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What does it mean to people around the world to put on costumes to celebrate their heritage, reenact historic events, assume a role on stage, or participate in Halloween or Carnival? Self-consciously set apart from everyday dress, costume marks the divide between ordinary and extraordinary settings and enables the wearer to project a different self or special identity. Pravina Shukla offers richly detailed case studies from the United States, Brazil, and Sweden to show how individuals use costumes for social communication and to express facets of their personalities.

During the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet-led invasion and occupation that followed, Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio was responsible for some of the most politically subversive and aesthetically innovative films of the period. This book examines the institutional and governmental roots of postwar Czechoslovak cinema.

They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. This book deals with this topic.

Celebrates the work of a master landscape artist

Glenn Gass is a Provost Professor of Music at Indiana University, where he developed a series of courses on the history of rock and popular music. His courses on rock and pop music were the first to be offered through a music school and are now the longest-running courses of their kind in the world. Gass has been the recipient of the Herman B. Wells Lifetime Achievement Award, the IU Sylvia Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award, the IU Student Alumni Association Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award and many other teaching recognitions honors.

Unique in American intellectual history, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) made important contributions to symbolic logic, of which he was one of the founders, and to the logic of science. This title contains 66 writings mainly from the unsettled period in Peirce's life just after he moved from New York to Milford, Pennsylvania.

The writings include essays relating to his all-embracing theory of categories as well as papers on logic and mathematics.

In "The First Battle of the Marne" French and British forces stopped the initial German drive on Paris in 1914. The Second Battle of the Marne marks the point at which the Allied armies stopped the massive German Ludendorff Offensives and turned to offensive operations themselves. This work gives an account of the bloody events of those days.

Philanthropy has existed in various forms in all cultures and civilizations throughout history, yet most people know little about it and its distinctive place in our lives. Why does philanthropy exist? Why do people so often turn to philanthropy when we want to make the world a better place? In essence, what is philanthropy? These fundamental questions are tackled in this engaging and original book. Written by one of the founding figures in the field of philanthropic studies, Robert L. Payton, and his former student sociologist Michael P. Moody, Understanding Philanthropy presents a new way of thinking about the meaning and mission of philanthropy. Weaving together accessible theoretical explanations with fascinating examples of philanthropic action, this book advances key scholarly debates about philanthropy and offers practitioners a way of explaining the rationale for their nonprofit efforts.

Leading international scholars consider the socio-economic history of Classical and Romantic musicians.

The compositions of Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) are known for their exquisite construction, their unlikely embrace of material from disparate sources, their predisposition for melancholia, and their tremendous beauty. This title presents his life, his works, other composers, and a range of topics in twentieth-century music.

One of the most original and successful filmmakers, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884. Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. This book is a critical assessment of Micheaux's accomplishment in the art of cinema.

Presents an edited text of the author's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. This book is based on a study of known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of his poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the previous centuries.

Traces the influence of Norwegian poetry, ancient songs, traditional dances, and the sound of folk instruments. Treating each of the shorter pieces individually (including the ten collections of Lyric Pieces), this title suggests architectural interpretations on a larger scale for the massive cycles of Opp 66 and 72.

Readings of Germany's leading Romantic poet by Germany's foremost 20th-century philosopher

It is a superb study, of obvious value to folklorists, but of interest to literary critics, literary historians, anthropologists, and others.

A remarkable Red Cross woman in wartime England and France.

A collection of essays that looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after World War II. It describes this research, how it was brought to light, and the rationalizations of those who perpetrated and benefited from it.

Major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity

A historical study of Husserl's phenomenological method, this book presents an interpretation of the development of Husserl's philosophical position against the background of an insight into the phenomenon of horizon - perhaps the issue that motivates and guides Husserl's thought.

Instead of following the traditional chronological order in studying the Beethoven piano sonatas, this title places them in categories that reflect certain qualities of the music. It begins with the Classic composers' expressive treatment of the keyboard - such as touches, articulation, line, colour, silence, and the pacing of musical ideas.

Was Mau Mau a national effort or an ethnic outburst? What were its political aims? Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya African Union; and the impact of Mau Mau on decolonization in Kenya.

The musical and literary works of Luis Milton reveal the performance practices and theoretical conventions of the early 16th century.

... thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing."e; -Radical Philosophy... striking for the clarity and singularity of its styles and voices as well as for the compelling measure of genuine philosophic originality which it contributes to questions of community and (its) communication."e; -Research in PhenomenologyArticulating the author's journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continental thought, Alphonso Lingis launches a devastating critique, pointing up the myopia of Western rationalism. Here Lingis raises issues of undeniable urgency.

Maternal repression is at the basis of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Only with modernism does the mother become a central figure-both celebrated and ambivalent -in daughter-artist's text and family romance. For modernist heroines, psychoanalytic theories of femininity of the 1920s and the 1930s, as well as the novels of Woolf, Colette, and Wharton, show painful oscillations and contradictions between maternal and paternal identifications. Hirsch argues that fictional and theoretical feminist writing still situates itself at uncomfortable distance from the maternal: the concrete stories of mothers are still unspeakable or as Alice Walker says, 'cruel enough to stop the blood.' They point to a feminist discourse of identity which begins with mothers and thereby reframes our conception of self, family, and plot.

The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makerswere rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The films ofthe New Wave in Japan have, until now, been largely overlooked. Eros plus Massacre(taking its title from a 1969 Yoshida Yoshishige film) is the first major studydevoted to the examination and explanation of Japanese New Wave film.Desser organizes his volume around the defining motifs of the NewWave. Chapters examine in depth such themes as youth, identity, sexuality, andwomen, as they are revealed in the Japanese film of the sixties. Desser's researchin Japanese film archives, his interviews with major figures of the movement, andhis keen insight into Japanese culture combine to offer a solid and balancedanalysis of films by Oshima, Shinoda, Imamura, Yoshida, Suzuki, andothers.

Erasmus' Christian humanism has much to say to citizens of the atomic age, and the reasonable faith and constructive prescriptions of the Enchiridion were perhaps never as much needed as today.

Jeremy Bell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University.Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media and Derrida From Now On.