Floating Bones charts the author's journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one's body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the means that constructed approaching the body as a teacher. This study presents the argument for extending the models of thinking to include bodily thinking, by citing how the experiential perspective of tensegrity constructs physical evidence of the rhetorical concept, metis, where the body thinks as it moves. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of dance, theater, and sociology.

Floating Bones charts the author's journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one's body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the means that constructed approaching the body as a teacher. This study presents the argument for extending the models of thinking to include bodily thinking, by citing how the experiential perspective of tensegrity constructs physical evidence of the rhetorical concept, metis, where the body thinks as it moves. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of dance, theater, and sociology.

"Who are Carlotta J. Thompkins, Lottie Deno, Miss Kitty, Laura Denbo, Faro Nell, and Charlotte Thurmond? For answers to these and other questions, read Cynthia Rose's account of the life of Lottie Deno.... Recommended for anyone that is interested in reading a complete history of a western gambler from cradle to grave". (Review of the West)

"Rose paints an intriguing picture of Western heroine Lottie Deno.... Readers will gain insight into the devastation caused by the Civil War and also into the wild but opportunity-filled West". (School Library Journal)

The true story of the woman who has been "immortalized" in frontier novels and more recently in television and film (as "Miss Kitty" in "Gunsmoke" and "Laura Denbo" in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral). Santa Fe writer Cynthia Rose presents verbatim accounts by people who knew Lottie Deno and rare period photographs documenting her life and times.

"Who are Carlotta J. Thompkins, Lottie Deno, Miss Kitty, Laura Denbo, Faro Nell, and Charlotte Thurmond? For answers to these and other questions, read Cynthia Rose's account of the life of Lottie Deno.... Recommended for anyone that is interested in reading a complete history of a western gambler from cradle to grave". (Review of the West)

"Rose paints an intriguing picture of Western heroine Lottie Deno.... Readers will gain insight into the devastation caused by the Civil War and also into the wild but opportunity-filled West". (School Library Journal)

The true story of the woman who has been "immortalized" in frontier novels and more recently in television and film (as "Miss Kitty" in "Gunsmoke" and "Laura Denbo" in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral). Santa Fe writer Cynthia Rose presents verbatim accounts by people who knew Lottie Deno and rare period photographs documenting her life and times.

A family history and memoir that includes the author's discovery of a unknown sister, her search for links to her long dead great-grandmother Rose and a deepening of the understanding of her grandparents through their daily correspondence during World War II. Dr. Morrie Lipton served overseas as a Flight Surgeon in the Army Air Corps and Mildred Lipton remained stateside with their young sons. Their letters tell a love story and are the center of the history of a 20th Century American family.

Rhetorical Moves presents ground-breaking research theorizing for the first time the dancer as a rhetor and in the process documents a new way to conceive of embodiment. Research is centered in the embodied experience of the dancer whose voice in the action of performance is reclaimed. By transplanting the framework of a rhetorical situation onto a dance performance, Dr. Cynthia Roses-Thema analyzes how the dancer utilizes interoceptive, exteroceptive, and proprioceptive bodily perception networks to create onstage movement. The result has important implications for dance professionals. If you are a dancer, this book gives you new insight into how you negotiate the many variables of embodiment during performance. If you are a dance teacher, this study provides you with information on the dynamics of dancer perception and attentional flow during the course of performance that will inform your pedagogical practices. If you are a dance researcher, Dr. Roses-Thema has opened a new field of inquiry into dance studies ripe with research possibilities. Rhetorical Moves demonstrates the depth and breadth the dancer experiences onstage and is a must read for all dance enthusiasts.

The United States in the 1980s saw several firsts: for women, the media, medicine, and science. Sandra Day OConnor became the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Sally Ride became the first woman in space. CNN was established as the first 24-hour news station. AIDS was identified for the first time, and DNA was first used to convict criminals. The science community faced a stunning setback, however, with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which had among its crew the first teacher to go into space. President Ronald Reagans administration became mired for a time in the Iran-Contra affair, which involved a plan to provide arms to rebels in Nicaragua and free Americans held hostage by terrorists. Terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, and the U.S. Army introduced its slogan Be All You Can Be. The following documents are just a sampling of the offerings available in this volume: Excerpt from The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros Memorandum on air traffic controllers strike List of terms from Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know Illustrations from The Official Preppy Handbook Transcript from Challengers operational recorder Be All That You Can Be, recruiting advertisement for the U.S. Army Oral history of AIDS doctors An interview with Hill Street Blues creator Stephen Bochco In Memory of Her

The "Roaring Twenties" was a roaring decade indeed. The passage of the Volstead Act prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol and spawned a black market network of smuggling and speakeasies. Gangsters like Al Capone captured the public's imagination. Fashionable, fun-loving women wore short skirts and even shorter hair. They, and a growing number of the public, danced to jazz music, and the popular Cotton Club in Chicago was open to both African Americans and whites. Business was booming in many industries and, for the first time, people were buying on credit. Speculation in the stock market was at an all-time high as a "get rich quick" mentality took hold, but the artificially inflated bubble burst on October 24, 1929. The stock market crash closed out the 1920s with a bang.

The following documents are just a sampling of the offerings available in this volume:

• New York Dada first and only issue of Dadaist magazine by Man Ray
• Maidenform Brassiere Patent drawings and documentation, text facsimile
• Alfred E. Smith's speech on Religious Bigotry
• Reports and memos by J. Edgar Hoover, both as a special agent and Justice Department Attorney, on the activities of black nationalist Marcus Garvey
• "The Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame football: article by Grantland Rice and photograph of the players
• "Far From Well," book review by author and poet Dorothy Parker
• "Plan-Isometric and Elevation of a Minimum Dymaxion home and patent applicat by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Handbook for Guardians of Camp Fire Girls, 1924
• "Open Letter to the Pullman Company," by A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping CarPorters
• Journal entry of May 5, 1926, by Robert Goddard documenting the launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket
• Daily Worker editorial cartoons covering the trial, sentencing, and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
• Photograph of American Indian Chiefs Frank Seelatse and Jimmy Noah Saluskin
• The Care and Feeding of Children, a guidebook for new parents

The United States of the 1940s marked the beginnings of significant social and political change. Men were shipped off to fight in World War II, and women entered the workforce in larger numbers than ever before to "hold down the homefront," earning a taste of what it meant to be independent. African Americans fought beside their white counterparts in the war and returned home unwilling to accept the inequality under which they'd lived for so long. The United States ushered in the nuclear age with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also solidified its role as an international leader by helping to rebuild Europe and Japan under the Marshall Plan. The Soviet Union --once an ally -- became a feared enemy, and Americans looked for communists in their midst while the U.S. government shifted its policies from world war to Cold War. But while the government prepared to fight the communists, the public enjoyed the offerings of the first supermarkets.

The following documents are just a sampling of the offerings available in this volume:

• The Life of John Brown, No. 17, painting by Jacob Lawrence
• Linus Pauling's research notebooks
• Photographs of supermarkets in the 1940s
• World War II editorial cartoons by Dr. Seuss
• "Richard Wright's Blues," review of Wright's novel, Black Boy, by Ralph Ellison
• Farewell to Manzanar and "A Teacher at Topaz" memoirs of teachers in Japanese-American internment camps
• Text facsimile of "Greenlight" letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1942
• Interviews with Holocaust Survivors
• Photographs of Eames Chairs by Ray and Charles Eames
• Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
• World War II ration stamp booklets issued by the U.S. government
• The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Dr. Benjamin Spock

The 1900s began a century of advancement, invention, and progress in the United States. The automobile was just beginning to make what would become an indelible mark on the U.S. economy and way of life, and the Wright brothers made their first air flight. From federal regulations of the food industry to the advent of the first cartoon, the United States saw a wide spectrum of events and issues during the first decade of the twentieth century. The following documents are just a sampling of the offerings available in this volume:

• Diary entry of December 17, 1903, by Orville Wright
• "The Man with the Muck Rake, speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt, April 15, 1906
• Fundamentals of Basketball, handbook written by James Naismith, creator of the game
• "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," an article by Mark Twain
• Ford Price List of Parts for Models "N," "R," "S" and "S" Roadster, manual written for Ford car dealers
• Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the "Gibson Girl"
• "Lynch Law in America," an article by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, founding member of the NAACP
• Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp from Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first American Indian woman physician
• "The Little Schoolboy," from The New McGuffey Second Reader
• "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces," one of the first cartoons
• Lecture by philosopher William James, "The Varieties of Religious Experience"
• "The Memphis Blues," by W.C. Handy
• Speech on "The Road Problem," by William Jennings Bryan