which was consciously designed to prevent Palestinian self-government; the role of British-created religious structures in co-opting Palestinian elites; and the structural failures of the revolt of 1936-39.
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Poetry
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece ---Thomas McGuane This fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn… s masterpiece Gunslinger a comic anti-epic critique of American capitalism that still resonates today Set in the American West the Gunslinger his talking horse Claude L vi-Strauss a saloon madam named Lil and the narrator called I set out in search of the billionaire Howard Hughes As they travel along the Rio Grande to Truth or Consequences New Mexico and finally on to Colorado they are joined by a whole host of colorful characters Dr Jean Flamboyant Kool Everything and Taco Desoxin and his partner Tonto Pronto During their adventures and hijinks as captured in Dorn s multilayered absurd and postmodern voice they joke and smoke their way through debates about the meaning of existence Put simply Gunslinger is an American classic In a new foreword Marjorie Perloff discusses Gunslinger s continued relevance to contemporary politics This new edition also includes a critical essay by Michael Davidson and Charles Olson s idiosyncratic Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn which he wrote to provide guidance for Dorn s study of and writing about the American West
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Poetry
In Comfort Measures Only Rafael Campo bears witness to the unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering Gathered… from his over twenty-year career as a poet-physician these eighty-nine poems thirty-one of which have never been previously published in a collection pull back the curtain in the ER laying bare our pain and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos The poet who is also truly a healer revives language itself its sounds channeled through our hearts and lungs its rhythms amplified through the stethoscope to make meaning of our bewilderment when our bodies so eloquently and yet wordlessly fail us Campo s transcendent poems in all their modernity amidst the bleep of heart monitors and the wail of ambulance sirens remind us of what the ancients understood that poetry sustains us and whether we live or die through what we can imagine and create in our shared voices we may yet achieve immortality
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History, United States history, Music, Arts and entertainment, General non-fiction
In 1956 Harry Belafonte s Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies … For a few fleeting months calypso music was the top-selling genre in the US it even threatened to supplant rock and roll Stolen Time provides a vivid cultural history of this moment and outlines a new framework black fad performance for understanding race performance and mass culture in the twentieth century United States Vogel situates the calypso craze within a cycle of cultural appropriation including the ragtime craze of 1890s and the Negro vogue of the 1920s that encapsulates the culture of the Jim Crow era He follows the fad as it moves defiantly away from any attempt at authenticity and shamelessly embraces calypso kitsch Although white calypso performers were indeed complicit in a kind of imperialist theft of Trinidadian music and dance Vogel argues black calypso craze performers enacted a different and subtly subversive kind of theft They appropriated not Caribbean culture itself but the US version of it and in so doing they mocked American notions of racial authenticity From musical recordings nightclub acts and television broadcasts to Broadway musicals film and modern dance he shows how performers seized the ephemeral opportunities of the fad to comment on black cultural history and even question the meaning of race itself
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Asian history
The Victorian period viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress was experienced by Asians as… a catastrophe As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the Ottoman Empire it was clear that for Asia to recover a vast intellectual effort would be required Pankaj Mishra s fascinating highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West Incessantly travelling questioning and agonising they both hated the West and recognised that an Asian renaissance needed to be fuelled in part by engagement with the enemy Through many setbacks and wrong turns a powerful contradictory and ultimately unstoppable series of ideas were created that now lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to Al Qaeda from Indian nationalism to the Muslim Brotherhood Mishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew through the eyes of the journalists poets radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia and created the ideas which lie behind the powerful Asian nations of the twenty-first century
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History, United States history, Arts and entertainment, United States travel and geography
Part memoir, part oral history, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods gives us a rare and intimate look… at Colonial Beach, Virginia.Rich in narrative history and local color, A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods’s summers, a place that stole her heart long ago and provided the basis for the many fictional small towns in her bestselling novels.True to Woods’s signature style of focusing on characters who are at the center of their communities, here she has woven together the stories of the very real people who helped shape this seaside Virginia town. She takes us back to the days of her own family gatherings, artfully capturing the unique essence of Colonial Beach and making us yearn for small-town life.Woods’s own memories frame the true stories she features—from the unique history of Colonial Beach itself to some firsthand accounts of the Oyster Wars that once consumed the community, to the stories of neighborhood merchants who made it a point to know just about every customer by name. From farmers to restauranteurs and hoteliers, from pastors to librarians and military folk, Woods’s research and interviews give life to the personalities of a very special place.
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Arts and entertainment
Traversing a varied and enchanting landscape with forays into the fields of geography art architecture design … cartography and film Giuliana Bruno s Atlas of Emotion winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz award for the world s best book on the moving image is a highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts In an evocative montage of words and pictures she emphasizes that sight and site but also motion and emotion are irrevocably connected In so doing she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Messagem the film-making of Peter Greenaway and Michaelangelo Antonioni the origins of the movie palace and its precursors and on her own journeys to her native Naples Visually luscious and daring in conception Bruno opens new vistas and understandings at every turn
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Arts and entertainment, Sports and games
The legendary boxer s personal photographer from 1977 1978 shares fascinating stories and stunning rare photographs… Michael Gaffney traveled the world with Muhammad Ali covered three fights took eight thousand photographs and produced hours of recordings that pieced together in this book define and reveal an authentic Ali Poignant funny and brutally honest this book reveals the struggles of the legendary fighter who fought to stay in the game he loved This is a dramatic and up-close look at the trilogy of Ali s fights from 1977 1978 A tough win against Earnie Shavers a shocking loss to Leon Spinks and a glorious redemptive comeback victory to win the World Heavyweight Championship for an unprecedented third time a feat never accomplished before or since Filled with dramatic photos The Champ is also a compelling personal journey inside the good heart and courageous spirit of one of the most extraordinary people of our lifetime The Champ is one helluva achievement and one helluva book Bert Randolph Sugar Hall of Fame boxing historian
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Arts and entertainment
Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world Pass notions that once defined drawing as… being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form--in the biennials art fairs museum exhibitions and beyond Drawing has come of age Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is something unique and different from painting It is an intense sensitive compelling personal and utterly direct art form one with its own concepts characteristics and techniques In addition contemporary drawing is not governed by any particular imagery but rather encompasses a variety of approaches including realist abstract modernist and post-modernist Contemporary Drawing delves into the essential and far-reaching concepts of this medium exploring surface mark space composition scale materials and intentionality in turn Key techniques such as using nature to induce marks and working with a checklist to determine a drawing s problems are introduced throughout Plus an in-depth chapter examines a number of artists such as William Kentridge and Gego who are breaking traditional boundaries that separate one artistic discipline from another Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary artists Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this expansive and energized field of art From the Hardcover edition
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Poetry
The first collection of original poetry by the renowned nature writer and highly lauded translator of the Chinese classics Traveling… today I found a river somewhere inside me wondered how far it wanders there and how much sky it mirrors All day long wind and desert light I followed that river s distances Weaving mind and landscape together in meditations on sky and wind ridgeline and horizon existence and self Desert marks David Hinton s first collection of original poetry in over a decade Hinton s poetic art has long shined brilliantly through his widely acclaimed Chinese translations and here speaks for itself in his contemporary voice as he turns his attention to the transcendent landscape of the American West Updating the philosophical insights of ancient China that Hinton has explored so deeply these poems bring the wonder and ancient mystery of the desert landscape to light Hinton demonstrated in The Wilds of Poetry how those ancient Chinese insights shaped the innovative American poetry of our time and here he extends that tradition in poems that are spare and spacious as vast and open as the desert itself
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Asian history, Anthologies
The Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun collects together his most influential and powerful essays and lectures Critical of… traditional Chinese culture of the superstition and rigid social mores and passionate in his argument for reform his essays from the classic contemplation on Confusion patriarchy What Is Required of Us as Fathers Today to his critique of Chinese identity politics My Mustache are exemplary of Chinese thought society and politics in a transitional historic period
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General fiction, Short stories, Asian history
Call to Arms is a collection of revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun s most famous and most important short stories… Featuring A Madman s Diary a scathing attack of traditional Confucian civilization and The True Story of Ah Q a poignant satire about the hypocrisy of Chinese national character and the first work written entirely in the Chinese vernacular Together this collection exposes a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence polemical fractiousness and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today
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Business and economics, Asian history, General non-fiction
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India s new billionaire class in a radically unequal… society India is the world s largest democracy with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China s But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared and the country s top 1 now own nearly 60 of its wealth In megacities like Mumbai where half the population live in slums the extraordinary riches of India s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of yesterday funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption James Crabtree s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires fugitive tycoons and shadowy political power brokers From the sky terrace of the world s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration class and caste The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation and a struggle that will shape not just India s future but the world s
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General non-fiction, Arts and entertainment
This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives Bringing together the voices of dance-artists … scholars teachers and choreographers it looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet providing valuable insights into dance theory performance pedagogy identity and culture It challenges the presumption that Blackness Britishness or dance are monolithic entities instead arguing that all three are living networks created by rich histories diverse faces and infinite future possibilities Through a variety of critical and creative essays this book suggests a widening of our conceptions of what British dance looks like where it appears and who is involved in its creation
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Asian history, War, Politics and government
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century Fought over a period… of three decades the conflict drew in all the world s powers and saw two of them--first France then the United States--attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces For France the defeat marked the effective end of her colonial empire while for America the war left a gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day How did it happen Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and making full use of the published literature distinguished scholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in Vietnam Embers of War opens in 1919 at the Versailles Peace Conference where a young Ho Chi Minh tries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to President Woodrow Wilson It concludes in 1959 with a Viet Cong ambush on an outpost outside Saigon and the deaths of two American officers whose names would be the first to be carved into the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial In between come years of political military and diplomatic maneuvering and miscalculation as leaders on all sides embark on a series of stumbles that makes an eminently avoidable struggle a bloody and interminable reality Logevall takes us inside the councils of war--and gives us a seat at the conference tables where peace talks founder He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France s final years in Indochina--and shows how from an early point a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history Harry Truman s fateful decision to reverse Franklin Delano Roosevelt s policy and acknowledge France s right to return to Indochina after World War II Dwight Eisenhower s strenuous efforts to keep Paris in the fight and his escalation of U S involvement in the aftermath of the humiliating French defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the curious turnaround in Senator John F Kennedy s thinking that would lead him as president to expand that commitment despite his publicly stated misgivings about Western intervention in Southeast Asia An epic story of wasted opportunities and tragic miscalculations featuring an extraordinary cast of larger-than-life characters Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another This book will become the definitive chronicle of the struggle s origins for years to come Advance praise for Embers of War Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American French and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France s nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire --Neil Sheehan author of A Bright Shining Lie winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath from the perspectives of the French the Vietnamese and the Americans Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam --Frances FitzGerald author of Fire in the Lake winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
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Poetry
Poems in the Manner Of is an illuminating journey through centuries of writers who continue to influence new work today… including that of respected poet and series editor of The Best American Poetry David Lehman Very few writers can actually shape how you see the world David Lehman is such a writer says Robert Olen Butler Now the Best American Poetry series editor and New School writing professor channels translates and imagines a collection of poems in the manner of Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Shakespeare W B Yeats Rilke William Carlos Williams and more Lehman has been writing poems in the manner of for years in homage to the poems and people that have left an impression experimenting with styles and voices that have lingered in his mind Finally he has gathered these pieces creating a striking book of poems that channels poets from Walt Whitman to Sylvia Plath and also calls upon jazz standards Freudian questionnaires and astrological profiles for inspiration Intelligent and sparkling this is a great gift for poetry fans and a useful resource for creative writers These are poems of wit and humor but also deep emotion and clear intelligence informed by Lehman s genuine and knowledgeable love of poetry and literature From Catullus and Lady Murasaki to Wordsworth Neruda Virginia Woolf W H Auden and Charles Bukowski Poems in the Manner Of shows how much life there is in poets of the past And like Edward Hirsch s How to Read a Poem and Robert Pinsky s Singing School this book gives you more than poetry Whether you re reading for pure enjoyment or examining how a poet can use references and influences in their own work Poems in the Manner Of is a treasure trove of literary pleasures and food for thought
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The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues--guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the… Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.The Best American Poetry series is "a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable" (Robert Pinsky); a guiding light for the mood and shape of modern American poetry. Each year, this series presents essential American verse and the poets who create it. Truly the "best" American poetry has appeared in this venerable collection for over twenty-five years. A poet of decided brilliance since his 1981 debut collection, For the Sleepwalkers, Edward Hirsch curates a thoughtful selection of poetry for 2016 and an Introduction to be savored. Jumpha Lahiri said of Hirsch, "The trademarks of his poems are...to be intimate but restrained, to be tender without being sentimental, to witness life without flinching, and above all, to isolate and preserve those details of our existence so often overlooked, so easily forgotten, so essential to our souls." Hirsch's choices for this collection reflect the soul of poetry in America. As ever, series editor David Lehman opens this year's edition with an insider's guide and a thoughtful contemplation of poetry today.