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University Of Akron Symphonic Band Chamber Winds (Nov 6, 2006), Robert D. Jorgensen
University Of Akron Symphonic Band Chamber Winds (Nov 6, 2006), Robert D. Jorgensen
Selected Programs of Robert D. Jorgensen
Mr. Jorgensen conducting Symphonic Band Chamber Winds with Charles Guy, tuba soloist.
Behind The Veil An American Woman's Memoir Of The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Debra Johanyak
Behind The Veil An American Woman's Memoir Of The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Debra Johanyak
University of Akron Press Publications
In Behind the Veil, Debra Johanyak weaves the personal with the historical in fascinating detail. Through her own story, a Midwestern woman married to an Iranian man and living in Iran during the hostage crisis, Johanyak provides the reader with sharp insights into similarities as well as differences between the two cultures. The memoir offers a thoughtful perspective on cultural chasms and the bridges we could build to conquer them. —Nahid Rachlin, author of Persian Girls, a memoir, and Jumping Over Fire, a novel
Debra Johanyak, a young American wife with an Iranian husband, gives a moving …
University Of Akron Symphonic Band (Oct 8, 2006), Robert D. Jorgensen
University Of Akron Symphonic Band (Oct 8, 2006), Robert D. Jorgensen
Selected Programs of Robert D. Jorgensen
Mr. Jorgensen conducting with guest conductor, Richard Jackoboice and trombone soloist Edward Zadronzny.
Akron's "Better Half": Women's Clubs And The Humanization Of The City, 1825-1925, Kathleen L. Endres
Akron's "Better Half": Women's Clubs And The Humanization Of The City, 1825-1925, Kathleen L. Endres
University of Akron Press Publications
While the men of Akron busied themselves laying the economic, legal, and industrial foundations, their mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters were equally busy weaving the benevolent and cultural fabric of the growing city. It was a pattern replicated in scores of industrial centers across the nation.
This is the story of how it happened in Akron, Ohio. Akron's "Better Half": Women's Clubs and the Humanization of the City, 1825-1925 looks at how women brought much-needed services to the city, created health institutions that continue today, and built Akron's cultural and literary foundations. Akron's women seldom acted alone; they preferred to …
Sexual Politics: The Gay Person In America Today, Shannon Gilreath
Sexual Politics: The Gay Person In America Today, Shannon Gilreath
University of Akron Press Publications
Contemporary and controversial, Shannon Gilreath's Sexual Politics is an important update to the continuing debate over the place of the gay person in American law, politics, and religion. Gilreath skillfully navigates a number of complex issues, including the delicate balance between sexual privacy and public equality, the entwining of religion and U.S. law and politics, and gay marriage. He offers astute academic observations and a depth of personal reflections to create an unmatched critique of the gay person in American society. Ultimately, Gilreath argues for the further emergence of a gay and lesbian ethos of public attentiveness and the practice …
Thomas Boyd: Lost Author Of The" Lost Generation", Brian Bruce
Thomas Boyd: Lost Author Of The" Lost Generation", Brian Bruce
University of Akron Press Publications
Mentored by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis and published under the renowned Scribner editor Maxwell Perkins, Thomas Boyd attained only modest success as a novelist and biographer. He is known most widely for his World War I novel Through the Wheat, which critics, praising its realistic depiction of war and battle, compared to The Red Badge of Courage. How does a writer like Boyd, with his prominent literary friends, political ideals, professional aspirations, complicated personal life, and early death, fall so easily into obscurity? In this first full biography of Thomas Boyd, Brian Bruce explores the events of Boyd's …