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Charles Seliger

Redefining Abstract Expressionism

By: Francis V. O'Connor,Melvin P. Lader,Thomas M. Messer

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Charles Seliger

Redefining Abstract Expressionism

By: Francis V. O'Connor,Melvin P. Lader,Thomas M. Messer

This lavish illustrated volume presents a visual history of Seliger's commitment to biomorphic abstraction and documents his extraordinary career from his auspicious beginnings as the youngest artist exhibiting with the original artisit of the Abstract Expressionist movement, through the development of his signature style of complex and intimate abstractions. 217 colour illustrations

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Hudson Hills

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ISBN 10

1555952321

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9781555952327

Media Warfare

The Americanization of Language

By: Melvin J. Lasky

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Media Warfare

The Americanization of Language

By: Melvin J. Lasky

Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental The Language of Journalism, a series that has been praised as a ""brilliant"" and ""original"" study in communications and contemporary language. Firmly rooted in the critical tradition of H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, and Karl Kraus, Lasky's incisive analysis of journalistic usage and misusage gauges both the cultural and political health of contemporary society as well the declining standards of contemporary journalism.As in the first two volumes, Lasky's scope is cross-cultural with special emphasis on the sometimes conflicting, sometimes mutually influential styles of American and British journalistic practice. His approach to changes in media content and style is closely keyed to changes in society at large. Media Warfare pays particular attention to the gradual easing and near disappearance of censorship rules in the 1960s and after and the attendant effects on electronic and print media. In lively and irreverent prose, Lasky anatomizes the dilemmas posed by the entrance of formerly ""unmentionable"" subjects into daily journalistic discourse, whether for reasons of profit or accurate reporting. He details the pervasive and often indirect influence of the worlds of fashion and advertising on journalism with their imperatives of sensationalism and novelty and, by contrast, how the freeing of language and subject matter in literature--the novels of Joyce and Lawrence, the poetry of Philip Larkin--have affected permissible expression for good or ill. Lasky also relates this interaction of high and low style to the spread of American urban slang, often with Yiddish roots and sometimes the occasion of anti-Semitic reaction, into the common parlance of British no less than American journalists.Media Warfare concludes with prescriptive thoughts on how journalism might still be revitalized in a ""post-profane"" culture. Witty, timely, and deeply learned, the three volumes of The Language of Journalism are a c

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388

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Routledge

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135150634X

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9781351506342

Courts and Lawyers of New York

A History, 1609-1925

By: Alden Chester,Edwin Melvin Williams

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Courts and Lawyers of New York

A History, 1609-1925

By: Alden Chester,Edwin Melvin Williams

This massive illustrated history of the courts and lawyers of New York from 1609-1925 contains a great deal of information that is not available elsewhere. Contents: Part I-Dutch Period: The Bases of American Law, The Dutch Legal System, The Patrons and Their Courts, Burgher Government, Dutch Magistrates. Part II-English Period: The Conflicting Land Titles, The Duke of York's Laws, The Leisler Case. Part III-American Period: Constitutional History, The Courts of Last Resort, The Supreme Court, The Court of Chancery. Part IV: Judicial Distracts and Associations of the Bar, Law Libraries and Law Schools. 59 illustrations.

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1554

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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158477424X

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9781584774242

Utopia and Revolution

On the Origins of a Metaphor

By: Melvin Lasky

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Utopia and Revolution

On the Origins of a Metaphor

By: Melvin Lasky

The most comprehensive study of ideology and utopia since Karl Mannheim's work of the 1930s, Utopia and Revolution can be understood as turning classical political theory on its head or, perhaps, inside out. Instead of the usual summary of how English radical theologies contributed to the revolutionary process, Lasky shows how such political theology of the mid-seventeenth century became the backbone of the natural history of revolutionary disasters. In a remarkable feat of scholarship in intellectual history, Lasky charts the course of this historic entanglement over some five turbulent centuries of Western history. In so doing, he traces the ideological extension of the human personality through the writings of political theorists, philosophers, poets, and historians.

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1253

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Routledge

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1351300342

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9781351300346

Infectious Diseases

By: A. Melvin Ramsay,Ronald T. D. Emond

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Infectious Diseases

By: A. Melvin Ramsay,Ronald T. D. Emond

Infectious Diseases, Second Edition furnishes the basic facts regarding the common infections encountered in the British Isles. The infectious diseases covered in this edition include varicella and herpes zoster, smallpox, tetanus, measles, mumps, influenza, and acute respiratory disease. The poliomyelitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, malaria, tuberculosis, cytomegalic inclusion disease, and rabies are also discussed. This book likewise deliberates the host-parasite relationship, control of infection in hospitals, sterilization and disinfection, pyrexia of undetermined origin (PUO), and public health law. This publication is valuable not only to clinicians but also to epidemiologists, microbiologists and community physicians whose work is connected with the many problems in the field of acute medicine.

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426

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483192849

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9781483192840

Four English Vocabularies to Spell

Facing Spelling as Student and Teacher

By: Melvin J. Hoffman

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Four English Vocabularies to Spell

Facing Spelling as Student and Teacher

By: Melvin J. Hoffman

Four English Vocabularies to Spell, written in a clear, conversational style, posits that the English language has four distinct yet interconnected systems for spelling. Author Melvin J. Hoffman proposes a new spelling pedagogy through identifying the major characteristics and separate spelling strategies of each of the four spelling systems.

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102

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University Press of America

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0761827358

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9780761827351

The Language of Journalism: Media Warfare

By: Melvin J. Lasky

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The Language of Journalism: Media Warfare

By: Melvin J. Lasky

The concluding volume of Lasky's monumental "The Languages of Journalism," a series that has been praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study in communications and contemporary language. Other volumes in the series include "Profanity, Obscenity and the Media" and "Newspaper Culture.

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388

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Transaction Publishers

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076580302X

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9780765803023

Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts

An Interlinear Translation with Reference Guide to Biblical Quotations and Allusions

By: Melvin P. Unger

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Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts

An Interlinear Translation with Reference Guide to Biblical Quotations and Allusions

By: Melvin P. Unger

The German church cantata of the eighteenth century was the culmination of a long tradition of Lutheran "sermon music" that used the proclamation, amplification, and interpretation of scripture to teach and persuade the listener. Bach's cantatas also served this didactic purpose and typically incorporate numerous allusions to scriptural passages or themes in their librettos. Unfortunately, many of these passages remain obscure to the twentieth-century musician because they demand a much closer familiarity with the Bible than is common today. The Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts identifies scriptural references for the wording, imagery, and themes that Bach's listeners would have known. In addition, the religious or literary theme of each text is summarized within the specific context of the cantata as a whole. With interlinear translations and a full complement of indexes.

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796

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Scarecrow Press

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1461659051

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Charles Seliger

Charles Seliger

Media Warfare

Media Warfare

Courts and Lawyers of New York

Courts and Lawyers of New York

Utopia and Revolution

Utopia and Revolution

Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases

Four English Vocabularies to Spell

Four English Vocabularies to Spell

The Language of Journalism: Media Warfare

The Language of Journalism: Media Warfare

Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts

Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts

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