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Unsettling Archival Research
The essays in this collection shed light on how tactical archival practices can decenter, reshape, and unsettle traditional archival methodologies. Contributors include established scholars, emerging scholars, doctoral candidates, and critical archival scholars.
Accounting for Slavery
A Five Books Best Economics Book of the Year A Politico Great Weekend Read “Absolutely compelling.” —Diane Coyle “The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity...But capitalism is not just about the free market; it was also built on the backs of slaves.” —Forbes The story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and productivity, and subjected...
Apropos of Nothing
The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick ...
Pretty Little London
Based on the hugely popular Instagram account of the same name, Pretty Little London introduces you to 100 Insta-worthy places to explore in the city all year round.
Epidemic Urbanism
Thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyze the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. Epidemic illnesses--not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena--are as old as cities themselves. The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 brought the effects of epidemic illness on urban life into sharp focus, exposing the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How might insights from the outbreak and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding of the current world? With these questions in mind, Epidemic Urbanism gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines--including history, public he...
My Rutledge Family
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Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise
This collection explores decolonial shifts in composition and rhetoric informed by strategies for potentially decolonizing language and literacy practices, writing and rhetorical instruction, and research practices and methods. The discipline of composition and rhetoric stands at a crossroad in its pedagogical, research, and public commitments. Decolonial ruptures in writing and rhetoric studies work to build new horizons, new histories, of local knowledges and meaning-making practices that break from Western hegemonic models of knowledge production. This collection functions as one access point within a constellation of such work, forming an ecology of decolonial shifts informed by strategi...
Gumboot Girls
This book compiles memoirs of 34 women who had migrated from big cities to the rule areas on the north coast of British Columbia.
Eslick-Pierce Family History
John and Francis Eslick were brothers of Scotch-Irish lineage, by family tradition. This tradition indicates they emigrated from Cornwall to Holland and from there to North Carolina in 1760. Isaac Eslick (b.ca.1740), son of Francis (?), married Tabitha Alcorn about 1758, and lived in Granville County, North Carolina. Permelia Ellen Eslick (1814-1905), a direct descendant, married Robert J. Alcorn Sr. in 1833, and after his death, married William Pierce about 1838. The family moved from Indiana to Webster County, Iowa; there were two children from the Alcorn marriage, and nine children from the Pierce marriage. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho, Washington, California and elsewhere.
A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling: How to Captivate and Engage Audiences Across Multiple Platforms
A guide to Transmedia Storytelling. It is buzzword for a new generation - a revolutionary technique for telling stories across multiple media platforms and formats - and it's becoming the go-to strategy for businesses. It also shows you how to utilize the marketing tools used by heavy-hitters such as HBO, and Sony Pictures - at a fraction of cost.
