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Up Society's Ass, Copper

Rereading Philip Roth

By: Mark Shechner

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The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades - the record of a restless reader coming to terms with a turbulent and mercurial writer.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299193543

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Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

Where Art and Politics Meet

By: Judith Adamson,Mark Shechner

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Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

Where Art and Politics Meet

By: Judith Adamson,Mark Shechner

Since the war Graham Greene has travelled habitually to the world's trouble-spots and has provided leading newspapers and journals with articles about what he saw. While contending that a writer must be free of political affiliations he has commmitted himself to many countries and causes, and while insisting that literature must never be used for political ends he has written novels informed by a political urgency. The Dangerous Edge is about his political reportage and how the observations that formed it were transformed into literature. It is about how a novelist who struggled to record public issues dispassionately became in the process an important political conscience.

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Springer

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1349207705

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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

By: Mark Krupnick

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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

By: Mark Krupnick

When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability. The editors—Krupnick’s wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner—have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick’s work with the “deep places” of his own imagination.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299214435

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9780299214432

Not Bad for Delancey Street

The Rise of Billy Rose

By: Mark Cohen

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Not Bad for Delancey Street

The Rise of Billy Rose

By: Mark Cohen

He was amazing. "A little man with a Napoleonic penchant for the colossal and magnificent, Billy Rose is the country's No. 1 purveyor of mass entertainment," Life magazine announced in 1936. The Times reported that with 1,400 people on his payroll, Rose ran a larger organization than any other producer in America. "He's clever, clever, clever," said Rose's first wife, the legendary Fanny Brice. "He's a smart little goose." Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Billy Rose is the first biography in fifty years of the producer, World's Fair impresario, songwriter, nightclub and theater owner, syndicated columnist, art collector, tough guy, and philanthropist, and the first to tell the whole story of Rose's life. He combined a love for his thrilling and lucrative American moment with sometimes grandiose plans to aid his fellow Jews. He was an exaggerated exemplar of the American Jewish experience that predominated after World War II: secular, intermarried, bent on financial success, in love with Israel, and wedded to America. The life of Billy Rose was set against the great events of the twentieth century, including the Depression, when Rose became rich entertaining millions; the Nazi war on the Jews, which Rose combated through theatrical pageants that urged the American government to act; the postwar American boom, which Rose harnessed to attain extraordinary wealth; and the birth of Israel, where Rose staked his claim to immortality. Mark Cohen tells the unlikely but true story, based on exhaustive research, of Rose's single-handed rescue in 1939 of an Austrian Jewish refugee stranded in Fascist Italy, an event about which Rose never spoke but which surfaced fifty years later as the nucleus of Saul Bellow's short novel The Bellarosa Connection.

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Brandeis University Press

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1512603139

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Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment

A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Research and Intervention

By: E. Mark Cummings,Christine E. Merrilees,Laura K. Taylor,Christina F. Mondi

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Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment

A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Research and Intervention

By: E. Mark Cummings,Christine E. Merrilees,Laura K. Taylor,Christina F. Mondi

This book reviews and critiques the growing literature on youth development under conditions of political violence and armed conflict. It presents a robust framework, based in developmental psychopathology, for evaluating current research on this topic for strength of design, methodology, and documentation. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies from diverse regions and conflicts as well as across disciplines examine risks and challenges as well as resilience and coping as youth develop in unstable and threatening environments. In addition, this book provides strategies for designing and implementing prevention and intervention programs as well as further opportunities for expanding applied research for youth exposed to political violence and armed conflict. Topics featured in this book include: Analysis of major research on youths’ normative and pathological development during political violence and war. Guidelines for assessing research studies on the impact of political violence and armed conflict on youth. The effects of social ecology factors (e.g., family, school, and community) on youth functioning. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, family studies, and public health as well as developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, political science, anthropology, social and peace psychology, sociology, and ethnic studies.

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Springer

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3319515837

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9783319515830

The Economy of Ulysses

Making Both Ends Meet

By: Mark Osteen

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The Economy of Ulysses

Making Both Ends Meet

By: Mark Osteen

This original and wide-ranging study explores the "economies" of Ulysses using a number of different critical and theoretical methods. Not only do the economic circumstances of the characters form a significant part of the novel's realistic subject matter but the relationships between characters are also based upon modes of economic exchange. Moreover, the narrative itself is filled with economic terms that serve as tropes for its themes, events, and techniques. Some of the subjects and topics covered include Joyce's own "spendthrift" background, gift exchanges and reciprocity as a fundamental means of reader/author relationship in the novel, money and language, Bloom as an "economic man," the "narrative economy" of "Wandering Rocks," the relationship between commerce and eroticism, the function of sacrifice in the creation of value, counterfeiting, forgery, and other crimes of writing, and a demonstration of how the encounter between Stephen and Bloom "makes both ends meet." The book brings together not only the opposed economic impulses in Joyce but also the conflicting strains of regulation and excess in the novel's structural economy.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815626614

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Sperling Pediatric Endocrinology E-Book

By: Mark A. Sperling

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Sperling Pediatric Endocrinology E-Book

By: Mark A. Sperling

An ideal resource for both pediatricians and endocrinologists, Sperling's Pediatric Endocrinology, 5th Edition, brings you fully up to date with accelerating research; new discoveries in metabolic, biochemical and molecular mechanisms; and the resulting advances in today's clinical care. The editorial team of world-renowned pediatric endocrinologists led by Dr. Mark Sperling, as well as expert contributing authors, cover comprehensive and current aspects of both basic science and clinical practice. Whether you're preparing for certification or have extensive clinical experience, this detailed, authoritative reference helps you increase your knowledge and determine the best possible course for every patient. - Delivers trusted guidance in every area of the field: including Endocrine Disorders of the Newborn, Endocrine Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence, and Laboratory Tests. - Features new topics such as transgender issues in children and adolescents and endocrinology of pregnancy, the fetus and the placenta. - Offers expert coverage of hot topics such as disorders of sexual development, molecular basis of endocrine disorders, hypoglycemia in newborns and infants; neonatal and other monogenic forms of diabetes; Type I and Type II diabetes and their treatment with new insulins together with the progress in an artificial pancreas and new medications for T2DM in adolescents; the obesity epidemic and role of bariatric surgery; and advances toward personalized medicine. - Includes easy-to-follow algorithms and numerous quick-reference tables and boxes in every clinical chapter, plus interactive questions online for self-assessment. - Offers state-of-the-art information and fresh perspectives from new and award-winning authors in such areas as disorders of growth, multiple endocrine tumors, and puberty and its disorders in girls and boys.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323625215

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9780323625210

Pediatric Endocrinology

By: Mark A. Sperling

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Pediatric Endocrinology

By: Mark A. Sperling

Completely updated, the new edition of this easy-to-reference text examines the physiological, biochemical, and genetic aspects of pediatric endocrine disorders. Leaders in the field discuss the hottest topics-including genetics, diabetes and obesity-impacting today’s endocrine practice, keeping you up to date. A user-friendly organization speeds you to the information you need, and conceptual illustrations and photographs depict the latest advances with consistency and clarity. It’s the guidance you need to provide effective, state-of-the-art care for your pediatric and neonatal patients. Examines the physiological, biochemical, and genetic aspects of endocrine disorders all in one convenient reference. Incorporates the importance of molecular biology as it relates to developmental and pediatric endocrinology. Offers expanded coverage of genetics, diabetes and obesity-topics of increasing concern in pediatric endocrinology today. Presents the work of many new contributors for fresh perspectives on the current state of pediatric endocrinology. Provides new tables of normal values and growth charts for monitoring your patients’ progress. Concepts, Endocrine Disorders of the Newborn, Endocrine Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence, and Laboratory Tests and Imaging-making the material easy to navigate.

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143771109X

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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

By: Mark Krupnick

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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

By: Mark Krupnick

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University of Wisconsin Press

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0299214400

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Roth after Eighty

Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination

By: David Gooblar,Aimee Pozorski

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Roth after Eighty

Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination

By: David Gooblar,Aimee Pozorski

Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth’s works and career; it considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it speculates on Roth’s legacy—particularly the enduring quality of his novels that will continue to resonate long after his retirement.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498514669

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Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

Where Art and Politics Meet

By: Judith Adamson,Mark Shechner

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Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

Where Art and Politics Meet

By: Judith Adamson,Mark Shechner

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Up Society's Ass, Copper

Up Society's Ass, Copper

Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

Not Bad for Delancey Street

Not Bad for Delancey Street

Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment

Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment

The Economy of Ulysses

The Economy of Ulysses

Sperling Pediatric Endocrinology E-Book

Sperling Pediatric Endocrinology E-Book

Pediatric Endocrinology

Pediatric Endocrinology

Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

Roth after Eighty

Roth after Eighty

Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge

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