Purdue University Press: 164 books
by Lauren Rule Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels-Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's...
Knowing Subjects
Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary study-cognitive cultural studies-to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition and social identity in Spain at the time. Simerka analyzes works by Cervantes and Gracían, as well...
by Sheng-mei Ma
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude....
Toma y Daca
Transculturación Y Presencia de Escritores Chino-Latinoamericanos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In the mid-1800s, tens of thousands of Chinese workers migrated to Cuba, Peru, Mexico, and Panama in search of a better life. As they and their descendants assimilated into their new host countries, they contributed significantly to the economies of these countries through their work in agriculture,...
A Fish in the Moonlight
Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. Storyteller Sidney Homan tells tales of growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 50s accounts of Bruzzy the Bully;of John Crapp, the television salesman;of Leslie Doober and his rotten banana;of drunken Uncle Eddie, and of the Queen of the mushrooms....
Composing the Party Line
Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The majority of professors have never had a formal course in education, and the most common method for learning how to teach is on-the-job training. This represents a challenge for disciplines with ever more complex subject matter, and a lost opportunity when new active learning approaches to education...
by James P. Wilper
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools...
Come, Let Me Guide You
A Life Shared with a Guide Dog
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, a book about facing life's challenges...
Research Data Management
Practical Strategies for Information Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
It has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly endeavor, and maximize the return on investment of public funds. To meet this challenge, colleges and...
Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements (VMSAR)
2016 Edition for 2017 Matriculation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Fully up-to-date and packed with useful tips and helpful insights, this publication provides a comprehensive overview of the admission process for the national and international veterinary schools that are members of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). As the official...
Saving Lives in Auschwitz
The Prisoners' Hospital in Buna-Monowitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek-newly graduated from medical school in Krakow-was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1942. German big businesses brutally exploited the cheap labor of prisoners in...
Demolition: Practices, Technology, and Management
Practices, Technology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
As the built environment ages, demolition has become a rapidly growing industry offering major employment opportunities. During the 1990s the number of contractors grew by nearly 60 percent and there are now over 800 US companies focused on demolition, as well as many more offering this service as...