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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. On October 8, 1871, four decades after its founding, Chicago's destiny was rewritten 'with a pen of fire'. This study considers the mythic proportions of the Great Chicago Fire as the city reshaped its own tragedy into an archetype of the modern struggle against adversity. It attempts to resolve the city's conflicted identity into a unity.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. This work is an introduction to the cinema of mainland China from the early 1930s to the early 1990s. Emphasizing both film contexts and film texts, this study covers a broad cinematic analysis that includes investigations of cultural, cross-cultural, social, ethnic and political issues.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Seeking spiritual consolation within the material world. Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Timothy Liu's sixth collection of poems, ""For Dust Thou Art,"" continues the trajectory of his previous books but extends his lyrical range. The centerpiece of the volume's tripartite structure is a meditation on the events surrounding 9/11 and its aftermath. In his poems, Liu explores what a twenty-first century American ""poetry of witness"" might look like and protests the charge that the poetic generation to which Liu belongs is stymied by a kind of jaded amorality. Whether taking on public spectacle or contemplating the fallout of a private life, these meditations move forward and backward through time, seeking spiritual consolation within a material world.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Poetry and baseball are occasions for well-put passion and expressive pondering, and just as passionate attention transforms the prose of everyday life into poetry, it also transforms this game we write about, play, or watch. Editors Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles unite their own passion for baseball and poetry in this collection, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, providing a forum for ninety-two poets. Line after line - like baseball itself, game after game and season after season - these poems manage to make the old and the familiar new and surprising. Each poem delivers images of pure beauty as the poets speak of murder and ghost runners and old ball gloves, of baseball as a tie that binds families - and indeed the nation - together, of the game as a stage upon which no-nonsense grit and skill are routinely displayed, and of the delight experienced in being one amid a mindlessly happy crowd. This book is true to the game's long season and to the lives of those the game engages.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The twelve contemporary fiction writers interviewed in Passion and         Craft go beyond the merely autobiographical, revealing that, despite         their differences, they share passionate devotion and discipline for their         craft.       Included are Richard Ford, winner in 1995 of both the Pulitzer Prize         and the PEN/Faulkner Award; Gina Berriault, 1997 winner of the National         Book Critics Circle Award; Bobbie Ann Mason; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Rick         Bass; Leonard Michaels; Christopher Tilghman; Thom Jones; Julia Alvarez;         Andre Dubus; Jayne Anne Phillips; and Tobias Wolff.       Their comments will interest readers devoted to their novels and stories,         other writers, and aspiring writers.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Starting with the premise that we live in communication (rather than standing outside communication and using it for secondary purposes), Pearce claims that people who live in various cultures and historical epochs not only communicate differently but experience different ways of being human because they communicate differently. This century, he notes, ushered in the "communication revolution," the discovery that communication is far more important and central to the human condition than ever before realized. Essential to the communication revolution is the recognition that multiple forms of discourse exist in contemporary human society. Further, these forms of discourse are not benign; they comprise alternative ways of being human. Thus communication theory must encompass all that it "means to live a life, the shape of social institutions and cultural traditions, the pragmatics of social action, and the poetics of social order.".…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Salome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her highborn John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Presents an examination of what it means to be a female-bodied trans person. This book allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This study recounts over a century of Swedish emigration to America, concentrating on such questions as who emigrated, how the character of the emigrants changed, what these people did when they reached their adopted country, and how they gradually became Americanized.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reveals how identifications with racialized whiteness continue to manifest themselves in American culture. The sixteen essays that comprise this collection not only render visible how racialized whiteness infiltrates twenty-first-century discourses and material spaces but also offer critical tactics for disrupting this normative whiteness.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. This updated edition of an unusually important and ground-breaking work of investigative journalism on Catholic priests and child sexual abuse is once again made available and belongs in every bookstore.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Rejecting the artificial dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative research strategies in the social and behavioural sciences, the authors argue that the two approaches are not mutually exclusive. The authors aim to show that research is an holistic endeavor in the world of inquiry.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Integrates the findings of the 'new' labor history into the established framework of nineteenth-century American labor history. This title is suitable for the students of nineteenth-century America.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In this uplifting collection of personal and cultural stories, Esther Martinez's tales brim with entertaining characters that embody her Native American Tewa culture and its wisdom about respect, kindness, and positive attitudes.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A lyrical meditation on time, survival, and merciful moments of joy, Sara Hennings Burn draws readers deep into the moments that make us, focusing on instances of crisis and renewal to explore our relation to time and lived experience.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. 'In what was clearly a labor of love, Townsend has produced a thoroughly entertaining book, which is important both as a biography and as a study of popular culture. Townsend interviewed over 200 people, including Wills himself, listened to every known recording and transcription of Wills's music, and seems to have examined just about every piece of written material that is available on the subject. It is doubtful that anyone will ever write a more complete or more accurate account of Wills and his music.' -- Bill C. Malone, Journal of American History.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. What lives in a reindeer?s nose? Glad you asked. In this sequel to Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers, National Medal of Science winner May Berenbaum offers another classic compendium of creepy-crawly cameos. Read up on our myriad arthropodan indignities and allies as Berenbaum reveals: Why the rove beetle gives mind-altering drugs to ants How the snail-killing fly enjoys its escargot Why Piophila casei doesn?t care when you eat its larvae What strange fate awaits a honey ant worker engorged with nectar   As lively as a fly in the buttermilk, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers is a who?s who and what?s THAT? guide to Lilliputian life-forms both familiar and obscure.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. This volume contains contributions on post-process theory, which endorses the fundamental idea that no codifiable or generalizable writing process exists or could exist. Theorists hold that the practice of writing cannot be captured by a generalized process or a ""big"" theory. …