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Hard to Be a Saint in the City

The Spiritual Vision of the Beats

By: Robert Inchausti

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Hard to Be a Saint in the City

The Spiritual Vision of the Beats

By: Robert Inchausti

An exploration of Beat spirituality--seen through excerpts from the writings of the seminal writers of Beat Generation themselves. It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic figures like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure—were thinkers seeking exactly that. In this re-claiming of their vision, Robert Inchausti explores the Beat canon to reveal that the movement was at heart a spiritual one. It goes deeper than the Buddhism with which many of the key figures became identified. It’s about their shared perception of an existence in which the Divine reveals itself in the ordinary. Theirs is a spirituality where real life triumphs over airy ideals and personal authenticity becomes both the content and the vehicle for a kind of refurbished American Transcendentalism.

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Shambhala Publications

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0834841096

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Gospel of the Open Road

According to Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau

By: Robert C. Gordon, PhD

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Gospel of the Open Road

According to Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau

By: Robert C. Gordon, PhD

Gospel of the Open Road reclaims Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau as Americas spiritual birthright. It rescues them from literary history, and reveals them in their true light: as democracys prophets of the soul. Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau were religious seers who developed a new form of spirituality, and Gospel of the Open Road explains, in scholarly yet passionate fashion, the deep wisdom that is their enduring legacy. It presents them as a viable spiritual path for those who do not belong, and do not want to belong, to any organized religion.But this book does more. It draws fascinating parallels between the new spirituality taught by Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau and ancient spiritual wisdom as found in shamanism, Goddess worship, Tantra, Taoism, Confucianism, Vajrayana and Zen Buddhism, and Hinduism. This book is an evocative synthesis of humanitys most venerable spiritual wisdom and the most modern of philosophical, social, psychological, political, scientific, and Humanistic concepts. It traces the New Age spiritual revolution to its source in Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau, and explains how to apply their spiritual teachings to our everyday life here on Earth.

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iUniverse

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1469711532

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll

The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture

By: Robert C. Cottrell

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll

The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture

By: Robert C. Cottrell

Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia, the Lyrical Left of the pre-WWII era, and the hipsters. He delves into the Beats, before analyzing the counterculture that emerged on both the East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in the American heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective biography, through an exploration of the antics of seminal countercultural figures Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey. Cottrell also presents fascinating chapters covering “the magic elixir of sex,” rock ‘n roll, the underground press, Haight-Ashbury, the literature that garnered the attention of many in the counterculture, Monterey Pop, the Summer of Love, the Death of Hippie, the March on the Pentagon, communes, Yippies, Weatherman, Woodstock, the Manson family, the women’s movement, and the decade’s legacies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442246073

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Timothy Leary

A Biography

By: Robert Greenfield

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Timothy Leary

A Biography

By: Robert Greenfield

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. This is one of the first major biographies of the controversial psychologist-turned-counterculture shaman.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0151005001

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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital

By: Robert Bennett

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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital

By: Robert Bennett

Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

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Routledge

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1317793889

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Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

By: Blaine T Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

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Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

By: Blaine T Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

The individuals presented in these narrative biographies significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas, including national politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular and literary culture, sports, and business. The combined biographical/thematic approach is designed to serve two purposes: to present more substantive biographical information, and to offer a fuller examination of key events and issues. The book is an ideal supplement for undergraduate courses on The United States Since 1945, as well as for courses on Modern America and 20th Century America.

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1317464656

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The Faith and Friendships of Teenage Boys

By: Robert C. Dykstra,Allan Hugh Cole Jr.,Donald Capps

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The Faith and Friendships of Teenage Boys

By: Robert C. Dykstra,Allan Hugh Cole Jr.,Donald Capps

Drawing on research and case studies, three pastoral care experts argue that one of the primary contexts in which the faith formation of teenage boys takes place is in their relationships with other adolescent males. Written by the authors of Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of Boys, this book is an important resource for anyone interested in helping adolescent males navigate years often marked by isolation and loneliness to develop a meaningful spiritual identity.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611641950

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LGBTQ+ Literature in the West

From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century

By: Robert C. Evans

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LGBTQ+ Literature in the West

From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century

By: Robert C. Evans

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. For various reasons it focuses on literature of 'the West', trying to give readers a clear sense, within a relatively short compass, not only of the development of 'queer' literature (perhaps the most encompassing of all terms) but especially of critical responses to that literature, notably during the past century and particularly the past fifty years. All in all, this book offers a roadmap to much of the excellent scholarship concerning LGBTQ literature that has arisen in the last half-century – an era of unparalleled interest in the topic and an era that has moved the topic from the distant sidelines of literary study to a place ever closer to the center of things.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135037184X

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The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology

By: Robert Niemi

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The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology

By: Robert Niemi

Did you know that less than two weeks after Jack Kerouac reported to the Newport, RI U.S. Naval Training Station (the same month that the German 6th Army was surrendering at Stalingrad), he was discharged, diagnosed with a “Constitutional Psychopathic State, Schizoid Personality”? That just a few months later, William Burroughs moved from Chicago to New York, where he took a small apartment at 69 Bedford Street and began a heroin addiction that was to last until 1956? That meanwhile, Gregory Corso, thirteen and homeless, was being arrested for petty larceny, while Hubert Selby, Jr., fifteen, joined the Merchant Marines? And that the very same year, Allen Ginsberg, a new graduate from Eastside High School in Patterson, New Jersey, began his first semester at Columbia University, where he first made the acquaintance of Herbert Gold and Jack Kerouac? Packed with month-by-month and week-by-week anecdotes, The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology is a meticulous timeline detailing the life events and literary accomplishments of the writers who became known as the Beat Generation. Covering an entire century and then some, this beautifully illustrated volume is certain to be an invaluable resource for anyone curious about the Beat Generation.

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Catapult

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1593764618

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Drug Toxicity in Embryonic Development II

Advances in Understanding Mechanisms of Birth Defects: Mechanistics Understanding of Human Development Toxicants

By: Robert J. Kavlock,George P. Daston

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Drug Toxicity in Embryonic Development II

Advances in Understanding Mechanisms of Birth Defects: Mechanistics Understanding of Human Development Toxicants

By: Robert J. Kavlock,George P. Daston

Having received the invitation from Springer-Verlag to produce a volume on drug-induced birth defects for the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, we asked ourselves what new approach could we offer that would capture the state of the science and bring a new synthesis of the information on this topic to the world's literature. We chose a three-pronged approach, centered around those particular drugs for which we have a relatively well established basis for understanding how they exert their unwanted effects on the human embryo. We then supplemented this information with a series of reviews of critical biological processes involved in the established normal developmental patterns, with emphasis on what happens to the embryo when the processes are perturbed by experimental means. Knowing that the search for mechanisms in teratology has often been inhibited by the lack of understanding of how normal development proceeds, we also included chapters describing the amazing new discoveries related to the molecular control of normal morphogenesis for several organ systems in the hope that experimental toxicologists and molecular biologists will begin to better appreciate each others questions and progress. Several times during the last two years of developing outlines, issuing invitations, reviewing chapters, and cajoling belated contributors, we have wondered whether we made the correct decision to undertake this effort.

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3642604471

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Modern American Counter Writing

Beats, Outriders, Ethnics

By: A. Robert Lee

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Modern American Counter Writing

Beats, Outriders, Ethnics

By: A. Robert Lee

The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. This new study analyses three recent literary tranches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider" voices – Hunter Thompson to Frank Chin, Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated "ethnic" writing. The aim is to set up and explore these different counter-seams of modern American writing, those which sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons.

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Routledge

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1135161658

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Sound and Form in Modern Poetry

By: Harvey Seymour Gross,Robert McDowell

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Sound and Form in Modern Poetry

By: Harvey Seymour Gross,Robert McDowell

An updated and expanded version of a classic and essential text on prosody.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472065173

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The 1950s' Most Wanted™

The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All American Oddities

By: Robert A Rodriguez

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The 1950s' Most Wanted™

The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All American Oddities

By: Robert A Rodriguez

Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguez’s The 1950s’ Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities. America was revving its engines when the fifties came along, and its citizens more than ready for everything the historic decade had to offer. Rodriguez takes you on a spin down memory lane with dozens of top-ten lists filled with amazing, amusing, and even astonishing trivia from the 1950s. Television exploded into the mainstream in the 1950s, and in this book you’ll find kids’ television, shows that were immensely popular then but forgotten now, and potential series that never got off the ground. Film and music history are also well represented, with lists highlighting the fathers of rock and roll and some unlikely recording artists, plus catchphrases from contemporary films and first roles of future stars. Relive the most notorious crimes of the decade, such as the one that inspired the TV show and film The Fugitive, and its big scandals, such as the quiz show debacle and the deportation of Charlie Chaplin. You’ll read about politicians, celebrities, fashion, toys, fads, and disasters. Relearn the hip slang of the time while finding out which tales from the fifties were really tall tales or urban legends that are now debunked. Rodriguez gives you a whole decade’s worth of fun, facts, and all-important memories. It may have been half a century ago, but with The 1950s’ Most Wanted™, it’ll seem like just yesterday.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1574887157

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9781574887150

The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley

By: Robert Creeley

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The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley

By: Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential of the postwar American poets. His Selected Letters, covering the years 1945-2005 are a foundational document in the recent history of North American letters. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound; peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouacl and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley's letters carry the clear mark of consummate literary artistry and document the life, work, and times of one of our greatest writers"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520241606

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Judicial Process in America

By: Robert A. Carp,Kenneth L. Manning,Lisa M. Holmes

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Judicial Process in America

By: Robert A. Carp,Kenneth L. Manning,Lisa M. Holmes

Judicial Process in America, Twelfth Edition, is a market-leading and comprehensive textbook for both academic and general audiences. Authors Robert Carp, Kenneth Manning, and Lisa Holmes provide a comprehensive overview of the link between the courts, public policy, and the political environment.

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1071821865

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Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock

By: Robert J. Campbell

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Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock

By: Robert J. Campbell

Combining literature, social history, and personal experience, author Robert J. Campbell traces the birth, downfall, and legacy of the innovative, playful, and spontaneous counterculture launched in 1960s Haight-Ashbury. In a lively writing style, Campbell describes the discovery of LSD, its slow adoption, and the promotion of it by Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, who each became missionaries for the drug. Campbell relates how LSD allowed users to enhance the perception of alternative realities and describes its wide-scale use in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco from 1964 to 1967 that led to imaginative and creative change, including collaborative behavior, a new way of looking at the world, acid rock, and a host of other paradigm shifts. Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock concludes by examining the inherent dangers of constant drug use as well as the positive legacy of the 1960s, including a focus on health food, cooperative living arrangements, recycling, battling climate change, free medical help, and personal responsibility. The book incorporates ideas from a broad range of disciplines for general readers for a unique and fresh look at this impactful era.

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State University of New York Press

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1438493355

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Tony Bennett in the Studio

A Life of Art and Music

By: Robert Sullivan,Tony Bennett

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Tony Bennett in the Studio

A Life of Art and Music

By: Robert Sullivan,Tony Bennett

The legendary singer reflects on his career, the recurring themes in his life, and the inspiration that shapes his music and his art, in a musical memoir enhanced by reproductions of his own artwork and a CD containing some of the author's favorite songs.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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1402747675

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9781402747670

Orchestrating the Instruments of Power

A Critical Examination of the U. S. National Security System

By: Worley, Duane Robert Worley

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Orchestrating the Instruments of Power

A Critical Examination of the U. S. National Security System

By: Worley, Duane Robert Worley

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind closed doors by Washington's political scientists and policy makers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often this highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp--and interest--of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The U.S. national security system, designed after World War II and institutionalized through a decades-long power conflict with the Soviet Union, is inadequate for the needs of the twenty-first century, and while a general consensus has emerged that the system must be transformed, a clear and direct route for a new national security strategy proves elusive. Furnishing the tools to assist in future national security reforms, Orchestrating the Instruments of Power articulates and synthesizes the concepts of America's economic, political, and military instruments of power.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612347525

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9781612347523

Robert Duncan

Collected Essays and Other Prose

By: Robert Duncan

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Robert Duncan

Collected Essays and Other Prose

By: Robert Duncan

This volume in the Collected Writings of Robert Duncan series gathers a far-reaching selection of Robert Duncan’s prose writings including most of his longer and more well-known essays along with other prose that has never been widely available. Ranging in original publication dates between 1940 and 1985, the forty-one titles reveal a great deal about Duncan’s life in poetry—including his impressions of poets whose work he admires, both contemporaries and precursors. Evocative and eclectic, this work delineates the intellectual contexts and sources of Duncan’s poetics, and opens a window onto the literary communities in which he participated.

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University of California Press

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0520324846

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The Modern Poet

Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s

By: Robert Crawford

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The Modern Poet

Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s

By: Robert Crawford

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britian, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.

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OUP Oxford

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0191589322

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9780191589324

Norbert Elias

By: Robert Van Krieken

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Norbert Elias

By: Robert Van Krieken

This book locates Elias's work clearly within the development of sociology and also against the background of current debates. Between the 1930s and the 1980s he developed a unique approach to social theory which is now beginning to take root in contemporary social research and theory. Since the translation of his work into English began to accelerate in the 1980s, a growing number of books and articles on topics including health, sexuality, crime, national and ethnic identity, femininity and globalization, in a variety of disciplines, make positive reference to Elias as an authority on the history of emotions, identity, violence, the body and state formation.

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Routledge

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1134848854

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The American Kings

Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

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The American Kings

Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

An inevitable feature of democratic governments is the tendency of their chief executives to pursue domestic policies and foreign wars without the consent of the people. America's own presidents have studiously ignored Congress and the states and have begun to act like all-powerful kings. U.S. presidents make wild promises to get elected, use temporary crises to expand personal power, publish propaganda to divert attention away from their actions, pass out benefits to favored sections of the population in order to get re-elected, and suppress segments of the population who disagree with them. This book chronicles the story of America's lapse into tyranny at the hands of some of its best-known presidents.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498271065

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Poets on Paintings

A Bibliography

By: Robert D. Denham

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Poets on Paintings

A Bibliography

By: Robert D. Denham

Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.

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McFarland

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0786456582

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Powers of Theory

Capitalism, the State, and Democracy

By: Robert R. Alford,Roger Friedland

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Powers of Theory

Capitalism, the State, and Democracy

By: Robert R. Alford,Roger Friedland

An evaluation of different theories of the nature of the state in capitalist democracies.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521316359

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Child Family and State

Problems and Material on Children and the Law

By: Robert H. Mnookin,D. Kelly Weisberg

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Child Family and State

Problems and Material on Children and the Law

By: Robert H. Mnookin,D. Kelly Weisberg

A landmark publication in its first edition, this was one of the first books to explore the full range of legal questions relating to children. This casebook presents an outstanding selection of cases and materials that reflect social and historical perspectives, law, and policy. Features:“/P> Life without Possibility of Parole for Persons Who Commit Crimes as Juveniles Graham v. Florida, 130 S. Ct. 2011 (2010) Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012) Juveniles' Fourth Amendment Rights Safford Unified School District v. Redding, 557 U.S. 364 (2009) Juveniles Miranda Rights J.D.B. v. North Carolina, 131 S. Ct. 2394 (2011) Juveniles First Amendment Rights Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.,131 S. Ct. 2729 (2011) The purchase of this Kindle edition does not entitle you to receive 1-year FREE digital access to the corresponding Examples & Explanations in your course area. In order to receive access to the hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations found in the Examples & Explanations, you will need to purchase a new print casebook.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454845554

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Late Modernism

Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America

By: Robert Genter

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Late Modernism

Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America

By: Robert Genter

In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism—Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky—and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to pop art, and the barren formalism associated with the so-called high modernists wilted before the hothouse cultural brew of the 1960s. According to conventional thinking, it was around this time that postmodernism with its characteristic skepticism and relativism was born. In Late Modernism, historian Robert Genter remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Dispensing with traditional narratives that present this moment as marking the exhaustion of modernism, Genter argues instead that the 1950s were the apogee of the movement, as American practitioners—abstract expressionists, Beat poets, formalist critics, color-field painters, and critical theorists, among others—debated the relationship between form and content, tradition and innovation, aesthetics and politics. In this compelling work of intellectual and cultural history Genter presents an invigorated tradition of late modernism, centered on the work of Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, Jasper Johns, Norman Brown, and James Baldwin, a tradition that overcame the conservative and reactionary politics of competing modernist practitioners and paved the way for the postmodern turn of the 1960s.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200071

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What Is a Number?

Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins

By: Robert Tubbs

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What Is a Number?

Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins

By: Robert Tubbs

Mysticism, number, and geometry : an introduction to Pythagoreanism -- The Elgin Marbles and Plato's geometric chemistry -- An introduction to infinity -- The flat Earth and the spherical sky -- Theology, logic, and questions about angels -- Time, infinity, and incommensurability -- Medieval theories of vision and the discovery of space -- The shape of space and the fourth dimension -- What is a number? -- The dual nature of points and lines -- Modern mathematical infinity -- Elegance and truth.

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JHU Press

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0801890187

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Journey Into Color

By: Robert Williams

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Journey Into Color

By: Robert Williams

Journey Into Color By: Robert Williams It’s 1964, and the civil rights movement is in full swing. Mike Martino, an aspiring writer born in a small New England town, heads out to Los Angeles, California, to write a novel about his experience as a singer. He drifts in and out of casual sex relationships, afraid of becoming tied down – that is, until he meets Mae Kelly, a young black woman with a difficult past of prostitution, poverty, drugs, and jail. But through it all, she has maintained an innocent, child-like purity that captivates Mike and makes him succumb to her special “It” quality. But this is the 1960s in America, and Mike is white and Mae is black. Their love story plays out against the backdrop of racism and long-held prejudices, which even Mike cannot fully escape, no matter how hard he tries. Written in common vernacular and influenced by the author’s own experiences, Journey Into Color is a bohemian romance with an edge – and, ultimately, a story of hope for a better future.

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1685374166

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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

By: Hanes Walton, Jr,Robert C. Smith,Sherri L. Wallace

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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

By: Hanes Walton, Jr,Robert C. Smith,Sherri L. Wallace

This dynamic and comprehensive text from nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics. Through the use of two interrelated themes -- the idea of universal freedom and the concept of minority-majority coalitions -- the text demonstrates how the presence of Africans in the United States affected the founding of the Republic and its political institutions and processes. The authors show that through the quest for their own freedom in the United States, African Americans have universalized and expanded the freedoms of all Americans. New to the Eighth Edition A new co-author, Sherri L. Wallace, is renowned for her teaching, scholarship, and participation in APSA’s American government textbook assessment for coverage of race, ethnicity, and gender. She is the perfect addition following an election year that included female presidential candidates as well as candidates of color and issues focusing on racial tension and inequality. Offers a new Media Integration Guide for the first time. Provides the first overall assessment of the Obama administration in relation to domestic and foreign policy and racial politics in particular. Updated through the 2016 elections, connecting the Obama years with the new administration. Looks at candidates Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson in particular in relation to the themes of the book. Adds a new section on State Politics and Elections. Includes new sections on intersectionality dealing with issues of race, gender and sexuality; LGBT issues as another manifestation of the struggle for universal freedom; a discussion of the "Black Lives Matter" movement; and a new section focusing on the changing character of black ethnicity as result of increased immigration from Africa and the Caribbean. Discusses the way in which race contributed to the polarization of American politics; the connections to the Tea Party; and the Obama Presidency and the 2016 presidential campaign as the most polarized since the advent of polling. Previews the impact of the Trump Administration on matters of race and ethnicity.

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Routledge

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1317218612

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9781317218616

Winning Florida

How the Bush Team Fought the Battle

By: Robert Zelnick

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Winning Florida

How the Bush Team Fought the Battle

By: Robert Zelnick

An insider's look at the most controversial U.S. presidential election in modern history, detailing both the hard facts and the roller coaster of human emotions experienced on both sides through every dramatic step of the way.

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Hoover Press

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0817928820

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Glass: A Portrait

By: Robert Maycock

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Glass: A Portrait

By: Robert Maycock

Philip Glass has had a unique impact on traditional popular culture over the past 40 years. Written jointly as an appraisal of his work and a biography, Glass details the landmark points of his career and the artists he recorded with, such as Ravi Shankar. Diverse projects, from his four hour epic "Einstein on the Beach" to operatic compositions such as "100 Airplanes, " and their impact on popular culture are explored -- recording a remarkable life in music.

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Bobcat Books

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0857128078

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Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

By: Robert Pinsky

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Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

By: Robert Pinsky

“Magnificent . . . poems to inspire [with] brief and brilliant, offhand notes about how to read them.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring poems and how they are made— in terms borrowed from the “singing school” of William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium.” Robert Pinsky’s headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer’s view of specific works: William Carlos Williams’s “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper” for intense verbal music; Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” for wild imagination in matter-of-fact language; Robert Southwell’s “The Burning Babe” for surrealist aplomb; Wallace Stevens’s “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” for subtlety in meter. Included are poems by Aphra Behn, Allen Ginsberg, George Herbert, John Keats, Mina Loy, Thomas Nashe, and many other master poets. This anthology respects poetry’s mysteries in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393240703

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9780393240702

Spin the Bottle and Other Stories

By: John Robert Hunter

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Spin the Bottle and Other Stories

By: John Robert Hunter

Vignettes from one teenage boy's adolescence during the golden age of the nineteen fifties in Southern California.

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Lulu.com

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0557167256

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9780557167258

Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov

The Poetry of Politics, the Politics of Poetry

By: Albert Gelpi,Robert J. Bertholf

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Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov

The Poetry of Politics, the Politics of Poetry

By: Albert Gelpi,Robert J. Bertholf

A distinguished group of critics examine the close association between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, two poets central to the American postwar period, and the issues of form and meaning that drew them together and then split them apart, especially the question of the relation between poetry and politics, the private and public responsibilities of the poet.

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Stanford University Press

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0804751315

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Night Thoughts

The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne

By: Robert Fraser

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Night Thoughts

The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne

By: Robert Fraser

This pioneering biography of the British poet and translator David Gascoyne (1916-2001) candidly describes his creative work, involvement with surrealism, addictions, tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and France.

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Oxford University Press

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0199558140

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9780199558148

Encyclopedia of African-American Politics, Third Edition

By: Robert Smith

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Encyclopedia of African-American Politics, Third Edition

By: Robert Smith

This A-to-Z volume examines the role of African Americans in the political process from the early days of the American Revolution to the present. Focusing on basic political ideas, court cases, laws, concepts, ideologies, institutions, and political processes, this book covers all facets of African Americans in American government. Written by a nationally renowned scholar in the field, the Encyclopedia of African-American Politics, Third Edition will enlighten readers to the struggles and triumphs of African Americans in the American political system. Entries include: Abolitionist Movement African immigrants Barack Obama Black Lives Matter Black Panther Party Civil Rights Act of 1964 Emancipation Proclamation "Forty Acres and a Mule" Freedmen's Bureau Hurricane Katrina Institutional racism Integrationism Juneteenth Lynching Malcolm X Million Man March Raphael Warnock

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Infobase Holdings, Inc

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1438199392

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9781438199399

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