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The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature

By: Robert Aston

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The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature

By: Robert Aston

This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature, especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States. Before the term "canon" was widely used in literary studies, which occurred in the second half of 20th century when the canon was first seriously viewed as politically and culturally problematic, the idea that some literary texts were more worthy of being studied than others existed since the beginning of the discipline of the teaching of literature in the 1800s. The concept of the canon, however, extends as far back as to Ancient Greece and its meaning has evolved over time. Thus, this book charts the changing meaning of the idea of the literary canon, examining its influence specifically in the teaching of literature from the beginning of the field to the 21st century. To explain how the literary canon and the teaching of literature have changed over time and continue to change, this book constructs a theory of canon formation based on the ideas of Michel Foucault and the assemblage theory of Manuel DeLanda, illustrating that the literary canon, while frequently contested, is integral to the teaching of literature yet changes as the teaching of literature changes.

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Routledge

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1000078922

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Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods

By: Robert W. Hutkins

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Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods

By: Robert W. Hutkins

The revised and expanded text on food fermentation microbiology With this second edition of Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods, Robert Hutkins brings fresh perspectives and updated content to his exhaustive and engaging text on food fermentations. The text covers all major fermented foods, devoting chapters to fermented dairy, meat, and vegetable products, as well breads, beers, wines, vinegars, and soy foods. These insights are enhanced by detailed explanations of the microbiological and biochemical processes that underpin fermentation, while an account of its fascinating history provides readers with richly contextualizing background knowledge. New to this edition are two additional chapters. One discusses the role that fermentation plays in the production of spirits and other distilled beverages, whereas another focuses on cocoa, coffee, and fermented cereal products. Furthermore, key chapters on microorganisms and metabolism have been expanded and elaborated upon, and are complemented by other relevant revisions and additions made throughout the book, ensuring that it is as up-to-date and applicable as possible. This essential text includes: Discussions of major fermented foods from across the globe Background information on the science and history behind food fermentation Information on relevant industrial processes, technologies, and scientific discoveries Two new chapters covering distilled spirits and cocoa, coffee, and cereal products Expanded chapters on microorganisms and metabolism Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods, Second Edition is a definitive reference tool that will be of great interest and use to industry professionals, academics, established or aspiring food scientists, and anyone else working with fermented foods.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119027551

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Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications

Dedicated to Gilles Lachaud on His 60th Birthday : Proceedings of the First SAGA Conference, Papeete, France, 7-11 May 2007

By: Jean Chaumine,James William Peter Hirschfeld,Robert Rolland,Gilles Lachaud

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Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications

Dedicated to Gilles Lachaud on His 60th Birthday : Proceedings of the First SAGA Conference, Papeete, France, 7-11 May 2007

By: Jean Chaumine,James William Peter Hirschfeld,Robert Rolland,Gilles Lachaud

This volume covers many topics, including number theory, Boolean functions, combinatorial geometry, and algorithms over finite fields. It contains many new, theoretical and applicable results, as well as surveys that were presented by the top specialists in these areas. New results include an answer to one of Serre''s questions, posted in a letter to Top; cryptographic applications of the discrete logarithm problem related to elliptic curves and hyperelliptic curves; construction of function field towers; construction of new classes of Boolean cryptographic functions; and algorithmic applications of algebraic geometry. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Fast addition on non-hyperelliptic genus 3 curves (424 KB). Contents: Symmetric Cryptography and Algebraic Curves (F Voloch); Galois Invariant Smoothness Basis (J-M Couveignes & R Lercier); Fuzzy Pairing-Based CL-PKC (M Kiviharju); On the Semiprimitivity of Cyclic Codes (Y Aubry & P Langevin); Decoding of Scroll Codes (G H Hitching & T Johnsen); An Optimal Unramified Tower of Function Fields (K Brander); On the Number of Resilient Boolean Functions (S Mesnager); On Quadratic Extensions of Cyclic Projective Planes (H F Law & P P W Wong); Partitions of Vector Spaces over Finite Fields (Y Zelenyuk); and other papers. Readership: Mathematicians, researchers in mathematics (academic and industry R&D).

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World Scientific

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9812793437

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Comic Faith

The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce

By: Robert M. Polhemus

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Comic Faith

The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce

By: Robert M. Polhemus

Polhemus sketches several distinctions between nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists and concludes that what most characterizes the nineteenth century, from the perspective of the twentieth, is the tendency in its comic fiction to criticize and to undermine the dogma and institutions of religion and to put faith instead of the existence of the comic perspective. Comic Faith is a virtuoso performance of impressive stature; I suspect the book will be influential for many years to come."—John Halperin, Modern Fiction Studies

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University of Chicago Press

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0226673219

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Keepers of the Code

English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation

By: Robert Lecker

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Keepers of the Code

English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation

By: Robert Lecker

Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by their editors when faced with the challenge of constructing or rejecting national ideals. He argues that these are intensely self-conscious works with their own literary mechanisms and architecture. In reading the history of these anthologies, he witnesses a complex narrative of nation, a compelling story about the values and interests informing English-Canadian literary history.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442663472

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The Seeds of Disaster

The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-39

By: Robert A. Doughty

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The Seeds of Disaster

The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-39

By: Robert A. Doughty

An examination of the military doctrine that animated the French defense against the German invasion in 1940.

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Stackpole Books

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0811760766

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United States Army in WWII - Europe - Riviera to the Rhine

[Illustrated Edition]

By: Robert Ross Smith,Jeffrey J. Clarke

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United States Army in WWII - Europe - Riviera to the Rhine

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By: Robert Ross Smith,Jeffrey J. Clarke

[Includes 35 maps and 77 illustrations] Riviera to the Rhine examines a significant portion of the Allied drive across northern Europe and focuses on the vital role played in that drive by the U.S. 6th Army Group, commanded by General Jacob L. Devers, and its two major components, the American Seventh Army, under General Alexander M. Patch, and the French First Army, under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Had these forces not existed, Eisenhower’s two northern army groups, those commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and General Omar N. Bradley, would have been stretched much thinner, with their offensive and defensive capabilities greatly reduced. In such a case the German offensive of Dec. 1944 might have met with greater success, easily postponing the final Allied drive into Germany with unforeseen military and political consequences. Riviera thus should balance the greater public attention given to the commands of Montgomery and Bradley by concentrating on the accomplishments of those led by Devers, Patch, and de Lattre and, in the process, by highlighting the crucial logistical contributions of the southern French ports to the Allied war effort. Finally Riviera is the study of a combined, Franco-American military effort, one which frequently saw major combat units of each nation commanded by generals of the other on the field of battle. Although outwardly similar, each national component had its own unique style, and a deep appreciation of one another’s strengths and weaknesses was vital to the success of the combined force. National political considerations also played a significant role in the operations of the combined force as did personal conflicts within both chains of command, all of which had to be resolved primarily by the principal commanders in the field.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782894152

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Destination Berchtesgaden

The US Seventh Army during World War II

By: John Frayn Turner,Robert Jackson

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Destination Berchtesgaden

The US Seventh Army during World War II

By: John Frayn Turner,Robert Jackson

The actions of General Patch's Seventh Army are analysed and assessed in this detailed history of their advance across Europe in 1943-45. Of the US Armies fighting in Europe at the end of World War II, General Patch's Seventh Army has received the least attention from historians. Although over-shadowed by the performance of General Patton and the actions of his US Third Army (breaking out of the Normandy bridgehead, liberating Paris and seizing Remagen bridge), the Seventh Army made a considerable contribution to the Allied victory, particularly their rapid advance through southern Germany and Austria. The Seventh Army landed in Sicily in 1943, and then took part in Operation Anvil in 1944 before advancing across the Rhine and reaching Berchtesgaden itself. Both the successes and setbacks of the Seventh Army are discussed in this volume, as well as discussing the tactical victories and defeats that contributed to the Allied campaign.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780967284

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Comic Practice/comic Response

By: Robert I. Williams

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Comic Practice/comic Response

By: Robert I. Williams

This study focuses on response to comedy. The author maintains we respond rather mindlessly to comic effect. Comedy itself, in the philosophical sense, is seen as play. The play impulse is manifest in numerous forms from theater to painting, the novel to sculpting, poetry to cartooning; and each medium has its own semiotic language.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874134633

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Polytheism and Society at Athens

By: Robert Parker

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Polytheism and Society at Athens

By: Robert Parker

The first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens.

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A New Book of the Grotesques

Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction

By: Robert Dunne

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A New Book of the Grotesques

Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction

By: Robert Dunne

Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form. This book looks at Anderson's early fiction from contemporary interpretative methodologies, particularly from poststructuralist approaches.

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Kent State University Press

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0873388275

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The Invention of Native American Literature

By: Robert Dale Parker

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The Invention of Native American Literature

By: Robert Dale Parker

In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature by reinterpreting its concerns with poetry, orality, and Indian notions of authority. He also addresses representations of Indian masculinity, uncovering Native literature's recurring fascination with restless young men who have nothing to do, or who suspect or feel pressured to believe that they have nothing to do. The Invention of Native American Literature reads Native writing through a wide variety of shifting historical contexts. In its commitment to historicizing Native writing and identity, Parker's work parallels developments in scholarship on other minority literatures and is sure to provoke controversy.

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Cornell University Press

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1501724665

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Shakespeare Between the World Wars

The Anglo-American Sphere

By: Robert Sawyer

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Shakespeare Between the World Wars

The Anglo-American Sphere

By: Robert Sawyer

Shakespeare Between the World Wars draws parallels between Shakespearean scholarship, criticism, and production from 1920 to 1940 and the chaotic years of the Interwar era. The book begins with the scene in Hamlet where the Prince confronts his mother, Gertrude. Just as the closet scene can be read as a productive period bounded by devastation and determination on both sides, Robert Sawyer shows that the years between the World Wars were equally positioned. Examining performance and offering detailed textual analyses, Sawyer considers the re-evaluation of Shakespeare in the Anglo-American sphere after the First World War. Instead of the dried, barren earth depicted by T. S. Eliot and others in the 1920s and 1930s, this book argues that the literary landscape resembled a paradoxically fertile wasteland, for just below the arid plain of the time lay the seeds for artistic renewal and rejuvenation which would finally flourish in the later twentieth century.

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Springer

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1137582189

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Die Dublonen des Samiel

By: Robert Bahr

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Die Dublonen des Samiel

By: Robert Bahr

Die Dublonen des Samiel In einem Land verändern sich die Menschen. Statt sich um ihre Kinder zu kümmern, sitzen sie im Wohnzimmer und starren in einen magischen Käfig. Um das Land vor einer Katastrophe zu bewahren, muss Thomas mit seinen Freunden ein großes Wagnis eingehen. Können sie ihre Eltern wieder zu den liebevollen Menschen machen, die sie einst waren? Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren Der Autor Robert Bahr arbeitet als Pädagoge mit Kindern und Jugendlichen. Das Theaterstück zu diesem Buch wurde bereits in Berlin aufgeführt und gewann einen Preis zum Thema Gewaltprävention.

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Lulu.com

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1291686711

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Est?e Lauder: Businesswoman and Cosmetics Pioneer

By: Robert Grayson

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Est?e Lauder: Businesswoman and Cosmetics Pioneer

By: Robert Grayson

This biography examines the remarkable life of Est?e Lauder using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking black-and-white images and rich color photographs, readers will learn about Lauder?s family background, childhood, education, and innovative work as the founder of the Est?e Lauder cosmetics company. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

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1617838926

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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun

Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916

By: Robert T. Foley,Robert Thomas Foley

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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun

Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916

By: Robert T. Foley,Robert Thomas Foley

Almost 90 years since its conclusion, the battle of Verdun is still little understood. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun is a detailed examination of this seminal battle based on research conducted in archives long thought lost. Material returned to Germany from the former Soviet Union has allowed for a reinterpretation of Erich von Falkenhayn's overall strategy for the war and of the development of German operational and tactical concepts to fit this new strategy of attrition. By taking a long view of the development of German military ideas from the end of the Franco-German War in 1871, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun also gives much-needed context to Falkenhayn's ideas and the course of one of the greatest battles of attrition the world has ever known.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521841933

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Athenian Religion: A History

By: Robert Parker

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Athenian Religion: A History

By: Robert Parker

This book is an attempt to take seriously the cliche that Greek religion is an eminently social phenomenon. It differs from `Histories of Greek Religion' by focusing on a particular Greek city with particular social structures. It treats a much broader range of phenomena than do books on `Athenian festivals'. It seeks to bridge the gap that usually divides studies of Greek religion from studies of Greek history and society. Among the topics discussed are the actual dates and circumstances of foundation of many temples, festivals, and cults at Athens, the historical development of the social structures within which religious activities took place, and the effects in the religious sphere of the radical shift in Athens' political life from tyranny to democracy and the acquisition of an empire. Robert Parker investigates the relation between religion and political prestige, considers the introduction of new cults, and looks in detail at such key personalities and events in the religious history of Athens as Lycurgus the Eteoboutad and his religious policies, and the trial of Socrates. The period covered is roughly that from 750 to 250 BC.

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Oxford University Press

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0191657042

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Deadly Aura

By: Robert Sweeten

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Deadly Aura

By: Robert Sweeten

Plagued by strange premonitions and recurring nightmares, New Orleans College student Anna Picard fears that she is losing her mind, following the same path as her schizophrenic mother. Earning money as a palm-reader in Jackson Square, she discovers that she knows things about those whose hands she touches, leading her to conclude that, rather than psychotic, she may be psychic. Meanwhile, the body of a murdered girl- an unusual tattoo on its abdomen- comes across the autopsy table of forensic pathologist Ross Robillard. Before leaving on vacation, he discovers that the girl's father was also murdered, and that the killers were apparently seeking something of value. Both bodies were bound with an unusual knot called a stevedore knot. Robillard is assaulted by thugs at the airport, the man in charge demanding a map of which the doctor has no knowledge. Escaping amid a melee on the concourse, the doctor cancels his trim and holes up in a New Orleans hotel. When the morgue assistant who aided Robillard in the child's autopsy is murdered, along with his family, the police suspect that the pathologist is somehow involved. Having his palm read at a local fundraiser, the doctor meets Anna Picard, getting a hint of her unusual powers. When he notices that a bouquet of flowers given to her by a stranger is bound by the same distinctive knot as the two corpses, he explains the danger confronting them and insists that they stay together. Joining forces, the couple learn that Anna's recurring dream presages an upcoming terrorist event in the nation's capital. The information needed to predict the specifics of the attack is hidden within the dead girl's tattoo. With the help of FBI agent John Picard and Robillard's estranged brother Kurt, the two rush to solve the riddle and thwart the terrorist attack.

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1456799320

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Race, Labor, and Civil Rights

Griggs Versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity

By: Robert Samuel Smith

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Race, Labor, and Civil Rights

Griggs Versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity

By: Robert Samuel Smith

In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking decision Griggs v. Duke Power (1971), the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, finding such employment practices violated Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they disparately affected minorities. In doing so, the court delivered a significant anti-employment discrimination verdict. Legal scholars rank Griggs v. Duke Power on par with Brown v. Board of Education (1954) in terms of its impact on eradicating race discrimination from American institutions. In Race, Labor, and Civil Rights, Robert Samuel Smith offers the first full-length historical examination of this important case and its connection to civil rights activism during the second half of the 1960s. Smith explores all aspects of Griggs, highlighting the sustained energy of the grassroots civil rights community and the critical importance of courtroom activism. Smith shows that after years of nonviolent, direct action protests, African Americans remained vigilant in the 1960s, heading back to the courts to reinvigorate the civil rights acts in an effort to remove the lingering institutional bias left from decades of overt racism. He asserts that alongside the more boisterous expressions of black radicalism of the late sixties, foot soldiers and local leaders of the civil rights community -- many of whom were working-class black southerners -- mustered ongoing legal efforts to mold Title 7 into meaningful law. Smith also highlights the persistent judicial activism of the NAACP-Legal Defense and Education Fund and the ascension of the second generation of civil rights attorneys. By exploring the virtually untold story of Griggs v. Duke Power, Smith's enlightening study connects the case and the campaign for equal employment opportunity to the broader civil rights movement and reveals the civil rights community's continued spirit of legal activism well into the 1970s.

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LSU Press

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0807134813

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The Age of Distraction

Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy

By: Robert Hassan

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The Age of Distraction

Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy

By: Robert Hassan

Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear to be quite different phenomena. Reading and writing have functioned together in a particular way to build the world as we have known it for three thousand years. These interacting processes have now been transformed at their core and are building a different world, one where certainties of the previous era are disappearing and being displaced by what the author sees as a chronic and pervasive mode of cognitive distraction. Robert Hassan offers a perspective permeated by a sense of history, beginning with the invention of writing and the development of the skill of reading. Together with technological developments, these provide a unique view of the trajectory of modernity into late-modernity, and illustrate how the arc of progress has transformed. New modes of time, technology, and reading and writing are helping create a faster world where we know less about more-and forget what we know evermore quickly. What is the "time" of a thought? Is it possible to measure thinking? Can we consider knowledge or information, or reading and writing, as having temporal "rhythms"? These are questions Hassan tries to answer. So unfamiliar are we to thinking in such terms that they sound impossible. To a significant degree, time, thinking, and many forms of knowledge are the fruits of subjective experience. We connect experiences at superficial levels, where people have different experiences that may be objectively the same, but our interpretations will always diverge in respect of the "reality" we confront. This intersection of philosophy and communication takes the reader into new realms of analysis.

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Routledge

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1351486241

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The Bible in Music

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

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The Bible in Music

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

This book explores the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since. The study surveys the emergence of this close relationship in the era following the end of the Roman Empire and through the Middle Ages, taking particular note of the role of Gregorian chant, folk music and the popularity of mystery, morality and passion plays in reflection of the Sacred Scripture and its themes during those times. With the emergence of polyphony and the advent of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the interaction between the Bible and music increased dramatically, culminating in the evolution of opera and oratorio as specific genres during the Renaissance and the Early Baroque period. Both these genres have proved essential to the interplay between sacred revelation and the various types of music that have come to determine cultural expression in the history of Europe. The book initially provides an overview of how the various themes and types of Biblical literature have been explored in the story of Western music. It then looks closely at the role of oratorio and opera over four centuries, considering the most famous and striking examples and considering how the music has responded in different ages to the sacred text and narrative. The last chapter examines how biblical theology has been used to dramatic purpose in a particular operatic genre – that of French Grand Opera. The academic apparatus includes an iconography, a detailed bibliography and an index of biblical and musical references, themes and subjects.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443868485

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The Knowledge of Things Hoped For

The Sense of Theological Discourse

By: Robert W. Jenson

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The Knowledge of Things Hoped For

The Sense of Theological Discourse

By: Robert W. Jenson

What sort of meaning for today’s world emerges in theological discourse? "We sit in the pew," the author writes, "and ask, 'But what does the preacher mean?’ We climb the pulpit with despair of the words we must utter—a despair present for a generation at least, but now become explicit." The suspicion that talk about God makes less and less sense is set both by the dominance of the sciences as models of certainty, and by our increasing acceptance of historical relativism. The order of Dr. Jenson's book follows the order of his search for verifiability; his conclusions acknowledge the reality of promise, the "centrality of hope for Christian faith and discourse" that is the common motif of many different contemporary theological programs. To overcome a deficiency of previous discussions, Dr. Jenson starts with an investigation of how classical theology, through key proponents, has understood itself. An account of Origen centers on "the language of images," one of Thomas on the notion of “analogy.” Seeking both continuity with and freedom from these traditional interpretations, the author then enters the contemporary discussion. Over the challenge of verifiability he engages the English and American “analysts,” over the challenge of historicism he engages the European ''hermeneuticists,” in quest of a more viable and comprehensive answer than either has been able to offer.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725272059

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The Power of Political Art

The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered

By: Robert Shulman

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The Power of Political Art

The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered

By: Robert Shulman

During the 1930s, radical young writers, artists, and critics associated with the Communist Party animated a cultural dialogue that was one of the most stimulating in American history. With the dawning of the Cold War, however, much of their work fell out

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0807848530

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American Women Modernists

The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945

By: Robert Henri,Marian Wardle,Sarah Burns,Brigham Young University. Museum of Art

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American Women Modernists

The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945

By: Robert Henri,Marian Wardle,Sarah Burns,Brigham Young University. Museum of Art

The seven essays included in this volume move beyond the famed Ashcan School to recover the lesser known work of Robert Henri's women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women participated in the "modernizing" of women's roles during this era.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813536847

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Roy Rogers

A Biography, Radio History, Television Career Chronicle, Discography, Filmography, Comicography, Merchandising and Advertising History, Collectibles Description, Bibliography, and Index

By: Robert W. Phillips

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Roy Rogers

A Biography, Radio History, Television Career Chronicle, Discography, Filmography, Comicography, Merchandising and Advertising History, Collectibles Description, Bibliography, and Index

By: Robert W. Phillips

This is the definitive work on Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys." The lives and careers of Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans, are thoroughly covered, particularly their work on radio and television. The merchandising history of Roy Rogers reveals that his marketing of character-related products was second only to that of Walt Disney; Roy Rogers memorabilia are still among the most popular items. Includes a comprehensive discography, filmography and comicography. Heavily illustrated.

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McFarland

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0899509371

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Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition

Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy

By: Robert Alexander

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Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition

Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy

By: Robert Alexander

This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition in the early nineteenth century. The author argues that political struggle was not confined to the elite, and that the Restoration Liberal Opposition developed a reform tradition which was far more effective than the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and insurrection.

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Cambridge University Press

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113943764X

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The Wehrmacht's Last Stand

The German Campaigns of 1944–1945

By: Robert M. Citino

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The Wehrmacht's Last Stand

The German Campaigns of 1944–1945

By: Robert M. Citino

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world’s leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this gripping account of German military campaigns during the final phase of World War II, Citino charts the inevitable path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a “war of movement,” inexorably led to Nazi Germany’s defeat. The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or “death ride,” from January 1944—with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine—until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino’s previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army’s strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700630384

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