Robert Crane's Books

Crane

Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder

By: Robert Crane,Christopher Fryer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Crane

Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder

By: Robert Crane,Christopher Fryer

Understanding of the respiratory control system has been greatly improved by technological and methodological advances. This volume integrates results from many perspectives, brings together diverse approaches to the investigations, and represents important additions to the field of neural control of breathing. Topics include membrane properties of respiratory neurons, in vitro studies of respiratory control, chemical neuroanatomy, central integration of respiratory afferents, modulation of respiratory pattern by peripheral afferents, respiratory chemoreception, development of respiratory control, behavioral control of breathing, and human ventilatory control. Forty-seven experts in the field report research and discuss novel issues facing future investigations in this collection of papers from an international conference of nearly two hundred leading scientists held in October 1990. This research is of vital importance to respiratory physiologists and those in neurosciences and neurobiology who work with integrative sensory and motor systems and is pertinent to both basic and clinical investigations. Respiratory Control is destined to be widely cited because of the strength of the contributors and the dearth of similar works.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

University Press of Kentucky

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813160766

ISBN 13

9780813160764

The Jataka Tales, Volume 1

By: Robert Chalmers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Jataka Tales, Volume 1

By: Robert Chalmers

The Pali work, entitled 'the Jataka', the first volume of which is now presented to the reader in an English form, contains 550 Jatakas or Birth-stories, which are arranged in 22 nipatas or books. This division is roughly founded on the number of verses (gathas) which are quoted in each story; thus the first book contains 150 stories, each of which only quotes one verse, the second 100, each of which quotes two, the third and fourth 50 each, which respectively quote 3 and 4, and so on to the twenty-first with 5 stories, each of which quotes 80 verses, and the twenty-second with 10 stories, each quoting a still larger number. Each story opens with a preface called the paccuppannavatthu or 'story of the present', which relates the particular circumstances in the Buddha's life which led him to tell the birth-story and thus reveal some event in the long series of his previous existences as a bodhisatta or a being destined to attain Buddha-ship. This is volume 1, comprising the ‘Ekanipata.’.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

Jazzybee Verlag

ISBN 10

3849673170

ISBN 13

9783849673178

The Art of the Funnies

An Aesthetic History

By: Robert C. Harvey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Art of the Funnies

An Aesthetic History

By: Robert C. Harvey

Exploration of the comic strip for elements that make the funnies one of the most appealing of the popular arts

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published Date

ISBN 10

0878056122

ISBN 13

9780878056125

American Literature and Science

By: Robert J. Scholnick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

American Literature and Science

By: Robert J. Scholnick

Literature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic. But Robert J. Scholnick points out that these areas of learning, up through the beginning of the nineteenth century, ""were understood as parts of a unitary endeavor."" By mid-century they had diverged, but literature and science have continued to interact, conflict, and illuminate each other. In this innovative work, twelve leaders in this emerging interdisciplinary field explore the long engagement of American writers with science and uncover science's conflicting meani

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

University Press of Kentucky

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813133653

ISBN 13

9780813133652

Beyond the Rings of Saturn

By: Robert Moore Williams

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond the Rings of Saturn

By: Robert Moore Williams

The flame beast brought sure death to its enemies-- and little better to its friends!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

eStar Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1612101755

ISBN 13

9781612101750

Hawk Quest

By: Robert Lyndon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hawk Quest

By: Robert Lyndon

The year is 1072. The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks. On a heart-stopping journey to the far ends of the earth, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and the blood-drenched battlefields, Vallon and his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time. The scale is huge. The journey is incredible. The history is real. This is Hawk Quest.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

568

Publisher

Redhook

Published Date

ISBN 10

031621955X

ISBN 13

9780316219556

Dapping

The Exciting Way of Fishing Flies that Fly, Quiver and Jump

By: Robert H. Boyle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dapping

The Exciting Way of Fishing Flies that Fly, Quiver and Jump

By: Robert H. Boyle

Gives details on how to touch the fly up and down on the surface of the water and use a blowline to carry the fly to the fish without a visible leader or line.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

152

Publisher

Stackpole Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811701425

ISBN 13

9780811701426

Private Eyes

One Hundred and One Knights : a Survey of American Detective Fiction, 1922-1984

By: Robert Allen Baker,Michael T. Nietzel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Private Eyes

One Hundred and One Knights : a Survey of American Detective Fiction, 1922-1984

By: Robert Allen Baker,Michael T. Nietzel

Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

404

Publisher

Popular Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0879723300

ISBN 13

9780879723309

A Concise History of American Antisemitism

By: Robert Michael

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Concise History of American Antisemitism

By: Robert Michael

A Concise History of American Antisemitism shows how Christianity's negative views of Jews pervaded American history from colonial times to the present. The book describes the European background to American anti-Semitism, then divides American history into time periods, and examines the anti-Semitic ideas, personalities, and literature in each period. It also demonstrates that anti-Semitism led to certain behaviors in some United States officials that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Clear and forceful, A Concise History of American Antisemitism is an important work for undergraduate course use and for the general public interested in the roots of the current rash of anti-Semitism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

262

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742543137

ISBN 13

9780742543133

Moral Mazes

The World of Corporate Managers

By: Robert Jackall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Moral Mazes

The World of Corporate Managers

By: Robert Jackall

This updated edition of a classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. This edition includes a new foreword linking the themes of Moral Mazes to the financial tsunami that engulfed the world economy in 2008.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

310

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199729883

ISBN 13

9780199729883

Epic of the Dispossessed

Derek Walcott's Omeros

By: Robert D. Hamner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Epic of the Dispossessed

Derek Walcott's Omeros

By: Robert D. Hamner

Hamner describes Omeros as an epic of the dispossessed because each of its protagonists is a castaway in one sense or another. Regardless of whether their ancestry is traced to the classical Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, or confined to the Americas, they are transplanted individuals whose separate quests all center on the fundamental human need to strike roots in a place where one belongs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

204

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826211526

ISBN 13

9780826211521

Parables of Disfiguration

Reason and Excess from Romanticism to the Avant-garde

By: Robert G. Eisenhauer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Parables of Disfiguration

Reason and Excess from Romanticism to the Avant-garde

By: Robert G. Eisenhauer

Parables of Disfiguration examines literary and cinematic texts from the Romantic period forward, offering fresh perspectives on the vicissitudes of reason and excess - seen as moments leading to a seizure by sophia (wisdom). Reading canonical works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, but also less familiar poems such as The Revolt of Islam, Robert Eisenhauer draws attention to a series of transits involving the operation of chance and the playful distortions of the scholarly anagram. Hart Crane and Walt Whitman are seen pursuing Dionysiac vocations in the attempt to advance a poetics of melancholy anatomy. Fellini's landmark film La Dolce Vita recuperates or «re-Vamps» Roman and more exotic (American) character-types, while parabolically excavating ancient names. Further essays are devoted to William Burroughs's representation of the Arab underclass (with reference to the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz), Edward Dorn's Heideggerian epic Gunslinger, the city in twentieth-century utopian vision, and the concept of the ephemeral in modernist aesthetics. Parables of Disfiguration concludes by reading Wallace Stevens's wintry and complex «Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird» tropically - in the context of haiku verse, the Yucatán, Hunter Thompson's «Gonzo» journalism, Plutarch, and an exquisite vehicle combining excess with vindictive righteousness, the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

426

Publisher

Peter Lang

Published Date

ISBN 10

0820478873

ISBN 13

9780820478876

The Winged

An Upper Missouri River Ethno-ornithology

By: Kaitlyn Moore Chandler,Wendi Field Murray,María Nieves Zedeño,Samrat Miller Clements,Robert James

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Winged

An Upper Missouri River Ethno-ornithology

By: Kaitlyn Moore Chandler,Wendi Field Murray,María Nieves Zedeño,Samrat Miller Clements,Robert James

The Missouri River Basin is home to thousands of bird species that migrate across the Great Plains of North America each year, marking the seasonal cycle and filling the air with their song. In time immemorial, Native inhabitants of this vast region established alliances with birds that helped them to connect with the gods, to learn the workings of nature, and to live well. This book integrates published and archival sources covering archaeology, ethnohistory, historical ethnography, folklore, and interviews with elders from the Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Crow communities to explore how relationships between people and birds are situated in contemporary practice, and what has fostered its cultural persistence. Native principles of ecological and cosmological knowledge are brought into focus to highlight specific beliefs, practices, and concerns associated with individual bird species, bird parts, bird objects, the natural and cultural landscapes that birds and people cohabit, and the future of this ancient alliance. Detailed descriptions critical to ethnohistorians and ethnobiologists are accompanied by thirty-four color images. A unique contribution, The Winged expands our understanding of sets of interrelated dependencies or entanglements between bird and human agents, and it steps beyond traditional scientific and anthropological distinctions between humans and animals to reveal the intricate and eminently social character of these interactions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

153

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816537011

ISBN 13

9780816537013

Origami Design Secrets

Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art, Second Edition

By: Robert J. Lang

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Origami Design Secrets

Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art, Second Edition

By: Robert J. Lang

The magnum opus of one of the world's leading origami artists, the second edition of Origami Design Secrets reveals the underlying concepts of origami and how to create original origami designs. Containing step-by-step instructions for 26 models, this book is not just an origami cookbook or list of instructions-it introduces the fundamental buildin

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

766

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439867747

ISBN 13

9781439867747

Fabrica San Jose and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca

By: Robert D. Drennan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fabrica San Jose and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca

By: Robert D. Drennan

In the early 1970s, Robert D. Drennan excavated the Middle Formative archaeological site Fábrica San José in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. In this volume he presents the results of the excavations and provides a chronology of Middle Formative ceramics. Appendix on carbonized plant remains by Richard I. Ford.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published Date

ISBN 10

0932206700

ISBN 13

9780932206701

Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

By: Robert Lowell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

By: Robert Lowell

A collection of conversations with Lowell and of critical reflections on his work

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

398

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0472100890

ISBN 13

9780472100897

Interior Landscapes

Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors

By: Gerald Robert Vizenor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Interior Landscapes

Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors

By: Gerald Robert Vizenor

Annotation Vizenor writes about his experiences as a tribal mixedblood in these autobiographical stories. He writes of his fosterage, ambitions, contentions with institutions and imposed histories; his encounters as a community advocate, journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune, university teacher, and novelist. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

U of Minnesota Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816618488

ISBN 13

9780816618484

Death Calls

A Coroner’s Memoir

By: Robert Crossland

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Death Calls

A Coroner’s Memoir

By: Robert Crossland

I wade waist-deep into the ocean to reach a body floating face down in the local harbor. Police, first responders, and onlookers quietly watch from the shoreline, but blood splotches and marks in the sand suggest that something awful has happened here. In 1981, while practicing medicine in a small community on the southern coast of British Columbia, Dr. Robert Crossland is asked if he’d be interested in becoming the local coroner. Like many, Robert has thrilled to the crusading adventures of TV coroner Wojeck and Quincy, M.E., so he takes up the challenge. But soon he is to find just how far these TV programs are from the real world of a community coroner. During the following twenty-three years, Robert will investigate and report on more than 600 sudden, unexpected deaths in his community and in the surrounding ocean, lakes, forests, and mountains. In each case, he must establish not only who has died but when, where, how, and why. As a member of the community himself, he often finds himself personally connected with those who have died. Many of the deaths are natural, of course, but a surprising number are exceptional due to complicated, startling, unforeseen, and sometimes even astonishing circumstances and findings. These are the stories of more than a hundred of these remarkable, often horrifying events. They happen in homes, at work sites, during recreation, or while travelling in boats, planes, or on roads. Some of the deaths prove controversial and Dr. Crossland participates in inquests that lead to changes in policies or procedures that reduce the risk of further deaths ... or sometimes, heartbreakingly, make no difference at all. Sudden death is always disturbing and in vivid, pithy, engaging anecdotes based on his case files and notes, Dr. Crossland shares with readers, the who, when, where, how, and why.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

129

Publisher

FriesenPress

Published Date

ISBN 10

1039168345

ISBN 13

9781039168343

Arabists

The Romance of an American Elite

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Arabists

The Romance of an American Elite

By: Robert D. Kaplan

A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the “Arabists” were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early nineteenth century to the present. But over time, as this work shows, the group increasingly lost touch with a rapidly changing American society, growing both more insular and headstrong and showing a marked tendency to assert the Arab point of view. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and other official and private sources, Kaplan reconstructs the 100-year history of the Arabist elite, demonstrating their profound influence on American attitudes toward the Middle East, and tracing their decline as an influx of ethnic and regional specialists has transformed the State Department and challenged the power of the old elite.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

559

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439108706

ISBN 13

9781439108703

The Second Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

25 Classic Science Fiction Stories

By: Robert Silverberg,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Tom Purdom,Philip K. Dick,Marion Zimmer Bradley,Ben Bova

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Second Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

25 Classic Science Fiction Stories

By: Robert Silverberg,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Tom Purdom,Philip K. Dick,Marion Zimmer Bradley,Ben Bova

Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories: WHAT’S HE DOING IN THERE? by Fritz Leiber THE MARCHING MORONS, by C.M. Kornbluth GHOST, by Darrell Schweitzer DEATH WISH, by Robert Sheckley THE WAVERIES, by Fredric Brown ADAM AND NO EVE, by Alfred Bester FOXY LADY, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THIN EDGE, by Randall Garrett COMPANDROID, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman POSTMARK GANYMEDE, by Robert Silverberg KEEP OUT, by Fredric Brown THE HATE DISEASE, by Murray Leinster UNIVERSAL DONOR, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE GREEN BERET, by Tom Purdom MR. SPACESHIP, by Philip K. Dick BRKNK'S BOUNTY, by Jerry Sohl THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG SCIENCE, by Pamela Rentz THE EGO MACHINE, by Henry Kuttner THE MAN FROM TIME, by Frank Belknap Long THE SENSITIVE MAN, by Poul Anderson REVOLUTION, by Mack Reynolds THE THING IN THE ATTIC, by James Blish KNOTWORK, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE DUELING MACHINE, by Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis THE PLANET SAVERS, by Marion Zimmer Bradley And don't forget to check out all the other volumes in the "Wildside Megapack" series! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in the ebook store to see the complete list...covering adventure stories, military, fantasy, ghost stories, and more!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

668

Publisher

Wildside Press LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

1434437817

ISBN 13

9781434437815

Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain

By: Robert J. Savage

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain

By: Robert J. Savage

This is a study of how the Northern Ireland conflict was presented to an increasingly global audience during the premiership of Britain's 'Iron Lady', Margaret Thatcher. It addresses the tensions that characterized the relationship between the broadcast media and the Thatcher Government throughout the 1980s. Robert J. Savage explores how that tension worked its way into decisions made by managers, editors, and reporters addressing a conflict that seemed insoluble. Margaret Thatcher mistrusted the broadcast media, especially the BBC, believing it had a left-wing bias that was hostile to her interests and policies. This was especially true of the broadcast media's reporting about Northern Ireland. She regarded investigative reporting that explored the roots of republican violence in the region or coverage critical of her government's initiatives as undermining the rule of law, and thereby providing terrorists with what she termed the 'oxygen of publicity'. She followed in the footsteps of the Labour Government that proceeded her by threatening and bullying both the BBC and IBA, promising that the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act would be deployed to punish journalists that came into contact with the IRA. Although both networks continued to offer compelling news and current affairs programming, the tactics of her government produced considerable success. Wary of direct government intervention, both networks encouraged a remarkable degree of self-censorship when addressing 'the Troubles'. Regardless, by 1988, the Thatcher Government, unhappy with criticism of its policies, took the extraordinary step of imposing formal censorship on the British broadcast media. The infamous 'broadcasting ban' lasted six years, successfully silencing the voices of Irish republicans while tarnishing the reputation of the United Kingdom as a leading global democracy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192666584

ISBN 13

9780192666581

The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement

UK & USA, 1979 - 1993

By: Robert Forbes,Eddie Stampton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement

UK & USA, 1979 - 1993

By: Robert Forbes,Eddie Stampton

When Feral House first published the award-winning Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, little was known about the "black metal" genre of music, or how many of its members were involved in the murder of citizens, the torching of churches, or its link to Fascist ideas. We've all heard about the racist form of skinhead punk music, but little do we know of the groups involved, and how they got involved in right-wing political movements. The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement is the first book to provide much more than mere photographs of the scene, documenting the bands, their members, the releases, shows, and infamous events. Robert Forbes and Eddie Stampton can authoritatively speak of the movement, obtaining first-hand material from members of the scene. This book covers both British and American bands, and even if you revile the movement, its ideas, and its music, this is an important piece of pop culture history. Feral House's controversial Lords of Chaos has sold over one hundred thousand copies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

608

Publisher

Feral House

Published Date

ISBN 10

1627310258

ISBN 13

9781627310253

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

By: Robert Harry Lowie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

By: Robert Harry Lowie

Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. Vivid tales of Old-Man-Coyote in his various guises; heroic accounts of Lodge-Boy and the Thunderbirds; supernatural stories about Raven-Face and the Spurned Lover; and other tales involving the Bear-Woman, the Offended Turtle, the Skeptical Husband--all these were recorded by Lowie. They were originally published in 1918 in an Anthropological Paper by the American Museum of Natural History. Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians is now reprinted with a new introduction by Peter Nabokov. These concretely detailed accounts served the Crow Indians as entertainers, moral lessons, cultural records, and guides to the workings of the universe.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1012

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803279442

ISBN 13

9780803279445

The Third Beginning

By: Robert Hrib

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Third Beginning

By: Robert Hrib

Book Delisted

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Page Publishing Inc

Published Date

ISBN 10

1682132269

ISBN 13

9781682132265

Slumming in New York

From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem

By: Robert M. Dowling

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Slumming in New York

From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem

By: Robert M. Dowling

This remarkable exploration of the underbelly of New York City life from 1880 to 1930 takes readers through the city's inexhaustible variety of distinctive neighborhood cultures. Slumming in New York shows how the city's rich and poor, foreign-born and native-born, competed for a voice from such diverse vantage points as the East Side waterfront, the Bowery, the Tenderloin's "black bohemia," the Jewish Lower East Side, and mythic Harlem. Investigating a wide range of New York "slumming" narratives in which mainstream outsiders write about marginalized urban insiders, Robert M. Dowling shows how literary works transformed moral threats into cultural treasures.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

234

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

025207632X

ISBN 13

9780252076329

Persuasion and Social Movements

Sixth Edition

By: Charles J. Stewart,Craig Allen Smith,Robert E. Denton, Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Persuasion and Social Movements

Sixth Edition

By: Charles J. Stewart,Craig Allen Smith,Robert E. Denton, Jr.

Conflict over moral, religious, social, political, and economic values fuel social movements. People form organized collectivities to promote or to oppose changes in societal norms and values. The steady growth in globalization and access to information have increased the perception of threats to identity, values, and culture. Persuasion and Social Movements provides a solid foundation for understanding how people collectively shape society. The latest edition marks three decades of synthesizing, applying, and extending research and theories about the persuasive efforts of social movements. Historic and current examples illustrate the many facets of social movement persuasion: Persuasion is inherently practical; we can study it most profitably by examining the functions of persuasive acts. Even apparently irrational acts make sense to the actoreffective analysis discovers the reasoning behind the acts. People create and comprehend their world through symbols, and it is people who create, use, ignore, or act on these symbolic creations. Although they remain important in social movement persuasion, speeches are now one of many resources for organizing and carrying out a variety of protests. New technologies have transformed how social movements come into existence, constitute organizations, establish coalitions, pressure institutions, and communicate with a wide variety of audiences. Social movements sometimes sell conspiracy theories to skeptical audiences, justify inherently divisive tactics, and use violence as a rhetorical strategy. Institutions and countermovements have a variety of strategies for resistance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

454

Publisher

Waveland Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1478610387

ISBN 13

9781478610380

Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950

Holy Wisdom Modern Monument

By: Robert S. Nelson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950

Holy Wisdom Modern Monument

By: Robert S. Nelson

Hagia Sophia, the Church of Holy Wisdom, sits majestically atop the plateau that commands the straits separating Europe and Asia. Located near the acropolis of the ancient city of Byzantium, this unparalleled structure has enjoyed an extensive and colorful history, as it has successively been transformed into a cathedral, mosque, monument, and museum. In Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950, Robert S. Nelson explores its many lives. Built from 532 to 537 as the Cathedral of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia was little studied and seldom recognized as a great monument of world art until the nineteenth century, and Nelson examines the causes and consequences of the building's newly elevated status during that time. He chronicles the grand dome's modern history through a vibrant cast of characters—emperors, sultans, critics, poets, archaeologists, architects, philanthropists, and religious congregations—some of whom spent years studying it, others never visiting the building. But as Nelson shows, they all had a hand in the recreation of Hagia Sophia as a modern architectural icon. By many means and for its own purposes, the West has conceptually transformed Hagia Sophia into the international symbol that it is today. While other books have covered the architectural history of the structure, this is the first study to address its status as a modern monument. With his narrative of the building's rebirth, Nelson captures its importance for the diverse communities that shape and find meaning in Hagia Sophia. His book will resonate with cultural, architectural, and art historians as well as with those seeking to acquaint themselves with the modern life of an inspired and inspiring building.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226571718

ISBN 13

9780226571713

Book's by Robert Crane

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email