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  • - New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany
     
    531

    By the spring of 1947, less than two years after Nazi Germany's defeat, some 250,000 Jewish refugees remained in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Italy, and Austria. This title collects research on displaced persons (DPs) in Europe in the period after World War II and before the establishment of Israel.

  • av Vorris L. Nunley
    391

  • - The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke
    av William Mulligan
    371

    Chauncey Cooke enlisted in the Union army in 1862 at only sixteen, after lying about his age. His letters to family members paint a realistic and compelling picture of daily life in the Civil War. He also describes the boredom of camp, the chaos of battle, and the suffering caused by illness.

  • av Loraine Campbell
    241

  • - A Wartime Courtship in Letters, 1941-45
     
    437

    Robert E Quirk and his future wife Marianne, were Wayne State University students when they met and fell in love in 1941, but they were quickly parted when Quirk was drafted. Here, decades after their marriage and the end of the war, Quirk shares the letters they exchanged during World War II, that reveals personal glimpses of life in the 1940s.

  • av Jaimey Fisher
    771

  • av Karen Chase
    351

    For more than a decade, Karen Chase taught poetry writing to severely incapacitated patients at a large psychiatric hospital outside of New York City. During that time, she began working with Ben, a handsome, formerly popular and athletic young man who had given up speaking and had withdrawn from social interaction. Meeting on the locked ward every week for two years, Chase and Ben passed a pad of paper back and forth, taking turns writing one line of poetry each, ultimately producing 180 poems that responded to, diverged from, and built on each other's words. Land of Stone is Chase's account of writing with Ben, an experience that was deeply transformative for both poet and patient. In Chase's engrossing narrative, readers will find inspiration in the power of writing to change and heal, as well as a compelling firsthand look at the relationship between poet and patient. As she tells of Ben's struggle to come out of silence, Chase also recounts the issues in her own life that she confronts by writing with Ben, including her mother's recent death and a childhood struggle with polio. Also, since poetry writing seems to reach Ben in a way that his clinical therapy cannot, Chase describes and analyzes Ben's writing in detail to investigate the changes that appeared to be taking place in him as their work progressed. A separate section presents twenty-two poems that Chase wrote with Ben, selected to show his linguistic development over time, and a final section offers Chase's thoughtful reflections on the creative process. Land of Stone will provide honest and valuable insight to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, alternative therapists, and other mental health practitioners, and will also surely be of interest to creative writers, teachers, linguists, and anyone looking to explore the connections between language and healing.

  • - Space, Place, and Identity in Films About the Land
     
    481

    Demonstrates the viability of rural cinema as a benchmark of national identity by bringing into critical focus the space the rural occupies, both on cinema screens and in the national imagination. This work attempts to formulate a template for rural cinema, set forth its salient characteristics and provide a guideline for discussion and analysis.

  • - The History of Detroit Television Journalism
    av Tim Kiska
    407

    As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's broadcast conglomerates, local television news has grown from a curiosity into a powerful journalistic and cultural force. This title explores the development of local television news and the economic and social factors that elevated it to prominence.

  • - Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung
    av Eric Downing
    851

    Explores the intersections of photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effect on conceptions of the subject and his formation or Bildung in the literature and theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title examines works from Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.

  • - A Detroit Family Memoir
    av Neal Shine
    407

    Combines a memoir of the late Neal Shine's family life in prewar Detroit with a biography of his mother, Mae, whose vibrant spirit and fierce affection left an indelible mark on her three sons and their friends and neighbors.

  • - The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
    av John Barnard
    501

    The struggles and victories of the UAW form an important episode in the story of American democracy and economics. This work presents the history of the union for both general and academic audiences. It not only records the controversial issues tackled by the UAW, but also offers details about the workers and their environments.

  • - The Culture of Contemporary American Children's Poetry
    av Joseph T. Thomas
    407

    Explores the ""playground"" of children's poetry within the world of contemporary adult poetic discourse. This work considers children's poetry published in the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward, a time when many established adult poets began writing for young audiences.

  • av Geoffrey Jacques
    317

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    481

    At a meeting at Herzog August Library in Germany, scholars presented their work on transnational aspects of ""Arabian Nights"". This text collects their papers, whose topics range from history of ""Nights"" manuscripts, to positioning ""Nights"" in modern and postmodern discourse, to international reception of ""Nights"" in written and oral tradition.

  • av Anne-Marie Oomen
    347

  • - Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis
    av David Roberts
    561

    Part biography and part corporate history, this work investigates the life and career of Gordon M McGregor, who founded and led Ford of Canada during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It intertwines McGregor's corporate, civic, and personal lives to trace his pioneering role in the automobile industry.

  • av Robin Wood
    421

  • av Richard Block
    807

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    481

    The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of ""Oriental"" provenance. This is a guide to the research inspired by this intricate work. Through a selection of 16 essays, it encompasses various research topics, from the ""Nights'"" early history to interpretations of such characters as Sheherazade.

  • - A James Boggs reader
     
    531

    Collects a diverse sampling of pieces by James Boggs, spanning the entire length of his career from the 1950s to the early 1990s. It documents Boggs' personal trajectory of political engagement and offers a unique perspective on radical social movements and the African American struggle for civil rights in the post-World War II years.

  • - Gender, Genre, and National Cinema
     
    481

    Immediately following the Korean War, South Korea's film industry flourished with local production of high-quality films. This text addresses the appeal of particular film modes and aesthetics, especially melodrama. It examines genre in relation to articulation of nation and constructions of gender.

  • av Meghan Sutherland
    371

  • - Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times
    av Frank
    757

  • av Anna Egan Smucker
    271

  • av Anne-Marie Oomen
    361

  • av Walter Metz
    371

    A study of the sitcom Bewitched that examines its entire run to discover the show's numerous interlocking themes, tensions, and innovations.

  • av Amy Maria Kenyon
    407

  • - An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
     
    547

    This autobiography traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University.

  • - An Ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish Women
    av Ruth Tsoffar
    421

    Considers how Egyptian Kariates of the San Francisco Bay Area define themselves, within both California culture and Judaism, in terms of the Bible and its bearing on their bodies. This work is useful for students of women's studies, anthropology, minority cultural production, and scholars of religion and Judaism.

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