Mapping the Slave Trade in Richmond and New Orleans
Author: Maurie D. McInnis File Type: pdf span 11pt Helvetica Neue vertical-align baseline id=docs-internal-guid-d7fa8a9a-f797-31ed-cf37-991618472568McInnis, Maurie D. Mapping the Slave Trade in Richmond and New Orleans. spanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue font-style italic vertical-align baselineBuildings & Landscapes Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forumspanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue vertical-align baseline spanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue font-style italic vertical-align baselinespanspan 11pt Helvetica Neue vertical-align baseline20, no. 2 (Fall 2013) 102-25.span
Author: Joan Peyser
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Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond. Peyser provides historical context and suggests psychological insight for these masters, including Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern of the Second Viennese School their immediate ancestors Wagner and Mahler Rimsky-Korsakov and his pupil Stravinsky and Hindemith, Bartok, Cowell, and Varese. Discussing proponents of serialism and twelve-tone technique, as well as those who worked against these styles, the book also considers Berio, Stockhausen, Shostakovich, Babbitt, Copland, Wuorinen, and Cage, among others, describing how and why music moved throughout the 20th century. The largest section of the book is devoted to the life and works of Pierre Boulez. A new preface and a bibliography help to round out this revised and updated edition.**ReviewNo one has conveyed as vividly and knowlingly the sense and scents of that skeined, stained, veined variety of twentieth century musics and musical milieus as does Joan Peyser. She transports one into the musics, around the musics and beyond the musics. At a time when so few appear to care about the state and fate of serious contemporary composition, she does, and she is passionately concerned to lead others also to care, to listen, to distinguish, and even - perhaps - to find a home somewhere on that extended range of musical possibilities and realizations. (Milton Babbitt, composer) [Joan Peysers] smoothly flowing prose encapsulates the history of the whole era of modern music. Among many valuable insights, Ms. Peyser remarks that Boulezs performances of Mahler perhaps more than of any other composer, identify his own qualities, rigor, precision, intellect, by omitting the Weltschmerz. (She says that Boulez still regards Mahler as a stepping-stone to Berg, which is consistent with his view when I first met him forty years ago.) (Robert Craft, conductor and writer on music) To Boulez and Beyond is unique in that it comprises an introduction and overview and an intimate portrait of the men and their musical thought that have shaped the fundamental aesthetic characteristics of our extraordinary twentieth century... Joan Peyser presents an overall history of twentieth-century musical thought and composition that is a must for everyone interested in music, whether professional, academic, student or layman. (Rosalyn Tureck, renowned concert pianist, Director of Tureck Bach Research Foundation at Oxford University) About the Author Joan Peyser wrote regularly for the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and is the author of several books, including The Orchestra Origins and Transformations Bernstein A Biography The Memory of All That The Life of George Gershwin and Twentieth Century Music The Sense Behind the Sound.
Author: Lorcan Dempsey
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Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems. More than just a commentary on the issue of the moment, the more than 1,800 posts have offered thousands of readers valuable perspective and insight as well as a visionary approach to libraries future. In a compendium that library planners, administrators, and technology staff will find endlessly stimulating, Varnum offers an expertly curated selection of entries from Dempseys blog. Showing where libraries have been in the last decade and also where theyre heading now, this book covers such keystone topics asullNetworked resourcesllNetwork organizationllThe research process and libraries evolving role, featuring the seminal post In the FlowllResource discoveryllLibrary systems and tools such as search indices and OpenURL link resolversllData and metadatallPublishing and communication, including blogs, social media, and scholarly communicationllLibraries, archives, museums, and galleries as memory institutionslulThe book concludes with a selection of favorites hand-picked by Dempsey himself. As one university librarian put it, Dempseys dual ability to explore an issue and to reveal the higher-order trends is spot-on for understanding our volatile environment. That unique and thoughtful analysis is on full display in this book.
Author: Denise Duhamel
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When her smart phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her characteristic wit and insight. The poems in Scald engage feminism in two wayscommitting to and battling withvarious principles and beliefs. Duhamel wrestles with foremothers and visionaries Shulamith Firestone, Andrea Dworkin, and Mary Daly as well as with pop culture figures such as Helen Reddy, Cyndi Lauper, and Bikini Kill. In dialogue with artists and writers such as Catherine Opie, Susan Faludi, and Eve Ensler, Duhamel tries to understand our cultural moment. While Duhamels Scald can burn, she has more importantly taken on the role of the ancient Scandinavian Skald, one who pays tribute to heroic deeds. In Duhamels case, her heroes are also heroines. **
Author: Farmer F Randall
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What do Amazons product reviews, eBays feedback score system, Slashdots Karma System, and Xbox Lives Achievements have in common? Theyre all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to manage and present user contributions most effectively. This book shows you how to design and develop reputation systems for your own sites or web applications, written by experts who have designed web communities for Yahoo! and other prominent sites.Building Web Reputation Systems helps you ask the hard questions about these underlying mechanisms, and why theyre critical for any organization that draws from or depends on user-generated content. Its a must-have for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers.ullScale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributions llDetermine the quality of contributions, and learn why some are more useful than others llBecome familiar with different models that encourage first-class contributions llDiscover tricks of moderation and how to stamp out the worst contributions quickly and efficiently llEngage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to return llExamine a case study based on actual reputation deployments at industry-leading social sites, including Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBaylulAbout the AuthorF. Randall Randy Farmer has been creating online community systems for over 30 years, and has co-invented many of the basic structures for both virtual worlds and social software. His accomplishments include numerous industry firsts (such as the first virtual world, the first avatars, and the first online marketplace). Randy worked as the community strategic analyst for Yahoo!, advising Yahoo properties on construction of their online communities. Randy was the principal designer of Yahoos global reputation platform and the reputation models that were deployed on it.Bryce Glass is a principal interaction designer for Manta Media, Inc. Over the past 13 years, hes worked on social and community products for some of the webs best-known brands (Netscape, America Online and Yahoo!).
Author: Stephen Frosh
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Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice, while offering dramatic insights for the study of culture and society. This comprehensive review of the field ul lExplores the birth of psychoanalysis, taking the reader step by step through Freuds original ideas and how they developed and evolved. l lProvides a clear account of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. l lDiscusses the different schools of psychoanalysis that have emerged since Freud. l lIllustrates the wider applications of psychoanalytic ideas across film, literature and politics.l ul Written by a highly respected authority on psychoanalysis, this book is essential reading for trainees in counselling and psychotherapy, as well as for students across the arts, humanities and social sciences. **
Author: Alessandro Ludovico
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Is print really dead, or is it going to die anytime soon? This books examines a particular (and often puzzling) period in the history of print... as new digital technologies are rapidly transforming both the status and the role of printed materials. The medium of print is without doubt under threat from new digital sources, yet the two are also finding a paradoxical coexistence despite their shared characteristics and functional competition. In some ways, print is actually nowadays being revitalized rather than replaced, an intriguing prospect which is explored in depth in the pages of this book.
Author: Thomas S. Kidd
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During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing book explores the religious history of New England during the period and offers new reasons for this change in cultural identity.After Englands Glorious Revolution, says Thomas Kidd, New Englanders abandoned their previous hostility toward Britain, viewing it as the chosen leader in the Protestant fight against world Catholicism. They also imagined themselves part of an international Protestant community and replaced their Puritan beliefs with a revival-centered pan-Protestantism. Kidd discusses the rise of the Protestant interest and provides a compelling argument about the origins of both eighteenth-century revivalism and the global evangelical movement.ReviewSound in its scholarship, cogent in its arguments, and creative in its historical reconstruction, this book is a first-rate contribution to both American religious history and the early history of New England.Mark Noll, Wheaton CollegeAbout the AuthorThomas S. Kidd is assistant professor of history at Baylor University.
Author: Stuart Gray
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At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. Rather, by looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought we can rethink rule in ways that evoke stewardship rather than domination. Stuart Gray argues that hierarchical ideas about rule coevolved with political divisions between the human and non-human in western theory. The earliest discernible Greek thought advanced an instrumental relationship between humans and their environment, a position that has persisted into our current age. While this seems a defensible position, Gray points out that such instrumental understandings of the nonhuman world have gotten us into serious trouble, including problems of deforestation, global warming, rising sea levels, species loss, and peak oil. To rethink the concept of rule, A Defense of Rule turns to early Indian political thought that suggests that rule is a relationship predicated on stewardship. The book compares these two traditions of thought in order to suggest that we have a normative duty to the environment, and thus to act in a way that takes the interests of non-human nature into account. Basing his argument on his own original translations of primary sources in ancient Greek and Sanskrit, Gray shows when and how early concepts of rule evolved to justify divisions between the human and nonhuman. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of our duties toward the nonhuman natural world.Review Combining wide-ranging expertise in the history of political thought with exegetical brilliance and analytical sharpness, Stuart Gray reminds us that we can expand our political imagination by turning to two influential traditions of political thought-the ancient Greek and Vedic Indian-in order to re-envision the meaning of ruling. Gray not only takes us on a detailed, highly informed intellectual tour of both traditions, but also engages in the most important work of doing comparative political theory using the encounter between the two to displace, trouble and otherwise renegotiate our most settled assumptions and conceptions about the meaning of rule. --Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside, author of Cosmopolitan Political Thought Method, Practice, Discipline Stuart Grays A Defense of Rule manages the difficult trick of making valuable contributions to two different discourses in political theory. On one level, it is an excellent piece of comparative political theory, but on another level, it is also an excellent contribution to the wide-ranging discourse about ethics and humannon-human relations. By looking back in this insightful, comparative manner, Gray elucidates a sustainable and just way to move forward. --Matthew Moore, author of Buddhism and Political Theory A thoughtful and innovative investigation of a frequently sidelined category rule or ruling. The book breaks new ground by offering a nuanced comparison of ancient Greek and Indian thought. Given the dense interconnections of our world, the author envisages a cosmic extension of stewardship toward panocracy and world-building - possibly as antidotes to the looming ecological disaster. --Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame and author of Being in the World Dialogue and Cosmopolis [Grays] book does help us to identify gaps in one tradition by using a comparative vantage point (174). It both underscores the need, identified by numerous environmental political theorists today, to take into account the interests of future generations, and suggests a metaphysical case for taking into account the interests of nonhuman forms of life. --Antony Black, University of Dundee About the Author Stuart Gray is Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University.