ISBN: 9781907747007 PRICE: £45.00 IMPRINT: Legenda SERIES: Legenda Main Series CONTRIBUTOR: Ursula Tidd PAGES: 200pp BINDING: Hardback PUBLICATION DATE: 1 May 2014 READER INTEREST: Hispanic Language & Literature Enquiries to: Oxbow Books Ltd, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW Tel: +44 1865 256780, Fax: +44 1865 794449 Email: [email protected], Web: www.oxbowbooks.com Oxbow Books are distributed by Orca Book Services Tel: +44 1235 465521, Fax: +44 01235 465555 Email: [email protected]Jorge Semprún Writing the European Other By Ursula Tidd The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in French, Spanish and broader European contexts. His sophisticated literary testimonies have become landmark texts not least for their commitment to represent the lived experience of history. In this first detailed study in English of Jorge Semprún’s writing, Ursula Tidd shows how Semprún explores the parameters of self-writing as an address to the other in a richly intertextual corpus which weaves together history, fiction and auto/bio/thanatography, and gives voice to the traumatic experiences of geographical and political exile and concentration camp internment. Ursula Tidd is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
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Jorge SemprúnWriting the European Other
By Ursula Tidd
The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún(1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics ofremembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in French, Spanish and broader European contexts. His sophisticated literary testimonies have becomelandmark texts not least for their commitment to represent the lived experience ofhistory. In this first detailed study in English of Jorge Semprún’s writing, UrsulaTidd shows how Semprún explores the parameters of self-writing as an address tothe other in a richly intertextual corpus which weaves together history, fiction andauto/bio/thanatography, and gives voice to the traumatic experiences ofgeographical and political exile and concentration camp internment.
Ursula Tidd is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester,UK.
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Title Settlement in the Irish Neolithic
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Settlement in the Irish NeolithicBy Jessica Smyth
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but thedefining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber EarlyNeolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last tenyears. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived architecturalphenomenon of as little as 90 years, perhaps like short-lived Early Neolithic longbarrows and causewayed enclosures. This book explores the wealth of evidence forsettlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain andcontinental Europe. More importantly it incorporates the wealth of new, and oftenunpublished, evidence from developer-led archaeological excavations and largegrey-literature resources. The settlement evidence scattered across the landscape,and found as a result of developer-funded work, provides the social context for themore famous stone monuments that have traditionally shaped our views of the Neolithic in Ireland. It provides the first comprehensive review of the Neolithicsettlement of Ireland, which enables a more holistic and meaningful understandingof the Irish Neolithic.
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CONTRIBUTOR:Ernst Grube
PAGES:518pp
ILLUSTRATIONS:324 illus
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PUBLICATION DATE:30 May 2014
READER INTERESTS:ArchitectureIslamic & Middle Eastern Art &Architecture
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Title Studies in the Decorative Arts of the Muslim World
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Studies in the Decorative Arts of theMuslim WorldBy Ernst Grube
A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examinespecific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine pottery andtiles, one considers Ilkhanis stucco work as represented in the mausoleum of theShaykh Muhammad ibn Bakran and four explore the decorative arts of the Timurisperiod. Illustrations have been enhanced and the selection updated with additionalnotes and an extensive bibliography.
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Title The Form of Meaning / The Meaning of Form
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The Form of Meaning / TheMeaning of Form Studies in the History of Art from LateAntiquity to Jackson Pollock, Volume II
By Irving Lavin
Volumes I and II bring together all of Irving Lavin's studies aside from those onGian Lorenzo Bernini. They range from studies of the art and architecture of LateAntiquity to twentieth-century painting in New York. They are divided here by date,and include seven studies on the art of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, nine on theart of the Renaissance, eight on further topics in sixteenth-century art, seven on theBaroque, and six on Modern Art. There are three studies on the history of theatreand stage design, and twelve papers on the history of art in general, includingobituaries of a number of influential art historians.
Lavin's prize-winning study of Late Antique architecture and pioneering work onNorth African floor mosaics are included here. His interest in the ItalianRenaissance appears in studies on the iconography of the myth of Cephalus andProcris, and the relationship between form and content in works by Donatello,Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Giovanni Bologna. The twentieth century isrepresented by essays on the printmaking of Picasso and the painting of JacksonPollock.
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Title Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture
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Postcolonial Fiction and SacredScriptureRewriting the Divine?
By Sura Qadiri
Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to writewithin a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric.Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and AminMaalouf (Lebanon) revisit scripture as a way to convey nuances which they believehave been stamped out by monolithic religious world-views. For them, fiction offersa way to break away from limited exegetical horizons, but to remain within the faith.Others, though, would go further, moving away from all religious practice, not justthe excessively political or violent. Tunisian writers Abdelwahab Meddeb and FethiBenslama propose that all literature is of its very nature outside of religion, and thatits proliferation will ultimately lead to a secular society. Qadiri explores this widespectrum of approaches, not only by draw comparison with metropolitan Frenchthought, but also to assess its potential impact at a time of radical change in theIslamic world.
Sura Qadiri is a research associate in the French Department, University ofCambridge.
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Title Uncovering the Hidden
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Uncovering the HiddenThe Works and Life of Der Nister
Edited by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge & Mikhail Krutikov
Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) is widely regarded as the mostenigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as‘The Hidden One’, is as puzzling as his diverse body of works, which range frommystical symbolist poetry and dark expressionist tales to realist historical epic.Although part of the Kiev Group of Yiddish writers, which also included DavidBergelson and Peretz Markish, Der Nister remained at the margins of the Yiddishliterary world throughout his life, mainstream success eluding him both in- andoutside the Soviet Union. Yet, to judge from the quantity of recent research andtranslation work, der Nister is today one of the best remembered Yiddishmodernists. The present collection of twelve original articles by internationalscholars re-examines Der Nister’s cultural and literary legacy, bringing to light newaspects of his life and creative output.
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Paths Towards a New WorldNeolithic Sweden
By Geoffrey Lemdahl, Kerstin Lidén & Mats Larsson
Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithicto the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journeythrough the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against thebackdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealthof archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores aseries of chronological themes: such as how the relationship between land and waterinfluenced people’s lives in many ways and the development of often long-distancecultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrence of ‘foreign’ stoneaxes, flint, copper and pottery. He describes how innovations, such as theintroduction of agriculture, spread rapidly during the Neolithic, incorporatingcharacteristics of extensive northern European cultural groups, beginning with theFunnel Beaker Culture with its array of distinctive objects, settlements and burialmonuments, while retaining some specific regional and local expressions in materialculture. Later, certain characteristics of the Pitted Ware Culture, such as specifictypes of pottery decoration, were taken up in some areas while the emergence ofsome regional groups can be seen as a step in the ideological and social changes thatled to what we today call the Battle Axe Culture. Towards the end of the Stone Agethe battle axe was replaced by the dagger as a symbol of the male warrior as a morestable society emerged in many parts of the country, concentrated around large farms with longhouses. It was only at this late stage that agriculture and the raisingof livestock gained a firm hold, and the landscape was opened up permanently.
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Fashionable EncountersPerspectives and trends in textile and dress inthe Early Modern Nordic World
Edited by Kirsten Toftegaard, Maj Ringgaard, Marie-LouiseNosch, Mikkel Venborg Pederson & Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen
At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades therealm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design;ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark,Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and Greenland) within the timeframe AD 1500–1850. This was a period of rapid and far-reaching social, politicaland economic change, from feudal Europe through political revolution,industrialisation, development of international trade, religious upheaval andtechnological innovation; changes impacting on every aspect of life and reflected inequally rapid and widespread changes in fashion at all levels of society. These papers present a broad image of the theme of fashion as a concept and as anempirical manifestation in the Nordic countries in early modernity, exploring a variety of ways in which that world encountered fashionable impressions in clothingand related aspects of material culture from Europe, the Russian Empire, and farbeyond. The chapters range from object-based studies to theory-driven analysis.Elite and sophisticated fashions, the importation of luxuries and fashion garments,christening and bridal wear, silk knitted waistcoats, woollen sweaters and theinfluence of the whaling trade on women’s clothing are some of the diverse topicsconsidered, as well as religious influences on perceptions of luxury and aspects ofthe garment trade and merchant inventories.
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Title Neighbours and Successors of Rome
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Neighbours and Successors of RomeTraditions of Glass Production and use inEurope and the Middle East in the Later 1stMillennium AD
Edited by Caroline Jackson, Daniel Keller & Jennifer Price
Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighboursand Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and themechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture inEurope and the Near East around the later first millennium AD. Though highlightingand solidifying chronology, patterns of distribution, and typology, the primary aimsof the collection are to present a new methodology that emphasises regionalworkshops, scientific data, and the wider trade culture.
By twinning a critique of archaeometric methods with the latest archaeologicalresearch, the contributors present a foundation for glass research, seen through thelens of consumption demands and geographical necessity, that analyses productioncentres and traditional typological knowledge. In so doing the they bridge animportant divide by demonstrating the co-habitability of diverse approaches anddisciplines, linking, for example, the production of Campanulate bowls fromGallaecia with the burgeoning international late antique style. Equally, the particulardetails of those pieces allow us to identify a regional style as well as localproduction. As such this compilation provides a highly valuable resource forarchaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians.
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Title Richardson and the Philosophes
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Richardson and the PhilosophesBy James Fowler
In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of thenovel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this.James Fowler's new study is the first to compare the response of the most famousphilosophes to the Richardson phenomenon. Voltaire, who claims to despise thenovel, writes four 'Richardsonian' fictions; Diderot's fascination with the Englishauthor is expressed in La Religieuse, Rousseau's in Julie — the century's bestseller.Yet the philosophes' response remains ambivalent. On the one hand they admireRichardson's ability to make the reader weep. On the other, they champion a rangeof Enlightenment beliefs which he, an enthusiast of Milton, vehemently opposed. Indeath as in life, the English author exacerbates the philosophes' rivalry. The eulogywhich Diderot writes in 1761 implicitly asks: who can write a new Clarissa? Butalso: whose social, philosophical or political ideas will triumph as a result?
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Title The Very Late Goethe
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The Very Late Goethe Self-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing
By Charlotte Lee
Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literarycelebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishingfeature of his last works is their self-consciousness, their preoccupation both withthe business of writing and with personal development. In the first cross-genre studyof this period of Goethe's work, Charlotte Lee traces the theme in his last majorpoems and autobiographical writings, before turning to the two 'giants', 'WilhelmMeisters Wanderjahre' and 'Faust II'. All these works share a tendency to alludesubtly to earlier moments from Goethe's own literary output, but to fashion theminto writing which is quite new - even though (or perhaps because) he himself is old.This book seeks to understand the unique perspective of one nearing the end of along life.
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Title Unamuno’s Theory of the Novel
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Unamuno’s Theory of the Novel By C. A. Longhurst
Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is widely regarded as Spain’s greatest and mostcontroversial writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Professor of Greek, andlater Rector, at the University of Salamanca, and a figure with a noted public profilein his day, he wrote a large number of philosophical, political and philologicalessays, as well as poems, plays and short stories, but it is his highly idiosyncraticnovels, for which he coined the word nivola, that have attracted the greatest criticalattention. Niebla (Mist, 1914) has become one of the most studied works of Spanishliterature, such is the enduring fascination which it has provoked. In this study, C.A. Longhurst, a distinguished Unamuno scholar, sets out to show that behindUnamuno’s fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophicalconcept of the novelesque genre and indeed of writing itself. Ideas about freedom,identity, finality, mutuality and community are closely intertwined with ideas onwriting and reading and give rise to a new and highly personal way of conceivingfiction.
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ISBN:9781782976356
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CONTRIBUTOR:Jennifer R. March
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PUBLICATION DATE:31 May 2014
READER INTERESTS:Greek Language & LiteratureRoman Language & Literature
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Dictionary of Classical MythologyBy Jennifer R. March
Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including acompletely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. Itis a comprehensive A – Z guide to Greek and Roman mythology. All major myths,legends and fables are here, including gods and goddesses, heroes and villains,dangerous women, legendary creatures and monsters. Characters such as Achillesand Odysseus have extensive entries, as do epic journeys and heroic quests, like thatof Jason and the Argonauts to win the Golden Fleece, all alongside a plethora ofinformation on the creation of the cosmos, the many metamorphoses of gods and humans, and the Trojan War, plus more minor figures – nymphs, seers, kings, rivers,to name but a few.
In this superbly authoritative work the myths are brilliantly retold, along with anymajor variants, and with extensive translations from ancient authors that give life tothe narratives and a sense of the vibrant cultures that shaped the development ofclassical myth. The 172 illustrations give visual immediacy to the words, byshowing how ancient artists perceived their gods and heroes. The impact of mythson ancient art is also explored, as is and their influence in the post-classical arts,emphasising the ongoing inspiration afforded by the ancient myths.
Also included are two maps of the ancient world, a list of the ancient sources andtheir chronology, the more important genealogies, and an index of recurrentmythical motifs.
Praise for the first edition:
“… the Dictionary of Classical Mythology is exemplary, indeed the best I haveconsulted … clearly and engagingly written …it not only gives reliable answers butalso encourages reading on.” Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement
“a prodigious, authoritative gazetteer, each entry both typographically andstylistically readable, and if you know more than is contained in these pages thenyou have no need of it.” Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Book of the Week
“Greek myths pervade our own art and literature almost as much as they influencedthat of classical times, and this will be an invaluable guide.” The Good Book Guide
“… a modern encyclopaedia of myth and legend which is user-friendly in layout,presentation and style … vivid and readable.” Paula James, The Classical Review
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ISBN:9780861591954
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IMPRINT:British Museum Press
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CONTRIBUTORS:Anna HarndenJames RobinsonLloyd de Beer
PAGES:206pp
ILLUSTRATIONS:250 illustrations
BINDING:Paperback
PUBLICATION DATE:26 May 2014
READER INTERESTS:Medieval HistoryMedieval Society & Culture
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Matter of Faith An Interdisciplinary Study of Relics and RelicVeneration in the Medieval Period
Edited by Anna Harnden, James Robinson & Lloyd de Beer
A landmark publication of essays resulting from the Treasures from Heavenconference at the British Museum, exploring the relationship between sacred matterand precious materials in the Middle Ages.
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CONTRIBUTORS:Alexandra FletcherDaniel AntoineJ. D. Hill
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Title Regarding the Dead
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Regarding the DeadHuman Remains in the British Museum
Edited by Alexandra Fletcher, Daniel Antoine & J. D. Hill
A key publication on the British Museum's approach to the ethical issuessurrounding the inclusion of human remains in museum collections and possiblesolutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management anddisplay.
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Title Once Upon a Playground
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Once Upon a PlaygroundA Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds,1920–1975
By Brenda Biondo, Darell Hammond & Susan Solomon
The world of play changed forever in the early 1970s, when the Consumer ProductSafety Commission targeted playgrounds as potentially dangerous. Once Upon aPlayground: A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920-1975, offers avisual tribute to the vanishing playgrounds of the American past, celebrating theirplace in our culture and the collective memories of generations. Drawing fromhundreds of the author's contemporary photographs and illustrations from hercollection of playground catalogs, along with playground images from the Libraryof Congress, the book provides historical context and cultural insight as it inventories a playground vernacular that developed over decades.
Your earliest memories may be of playground equipment like that shown in thisbook, or you may be discovering it here for the first time. Either way, you will findhere images to delight the eye and inspire the soul. Whether you are young or old,the book will carry you back to an earlier time, where you will relive the joy of playand discover playgrounds' important role in the country's cultural history.
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Hiking the HorizontalField Notes from a Choreographer
By Liz Lerman
The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages toshipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection ofessays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle forhuman insight and understanding of the world around us. Lerman has beendescribed by the Washington Post as "the source of an epochal revolution in thescope and purposes of dance art." Here, she combines broad outlooks on culture andsociety with practical applications and accessible stories. Her expansive scopeencompasses the craft, structure, and inspiration that bring theatrical works to life aswell as the applications of art in fields as diverse as faith, aging, particle physics,and human rights law. Offering readers a gentle manifesto describing methods thatbring a horizontal focus to bear on a hierarchical world, this is the perfect book foranyone curious about the possible role for art in politics, science, community,motherhood, and the media.To explore Lerman's dances about science and tools for embodied learning pleasevisit her Science Choreography website: http://sciencechoreography.wesleyan.edu/.The site is a valuable resource for teachers from middle school through theuniversity level.
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CONTRIBUTORS:Félix de la ConchaHood Museum of ArtKaren S. Miller Katherine HartPriscilla Gilman
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Félix de la ConchaPrivate Portraits/Public Conversations
By Félix de la Concha, Hood Museum of Art, Karen S. Miller,Katherine Hart & Priscilla Gilman
Western portraiture has always been the result of a nuanced and context-dependentinteraction between the portrayal of physical likeness, specific portraiture traditions,and the presentation of the character or inner life of the sitter. In 2009, artist Félix dela Concha undertook fifty individual two-hour sessions with faculty, students, andstaff at Dartmouth College as well as members of the local community of New Hampshire and Vermont, in which he painted a complete portrait in oils whileinterviewing the sitter on video on the theme of "conflict and reconciliation." Thiscatalogue chronicles the powerful results of this Hood Museum of Art commissionand reproduces all of the portraits in the series.
Readers interested in contemporary art and the practice of art on college oruniversity campuses will find this intriguing volume an essential addition to theirlibraries.
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CONTRIBUTORS:Peter W. ClementVictoria Chave Clement
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ISBN 9780872331792
Title Stonlea
Title ID 492357
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StonleaAn Old House Remade for Our Times
By Peter W. Clement & Victoria Chave Clement
Stonlea, a magnificent Colonial Revival, was built in 1890 by the Boston firm ofPeabody & Stearns as a summer house overlooking Dublin Lake (New Hampshire)with a view of Mt. Monadnock. A vivid example of 19th century resort architecture,Stonlea bore the telltale patina of many years' of wear and tear when the new ownerdecided to bring it back not only to its original luster but into the 21st century,including using the latest technology to reduce the impact of the 12,000-square-foothouse on the environment.
Stonlea: An Old House Remade for Our Times documents the painstaking stepsinvolved in the preservation and renovation of this building, and describes therenovators' techniques. It specifically addresses the renovation of the fabric of thebuilding-the various energy conserving strategies and the mechanical systems-as well as the whys and wherefores of the design, and is intended to serve as a model and inspiration for similar undertakings, regardless of size.
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ISBN 9781611683127
Title Knish
Title ID 491693
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KnishIn Search of the Jewish Soul Food
By Laura Silver
When Laura Silver's favorite knish shop went out of business, the native NewYorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on around-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish.
The iconic potato pie leads the author from Mrs. Stahl's bakery in Brighton Beach,Brooklyn, to an Italian pasta maker in New Jersey-and on to a hunt across three continents for the pastry that shaped her identity. Starting in New York, she tracksdown heirs to several knish dynasties and discovers that her own family has roots ina Polish town named Knyszyn.
With good humor and a hunger for history, Silver mines knish lore for stories ofentrepreneurship, survival, and major deliciousness. Along the way, she meetsMinnesota seniors who make knishes for weekly fundraisers, foodies determined torevive the legacy of Mrs. Stahl, and even the legendary knish maker'sgranddaughters, who share their joie de vivre-and their family recipe.
Knish connections to Eleanor Roosevelt and rap music? Die-hard investigator Silverunearths those and other intriguing anecdotes involving the starchy snack once so common along Manhattan's long-lost Knish Alley. In a series of funny, moving, and touching episodes, Silver takes us on a knish-eye tour of worlds past and present,thus laying the foundation for a global knish renaissance.
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ISBN 9781611685633
Title Civil War Boston
Title ID 491112
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Civil War BostonHome Front and Battlefield
By Thomas H. O'Connor
In this engaging volume, Thomas H. O'Connor examines the unique role that Bostonand its inhabitants played in the Civil War and discusses the impact of the turbulentwar years on the city's civilian population. His captivating narrative follows theexperiences of four distinctive and significant groups of people who formedantebellum Boston-businessmen, Irish Catholic immigrants, African Americans, andwomen. Interweaving vivid portraits of the Boston community with major politicaland military events of the Civil War, O'Connor relates how the war forever changedlives, disrupted homes, altered work habits, reshaped political allegiances, andtransformed ideas.
Rich with colorful anecdotes about local figures, both renowned and long-forgotten,this is a fascinating account that will appeal to Civil War buffs, historians, andgeneral readers alike.
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ISBN 9781555537906
Title Ivy League Athletes
Title ID 491647
Edition ID 88149
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Ivy League Athletes Profiles in Excellence at America’s MostCompetitive Schools
By Ryan Fitzpatrick & Sal Maiorana
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the governing body forsome 400,000 college athletes in the United States. During football's bowl seasonand basketball's March Madness, the NCAA likes to remind its millions of TVviewers that it represents student athletes: most of its members compete as amateursand will never go pro. Somehow, that message seems increasingly lost in a sea ofmulti-million dollar TV deals, recruitment scandals, back-channel payouts, fanhysteria, player misbehavior both civil and criminal, and the routine bending-orflouting-of college and NCAA rules about player academic eligibility.
Far from this madding crowd, the nation's oldest, most prestigious private collegesand universities go about the business of making scholar-athletes from the ranks oftheir admitted classes, without special recruitment or scholarship money, anddemanding and getting the best from them both on the field and in the classroom.Using a model that has changed very little since it was founded in 1954, the IvyLeague offers a bracing corrective to the excesses of big-money college sports. InIvy League Athletes, veteran sportswriter Sal Maiorana follows nine student-athletesfrom seven Ivy League campuses through the 2011-2012 season. Along the way heshows us the qualities of heart, mind, and body that got them there and allow themto prosper on the field and in the classroom. The book includes a foreword by former Harvard and current NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
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ISBN 9781937658205
Title Drift
Title ID 491274
Edition ID 88485
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DriftBy Caroline Bergvall
Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of earlymedieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as its inspiration. Both ancientand contemporary tales of travel and exile shadow the plight and losses ofwanderers across the waters in this haunting new book. Drift is the second ofBergvall's explorations of historical English language.
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ISBN 9781933880433
Title My Crooked House
Title ID 491887
Edition ID 88619
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My Crooked House By Teresa Carson
Cat hoarding. Panic attacks. Rigid perfectionism. Carson reconstructs, through ahybrid of received and invented poetic forms, the literal and metaphoricalexperience of the psychological homesickness that controlled her life until sheconfronted it in therapy, and thereby opened herself to making a true home with hersecond husband.
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ISBN 9781937679309
Title The Ladder
Title ID 492618
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The LadderBy Esther Cameron & Hamutal Bar-Yosef
“I read—slowly, like sipping a strong liqueur—two or three poems each eveningand marvel at the precision, the acuity, and the (rare) blend of warmth and irony.”—Amos Oz
“Hamutal Bar-Yosef writes passionately and wisely about the convergence ofhistorical tragedy and personal suffering. “I am a poisoned well,” she declares in aprefatory poem, and then dives to the bottom of grief—the death of her brother inIsrael’s 1948 War of Independence, the suicide of a teenage son—and renders herlosses movingly, without a trace of bathos or self-pity.” —Grace Schulman
Hamutal Bar-Yosef’s prizes include the Amichai Prize, the Jerusalem Prize forPoetry, the President of Israel Prize for Poetry. Her collection of poems, Night,Morning, was published by Sheep Meadow. Esther Cameron is the editor of The Deronda Review.
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ISBN 9781611685251
Title The Shady Lady’s Guide to Northeast ShadeGardening
Title ID 492798
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The Shady Lady’s Guide toNortheast Shade GardeningBy Amy Ziffer
Finally, a guide to shade gardening that offers a simple and proven method forbringing those sunlight-deprived areas of your garden to life! Ziffer condenses herconsiderable experience and her expertise in shade gardening for New England andenvirons into a unique and easily digestible approach to creating an ornamentallandscape in the shade. Tired of using only a few pages of your gardening books?The Shady Lady identifies best practices, best plants, and best information,specifically designed for the zones of the greater Northeast-and leaves out all therest. Ziffer gives the reader a crash course in the essentials, demystifying shadegardening and providing a large yet highly selective illustrated plant gallery thatincludes all the indispensable perennials, ferns, and bulbs. Rather than merely listingand describing shade plants, she categorizes them according to the functional roles they can play in the landscape and explains to readers exactly how to cultivate themwith a high likelihood of success and a minimum of failure and frustration. Sheintroduces the concept of "backbone plants" and shows why these plants shouldmake up 75 to 80 percent of a shade garden. She also discusses plants that areresistant to deer (and other interlopers). In clear and concise language she tellsreaders what they need to do; just as important, she shares with them what not to do.The emphasis at all times is on enjoying success by simplifying the approach andavoiding common mistakes.
The Shady Lady's Guide to Northeast Shade Gardening will become the definitiveguide for all sun-challenged regional gardeners.
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ISBN 9781904965473
Title The Architectural Works of A.W.N. Pugin
Title ID 493542
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The Architectural Works of A.W.N.PuginA Catalogue
By G. J. Hyland
Despite the huge growth of Pugin studies in recent decades, there has been nocomprehensive catalogue of his architectural output until now. In this ground-breaking study Gerard Hyland identifies over 290 executed works and at least 84unexecuted designs spread over five countries and two continents. They are groupedby building type into eleven categories, each with an introduction. The entriescomprise an architectural description plus information about patronage, laterbuilding history and a list of sources. There are also six appendices providingimportant background information and a summary lists of works usefully arrangedby both diocese and county. Dr Hyland, a theoretical physicist by profession, haslong been fascinated by Pugin’s achievements and this important new book is histribute to one of our greatest and most influential architects. It is enhanced byillustration of key buildings, nearly all in colour.
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ISBN:9781782977391
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CONTRIBUTORS:Peter SchultzRalf Von den Hoff
PAGES:248pp
ILLUSTRATIONS:b/w illus
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PUBLICATION DATE:31 May 2014
READER INTERESTS:Classical ArtGreek Art & ArchitectureGreek Society & Culture
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Title Structure, Image, Ornament
Title ID 85508
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Structure, Image, OrnamentArchitectural Sculpture in the Greek World
Edited by Peter Schultz & Ralf Von den Hoff
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the AmericanSchool of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut,Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, RobinOsborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda Westervelt and LorenzWinkler-Horacek. The contents are divided into four sections I. Structure andOrnament; II. Technique and Agency; III. Myth and Narrative and IV. Diffusion andInfluence. Highlights include Robin Osbornes discussion of What you can do with achariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; Ralf von den Hoffs considerationof the Athenian treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwabs presentation of Newevidence for Parthenon east metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety ofissues in architectural sculpture but also present a range of case studies from all overthe Greek world. The result is an important collection of current research.
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ISBN 9781782977407
Title The Roman Textile Industry and its influence
Title ID 30607
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The Roman Textile Industry and itsinfluenceBy Antoinette Rast-Eicher, Lise Bender Jorgensen & PenelopeWalton Rogers
Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry yet, because of their perishablenature, only fragments remain. These twenty-two essays provide a detailed study ofsurviving fragments from across the Roman world, from the dry sands of Egypt tothe Atlantic coast and the northern frontiers and beyond. The result is acomprehensive reconstruction of both everyday and exotic Roman clothing withinformation about the influences of fashion and of Roman weaving techniques.Written by friends and colleagues, the contributions are offered as a tribute to JohnPeter Wild whose own studies of Roman textiles have been the inspiration of somuch recent work.
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Title The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur
Title ID 208071
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The Land of Assur and the Yoke ofAssurStudies on Assyria 1971-2005
By J. Nicholas Postgate
This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles byNicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature ofAssyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with generalissues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collectionfor everyone interested in Assyria.
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ISBN 9780897223294
Title The Island Standard
Title ID 493625
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The Island StandardThe Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Coinagesof Paros
By John Tully
This book is the first comprehensive study of the monetary history of one of themajor coin-producing states of the Hellenistic and Roman Aegean. It analyzes theClassical, Hellenistic, and Roman coinages of the Cycladic island of Paros. Itpresents a die study of all known silver and bronze issues, and argues that Paros andits neighbor Naxos minted in the Hellenistic Period not on the Rhodian standard ashas sometimes been thought, but on their own distinct standard: the ‘islandstandard’. All coin types are fully described, and die varieties are illustrated in 27plates.
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ISBN 9789088902406
Title Mobile Community Reporting
Title ID 493751
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Mobile Community ReportingA Grassroots Prespective on Journalism
By Olivier Nyirubugara
Almost everyone in Africa knows a mobile phone, the most widespreadcommunication technology on the continent. That technology started as a voice-onlytool before integrating other functions such as messaging, sound and image recording and many others. This book is about ways in which some of those newfunctions are giving a new face to the field and practice of journalism. That field hasfor long been dominated by professionally trained journalists, but the trend set inmotion by the arrival of the World Wide Web and the mobile phone, among othertechnologies, is that ordinary people, including members of local communities inmarginalised areas, are increasingly doing journalism.
In this book, the author presents what he calls the Mobile Community Reportingapproach based on a six-year training experiment in which he was involved astrainer and coach in eight African countries. The main argument underlying theMCR approach is that if a member of the community, using a reporting tool familiarto that community, and taking into account the values, interests and worldviews ofthat community, covers news, chances of capturing what the community thinks arevery high.
This book is a must-read piece for those in Africa and elsewhere, who are involvedor interested in journalism and communication, and those involved or interested inactivism, advocacy, and development projects, where communication processescould take advantage of the Mobile Community Reporting approach to capture whatthe bottom thinks and does.
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IMPRINT:Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
SERIES:ARCA Classical and medieval Texts,Papers and Monographs
CONTRIBUTORS:Eveline KrummenJ. G. Howie
PAGES:356pp
ILLUSTRATIONS:3 b&w sketch maps
BINDING:Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE:26 May 2014
READER INTERESTS:Greek Language & LiteratureGreek Society & Culture
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Title Cult, Myth, and Occasion in Pindar’s Victory Odes
Title ID 493770
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Cult, Myth, and Occasion inPindar’s Victory OdesA Study of Isthmian 4, Pythian 5, Olympian 1,and Olympian 3
By Eveline Krummen & J. G. Howie
In this pioneering study, first published in German as Pyrsos Hymnon. FestlicheGegenwart und mythisch-rituelle Tradition als Voraussetzung einerPindarinterpretation (Isthmie 4, Pythie 5, Olympie 1 und 3) (1990), EvelineKrummen examines the related problems of the unity (or intelligibility andcohesion) and the ‘occasionality’ (the heuristic importance of the originalperformance situation) of Pindaric epinicia. She uses various approaches - includingnarratology, archaeology, and art history, as well as philology - to recoverinformation about original performance occasions and original audienceexpectations, and thus to come to a clearer understanding of the structure andstrategies of this sometimes baffing poetry. Throughout the book she focusesprimarily on the interactions between myths and cult festivals, and on Pindar’s skillin integrating and innovating upon traditional material. An introductory chapterdiscusses ‘occasionality’ and surveys scholarly views of the unity of Pindaricvictory odes in general. The four main chapters deal in turn with each of the Odesselected as ‘case-studies’. These all contain a passage referring to a cult festival. InIsthmian 4 and Pythian 5 the reference is explicit, and to a festival currently being celebrated: in Olympian 1 reference is made to a festival celebrated earlier at theplace of victory, and in Olympian 3 the reference is again arguably to a festival stillin progress. Krummen delineates the historical settings of the cults and their relatedfestivals, and each chapter ends with a consideration of how the cult passage fitsinto the poem as a whole. Brief appendixes list Pindaric allusions to festivals andcults are listed, and give sketch maps of the topography of Thebes and of Cyrene. Abibliography and indexes are included. Study of the cult passages naturally includesstudy of their related myths. Adopting the approach of modern researchers inreligious history, Krummen details the basic patterns, the ‘programmes of actions’underlying Pindar’s mythical and ritual narratives, patterns fixed in the cultures ofthe communities concerned. On this basis she shows, for example, that Pindar’streatment of the myth of Pelops in Olympian 1 goes beyond mere rationalisation;rather he alters its role within the audience’s cultural expectations, in a way thatmakes his revision not only convincing but also profoundly acceptable. Modernapproaches to Greek lyric narrative enable Krummen to clarify sequences of eventsin Pindar’s foundation myth of Cyrene in Pythian 5, and archaeology guides her tothe true role of his topographical allusions within his narrative.
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Title The Connected Caribbean
Title ID 493829
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The Connected CaribbeanA socio-material network approach to patternsof homogeneity and diversity in the pre-colonialperiod
By Angus A. A. Mol
The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricatelyinterconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonialhistories and an increasingly globalizing economy. Perhaps more importantly,before the encounter between the New and Old World took place, the indigenoussocieties and cultures of the pre-colonial Caribbean were already united in diversity.This work seeks to study the patterns of this pre-colonial homogeneity and diversityand uncover some of their underlying processes and dynamics.In contrast to earlier studies of its kind, this study adopts an archaeological networkapproach, in part derived from the network sciences. In archaeology, networkapproaches can be used to explore the complex relations between objects, sites orother archaeological features, and as such represents a powerful new tool forstudying material culture systems. Archaeological research in general aims touncover the social relations and human interactions underlying these materialculture systems. Therefore, the interdependencies between social networks andmaterial culture systems are another major focus of this study.
This approach and theoretical framework is tested in four case studies dealing withlithic distribution networks, site assemblages as ego-networks, indigenous politicalnetworks, and the analysis of artefact styles in 2-mode networks. These wereselected for their pertinence to key research themes in Caribbean archaeology, inparticular the current debates about the nature of ties and interactions betweenculturally different communities in the region, and the structure and dynamics ofpre-colonial socio-political organisation. The outcomes of these case studies showthat archaeological network approaches can provide surprising new insights intolongstanding questions about the patterns of pre-colonial connectivity in the region.
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ISBN 9780992368500
Title Akio Makigawa
Title ID 493948
Edition ID 90619
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Akio MakigawaSculptor
Edited by Jackie Cooper
This magnificent 566 page publication arranged by renowned contemporary CarlierMakigawa to celebrate the life and work of her husband, Akio Makigawa, ispossibly the most resplendent volume ever dedicated to the creative triumphs of asculptor living in Australia. From the highly specialised binding to the combinationof gloss and uncoated pages, carrying the unique design and fine photographythroughout the 1000 numbered copies, this book is a fitting tribute to a sculptorwhose distinctive abstract forms became familiar to Australian art-lovers in the1980’s and 1990’s and continue to invest many public spaces with their specialqualities.
Makigawa’s abstract forms are shaped and composed with understated orientalfinesse while the artist’s hand is ever present in the surfaces of the stone. In hisforeword, Edmund Capon describes his first meeting with the artist as ‘...anexperience of gentle revelation.’ and the artist’s works as ‘...sublime in their tranquilpresence and redolent with a quiet and traditional sense of Japanese formality, but, nonetheless, very much of our time and place.’
Editor Jackie Cooper explains that Akio Makigawa’s works and ideas are the subjectof his book – ideas that he discussed at length with Garry Emery, John Gollings and herself between 1993 and the artist’s death on Christmas Eve 1999. CarlierMakigawa is to be congratulated on her determination to see his remarkable bookbecome a reality.
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ISBN 9781922252067
Title Yvonne Audette
Title ID 493949
Edition ID 90620
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Yvonne AudettePaintings and Drawings 1949-2014
By Bruce Adams & Christopher Heathcote
Yvonne Audette’s career as a painter and artist specialising in works on paper hasnow spanned nearly six decades. Strarting out in Sydney where she attended artschool and modelled or Max Dupain,she soon discovered Europe and lived andworked in Spain and Italy in the piost-war years when abstract expressionism wasthe dominant new trend emanating from America. Audette exhibited successfully inItaly and France before retruning to Australia where she continued her career as anabstract artist working in Melbourne. The eminent art historians Dr. Christopher Heathcote and Dr. Bruce Adams have written perceptive essays on Audette’s career in Europe and Australia and Dr. Gerard Vaughan and Kirsty Grant of the NationalGallery of Vicotira have contributed an essay on her drawings and works on paper.
This revised edition of the 2003 monograph traces an unusual life dedicated to thearts, and illustrates the artist’s significant contribution to contemporary art inAustralia.
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ISBN:9788375311679
IMPRINT:Akanthina
SERIES:Monograph Series
CONTRIBUTORS:Bogdan BurligaNicholas Sekunda
PAGES:144pp
ILLUSTRATIONS:b/w illustrations
BINDING:Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE:26 May 2014
READER INTERESTS:Greek HistoryGreek Language & Literature
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ISBN 9788375311679
Title Iphicrates, Peltasts and Lechaeum
Title ID 493979
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Iphicrates, Peltasts and LechaeumEdited by Bogdan Burliga & Nicholas Sekunda
The works assembled in this volume complement the article written on the battle ofLechaeum by Andreas Konecy in Chrion 31 (2001), which is here translated intoEnglish by Brian Bertosa. Konecy not only reconstructs the location and phases ofthe battle, in the best traditions of traditional military history, but attempts,according to the newly established canons of modern war studies, to get into theminds of the soldiers involved.
The two following chapters deal with the Lacedaemonian forces involved in thebattle, the first, by Nicholas Sekunda, analyzes the components of the mora thatsuffered defeat. The second, by Bogdan Burliga, deals with their conduct. Therefollows a contribution by Roel Konijnendijk on the historiography of the battle inlater times, and the building of the reputation of Iphicrates as a military innovator.
The following three chapters of the book deal with peltasts and their evolution.Slawomir Sprawski studies the evidence for peltasts in Thessalian armed forcesfrom the first half of the fifth century onwards. In the following chapter BrianBertosa considers, among other matters, the evidence for peltasts carrying close-quarter weaponry prior to the fabled 'Iphicratean reform'. In the last chapter,Nicholas Sekunda argues that the Iphicratean Peltast Reform took place duringpreparations for the second Persian invasion of Egypt 377/6-373 BC.
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ISBN 9780887485879
Title Madly in Love
Title ID 494073
Edition ID 90775
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Imprint Name Carnegie Mellon University Press
Publication Date 01/05/2014
Madly in LoveBy Aliki Barnstone
These poems are freighted with longing and doubt but they are never naïve.Passionate, unflinching family stories and personal loss are here, and yet the will tolove breaks all molds.
