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Fritz Reiner Maestro and Martinet-Kenneth Morgan PDF Download

This award-winning book, now available in paperback, is the first solid appraisal of the legendary career of the eminent Hungarian-born conductor Fritz Reiner (1888-1963). Personally enigmatic and oft...

King: a Biography-David Levering Lewis PDF Download

The essential biography of Martin Luther King Jr., back in print in a new edition Author: Lewis, David Levering Publisher: University of Illinois Press Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: King: A Bi...

The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act PDF Download

Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South...

Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity-Colin Koopman PDF Download

Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows...

Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism-Alanna E. Cooper PDF Download

Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the...

Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures Migration and Racism-Dominic Thomas PDF Download

Africa and France reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production, especially in theatre, literature, film, and even museum construction. A hated of foreigner...

In 1936, the Nazi state created a massive military training site near Wildflecken, a tiny community in rural Bavaria. During the war, this base housed an industrial facility that drew forced laborers...

Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane-Gerald Sorin PDF Download

Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Pai...

Gadamer: a Philosophical Portrait-Donatella Di Cesare PDF Download

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of philosophical hermeneutics

Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations-Joshua Malitsky PDF Download

In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film...

Shrubs Large and Small: Natives and Ornamentals for Midwest Gardens-Moya L. Andrews PDF Download

This beautifully illustrated book on landscape gardening addresses shrubs and how to determine which you should plant among your perennials and where. Shrubs provide the foundation for a pleasing, yet...

Love in the Time of Aids: Inequality Gender and Rights in South Africa-Mark Hunter PDF Download

In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of thi...

Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: a History of Travel in Victorian America-John H.jr. White PDF Download

What was travel like in the 1880s? Was it easy to get from place to place? Were the rides comfortable? How long did journeys take? Wet Britches and Muddy Boots describes all forms of public transport...

Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies-Patrick E. Horrigan PDF Download

In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be t...

Rescuing the Children: a Holocaust Memoir-Vivette Samuel PDF Download

Rescuing the Children is the memoir of Vivette Samuel, who at age twenty-two began working for the ¼uvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, or Society for Assistance to Children). The OSE and similar organi...

Letters to J. D. Salinger PDF Download

Despite J. D. Salinger's many silences-from the publication of The Catcher in the Rye to his absence from the public eye after 1965 to his death in 2010-the unforgettable characters of his novel and s...

Sailing to the Far Horizon: the Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship-Pamela Sisman Bitterman PDF Download

The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. J...

Listen to the Land: Conservation Conversations-Dennis Boyer PDF Download

Inspired by years of talking with farmers, foragers, loggers, tribal activists, seed savers, fishers, railroaders, and nature lovers of all stripes, Dennis Boyer has created in Listen to the Land a fa...

Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State PDF Download

At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Hawaii and the Philippines. Co...

The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia-Jean Gelman Taylor PDF Download

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three cent...

Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print PDF Download

Ever since the threads of seventeenth-century natural philosophy began to coalesce into an understanding of the natural world, printed artifacts such as laboratory notebooks, research journals, colleg...

Help Is on the Way-John Brehm PDF Download

Help Is On the Way takes readers from the subways of New York City to the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto University Hospital. But whatever their setting, these poems ar...

Genocide Lives in Us: Women Memory and Silence in Rwanda-Jennie E. Burnet PDF Download

In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women faced the impossible-resurrecting their lives amidst unthinkable devastation. Haunted by memories of lost loved ones and of their own experiences o...

Chicago Whispers: a History of Lgbt Chicago Before Stonewall-St. Sukie De La Croix PDF Download

Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading p...