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Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film

Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film


Dana Polan



From the Inside Flap "Polan's book offers the first pedagogical history of the emergence of film studies courses within t...
The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story

The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story


Peter Lefcourt



From Publishers Weekly This seriocomic second novel by the author of The Deal tells the offbeat story of baseball star Ra...
American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (American Crossroads, 9)

American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (American Crossroads, 9)


Shelley Streeby



From the Inside Flap "American Sensations is an erudite and sweeping cultural history of the sensationalist literatures a...
Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing

Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing


Susan Manning



Review "...brilliantly combines scrupulous integration with a trust in fractures and glimpses, and it is a major contribu...
Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities

Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities


S. E. Wilmer



Review "The Federal Theatre Project is a great read." John Earnest, American Literature, University of New Hampshir...
Three Years Among the Working-Classes in the United States during the War (Cambridge Library Collection - History)

Three Years Among the Working-Classes in the United States during the War (Cambridge Library Collection - History)


James Dawson Burn



Book Description James Dawson Burn's 1865 book endeavours to give a true account of the industrial, social, moral and pol...
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir

Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir


Charles B. Gatewood



Review The memoir is a fascinating read. To fill in missing details, Kraft has provided excellent commentary and footnot...
The Contortionist's Handbook

The Contortionist's Handbook


Craig Clevenger



From Publishers Weekly Clevenger's debut novel is a well-crafted but underplotted character study of a brilliant, damaged...
Icarus and Aria

Icarus and Aria


Kirk Wood Bromley



Review "Bromley displayed mythic hubris . . . both drawing on and reimagining contemporary speech . . . while drafting a...
Want's Unwished Work or A Birthday Play

Want's Unwished Work or A Birthday Play


Kirk Wood Bromley



Review " . . . It's so clever, you regret that comedies written in verse are so rare" -- Paul Birchall, L.A. Weekly, Ma...
Anti-Italianism: Essays on a Prejudice (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Anti-Italianism: Essays on a Prejudice (Italian and Italian American Studies)


William J. Connell, Fred Gardaphe



Review "There are books that change your life ... because their content is a revelation which introduces you to a ne...
Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century

Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century


Gregory Ellis Smoak



Review "This is a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern...
Legend of a Suicide: Stories (P.S.)

Legend of a Suicide: Stories (P.S.)


David Vann



From Publishers Weekly This well-crafted debut collection, five stories and a novella, from award-winning writer and memo...
Eat the Document

Eat the Document


Dana Spiotta



Amazon.com Review Mary Whittaker and Bobby DeSoto have constructed lives for themselves like Popsicle-stick houses: britt...
Bessie: Revised and expanded edition

Bessie: Revised and expanded edition


Chris Albertson



Review "The first estimable full-length biography not only of Bessie Smith but of any black musician.”—Whit...
Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary

Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary


Cathal J. Nolan



From The 58 historical-biographical profiles in this work reflect the highest representation of American diplomacy. The ...
Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley

Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley


Steven T. Usdin



Review "Engineering Communism provides a fascinating look at a virtually unknown facet of Cold War spy lore—the st...
The Comanche (The History & Culture of Native Americans)

The Comanche (The History & Culture of Native Americans)


T. Jensen Lacey



The Comanche (The History & Culture of Native Americans)...
The Seminole (The History and Culture of Native Americans)

The Seminole (The History and Culture of Native Americans)


Andrew K. Frank



The Seminole (The History and Culture of Native Americans)...
Arab-American and Muslim Writers (Multicultural Voices)

Arab-American and Muslim Writers (Multicultural Voices)


Rebecca Layton



From School Library Journal Gr 7 Up–Layton discusses the work of Khalil Gibran, Malcolm X, Samuel Hazo, Amiri Bara...
West of Here

West of Here


Jonathan Evison



Amazon.com Review : Jonathan Evison opens his electrifying epic, West of Here, at the Elwha River dam, where over a hundr...
Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition

Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition


Jack Uldrich



From Publishers Weekly Latching onto the idea that everything old is new again, Uldrich, a former naval officer and autho...
Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective

Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective




About the Author Sylvia Paletschek is Professor of History at the University of Freiburg. Bianka Pietrow-Ennker is Profes...
Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America

Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America


Steven M. Gelber



Review Gelber has uncovered an astonishing array of writings -- advice literature, popular magazines, newspaper articles --...
I Must be a Part of this War: A German American's Fight against Hitler and Nazism

I Must be a Part of this War: A German American's Fight against Hitler and Nazism


Patricia Kollander



Review "...the exploits of a man involved in a top secret World War II operation." -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel Ab...
Waging War to Make Peace: U.S. Intervention in Global Conflicts

Waging War to Make Peace: U.S. Intervention in Global Conflicts


Susan Yoshihara



Review "Susan Yoshihara has broken through the obfuscation surrounding 'humanitarian intervention' with this important anal...
Expendable Warriors: The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War

Expendable Warriors: The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War


Bruce B. G. Clarke



Review "Clarke describes the experiences of himself and his colleagues in the battles around the Khe Sanh Combat base in 19...
Convair Deltas: From Sea Dart to Hustler

Convair Deltas: From Sea Dart to Hustler


Bill Yenne



Review All of this is enhanced by a super selection of photos and illustrations from a variety of sources, making it anot...
Labor's War at Home: The Cio in World War II (Labor in Crisis)

Labor's War at Home: The Cio in World War II (Labor in Crisis)


Nelson Lichtenstein



Review "An impressive work which offers a useful perspective on the origins of the crisis the labor movement faces." --Th...
Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition


Yvonne P. Chireau



Review "Chireau has written a marvelous text on an important dimension of African-American religious culture. Expanding b...