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Edgar Allan Poe mastered a variety of literary forms over the
course of his brief and turbulent career. As a storyteller, Poe
defied convention by creating Gothic tales of mystery, horror and
suspense that remain widely popular today. This collection
demonstrates how Poe's experience of early nineteenth-century
American life fueled his iconoclasm and shaped his literary legacy.
Rather than provide critical explications of his writings, each
essay explores one aspect of Poe's immediate environment, using
pertinent writings - verse, fiction, reviews and essays - to suit.
Examining his geographical, social and literary contexts, as well
as those created by the publishing industry and advances in science
and technology, the essays paint an unprecedented portrait of Poe's
life and times. Written for a wide audience, the collection will
offer scholars and students of American literature, historians and
general readers new insight into Poe's rich and complex work.
Loosely inspired by true events, Bound by Memphis, by Jennifer J.
Hayes, is the steamy, sultry romantic story of Jasmine Henderson, a
successful public relations consultant who has everything she's
wanted in life... Well, just about everything. Fourteen years ago,
while planning her wedding to Melvin Brown, better known as MB, she
was left at the altar with no explanations. Although she assumed
she'd never move on, she ended up meeting and marrying the love of
her life, Chauncey M. Henderson, and having a child, years later.
It's when Jasmine's latest work venture places her in the city that
holds memories to her past, Memphis, MB resurfaces when he learns
she's back in town. Although Jasmine loves her husband, her son,
and her life, she can't deny the passion and chemistry that she
once shared with MB. Briefly away from her family and home in
Dallas, Jasmine is left alone to deal with these emotions and
unresolved questions of MB. She goes looking for answers to why he
walked away. When forced to confront painful memories she awakens
something she thought died long ago. In this novel, Jasmine
discovers herself as she explores the depths of her former love
versus her current life, and learns "Love doesn't change, people
change." Bound by Memphis takes you on an insightful journey of
love, joy, and pain, and gives a deeper meaning to why sometimes
"you have to lose happiness to find it again."
With rising financial difficulties and declining enrollments, many
colleges and universities are finding that they need new and better
ways to present and promote themselves to potential students and
the general public. New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing
contains practical, "how-to" applications of marketing thought and
theory for the higher education environment. Written by
practitioners for practitioners, this valuable book offers new
viewpoints, tools, and creative ways to solve potentially
devastating problems through the implementation of marketing. Each
chapter is application oriented and cases and situations common to
most universities and colleges are discussed to illustrate
marketing strategies and techniques to make them more easily
understood and readily usable.New Strategies in Higher Education
Marketing is divided into four sections: Strategy Research and
Promotion Enrollment Services Development. It includes informative
chapters on topics including perceptions and proper application of
marketing in higher education; fund raising; public relations;
coordination of intra-organizational efforts; techniques and
methods of gathering information and data; and the challenge and
management of student enrollment. Directors, presidents,
vice-presidents, and others responsible for or interested in the
marketing of a college or university will find a wealth of highly
practical information in this book.
These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer
studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative
literature, strengthening the interdisciplinarity of both. By
focusing not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating
our assumptions and categories of analysis, "Comparatively Queer"
powerfully transforms the paradigms of comparison.
With rising financial difficulties and declining enrollments, many
colleges and universities are finding that they need new and better
ways to present and promote themselves to potential students and
the general public. New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing
contains practical, "how-to" applications of marketing thought and
theory for the higher education environment. Written by
practitioners for practitioners, this valuable book offers new
viewpoints, tools, and creative ways to solve potentially
devastating problems through the implementation of marketing. Each
chapter is application oriented and cases and situations common to
most universities and colleges are discussed to illustrate
marketing strategies and techniques to make them more easily
understood and readily usable.New Strategies in Higher Education
Marketing is divided into four sections: Strategy Research and
Promotion Enrollment Services Development. It includes informative
chapters on topics including perceptions and proper application of
marketing in higher education; fund raising; public relations;
coordination of intra-organizational efforts; techniques and
methods of gathering information and data; and the challenge and
management of student enrollment. Directors, presidents,
vice-presidents, and others responsible for or interested in the
marketing of a college or university will find a wealth of highly
practical information in this book.
Cluster Randomised Trials, Second Edition discusses the design,
conduct, and analysis of trials that randomise groups of
individuals to different treatments. It explores the advantages of
cluster randomisation, with special attention given to evaluating
the effects of interventions against infectious diseases. Avoiding
unnecessary mathematical detail, the book covers basic concepts
underlying the use of cluster randomisation, such as direct,
indirect, and total effects. In the time since the publication of
the first edition, the use of cluster randomised trials (CRTs) has
increased substantially, which is reflected in the updates to this
edition. There are greatly expanded sections on randomisation,
sample size estimation, and alternative designs, including new
material on stepped wedge designs. There is a new section on
handling ordinal outcome data, and an appendix with descriptions
and/or generating code of the example data sets. Although the book
mainly focuses on medical and public health applications, it shows
that the rigorous evidence of intervention effects provided by CRTs
has the potential to inform public policy in a wide range of other
areas. The book encourages readers to apply the methods to their
own trials, reproduce the analyses presented, and explore
alternative approaches.
A History of Virginia Literature chronicles a story that has been
more than four hundred years in the making. It looks at the
development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of
Jamestown in 1607 to the twenty-first century. Divided into four
main parts, this History examines the literature of colonial
Virginia, Jeffersonian Virginia, Civil War Virginia, and modern
Virginia. Individual chapters survey such literary genres as
diaries, histories, letters, novels, poetry, political writings,
promotion literature, science fiction, and slave narratives.
Leading scholars also devote special attention to several major
authors, including William Byrd of Westover, Thomas Jefferson,
Ellen Glasgow, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Styron. This book is of
pivotal importance to the development of American literature and of
American studies more generally.
Miracles give hope to the hopeless and exemplify the intersection
of the divine and the mundane. They have shaped world history and
continue to influence us through their presence in films,
television, novels, and popular culture. This encyclopedia provides
a unique resource on the philosophical, historical, religious, and
cross-cultural conceptions of miracles that cut across
denominational lines. Multidisciplinary in approach, this
informative yet entertaining encyclopedia covers major aspects of
miraculous phenomena through more than 150 alphabetically arranged
entries that document how humanity's belief in religious miracles
over multiple places, periods, and faiths have affected
society-even changed the course of history. Written for high school
students and general readers, the coverage enables readers to learn
about different civilizations and cultures, the controversies
surrounding different beliefs, and the often uncomfortable
engagement of religion with science. This single-volume book
provides a one-stop ready-reference that addresses a broad variety
of subject matter on miraculous phenomena and guides further
investigations into the subject. Helpful illustrations and lucid
explanations of the ancillary concepts associated with miraculous
phenomena make learning about this topic more engaging. Readers
will be able to link the doctrinal concepts, such as "grace" or
"prayer," with the descriptions of miraculous events, especially
those associated with saints or holy objects. The examination of
the controversial aspects of different belief systems along with
the book's balanced coverage of the interpretation of miracles will
encourage students to weigh different explanations, thus fostering
the development of their critical thinking skills. Provides the
most authoritative exposition of miracles across history currently
available in English-a highly useful resource for inquirers on
miraculous phenomenon Goes far beyond discussions of specific
miracle stories to explore their provenance, cultic aspects,
philosophical underpinnings, and psychological roots Covers some of
the major aspects of miraculous phenomena through entries drawn
from the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and the hard
sciences, particularly physics and natural biology Presents
accounts of miracles with a range of expert interpretations of
those events, thereby supporting the Common Core State Standards
for History and English Language Arts, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.3
Supplies more than a dozen primary documents-each introduced by a
headnote-that give students historic accounts of miracles and
related texts for in-depth analysis
Endocrine Board Review (EBR) 2022 Reference Edition is a self-study
resource with 240 case-based, American Board of Internal Medicine
(ABIM) style, multiple-choice questions in endocrinology, diabetes,
and metabolism. Updated annually. Customers are advised that this
book is a reference edition and the questions in it are designed
for self-study and reference. The content is the same as the
non-reference edition, but CME and MOC credits are not available
upon completion of the material. Anyone with questions about CME
and/or MOC credits should consult www.endocrine.org/store for
further information.
A vital collection of interdisciplinary essays that illuminates the
significance of Marian shrines and promises to teach scholars how
to “read” them for decades to come. American Patroness: Marian
Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism is a collection of twelve
essays that examine the historical and contemporary roles of Marian
shrines in US Catholicism. The essays in this collection use
historical, ethnographic, and comparative methods to explore how
Catholics have used Marian devotion to make an imprint on the
physical and religious landscape of the United States. Using the
dynamic malleability of Marian shrines as a starting place for
studying US Catholicism, each chapter reconsiders the American
religious landscape from the perspective of a single shrine to Mary
and asks: What does this shrine reveal about US Catholicism and
about American religion? Each of the contributors in American
Patroness examines why and how Marian shrines persist in the
twenty-first century and subsequently uses that examination to
re-read contemporary US Catholicism. Because shrines are not
neutral spaces—they reflect and shape the elastic yet strict
boundaries of what counts as Catholic identity, and who controls
prayer practices—the studies in this collection also shed light
on the contested dynamics of these holy sites. American Patroness
demonstrates that Marian shrines continue to be places where an
American Catholic identity is continuously worked on, negotiations
about power occur, and Marian relationships are fostered and
nurtured in spaces that are simultaneously public and intimate.
Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough
gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James's work ever
assembled. Other volumes in the American Critical Archives series
have concentrated on reviews from American publications, but
because of the importance of James's British connection, this issue
generously samples reviews from British newspapers and periodicals.
The focus here is on the novels, but reviews of James's most
important travel narrative are included as well. The volume ends
with reviews of The American Scene, James's impressionistic
narrative of his relationship with his birthplace. This collection
also reprints many rarely seen notices written by the most
important women reviewers of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Each chapter ends with a checklist of
additional reviews not presented here. The introduction surveys the
major themes of the reviews and also shows the extent to which they
personally influenced James and his work.
In Poe and the Printed Word Kevin Hayes reappraises the work of Edgar Allan Poe in the context of nineteenth-century print culture. Hayes examines how publishing opportunities of the time shaped Poe's development as a writer and explores the different methods of publication he employed as a showcase for his verse, criticism and fiction. Beginning with Poe's early exposure to the printed word, and ending with the ambitious magazine and book projects of his final years, this study is part biography, part literary history and part history of the book.
Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was
actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing
social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction,
prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a
journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social,
political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America.
Recent scholarship has linked Poe's imaginative writings to the
historical realities of nineteenth-century America, including to
science and technology, wars and politics, the cult of death and
bereavement, and, most controversially, to slavery and stereotyped
attitudes toward women. Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism presents
a systematic approach to topical criticism of Poe, revealing a new
portrait of Poe as an author who blended topics of intellectual and
social importance and returned repeatedly to these ideas in
different works and using different aesthetic strategies during his
brief but highly productive career. Twelve essays point readers
toward new ways of considering Poe's themes, techniques, and
aesthetic preoccupations by looking at Poe in the context of
landscapes, domestic interiors, slavery, prosody, Eastern cultures,
optical sciences, Gothicism, and literary competitions, clubs, and
reviewing.
First published by Derrydale in 1934, this third volume of short
stories by Gordon Grand includes the marvelous comic story,
Everything Is Alright, Sonny . Featuring Colonel Weatherford and
his Millbeck hounds, the warm and humorous stories are ideal for
fireside reading for young and old. Illustrations by W. J. Hayes
with a color frontispiece.
During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the
US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination
and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957
Ghanaian independence celebration, the optimism and challenges of
African independence leaders were publicized to African Americans
through community-based newspapers and Historically Black Colleges
and Universities. Inspired by African independence—and frustrated
with the slow pace of civil rights reforms in the US—a new
generation of Black Power activists embarked on nonviolent direct
action campaigns and built alternative institutions designed as
spaces of freedom from racial subjugation. Featuring interviews
with activists, extensive archival research, and media analysis,
Robin Hayes reveals how Black Power and African independence
activists created a diaspora underground, characterized by
collaboration and reciprocal empowerment. Together, they redefined
racial discrimination as an international human rights issue
requiring education, sustained collective action, and global
solidarity—laying the groundwork for future transnational racial
justice movements, such as Black Lives Matter.
Details Lawrence's reception of Melville and reveals his
underacknowledged role in the Melville Revival, while contributing
to the history of the book and the study of the creative process.
How Lawrence Read Melville is a highly focused account of D. H.
Lawrence's discovery and reception of Herman Melville, from when he
first read Moby-Dick as a young man to his final references to
Melville in his late works. It shows Lawrence's initial reaction to
Moby-Dick; how it led him to other works by Melville, namely Typee
and Omoo; and how Melville affected Lawrence's critical and
creative writing and shaped his philosophy. This book is a study of
the creative process that shows how one great writer inspired
another, but it also makes a major contribution to the history of
the book and two of its subfields: the history of reading, and
reception studies. By his death in 1891, Melville had been
forgotten except by a small circle of English enthusiasts. That
group put Lawrence onto Melville, whereupon he became a - until now
largely unacknowledged - leader of the Melville Revival that
rescued the great writer from obscurity. This Swiss army knife of a
book will appeal to scholars and booklovers alike.
Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best.
Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest
film of the 1980s, the greatest boxing film ever made, the greatest
sports film ever made, and, indeed, one of the greatest films of
all time. Raging Bull: A Cambridge Film Handbook presents the
fullest critical appreciation of Scorsese's film available. The
introduction tells the story of how the film came about, examining
its inspirations and positioning Raging Bull within the history of
cinema. Subsequent chapters, each written by contributors from
different disciplines - film studies, literary history, theater
history - discuss the film from a variety of perspectives. Though
primarily directed toward undergraduate and graduate film courses,
this collection should enhance appreciation of Raging Bull for all
readers. Contributors to this volume have been issued a challenge:
to write chapters that contain fundamental information for
students, to include new information and ideas for seasoned film
scholars, and to write in a jargon-free style that all readers can
appreciate.
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The doctrine of hell is one of the most difficult and unsavory
theological topics. In Four Views on Hell, leading biblical
scholars meet this subject head-on, discussing the four primary
views on what the Scriptures say about divine punishment. Is hell
to be understood literally as a place of eternal smoke and flames?
Or are such images simply metaphors for a real but different form
of punishment? Is there such a thing as "conditional immortality,"
in which God annihilates the souls of the wicked rather than
punishing them endlessly? Is there a Purgatory, and if so, how does
it fit into the scope of biblical interpretation? Here, scholars
who affirm an inspired Bible, relevant and authoritative for every
era, present models they consider most faithful to Scripture:
Literal - defended by John F. Walvoord Metaphorical - defended by
William Crockett Conditional - defended by Clark Pinnock
Purgatorial - defended by Zachary Hayes Each view in turn is
presented, respectfully critiqued by the others, and defended. This
evenhanded approach is ideal for comparing views in order to form a
personal conclusion about one of Christianity's toughest doctrines.
The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of
scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both
fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a
one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different
positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.
Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough
gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James's work ever
assembled. Other volumes in the American Critical Archives series
have concentrated on reviews from American publications, but
because of the importance of James's British connection, this issue
generously samples reviews from British newspapers and periodicals.
The focus here is on the novels, but reviews of James's most
important travel narrative are included as well. The volume ends
with reviews of The American Scene, James's impressionistic
narrative of his relationship with his birthplace. This collection
also reprints many rarely seen notices written by the most
important women reviewers of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Each chapter ends with a checklist of
additional reviews not presented here. The introduction surveys the
major themes of the reviews and also shows the extent to which they
personally influenced James and his work.
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