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Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados : the Late Colonial Period

Hilbourne A. Watson

Beginning in the 1920s, Barbadians and other British West Indians began organizing politically in an international environment that was marked by a severe capitalist economic and financial crisis that intensified in the 1930s. The response in the British Caribbean during the 1930s was in the form of rebellions that demanded colonial reform. The ensuing struggles resulted in constitutional and political changes that led to decolonization and independence. In Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period, Hilbourne Watson examines the contradictory process through the lens of political economy and class analysis, informed by an internationalist historical perspective that centres the concerns and interests of the working class. Britain freed the colonies in ways that reflected its own subordination to US hegemony under the rubric of the Cold War, which served as the geopolitical strategy for liberal internationalism. Watson's analysis concentrates on the roles played by the labour movement, political parties, capitalist interests, and working-class and other popular organizations in Barbados and the British Caribbean, with support from Caribbean-American groups in New York that forged alliances with those black American organizations which saw their freedom struggles in an international context. Practically all the decolonizing (nationalist) elites in Barbados and other British Caribbean territories endorsed a British and American prescription for decolonization and self-government based on territorial primacy and at the expense of a strong West Indian federation that prioritized the working class. This move sidelined the working class and its interests also set back the struggle for self-determination, liberty and sovereignty. Watson situates the role Errol Barrow played in the transformation of Barbados in the wider Caribbean and international context. His study draws on archival records from Britain and Barbados, interviews and other sources, and he pays close attention to how the racialization of social life around nature, culture, history, the state, class, gender, politics, poverty and other factors conditioned the colonial experience. -- publisher
Essentials of Materials Science and Engineering, 4th edition

Wendelin Wright

This text provides students with a solid understanding of the relationship between structure, processing and properties of materials. It covers fundamentals in an integrated approach that emphasizes applications of new technologies enabled by engineered materials. Help your students understand the science of materials in order to select and deploy materials as responsible engineers with Askeland/Wright's Essentials of materials science and engineering, 4th edition. Your students develop a foundational understanding of why materials behave the way they do, and how they are best used in actual engineering practice. Students learn why materials display certain properties as they study how the structure and processing of materials results in these properties. The authors link fundamental concepts to practical applications, emphasizing the necessary basics without overwhelming readers with too much underlying chemistry or physics. This presentation is ideal for an introductory science of materials class taught at the sophomore or junior level and assumes knowledge of first-year courses in college-level chemistry and physics.
A Critical Decade: China's Foreign Policy (2008-2018)

Zhiqun Zhu

China emerged as a major economic, diplomatic, and military power during the critical decade from 2008 to 2018. As a result, China's foreign policy has become more active and dynamic. This book provides a unique perspective to understand Chinese foreign policy during this decade by examining continuities and changes in both internal and external factors that have shaped China's development. The book focuses on key challenges in China's diplomacy such as US-China relations, the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Japan, India, Chinese investment overseas, the Belt and Road Initiative, global and regional cooperation, soft power, etc. It also includes an extensive annotated bibliography of major recent publications on various aspects of Chinese foreign policy. This is the first scholarly book that studies the evolution and key challenges of China's foreign relations during the critical decade (2008–2018) when China grew into a crucial, sometimes assertive, power in international affairs.
When I Was a Wolf, Terayama, Shūji (author)

Elizabeth Armstrong

First published in 1982, this delightful collection of essays and rewrites reinterprets, from a nonconformist perspective, such well-known and canonical Western stories as Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Goose stories, and Aesop's fables.

In the tradition of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, the author "breaks open classic fairy tales to find new things in them." Both Carter and Terayama give the tales a radical twist laced with dark taboo-violating undertones. Terayama gives us a subversive analysis of such stories as The Emperor's New Clothes, The Bremen Town Musicians, Pinocchio, and Puss in Boots, then offers his own rewrites of Thumbelina, Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella. He turns our stories on their heads, throwing us off balance and forging paths into a new territory of unorthodox interpretation: the conventional interpretations of stories we have treasured since childhood are ill-conceived and thoughtless! -- book back cover
A Slant of Light : Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft

Peter Balakian, Bruce Smith, Cynthia Hogue, Shara McCallum, Dennis O'Brien, Deirdre O'Connor, and Gary Sojka

Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of Bucknell Hall for the Stadler Center and today it is one of the most beautiful and distinguished buildings and centers on campus. He was largely responsible for the creation of Bucknell University Press. Jack Wheatcroft’s life and the evolution of Bucknell University in the twentieth century are inextricable. He was formative in helping to create and nurture a community of artists and intellectuals that helped to propel Bucknell into national prominence. Over fifty years, Jack Wheatcroft published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction, and plays. The essays in this festschrift, by former students (who have gone on to be writers and teachers themselves), colleagues, and friends are a testimony to an extraordinary teacher, writer, innovator, and trailblazer in creating a community and infrastructure of literary culture at a distinguished liberal arts college.-- publisher site
Políticas del Amor : Derechos Sexuales y Escrituras Disidentes en el Cono Sur

Fernando A. Blanco

Memories, romance, politics and art are found in these essays of dissidence and love. In the Southern Cone, sexuality is politics, and politics is memory and is a mark, and there is always something to say and write about. This book deals with it. However, as many of the texts included go back to specific policies of repression from within the framework of the nation, local artistic practices and approaches acclimated to particular contexts of activism, the nation is inescapable. It is so that the book is parceled in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, in an order that is not alphabetical nor by lot, but pendular: left, right,, center; areas, localities, communities. In this uncertain period, a time of growth of nationalisms, of an anti-globalization retreat, in this time of budgetary cuts of the return of conservatism by the political right in Latin America, the authors see themselves in the urgent need to rethink, precisely , which means dissent within democratic designs proposed according to economic models. It is in this convergence of discourses and practices on nation, body, sexuality, race, class, activism and academia that this work is presented. -- translated from publisher's site
A la Vuelta de la Próxima Esquina

Mills Fox Edgerton

Around the next corner resembles the unforgettable Aleph described by Borges, showing us from all points of view unimaginable and at the same time, almost simultaneously, all the angles and aspects of life, as magical faceted crystals, they dazzle us throughout each of the pages of this unique work. Thus, the most sensual and carnal aspects of life (the memory of the first amorous escapades, sex, lust, eroticism, desire, prostitution, etc.) parade through this book, but also those more nostalgic, like those inevitably related to the passage of time: the time that we are leaving, the time that we have left. The time that dissolves us and the one that entangles us in the present. The life that was, the one that passes and does not return, but also the one that should be lived as Carpe diem. -- translated from publisher's site
Chismes

Mills Fox Edgerton

In his latest work, Mills Fox Edgerton invents a new literary genre, since these Gossip can not be cataloged in any other way. Mills, armed with his encyclopedic culture and personal literary style, makes us rethink the way we conceive the novel. The nuances of the plot or the description of the characters appear in the dialogues that are exchanged between them and the author has to go assembling this immense puzzle with mastery and subtlety. The conversations are agile and credible, the rhythm of the dialogue keeps the reader immersed in the action and little by little, almost imperceptibly, the succession of gossip gives us a general image until we reach the unexpected outcome. All revolve around the protagonist of the action, David Muñoz, passionate painter and employee of banking, and a doubt about which seems to articulate the whole plot: Is David Muñoz homosexual? The reader can analyze how "gossip" surrounds us in our daily life and sometimes conditions it beyond its real value. In the era of freedom, access to information or the possibility of serene debate, the monster of gossip threatens to make life impossible for us. -- translated from publisher's site
Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950

Elisabeth Guerrero

Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920–1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces. The book assesses how the “cosmic generation” in Mexico connected the nation-body and the dancer’s body in artistic movements between 1920 and 1950. It first discusses the role of dance in particular, the convergences of composers and visual artists in dance productions, and the allegorical relationship between the dancer's body and the nation-body in state-sponsored performances. The arts were of critical import in times of political and social transition, and the dynamic between the dancer’s body and the national body shifted as the government stance had also shifted. Second, this book examines more deeply the involvement of US artists and patrons in this Mexican arts movement during the period. Given the power imbalance between north and south, these exchanges were vexed. Still, the results for both parties were invaluable. Ultimately, this book argues in favor of the benefits that artists on both sides of the border received from these exchanges.
Caribbean Masala : Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad

Linden F. Lewis

In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct. In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central.

In this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observation, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization. -- publisher site
Inward Out & Outward In : Artist's Books From the Women's Studio Workshop

Janice Mann and Isabella O'Neill

Featuring Artists' Books from the Women's Studio Workshop in Special Collections/University Archives, The Bertrand Library, Bucknell University.

Exhibition: November 28-December 3, 2018. Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University. -- [p.vi]
Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century

Carl Milofsky, Neil Boyd, Ben Marsh, Janet Jones, Jennifer Silva, Jordi Comas, and Amy Golightly

This handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities. It explores the history and conceptualizations of community, theoretical concepts in community organizations, social movements ranging from health to crime, and community practice methods. Further it provides authoritative statements of major theory areas, gives examples of different sub areas of the field, provides guidance to people working as practitioners in the field, and nicely coincides with the increasing interest in clinical sociology. This handbook is of great interest to academics, students and practitioners with an interdisciplinary resource to understand and collaborate in work with contemporary communities.-- publisher's site.
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals

Karen M. Morin

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. The work proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a ‘trans-species carceral geography’ that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, confinement, and enclosure alongside that of the human. The linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality that are placed into conversation draw from a number of institutional domains, based on their form, operation, and effect. These include: the prison death row/ execution chamber and the animal slaughterhouse; sites of laboratory testing of pharmaceutical and other products on incarcerated humans and captive animals; sites of exploited prisoner and animal labor; and the prison solitary confinement cell and the zoo cage. The relationships to which I draw attention across these sites are at once structural, operational, technological, legal, and experiential / embodied. The forms of violence that span species boundaries at these sites are all a part of ordinary, everyday, industrialized violence in the United States and elsewhere, and thus this ‘carceral comparison’ amongst them is appropriate and timely.
The Genealogy of Elevators: a Fable

Harold Schweizer

A dark, cracked parable in the tradition of Millhauser by way of Kafka, Sebald, and, perhaps, St. John Climacus. Schweizer’s lyric exploration of capitalism, its artifacts and (especially) its denizens, casts an eerie spell. There is nothing else quite like this in contemporary American poetry. G.C. Waldrep -- back cover of book
Aging and Mental Health, Third Edition

Daniel L. Segal; Michael A. Smyer; Sara Honn Qualls; and Recorded Books, Inc.

Fully updated and revised, this new edition of a highly successful text provides students, clinicians, and academics with a thorough introduction to aging and mental health. The third edition of Aging and Mental Health is filled with new updates and features, including the impact of the DSM-5 on diagnosis and treatment of older adults. Like its predecessors, it uses case examples to introduce readers to the field of aging and mental health. It also provides both a synopsis of basic gerontology needed for clinical work with older adults and an analysis of several facets of aging well. Introductory chapters are followed by a series of chapters that describe the major theoretical models used to understand mental health and mental disorders among older adults. Following entries are devoted to the major forms of mental disorders in later life, with a focus on diagnosis, assessment, and treatment issues. Finally, the book focuses on the settings and contexts of professional mental health practice and on emerging policy issues that affect research and practice. This combination of theory and practice helps readers conceptualize mental health problems in later life and negotiate the complex decisions involved with the assessment and treatment of those problems. -Features new material on important topics including positive mental health, hoarding disorder, chronic pain, housing, caregiving, and ethical and legal concerns -Substantially revised and updated throughout, including reference to the DSM-5 -Offers chapter-end recommendations of websites for further information -Includes discussion questions and critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter Aging and Mental Health, Third Edition is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, for service providers in psychology, psychiatry, social work, and counseling, and for clinicians who are experienced mental health service providers but who have not had much experience working specifically with older adults and their families.
The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics

James Mark Shields
Hebrew Principles of Life (Korean edition)

Rivka Ulmer

Korean translation of

Righteous Giving to the Poor: Tzedakah (“Charity”) in Classical Rabbinic Judaism: Including a Brief Introduction to Rabbinic Literature (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014). With Moshe Ulmer.
Feast Gently

G. C. Waldrep

Lyrics of incarnation, of method and meat-hood, of illness and the vicissitudes of love, earthly as well as heavenly. What is the relationship between touch and language?-- Provided by publisher.
Traveling the Plane

Neil Anderson and Roger Rothman
Diariópata y Cuentos Argentinos

Mills Fox Edgerton

The lack of emotional empathy, the extreme power of manipulation or the absolute lack of remorse define Juan Carlos Abenámar, a character on which "Diariópata" focuses, and which reflects the life of a psychopath. --- translated from publisher site
Putting Inequality in Context : Class, Public Opinion, and Representation in the United States

Christopher Ellis

Rising income inequality is highlighted as one of the largest challenges facing the United States, affecting civic participation and political representation. Although the wealthy often can and do exert more political influence, this is not always the case. To fix political inequality, it is important to understand exactly how class divisions manifest themselves in political outcomes, and what factors serve to enhance, or depress, inequalities in political voice. Christopher Ellis argues citizens’—and legislators’—views of class politics are driven by lived experience in particular communities. While some experience is formally political, on an informal basis citizens learn a great deal about their position in the broader socioeconomic spectrum and the social norms governing how class intersects with day-to-day life. These factors are important for policymakers, since most legislators do not represent “the public” at large, but specific constituencies. Focusing on U.S. congressional districts as the contextual unit of interest, Ellis argues individuals’ political behavior cannot be separated from their environment, and shows how income’s role in political processes is affected by the contexts in which citizens and legislators interact. Political inequality exists in the aggregate, but it does not exist everywhere. It is, rather, a function of specific arrangements that depress the political influence of the poor. Identifying and understanding these factors is a crucial step in thinking about what reforms might be especially helpful in enhancing equality of political voice. -- publisher site
Bantu Africa: : 3500 BCE to present

Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Christine Saidi, and Rhonda Marie Gonzales

Combining history, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics, Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present, synthesizes current scholarship on one of the most important cultural zones in world history--an area larger than the United States--whose traditions span several thousand years. The authors show how Bantu cultural ideas continue to shape modern realities in new contexts. By examining the cultural, political, religious, economic, and social issues in the Bantu world, Bantu Africa gives students an understanding of the long-term history of an immense cultural zone. The book also addresses the types of social relationships Bantu-speaking people had with people of distinct linguistic and cultural traditions, the kinds of innovations that came out of those cross-cultural interactions, the tactics they used to negotiate societal tensions, the ways in which gender and seniority dynamics influenced societal institutions, and the extent to which Bantu-speaking people shaped Atlantic and Indian Ocean History.
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Windthrow

K. A. Hays

Windthrow: a forestry term for the uprooting or breaking of trees by wind. The voices of K. A. Hays’ third volume of poetry speak out of nature’s violent transformations. At turns self-effacing and empathic, fearful and accepting, these are poems of heat: the heat of new motherhood, of uncertainty, and of grief. Here, the things of a teeming world―” the truck stacked with cut trees,” “the military jet, droning over,” and “the beachgrass, blown / with dusty miller sprout”―are bound for renewal and ruin. In poems spare and strange, Hays looks outward to lay bare the complexities of our emotional lives. -- publisher
Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging

Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson

Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined offers a new set of exercises for coaching actors when working on productions that are non-traditionally staged in arenas, thrusts, or alleys. All of the exercises are adapted from Michael Chekhov's acting technique, but are reimagined in new and creative ways that offer innovative twists for the practitioner familiar with Chekhov, and easy accessibility for the practitioner new to Chekhov. Exploring the methodology through a modern day lens, these exercises are energizing additions to the classroom and essential tools for more a vibrant rehearsal and performance.
From Creation to Redemption: Progressive Approaches to Midrash

W. David Nelson and Rivka Ulmer

This volume contains selected proceedings of the Midrash Section sessions convened during the 2015-2016 meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. It is comprised of contributions by both leading and emerging scholars of Midrash whose research shares a common focus on early and medieval rabbinic biblical interpretation. Additionally, the research on Midrash in this volume intersects with a range of related biblical texts, religious themes, and foundational and forward-thinking methodologies and interdisciplinary academic fields of study, including: Gender Studies; Classics; Jewish Studies; Religious Studies; Literary Studies; the Aqedah/Binding of Isaac; biblical parables; and, medieval rabbinic biblical commentary.