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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

By: Gertrude Stein,Carl Van Vechten

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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

By: Gertrude Stein,Carl Van Vechten

This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein--including her own autobiographical writings--omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living" the immediate concerns, objects, people, and places that were the grist for her writing. These letters not only vividly represent those details but also showcase Stein and Van Vechten's private selves as writers. Edward Burns's extensive annotations include detailed cross-referencing of source materials.

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Columbia University Press

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0231063091

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9780231063098

Understanding Nazi Ideology

The Genesis and Impact of a Political Faith

By: Carl Müller Frøland

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Understanding Nazi Ideology

The Genesis and Impact of a Political Faith

By: Carl Müller Frøland

Nazism was deeply rooted in German culture. From the fertile soil of German Romanticism sprang ideas of great significance for the genesis of the Third Reich ideology--notions of the individual as a mere part of the national collective, and of life as a ceaseless struggle between opposing forces. This book traces the origins of the "political religion" of Nazism. Ultra-nationalism and totalitarianism, racial theory and anti-Semitism, nature mysticism and occultism, eugenics and social Darwinism, adoration of the Fuhrer and glorification of violence--all are explored. The book also depicts the dramatic development of the Nazi movement--and the explosive impact of its political faith, racing from its bloody birth in the trenches of World War I to its cataclysmic climax in the Holocaust and World War II.

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352

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McFarland

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1476637628

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9781476637624

Heraclitus in Sacramento

By: David Carl

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Heraclitus in Sacramento

By: David Carl

The year is 1987 and the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is living with his mother in a small house in Sacramento when suddenly there is a knock on the door . How far does reading go? At what point does the act of reading catapult the reader into the seemingly inevitable desire that leads to writing? What is the line that divides reading from writing, and what happens in the process of trying to import the perspective one enjoys on one side of that line onto the other side? The four pieces collected here are meditations on possible approaches to these and other questions related to the relationship shared by the two-fold acts of reading and writing.

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330

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iUniverse

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0595396356

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9780595396351

Thaipusam in Malaysia

By: Carl Vadivella Belle

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Thaipusam in Malaysia

By: Carl Vadivella Belle

This book explores the festival of Thaipusam in terms of its own inner dynamics - the traditions and belief structures which ensure the festival's continuing relevance to Malaysian Hindus. It argues that Thaipusam reflects a growing sense of Hindu identity in Malaysia and an as yet inchoate unity. It contends that while the kavadi ritual provides profound meaning at the individual and group level, Thaipusam furnishes a public arena for and gives expression to a powerful Hindu resurgence, largely, though not exclusively, fuelled by Dravidian assertiveness. In situating the festival within the context of a Malaysia dominated by Malay and Islamic power brokers, a society in which both the Indian community and Hinduism are relegated to the margins, the book explores the festival of Thaipusam as a vehicle for mobilization of religious symbols and values which not only simultaneously articulate ethnicity and thus resist the forces which threaten cultural and religious integrity, but which also ultimately signal wider allegiances to the broader politico-cultural world of an imagined, immeasurably rich, and enduring Indo-Hindu civilization.

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432

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Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

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9814786667

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9789814786669

Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel

By: Carl Darryl Malmgren

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Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel

By: Carl Darryl Malmgren

Fictional space is the imaginal expanse of field created by fictional discourse; a space which, through ultimately self-referential and self-validating, necessarily exists in ascertainable relation to the real world outside the text. After defining his theoretical framework the author applies it to American fiction of the twentieth century.

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248

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Bucknell University Press

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0838750672

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9780838750674

The Disciples According to Mark

Markan Redaction in Current Debate

By: Carl Clifton Black

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The Disciples According to Mark

Markan Redaction in Current Debate

By: Carl Clifton Black

Mark's presentation of the disciples is the exegetical focus of this investigation of the validity of the redaction-critical method in the interpretation of the Second Gospel. >From a comprehensive review of recent scholarship, Black identifies three distinctive 'types' of redaction-critical research in Markan discipleship. The contributions of Robert Meye, Ernest Best and Theodore Weeden are selected as representative of these types, and their particular assumptions, procedures and conclusions are systematically explored. Black concludes that the diverse, redaction-critical interpretations of the disciples in Mark function at the behest, not of exegetical method, but of the presuppositions of each exegete. The value of Markan redaction criticism for controlling interpretative assumptions and generating trustworthy interpretations is seriously impugned. A detailed analysis of six recent attempts to refine the use of redaction criticism within Mark bolsters the main argument. Black offers an assessment of the benefits and limitations of the redaction-critical perspective and of its raison d'Otre in contemporary Gospel scholarship. The volume concludes by proposing a synthetic, methodological model for Markan interpretation, to which the chastened appreciation of redaction criticism may contribute.

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401

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A&C Black

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1850751579

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9781850751571

In Quest of Pentecost

Jodocus Van Lodenstein and the Dutch Second Reformation

By: Carl J. Schroeder

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In Quest of Pentecost

Jodocus Van Lodenstein and the Dutch Second Reformation

By: Carl J. Schroeder

In Quest of Pentecost is the first english biography of a leading Dutch reformed pietist during the two-century Dutch Second Reformation period (1600-1800) in the Netherlands. Carl J. Schroeder uses the life and place of Jodocus van Lodenstein to discuss the movement's development and to evaluate the process of church renewal itself.

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238

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University Press of America

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0761819983

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9780761819981

Werke

Neunter Band

By: Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Werke

Neunter Band

By: Carl Friedrich Gauss

Reprint of the original, first published in 1903.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3846048011

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9783846048016

Nigger Heaven

By: Carl Van Vechten

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Nigger Heaven

By: Carl Van Vechten

A controversial novel about the Black community in Harlem during the 1920s, criticized for its depiction of immorality and racist characterization of Black people.

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336

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University of Illinois Press

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0252068602

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9780252068607

Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory

Papers in Honour of Carl S. Herz : Proceedings of a Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory, April 15-19, 1996, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

By: Carl Herz,Stephen William Drury,Maruti Ram Murty

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Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory

Papers in Honour of Carl S. Herz : Proceedings of a Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory, April 15-19, 1996, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

By: Carl Herz,Stephen William Drury,Maruti Ram Murty

This volume presents the proceedings of a conference on Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory held at McGill University (Montreal) in April 1996. The papers are dedicated to the memory of Carl Herz, who had deep interests in both harmonic analysis and number theory. These two disciplines have a symbiotic relationship that is reflected in the papers in this book.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821807943

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9780821807941

108 Mystics

The Essential Guide to Seers, Saints and Sages

By: Carl Mccolman

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108 Mystics

The Essential Guide to Seers, Saints and Sages

By: Carl Mccolman

This is a user-friendly and potentially life-changing introduction to the wisdom teachings of 108 of the greatest mystics in the Western tradition. McColman's premise is that we all need teachers and companions to assist us in developing rich interior lives. It celebrates the universal power and wisdom of the teachings of the mystics, highlighting the ways in which their words can help anyone find greater love, purpose and a deeper sense of God's presence. McColman organizes the mystics into nine categories: visionaries, confessors, lovers, poets, saints, heretics, wisdom keepers, soul-friends and unitives, and he covers a wide range of mystics including Martin Luther King, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Dag Hammarskjold and C.S. Lewis, plus Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton and Bede Griffiths.

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Hay House, Inc

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1781808775

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9781781808771

Chromatin and Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes, Part A

By: Carl Wu,C. David Allis

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Chromatin and Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes, Part A

By: Carl Wu,C. David Allis

DNA in the nucleus of plant and animal cells is stored in the form of chromatin. Chromatin and the Chromatin remodellng enzymes play an important role in gene transcription.*Histone Bioinformatics*Biochemistry of histones, nucleosomes and chromatin*Molecular cytology of chromatin functions

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Elsevier

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0080497136

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9780080497136

The Life of William Faulkner

This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962

By: Carl Rollyson

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The Life of William Faulkner

This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962

By: Carl Rollyson

By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"— Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. The second and concluding volume of Carl Rollyson’s ambitious biography finds Faulkner lamenting the many threats to his creative existence. Feeling, as an artist, he should be above worldly concerns and even morality, he has instead inherited only debts—a symptom of the South’s faded fortunes—and numerous mouths to feed and funerals to fund. And so he turns to the classic temptation for financially struggling writers—Hollywood. Thus begins roughly a decade of shuttling between his home and family in Mississippi—lifeblood of his art—and the backlots of the Golden Age film industry. Through Faulkner’s Hollywood years, Rollyson introduces such personalities as Humphrey Bogart and Faulkner’s long-time collaborator Howard Hawks, while telling the stories behind films such as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. At the same time, he chronicles with great insight Faulkner's rapidly crumbling though somehow resilient marriage and his numerous extramarital affairs--including his deeply felt, if ultimately doomed, relationship with Meta Carpenter. (In his grief over their breakup, Faulkner—a dipsomaniac capable of ferocious alcoholic binges—received third-degree burns when he passed out on a hotel-room radiator.) Where most biographers and critics dismiss Faulkner’s film work as at best a necessary evil, at worst a tragic waste of his peak creative years, Rollyson approaches this period as a valuable window on his artistry. He reveals a fascinating, previously unappreciated cross-pollination between Faulkner’s film and literary work, elements from his fiction appearing in his screenplays and his film collaborations influencing his later novels—fundamentally changing the character of late-career works such as the Snopes trilogy. Rollyson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the composition of Absalom, Absalom!, widely considered Faulkner’s masterpiece, as well as the film adaptation he authored—unproduced and never published— Revolt in the Earth. He reveals how Faulkner wrestled with the legacy of the South—both its history and its dizzying racial contradictions—and turned it into powerful art in works such as Go Down, Moses and Intruder in the Dust. Volume 2 of this monumental work rests on an unprecedented trove of research, giving us the most penetrating and comprehensive life of Faulkner and providing a fascinating look at the author's trajectory from under-appreciated "writer's writer" to world-renowned Nobel laureate and literary icon. In his famous Nobel speech, Faulkner said what inspired him was the human ability to prevail. In the end, this beautifully wrought life shows how Faulkner, the man and the artist, embodies this remarkable capacity to endure and prevail.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813944414

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9780813944418

The Final Days

By: Bob Woodward,Carl Bernstein

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The Final Days

By: Bob Woodward,Carl Bernstein

“An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men. The Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon’s dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon’s fall from office—one of the gravest crises in presidential history.

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502

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Simon and Schuster

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1439127654

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9781439127650

Carl von Clausewitz

Historical and Political Writings

By: Carl von Clausewitz

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Carl von Clausewitz

Historical and Political Writings

By: Carl von Clausewitz

Carl von Clausewitz's major theoretical work, On War, has retained its freshness and relevance since it first appeared 160 years ago. Clausewitz was also a wide-ranging, innovative historian--his acerbic history of Prussia before 1806 became an underground classic long before it could be published--and a combative political essayist, whose observations on the affairs of Germany and Europe combine social egalitarianism with a nearly Bismarckian Realpolitik. In this companion volume to On War, the editors bring together Clausewitz's political writings and a selection of his historical works--material that is fascinating in its own right, important as a commentary on his theories of war, and a valuable source for understanding European ideas and attitudes during and after the Napoleonic era. None of these works has previously appeared in English, with one exception, which was published in a corrupt, censored text that has now been restored to its original form. The editors have contributed introductions for the historical and for the political parts of the volume, as well as brief introductions to the individual selections. Their analyses and the texts themselves reveal Clausewitz to be an exceptionally independent observer both of the past and of his own times, whose outlook is distinguished by an unideological pragmatism and a keen sense of the possibilities and shortcomings of state power. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400862167

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9781400862160

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

By: Carl Schmitt

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The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

By: Carl Schmitt

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy. Described both as "the Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of political leadership and critique of liberal democratic ideals distinguish him as one of the most original contributors to modern political theory. The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy. First published in 1923, it has often been viewed as an attempt to destroy parliamentarism; in fact, it was Schmitt's attempt to defend the Weimar constitution. The introduction to this new translation places the book in proper historical context and provides a useful guide to several aspects of Weimar political culture. The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

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MIT Press

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0262691264

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9780262691260

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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

Understanding Nazi Ideology

Understanding Nazi Ideology

Heraclitus in Sacramento

Heraclitus in Sacramento

Thaipusam in Malaysia

Thaipusam in Malaysia

Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel

Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel

The Disciples According to Mark

The Disciples According to Mark

In Quest of Pentecost

In Quest of Pentecost

Werke

Werke

Nigger Heaven

Nigger Heaven

Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory

Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory

108 Mystics

108 Mystics

Chromatin and Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes, Part A

Chromatin and Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes, Part A

The Life of William Faulkner

The Life of William Faulkner

The Final Days

The Final Days

Carl von Clausewitz

Carl von Clausewitz

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

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