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Steve Nash
Provides a look at the life and career of the Canadian basketball star who was almost not picked for a college team.
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge
In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South. Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.
Grand Canyon For Sale
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America's public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as its key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as science research, the book makes plain that accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape. So what’s the plan, as the next phase of our political history begins? Consolidating protected areas and prioritizing natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling and logging will be essential. But a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and would lead directly to the ruin of our national parks and forests. Grand Canyon For Sale is an excellent overview of the physical, biological, and political challenges facing our national parks and U.S. public lands today.
Picasso and the War Years, 1937-1945
This absorbing book draws upon new research and works that, in some cases were held out of public view in Picasso's own collection, to explore the critically important--but still under-studied--period of his life from the Spanish Civil War through World War II and the Nazi occupation of France. This span of years is marked by some of the most intensely personal and expressive work of his career. The subjects he painted changed dramatically in direct response first to the horrors of war and then the dangers and privations of life in occupied Paris, where, though branded a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he chose to remain until the Liberation.
Contemporary Authors
This volume of Contemporary Authors(R) New Revision Series brings you up-to-date information on approximately 250 writers. Editors have scoured dozens of leading journals, magazines, newspapers and online sources in search of the latest news and criticism. Writers appearing in this volume include: Natilie Babbett Frederick Forsythe Maxine Hong Kingston Chris Van Allsburg
Wayne Thiebaud
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Karen Lamonte Nocturnes
This monograph is a fascinating exploration of the artworks of Karen LaMonte, a world-renowned contemporary artist who has gained international recognition for her life-sized figurative sculptures. It focuses on her Nocturnes series with writings by Dr. Steven Nash and the artist and has over 200 pages of beautiful color plates. About her work, LaMonte writes "Inspired by the beauty of night, I call these sculptures Nocturnes-dark, seductive, and sublime. They are absent female forms rising from penumbral garments as figurations of dusk." LaMonte's work investigates complex ideas of identity, body culture, femininity, fashion, feminism, transience, and perceptions of beauty. Dr. Nash writes,...
Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Uncovers the growing and expanding phenomenon of human behavior, social constructs, and communication in online environments.
Matisse
Contains photographs of sculptures created by Henri Matisse.
Naum Gabo
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