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Ranging in tone from the elegaic to the comic, Whirl Is King collects 43 of Brendan Galvin's poems about human encounters with birds. Written over the past five... Læs mere
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Traces the origins and evolution of conjuring practices across the centuries. Though some may see the study of conjure as a perpetuation of old stereotypes that depict blacks as bound to superstition, the truth, Jeffrey Anderson reveals, is far more complex.
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In the summer of 1959, A.J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to... Læs mere
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Explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so... Læs mere
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Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among... Læs mere
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Offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labour movement. Paul Moreno applies insights of the... Læs mere
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Offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience.
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In his provocative and highly readable study, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?, Henry B. Veatch finds the basis for human rights in natural law. He builds his argument step by... Læs mere
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In 1880, George Washington Cable was commissioned to write a “historical sketch” of pre-Civil War New Orleans for a special... Læs mere
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Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in Sex at Noon... Læs mere
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In his newest collection, Bruce Bond transforms the known and the familiar into something surreal and new. With spare, unadorned language, he complicates what it is to be both bound to... Læs mere
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In Glory River, David Huddle's poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humour against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are dissolving and those of the future are frightening.