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Paul Robeson's Voices

By: Grant Olwage

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Paul Robeson's Voices is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concert, and recorded performance, and as subject of identification. Olwage asks: how does the voice encapsulate modes of subjectivity, of being? Combining deep archival research with musicological theory, this book is a study of voice as central to Robeson's sense of self and his politics. Paul Robeson's Voices charts the dialectal process of Robeson's vocal and self-discovery, documenting some of the ways Robeson's practice revised the traditions of concert singing in the first half of the twentieth century and how his voice manifested as resistance.

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Oxford University Press

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0197637477

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9780197637470

In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great

By: David Grant

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In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great

By: David Grant

A unique ‘backstory’ of Alexander and his successors: the biased historians, deceits, wars, generals, and the tale of the literature that preserved them. ‘Babylon, mid-June 323 BCE, the gateway of the gods; prostrated in the Summer Palace of Nebuchadrezzar II on the east bank of the Euphrates, wracked by fever and having barely survived another night, King Alexander III, the rule of Macedonia for 12 years and 7 months, had his senior officers congregate at his bedside. Abandoned by Fortune and the healing god Asclepius, he finally acknowledged he was dying. Some 2,340 years on, five barely intact accounts survive to tell a hardly coherent story. At times in close accord, though more often contradictory, they conclude with a melee of death-scene rehashes, all of them suspicious: the first portrayed Alexander dying silent and intestate; he was Homeric and vocal in the second; the third detailed his Last Will and Testament though it is attached to the stuff of romance. Which account do we trust?’ In Search Of The Lost Testament Of Alexander The Great is the result of a ‘decade of contemplations on Alexander’ presented as a rich thematic narrative Grant describes as the ‘backstory behind the history’ of the great Macedonian and his generals. Taking an uncompromising investigative perspective, Grant delves into the challenges faced by Alexander’s unique tale: the forgeries and biased historians, the influences of rhetoric, romance, philosophy and religion on what was written and how. Alexander’s own mercurial personality is vividly dissected and the careers and the wars of his successors are presented with a unique eye. But the book never loses sight of central aim: to unravel the mystery behind Alexander’s ‘unconvincingly reported’ intestate death. And out of Grant’s research emerges one unavoidable verdict: after 2,340 years, the Last Will and Testament of Alexander III of Macedonia needs to be extracted from ‘romance’ and reinstated to its rightful place in mainstream history: Babylon in June 323 BCE. Although the result a decade of academic research, In Search Of The Lost Testament Of Alexander The Great is written in an entertaining and engaging style that opens the subject to both scholars and the casual reader of history looking to learn more about the Macedonian king and the men who ‘made’ his story. It concludes with a wholly new interpretation of the death of Alexander the Great and the mechanism behind the wars of succession that followed.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1785899538

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9781785899539

Money of the Mind

How the 1980s Got That Way

By: James Grant

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Money of the Mind

How the 1980s Got That Way

By: James Grant

The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practices--the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear-eyed history of American finance. Two long-running trends converged in the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the turn of the century, it was almost impossible for the average working person to get a loan. In the 1980s, it was almost impossible to refuse one. As the pace of lending grew, the government undertook to bear more and more of the creditors' risk--a pattern, begun in the Progressive era, which reached full flower in the "conservative" administration of Ronald Reagan. Based on original scholarship as well as firsthand observation, Grant's book puts our recent love affair with debt in an entirely fresh, often chilling, perspective. The result is required--and wickedly entertaining--reading for everyone who wants or needs to understand how the world really works. "A brilliantly eccentric, kaleidoscopic tour of our credit lunacy. . . . A splendid, tooth-gnashing saga that should be savored for its ghoulish humor and passionately debated for its iconoclastic analysis. It is a fitting epitaph to the credit binge of the '80s."--Ron Chernow, The Wall Street Journal.

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530

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Macmillan

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0374524017

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9780374524012

Gulls: A Guide to Identification. 2nd Edition

By: P.J Grant

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Gulls: A Guide to Identification. 2nd Edition

By: P.J Grant

This second edition of Peter Grant's guide has been extensively revised and has been reset throughout. Importantly, a further eight species of gulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the USA have been added. The book now covers 31 species and has been increased in length from 280 to 352 pages. More than 280 new photographs have been added or substituted, bringing the total to 544, including 79 photographs for the eight North American additional species. The great increase in interest in gull identification since the publication of the first edition (and the author's series on that topic in British Birds) has helped bring much new information to light. As a result some revision was made to almost every text page and most of the identification drawings were improved in some way; in addition, changes were made to many of the distribution maps. These revisions and improvements were often quite minor, but others were substantial and important (see the author's Introduction). Until recently gulls were widely regarded as a difficult group and identification and ageing was often inaccurate or uncertain. This was largely due to the complexities of immature plumages, which of necessity were generally unrepresented in standard field guides. Birdwatchers need no longer be deterred or confounded by that deficiency. The book offers them the opportunity to advance their skill in field identification by accepting the challenge rather than shrinking from the difficulties.

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A&C Black

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1408138301

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9781408138304

Birds New to Britain and Ireland

By: J.T.R. Sharrock,P. J. Grant

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Birds New to Britain and Ireland

By: J.T.R. Sharrock,P. J. Grant

The 83 species featured in this book, in date sequence of discovery, had not been recorded in Britain or Ireland before 1946. The original accounts of the sightings published in issues of British Birds* between 1947 and 1982 are now reprinted and supplemented with comment by Dr Sharrock on subsequent occurrences and current status. In addition, Peter Grant provides identification notes drawing attention to points not covered in the original accounts. There is also a world distribution map for each species and a line illustration to head each of the accounts. At the end of the book a section of plates reproduces 81 'first-sighting' photographs covering 32 of the species in the book.

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A&C Black

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140813845X

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9781408138458

Good Citizens

British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870-1918

By: James Grant Greenlee,Charles Murray Johnston

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Good Citizens

British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870-1918

By: James Grant Greenlee,Charles Murray Johnston

Draws on archival material to chart the complex and often contradictory reactions of leading British missionary organizations to changing imperial realities around the globe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Explores pressures that contributed to the formation of imperial policy during a significant period of the evolution of the British empire, and shows that the leadership of British missionary societies was split between those who wanted to be treated without favoritism by the British government and those who had more aggressive expectations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773517995

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9780773517998

Sappi Tree Spotting

Highlands : Highveld, Drakensberg, Eastern Cape Mountains

By: Val Thomas,Rina Grant

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Sappi Tree Spotting

Highlands : Highveld, Drakensberg, Eastern Cape Mountains

By: Val Thomas,Rina Grant

Written for everyone from amateur botanists to keen nature enthusiasts, this reference explores the wonder of South African trees and shrubs from the high-lying grasslands and scrubby Karoo plains to the Drakensberg and the Eastern Cape Mountain ranges. With comprehensive maps of all the larger parks, reserves, and tourist destinations with indigenous trees, this guide not only highlights the striking features of each type of tree, but also offers advice on locations for birding, wildlife watching, picnicking, hiking, walking, and fishing.

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Jacana Media

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1770095616

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9781770095618

Technology and the Trajectory of Myth

By: David Grant,Lyria Bennett Moses

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Technology and the Trajectory of Myth

By: David Grant,Lyria Bennett Moses

This book presents an entirely new way of understanding technology, as the successor to the dominant ideologies that have underpinned the thought and practices of the Western world. Like the preceding ideologies of Deity, State and Market, technology displays the features of a modern myth, promising to deal with our existential concerns on condition of our subjection to them. Utilising robust empirical evidence, Lyria Bennett Moses and David Grant argue that the pathway out of this mythological maze is the production of means to establish a new sense of political, corporate and personal self-responsibility.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1785369970

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9781785369971

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant

November 1, 1876-September 30, 1878

By: Ulysses Simpson Grant

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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant

November 1, 1876-September 30, 1878

By: Ulysses Simpson Grant

These papers cover Grant's post-presidential tour and his comments on the war and his presidency.

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SIU Press

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0809326329

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9780809326327

The Life and Times of George Washington Patterson

By: Terrence Grant

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The Life and Times of George Washington Patterson

By: Terrence Grant

This is the story of New York Lt. Governor George W. Patterson. Raised in Londonderry, New Hampshire he came to the Genesee Valley in New York in 1818 and rose to assembly speaker before moving to Westfield in Chautauqua County as a Land Agent. He was a friend of William Seward and Thurlow Weed and in 1848 was elected Lt. Govenor with Hamilton Fish as governor. In 1876 he was elected to the House of Representatives.

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Lulu.com

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1329634004

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9781329634008

A Mighty Fine Road

A History of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company

By: H. Roger Grant

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A Mighty Fine Road

A History of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company

By: H. Roger Grant

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.

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Indiana University Press

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025304989X

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9780253049896

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Paul Robeson's Voices

Paul Robeson's Voices

In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great

In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great

Money of the Mind

Money of the Mind

Gulls: A Guide to Identification. 2nd Edition

Gulls: A Guide to Identification. 2nd Edition

Birds New to Britain and Ireland

Birds New to Britain and Ireland

Good Citizens

Good Citizens

Sappi Tree Spotting

Sappi Tree Spotting

Technology and the Trajectory of Myth

Technology and the Trajectory of Myth

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant

The Life and Times of George Washington Patterson

The Life and Times of George Washington Patterson

A Mighty Fine Road

A Mighty Fine Road

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