Duke University Press has published a series, "Living with the Shore, " to educate the determined shore dweller. Maps show what is happening on each stretch of beach, in enough detail to cover specific homesites. The books offer guidelines for buying and building at the shore. They list federal, state, and local agencies that are involved in coastal development, as well as give up-to-date information on laws that regulate land use."--Kelly Wal...
Presenting a Hollywood history steeped in the trade news, rumor, and gossip that propel the industry, Lewis unfolds something of a cautionary tale about power and independence, the privilege of ownership and the role of the auteur in the American cinema--from beginning to present day--and examines the nature of making movies and doing business in Hollywood today. 25 photos.
A midwestern college professor finds a rationale for a life lived with literture by embarking on a quest for the secret meaning of Melville's, MOBY DICK.
Brumfield is one of the leading Western scholars today in the history of Russian architecture."--Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, University of California, Berkeley
Brumfield is one of the leading Western scholars today in the history of Russian architecture."--Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, University of California, Berkeley
Collection of essays on the connection between medicine and literature and how novelists and physicians are both, in a sense, diagnosticians, the book focuses, in particular, on Walker Percy, a writer who had trained as a pathologist.
This journal offers a rich reward for those seeking to enter the guild of writers, as well as those intrigued by the process of the literary life. Price is the award-winning author of 30 books and is a regular broadcast commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered".
Eric Barnouw's memoir is a follow through on his celebrated work as one of the most perceptive chroniclers of our generation. It is personal history at its best."--Studs Terkel
The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women's writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years.
Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and translator of thirty books, Fowlie's contributions include translations of Rimbaud (the complete works), Moliere, Claudel, Baudelaire, and Cocteau, and literary studies of, among others, Rimbaud, Stendhal, Gide, and Mallarme. His widely acclaimed "Journal of Rehearsals, " originally published in ...
It's fascinating for me to read, for the first time in over forty years, the stumbling starts toward the creation of "Lie Down in Darkness." These passages show how, in my early twenties, I may have been in possession of a luminous vision for a novel but how it was a luminosity clouded by much indecision and awkwardness. . . . "Inheritance of Night, " then, is made up of fragments of a beginning, bits of fruitful inspiration mingled with conce...
This book retells the fascinating story of the Nation of Islam--its rise in nothern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. "An outstanding work".--Clifton E. Marsh, author of From Black Muslims to Muslims.
Ten essayists discuss the black church's public activism on natioonal policy issues in the post Civil Rights period, focusing on issues such as health care, affirmative action, welfare reform, and public education.
Hospital Time" is a brilliantly crafted memoir about the writer's struggle to bear witness to the death of a friend. Hoffman's story, written in short, breathtakingly compressed chapters, chronicles life at the center of the AIDS epidemic: intense, terrifying, simultaneously suffused with meaning and empty. Hoffman avoids any cliche of the noble death, instead offering us a relentless view of her own excruciating moral struggles in the face of...
A collection of essays by leading cultural studies authors on the video work of artist Steve Fagin, together with excerpts from scripts and illustrations from his work.
Combines Bosnian women's personal testimony about the recent war and its aftermath with Ambassador Hunt's analysis of the U.S. government's appproach to the conflict.
