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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience מאת Erving Goffman

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A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law) מאת Michael P. Johnson Domestic violence, a serious and far-reaching social problem, has generated two key debates among researchers. The first debate is about gender and domestic violence. Some scholars argue that domestic violence is primarily male-perpetrated, others that women are as violent as men in intimate relatio...

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City In The Woods: The Life and Design of an American Camp Meeting on Martha's Vineyard מאת Ellen Weiss During the nineteenth century, Methodist camp meetings--woodland revivals lasting several days--flourished throughout the United States. These tented villages often evolved into permanent communities with unique campground cottages and distinctive spatial configurations. The Wesleyan Grove camp me...

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Home To Harlem (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) מאת Claude McKay This classic novel gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue. With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different young men struggling to find their way through the suspicion and prejudi...

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Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition מאת Judith Ann Giesberg The Civil War-era U.S. Sanitary Commission (USSC) was the largest wartime benevolent institution. Judith Ann Giesberg demonstrates convincingly that that generation of women provided a crucial link between the local evangelical crusades of the early nineteenth century and the sweeping national refor...

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Sarah Phillips (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) מאת Andrea Lee This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie--a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant...

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Red Sox Nation Guide to the Players מאת William F. McNeil Red Sox Nation Guide to the Players is the definitive pocket statistical reference work on Red Sox past and present by longtime baseball historian and statistician William F. McNeil. The book names every player who has ever donned the Boston uniform, gives his physical description, biographical info...

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Terrorism, Instability, and Democracy in Asia and Africa (Northeastern Series on Democratization and Political Development) מאת Dan G. Cox There is a flourishing and growing debate among political scientists regarding the links between democracy/democratization and terrorism. Terrorism, Instability, and Democracy in Asia and Africa takes a regional approach to the issue, focusing on two areas sorely underrepresented in the literature b...

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The Autumn of Italian Opera: From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915 מאת Alan Mallach With the passing of giants like Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, and with Verdi in decline, Italian opera at the end of the nineteenth century appeared to be on the wane. Then, suddenly, with the legendary premiere of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in 1890, Italian opera entered into a period of en...

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The Diary Of Alice James מאת Alice James Unlike her ubiquitous brothers, psychologist and philosopher William and novelist Henry, Jr., Alice James (1848-1892)-the youngest child and only daughter of the wealthy, mercurial, and eccentric New Englander Henry James, Sr.-passed much of her brief lifetime at home, largely isolated from society,...

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At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) מאת Albery Allson Whitman Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901), born the child of slaves in Kentucky, made his livelihood as a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He also produced a prodigious amount of poetry. Many of these works--replete with "mulatto" figures and vignettes about black, Native, and white subje...

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Tulips, Water, Ash (Morse Poetry Prize) מאת Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet Tulips, Water, Ash begins with a kind of invocation--a calling-out from the domestic world, "the soft / chewy center of here: the mailbox, / the toaster, the dentist office . . . Whiteboard,whiteout. Little yellow / notes everywhere like moths." So many of these poems--their bus stops and taquerias,...