Roger Anderson's Books

Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight

By: Roger Gunn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight

By: Roger Gunn

The first comprehensive biography of Canada’s third-highest- scoring ace in the First World War. Ever wondered what it would be like to fly a biplane or triplane in the First World War? Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader. Understand the courage Collishaw and his fellow flyers faced every day they took to the air in their small, light, and very manoeuvrable craft to face the enemy. As the third-highest-scoring flying ace among British and colonial pilots in the First World War, scoring 60 victories, Collishaw was only surpassed by Billy Bishop and Edward Mannock. This book traces Collishaw’s life from humble beginnings in Nanaimo, British Columbia, to victories in the skies over France.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

Dundurn

Published Date

ISBN 10

1459706625

ISBN 13

9781459706620

Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

By: Roger Ebert

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

By: Roger Ebert

Presents a collection of the critic's most positive film reviews of the last four decades, arranged alphabetically from "About Last Night" to "Zodiac.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

948

Publisher

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0740771795

ISBN 13

9780740771798

Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

This biographical dictionary documents the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Entries are arranged first by state and then by regiment, and provide a biographical sketch of each colonel focusing on his Civil War service. Many of the colonels covered herein never rose above that rank, failing to win promotion to brigadier general or brevet brigadier general, and have therefore received very little scholarly attention prior to this work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

259

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786473185

ISBN 13

9780786473182

Cleveland Cavaliers A-Z

By: Roger Gordon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cleveland Cavaliers A-Z

By: Roger Gordon

A must-have book for any Cavs fan, Cleveland Cavaliers A- Z is compiled alphabetically for easy accessibility. The book offers a complete history of the franchise and includes hundreds of different items of interest. After the Cavaliers were founded as an expansion team in 1970, the team and its fans endured a league-worst 15-67 record in the inaugural season under head coach Bill Fitch. That gave the Cavs the first pick in the 1971 NBA Draft, which they used on Notre Dame’s Austin Carr, who joined a Cavaliers team that already had expansion draftee Bobby “Bingo” Smith. An influx of talent that included Jim Cleamons, Jim Chones, and Dick Snyder eventually led to the team’s first-ever playoff appearance in 1975-76--including the “Miracle of Richfield” against the Washington Bullets. Since then Cavs fans have witnessed the first and second comings of LeBron James and two trips to the NBA Finals. Through savvy draft picks and trades, the Cavs are one of the most consistently successful franchises in the league. Cleveland Cavaliers A- Z brings you the history of the Cavs and will delight those with a penchant for sports trivia with its array of facts and heightened attention to detail. From Gary Alexander to Tyler Zeller, this book has all the information Cavs fans would ever want to know about their team.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

360

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

168358001X

ISBN 13

9781683580010

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

By: Roger Ebert

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

By: Roger Ebert

The only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, Roger Ebert collects his reviews from the last 30 months in Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012. Forbes Magazine described Ebert as the "most powerful pundit in America." In January 2011, he and his wife, Chaz, launched Ebert Presents at the Movies, a weekly public television program in the tradition that he and Gene Siskel began 35 years earlier. Since 1986, each edition of Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook has presented full-length movie reviews, with interviews, essays, tributes, journal entries, and "Questions for the Movie Answer Man," and new entries in his popular Movie Glossary. Inside Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012, readers can expect to find every movie review Ebert has written from January 2009 to July 2011, including The Social Network, Waiting for Superman, Inception, The King's Speech, My Dog Tulip, The Human Centipede, and more. Also included in the Yearbook are: * In-depth interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, such as John Waters and Justin Timberlake. * Memorial tributes to those in the film industry who have passed away, such as Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, and Arthur Penn. * Essays on the Oscars and reports from the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

794

Publisher

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1449421504

ISBN 13

9781449421502

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003

By: Roger Ebert

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003

By: Roger Ebert

Every single new Ebert review.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

916

Publisher

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0740726919

ISBN 13

9780740726910

Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment

Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities

By: Roger L. Emerson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment

Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities

By: Roger L. Emerson

This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews, exploring the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders. This comprehensive study explores the improving agenda of political patrons and of those they served and relates this to the Scottish Enlightenment. Emerson argues that what was happening in Scotland was also occurring in other parts of Europe where, in relatively autonomous localities, elite patrons also shaped things as they wished them to be. The role of patronage in the Enlightenment is essential to any understanding of its origins and course.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

704

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0748631291

ISBN 13

9780748631292

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013

Every Single New Ebert Review

By: Roger Ebert

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013

Every Single New Ebert Review

By: Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert’s “criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range. . . .” —New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 600 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, tributes, and journal entries inside Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2013. It includes every movie review Ebert has written from January 2010 to July 2012. Also included in the Yearbook: In-depth interviews with newsmakers and celebrities Tributes to those in the film industry who have passed away recently Essays on the Oscars, reports from the Toronto Film Festival, and entries into Ebert's Little Movie Glossary

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1182

Publisher

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1449423116

ISBN 13

9781449423117

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

By: Roger Ebert

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

By: Roger Ebert

Featuring every review Ebert wrote from January 2001 to mid-June 2003, this treasury also includes his essays, interviews, film festival reports, and In Memoriams, along with his famous star ratings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

988

Publisher

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0740738348

ISBN 13

9780740738340

Guardian of Savannah

Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond

By: Roger S. Durham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Guardian of Savannah

Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond

By: Roger S. Durham

The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy Built out of sand and mud, Fort McAllister was designed to serve as the southern anchor of the coastal defenses of Savannah, Georgia. Hastily constructed near the beginning of the Civil War, the fort was situated on the Great Ogeechee River, twelve miles south of the Savannah River. During the war, Fort McAllister withstood devasting naval assaults and served well the aims of Confederate strategists. When the city fell to Union troops, it was General William T. Sherman's overland attack and not an assault from the sea that subdued Savannah. Roger S. Durham offers a comprehensive history of the Fort McAllister's construction and its use during the Civil War, as well as its post-war restoration. Durham intertwines historical narrative with first-person accounts and personal stories through the judicious use of primary sources. By letting the fort's Confederate defenders and Union attackers speak for themselves, Durham offers a compelling account of one of the most hotly contested sites in the naval struggle between Union and Confederate forces.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Univ of South Carolina Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1643365479

ISBN 13

9781643365473

Warrior Nations

The United States and Indian Peoples

By: Roger L. Nichols

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Warrior Nations

The United States and Indian Peoples

By: Roger L. Nichols

During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conflict and what the eight had in common as well as how they differed. He writes about the fights between the United States and the Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware tribes in the Ohio Valley, the Creek in Alabama, the Arikara in South Dakota, the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Wisconsin, the Dakota Sioux in Minnesota, the Cheyenne and Arapaho in Colorado, the Apache in New Mexico and Arizona, and the Nez Perce in Oregon and Idaho. Virtually all of these wars, Nichols shows, grew out of small-scale local conflicts, suggesting that interracial violence preceded any formal declaration of war. American pioneers hated and feared Indians and wanted their land. Indian villages were armed camps, and their young men sought recognition for bravery and prowess in hunting and fighting. Neither the U.S. government nor tribal leaders could prevent raids, thievery, and violence when the two groups met. In addition to U.S. territorial expansion and the belligerence of racist pioneers, Nichols cites a variety of factors that led to individual wars: cultural differences, border disputes, conflicts between and within tribes, the actions of white traders and local politicians, the government’s failure to prevent or punish anti-Indian violence, and Native determination to retain their lands, traditional culture, and tribal independence. The conflicts examined here, Nichols argues, need to be considered as wars of U.S. aggression, a central feature of that nation’s expansion across the continent that brought newcomers into areas occupied by highly militarized Native communities ready and able to defend themselves and attack their enemies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

253

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806150688

ISBN 13

9780806150680

Illicit and Unnatural Practices

The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900

By: Roger Davidson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Illicit and Unnatural Practices

The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900

By: Roger Davidson

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland. Case studies of sex-related offences, including abortion, bestiality, brothel-keeping, child sexual assault, and wilful HIV transmission, reveal how far the legal process both reflected and reinforced contemporary moral panics and how far it was shaped by the interplay between law officers and forensic experts, by the prejudices of the local community and civic leaders, and by Scotland's distinctive legal and moral identity. The law in practice is seen to have sustained important norms of sexual behaviour and masculinity along with an enduring double moral standard with respect to female sexuality. This volume thus affords a remarkable new perspective on the sexual behaviours and ideologies of Scottish society across the twentieth century and into the new millennium.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1474441211

ISBN 13

9781474441216

Planning in the USA

Policies, Issues, and Processes

By: Roger W. Caves,J. Barry Cullingworth

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Planning in the USA

Policies, Issues, and Processes

By: Roger W. Caves,J. Barry Cullingworth

Extensively revised and updated, Planning in the USA, fifth edition, continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory, and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, and approached. The new edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. New material includes discussions of • education and equity in planning; • the City Beautiful Movement; • Daniel Burnham’s plan for Chicago; • segregation; • Knick v. Township of Scott; • reforming single-family zoning and regulatory challenges in zoning and land use; • Daniel Parolek’s ‘Missing Middle Housing’; • climate change, mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency; • the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan; • sharing programs for cars, bicycles, and scooters; • hybrid electric and autonomous vehicles; • Vision Zero; • COVID-19 relief for housing; • Innovation Districts, Promise Zones, and Opportunity Zones; • the sharing, gig, and creative economies; • scenic views and vistas, monuments, statues, and remembering the past; and • healthy cities, Health Impact Assessment, and active living. This detailed account of urbanization in the United States reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the fallibility of experts, and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Planning in the USA, fifth edition, is an essential book for students of urban planning, urban politics, environmental geography, and environment politics. It will be a valuable resource for planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1123

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000905659

ISBN 13

9781000905656

Healthcare Spaces 3 INTL

By: Roger Yee

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Healthcare Spaces 3 INTL

By: Roger Yee

Showcasing impressive new work by some of the leading architects and interior designers serving health care institutions, this work is organised alphabetically by design firm.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

176

Publisher

Visual Reference Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1584710934

ISBN 13

9781584710936

Critical Assembly

A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945

By: Lillian Hoddeson,Paul W. Henriksen,Roger A. Meade

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Critical Assembly

A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945

By: Lillian Hoddeson,Paul W. Henriksen,Roger A. Meade

This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

532

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521541174

ISBN 13

9780521541176

Dry Creek

Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp

By: W. Roger Powers,R. Dale Guthrie,John F. Hoffecker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dry Creek

Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp

By: W. Roger Powers,R. Dale Guthrie,John F. Hoffecker

With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers and his team studied the site, their work verified initial expectations. Unfortunately, the research was never fully published. Dry Creek: The Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp is ready to take its rightful place in the ongoing research into the peopling of the Americas. Containing the original research, this book also updates and reconsiders Dry Creek in light of more recent discoveries and analysis.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

Texas A&M University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1623495385

ISBN 13

9781623495381

Sociology Noir

Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915-1935

By: Roger A. Salerno

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sociology Noir

Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915-1935

By: Roger A. Salerno

Between 1915 and 1935 the University of Chicago was the center for the production of innovative sociological research that unearthed the marginalized existence of unconventional Americans. Referred to as the Chicago school monographs by social historians, these works brought acclaim to the country's premiere graduate program in sociology. Working at the shadowy margins of the city, these Chicago school scholars dramatically examined the lives of delinquents, prostitutes, gangsters, and homeless men. Their work harmonized with narratives of proletarian and pulp fiction and the serialized newspaper accounts of urban vice and deviance. This book offers a survey of some of these key monographs such as The Unadjusted Girl, The Hobo, The Jack-Roller and The Taxi Dance Hall.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

197

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786429909

ISBN 13

9780786429905

Roman Art

By: Donald Emrys Strong,Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee,Roger Ling

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Roman Art

By: Donald Emrys Strong,Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee,Roger Ling

First published in 1976, this standard work on the subject traces the development of Roman art from its beginings to the end of the fourth century AD, embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman empire, demonstrating how all the arts of a given period combine to mirror its social, cultural, and idealogical character. This new edition includes an emended text with full notes and references, and an updated bibliography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

410

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300052936

ISBN 13

9780300052930

Colonels in Blue

Union Army Colonels of the Civil War : the Mid-Atlantic States : Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia

By: Roger D. Hunt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Colonels in Blue

Union Army Colonels of the Civil War : the Mid-Atlantic States : Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia

By: Roger D. Hunt

... profiles ... contain an overview of each colonel's military career, including his previous ranks and commands; his occupation and education; his dates of birth and death; his place of burial; and a list of sources for further reading. Where possible, a photograph accompanies each profile. The author has also provided a list of every infantry, militia, cavalry, and artillery regiment in each state, complete with a succession of its commanding officers."--Dust jacket flap.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Stackpole Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811702537

ISBN 13

9780811702539

The Money and the Power

The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America

By: Sally Denton,Roger Morris

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Money and the Power

The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America

By: Sally Denton,Roger Morris

Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic network of links to Wall Street, international drug traffickers, and the CIA. In doing so, they expose the disturbing connections amongst politicians, businessmen, and the criminals that harness these illegal activities. Through this lucid and gripping indictment of Las Vegas, Morris and Denton uncover a national ethic of exploitation, violence, and greed, and provide a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history. Now this neon maelstrom of ruthlessness and greed stands to not as an aberrant “sin city,” but as a natural outgrowth of the corruption and worship of money that have come to permeate American life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

514

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

0375701265

ISBN 13

9780375701269

Beyond Mammoth Cave

A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave

By: James D. Borden,Roger W. Brucker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond Mammoth Cave

A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave

By: James D. Borden,Roger W. Brucker

The big cave sucked us in," write Borden and Brucker, and so begins their account (told in alternating first-person chapters) of the roles they played in extending Kentucky's Mammoth Cave from 144 miles in 1972 to over 300 miles in 1983. Generously illustrated with drawings and maps, their tale is both a history of spelunking and an underground adventure--for the non-claustrophobic--complete with competitive rivalries and physical peril. A sequel to The longest cave, by Brucker and Richard Watson (1973). Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

396

Publisher

SIU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

080932346X

ISBN 13

9780809323463

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The War Years, 1939-1945

By: Roger Daniels

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The War Years, 1939-1945

By: Roger Daniels

Having guided the nation through the worst economic crisis in its history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 1939 was turning his attention to a world on the brink of war. The second part of Roger Daniels's biography focuses on FDR's growing mastery in foreign affairs. Relying on FDR's own words to the American people and eyewitness accounts of the man and his accomplishments, Daniels reveals a chief executive orchestrating an immense wartime effort. Roosevelt had effective command of military and diplomatic information and unprecedented power over strategic military and diplomatic affairs. He simultaneously created an arsenal of democracy that armed the Allies while inventing the United Nations intended to ensure a lasting postwar peace. FDR achieved these aims while expanding general prosperity, limiting inflation, and continuing liberal reform despite an increasingly conservative and often hostile Congress. Although fate robbed him of the chance to see the victory he had never doubted, events in 1944 assured him that the victory he had done so much to bring about would not be long delayed. A compelling reconsideration of Roosevelt the president and campaigner, The War Years, 1939-1945 provides new views and vivid insights about a towering figure--and six years that changed the world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

681

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0252097645

ISBN 13

9780252097645

Peculiar Attunements

How Affect Theory Turned Musical

By: Roger Mathew Grant

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Peculiar Attunements

How Affect Theory Turned Musical

By: Roger Mathew Grant

Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. During that time the affects—or passions, as they were also called—formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for such theories, since it wasn’t apparent that musical tones could imitate anything with any dependability, beyond the rare thunderclap or birdcall. Struggling to articulate how it was that music managed to move its auditors without imitation, certain theorists developed a new affect theory crafted especially for music, postulating that music’s physical materiality as sound vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects through sympathetic resonance. This was a theory of affective attunement that bypassed the entire structure of representation, offering a non-discursive, corporeal alternative. It is a pendant to contemporary theories of affect, and one from which they have much to learn. Inflecting our current intellectual moment through eighteenth-century music theory and aesthetics, this book offers a reassessment of affect theory’s common systems and processes. It offers a new way of thinking through affect dialectically, drawing attention to patterns and problems in affect theory that we have been given to repeating. Finally, taking a cue from eighteenth-century theory, it gives renewed attention to the objects that generate affects in subjects.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

179

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0823288080

ISBN 13

9780823288083

Skilled Workers in the Class Structure

By: Roger Penn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Skilled Workers in the Class Structure

By: Roger Penn

Based on an investigation of trade union structures, and the earnings and intermarriage of manual workers in the cotton and engineering industries in Rochdale between 1856 and 1964. Argues that an internal division of the manual working class around the axis of skill was a central feature of labour market and work relations in Britain between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-1960s.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521254558

ISBN 13

9780521254557

All Behind You, Winston

Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45

By: Roger Hermiston

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

All Behind You, Winston

Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45

By: Roger Hermiston

All Behind You, Winston tells the story of the most remarkable gathering of leaders in modern British history: the War Ministry that saw the country through its darkest - and finest - hour. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, it was not with the unanimous support of Westminster or the country. For many, Lord Halifax was the obvious choice to succeed Neville Chamberlain, and Churchill's grasp of the Home Front appeared uncertain at best. He assembled around him, however, a Cabinet of 'all the talents'; which would variously mobilise, arm, feed, fund, shelter, evacuate, heal and, ultimately, save Britain. Among these remarkable men - and women - were Churchill's rivals Lord Halifax and Sir Stafford Cripps, the loyal and dogged Clement Attlee, titanic egos such as Lord Beaverbrook and John Reith, the popular department store owner Lord Woolton (the man who kept the nation fed), the propagandist and playboy Duff Cooper, and many of the statesmen who would go on to build the New Jerusalem in peacetime. By 1945 they had not only steered the country to victory, they had also ensured Churchill's inviolable position in our national myth - an outcome that had seemed far from likely five years earlier. In a series of character-driven chapters, Roger Hermiston, a former deputy editor on Radio 4-s Today and the author of The Greatest Traitor, tells the behind-closed-doors story of the key figures and key ministries, delving deep into the archives to bring to life a Cabinet that was both the brain and the conscience of the nation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Aurum

Published Date

ISBN 10

1781314845

ISBN 13

9781781314845

Reports of Cases at Law and Equity and in the Admiralty

By: Roger Taney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reports of Cases at Law and Equity and in the Admiralty

By: Roger Taney

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

694

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

338211335X

ISBN 13

9783382113353

William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours

On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

By: Roger Lane

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours

On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

By: Roger Lane

Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the possibility of change.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

508

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195362217

ISBN 13

9780195362213

Spindletop unwound

A True Story of Greed, Ambition and Murder in the First Degree

By: Roger L. Shaffer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Spindletop unwound

A True Story of Greed, Ambition and Murder in the First Degree

By: Roger L. Shaffer

Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Publisher

Taylor Trade Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0585262411

ISBN 13

9780585262413

Who Owns the Environment?

By: Peter J. Hill,Roger E. Meiners

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Who Owns the Environment?

By: Peter J. Hill,Roger E. Meiners

The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America's property rights paradigm. The prominent contributors to Who Owns the Environment? explore numerous theoretical and empirical possibilities for remedying these problems. An important book for environmental economists and those interested in environmental policy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

367

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1461647053

ISBN 13

9781461647058

"Follow the Flag"

A History of the Wabash Railroad Company

By: H. Roger Grant

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

"Follow the Flag"

A History of the Wabash Railroad Company

By: H. Roger Grant

Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Northern Illinois University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501747797

ISBN 13

9781501747793

Legendary Locals of Roswell

By: John LeMay,Roger K. Burnett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Legendary Locals of Roswell

By: John LeMay,Roger K. Burnett

Roswell is perhaps most famous for its alleged intergalactic visitors that may or may not have crashed here via flying saucer in 1947. However, some very real famous people have traversed and lived in Roswell, including singer John Denver and actress Demi Moore. During the turbulent Wild West days, Roswell was the stomping grounds of cattle baron John Chisum, sheriff Pat Garrett, and even his arch-nemesis, Billy the Kid. Among others to call Roswell home were Robert H. Goddard, the father of modern rocketry; baseball player Joe Bauman, who hit 72 home runs in one season; pro-golfer Nancy Lopez; Western superstar Roy Rogers; rodeo champion Bob Crosby; and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

130

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467100145

ISBN 13

9781467100144

Book's by Roger Anderson

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email