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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
December 2014, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
December 2014, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Colby Professor Visits; From the Rabbi; Announcements; President's Message; Book Group; Community notices
Understanding Don Delillo, Henry Veggian
Understanding Don Delillo, Henry Veggian
Books
Henry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half-century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don DeLillo is the author of short stories, screenplays, and fifteen novels, including his breakthrough work White Noise (1985) and Pulitzer Prize finalists Mao II (1992) and Underworld (1998).
Veggian traces the evolution of DeLillo's work through the three phases of his career as a fiction writer, from the experimental early novels, through the critically acclaimed works of the mid-1980s and 1990s, into the smaller …
The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 2014 Special Symposium Edition, The John Muir Center
The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 2014 Special Symposium Edition, The John Muir Center
Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)
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Page 2 (continued from page 1) was founding Director of the Edinburgh's Environment Center, which pioneered environmental education in Scotland from 1979 until 2001. In the 1980s he served on the Education Committee of the John Muir Trust in Scotland and in 1986, proposed that a John Muir Award should be established by the Trust in the UK as a national scheme for people of all ages; over 150,000 people have now completed the Award in the UK. He is author/ editor of: The Scottish Environmental Handbook; The Nature of Scotland - Landscape Wildlife and People; …
Creating Knowledge, Volume 7, 2014
Creating Knowledge, Volume 7, 2014
Creating Knowledge
Dear Students, Faculty Colleagues and Friends, It is my great pleasure to introduce the seventh volume of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Creating Knowledge—our undergraduate student scholarship and research journal. First published in 2008, the journal is the outcome of an initiative to enhance and enrich the academic quality of the student experience within the college. Through this publication, the college seeks to encourage students to become actively engaged in creating scholarship and research and gives them a venue for the publication of their essays.
Beginning with the sixth volume of the journal, we instituted a major …
Children In The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock, Debbie Olson, Jason Mcentee
Children In The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock, Debbie Olson, Jason Mcentee
English Faculty Books
Jason McEntee is a contributing author, "'The Future’s Not Ours to See’: How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Movies.”, pp.31-46.
Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.
Hope For The Dammed: The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers And The Greening Of The Mississippi, Todd Shallat
Hope For The Dammed: The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers And The Greening Of The Mississippi, Todd Shallat
Faculty & Staff Authored Books
Always, like the Great Mississippi, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been a conduit of hope and fear and scientific conjecture, of faith in American progress and terror of what progress has wrought. Always the Engineers have shouldered much of the credit and blame for massively spectacular projects. Always, since the 1820s, when the agency emerged as a builder and broker on the Mississippi, the Corps has enlisted science in the service of waterway engineering that defenders call monumental and detractors call grandiose.
My involvement began in the aftermath of Earth Day when the Corps, said a famous critic, …
Goddard Bookcase And Desk, Risd Museum, Robert Emlen, Timothy Philbrick
Goddard Bookcase And Desk, Risd Museum, Robert Emlen, Timothy Philbrick
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This lustrous mahogany desk and bookcase represents a pinnacle of achievement for American cabinetmakers. One of nine known examples, this block-front desk and book-case with six carved shells is associated with the Goddard/Townsend family of cabinetmakers in Newport. The desk exemplifies their superb craftsmanship in the delicate dovetailed construction of the drawers. Their mastery of proportions is evident in the piece’s well-balanced broken-scroll pediment, alternating convex and concave surfaces, and integrated flame finials. In a Rhode Island house of the period, the desk and bookcase was the most expensive piece of case furniture. A combination office, safe, and library, it …
Introduction To "The Difficult Art Of Giving Patronage, Philanthropy, And The American Literary Market", Francesca Sawaya
Introduction To "The Difficult Art Of Giving Patronage, Philanthropy, And The American Literary Market", Francesca Sawaya
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks standard economic histories of the literary marketplace. Traditionally, American literary histories maintain that the post-Civil War period marked the transition from a system of elite patronage and genteel amateurism to what is described as the free literary market and an era of self-supporting professionalism. These histories assert that the market helped to democratize literary production and consumption, enabling writers to sustain themselves without the need for private sponsorship. By contrast, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates the continuing importance of patronage and the new significance of corporate-based philanthropy for cultural production in the United States in the …
Rod Library Mini Comic-Con, Flier, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa
Rod Library Mini Comic-Con, Flier, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa
RodCon Documents
Saturday, March 29, 2014 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Flier used in promotion of the event.
Rod Library Mini Comic-Con, Program, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa
Rod Library Mini Comic-Con, Program, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa
RodCon Documents
Saturday, March 29, 2014 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Program distributed at the event.
[Introduction To] More Than Shelter: Activism And Community In San Francisco Public Housing, Amy L. Howard
[Introduction To] More Than Shelter: Activism And Community In San Francisco Public Housing, Amy L. Howard
Bookshelf
In the popular imagination, public housing tenants are considered, at best, victims of intractable poverty and, at worst, criminals. More Than Shelter makes clear that such limited perspectives do not capture the rich reality of tenants’ active engagement in shaping public housing into communities. By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create—and sustain and strengthen—communities that mattered to them.
More Than Shelter opens with the tumultuous institutional history of the San Francisco Housing Authority, from its inception during the New Deal era, through …