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Because I Was Flesh

The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

By: Edward Dahlberg

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Because I Was Flesh

The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

By: Edward Dahlberg

Few books in the history of New Directions have received such praise as came to Edward Dahlberg’s autobiography, Because I Was Flesh, which is now on our paperback list. Alfred Kazin wrote: “A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence and power, it redeems with one mighty creative act the suffering of a lifetime. It is one of the few important American books published in our day.” And Allen Tate spoke of “the hair-raising honesty, the profound self-knowledge, and the formal elegance of the style,...a combination that has not previously appeared in an autobiography by an American.” Sir Herbert Read called the book, “A great achievement. A masterpiece. The magnificent portrait of the author’s mother is as relentless, as detailed, as loving as a late Rembrandt.” Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg’s life as a child and young man—in Kansas City, in a Cleveland orphanage, in California and New York—and of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it. Seldom has there been so ruthless, and yet so tender a dissection of the mother-son relationship. And from it Lizzie Dahlberg, the lady barber of Kansas City, emerges as one of the unforgettable characters of our literature. This is a book of many dimensions, an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience.

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1787203875

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Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

By: Edward Dahlberg

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Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

By: Edward Dahlberg

Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg’s life as a child and young man, and a portrait in depth of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it. Because I Was Flesh is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Lizzie Dahlberg, separated from a worthless husband, works as a lady barber to keep herself and her son in shabby respectability amid the vice and brutality of Kansas City in the early 1900’s. Her constant objective: to acquire a new husband who can give her security and help educate the child. She is attractive to men, but fate never brings her a good one. One suitor makes her put the boy in an orphanage––years of torment that are brilliantly described––and then betrays her. Another does marry her––and disappears with her savings. Lizzie is in despair, but soon begins to laugh at life again and arches her bosom for the next prospect. As he grows through a sensitive, painful adolescence, Edward is both fascinated and appalled by his mother. He adores her but is ashamed of her. He tries to escape, bumming his way to Los Angeles and later going to college in Berkeley, but is always drawn back. Even her death, with which the book ends, cannot release him. Seldom has there been so ruthless, and yes so tender a dissection of the mother-son relationship. And from it Lizzie Dahlberg emerges as one of the unforgettable characters of modern literature.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811222888

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9780811222884

Inside Looking Out

The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924

By: Gary Edward Polster

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Inside Looking Out

The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924

By: Gary Edward Polster

The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum was for fifty years (1868-1918) the home for some 3,500 boys and girls, most of them immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gary Polster's study examines the efforts of the more acculturated German Jews of Cleveland to "Americanize" and make good workers of the newcomers, and to teach a Judaism quite removed from the Yiddish culture and religious orthodoxy of Eastern Europe. The dominant figure at the asylum during the formative years was Samuel Wofenstein (1841-1921), a native of Moravia who by the age of 22 had earned both a rabbinical degree and a Ph.D in philosophy. He became a trustee of the JOA in 1875 and its superintendent in 1878. For a man who gained a reputation as an authoritarian, his first wish was to free the children from a lock step regimentation, which produced an "institutional type..marked by repression if not atrophy of the impulse to act independent." Wolfenstein stressed obedience through persuasion, through religion (Reform Judaism), and moral exhortations. Students were to be imbued with respect for work through performing useful tasks--the boys in the stables and on the grounds, the girls in the kitchen, the laundry, and the sewing room. The idea of "assimilation" was necessarily paternalistic but many of the German Jews believed that by becoming more "American" and less obviously "Jewish" they would deflect the always present nativism and anti-Semitism. As for the children, they remained for the most part ambivalent about the orphanage and about Wolfenstein and his successors. They were taught some useful skills; they were fed and clothed. Their chief deprivation was of the spirit. Professor Polster brings to his study a sensitivity that complements his grasp of the literature of "asylum" and the social history of turn-of-the-century America. He has listened well to the aging men and women who once were the children "inside looking out.

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Kent State University Press

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0873384067

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9780873384063

Alms for Oblivion

By: Edward Dahlberg

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Alms for Oblivion

By: Edward Dahlberg

Alms for Oblivion was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This volume makes available in book form a collection of seventeen essays by Edward Dahlberg, who has been called one of the great unrecognized writers of our time. Some of the selections have never been published before; others have appeared previously only in magazines of limited circulation. There is a foreword by Sir Herbert Read. The individual essays are on a wide range of subjects: literary, historical, philosophical, personal. The longest is a discussion of Herman Melville's work entitled "Moby-Dick - A Hamitic Dream." The fate of authors at the hands of reviewers is the subject of the essay called "For Sale." In "No Love and No Thanks" the author draws a characterization of our time. He presents a critique of the poet William Carlos Williams in "Word-Sick and Place- Crazy," and a discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald in "Peopleless Fiction." In "My Friends Stieglitz, Anderson, and Dreiser" he discusses not only Alfred Stieglitz, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser but other personalities as well. He also writes of Sherwood Anderson in "Midwestern Fable." In "Cutpurse Philosopher" the subject is William James. "Florentine Codex" is about the conquistadores. Other essays in the collection are the following: "Randolph Bourne," "Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies," "Chivers and Poe," "Domestic Manners of Americans," "Robert McAlmon: A Memoir," "The Expatriates: A Memoir," and an essay on Allen Tate.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816657386

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9780816657384

Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion

Selective Solidarity in Western Democracies

By: Edward A. Koning

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Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion

Selective Solidarity in Western Democracies

By: Edward A. Koning

Why do some governments try to limit immigrants’ access to social benefits and entitlements while others do not? Through an in-depth study of Sweden, Canada, and the Netherlands, Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion maps the politics of immigrants’ social rights in Western democracies. To achieve this goal, Edward A. Koning analyzes policy documents, public opinion surveys, data on welfare use, parliamentary debates, and interviews with politicians and key players in the three countries. Koning’s findings are three-fold. First, the politics of immigrant welfare exclusion have little to do with economic factors and are more about general opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. Second, proposals for exclusion are particularly likely to arise in a political climate that incentivizes politicians to appear "tough" on immigration. Finally, the success of anti-immigrant politicians in bringing about exclusionary reforms depends on the response of the political mainstream, and the extent to which immigrants’ rights are protected in national and international legal frameworks. A timely investigation into an increasingly pressing subject, Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion will be essential reading for scholars and students of political science, comparative politics, and immigration studies.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487530668

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9781487530662

Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets

By: Sergiy V. Borodachov,Douglas P. Hardin,Edward B. Saff

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Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets

By: Sergiy V. Borodachov,Douglas P. Hardin,Edward B. Saff

This book aims to provide an introduction to the broad and dynamic subject of discrete energy problems and point configurations. Written by leading authorities on the topic, this treatise is designed with the graduate student and further explorers in mind. The presentation includes a chapter of preliminaries and an extensive Appendix that augments a course in Real Analysis and makes the text self-contained. Along with numerous attractive full-color images, the exposition conveys the beauty of the subject and its connection to several branches of mathematics, computational methods, and physical/biological applications. This work is destined to be a valuable research resource for such topics as packing and covering problems, generalizations of the famous Thomson Problem, and classical potential theory in Rd. It features three chapters dealing with point distributions on the sphere, including an extensive treatment of Delsarte–Yudin–Levenshtein linear programming methods for lower bounding energy, a thorough treatment of Cohn–Kumar universality, and a comparison of 'popular methods' for uniformly distributing points on the two-dimensional sphere. Some unique features of the work are its treatment of Gauss-type kernels for periodic energy problems, its asymptotic analysis of minimizing point configurations for non-integrable Riesz potentials (the so-called Poppy-seed bagel theorems), its applications to the generation of non-structured grids of prescribed densities, and its closing chapter on optimal discrete measures for Chebyshev (polarization) problems.

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672

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Springer Nature

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0387848088

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9780387848082

Pension Florian (Salon Kitty)

By: John Edward Heys

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Pension Florian (Salon Kitty)

By: John Edward Heys

Recollections of a small group of actors (8) invited to portray characters from the artist David Wojnarowicz's first book "SOUNDS IN THE DISTANCE" in Berlin in 1984. The ensemble performed in an artist's loft which abutted the Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg & were housed in The Pensione Florian, formerly the most elite bordello ( SALON KITTY) in Berlin whose patrons included the highest echelon of The Third Reich.

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3741207934

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Capitalism and Commerce

Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise

By: Edward W. Younkins

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Capitalism and Commerce

Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise

By: Edward W. Younkins

In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments for capitalism. Drawn from over a decade of business school teaching, Younkins's work offers the student of political economy and the educated layperson a clear, systematic treatment of the philosophical concepts that underpin the idea of capitalism and the business, legal, and political institutions that impact commercial enterprises. Divided into seven parts, the work discusses capitalism and morality; individuals, communities, and the role of the state; private and corporate ownership; entrepreneurship and technological progress; law, justice, and corporate governance; and the obstacles to a free market and limited government.

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Lexington Books

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0739152807

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9780739152805

Understanding the Black Mountain Poets

By: Edward Halsey Foster

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Understanding the Black Mountain Poets

By: Edward Halsey Foster

An experimental school of poetry & its leading proponents.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570030146

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Introduction to Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols

By: Jay J. H. Park,Edward J. Mills,J. Kyle Wathen

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Introduction to Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols

By: Jay J. H. Park,Edward J. Mills,J. Kyle Wathen

A unique and practical high-level introductory guide to the emerging field of adaptive trial designs, platform trials, and master protocols.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108926983

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The Difficult Flowering of Surinam

Ethnicity and Politics in a Plural Society

By: Edward Dew

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The Difficult Flowering of Surinam

Ethnicity and Politics in a Plural Society

By: Edward Dew

In the months immediately preceding Surinam's independence, November 25, 1975, warning signals went up on both sides of the Atlantic. This small, ethnically plural society was torn by severe political conflict. Elections in November 1973 had brought an end to political collaboration between Creoles and Hindustanis, the country's two largest ethnic groups; and the Creoles, now in control of the government, were resolutely pushing (over Hindustani opposition) to sever their colonial ties with the Netherlands. But defections from the Creole benches during the summer of 1975 had produced a virtual stalemate in the legislature, heightening fears that the government would act unilaterally. The failure of Creole and Hindustani leaders to resolve their differences led many observers in both the Netherlands and Surinam to predict a collapse of democracy and/or violent conflict once independence was proclaimed. Ironically, the dramatic, last-minute resolution of the struggle precipitated not only general jubilation and relief, but also self-congratulation, as the leaders of Surinam's multiethnic society, long priding themselves on achieve ments in harmonious understanding, pulled out all stops in their indepen dence day oratory. No-one could forget the nightmare of the preceding few years. But neither could anyone familiar with Surinam's historical develop ment flatly reject the rhetoric as being without some foundation. In fact, Surinam, while severely tested by the most complex multi-ethnic population in the Caribbean, does have a record of which she can be proud and which deserves to be more widely known.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401732787

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9789401732789

Advances in Pediatrics 2017

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Leslie L. Barton,Jane Carver,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Surendra Varma

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Advances in Pediatrics 2017

By: Carol D. Berkowitz,Leslie L. Barton,Jane Carver,Edward M. Barksdale Jr.,Surendra Varma

Advances in Pediatrics reviews the most current practices in pediatrics. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Carol Berkowitz, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites expert pediatricians to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care. Topics such as fetal diagnosis and surgical intervention, updates in pharmacology, and fatty liver disease are represented, highlighting the most current and relevant information in the field.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323554415

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9780323554411

Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food

By: Maynard A. Amerine,Rose Marie Pangborn,Edward B. Roessler

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Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food

By: Maynard A. Amerine,Rose Marie Pangborn,Edward B. Roessler

Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food covers the concepts of sensory physiology and the psychology of perception. This book is composed of 11 chapters that specifically consider the significance of these concepts in food sensory analysis. After providing a brief introduction to problems related to sensory evaluation in food industry, this book goes on examining the physiology and psychology of the senses. The succeeding chapters survey the status of methodology and appropriate statistical analyses of the results. These topics are followed by discussions on the problems of measuring consumer acceptance. Food acceptance and preference depend on human sensory responses. The remaining chapters describe the relationship between sensory characteristics and various physical and chemical properties of foods. This book will prove useful to food scientists and researchers.

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1483225216

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Book's by Edward Dahlberg

Because I Was Flesh

Because I Was Flesh

Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

Inside Looking Out

Inside Looking Out

Alms for Oblivion

Alms for Oblivion

Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion

Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion

Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets

Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets

Pension Florian (Salon Kitty)

Pension Florian (Salon Kitty)

Capitalism and Commerce

Capitalism and Commerce

Understanding the Black Mountain Poets

Understanding the Black Mountain Poets

Introduction to Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols

Introduction to Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols

The Difficult Flowering of Surinam

The Difficult Flowering of Surinam

Advances in Pediatrics 2017

Advances in Pediatrics 2017

Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food

Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food

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