Jean Graham: 17 books
by Sandra Jean Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and...
Evita, Inevitably
Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Evita, Inevitably sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader...
Theatre and Cartographies of Power
Repositioning the Latina/o Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have...
by Geoffrey Block, Kate Van Winkle Keller, Anne Dhu McLucas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
A survey of the history of musical theater in the United States. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
by Jean Graham
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Break out of the Ninja mold. There has never been a Ninja Guide like this. It contains 340 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This all-embracing...
by Jean M. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
It was a meal worthy of the age, the house and the season . . .
This beautiful edition of The Poldark Cookery Book, by author Winston Graham's wife, Jean M. Graham, presents the recipes and the wherewithal for you to cook up your very own Poldark feast. Along with dozens of festive treats inspired...
Imaginarium 4
The Best Canadian Speculative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2014 calendar year.
Featuring Kelley...
Countering Displacements
The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus on the creativity and agency of displaced peoples,...
The Courage to Change
Personal Conversations about Alcoholism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1984
The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics.
As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume...
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, Graham Greene
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Wunderbare Autoren klassischer Gespenstergeschichten vereinen sich hier in einem Taschenbuch, darunter E. T. A. Hoffmanns "Eine Spukgeschichte", F. Marion Crawfords "Die obere Koje", H. R. Wakefields "Das Gespensterschloss", Graham Greenes "Das Hinterhaus unweit...
Lace Up
A History of Skates in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A charmingly illustrated history of the humble skate and its place in Canadian cultural identity.
Throughout our 150-year history, and even longer, people have braved the treacherous Canadian winters and taken to the ice for the purposes of transportation, competition, exercise, and just plain...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
by Arvis Jean-Francois; Smith Graham; Carruthers Robin
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This book aims to help the policymaker and development community in general to understand the nature of the problems and policy dilemmas that landlocked countries face to trade with the rest of the World. This volume presents an important breakthrough in the literature by focusing on a new conceptual...
Bala perdida
A violência policial no Brasil e os desafios para sua superação
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A Boitempo Editorial, que completa 20 anos de atividade em 2015, publica em parceria com o portal Carta Maior a coletânea Bala perdida: a violência policial no Brasil e os desafios para sua superação, quarto volume da coleção Tinta Vermelha. Ao longo de 16 artigos, a obra incita o debate público...
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