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University Press of New England
Make Mine a Double
Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (Or Not)
Biography - Writers / Essays / Humor
Bottoms up! This landmark celebration of women and drink chips away at traditional images of gender, one ice-cube at a time.
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Barreca, Gina, ed. |
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Flying Dog Stories & University Press of New England
The Lighthouse Santa
Children's Fiction / Children's ages 4-8
The Lighthouse Santa drops presents to all of us who live alone at the edge of the ocean. From Owl’s Head Light in Maine to our Great Point Light on Nantucket, we wait for the sound of his plane. He has never missed a Christmas…at least, not yet
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Hunter, Sara Hoagland, and Julia Miner, illus. |
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University Press of New England
Improbable Patriot
The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
American History
The outrageous true story of the French plot to supply arms and ammunition to Washington’s Continental Army, and the bold French spy, inventor, playwright, and rogue behind it all
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Unger, Harlow Giles |
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University Press of New England
An Uncommon Man
The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell
Biography / Politics
The only biography of Claiborne Pell, the six-term senator from Rhode Island best known as the sponsor of the educational Pell Grants
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Miller, G. Wayne |
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University Press of New England
Republic of Words
The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857–1925
American History / Literature
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Atlantic Monthly became the conscience of the American public and the biggest platform of the nation’s flourishing literature
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Goodman, Susan |
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Northeastern University Press
Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line
Dispatches from a Black Journalista
Sociology / African-American Studies
This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America
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Kaplan, Erin Aubry and Michael Eric Dyson, fwd. |
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University Press of New England
Robert Kipniss
A Working Artist’s Life
Art / Biography
A successful working artist relates his passion for life and art
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Kipniss, Robert |
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University Press of New England
Art Schooled
A Year among Prodigies, Rebels, and Visionaries at a World-Class Art College
Art
One year in the life of the students, teachers, and artists at one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious art colleges
January 2012 |
Witham, Larry |
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Northeastern University Press
Cruel and Unusual
The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment
Constitutional Law / Capital Punishment
This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders’ views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalty based on the notion of cruel and unusual punishment
January 2012 |
Bessler, John D. |
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Northeastern University Press
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Musicals
Theater & Performing Arts / Musicals
An endlessly entertaining and informative look at how musicals have both reflected and adapted to America’s changing mores
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Miller, Scott |
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Northeastern University Press
The Farthest Place
The Music of John Luther Adams
Composer’s/Musician’s Music / Contemporary Music
The first critical anthology of an important and singular contemporary composer
January 2012 |
Herzogenrath, Bernd, ed. |
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University Press of New England
Babes in Boyland
A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League
Memoir / Women's Studies / Humor
A humorous and provocative account of being a female undergraduate at Dartmouth College in its turbulent first years of co-education
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Barreca, Gina |
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University Press of New England
The Book of Forms
A Handbook of Poetics, Including Odd and Invented Forms, Revised and Expanded Edition
Revised & expanded ed.
Reference & Bibliography / Poetry
The well-known companion to The Book of Literary Terms and The Book of Dialogue, this indispensable bible of poetics now includes a wealth of “odd and invented” verse forms
December 2011 |
Turco, Lewis Putnam |
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Brandeis University Press
The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema
Film, TV, Visual Culture / Jewish Studies
The first global investigation of Jewish experiences in film from a wide spectrum of disciplines
December 2011 |
Baron, Lawrence |
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Brandeis University Press
The Men’s Section
Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World
Jewish Studies / Sociology
A provocative look at the inner world of Orthodox Jewish men who attend partnership synagogues
November 2011 |
Sztokman, Elana Maryles |
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University of New Hampshire Press
Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion
Literary Criticism / Fashion
The origins of the modern fashion industry as seen through the works of Edith Wharton
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Joslin, Katherine |
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Dartmouth College Press
The Maltese Touch of Evil
Film Noir and Potential Criticism
Film, TV, Visual Culture
Part thinking-man’s fan crush, part crazily inspired remix of the most beloved of film genres, this book will force scholars and film lovers alike to view film noir afresh
December 2011 |
Clute, Shannon Scott and Richard L. Edwards |
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Dartmouth College Press
The Educated Eye
Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences
Film, TV, Visual Culture
A study of visual culture in the teaching of the life sciences
January 2012 |
Anderson, Nancy and Michael R. Dietrich, eds. |
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Dartmouth College Press
Stardust Monuments
The Saving and Selling of Hollywood
Film, TV, Visual Culture / Popular Culture
A historical analysis of the celebration and packaging of Hollywood
January 2012 |
Trope, Alison |
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University of New Hampshire Press
The Cultured Canvas
New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting
Art History
A state-of-the-field collection opening new vistas in the study of nineteenth-century American landscapes
November 2011 |
Siegel, Nancy, ed. |
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University of New Hampshire Press
Thinking America
New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Identity
Literary Criticism / New England / Cultural Studies / American Studies
A penetrating literary and philosophical examination of major figures in the development of American intellectual culture, from Emerson to Santayana
October 2011 (new in paper) |
Taylor, Andrew |
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University of New Hampshire Press
Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets
Sex and Race in Peyton Place
Literary Criticism / New England
The first full-length scholarly study of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious’s classic story of New England indiscretion
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Hirsh-Dickinson, Sally |
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Brandeis University Press
Jews and Race
Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880–1940
Philosophy / Jewish Studies
An anthology of writings by Jewish thinkers on Jews as a race
December 2011 |
Hart, Mitchell B., ed. |
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Brandeis University Press
Moses Mendelssohn
Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
Philosophy / Jewish Studies
An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy
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Gottlieb, Michah, ed. |
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Brandeis University Press
The New Jewish Leaders
Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape
Jewish Studies / Leadership Education
A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life
December 2011 |
Wertheimer, Jack, ed. |
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Brandeis University Press
California Jews
Jewish Studies
The first full-length presentation of Jewish life, history, and culture in California from the Gold Rush to the twenty-first century
December 2011 (new in paper) |
Kahn, Ava F. and Marc Dollinger, eds. |
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Brandeis University Press
Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America
Jewish Studies
An anthology that explores religious and social revival in American Judaism in the 19th century
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Fishbane, Eitan P. and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds. |
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Brandeis University Press
Israel, Jordan, and Palestine
The Two-State Imperative
Middle East Studies / Politics
An astute assessment of the relationship between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians, with scenarios for the future of Palestinian statehood
December 2011 |
Susser, Asher |
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Brandeis University Press
The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel
A Challenge to Collectivism
Israeli Studies
A provocative history of Israeli society in the 1950s that demonstrates how a voluntarist collectivism gave way to an individualist ethos
December 2011 |
Rozin, Orit |
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University Press of New England
The Weir Family, 1820–1920
Expanding the Traditions of American Art
Art History / American Art
The first major study to examine the artistic output of Robert Walter Weir and his two sons, John Ferguson Weir and Julian Alden Weir
October 2011 |
Wardle, Marian, ed. |
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Hood Museum of Art & University Press of New England
Native American Art at Dartmouth
Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art
American Art / Collection Catalog
Fourth in a series of publications presenting the Hood’s extensive and varied collections
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Horse Capture, George P., Joe Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, Colin G. Calloway, and Karen S. Miller |
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Monet’s Water Lilies
An Artist’s Obsession
Art / Modern Art
An overview of Monet’s late obsession with the water lily subject
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Zafran, Eric M. , James H. Rubin and Susan L. Talbott, fwd. |
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New Britain Museum of American Art
The Tides of Provincetown
Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest Continuous Art Colony, 1899–2011
American Art
A scholarly exploration of Provincetown’s development over the twentieth century and its contribution to the history of American art, particularly American Impressionism, Modernism, and Abstract Expressionism
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Noelle, Alexander J., James R. Bakker, Stephen Borkowski, Robert Bridges, Josephine C. Del Deo, Deborah Forman, Julie Heller, Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Douglas K. S. Hyland, Christine M. McCarthy, and Whitney Smith |
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Chipstone Foundation
Ceramics in America 2011
Ceramics / Decorative Arts & Material Culture
A diverse range of essays, new discoveries and book reviews on the latest research of interest to ceramics scholars
January 2012 |
Hunter, Robert |
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Castleton State College
Philip Hoff
How Red Turned Blue in the Green Mountain State
Vermont / History
This is the story of one of the most exciting and important periods in Vermont history, and of the man most responsible for shaping it
December 2011 |
Hand, Samuel B., Anthony Marro, and Stephen C. Terry |
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Chaucer Press Books
A Killer of Lions
A Novel Based on the Heroic Deeds of the Tuskegee Airmen
Fiction & Literature
An inspiring story based on true events about a young man from Harlem who overcomes racial prejudice to become one of America’s first black fighter pilots and helps defeat the Nazis
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Weisleder, Stan |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Facts and Fictions of António Lobo Antunes
Fiction & Literature
A collection of provocative and insightful essays by leading scholars on Portugal’s foremost living novelist, António Lobo Antunes
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Mendes, Victor K., ed. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Garrett’s Travels Revisited
Literary Criticism / Literary Criticism - Spanish & Portuguese
An interdisciplinary collection of essays re-examining the most celebrated work of Portuguese Romanticism, Travels in My Homeland (1846), by Almeida Garrett
January 2012 |
Mendes, Victor K., and Valéria M. Souza, eds. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States
Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections
Anthropology / Ethnic Studies / American History
An intriguing comparison of identity formation among Portuguese immigrants from the Azores Islands and their descendants in Brazil and the U.S.
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Leal, João, and Wendy Graca, trans. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Move Over, Scopes
and Other Writings
Fiction & Literature / Fiction/ Portuguese Ame Fictio
Richly-textured narratives of Portuguese-American life, mixing culture politics with arch playfulness.
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Silva, Julian |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
The Correspondence of Fradique Mendes
A Novel
Fiction Classics
A bright, witty excursion through the fictional letters of a turn-of-century dandy who hilariously edifies, entertains, infuriates, and endears
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Eça de Queirós, José Maria de |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
The Undiscovered Island
Mystery / Fiction & Literature
Winner of the 2010 IPPY Independent Publisher's Award for Multicultural Fiction Adult
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Kastin, Darrell |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Tony
A New England Boyhood
Fiction & Literature
A riveting autobiographical novel about Tony Alfama's boyhood adventures growing up in the industrial city of Gaw (New Bedford)
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Felix, Charles Reis |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Community, Culture and The Makings of Identity
Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard
Immigration / Sociology / Anthropology
Offers insight into the histories, cultures, and social dynamics of Portuguese and other Lusophone and Luso-African of the northeastern seaboard of the U.S.
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Holton, Kimberly DaCosta and Andrea Klimt, eds. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
So Ends This Day
The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765–1927
Discrimination & Race / Economics & Business / Whaling
Fascinating history of the American whaling industry highlighting the role of its Portuguese participants.
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Warrin, Donald |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Post-Imperial Camões
Literary Criticism - Spanish & Portuguese / Portugal / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
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Figueiredo, João Ricardo, ed. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Remembering Angola
African Studies / Africa / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Leading scholars from around the world reflect on the role Angolan culture has played in reformulating the torn fabric of a nation historically beset by strife and oppression
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Rothwell, Phillip, ed. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Chaos and Splendor & Other Essays
World History / Literary Criticism - Spanish & Portuguese / Portugal
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Lourenço, Eduardo and Carlos Veloso, ed. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Sonnets and Other Poems
Bilingual Portuguese-English ed.
Poetry
The first bilingual edition in English to offer a cross-section of lyric poetry by Portugal's Luís de Camões
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de Camões, Luís, and Richard Zenith, trans. |
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Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
The Traveling Eye
Retrospection, Vision, and Prophecy in the Portuguese Renaissance
Literary Criticism - Spanish & Portuguese
A literary scholar and philosopher looks at the philosophical hypothesis concerning evidence in Portuguese Renaissance literary works
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Gil, Fernando, Helder Macedo, and Luís de Sousa Rebelo |
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Academia Press Scientific Publishers
TICKLE YOUR CATASTROPHE!
Imagining Catastrophe in Art, Architecture and Philosophy
Philosophy
A collection of essays that takes stock of the current impact of the image and imagination of the catastrophe in art, science and philosophy
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Le Roy, Frederik, Nele Wynants, Dominiek Hoens, and Robrecht Vanderbeeken |
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International Polar Institute
Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut
Volume 2: Way of Life
Arctic Studies
A unique opportunity to hear the authentic voices of a world in change
September 2011 |
Gordon, Alec |
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Four Way Books
Breaking and Entering
A Novel
Fiction & Literature
“America is a lot more countries than she thought it was. And even within those countries, there are other, smaller countries…”
January 2012 |
Pollack, Eileen |
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Four Way Books
Black Blossoms
Poetry
“What is / misery now that the last spring / you will ever know has already been forgotten?”
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González, Rigoberto |
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Four Way Books
Bad Daughter
Poetry
“It is true when a girl sinks, her hair spreads like a flower / across water”
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Gorham, Sarah |
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Four Way Books
Train Dance
Poetry
“I could / Carry myself like a tune / Into the chorus of the city.”
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Wells, Jonathan |
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Wesleyan University Press
Night’s Dancer
The Life of Janet Collins
Biography / Dance / African-American Studies
The biography of the first African-American prima ballerina
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Lewin, Yaël Tamar and Janet Collins |
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Wesleyan University Press
Making the News, Taking the News
From NBC to the Ford White House
Memoir / Politics
Veteran reporter and Washington insider reflects on personal experiences and public events in the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s
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Nessen, Ron |
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Wesleyan University Press
The Actor Within
Intimate Conversations with Great Actors
Theater & Performing Arts
Intimate portraits of some of the most beloved actors in America
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Eichenbaum, Rose, and Aron Hirt-Manheimer, ed. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Paul on Mazursky
Film, TV, Visual Culture
Conversations with one of America’s funniest filmmakers
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Wasson, Sam and Mel Brooks, fwd. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Silence
Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
Music / Literary Criticism / Art
Special edition of the book that revolutionized our understanding of how we make and experience art
October 2011 |
Cage, John and Kyle Gann, fwd. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Soul Talk, Song Language
Conversations with Joy Harjo
Essays / Poetry / Native American Studies
Intimate and illuminating conversations with one of America’s foremost Native artists
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Harjo, Joy and Tanaya Winder, Laura Coltelli |
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Wesleyan University Press
Threshold Songs
Poetry
A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying
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Gizzi, Peter |
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Wesleyan University Press
Three Science Fiction Novellas
From Prehistory to the End of Mankind
Science Fiction / Literary Criticism - French
Three ground-breaking works from a master of modern science fiction
January 2012 |
Rosny aîné, J.-H., Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser, trans. & anntd. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Listening and Longing
Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum
Music / American History - 19th Century
An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America
December 2011 |
Cavicchi, Daniel |
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Wesleyan University Press
Post Roads & Iron Horses
Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
Connecticut / History
The fascinating history of turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys in Connecticut
December 2011 |
DeLuca, Richard |
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Wesleyan University Press
Food for the Dead
On the Trail of New England’s Vampires
New England History / Folklore
Startling true stories behind New England’s vampire legends—back in print with a new preface by the author
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Bell, Michael E. |
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Wesleyan University Press
On the Outskirts of Form
Practicing Cultural Poetics
Poetry Criticism / Cultural Studies
Essays on modern and contemporary poetry from a cultural studies perspective
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Davidson, Michael |
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Wesleyan University Press
Apples from Shinar
Poetry
A special centenary edition of this American poet’s critically acclaimed collection
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Plutzik, Hyam with David Scott Kastan, afterword. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Zong!
Poetry / African Studies
A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry
August 2011 (new in paper) |
Philip, M. NourbeSe, as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng |
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Wesleyan University Press
Practical Water
Poetry
The latest volume in Hillman’s acclaimed meditations on the elements
August 2011 (new in paper) |
Hillman, Brenda |
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Wesleyan University Press
Gervase Wheeler
A British Architect in America, 1847–1860
Architecture / American History - 19th Century
The American career of an influential English architect
January 2012 |
Tribert, Renée and James F. O’Gorman |
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Florence Griswold Museum
With Needle and Brush
Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley, 1740–1840
American Art / Connecticut / Women's Studies
First book to explore schoolgirl needlework of the Connecticut River Valley
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Huber, Carol and Stephen, Susan P. Schoelwer, and Amy Kurtz Lansing |
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Cavankerry Press
Neighborhood Register
Poems
Poetry
A debut collection that sifts the Midwest’s dwindling industrial cities, along with the lively avenues of Manhattan, for the crucial music engrained in everyday domains and the people who embody them.
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Jackson, Marcus |
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Cavankerry Press
My Painted Warriors
Poetry
Poems about love, death and orgasms after 60, Penn probes the character of enduring love and the frailty of human life
October 2011 |
Penn, Peggy |
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Saturnalia Books
Ladies & Gentlemen
Poetry
Like a circus barker at the dawn of the apocalypse, award winning poet Michael Robins brings his special brand of gallows humor to new collection.
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Robins, Michael |
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Saturnalia Books
Xing
Poetry
Debora Kuan explores cultural, psychological, and physical crossings in her debut collection
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Kuan, Debora |
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Sheep Meadow Press
A Company of Ghosts
Poems
Poetry
Brilliant new poems that capture, at once, terror and paradise as subtle music
October 2011 |
Middleton, Christopher |
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Sheep Meadow Press
Between Soul and Stone
Poems
Poetry
A breathtaking new volume from a poet who wrestles with the diabolical complexity of the human heart
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Berdeshevsky, Margo |
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Sheep Meadow Press
Lie Nearest Truth
Poetry
A brave and beautiful debut from a poet who navigates the haunted world of remembered feeling
November 2011 |
Garritty, Sean |
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Sheep Meadow Press
Jazz Talmud
Poetry
Jazz and Talmud meet in this brilliant, melodic, vibrantly colored first collection
November 2011 |
Marmer, Jake |
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Sheep Meadow Press
Narrows
Poetry
History and deep feeling converge in this luminous debut
November 2011 |
Bloch, Benjamin |
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Nightboat Books
movable TYYPE
Poetry
The first new collection by this innovative poet in seven years
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Fraser, Kathleen |
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Nightboat Books
Sea and Fog
Poetry / Comparative Literature / Middle East Studies
Two striking lyric essays from master poet and philosopher Etel Adnan
October 2011 |
Adnan, Etel |
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Nightboat Books
Music for Porn
Poetry
A bracing lyrical exploration of the ethical limits of our militarized and eroticized landscape
November 2011 |
Halpern, Rob |
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