Publication date: 1984
Review Fifty-five years of struggle & success: How to make money & the problem of the high school dropout / Kwik Kopy Printers]:
Creator: Michelle Dubois
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 759.13
List Price: $150.00
Price: $99.99
Review Complete Jacob Lawrence / University of Washington Press:This two-volume set, including "Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence" and "Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne", is the definitive publication on the work of artist Jacob Lawrence. The result of six years of research by the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonne Project, led by Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, the books identify, authenticate, and document over 900 paintings, drawings, and murals created by Jacob Lawrence between 1935 and 1999 - over half of them discovered by the project. "Over the Line" includes essays by eight distinguished art historians considering the ways in which Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences and examining for the first time the breadth and depth of his output. Intimate in scale and bold in content, Lawrence's candid portrayals of life in Harlem during the Depression and his epic multi-panel series painted in the late 1930s and early 1940s are the cornerstones of his aesthetic production. His paintings, drawings, and murals depict both critical moments in history and poignant struggles of everyday life. The subject matter ranges from unforgiving portrayals of racial injustice to compassionate scenes of family life, from unnerving images of nuclear annihilation to visual celebrations of such heroic individuals as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. His use of the series format and his attention to pressing social issues accord him a unique position in the history of American modernism. Born in 1917, Jacob Lawrence spent his childhood in New York City, attending classes at the Harlem Community Art Center and the American Artists School, and later working for the Federal Art Project. While still in his twenties Lawrence exhibited his paintings at major museums across the country, including the Phillips Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he became the first African American artist to have work represented in the permanent collection. [+]He lived, painted, and taught in New York City until 1971, when he joined the faculty of the University of Washington. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Medal of Arts. The contributors to "Over the Line" include Lizzetta LaFalle Collins; Patricia Hills, Boston University; Elizabeth Hutton-Turner, the Phillips Collection; Paul Karlstrom, West Coast Archives of American Art; Leslie King-Hammond, Maryland Institute; Richard Powell, Duke University; Lowery Stokes Sims, Studio Museum in Harlem; and Elizabeth Steele, the Phillips Collection. The Complete Jacob Lawrence, a large, two-volume set on the late African American artist who died in June 2000, is so thoughtfully conceived that in addition to admiration, a reader feels gratitude for it. Over the Line, a book of biographical and critical essays, and its companion, a catalogue raisonné, are exactly what Lawrence deserves. A successful artist both in and out of the mainstream throughout most of the 20th century, he was also handily pigeonholed. A social realist, a modernist, and a storyteller, he was described as "self-taught," "primitive," "jazz-age," "narrative," and, above all, "African American. " But the eight richly detailed essays in Over the Line show his complex work-in which the threads of abstraction and narrative are tightly woven-in all its magnitude. The books possess unusual authority, as all of the writers knew Lawrence to some extent, and Lawrence's wife, the artist Gwendolyn Knight, was instrumental in the project's fruition. When Lawrence was a professor of painting, a graduate teaching assistant complained to him that her students resisted her instructions. His response was, "Tell them they're absolutely right. And then tell them to do it your way. " This confidence in the validity of different points of view allowed him to express everything he knew about the hardships of African American life while remaining open and interested in everything the world had to offer. His last great series, "The Builders," is a moving metaphor for harmony, showing carpenters of all skin shades working together with hammers, nails, saws, and other tools to construct-what? A better life? A better country? A better world? Lawrence's point was never so reductive. It was enough that they were working side by side. As a Washington Post critic once wrote, "An aura of affection, goodwill and respect, both given and received, shines around the man, and like armor around his art. " -Peggy Moorman.
Creator: Martin Brady
Edition: Tra
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 430.9043
Price: $115.00
Review The Language of the Third Reich : Lti - Lingua Tertii Imperii : A Philologist's Notebook / Athlone Press:A Jewish professor of Roman studies, Victor Klemperer lived throughout the Nazi period in conditions of great deprivation and, intermittently, of deadly peril. This text is a linguistic diary kept secretly by Klemperer from 1933-45 in which he recorded the characteristic literary forms and usages of the Nazi regime and analysed the impact of Nazism of German language, life and culture.
Creator: Avery Brooks
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10
Dewey code: 929.2
List Price: $99.99
Price: $99.99
Review Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Library Edition / Playaway:
Edition: 35
Publication date: 2006-06-09
Dewey code: 011
List Price: $104.00
Price: $99.99
Review International African Bibliography 2005 / K.G. Saur Verlag:
Publication date: 1973
Review The suburban bitch / Tiller Pub:
Authors
- Jack Bohemia
- William McGregor
Dewey code: 363.2092
Price: $35.50
Review Nyibayarri: Kimberly Tracker / Aboriginal Studies Pr:
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 941.061092
Price: $79.95
Review James VI and I (Profiles in Power Series) / Addison Wesley Publishing Company:
Publication date: 1992-10
Dewey code: 940.531503924
Price: $11.05
Review In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 / Demco Media:A biography of a Jewish heroine whose resistance work during World War II made her a martyr and an inspiration to those with whom she worked.
Publication date: 2000-07-01
Review Bbiography of Lin Huiying and Liang Sicheng ('Lin hui yin yu liang si cheng', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English) / Shi Bao:
Authors
- Beatrice Irene Gilman Proske
Review Castilian sculpture, Gothic to Renaissance (Hispanic notes & monographs; essays, studies, and brief biographies. Peninsular series) / [Hispanic Society of America]:
Creator: Roger Daniels
Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 940.53089956073
Price: $55.00
Review The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl R. Bendetsen, Perry H. Saito, and the Incerceration of Japanese Americans During World War II / University of Utah Press:
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 940.5318094384
Price: $24.95
Review Maybe You Will Survive: A True Story / Unites States Holocaust:
Publication date: 1991-09
Price: $24.95
Review Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition / Catholic University of America Press:Thomas MacGeevy (1893-1967), translator, literary and art critic, and Director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950-1963, is less frequently remembered as a poet. MacGeevy saw one volume of his poetry in print, a slim blue book entitled "Poems". Published in 1934, this collection represented the work from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s, when MacGeevy was discovering his poetic voice. By 1941, he wrote little verse and rarely adverted his earlier collection. Thus it was not unil after his death that poets in Ireland began to discover his work. MacGeevy was one of the few poets of the post-war period whose deeply felt Catholicism and sense of Irishness were combined with an awareness of being part of a greater European literary and artistic heritage. This enabled him to forge native and continental resonances into a distinctly modern sensibility. MacGeevy's verse was praised by many of the greatest writers of his day, including Richard Aldington, Samuel Beckett, Brian Coffey, Denis Delvin, Babette Deutschig, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and W. [+]B. Yeats. Susan Schreibman has produced this authoritative and critical edition of the poems of Thomas MacGeevy. She also explores the background of MacGeevy's verse in a critical introduction which sets his life, themes and techniques against a background of Irish history and European modernism. Annotation at the end of the volume provides insight into MacGeevy's far-ranging allusions and literary echoes, making this volume a valuable guide to scholar and lover of poetry alike.
Publication date: 1998-01-26
Price: $10.00
Review Federman's Travels / Shengold Books:In the early thirties, ten young Jewish men mounted their bicycles and left Poland, hoping to reach the Promised Land. They rode through Europe. Federman, who survived the experience, tells this incredible story of youthful adventure and discovery of Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust.
Publication date: 2002-02-09
Dewey code: 947.043092
List Price: $119.95
Price: $99.99
Review The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History) / Palgrave Macmillan:Ivan IV, the 16th-century tsar notorious for his reign of terror, became an unlikely national hero in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. This book traces the development of Ivan's positive image, placing it in the context of Stalin's campaign for patriotism. In addition to historians' images of Ivan, the author examines literary and artistic representations, including Sergei Eisenstein's famous film Ivan the Terrible, banned for its depiction of the tsar which was interpreted as an allegorical criticism of Stalin.
Publication date: 2005-01-30
Dewey code: 320.546092
List Price: $109.95
Price: $100.00
Review Malcolm X And African American Self-consciousness (Black Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:This book argues that Malcolm X told African Americans to affirm their blooming sense of self and to assert themselves in their own uniqueness. However, he realized that the first route to African American affirmation of self was to awaken black self-consciousness and he therefore called for black wide-awakeness. The book concludes that "Malcolm X'scall for a psychological return to Africa through a process of historical reconstruction was aimed at overthrowing the enslavement of African American thought and thereby setting African Americans on the path to freedom and human dignity. ".
Publication date: 1998-10-30
Dewey code: 323.17309048
List Price: $119.95
Price: $119.95
Review The Reagan Presidency and the Politics of Race: In Pursuit of Colorblind Justice and Limited Government / Praeger Publishers:Laham analyzes perhaps the most politically controversial element of Reagan's conservative agenda, involving his attempt to curtail federal enforcement of civil rights laws. The book focuses on the major initiatives Reagan pursued in his attempt to curb enforcement of those laws: first, his efforts to reform affirmative action by prohibiting mandatory employer use of minority and white female hiring goals, and second, his veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Reagan's academic critics argue that the president was politically motivated in his efforts to curtail federal enforcement of civil rights laws by his desire to appeal for the support of working-class whites, many of whom harbor racial resentments against minorities. Reagan's historical reputation suffers from his attempt to curb enforcement of those laws, which has fostered charges by his critics that he was cynical and manipulative, though outwardly pleasant and likable; a president who shamelessley played the race card for his own political gain. Laham challenges the conventional notion that Reagan was an ardent practitioner of the politics of racial division. Rather, he argues that Reagan's civil rights policy was determined by his philosophical commitment to colorblind justice and limited government, two core principles of his conservative agenda. This is a controversial survey important to students and scholars of contemporary American politics, public policy, and race relations.
Creator: Sam Hamill
Edition: 1st. Ed
Publication date: 1999-03-30
Dewey code: 895.6132
Price: $25.00
Review The Essential Basho / Shambhala: Here is the most complete single-volume collection of writings by one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Includes a masterful translation of Basho's most celebrated work, Narrow Road to the Interior, along with three less well-known works and over 250 of Basho's finest haiku. The translator has included an overview of Basho's life and an essay on the art of haiku.
Edition: Facsimile
Publication date: 1928-06
Dewey code: 796.62092
Price: $43.95
Review Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds (Black Heritage Library Collection) / Ayer Co Pub:
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Fifty-five years of struggle & success: How to make money & the problem of the high school dropout, Complete Jacob Lawrence, The Language of the Third Reich : Lti - Lingua Tertii Imperii : A Philologist's Notebook, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Library Edition, International African Bibliography 2005, The suburban bitch, Nyibayarri: Kimberly Tracker, James VI and I (Profiles in Power Series), In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944, Bbiography of Lin Huiying and Liang Sicheng ('Lin hui yin yu liang si cheng', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English), Castilian sculpture, Gothic to Renaissance (Hispanic notes & monographs; essays, studies, and brief biographies. Peninsular series), The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl R. Bendetsen, Perry H. Saito, and the Incerceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, Maybe You Will Survive: A True Story, Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition, Federman's Travels, The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History), Malcolm X And African American Self-consciousness (Black Studies), The Reagan Presidency and the Politics of Race: In Pursuit of Colorblind Justice and Limited Government, The Essential Basho, Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds (Black Heritage Library Collection)Top headlines: Whale songs drowned out by humans: The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said Wednesday. ›22:39 3 Dec, Wed VW Jetta TDI named 'Green Car of the Year': Green Car Journal has named Volkswagen's 2009 Jetta TDI as the "Green Car of the Year," making it the first clean-diesel car to win the award. ›21:04 20 Nov, Thu Ansen on Lars and the Real Girl: Its not smutty, its not snide, its not creepybut what is it? ›16:02 12 Oct, Fri Book Excerpt: Vegetable Dishes I Cant Live Without: A book excerpt by Mollie Katzen. ›21:49 6 Oct, Sat DeGeneres thanks Pitt for fighting Prop 8: While Brad Pitts $100,000 donation to defeat California's Prop 8 may not have been enough to sway the vote, it certainly endeared him to opponents of the measure, including Ellen DeGeneres. ›20:29 3 Dec, Wed The 'Dog Whisperer' Wins Another Convert: A few minutes with Cesar MillanTVs Dog Whispererwas all it took to win back a skeptic. ›18:28 10 Oct, Wed Will Knicks Scandal Affect Cablevision?: Jimmy Dolan's sports empire is a humiliation. 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