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Publicado por Brand: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1974
ISBN 10: 0878050558ISBN 13: 9780878050550
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: used. Book by.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2009
ISBN 10: 160473132XISBN 13: 9781604731323
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Winner of the Association of Black Women Historians' 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book PrizeFrom the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital, from the white male bastion of the World War II Army to the male stronghold of Howard University Law School, from the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to minister-in all these places Dovey Johnson Roundtree (b. 1914) sought justice. Though she is a legendary African American figure in the legal community of Washington, D.C., she remains largely unknown to the American public.Justice Older than the Law is her story, the product of a remarkable, ten-year collaboration with National Magazine Award winner Katie McCabe. As a protégé of Mary McLeod Bethune, Roundtree became one of the first women to break the gender and color barriers in the United States military. Inspired by Thurgood Marshall and James Madison Nabrit, Jr., at Howard University Law School, Roundtree went on to make history by winning a 1955 bus desegregation case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company. That decision demolished "separate but equal" in the realm of interstate transportation and enabled Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to combat southern resistance to the Freedom Riders' campaign in 1961.At a time when black attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathrooms, Roundtree took on Washington's white legal establishment and prevailed. She led the vanguard of women ordained to the ministry in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1961 and merged her law practice with her ministry to fight for families and children being destroyed by urban violence. Hers is a vision of biblical and social justice older by far than the law, and her life story speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1997
ISBN 10: 1578060168ISBN 13: 9781578060160
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Faulkner Centennial Edition. This memorable collection of black-and-white photographs focuses on William Faulkner's homeland, which his great corpus of fiction transformed into Yoknapatawpha County. Martin J. Dain made them in Mississippi during the last two years of Faulkner's life (1961-62). They evoke the wonderful spirit and exactitude of the land and the people Faulkner wrote about. Most first appeared in Dain's Faulkner's County: Yoknapatawpha (1964), which has been out of print for many years and in high demand among Faulkner admirers everywhere. Faulkner's World, published now in celebration of Faulkner's centenary, includes several pictures that were not in Dain's earlier book.It was the photographer's reverence for the writings of the Nobel Prize-winning author that stimulated him to travel to Faulkner country with his camera. "All my life I had been reading Faulkner," he says, "and you mature along with your reading and discover this man has said and known everything that's worth knowing and saying in your entire life.In the introduction to Faulkner's World, Dain tells the photographer Tom Rankin of his relationship with Faulkner and his extensive travels in Mississippi as he took the photographs.For the acclaimed novelist Larry Brown, who lives in Faulkner's home town and who has written the foreword for Faulkner's World, Dain's photographs evoke Brown's own past-"another time in the place I still call home." Brown's world was the world of Faulkner, although he was only ten when Faulkner died. "Stepping back into the past," Brown writes, "is like entering a dream world that once was real but now is gone, the faces faded and dulled by time in the memory.You remember the old people you used to talk to and you wish you could talk to them one more time. You know how valuable that was now."To Brown, Dain's photographs "preserve old times and people in the best and most satisfying ways. They can never fade away now, cannot slide back into memory and be forgotten forever."In the nearly four decades since Dain made this rare photographic record of Yoknapatawpha, his images have become familiar icons. They have made the old, enduring landmarks of Faulkner country visible for all of us.Copublished with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi.Martin J. Dain, a native of Massachusetts, lives in Carmel Valley, California. Tom Rankin, a professor at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, is the photographer and author of Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi).
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1993
ISBN 10: 0878055983ISBN 13: 9780878055982
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. Here for the first time is a book that defines the historical adventure movie, one of the most enduring, ever-popular, and mythically significant American film genres. Despite the popularity of historical adventure from the early days of filmmaking, never before has this Hollywood genre been analyzed in a comprehensive manner. Brian Taves's The Romance of Adventure includes an array of subgenres - swashbucklers, tales of pirates, the sea, exploration, and the building of empires - in films as diverse as The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Buccaneer, Mutiny on the Bounty, Moby Dick, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Gunga Din, and The Man Who Would Be King. The author's definition of the historical adventure film emphasizes setting, consistent characterizations, and precise codes of behavior. He illuminates its many branches and shows how such activities as exploration of the world's remote regions and individualistic, armed rebellions for freedom are impelled by the adventurer's values - patriotism, chivalry, and honor. Taves finds that such movies reflect an idealistic world view and present history more as myth than as factual re-creation, with adventure belonging to an era long past, when morality was drawn in sharp relief. In romance adventure films the fight for liberty may occur in the castles of Europe, on board a ship on the high seas, or in colonies extending from the Spanish Main to India and Africa. In this way Taves believes that these films metaphorically depict the American Revolution, even though the conflict's essential issues are set in various times and places and indicate the timeless, universal need forliberty and freedom.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2024
ISBN 10: 1578062144ISBN 13: 9781578062140
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. A memoir by a member of the Army Special Training Program sent to the Battle of the Bulge with the 94th Infantry Division reveals the GI relations with foreign soldiers, realities of military hospitals, and the heroes of the war.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1997
ISBN 10: 0878059032ISBN 13: 9780878059034
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: used. Rubber-stamping as an enticing form of popular art.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1993
ISBN 10: 0878056270ISBN 13: 9780878056279
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. The Jews of the South have found their poet laureate -Abba Eban.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2005
ISBN 10: 157806743XISBN 13: 9781578067435
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1. Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner's Office chronicles the exploits of a diverse team of investigators at a coroner's office in Pittsburgh. Ed Strimlan is a doctor who never got to practice medicine. Instead he discovers how people died. Mike Chichwak is a stolid ex-paramedic, respected around the office for his compassion and doggedness. Tiffani Hunt is twenty-one, a single mother who questions whether she wants to spend her nights around dead bodies.All three deputy coroners share one trait: a compulsive curiosity. A good thing too because any observation at a death scene can prove meaningful. A bag of groceries standing on a kitchen counter, the milk turning sour. A broken lamp lying on the carpet of an otherwise tidy living room. When they approach a corpse, the investigators consider everything. Is the victim face-up or down? How stiff are the limbs? Are the hands dirty or clean? By the time they bag the body and load it into the coroner's wagon, Tiffani, Ed, and Mike have often unearthed intimate details that are unknown even to the victim's family and friends.The intrigues of investigating death help make up for the bad parts of the job. There are plenty of burdens-grief-stricken families, decomposed bodies, tangled local politics, and gore. And maybe worst of all is the ever-present reminder of mortality and human frailness.Deadhouse also chronicles the evolution of forensic medicine, from early rituals performed over corpses found dead to the controversial advent of modern forensic pathology. It explains how pathologists read bullet wounds and lacerations, how someone dies from a drug overdose or a motorcycle crash or a drowning, and how investigators uncover the clues that lead to the truth.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2004
ISBN 10: 1578066107ISBN 13: 9781578066100
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. For over half a century, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) has been among the most visible of public intellectuals. His articulate and controversial best-selling books-including The Affluent Society, Economics and the Public Purpose, and The New Industrial State-and his very partisan liberal Democrat political and public service activities secured a place for him among the rich and famous of his time.He worked as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, served as U.S. ambassador to India (1961-1963), and edited Fortune magazine during the mid-1940s. Among American economists of any era, he is rivaled only by Thorstein Veblen for the introduction of phrases that take on a life of their own in the literate idiom. Such Galbraithian phrases as "the conventional wisdom" and the "affluent society" have become familiar even beyond Galbraith's remarkably wide readership. No other economist of the twentieth century, excepting perhaps John Maynard Keynes, can claim so secure a place in the belles-lettres of the English-speaking world.This collection of interviews documents the long career of an influential economist and political philosopher who has spent much of his professional life in the public eye. Many of the interviews are occasioned by publication of his books and contain their key themes such as the importance of Keynes, the need to include power in economic thinking, and the neglected priorities of aesthetics, poverty, and the environment in affluent America. The interviews also indicate Galbraith's wide-ranging public service and his frequent hobnobbing with the political and intellectual elite. Through the collection, which spans over four decades, Galbraith's erudition, wit, and impassioned liberalism shine through, making this volume an essential companion to his works.James Ronald Stanfield, a professor of economics at Colorado State University, is the author of John Kenneth Galbraith, The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi: Lives and Livelihood, and Economics, Power, and Culture: Essays in the Development of Radical Institutionalism.Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield, a professor of sociology at the University of Northern Colorado, is the author of Married with Careers: Coping with Role Strain. Her work has appeared in such periodicals as Social Science Journal, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and Review of Social Economy.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1989
ISBN 10: 0878054502ISBN 13: 9780878054503
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. The radiant world of Eudora Welty's art is charged by a poignant and familiar beauty, and here in a stunning book of her photographs is a dazzling record of this writer's unique and special vision.It is unusual--remarkable--for a major writer also to be an accomplished photographer. Eudora Welty is one of the very few whose great talent has been expressed in both photographs and fiction.This book brings together in one volume about 250 representative photographs from the few thousand that she took during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Although her camera's view finder compresses much, like the frame in which she conceives her fiction, it finds elements that convey her deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities.From the confines of her native Mississippi, these photographs unfold the world of Eudora Welty's art, reaching, extending, and exploring. In the Deep South of Depression times, when she began writing, she discovered the place into which she had been born and which would always be her subject. From here, as these photographs show, she approached and risked the outside world. From rural Mississippi to New Orleans, Charleston, New York City, and Yaddo, and then to Ireland, England, and the Continent, Welty widened her vision and expanded her art. These photographs reveal that both in her fiction and in the pictures she took it has always been in place, in the special qualities of what is local, that she found her impulse. "I was smitten by the identity of place wherever I was," she said in 1989, "from Mississippi on--I still am."The legions of appreciators of Welty's photographs see in them the feelings and vision that are the hallmarks of her great literary art in such novels as Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter, in her memoir One Writer's Beginnings, and in her volumes of short stories.This serves as a definitive book of Welty's photographs, compromising pictures from her personal collection, from the repository of Welty materials at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and from One Time, One Place, an album of her Depression-era photographs published in 1971.Included are Mississippi scenes and people, emblems of folklife, carnival signs and performers, photographs taken in Charleston; New Orleans; Mexico; New York City; Ireland; Paris; Nice; Italy; Wales; and Saratoga Springs, New York, and a significant group of Welty's portraits of family members and friends.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2024
ISBN 10: 1578066506ISBN 13: 9781578066506
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. Updated. At a crossroad in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for becoming a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Travelling will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide you to all the other hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music. Robert Johnson; Mississippi John Hurt; Memphis Minnie; Jimmie Rodgers; Bessie Smith; Muddy Waters; Mississippi Fred McDowell; Howlin' Wolf; B. B. King; Little Milton; Elvis Presley; Bobby Rush; Junior Kimborough; R. L. Burnside; and many more; A trip through the Mississippi blues sites is a pilgrimage every blues fan will want to make - real, or armchair.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1990
ISBN 10: 0878054324ISBN 13: 9780878054329
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Product Description This timely collection of inquiring essays and interviews focuses critical attention on a major southern writer whose works until quite recently have been in a period of eclipse Book Description This timely collection of inquiring essays and interviews focuses critical attention on a major southern writer whose works until quite recently have been in a period of eclipse From the Inside Flap This timely collection of inquiring essays and interviews focuses critical attention on a major southern writer whose works until quite recently have been in a period of eclipse About the Author Edwin T. Arnold is a professor of English at Appalachian State University.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1995
ISBN 10: 0878057161ISBN 13: 9780878057160
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Like many other veterans of the Vietnam conflict, Michael Cousino, a disabled former Marine from Gouverneur, New York, continues to struggle with bad memories and daily life adjustments. Unlike many other veterans, he has found an outlet for his frustrations and grief. He creates miniature replicas of his Vietnam experiences. In these astonishingly detailed dioramas, he recalls scenes of battle and related episodes that reflect his life of some thirty years ago.His dioramas are on a 1:35 scale, replete with intricacies that grip his painful past. He began this work in 1983, as he says, to keep from going bonkers when I couldnt find a job. Having completed more than two hundred dioramas, no two alike and none ever for sale, Cousino has represented firefights, POW camps, torture pits, and ambushes.This unique art serves both Cousino and an appreciative audience. For him it is both therapeutic and didactic. For those who see his dioramas, there is aesthetic understanding and interaction. In sharing and interacting, Cousino has made his art an essential part of folk expression. This book features his unusual art in 36 pages of color photographs by Martha Cooper.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1993
ISBN 10: 0878055290ISBN 13: 9780878055296
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. The radiant world of Eudora Welty's art is charged by a poignant and familiar beauty, and here in a stunning book of her photographs is a dazzling record of this writer's unique and special vision.It is unusual--remarkable--for a major writer also to be an accomplished photographer. Eudora Welty is one of the very few whose great talent has been expressed in both photographs and fiction.This book brings together in one volume about 250 representative photographs from the few thousand that she took during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Although her camera's view finder compresses much, like the frame in which she conceives her fiction, it finds elements that convey her deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities.From the confines of her native Mississippi, these photographs unfold the world of Eudora Welty's art, reaching, extending, and exploring. In the Deep South of Depression times, when she began writing, she discovered the place into which she had been born and which would always be her subject. From here, as these photographs show, she approached and risked the outside world. From rural Mississippi to New Orleans, Charleston, New York City, and Yaddo, and then to Ireland, England, and the Continent, Welty widened her vision and expanded her art. These photographs reveal that both in her fiction and in the pictures she took it has always been in place, in the special qualities of what is local, that she found her impulse. "I was smitten by the identity of place wherever I was," she said in 1989, "from Mississippi on--I still am."The legions of appreciators of Welty's photographs see in them the feelings and vision that are the hallmarks of her great literary art in such novels as Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter, in her memoir One Writer's Beginnings, and in her volumes of short stories.This serves as a definitive book of Welty's photographs, compromising pictures from her personal collection, from the repository of Welty materials at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and from One Time, One Place, an album of her Depression-era photographs published in 1971.Included are Mississippi scenes and people, emblems of folklife, carnival signs and performers, photographs taken in Charleston; New Orleans; Mexico; New York City; Ireland; Paris; Nice; Italy; Wales; and Saratoga Springs, New York, and a significant group of Welty's portraits of family members and friends.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1979
ISBN 10: 0878050930ISBN 13: 9780878050932
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. The essays collected here represent the breadth of current Welty criticism, illuminating one's understanding of the literary craftsmanship and private vision that have produced some of the twentieth century America's most important fiction.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1994
ISBN 10: 0878057390ISBN 13: 9780878057399
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1995
ISBN 10: 0878057706ISBN 13: 9780878057702
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: used. A revisionary study of Mississippis late nineteenth-century image as a one-party state of Democrats.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1995
ISBN 10: 0878057501ISBN 13: 9780878057504
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. Insurance executive Erskine Fowler's self-destructive tendencies clash with his attempt to conceal his involvement in an accidental death.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1995
ISBN 10: 087805684XISBN 13: 9780878056842
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. A gripping biography tracing the controversial Louisiana politicians quest for political legitimacy.
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Publicado por Brand: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd), 1988
ISBN 10: 0878053476ISBN 13: 9780878053476
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. This is the first book to explore the Confederate Secret Service's link to the death of Abraham Lincoln. Investigating the assassination from their perspective as career intelligence officers, William A. Tidwell and David Winfred Gaddy, joined by James O. Hall, one of the leading authorities on the assassination, find and follow the clues, interpret the clandestine evidence, and draw well-founded conclusions. Their work uncovers evidence with the specialized scrutiny that is unique to researchers of their profession.
Publicado por Brand: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1983
ISBN 10: 0878051856ISBN 13: 9780878051854
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Book by.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1994
ISBN 10: 087805720XISBN 13: 9780878057207
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Largely ignored by mainstream audiences for the first thirty years of her career, Anais Nin (1903-1977) finally came into her own with the publication of the first part of her diary in 1966. Thereafter she was catapulted into fame.Throughout the late sixties and the seventies she attracted a host of devoted and admiring readers in the counter culture, who were magnetized by her personal liberation and openness.For a woman to make such probing exploration of the intimate recesses of her psyche made her a cult figure with a large and lasting readership.Born in France, Anais Nin lived much of her life in America. Her liaison with Henry Miller and his wife June, documented in her explicitly detailed diaries, became the subject of a major film of the nineties. Her forthright books, her diaries that continue to be published in a steady flow, and her charismatic charm made her the subject of many candid interviews, such as those collected here.Eight included in this volume are printed for the first time. Many others were originally published in magazines that are now defunct. Nin elaborates on subjects only touched upon in the diaries, and she speaks also of her role in the women's movement and of her philosophies on art, writing, and individual growth.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1985
ISBN 10: 0878052542ISBN 13: 9780878052547
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. Book by Brodsky, Louis Daniel and Robert W. Hamblin.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1997
ISBN 10: 0878059512ISBN 13: 9780878059515
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Ken Light and his camera were permitted unparalleled access to Texas Death Row. His stark, powerful images show where and how the condemned live. In the year he took these pictures, fourteen men were executed in Texas. Suzanne Donovan's accompanying essay, "Shadow Figures: A Portrait of Life on the Row," draws upon her interviews with the condemned men and with prison authorities, family members, and members of victims' families Whoever opens this book will want to look away, for the pictures and words force us to gaze intimately into the eye of death. Since 1976, when the U. S. Supreme Court upheld this country's death penalty laws, the population on death row has grown steadily. Of more than 3,000 convicts awaiting execution nationwide, most are male, and over 400 are incarcerated on death row in the state of Texas. With ninety percent approval, no other place in America has sanctioned the death sentence so overwhelmingly as Texas. Ken Light's raw, austere photographs and the accompanying text reveal what we have created in the hopeless world of court-ordered death. Who are the men who exist there? What do they look like? How do they survive, and what are the rhythms of their daily lives? While outsiders focus on the final act of execution, the real drama unfolds each day in this closed and troubling world. Ken Light is a social documentary photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines, and exhibitions. His published collections include Delta Time, To the Promised Land, With These Hands, and In the Fields. Suzanne Donovan is a freelance journalist, a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, and project specialist for the Texas Council on Family Violence.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2007
ISBN 10: 1578069807ISBN 13: 9781578069804
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1. For many consumers, taking one or more dietary supple-ments is a natural addition to a healthy lifestyle. The decision to take a dietary supplement may be based on the recommendation of a doctor, a dietitian, or a friend. Television, newspapers, magazines, websites, and persuasive marketing materials in the pharmacy or supermarket may sway buyers.Information regarding dietary supplements abounds but can be misleading or contradictory. Understanding Dietary Supplements is a guide to making informed choices.Chapters provide Both an overview and detailed information about key supplements Coverage of a broad spectrum of vitamins and minerals, herbs and botanicals, drugs, and other options Jargon-free explanations of how each supplement can work on the body Safety concerns about interactions and misuse Regulations imposed on the industry and recent trends in the industry's development A glossary and listings of outside resourcesIncluded here, the full text of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994--the model for the FDA's regulation of dietary supplements--affords guidance to deciphering labels and determining value. Understanding Dietary Supplements is an easy-to-use guide to a much demanded but often misunderstood group of products.Jenna Hollenstein is clinical editor at the Pri-Med Institute of MC Communications in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has been published in Nutrition Reviews, Nutrition in Clinical Care, ILSI News, Pri-Med in Practice, and Pri-Med Online.
Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1995
ISBN 10: 0878058257ISBN 13: 9780878058259
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: used. For almost a decade Peter Quezada, a prolific self-taught artist, has painted murals and lettering on buildings and retaining walls in neighborhoods northeast of downtown Los Angeles. He refers to his work as a "graffiti deterrent" or a "substitute for graffiti," and he targets sites that are favorites of taggers and gang graffiti writers. Often he enlists their assistance and designs his murals to appeal to these youths as well as to discourage them from participating in antisocial behavior.Drawing upon an eclectic visual repertoire of images and graphics, his murals reflect his affinity for the neighborhoods in which he has lived. Much of his work is taken from images he encounters in his daily life.Highlighting the interplay of contemporary life, mass-media images that confront the public, and the use of physical space in the city landscape, this fascinating book shows how such art as Quezada's has become the signature of modern urban culture.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2000
ISBN 10: 1578062489ISBN 13: 9781578062485
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. The first full-length celebration of an African American and Native American self-taught master's landscapes and travelsIn The New York Times, Wendy Steiner named Joseph E. Yoakum (1890-1972) one of the six masters among American outsider artists. John Perreault wrote in The Village Voice, "The discovery of an authentic 'naive' artist such as Yoakum does not happen very often so it is cause for some celebration."With 50 color and 145 black-and-white reproductions, Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum is a fitting tribute to this fascinating creator of visionary landscapes.Despite the initial excitement of his discovery, relatively little was known of the life of this artist. What emerges in Traveling the Rainbow fits an adventure novel. Yoakum traveled the oceans on steamliners working in their boiler rooms. He rode America's railways as an inspector. With an elite team of African American troops in World War I, he toured Europe. On the road with the Ringling Brothers Circus he posted circus flyers. He spent a year in a psychiatric hospital.Late in his life he created majestic, animated landscapes infused with the motion and energy of travel. Part African American, part Native American, Yoakum drew on his dual background and conjured powerful forms of expression -- the blues and Native American symbolism -- to create dynamic cultural fusions.Traveling the Rainbow corrects major biographical errors published in numerous artist anthologies and exhibition catalogues. Much of what he told about his life -- especially about his travels -- was thought to be invented, but Derrel DePasse makes startling discoveries about the artist's landscapes and finds that much of his story of himself was grounded in fact.Intimate and panoramic, Yoakum's water-color and pencil drawings are compared to the work of artists as diverse as William Blake and Thomas Moran. His life spanned the golden epochs of the American railroad, the traveling circus, and the unique American musical idiom known as the blues. This book reveals how the artist recorded his memories of these both in his landscapes, as well as in a small number of distinctive portraits of prominent African Americans.Derrel B. DePasse is president of the Blauvelt Group. She is a contributing author to Self-Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century: An American Anthology (Museum of American Folk Art/Chronicle Books, 1998).
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Publicado por Brand: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd), 1991
ISBN 10: 0878055355ISBN 13: 9780878055357
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Publicado por Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 2004
ISBN 10: 1578065194ISBN 13: 9781578065196
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Publicado por Brand: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd), 1996
ISBN 10: 0878052135ISBN 13: 9780878052134
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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