You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy, filtered through punk experience, while believing in the ruins of memory, to explore a past whose essence is always elusive.
Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale is the first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critic Leslie Fiedler has dubbed "the inventor of the American writer." The author of Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Ormond, and Edgar Huntly, Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is considered the first American professional author. He introduced Indian characters into American fiction. His keen interest in character delineation and abnormal psychology anticipates the stories of Poe, Hawthorne, and later masters of the psychological novel. Brown was eager to establish for himself an American identity as a writer, to become what Crèvecoeur called "the new man in the New...
Recently named the best city in the country for a college graduate to begin his/her career, Indianapolis is a fantastic city for the young and young at heart professional. This guide is the second edition of the only guide to Indianapolis for the young professional! Whether you are considering the move to Indy, new to the city, or just trying to find better ways to connect to Indy, this book written by a young professional for other professionals will help you plug in and get connected with several different groups, businesses, and organizations of Indianapolis.
This is the first of the Sam Cohen Case Adventure Series. Sam's a lawyer and he gets involved in a cover-up while with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago. Sam refuses to become a participant, is labeled a "turncoat" by the Establishment and becomes a lawyer for the little guy. Mel Pollard is a bartender, secret mystery writer, and Sam's confidant, Val Darensburg is his faithful secretary. One day beautiful Serena Wilson stops by Sam's office with a ruse to gather information about her father. That starts the fast paced trouble. They are after her and because she has come to him, they are after Sam too. William O'Neal, the FBI's informer is an enigma. Is he a Black James Bond or Fred Hampton's Judas? Either way, he did some very wicked things. Also, there are the passionate interlockings of the various characters. Sam is the horniest of them all. The Sam Cohen Case Adventure, Number 2--"Piranhas on the Loose"--is available at iuniverse.com and other online bookstores.
Tracey Emin first came to public attention in the early 1990s and has gone on to achieve a level of visibility unparalleled for an artist in recent times. Her use of intensely personal, everyday materials gives her work an intimate quality, combining avant-garde ideas with traditions of craft. Employing a variety of media that have included installation, film and video, prints and drawings, neon, fabric and artists' books, Emin has built up a formidable body of work whilst maintaining a distinctive artistic vision that is all her own.
Some vols. include budget.
In a historical period of international and global frames of literary investigation, In Their Own Terms is a timely and valuable contribution to cross-cultural forms of dialogue between non-American modes of analysis and US American literary studies. It is a wide-ranging and provocative look into American literary historiography that engages readers in analytical examinations of US literary histories considered landmarks in their field, from the early nineteenth-century work of Samuel L. Knapp to the newly completed Cambridge volumes. It focuses on texts that have had a decisive influence in constructing dominant understandings of American literature, its various genres, significant historic...
The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This final of three volumes concludes ...
Contains over thirty years of poetry written by Magdalene (Neal) Collums of Hope, Arkansas. When they were originally written, Mrs. Collums submitted many of the poems to state and national poetry society contests. Awards received by each poem is identified in the book. Mrs. Collums, now 85 years old, was a high school teacher in the Hope Arkansas area for many years. Also, she was a historian and archivist at the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives just outside Washington AR, original Capital of the Arkansas Territory. Mrs. Collums' poetry covers a wide range of religious, social and historical topics plus many poems about the wildlife, trees and flowers of Southwest Arkansas.
Power struggles between parents and teens are nothing new, but chronic control battles are destructive to teen development as well as the entire family. According to psychotherapist Neil Brown, these battles occur as the result of self-perpetuating negative relationship patterns. This book will help you understand and end the painful tug-of-war with your teen and foster a peaceful and loving home environment.