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Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal,
and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth
century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand
(1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the
civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging
Louisiana's law segregating railroad cars, Tourgee published more
than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as
nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the
first collection focused on Tourgee's literary work and intends to
establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction
about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide
historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to
work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested
in the rights of African Americans, Tourgee was committed to
developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black
perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do
justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he
wanted to tell about a multiracial America. The seventeen essays in
this volume are grouped around three large topics: race,
citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface,
Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an
overview of his career. This collection changes the way that we
view Tourgee by highlighting his contributions as a writer and
editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring
the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements,
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the
Literary Work of Albion Tourgee reveals a new Tourgee for our
moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of
Reconstruction.
A Child's Introduction to the Orchestra is a fun and exciting
musical journey. With cheery narrator Orchestra Bob as their guide,
kids are encouraged to listen, learn, and enjoy as they are
introduced to the most powerful works from the greatest composers
throughout history. He tells wacky stories about deaf composers and
quirky musicians, and explores the inspirations behind monumental
pieces. Kids will also learn about each instrument of the orchestra
from the cello to the timpani, as well as different musical styles
from Baroque to Modern. Each step of the way, children can listen
to musical examples of what they are learning about by downloading
audio tracks from an exclusive website. Young readers will hear the
sound of an actual violin as they study the instrument and enjoy
the playful tune of a Mozart minuet as they read about the
composer's precocious exploits as a child. Also included is a
removable a poster of instruments and their location in the
orchestra. Illustrated in exquisite and colorful detail with over
100 original drawings and photographs, this is the perfect
introduction to the magical world of classical music.
This volume consists of personal narrative accounts of the career
journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists.
Each contributing psychologist is an esteemed scholar, an excellent
writer, and has a story to tell. Together, the contributions cover
a time range from Morton Deutsch to today, and touch upon virtually
every important movement and person in the history of academic
social psychology. This book provides a fascinating insight into
the development of outstanding academic careers and will be a
source of inspiration to seasoned researchers and beginning
students alike, in the fields of social psychology, history of
psychology, and beyond.
Who are we? Where is the boundary between us and everything else?
Are we all multiple personalities? And how can we control who we
become? From distinguished psychologist Robert Levine comes this
provocative and entertaining scientific exploration of the most
personal and important of all landscapes: the physical and
psychological entity we call our self. Using a combination of case
studies and cutting-edge research in psychology, biology,
neuroscience, virtual reality and many other fields, Levine
challenges cherished beliefs about the unity and stability of the
self - but also suggests that we are more capable of change than we
know. Transformation, Levine shows, is the human condition at
virtually every level. Physically, our cells are unrecognizable
from one moment to the next. Cognitively, our self-perceptions are
equally changeable: A single glitch can make us lose track of a
body part or our entire body, or to confuse our very self with that
of another person. Psychologically, we switch back and forth like
quicksilver between incongruent, sometimes adversarial sub-selves.
Socially, we appear to be little more than an ever-changing troupe
of actors. And, culturally, the boundaries of the self vary wildly
around the world - from the confines of one's body to an entire
village. The self, in short, is a fiction: vague, arbitrary, and
utterly intangible. But it is also interminably fluid. And this
unleashes a world of potential. Engaging, informative, and
ultimately liberating, Stranger in the Mirror will change forever
how you think about your self - and what you might become.
Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal,
and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth
century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand
(1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the
civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging
Louisiana's law segregating railroad cars, Tourgee published more
than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as
nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the
first collection focused on Tourgee's literary work and intends to
establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction
about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide
historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to
work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested
in the rights of African Americans, Tourgee was committed to
developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black
perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do
justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he
wanted to tell about a multiracial America. The seventeen essays in
this volume are grouped around three large topics: race,
citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface,
Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an
overview of his career. This collection changes the way that we
view Tourgee by highlighting his contributions as a writer and
editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring
the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements,
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the
Literary Work of Albion Tourgee reveals a new Tourgee for our
moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of
Reconstruction.
Who are we? Where is the boundary between us and everything else?
Are we all multiple personalities? And how can we control who we
become? From distinguished psychologist Robert Levine comes this
provocative and entertaining scientific exploration of the most
personal and important of all landscapes: the physical and
psychological entity we call our self. Using a combination of case
studies and cutting-edge research in psychology, biology,
neuroscience, virtual reality and many other fields, Levine
challenges cherished beliefs about the unity and stability of the
self - but also suggests that we are more capable of change than we
know. Transformation, Levine shows, is the human condition at
virtually every level. Physically, our cells are unrecognizable
from one moment to the next. Cognitively, our self-perceptions are
equally changeable: A single glitch can make us lose track of a
body part or our entire body, or to confuse our very self with that
of another person. Psychologically, we switch back and forth like
quicksilver between incongruent, sometimes adversarial sub-selves.
Socially, we appear to be little more than an ever-changing troupe
of actors. And, culturally, the boundaries of the self vary wildly
around the world - from the confines of one's body to an entire
village. The self, in short, is a fiction: vague, arbitrary, and
utterly intangible. But it is also interminably fluid. And this
unleashes a world of potential. Engaging, informative, and
ultimately liberating, Stranger in the Mirror will change forever
how you think about your self - and what you might become.
First English translation of important text of the First Crusade.
Guibert of Nogent's account of the First Crusade is an important
but difficult chronicle which will be welcomed in this first
English translation. It is a valuable addition to Boydell &
Brewer's repertoire of crusading material,and is an interesting
text because it represents an attempt to produce a critical history
from the eyewitness sources - the Deeds of the Franks and Fulker of
Chartres' History of the Expedition to Jerusalem: in theprocess it
reveals considerable detail on Western attitudes to the First
Crusade, and, through Guibert's own bias, on medieval mentalites in
general. In this translation, Professor Levine has rendered the
difficult and idiosyncratic Latin prose and verse into idiomatic
English prose, while preserving as far as possible the
constructions favoured by Guibert. In addition, he provides a brief
introduction containing biographical and bibliographical
information, as well as a summary of the translation. Professor
ROBERT LEVINE teaches in the Department of English, Boston
University.
In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist
Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that
we take for granted--our perception of time. When we travel to a
different country, or even a different city in the United States,
we assume that a certain amount of cultural adjustment will be
required, whether it's getting used to new food or negotiating a
foreign language, adapting to a different standard of living or
another currency. In fact, what contributes most to our sense of
disorientation is having to adapt to another culture's sense of
time.Levine, who has devoted his career to studying time and the
pace of life, takes us on an enchanting tour of time through the
ages and around the world. As he recounts his unique experiences
with humor and deep insight, we travel with him to Brazil, where to
be three hours late is perfectly acceptable, and to Japan, where he
finds a sense of the long-term that is unheard of in the West. We
visit communities in the United States and find that population
size affects the pace of life--and even the pace of walking. We
travel back in time to ancient Greece to examine early clocks and
sundials, then move forward through the centuries to the beginnings
of "clock time" during the Industrial Revolution. We learn that
there are places in the world today where people still live
according to "nature time," the rhythm of the sun and the seasons,
and "event time," the structuring of time around happenings(when
you want to make a late appointment in Burundi, you say, "I'll see
you when the cows come in").Levine raises some fascinating
questions. How do we use our time? Are we being ruled by the clock?
What is this doing toour cities? To our relationships? To our own
bodies and psyches? Are there decisions we have made without
conscious choice? Alternative tempos we might prefer? Perhaps,
Levine argues, our goal should be to try to live in a
"multitemporal" society, one in which we learn to move back and
forth among nature time, event time, and clock time. In other
words, each of us must chart our own geography of time. If we can
do that, we will have achieved temporal prosperity.
As the book's title implies, the poems in Robert Levine's Mystical
Symphony explore sensing, losing, and recovering subtle, intangible
connections in the world around us. Their speakers wrestle with
their place in and relationship with love, family, nature, current
events, faith--and, most of all, themselves. Sometimes Levine
embodies this theme in the formal harmony of rhyme and meter, in
other instances in the looser cadences of free verse. He can
consider these ""mystical"" connections in fittingly hermetic
style, but also adopts a more straightforward--yet nonetheless
lyrical--voice elsewhere in the collection. Mystical Symphony
offers no tricks or formulae for eliciting or sustaining these
connections; they remain elusive, evanescent flashes of
serendipitous grace. But it concludes with the comfort that, thanks
to the memory of experiencing them, ""nothing can take their
blessing from me/even after they fly away in my heart.""
Topline, Bottom Line opens by stressing the importance of good
writing to business in the Information Age. Part One devotes a
chapter each to grammar, spelling, punctuation, accuracy of word
choice, the impact of word choice on writing's tone or style,
structuring sentences and paragraphs, organizing documents, and the
composition process. Part Two presents strategies for the most
common types of business writing: resumes and cover letters, other
correspondence, company newsletter articles, descriptive writing
like instructions and job descriptions, expository writing such as
project reports and employee reviews, and persuasive writing like
proposals. The conclusion asserts that words convey information as
definitively as numbers, requiring an equal level of precision in
their use; it also counsels that writing is an art, not a science,
because only the unique circumstances of each writing situation
determine what works best for that situation.
We often feel compelled to adopt different personae for the
different environments or obligations life and society place us
in--to dissociate the various roles we play and sunder the
integrity of the self. Robert Levine have given expression to this
theme in Minutes From A One-Man Meeting. The speaker of the title
poem at the book's center witnesses the same event in the voices of
his different selves: bystander, employee, consumer, citizen,
neighbor, son, husband, father, and creature, attaining greater
self-unification and connection to the world outside himself as the
poem progresses. Reflecting the self-knowledge necessary for this
process, the collection begins with a section of poems focusing on
their speakers' relationships with lovers, family, nature, God, and
themselves; reflecting the duty of the unified self to act in the
world at large, the title poem is followed by a section of poems
addressing political and social issues like the Iraq war, the
recession, and environmental degradation.
"This unique, well-documented social history invites the reader to
explore Cuban Jewry as a fascinating chronicle and to 'capture the
flavor of their lives.' This is made possible by Levine's ability
to write a text composed of carefully collated data, excellent
illustrations, and oral testimonies. Levine's book contributes to
an understanding of Cuban Jewry's unique setting -- starting from
colonial times, through its second American diaspora following the
1959 communist revolution. ... Levine traces several stages of
Jewish immigration to Cuba, starting with American businessmen
rapidly integrated ... in some cases, into the Cuban upper class;
Sephardic emigrants from Turkey, who were more socially accepted by
Creole and other ethnic groups; ... and thousands of East European
Jews arriving after 1924, who perceived the island as a kind of
'immigration hotel' on their way to America. ... Levine devotes two
fascinating chapters to Jewish refugees escaping to Cuba before and
during World War II. The tragic journey of 973 refugees carried by
the St. Louis, whose landing permit had been retroactively denied
by the Cuban government, is told by Levine through both dramatic
oral testimonies and archival documentation." --Florida Historical
Quarterly
"Clotel;" or "The""President's Daughter" (1853), the first
published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a
canonical text for courses in African American as well as
nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was
inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas
Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of "Clotel"
is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and
cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when
he wrote his novel. The streamlined second edition includes an
updated introduction that incorporates the explosion of scholarship
on the novel over the past decade, when proof of the relationship
between Jefferson and Hemings emerged. In addition to their
attention to this relationship, the cultural documents focus more
directly on the texts about slavery and race that Brown drew on,
and on Brown's own controversial approach to writing and revising
"Clotel."
A musical practice used for centuries the world over,
improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss
it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious.
At different times and in different cultures, performing music that
is not "precomposed" has constituted an artful expression of the
performer's individuality (the Baroque); a wild, unthinking form of
expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train
inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East).
This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical
improvisation from a variety of approaches, including
ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and
music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into
improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as
diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of
improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the
development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.
A musical practice used for centuries the world over,
improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss
it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious.
At different times and in different cultures, performing music that
is not "precomposed" has constituted an artful expression of the
performer's individuality (the Baroque); a wild, unthinking form of
expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train
inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East).
This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical
improvisation from a variety of approaches, including
ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and
music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into
improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as
diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of
improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the
development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.
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In the Spring of 1997, a remarkable group of social psychologists
came together at Yosemite National Park to reflect upon the field
which they have been so instrumental in creating. This edited
collection brings together the reflections of the nine scholars who
spoke at the Yosemite conference that day and marks the 100th
anniversary of Tripplet's seminal study of bicycle racers--an
experiment which has often been cited as the beginning of modern
experimental social psychology. The contributors: Elliot Aronson,
Leonard Berkowitz, Morton Deutsch, Harold Gerard, Harold Kelley,
Albert Pepitone, Bertram Raven, Robert Zajonc, and Philip Zimbardo
have not only observed the development of this burgeoning
discipline, collectively, they have played an essential role in
crafting its young legacy.The book begins with personal histories
of the researchers. Being that these personal histories are, in
fact, closely connected to the most significant people,
laboratories and conceptual trends of the field, these
reminiscences are much more than simply histories of the course of
particular individuals' lives; they are at the same time histories
of the discipline itself. Subsequent chapters turn to the field's
historical roots: its origins, course of theories, methods, and
approaches. But all chapters share a common theme: an examination
of the ways that the lives and experiences of social psychology's
most prominent living scholars have helped to shape the history of
the field itself.
This is the second volume in the Vancouver studies in Cognitive
Science series, and also the second in a series of conferences
hosted by the Cognitive Science Programme at Simon Fraser
University devoted to the exploration of issues in cognition and
the nature of mental representation. The volumes overall theme is
the relationship between the contents of grammatical formalisms and
their real-time realizations in machine or biological systems. The
range of topics includes issues of learnability, implementary and
computational issues, parameter setting, and neurolinguistic
issues. The core subdisciplines of linguistics - syntax, semantics,
morphology, and phonology - are all represented. The contributions
are on the leading edge of research in these fields.
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