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The Sleuth Book for Genealogists

Strategies for More Successful Family History Research

By: Emily Anne Croom

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The Sleuth Book for Genealogists

Strategies for More Successful Family History Research

By: Emily Anne Croom

Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2000.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317876

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The Nature of the Future

Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North

By: Emily Pawley

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The Nature of the Future

Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North

By: Emily Pawley

In the seemingly mundane Northern farm of early America and the people who sought to improve its productivity and efficiency, Emily Pawley finds a world rich with innovative practices and marked by a developing interrelationship between scientific knowledge, industrial methods, and capitalism. Agricultural "improvers" became increasingly scientistic, driving tremendous increases in the range and volume of agricultural output-and transforming American conceptions of expertise, success, and exploitation. Pawley's focus on soil, fertilizer, apples, mulberries, agricultural fairs, and experimental stations shows each nominally dull subject to have been an area of intellectual ferment and sharp contestation: mercantile, epistemological, and otherwise"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226820025

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9780226820026

Invisible Ball of Dreams

Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

By: Emily Ruth Rutter

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Invisible Ball of Dreams

Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

By: Emily Ruth Rutter

Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), Black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, Black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring Black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496817133

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Populating the Novel

Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life

By: Emily Steinlight

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Populating the Novel

Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life

By: Emily Steinlight

From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics. In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction into the foreground. In so doing, she transforms the subject and political stakes of the Victorian novel, dislodging the longstanding idea that its central category is the individual by demonstrating how fiction is altered by its emerging concern with population. By overpopulating narrative space and imagining the human species perpetually in excess of the existing social order, she shows, fiction made it necessary to radically reimagine life in the aggregate.

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Cornell University Press

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1501710710

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9781501710711

The Drama of Complaint

Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy

By: Emily Shortslef

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The Drama of Complaint

Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy

By: Emily Shortslef

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint—expressions of discontent and unhappiness—operate in and across the period's literary and nonliterary discourses as sites of thought about human flourishing, the subject of ethical inquiry. The other is that Shakespearean configurations of these ubiquitous forms in theatrical scenes of complaint model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity, or ways of desiring, acting, and living consonant with notions of the good life. The Drama of Complaint develops these interlocking arguments through five chapters that demonstrate the thinking materialized in and through five prolific forms of complaint (existential, judicial, spectral, female, and deathbed). Built around some of the most electrifying scenes in Shakespearean tragedy, each chapter is a case study that identifies and theorizes one of these forms of complaint; delineates a matrix of ethical thought that structures that form; and develops a new reading of a Shakespearean tragedy to which that form of complaint and those ethical questions are integral.

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Oxford University Press

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0192694774

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A Primer for Teaching Environmental History

Ten Design Principles

By: Emily Wakild,Michelle K. Berry

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A Primer for Teaching Environmental History

Ten Design Principles

By: Emily Wakild,Michelle K. Berry

A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate environmental history into their world history courses. Emily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry offer design principles for creating syllabi that will help students navigate a wide range of topics, from food, environmental justice, and natural resources to animal-human relations, senses of place, and climate change. In their discussions of learning objectives, assessment, project-based learning, using technology, and syllabus design, Wakild and Berry draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses on environmental history that will challenge students to think critically about one of the most urgent topics of study in the twenty-first century.

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Duke University Press

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0822371596

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9780822371595

Virginia Woolf and Poetry

By: Emily Kopley

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Virginia Woolf and Poetry

By: Emily Kopley

Virginia Woolf's career was shaped by her impression of the conflict between poetry and the novel, a conflict she often figured as one between masculine and feminine, old and new, bound and free. In large part for feminist reasons, Woolf promoted the triumph of the novel over poetry, even as she adapted some of poetry's techniques for the novel in order to portray the inner life. Woolf considered poetry the rival form to the novel. A monograph on Woolf's sense of genre rivalry thus offers a thorough reinterpretation of the motivations and aims of her canonical work. Drawing on unpublished archival material and little-known publications, the book combines biography, book history, formal analysis, genetic criticism, source study, and feminist literary history. Woolf's attitude towards poetry is framed within contexts of wide scholarly interest: the decline of the lyric poem, the rise of the novel, the gendered associations with these two genres, elegy in prose and verse, and the history of English Studies. Virginia Woolf and Poetry makes three important contributions. It clarifies a major prompt for Woolf's poetic prose. It exposes the genre rivalry that was creatively generative to many modernist writers. And it details how holding an ideology of a genre can shape literary debates and aesthetics.

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Oxford University Press

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0198850867

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Reflections on Poetry and the World

Walking along the Hudson

By: Emily Grosholz

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Reflections on Poetry and the World

Walking along the Hudson

By: Emily Grosholz

This collection brings together 40 years of essays about poetry and literature written by Emily Grosholz. The first section includes essays about some of her favorite poets and thinkers in the United States, England, France and Germany. The second section brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics and practical deliberation, and the third considers it alongside science and imagination. The last section is an homage to The Hudson Review, for whom she has served as an Advisory Editor for many years. As a philosopher, Emily Grosholz has written and thought about feminism, racism, and mathematics and science, which has led her to admire all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry reorganized language and memory, eros and experience, and time and place, and how and why it deepens our understanding of life.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152756391X

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The Legend of Logjam

By: Emily Gillespie Clement

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The Legend of Logjam

By: Emily Gillespie Clement

For Mabel Crockett, the town of Logjam is a fine place to grow up. Sure, some folks are constructed of spare parts, and her own family flies around in a converted WW2 bomber. And over at Halfslips' Center for Botanical Research they're always growing something new and surprising. Not until the creepy Verdon Arbogast begins poking around does Mabel begin to suspect that something really peculiar is going on. Then Mabel receives a cryptic message, and discovers that it's up to her to unravel the secrets of Logjam. Secrets which might reveal more than Mabel wants to know...about herself.

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Lulu.com

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0557108616

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Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation

By: Emily Williams

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Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation

By: Emily Williams

In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann’s tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop’s belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. “Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation” examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.

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Vernon Press

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1648890555

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Competing without Fighting

China's Strategy of Political Warfare

By: Seth G. Jones,Emily Harding,Catrina Doxsee,Jake Harrington,Riley McCabe

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Competing without Fighting

China's Strategy of Political Warfare

By: Seth G. Jones,Emily Harding,Catrina Doxsee,Jake Harrington,Riley McCabe

China is conducting an unprecedented campaign below the threshold of armed conflict to expand the influence of the Chinese Communist Party and weaken the United States and its partners. The scale of China’s actions in the United States is unparalleled. This CSIS report offers one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of Chinese political warfare activities and examines China’s main actions, primary goals, and options for the United States and its partners.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153817071X

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The Soundscape of Modernity

Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933

By: Emily Thompson

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The Soundscape of Modernity

Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933

By: Emily Thompson

A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era. Reverberation equations, sound meters, microphones, and acoustical tiles were deployed in places as varied as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's office skyscrapers, and the soundstages of Hollywood. The control provided by these technologies, however, was applied in ways that denied the particularity of place, and the diverse spaces of modern America began to sound alike as a universal new sound predominated. Although this sound—clear, direct, efficient, and nonreverberant—had little to say about the physical spaces in which it was produced, it speaks volumes about the culture that created it. By listening to it, Thompson constructs a compelling new account of the experience of modernity in America.

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MIT Press

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0262701065

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9780262701068

Succeeding King Lear

Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics

By: Emily Sun

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Succeeding King Lear

Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics

By: Emily Sun

This book investigates the question of the relations between literature and politics in democratic modernity. It makes connections between Shakespeare's tragedy, Wordsworth's poetry, and the documentary nonfiction and photography of James Agee and Walker Evans to offer new ways of thinking of the logic of literary history and the relationship between early modern, Romantic, and twentieth-century texts; and it brings literature into dialogue with contemporary philosophical re-readings of Western political thought. King Lear, Sun argues, opens up a literary succession at the heart of which is a crisis of sovereignty. Interrogating what it is to be a political subject as actor and spectator in the kingdom, the play issues an injunction to transform spectatorship in plural and nonsovereign terms. Thorough engagements with Lear, Wordsworth in the 1790s, and Agee and Evans in the 1930s assume this injunction by generating new artistic genres and modes for their times.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823232808

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9780823232802

The Way of Inuit Art

Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the Arctic

By: Emily Elisabeth Auger

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The Way of Inuit Art

Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the Arctic

By: Emily Elisabeth Auger

Inuit art, both ancient and contemporary, has inspired the interest of scholars, collectors and art lovers around the globe. This book examines Inuit art from prehistory to the present with special attention to methodology and aesthetics, exploring the ways in which it has been influenced by and has influenced non-Inuit artists and scholars. Part One gives the history of the main art-producing prehistoric traditions in the North American arctic, concentrating on the Dorset who once flourished in the Canadian region. It also demonstrates the influence of theories such as evolutionism, diffusionism, ethnographic comparison, and shamanism on the interpretation of prehistoric Inuit art. Part Two demonstrates the influence of such popular theories as nationalism, primitivism, modernism, and postmodernism on the aesthetics and representation of twentieth-century Canadian Inuit art. This discussion is supported by interviews conducted with Inuit artists. A final chapter shows the presence of Inuit art in the mainstream multi-cultural environment, with a discussion of its influence on Canadian artist Nicola Wojewoda. The work also presents various Inuit artists' reactions to Wojewoda's work.

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McFarland

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0786418885

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Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System

Definitions, Theory, and Eyewitness Research

By: Joanna Pozzulo,Emily Pica,Chelsea Sheahan

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Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System

Definitions, Theory, and Eyewitness Research

By: Joanna Pozzulo,Emily Pica,Chelsea Sheahan

Eyewitness research has focused mainly on stranger identification, but identification is also critical for the "familiar stranger", and understanding how variability in an eyewitness's familiarity with the perpetrator may influence recall and recognition accuracy will facilitate swifter and more just resolutions to crime. Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System examines the notion of familiarity between an eyewitness/victim and a perpetrator, ranging from complete unfamiliarity (as with a total stranger) to a very familiar other. Authors Joanna Pozzulo, Emily Pica, and Chelsea Sheahan define what is meant by "familiarity" in an eyewitness context and how it has been operationalized and manipulated, exploring factors that may interact with familiarity and examining jurors' perceptions of it. The first half of the book draws on various sub-areas of psychology to understand familiarity against the backdrop of eyewitness identification: social psychology theories of how familiarity is established; cognitive psychology and its theories of recognition; face processing literature; and eyewitness literature. The second half of the book surveys system and estimator variables that influence identification, such as lineup procedures, interviewing techniques, the role of age, race, and more; as well as how familiarity is weighed in juror decision-making. A final chapter issues a call for continuing research examining the notion of familiarity and its impact on the criminal justice system.

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Oxford University Press

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0190874821

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One Snowy Night Long Ago At Oxford

One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford: Emily Sarah Holt's Winter Tale

By: Emily Sarah Holt

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One Snowy Night Long Ago At Oxford

One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford: Emily Sarah Holt's Winter Tale

By: Emily Sarah Holt

Escape to a winter wonderland of enchantment and intrigue with "One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford" by Emily Sarah Holt, a captivating tale of mystery, romance, and adventure set against the backdrop of a snowy Oxfordshire landscape. Join the author as she weaves a spellbinding narrative that transports readers to a bygone era filled with secrets, suspense, and unexpected twists. Follow the riveting story of a young scholar who finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and danger on a fateful winter's night in Oxford. As the snow falls and the city sleeps, our protagonist embarks on a journey of discovery that will test his courage, challenge his beliefs, and ultimately lead him to uncover hidden truths about himself and the world around him. Themes of love, betrayal, and redemption permeate the narrative, inviting readers to delve into the complexities of human relationships and the power of forgiveness. From the bustling streets of Oxford to the quiet corners of ancient libraries, Emily Sarah Holt paints a vivid portrait of a society on the brink of change, where old traditions clash with new ideas and the past casts a long shadow over the present. With its blend of mystery, romance, and historical intrigue, "One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford" is a must-read for fans of classic literature and atmospheric storytelling. Emily Sarah Holt's evocative prose and vivid imagery bring the setting to life, immersing readers in a world of timeless beauty and timeless drama. Since its publication, "One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford" has captivated readers with its spellbinding narrative and richly drawn characters. Holt's ability to evoke a sense of time and place has earned her a devoted following among lovers of historical fiction and romantic suspense. Prepare to be swept away by the magic of "One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford" by Emily Sarah Holt. Whether you're a fan of romance, mystery, or historical fiction, this book offers something for everyone, with its compelling storylines, memorable characters, and atmospheric setting. Don't miss your chance to embark on a journey through the snow-covered streets of Oxford—pick up your copy today and experience the magic for yourself.

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Prabhat Prakashan

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818430689X

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9788184306897

A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor

By: Emily Freeman Brown

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A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor

By: Emily Freeman Brown

Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician: A Scarecrow Press Music Series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Unlike other encyclopedic works, contributions to this series focus primarily on the knowledge required by the contemporary musical student or performer. Each dictionary covers topics from instrument parts to playing technique, major works to key figures. A must-have for any musician’s personal library! Filling a vital need in the rapidly changing and complex field of conducting, A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor is a concise one-volume reference tool that brings together for the first time information covering a broad array of topics essential for today’s conductor to know. Author and conductor Emily Freeman Brown offers easy-to-read definitions of key musical terms, translated foreign terms, examples of usage from orchestral music and practical vocabulary in multiple languages. A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor includes biographies of major conductors and other individual important to the world of modern conducting, emphasizing throughout their contributions to the progress of the conducting professional; critical information on major orchestras, significant ensembles, key institutions and organizations, with a focus on the ways in which they preserve and advance today’s musical life; and practical entries covering baton and rehearsal techniques, bowing terms, information about instruments, voice types and much more. In a series of appendixes, A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor also covers such topics as orchestral works that changed the art and practice of conducting, a short historiography of conducting, a comprehensive bibliography, a look at conducting recitative, and a list of pitches, interval names, rhythmic terms, orchestral and percussion instrument names, and finally translations of all of these categories of information into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor will appeal to aspiring conductors and seasoned professionals. It is an invaluable resource.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810884011

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9780810884014

Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology

By: Emily Rolfe Grosholz

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Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology

By: Emily Rolfe Grosholz

This book deals with a topic that has been largely neglected by philosophers of science to date: the ability to refer and analyze in tandem. On the basis of a set of philosophical case studies involving both problems in number theory and issues concerning time and cosmology from the era of Galileo, Newton and Leibniz up through the present day, the author argues that scientific knowledge is a combination of accurate reference and analytical interpretation. In order to think well, we must be able to refer successfully, so that we can show publicly and clearly what we are talking about. And we must be able to analyze well, that is, to discover productive and explanatory conditions of intelligibility for the things we are thinking about. The book’s central claim is that the kinds of representations that make successful reference possible and those that make successful analysis possible are not the same, so that significant scientific and mathematical work typically proceeds by means of a heterogeneous discourse that juxtaposes and often superimposes a variety of kinds of representation, including formal and natural languages as well as more iconic modes. It demonstrates the virtues and necessity of heterogeneity in historically central reasoning, thus filling an important gap in the literature and fostering a new, timely discussion on the epistemology of science and mathematics.

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Springer

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3319466909

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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

A Portrait in Black and White

By: Emily Bernard

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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

A Portrait in Black and White

By: Emily Bernard

By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a prescient photographer, and a Negrophile bar non. A white man with an abiding passion for blackness.

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Yale University Press

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0300183291

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Neighborhood

By: Emily Talen

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Neighborhood

By: Emily Talen

In an effort to make neighborhoods compatible with 21st century ideals, Talen has produced a singular resource for understanding what is meant by neighborhood--a multi-dimensional, comprehensive view of what neighborhoods signify, how they're idealized and measured, and what their historical progression has been.

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0190907495

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Brotopia

Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

By: Emily Chang

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Brotopia

Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

By: Emily Chang

Instant National Bestseller A PBS NewsHour-New York Times Book Club Pick "Excellent." —San Francisco Chronicle Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman. It's time to break up the boys' club. Incisive, powerful, and a fierce rallying cry, Emily Chang shows us how to fix Silicon Valley’s toxic culture--to bring down Brotopia, once and for all. Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops for women in tech. Instead, it’s a "Brotopia," where men hold the cards and make the rules. While millions of dollars may seem to grow on trees in this land of innovation, tech’s aggressive, misogynistic, work-at-all costs culture has shut women out of the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world. Brotopia reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures even as its companies claim the moral high ground, and how women are speaking out and fighting back. Drawing on her deep network of Silicon Valley insiders, Chang opens the boardroom doors of male-dominated venture capital firms like Kleiner Perkins, the subject of Ellen Pao's high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit, and Sequoia, where a partner once famously said they "won't lower their standards" just to hire women. Exposing the flawed logic in common excuses for why tech has long suffered the “pipeline” problem and invests in the delusion of meritocracy, Brotopia also shows how bias coded into AI, internet troll culture, and the reliance on pattern recognition harms not just women in tech but us all, and at unprecedented scale.

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Penguin

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0525540172

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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles

By: Emily K. Abel

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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles

By: Emily K. Abel

Though notorious for its polluted air today, the city of Los Angeles once touted itself as a health resort. After the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1876, publicists launched a campaign to portray the city as the promised land, circulating countless stories of miraculous cures for the sick and debilitated. As more and more migrants poured in, however, a gap emerged between the city’s glittering image and its dark reality. Emily K. Abel shows how the association of the disease with “tramps” during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups. In addition, public health officials sought not only to restrict the entry of Mexicans (the majority of immigrants) during the 1920s but also to expel them during the 1930s. Abel’s revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813543827

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Family Or Freedom

People of Color in the Antebellum South

By: Emily West

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Family Or Freedom

People of Color in the Antebellum South

By: Emily West

In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that some individuals did petition to rescind their freedom. Family or Freedom investigates the incentives for free African Americans living in the antebellum South to sacrifice their liberty for a life in bondage. Author Emily West looks at the many factors influencing these dire decisions -- from desperate poverty to the threat of expulsion -- and demonstrates that the desire for family unity was the most important consideration for African Americans who submitted to voluntary enslavement. The first study of its kind to examine the phenomenon throughout the South, this meticulously researched volume offers the most thorough exploration of this complex issue to date.

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In Transition

Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation

By: Emily Corbett

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In Transition

Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation

By: Emily Corbett

The first book-length work of its kind, In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation examines the shift in the young adult book market towards increased representation of transgender characters and authors. Through a comprehensive exploration of historical conventions, genres, character diversity, and ideologies of trans representation, Emily Corbett traces the roots of trans literature from its beginnings in a cisgender-dominated publishing world to the recent rise in trans creators, characters, and implied readers. Corbett describes how trans-ness was initially perceived as an issue to be overcome by cisgender authors and highlights the ways in which the market has changed. Through careful analysis of texts that have until now received little scholarly attention, Corbett weaves together different theoretical approaches and fields of study to provide a map of the textual and cultural histories of this twenty-first-century publishing phenomenon. Focusing on trans authorship, authentic storytelling, and intersectional diversity, this book charts changing public attitudes, the YA book market, and the unique sociocultural moment in which these books are published. In Transition contributes new perspectives on the intersections of adolescence and trans-ness and sheds light on a dynamic subset of YA literature that has yet to receive sustained analysis.

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