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An historical look at the social and economic life of French colonial Illinois, the author draws on and translates from eighteenth-century French the Kaskaskia Manuscripts which French notaries used and the papers of the Marquis de Vaudreuil.

Explores identity-especially masculinity and femininity, English and ""foreign"", middle-class and aristocratic-as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the late-seventeenth-century British stage. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways the theatre contributed to new and often shifting early modern definitions of the boundaries of nation, status, and gender.

Amy Fleury's bewitching new collection of poems unveils the everyday manifestations of sympathy as well as the connections wrought by "sympathetic magic"-that indelible tether that binds people, places, and objects across time and distance.

Tyler Mills weaves together fragments of myth and memory, summoning the works of Ovid, Homer, and James Joyce to spin a story of violence and the female body.

Analyses the common assignments given to writing students in the college classroom, and investigates how new writers and expert readers respond to a variety of types of coursework in different fields.

Takes readers on a comprehensive tour of the urbanisation of Chinese cinema. Focusing primarily on movies from the end of the twentieth century, it is the first single-authored work to explore the relationship between the changes in Chinese society-caused in part by the advent of postsocialism, the growth of cities, and globalisation-and the transformation of Chinese cinema.

Filmmakers David and Albert Maysles utilized an approach to documentary film that involved spontaneous observation of naturally occurring events. Their collaboration wrought 13 works and their style helped usher in a probing, realistic form of documentary. The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles is a full-length treatment of their career.

Provides a scholarly biography of British actor Junius Brutus Booth. It provides a clear account of Booth's professional and personal life and places him in relationship to his contemporaries, particularly Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready.

John Dewey was one of the most prominent philosophers and educational thinkers of the twentieth century, and his influence on modern education continues today. In Teachers, Leaders, and Schools: Essays by John Dewey, educators Douglas J. Simpson and Sam F. Stack Jr. have gathered some of Dewey's most user-friendly and insightful essays concerning education.

Through extensive reading and reflection, Abraham Lincoln fashioned a mind as powerfully intellectual and superlatively communicative as that of any other American political leader. Reading with Lincoln uncovers the how of Lincoln's inspiring rise to greatness by connecting the content of his reading to the story of his life.

The practical and legal aspects of writing a business plan for a film venture can be daunting. With this in mind, John W. Cones's Business Plans for Filmmakers arms independent moviemakers and students with everything they need to successfully tackle the confusing intersection of law, business, and art when creating a business plan for a movie.

Weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, to provide readers with a better understanding of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in US history.

An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from obscurity.

Born on the same day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were true contemporaries. Though shaped by vastly different environments, they had remarkably similar values, purposes, and approaches. In this exciting new study, James Lander places these two iconic men side by side and reveals the parallel views they shared of man and God.

Drawing on research from a variety of academic fields, including archaeology, history, botany, ecology, and physical science, this explores the intersection of people and the environment in early eighteenth-century Illinois Country.

From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. This title covers every angle of the campaign, from its prelude to its denouement.

Tells the story of the last year of Ullysses S Grant, a year he spent battling an incurable cancer whilst trying to complete his memoirs. This is an account of pain and suffering as well as mighty deeds, and truly deserves to be considered the General's final victory.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. It has occasional imperfections, such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, and errant marks that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process, but the work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, is worthy of bringing back into print.

For half a century Mother Jones took up the workingman's cause without question and fought his battles without compromise. Dale Fetherling's biography for the first time gives her full story, with eloquence and sympathetic understanding.

Features a collection of articles describing the people, places, and folkways of southern Illinois. This title provides informative glimpses into the region's past. It includes the sketches of the early pioneering days when wolves were literally chased from the door, and stories about the Indian artifacts discovered among the rolling hills.