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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A Casebook
Perhaps more than other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the audience and the 'mainstream' status of the renaissance in black women's writing, paving the way for the future success of Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Sherley Anne Williams, and perhaps even Toni Morrison. With Bill Clinton's choice of Angelou as his inaugural poet, interest in her work continues to increase. This casebook will be a most useful guide that will see wide use in the areas where Angelou's autobiography shows a continuing and flourishing readership, especially American autobiography, African-American literature, and women's studies. Along with the introduction by Braxton and an interview with Angelou conducted especially for this volume by Claudia Tate, the selected essays provide at of critical approaches to the text. The book also includes a unique range drawing of her childhood surroundings in Stamps, Arkansas, drawn by Angelou herself. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124414
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Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures A Guide to Instruments and Applications 2nd Edition
Fully revised and updated Here is the only comprehensive source that explains the various instruments in the market, their economic value, how to document trades, and more. This new edition includes enhanced treatment of U.S. and worldwide regulatory issues, and new product structures. 'If you want to know more about credit derivatives--and these days an increasing number of people do--then you should read this book.' --Merton H. Miller, winner, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990 'Tavakoli brings extraordinary insight and clarity to this fascinating financial evolution . . .'--Carl V. Schuman, Manager, Credit Derivatives, West LB New York Janet M. Tavakoli (Chicago, IL) is Vice President of the Chicago branch of Bank of America, where she directs the company's overall marketing of global derivatives and manages its CreditMetrics initiative. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124719
- Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures A Guide to Instruments and Applications 2nd Edition
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Persons and Causes The Metaphysics of Free Will
This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided 'agent' causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461409954
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Priests Prelates and People A History of European Catholicism since 1750
Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett offer the first one-volume historical overview of European Catholicism from the 18th century to 2002. The authors record the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and show how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. They portray the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War, and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development. This is not the story of the Church in all its glory, but one of adaptation and change, of decline and resilience as the Church has responded to social, political, and cultural changes over the last 250 years. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410113
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Performing Music Shared Concerns
Performing Music: Shared Concerns is about various aspects of music-making that have not previously been considered together and in this accessible form. It deals with 'performance studies' as a coherent subject, exploring such issues as the ideas of anxiety and artistry, recent thought in musical literature, tensions between Romanticism and Modernism, and the sound and design of music. It is written in non-technical language in order that the lay reader may easily gain an insight into how performers think, and what they think about. It is performers who bring classical music to a worldwide public, and yet the public is largely unaware of what it feels like to perform music, what aspects of the activity are a mystery even to the musicians themselves, and which are amenable to scrutiny, experiment, and improvement. This book offers a sustained but compact argument in a rich and entertaining narrative. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410266
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Amazons and Military Maids Women Who Dressed As Men in Pursuit of Life Liberty and Happiness
Drawing on memoirs, letters and diaries, this compelling work exposes the hidden history of women who chose to live, work and love as men. Julie Wheelwright uncovers vibrant tales of adventure as women embark on grand journeys, search for lost loves or simply escape the dull confines of domestic life. She skillfully unravels their intriguing stories to show the price these women paid for their freedom, and how changing concepts of masculinity and femininity still marshal our behavior today. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461718702
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Aromatherapy
Oils and massages are used the world over for eliminating stress and encouraging a sense of well-being. An introduction to the world of essential oils, Aromatherapy explains the history and benefits of this traditional therapy, and gives step-by-step instructions for blending oils, as well as for using them in massages, vapors, and baths. Using a 'starter pack' of thirty essential oils, Aromatherapy offers treatment ideas for more than forty common health problems. Beautifully illustrated, expertly written, and easy to use, Aromatherapy is the perfect introduction to the world of essential oils. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461117097
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Granta 55 Children
For more than a decade, Granta has spanned the globe in the diversity of its writers, in the breadth of talent it displays, and in its expansive coverage of important issues. In this new isue, Allan Garganus, Susan Swan, Tony Gould, Blake Morrison, Joy Williams and other writers explore the theme of 'Children' in outstanding pieces of fiction, memoirs and more. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461408800
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Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse
Chaudhuri shares the wisdom of his life as a dispassionate scholar and political moralist on a prevalent issue of our time, the decline of western civilization. A highly readable and visionary meditation, this work is characterized by Chaudhuri's capacity for prescience, measured prose, and acerbic judgements on a great variety of twentieth-century issues in the western world. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410163
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I Went Walking
During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors. - Books Reading - New - 461720280
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Feathers and Fools
This modern fable reminds readers that with every generation there is renewed hope for understanding and lasting peace. Long ago and far away, two flocks of birds began to fear every other for their differences. Soon the birds became enemies, hoarding weapons to protect themselves--until panic struck and the chance for peace seemed lost forever. Full color. - Books Reading - New - 461720281
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Sebastian A Book About Bach
A long time ago, a boy named Sebastian was born into a family of musicians. He heard music everywhere, especially in his own head, and he wrote down what he heard. Sebastian married, raised a family, and wrote more than a thousand pieces of music. He also created a little book of music especially for his wife, Anna Magdalena, so that in the evenings the whole family could make music together. And today young students--like Bach's own children--can learn to play the music from Anna's notebook. Full color. - Books Reading - New - 461720283
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Love Among the Walnuts
Sandy Alger is born into wealth and lives an idyllic life in almost total seclusion with his family for twenty years. But when his wicked uncles make a move to steal the family fortune, Sandy is forced to come to terms with a threatening world. Jean Ferris goes far beyond her standard YA novels in this dramatic and fanciful adventure. - Books Reading - New - 461720289
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Telling Time With Big Mama Cat
A sturdy fold-out page at the front of the book reveals a clock with movable plastic hands so young readers can change the time as Big Mama Cat moves from one adventure to the next in her busy day. Full color. - Books Reading - New - 461720291
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