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The Beauty of Men Never Dies

An Autobiographical Novel

By: David Leddick

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The Beauty of Men Never Dies

An Autobiographical Novel

By: David Leddick

Buoyant and entertaining, this melding of memoir and fiction recounts with humor and candid observation a gay man's romances in his seventies, offering insight into the joys (and a few of the sorrows) of loving, living, and aging with grace, style, and a fearless sense of fun. Bouncing between Montevideo, New York, and Paris, the narrator reveals his adventurous life, his many lovers, his varied careers from dance to advertising, and the upbeat outlook that sustains him as he pursues the elusive Fenil, a handsome Uruguayan policeman. David Leddick's short sketches, interspersed with memories, attitudes, and opinions drawn from the past, combine in a vivid tale of a life lived with panache at an age when most people think the adventure has already ended.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299292738

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9780299292737

Intimate Companions

A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle

By: David Leddick

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Intimate Companions

A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle

By: David Leddick

Photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein played a major role in creating the institutions of the American art world from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The three created a remarkable world of gay aesthetics and desire in art with the help of their overlapping circle of friends, lovers, and collaborators. Through hours of conversation with surviving members with their circle and unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photos, David Leddick has resurrected the influences of this now-vanished art world along with the lives and loves of all three artists in this groundbreaking biography.

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Macmillan

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1250104785

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The Beauty of Men Never Dies

An Autobiographical Novel

By: David Leddick

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An Autobiographical Novel

By: David Leddick

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Words to Measure a War

Nine American Poets of World War II

By: David K. Vaughan

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Words to Measure a War

Nine American Poets of World War II

By: David K. Vaughan

This is a study of the war poetry of nine American men who served in World War II. The efforts of those who had established themselves as poets prior to or during the war (Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, John Ciardi, and William Meredith) are compared with those whose poetic careers began after the war (Louis Simpson, James Dickey, Richard Hugo, Howard Nemerov, and Lincoln Kirstein). The military careers of these soldiers illuminate how their experiences affected the content as well as style of their poems. Each man's poetry directly related to his involvement with the combat environment: the closer the combat experience, the more personal the poetry; the more distant the experience, the more detached the poetry.

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205

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McFarland

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0786443065

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Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

Principles, Models, Methods

By: David J. Powell

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Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

Principles, Models, Methods

By: David J. Powell

The perfect handbook for the clinical supervisor." —Nancy Waite-O’Brien, director, Education and Training, Betty Ford Center "An outstanding contribution to the professional well-being of the addiction field." —Thomas McGovern, editor, Addiction Treatment Quarterly "Forever useful." —S. Beckett, education and training coordinator, National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors

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450

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470234806

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9780470234808

Children′s Adjustment to Adoption

Developmental and Clinical Issues

By: David M. Brodzinsky,Daniel W. Smith,Anne B. Brodzinsky

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Children′s Adjustment to Adoption

Developmental and Clinical Issues

By: David M. Brodzinsky,Daniel W. Smith,Anne B. Brodzinsky

This recent volume is an important resource for instructors, researchers, and clinicians interested in the development of children who have been adopted. Brodzinsky, Smith, and Brodzinsky offer an up-to-date and accessible review of the history of adoption, theoretical perspectives that are used to organize thinking about adoption, and research that has evaluated the adjustment of children who have been adopted. —Journal of Marriage and the Family "The style is confident and authoritative . . . . this is a useful digest which, . . . . provides academics and practitioners with a neat, solid guide to key research in the field." —David Howe, in Child and Family Social Work A significant contribution to understanding the effects of adoption, ChildrenÆs Adjustment to Adoption presents major issues that affect both the process and outcome of adoption for children and their parents. It begins with a historical and contemporary perspective on adoption and then focuses on the various theories that have addressed the issue of psychological risk associated with adoption. Extensive coverage is provided on the adjustment of children and parents to adoption itself and on the psychological development including adjustment and maladjustment over the course of childhood and adolescence. Children whose adoptions emerge from such circumstances as child abuse, parental drug use, and parental HIV are closely examined as are adoptions across racial and cultural lines. This volume offers extensive coverage of theory and research on children and families and the contextual issues pertinent to the adoption process, with clinical vignettes punctuating key points. The authors close with a discussion of intervention and assessment issues that commonly arise when working with adoptees and their families. ChildrenÆs Adjustment to Adoption is a welcome addition to the current literature on the psychological issues associated with adoption. It will be valuable for professionals in the fields of clinical and counseling psychology, developmental psychology, nursing, social work, health services, and family studies.

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155

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SAGE Publications

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1452221278

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9781452221274

Western Queers in China

Flight to the Land of Oz

By: David Emil Mungello

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Western Queers in China

Flight to the Land of Oz

By: David Emil Mungello

This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D.E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study traces the lives of two dozen men, many previously unknown to have same-sex desire, who fled to China and in the process influenced perceptions of Chinese culture to this day. This escapism engendered casual sexual encounters, serious friendships, and substantive intellectual rela.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442215577

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Manly Arts

Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema

By: David A Gerstner

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Manly Arts

Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema

By: David A Gerstner

In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine ideal under American capitalism. Gerstner describes how cinema came to be considered the art form of the New World and how its experimental qualities infused other artistic traditions (many associated with Europe—painting, literature, and even photography) with new life: brash, virile, American life. He argues that early filmmakers were as concerned with establishing cinema’s standing in relation to other art forms as they were with storytelling. Focusing on the formal dimensions of early-twentieth-century films, he describes how filmmakers drew on European and American theater, literature, and painting to forge a national aesthetic that equated democracy with masculinity. Gerstner provides in-depth readings of several early American films, illuminating their connections to a wide range of artistic traditions and cultural developments, including dance, poetry, cubism, realism, romanticism, and urbanization. He shows how J. Stuart Blackton and Theodore Roosevelt developed The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) to disclose cinema’s nationalist possibilities during the era of the new twentieth-century urban frontier; how Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler positioned a national avant-garde through the fusion of “American Cubism” and industrialization in their film, Manhatta (1921); and how Oscar Micheaux drew on slave narratives and other African American artistic traditions as he grappled with the ideological terms of African American and white American manhood in his movie Within Our Gates (1920). Turning to Vincente Minnelli’s Cabin in the Sky (1943), Gerstner points to the emergence of an aesthetic of cultural excess that brought together white and African American cultural producers—many of them queer—and troubled the equation of national arts with masculinity.

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334

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Duke University Press

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0822387662

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9780822387664

Starcombing

By: David Langford

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Starcombing

By: David Langford

Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford's witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous 'Futures' page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0809573431

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The Transformative Workplace

Growing People, Purpose, Prosperity and Peace

By: Carole and David Schwinn

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The Transformative Workplace

Growing People, Purpose, Prosperity and Peace

By: Carole and David Schwinn

The greatest need in the world today is for far more people to be developed enough to bring forth a world that works for all. Organizations need people who are capable of facing the challenges of an uncertain global economy; communities need people who can strengthen institutions in the places they live; societies need people with the capacity to address the urgency and complexity of the problems we face in the world today. The authors propose that the places we work must become the context for becoming more of who we are meant to be as highly aware, fully functioning human beings, at the same time that we accomplish the goals of the enterprise. The book explains what is meant by transformative work; highlights examples of where it is occurring around the world; and offers ideas about how workplaces can benefit from equally valuing and focusing on the purposes of their work, the purposes of the people who work there, and the purposes of their communities and the larger society.

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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0986329800

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9780986329807

The Best American Poetry 2013

By: David Lehman

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The Best American Poetry 2013

By: David Lehman

Beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm and her commitment to poetry in all its wide variety to bear on her choices for The Best American Poetry 2013. These acts of imagination—from known stars and exciting newcomers—testify to the vitality of an art form that continues to endure and flourish, defying dour predictions of its demise, in the digital age. This edition of the most important poetry anthology in the United States opens with David Lehman’s incisive “state of the art” essay and Denise Duhamel’s engagingly candid discussion of the seventy-five poems that made her final cut. Reflecting the vibrant state of our country’s contemporary poetry scene, The Best American Poetry 2013 includes such eminences as John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, James Tate, and Richard Wilbur, as well as the fast-rising hot poets Sherman Alexie, Nin Andrews, Anna Maria Hong, Timothy Donnelly, Mary Ruefle, and Major Jackson.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476708142

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9781476708140

The United States of War

A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State

By: David Vine

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The United States of War

A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State

By: David Vine

2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.

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Univ of California Press

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0520385683

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9780520385689

Intimate Companions

A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle

By: David Leddick

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Intimate Companions

A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle

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Macmillan

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1250104785

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9781250104786

Ahead of the Crowd - Vol 3 - Travels Around the World

1963-2017: In 3 Volumes

By: David Leddick

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Ahead of the Crowd - Vol 3 - Travels Around the World

1963-2017: In 3 Volumes

By: David Leddick

It was interesting to see Leddick's take on Paris in the 1960s. That's when air travel to Europe was just getting started." - Leanne Rylander, Liverpool"When the author went to a lot of these places, Americans were few and far between-a remarkable journey." -Jerry Adams, Atlanta "He certainly offers a fresh perspective on the exotic places he made it to. Places I can only hope I to visit-someday." - Philip Runmeade, Baltimore In another decade of travel well into the 21st Century David Leddick explored South America more fully, even establishing a residence In Montevideo, capital of the tiny country Uruguay wedged between Argentina to the south and widespread Brazil to the north. After renovating his 1890s house in the old quarter of Montevideo, he began to explore Brazil, beginning with Rio de Janeiro, following up with a voyage to Sao Paulo.He interspersed these visits with journeys to Naples in Italy, a favored city. He added to this several sidetrips to nearby glamorous Capri, the Isle where many international travelers go regularly. Returns to South America led to visits to Curacao, Cancun, and Lima. There were added several sidetrips to Panama, squarely between the north and south continents. He now lives very much midway between the North and South Americas in Miami Beach, Florida.

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Independently Published

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9798647967466

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The Beauty of Men Never Dies

The Beauty of Men Never Dies

Intimate Companions

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The Beauty of Men Never Dies

The Beauty of Men Never Dies

Words to Measure a War

Words to Measure a War

Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling

Children′s Adjustment to Adoption

Children′s Adjustment to Adoption

Western Queers in China

Western Queers in China

Manly Arts

Manly Arts

Starcombing

Starcombing

The Transformative Workplace

The Transformative Workplace

The Best American Poetry 2013

The Best American Poetry 2013

The United States of War

The United States of War

Intimate Companions

Intimate Companions

Ahead of the Crowd - Vol 3 - Travels Around the World

Ahead of the Crowd - Vol 3 - Travels Around the World

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