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The Gender Reader

Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Gary A. Olson, and Merry G. Perry

The Gender Reader's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject. The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich discussion and thoughtful essays. The issues raised throughout the book are designed to provide readers with opportunities for personal and reflective writing as well as expository and argumentative writing. For anyone interested in issues of gender for balanced writing.
Historical Dictionary of Opera

Scott Leslie Balthazar

Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at present, and known by infinitely more persons than just those who attend performances. On the other hand, it has enjoyed periods in the past when more operas were produced to greater acclaim. Those periods inevitably have pride of place in this Historical Dictionary of Opera, as do exceptional singers, and others who combine to fashion the opera, whether or not they appear on stage. But this volume looks even further afield, considering the cities which were and still are opera centers, literary works which were turned into librettos, and types of pieces and genres. While some of the former can be found on the web or in other sources, most of the latter cannot and it is impossible to have the whole picture without them.
Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; Wide-ranging essays on print culture from Renaissance Europe to the contemporary digital world

Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin

Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (1979) has exercised its own force as an agent of change in the world of scholarship. Its path-breaking agenda has played a central role in shaping the study of print culture and "book history"—fields of inquiry that rank among the most exciting and vital areas of scholarly endeavor in recent years. Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. From early modern marginalia to the use of architectural title pages in Renaissance books, from the press in Spanish colonial America to print in the Islamic world, from the role of the printed word in nation-building to changing histories of reading in the electronic age, this book addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies today as it suggests future directions for the field.
New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring

Laurel Black, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall

Representing a range of approaches and voices, this text explores the tensions and ambiguities of portfolio assessment. While some of its essays problematize portfolio use at the classroom level, others move beyond the classroom to construct new research agendas in writing assessment.
Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence

Claudia Brenner and Hannah Ashley

The lesbian victim of a violent hate crime that left her seriously wounded and her partner dead is the story of family and community, the medical system, the police and courts, and the media--and of one woman's incredible courage.
Bully Pulpit: Poems

Kim Bridgford

Stately and assured, Kim Bridgford triumphs over private, public, mythic and literary bullies in her newest volume, Bully Pulpit, a sustained book of poems that ranges wide and deep, shining a searchlight on the world of threats. Her crisp meters and deft turns of phrase take on “mobbing” to “bullycides,” intelligently moving us from examples of survivor-figures (like Rosa Parks) to literary victims (like Desdemona) and on to film icons, too. The growl of Norma Desmond bursts forth, and the electric and charming voices of the Triplets of Belleville. Are these the subjects of poetry? You bet they are, especially in Bridgford’s valiant hands.
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Epiphanies: Poems

Kim Bridgford

The poems of Kim Bridgford's Epiphaniesare heart-breaking in their leap of faith, finding not just the divine in the human, but the human in the divine: "You'll rise again. I know what you've been through./I suffered human life: and so do you."
Hitchcock's Coffin: Sonnets About Classic Films

Kim Bridgford

The inspired meditations on movies in Kim Bridgford'sHitchcock's Coffin are vibrant in their mix of metrical music and Hollywood gloss.
Instead of Maps: Poems

Kim Bridgford

Kim Bridgford’s Instead of Maps is a remarkable journey, her elegant poems leading us on the treacherous road to truth with only the heart—and Bridgford’s effortless art—to guide us.
In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records

Kim Bridgford

Winner of the 2007 Donald Justice Poetry Award sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center.
Undone: Poems

Kim Bridgford

'Out of what she calls the bric-a-brac of ordinary life, Kim Bridgford has made poems remarkable for their depth of feeling and formal skill. Her lapidary precision conveys a passionate artistry. Open this book anywhere and you will find a gem." -- Mary Jarman. "Her work is rigorous and memorable, full of linguistic surprises and emotional twists that suggest, as she says, that there is an art in learning how to underscore." -- Jay Parini
Reaching and Teaching Diverse Populations: Strategies for Moving Beyond Stereotypes

Mary Bellucci Buckelew and Andrea Fishman

Based on the conceptual framework of the educational ecosystem, Reaching and Teaching Diverse Populations: Strategies for Moving Beyond Stereotypes engages preservice teachers in activities that promote their understanding of diversity topics. In working through the activities included in this text, students deepen their understanding of the interrelationship of the community, the school, and classroom dynamics and cultures. By making multicultural issues local and relevant, future teachers begin to see themselves as agents of change, creators of curriculum and pedagogy, and facilitators of a synergistic, dynamic, and exciting learning environment.
Moving Within the Circle: Contemporary Native American Music and Dance, 2nd Edition

J. Bryan Burton

In the fifteen years since the release of the first edition of Moving Within The Circle, Burton - himself part Choctaw - has continued his exploration of contemporary Native American music, adding a wealth of material to an already impressive collection of traditional and recently created music. The 36 songs and dances in this edition are in active use in Native communities and were taught directly to the author by members of the Apache, Haliwa-Saponi, Lakota, Oneida, Seneca, and Zuni tribes, to name just a few. Selections for guided listening were contributed by numerous well-known contemporary recording artists.
Voices of the Wind: Native American Flute Songs

J. Bryan Burton and Maria Pondish Kreiter

A beautiful collection of authentic, traditional and contemporary Native American flute songs, arranged for the nonprofessional player. Bryan Burton has created, for the first time, a set of accessible transcriptions for classroom and home performance. These flute songs have been carefully chosen for their beauty and ease of play, then transcribed in keys that work for the student of recorder or flute, elementary grades and above. Many are haunting and will stay in your memory long after you put your instrument away. Included are love or courting songs, stomp dance, round dance, honoring and popular songs.
The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891

Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been largely ignored and forgotten. The Newspaper Warrior presents new material that enhances public memory as the first volume to collect hundreds of newspaper articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and editorial comments by and about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins.
Russia's Long Twentieth Century: Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives

Choi Chatterjee, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, and Deborah A. Field

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyse the ways in which citizens learnt to live within its system and create distinctly Soviet identities from its structures and ideologies.
Women Writing Latin: Early Modern Women Writing Latin

Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Three covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700).
Silver Threads

Jacob Cooper

Jacob Cooper’s Nonesuch Records debut album, Silver Threads, comprises a six-song cycle performed by soprano Mellissa Hughes. Cooper wrote the title track for Hughes in 2011, setting a haiku attributed to Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō for voice and electronic track. To expand it into a full cycle (for voice and track), he enlisted five other poets to write text inspired by the haiku.
Windward - Duo del Sol

Karen Dannessa and Henry Grabb

Windward. David Loeb: Madrigaletti; Matthew Herman: Dance Suite; Jason Haney: t-zero; Joseph Gregorio: Four Miniatures; Mark Rimple: Four Canons; Matthew Herman: Second Dance Suite
War and Words: Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare

Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, and Merry G. Perry

War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as they represent it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization. War and Words offers students of literature critical tools for reading literary explorations of ambivalence toward war and provides teachers of literature a suggested syllabus for a course that has become all too necessary in a time when all our lives are touched by war.
Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy

Karen Fitts and Alan W. France

Left Margins offers an inside view of the cultural politics of knowledge in college-level composition classrooms. The basic question this book raises is whether or not we can continue to represent the writing process apolitically as the work of autonomous individuals recording their experiences or realizing their private objectives. Readers will get a front-row, classroom perspective on the confrontation between politically engaged writing teachers and largely resistant students, between critical pedagogy and the orthodoxies of American culture at the end of the twentieth century. The book presents classroom strategies that develop students' awareness of their own ideological subjectivities.
Beyond the Corporate University: Culture and Pedagogy in the New Millennium

Henry A. Giroux and Kostas Myrsiades

A decade of budgetary, policy, and ideological contention has left American universities under the yoke of narrow-minded management models. As corporate culture increasingly invades educational and other public sectors, we as a nation have lost a clear vision of the public good and the necessary components of a vital democracy. Prominent scholars in this book seek to redress these trends. They move boldly beyond critique to show how and why the critical functions of a democratically informed civic education (not merely professional training) must become the core of the university's mission. They show why higher education must address what it means to relate knowledge to public life, and social responsibility to the demands of critical citizenship. Moreover, they show why democratic forms of education and various elements of a critical pedagogy are vital not only to individual students, but also to our economy and our democratic institutions and future leadership. They also suggest how we can move beyond the stagnation of current debates to more fully embrace the democratic possibilities of public education.
Island Grooves

Christopher Hanning

"Island Grooves" is an instructional drumset DVD aimed squarely at drummers who wish to add some Caribbean grooves to their repertoire.Dr. Hanning demonstrates several styles including Calypso, Soca, Dub, Zouk, Shango, Party Soca, Traditional Island Favourites, and Reggae. The DVD contains seven play-along tracks with the Panyard Steel Orchestra, and three play-along tracks with Deighton "Revealer" Charlemagne.
Family Matters in the British and American Novel

Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, Elizabeth M. Nollen, and Sheila Reitzel Foor

Contributors examine the literature that challenges widely held assumptions about the form of the family, familial authority patterns, and the function of courtship, marriage, and family life from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Topics include: the family as a microcosm of the larger political sphere in Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Elizabeth Fenwick, Mrs. Opie, and Mary Shelley, and alternatives to the nuclear patriarchal family in Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mary Louisa Molesworth.
A Reference Guide to Modern Fantasy for Children

Helen M. Hill and Pat Pflieger

A very thorough guide to the fantasies and fantasists selected, this is unlike any other guide to the genre. Only English and American authors of full-length fantasies are included, just 36, with entries for titles, characters, places, and magical objects, and of course the authors. Authors' entries describe major themes of all their full-length works, following biographical notes. Book-title entries give plot synopses and information about the first editions of the books. People who remember something of a fantasy sequence and want to find it again will find this the most helpful guide to fantasies. Choice