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To Redeem The Soul Of America - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference And Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Adam Fairclough

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 As Adam Fairclough reveals the dynamics within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, Andrew Young, and others helped to support Martin Luther King Jr. in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago.
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Tempest-Tossed - The Spirit Of Isabella Beecher Hooker

by Susan Campbell

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 Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating youngest daughter of the "Fabulous Beecher" family - one of America's most high-powered families of the nineteenth century. Older sister Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Brother Henry Ward Beecher was one of America's most influential ministers, and
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The Selected Letters Of John Cage

by John. Edited By Laura Kuhn. Cage

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 This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham, and shed new lig
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Bear Down, Bear North - Alaska Stories

by Melinda Moustakis

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 In her debut collection, Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories, examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness, and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.
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The T. E. Lawrence Puzzle

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 This collection of fourteen essays, including Stephen E. Tabachnickâ€™s extensive introduction, provides balanced and fully documented analyses of Lawrenceâ€™s multifaceted career by an international group of scholars.
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Singing Archaeology - Philip Glass'S "Akhnaten"

by John Richardson

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 Illuminates the aesthetics of a major American composer.
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A Northern Christmas

by Rockwell Kent

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 How a father and son find the spirit of Christmas in the Alaskan wilderness.
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Umm Kulthum - Artistic Agency And The Shaping Of An Arab Legend, 1967-2007

by Laura Lohman

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 How an extraordinary woman shaped her career and legacy through war
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Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes - Hip-Hop Down Under Comin' Upper

by Ian Maxwell

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 Following the lives of a small group of rappers from Sydney's Westside in the early 1990s, Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of the white musicians to define Australian hip-hop, showing how discourses of nationalism and community are played out in everyday life.
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Starboard Wine - More Notes On The Language Of Science Fiction

by Samuel R. Delany

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 The long-awaited reissue of a classic work of criticism -- revised and expanded
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Any Sound You Can Imagine - Making Music/Consuming Technology

by Paul Theberge

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 Describes digital musical instruments, industries that supply and promote them, and the meanings they have for musicians.
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The Time Ship - A Chrononautical Journey

by Enrique Gaspar

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 Globe-trotting scientists pursue immortality and love in the world's first time machine
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Baby Steps - How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing The World

by Amy Agigian

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 Each year, hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers, who conceived through alternative insemination. This book provides a discussion of the issues and questions raised by lesbian insemination. It is useful for teachers and students in women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, sociology, legal studies, and bioethics.
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw - Notes On The Language Of Science Fiction

by Samuel R. Delany

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 An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
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Traveling Spirit Masters - Moroccan Gnawa Trance And Music In The Global Marketplace

by Deborah Kapchan

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 A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. This book on Gnawa music and its global reach is a demonstration of how and why trance - and indeed all sacred music - is fast becoming a transnational sensation.
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Sensational Knowledge - Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance

by Tomie Hahn

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 How do music and dance reveal the ways in which a community interacts with the world? How are the senses used in communicating cultural knowledge? This title uncovers the process and nuances of learning nihon buyo, a traditional Japanese dance form. It uses case studies of dancers at all levels to investigate the complex language of bodies.
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Staging Whiteness

by Mary F. Brewer

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 Mary Brewer offers close textual readings of plays by American and British 20th century playwrights - both canonical and some that fall outside the mainstream - looking at how whiteness as an identity is created onstage, and how this has changed historically.
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About Writing

by Samuel R. Delany

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 Essential reading for the creative writer.
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Kazuo Ohno'S World

by Kazuo Ohno

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 Photographs and words illuminate Butoh dance.
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The Sensitive Self

by Michael Eigen

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 We are all sensitive beings, both physically and emotionally. What do we do with our sensitivity? How much of our sensitivity can we take? How do we become partners with our sensitivity in ways that make life worthwhile? Michael Eigen explores the varied nuances of sensitivity as it threads its way through all facets of our lives.
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Visual Culture - Images And Interpretations

by Michael Ann Holly e Norman Bryson

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 Fifteen key art historians and cultural critics redefine the scope and concerns of scholarship on visual culture--a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art.
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Umm Kulthum - Artistic Agency And The Shaping Of An Arab Legend, 1967-2007

by Laura Lohman

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 How an extraordinary woman shaped her career and legacy through war
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Westover - Giving Girls A Place Of Their Own

by Laurie Lisle

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 Westover, a girls' school in Middlebury, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 and has evolved from a finishing school for the Protestant elite, including F Scott Fitzgerald's first love, to a meritocracy for pupils of various religions. This book tells a story about female education during a century of dramatic change in America.
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A Wild Perfection - The Selected Letters Of James Wright

by James Wright

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 A collection of letters that captures the exhilarating and moving correspondence between James Wright, one of the great lyric poets, and his many friends.
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