Joshua: 1696 books
by Joshua M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson’s term for the utter isolation of slavery,...
Ukrainian Cinema
Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that film-makers working at the...
Musical Portraits
The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Joshua S. Walden's Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which...
Goth
Undead Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Since it first emerged from Britain’s punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined...
The Jim Dilemma
Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its portrayal of Jim, the runaway slave. Opponents disrupt classes and carry picket signs, objecting with strong emotion that Jim is no fit model for African-American youth...
by Joshua Kotin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular—and thus exclusive and inimitable.
Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers—Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B....
Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana
The 1934 Lomax Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song,...
The Triumph of the Ordinary
Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent? In the first major study in English of East German film, Joshua Feinstein argues that the answer to this question is decidedly complex.
Drawing on newly opened archives as well as interviews with East German directors, actors,...
Safe House
How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Parenting isn't rocket science, it's just brain surgery.
And Dr. Joshua Straub has good news for you: You can do it!
You don’t need to do all the “right” things as a parent. Both science and the Bible show us that the most important thing we can provide for our kids is a place of emotional...
(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar
Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk...
by Joshua Fields
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
If the Sun Loved the Moon is Joshuas second book of poetry. In it he describes the love and admiration for people close to him. Joshua is originally from Chicago and now resides in the Bay Area in Northern California. He began writing at the age of 40 and this is his 5th published work. He has also...
Gelato Fiasco
Recipes and Stories from America's Best Gelato Makers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Joshua Davis and Bruno Tropeano, two guys right out of college, felt that something was amiss. People in Maine created some of the best of everything in the world — higher education, ships, television doctors, winter boots. But the gelato of which they dreamt could not be found here in Maine, or...
by Joshua Trotter
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows. Trotter's poems-which could be the bastard love-children of Stevens and Frost-refract,...
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Who Decides What Is Morally Right and Wrong?
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
What is morally right and wrong differs from one individual to the next. From the big issues of abortion and sexual expression to the life choices of integrity, these differing opinions exist throughout human culture. Who is right and who is wrong? Is mankind fit to decide what is good and evilor...