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French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere

Combines social (Habermas) and cultural theory with history of major union in early twentieth-century France.

The Fall of the House of Spade
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Fall of the House of Spade

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-07-30
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

In 1913, several brutal murders occurred in the small town of Canton, Kentucky. Quentin Spade, the scion of a wealthy familyintellectual, respected. artistic, reserved,was accused of being a psychotic killerbut was he? In the early Twenty-First Century, Tiffany Gray, a college student, becomes obsessed with the century old murders and attempts to discover what really happened. The Fall of the House of Spade is a fast-paced novel which moves back and forth from past to present. It presents a story of greed, hatred, political treachery, vengeance, violence, and love, set against the decline of Canton as a center of riverboat trade and wealth. "Kenneth Tucker has woven a haunting story whose characters linger beyond a final page of history or text." Katherine C. Kurk, Kentucky Philological Review "Tucker tells a fascinating story of these evil doers... It's an interesting part of our history..." Jesse Stuart Foundation. "Tucker effectively uses dialogue and and clear, graphic details to bring to light a sad chapter in Kentucky's history." Steve FlairtyKentucky Monthly

The Old Lit Professor's Book of Favorite Readings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 756

The Old Lit Professor's Book of Favorite Readings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Kenneth Tucker taught English for more than thirty years at Murray State University. During his life he has read much indeed. The Old Lit Professor's Book of Favorite Readings collects a number of writings he finds enjoyable, rewarding, and memorable. Stories, essays, poetry, excerpts from longer works compose a potpourri indeed of exceptional writings ranging from Shakespeare to Sherlock Homes, from authors well-known to promising writers of today, including horror and science fiction as well as the classics. Authors range from Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Juvenal through Petrarch, Marguerite of Navarre, Marlowe, Dr. Johnson, to Poe, Hawthorne, Mevillle, to L. Sprague de Camp and William Faulkner on to contemporary poets. One exciting feature of this collection is that most of the selections have not been anthologized before. Although designed for pleasurable reading this book contains introductions and notes which make it suitable as a text for a variety of classes.

Workers of the World, Enjoy!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Workers of the World, Enjoy!

  • Categories: Art

The aesthetic politics of social movements turn public life into a public stage, where mutual displays of performance often trump rational debate, and urban streets become sites of festivals and carnival. In his penetrating new book, Workers of the World, Enjoy!, Kenneth Tucker provides a new model for understanding social change in our image-saturated and aesthetically charged world. As emotional and artistic images inform our perceptions and evaluation of politics, art and performance often provide new and creative ways of understanding self and society. Spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Workers of the World, Enjoy! uses examples from major social movements th...

Classical Social Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Classical Social Theory

This accessible, original book is an exploration of the relevance of classical social theory in the contemporary world. It examines the work of Marx, Weber and Durkheim through the lens of new theoretical issues, such as the role of Empire, the problem of cultural differences, and the possibilities of democracy that are implicit in each theorist's perspective.

I Pray the Lord My Soul to Keep
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

I Pray the Lord My Soul to Keep

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

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A Wilderness of Tigers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

A Wilderness of Tigers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-02-14
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

With the cessation of the Indian Wars, Silas Magby believed that Western Kentucky would be safe for his wife and children. But then the Harpes came—two mysterious brothers, Micajah and Wiley, with three devoted women followers, leaving a wake of ghoulish and seemingly motiveless murders—men, women, children, infants, bludgeoned, stabbed, shot, or set on fire. Earlier Magby had participated in a fruitless attempt to capture the brothers, but word comes that they are seeking him to enact retaliation. Now Magby must somehow stop the brothers before they can kill his wife and children. Although fiction, A Wilderness of Tigers based upon one of the earliest recorded serial killer rampages. In...

A Kentucky Colonel in King Arthur’S Court and the Swamp Maiden of Venus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

A Kentucky Colonel in King Arthur’S Court and the Swamp Maiden of Venus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-08-25
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

A botched alchemical experiment tosses Hal Morganthe scion of a wealthy Louisville family and perhaps a relative of Twains Hank Morgan--into a whacky dimension, where the characters of Arthurian legend indeed exist! Hal soon finds himself involved upon a dangerous quest to save Arthurs court from the plotting of a mysterious black knight. Joined by a sprightly female warrior and a whimsical thief, Hal must confront a mangy werewolf, talking salmon, an exceedingly amorous Morgan Le Fay, belligerentgiants, man-eating witches, a libidinous troll princess, walking eyes, a kelpie, and a dangerous magical forest before he can unmask and defeat Arthurs adversary. At times humorous, at times satirical, A Kentucky Colonel in King Arthurs Court is a fast-paced adventure in the style of that grand old fantasy magazine Unknown Worlds. Also included is The Swamp Maiden of Venus, a bittersweet tale of youthful romance and a boys addiction to fantasy.

Shakespeare and Jungian Typology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Shakespeare and Jungian Typology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-28
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The reader of Shakespeare has always been curious about the Bard's actual religion, opinions, sexual orientation, and relationships. We would like to ask him why his Hamlet is so indecisive, whether Henry V is his ideal ruler, and whether he himself fell in love with Rosalind. The Jungian theories of psychology used in literary interpretation have almost always involved a broader theory of archetypes rather than concentrating on more specific psychological types, despite Jung's belief that an understanding of these types is vital to self-realization. Jung's typological theories, applied to literary studies, may illuminate the personalities of fictional characters and indeed of the author him...

Eliot Ness and the Untouchables
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Eliot Ness and the Untouchables

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-12-22
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Lawman Eliot Ness has been transformed into legend by the films and television programs that depicted the war he and his “Untouchables” waged against Al Capone and the mobsters of Prohibition-era Chicago. Published by McFarland in 2000, the first edition of this volume analyzed both Ness the person and Ness the myth. This updated and expanded second edition is enhanced by information gathered through interviews with members of the original casts of the television and film versions of The Untouchables. Also included is new material on the historical Frank Nitti and “The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,” along with several gangsters whom Ness never actually encountered except in his media portrayals, among them Mad Dog Coll and Dutch Schultz. The author concludes by evaluating the life and accomplishments of Eliot Ness, and his impact as a cultural icon.