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In History’s Wake Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9780819575616
Pub Date: 16 Feb 2015
Illustrations: 132 photographs, 20 illus.
Description:
As long as people have lived along Rhode Island's meandering coast, the ocean has provided them with a ready supply of food. Whether Native American or European transplants, fishermen sought to move beyond capturing individual fish to ensnaring entire schools. Searching for increasingly efficient ways to capture their prey, the trapping technologies that they invented evolved over time, and primitive stake traps gave way to fykes and weirs, much as they had along the entire New England coast.
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780822963318
Pub Date: 07 Jan 2015
Description:
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category. Winner of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, poetry category.
Immigrant Model Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780822963349
Pub Date: 07 Jan 2015
Description:
The poems in Immigrant Model explore issues of individual and communal identity in the face of conflict, conflicting "truths" or histories, and uprootedness. They explore the notion of homeland as it relates to one's roots, adopted space, psychological terrain, gendered body. If the book reads as a collage of voices or shards rather than as a book with an identifiable arc, it's because that's the only way the poet has managed to answer, so far, the question, "What is it like to be of this world and this world and this world, while also of the elsewhere skirting these worlds?
Loose Strife Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9780822963295
Pub Date: 07 Jan 2015
Description:
In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus' fifth-century B.C. trilogy "The Oresteia," which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, Loose Strife investigates the classical sense of loose strife, namely "to loose battle" or "sow chaos," a concept which is still very much with us more than twenty-five hundred years later.
Neo-Aramaic and its Linguistic Context Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 502
ISBN: 9781463204105
Pub Date: 02 Jan 2015
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Neo-Aramaic Studies
Description:
This volume contains papers on the Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects and the languages in contact with them. The papers make important contributions to the documentation of the dialects and to the understanding of their development in the context of non-Semitic contact languages.
Cinema And Art As Archive, Form, Medium, Memory Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 267
ISBN: 9788857523552
Pub Date: 30 Dec 2014
Description:
As Jacques Derrida stated in Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear thanthe word “archive.” Nevertheless, it is precisely within the semantic openendedness of this notion that contemporary discursive practices of cinema and art have developed, thus reconfiguring the very idea of the archive. The single disciplines involved in this broad field – film and art history, film and art theory, aesthetics, semiotics, philology, etc.
The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780813153520
Pub Date: 25 Dec 2014
Illustrations: 7 color photos, 5 b&w photos
Description:
Poet, social justice advocate, and theologian Thomas Merton (1915--1968) is arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. In his short lifetime, he penned over seventy books and maintained a brisk correspondence with colleagues around the globe. However, many Merton scholars and fans remain unaware of the significant body of letters that were exchanged between the Trappist monk and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
The Voyages of Adriaan van Berkel to Guiana Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789088902635
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book is a reissue of the travelogue of Adriaan van Berkel, first published in 1695 by Johan ten Hoorn in Amsterdam. The first part deals with Van Berkel’s adventures in the Dutch colony located on the Berbice River in the Guianas; the second part is a description of Surinam, the adjacent colony the Dutch took over from the British in 1667.This reissue, edited by Martijn van den Bel, Lodewijk Hulsman and Lodewijk Wagenaar, contains a new annotated English translation as well as an integral rendition of the original Dutch text.
The Ethics of Creativity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780822963226
Pub Date: 04 Dec 2014
Description:
Foreword by Daniel A. Dombrowski. A central concern of nearly every environmental ethic is its desire to extend the scope of direct moral concern beyond human beings to plants, nonhuman animals, and the systems of which they are a part.
How Reading Is Written Cover How Reading Is Written Cover
Format: 
Pages: 269
ISBN: 9780819575111
Pub Date: 02 Dec 2014
Illustrations: 1 illus.
Pages: 269
ISBN: 9780819575128
Pub Date: 02 Dec 2014
Illustrations: 1 illus.
Description:
Gertrude Stein is a seminal figure in modern and postmodern literature, yet her work is not easily defined and has had both fierce supporters and equally fierce detractors. In a series of linked essays, How Reading Is Written considers a set of questions associated with reading Gertrude Stein today. In particular, how can we read a body of work that is largely resistant to conventional and interpretation-based models of literary criticism?
Eden of the North Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780982915561
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2014
Imprint: International Polar Institute
Illustrations: 1 map
Description:
First English translation of this 19th century novel tracing the relationship between traditional Greenlandic life and the interaction with the culture of their Danish colonizers.These first hand accounts of Greenlanders have rarely been recorded. Written in 1887, with exquisite poetic detail, the dynamics driving ritual, domestic affairs and women's place in society are described as never before.
Public Figures Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 92
ISBN: 9780819575586
Pub Date: 20 Nov 2014
Illustrations: 43 illus.
Description:
Public Figures is an essay-poem with photographs and text that begins with a playful thought experiment: statues of people in public spaces have eyes, but what are they looking at? To answer that question, Jena Osman sets up a camera to track the gaze of a number of statues in Philadelphia - mostly 19th century military figures carrying weapons. How does their point of view differ from our own?
Foundations for Syriac Lexicography IV Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 254
ISBN: 9781611439335
Pub Date: 10 Nov 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics
Description:
The fourth published colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP), presenting papers from an international team of authors working to develop contemporary, interdisciplinary approaches to linguistics and lexicography.
Down on Cyprus Avenue Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9780802313584
Pub Date: 04 Nov 2014
Imprint: Dufour Editions
Description:
In this new series from Paul Charles, formerly retired policeman Brendy McCusker is forced to return to work following his wife's flight to America with their nest-egg. On his first major case in Belfast he partners with DI Lily O'Carroll to locate the two missing sons of a wealthy businessman. But before that case is resolved, an American banker working in Belfast is brutally murdered down on leafy Cyprus Avenue and McCusker and O'Carroll are put on the case.
Only For Them Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9788857524184
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Description:
Year after year, day after day, minute after minute, billions of non-human animals are slaughtered for several purposes and aims (food, clothing, entertainment, research). An analogous situation whose objects were humans instead of animals would obviously never be accepted. But why do we tolerate and even justify one practice while deploring the other?
Paolo Gioli Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 90
ISBN: 9788857523576
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
In a historical moment when cinema is definitively abandoning analogue production, the cinematographic work of Paolo Gioli occupies an important and meaningful place in the academic and artistic debate related to the present and future position of cinema and media art in the digital era. For this reason, the Film Forum Festival decided to organize a one-day seminar in Gorizia on 17th March 2013 in order to analyze and discuss the artistic production of this Italian artist. This book records and expands topics and reflections developed by international scholars and curators during that event and contains an original text by Paolo Gioli about his cinema and his artistic production.