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  • Reading Reconstruction

    Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South

    by Kathryn B. McKee, Scott Romine ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Kathryn B. McKee’s Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849–1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her fiction and nonfiction works. McKee reveals conflicts in Bonner’s writing as her newfound feminism clashes with her resurgent racism, two forces ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Secret Histories

    A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship

    by Lisa West, Etta Madden, Kristin M. Comment, Susan L. Roberson, Sidonia Serafini, Aaron J. Rovan, Kathryn McKee, Karen Tracey, John Lowe, Lisa Nais, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Katherine Barrett Swett, Heather Hartley, Edoarda Grego ...
    The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Leading People Through Disasters

    An Action Guide: Preparing for and Dealing with the Human Side of Crises

    by Kathryn McKee, SPHR, Liz Guthridge ...
    Sooner or later, most organizations will face some kind of disaster--flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, workplace violence, bombings, even the arrest or sudden death of the CEO. Existing books on crisis management deal almost exclusively with physical breakdowns, logistics issues, data losses and environmental and economic impacts. But it is people who actually make a business run, and Leading ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Exploring the Art of Autobiography

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    J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques ... Read more

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  • Extreme Productivity

    Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

    by Robert C. Pozen ...
    “Required reading for professionals—and aspiring professionals—of all levels.”—Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Former Chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionRobert C. Pozen, one of the business world’s most successful—and productive—executives, reveals the surprising secrets to workplace productivity and high performance.It's far too easy for working ... Read more

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  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky ...
    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Read more

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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  • Typecasting

    On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

    by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...
    Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Read more

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  • Pre-Accident Investigations

    Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning

    by Todd Conklin ...
    Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get better answers by asking better questions. A provocative examination of human performance and safety management, the book delivers a thought-provoking discourse about how we work, and defines a new approach to operational learning.This is not a book ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Validating Bachelorhood

    Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

    by Scott Slawinski ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity. ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Possible: Create an Organization With No Limitations

    by Daniel M. Jacobs ...
    The Art of the Possible Create an Organization with No Limitations offers instructive insight into what works in business, revealing how a few simple tenets can build long-standing excellence and success. An easy-to-use integrated leadership and management guide, this book revolves around the fact that strong, effective leadership is a requirement for any company hoping to become—or remain ... Read more

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  • Slaves to Fashion

    Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

    by Monica L. Miller ...
    Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century ... Read more

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