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Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Vassar Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice P. Nimura
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248240
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back written by Janice P. Nimura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life." —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan—a land grown foreign to them—determined to revolutionize women’s education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment.
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Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Vassar Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne E. Brodsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135951950
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book With All Our Strength written by Anne E. Brodsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, often tragic, lives of Afghan women under some of the most brutal sexist oppression in the world.
Author : Karen Van Lengen
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983493
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Vassar College written by Karen Van Lengen and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on authoritative tours of two prestigious colleges, Vassar and Dartmouth. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks of these American college campuses distinguished for landmark buildings-Vassar showcasing a developing expression of changes in women's education and Dartmouth revealing the provincial design roots and rural setting of the prominent Ivy League college.
Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828749
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book My Garden (Book) written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
Author : Karen E. Holmberg
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410860
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Perseids written by Karen E. Holmberg and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perseids is a book of poems whose central concern is the way in which memory, perception, and imagination act as lenses to "magnify" experience, creating a state of heightened observation and attention to detail. The book contains two central points around which the other poems are clustered. First, the "Meditations in the Voice of Robert Hooke," a series of two poems, take on the persona of the seventeenth-century microscopist and inventor Robert Hooke, who was the first person to document verbally and graphically the micro world made newly visible by the invention of the microscope. In these poems, Hooke wonders at the fineness of creation, and is moved to expressions of religious awe by the perfection in the forms of nature compared to those made by man. In the second poem in this series, Hooke recalls a summer day spent with his mother in their garden, and meditates on the especial vividness of her presence with him in his memory and imagination, despite her death many years before. The other poem most critical to the collection is the title poem, "The Perseids." A late twentieth century attempt to create a version of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," this poem proceeds from a perspective common to several other poems in the collection: that of an airplane. This particular airplane is flying over the Long Island Sound at night, bringing the speaker of the poem home. Through the speaker's imagination and memory, the perspective of the poem shifts from the airplane itself to a moment during a childhood camping trip when she first saw the Perseid star showers with her family. The modes of vision and creativity involved in exploration and science form the main subjects and themes of this book, whose settings include a biology fieldwork session, the father's science classroom, and Linnaeus's Lapland explorations. Even poems not concerned explicitly with science, such as "Art and Archeology" and "The Zero at the Bone" (which concerns an exhibitionist) place and portray experience "under a microscope," rendering the landscape with scrupulous detail
Author : Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807023094
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition written by Sherrilyn A. Ifill and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the effects of lynching in the U.S. speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Nearly five thousand black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and the effects of this racial trauma continue to resound. Inspired by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and drawing on techniques of restorative justice, Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, offers concrete ways for communities to heal. She also issues a clarion call for communities with histories of racial violence to be proactive in facing this legacy. This revised edition speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. e new foreword from Bryan Stevenson helps readers to better understand contemporary struggles and come to terms with the legacy of racial terror in the United States. In a new afterword, Ifill reflects on the recent strides made throughout the country to break the silence surrounding lynching and to recognize the victims of violence.Th
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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Vassar 1865-1915, from the Undergraduate Point of View written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathy Fagan
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410662
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Moving & St. Rage written by Kathy Fagan and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kathy Fagan's long awaited second collection keeps revealing new strengths, new powers. Its words are of unsparing rigor; its intelligence and vision continually spring forward in changed ways. These are poems both revealing and resistant: deeply felt, deeply communicative, yet avoiding any easy lyricism. Again and again the reader pauses, astonished by some fresh turn of language, of insight, of terrain. MOVING & ST RAGE offers extraordinary pleasures, clarities, and depth."--Jane Hirshfield "From the first emblems of language--the angular letters of A and K--a child steps toward the preservation of consciousness, and, in turn, the paradox of preserving that which is lost. These beautifully crafted poems trace a journey to adulthood and grief with a lyrical mastery that is breathtaking. What can language do with loss? Fagan asks. This splendid book is her answer."--Linda Bierds California, She Replied It's driving into all that goldness makes You blind, she said. The road oats, timothy, The mustard hung beside the highway like So many crowns thrown out, she said. That ma- Ma cow who cools her thin blond ankles in A shiny ditch? Her baby's bones hurt--it's The newness. Poplars, too, they have their secrets With each other. Seen them at it in my Rearview, whisperin where the smoke trees get to Once the mist's burnt off. Why, I was in a 'Nother country by the time I knew, myself, Where I live comfortably, to this day, She ended, without question.
Author : Meghan Daum
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250067650
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book My Misspent Youth written by Meghan Daum and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new introduction.One of Flavorwire's 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time.Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognised for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the centre of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.
Author : Anne MacKay
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9780312089238
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Wolf Girls at Vassar written by Anne MacKay and published by Saint Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian and Gay experiences 1930-1990, introduced by Lillian Faderman.
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Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Smith Alumnae Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Klin
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1939994632
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Abstract Expressionism For Beginners written by Richard Klin and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract Expressionism was the defining movement in American art during the years following World War II, making New York City the center of the international art scene. But what the heck did it mean! The drips, the spills, the splashes, the blotches of color, the wild spontaneous energy—signifying what? Abstract Expressionism For Beginners will not only help you understand, but also appreciate the art of some of the most iconic figures in modern art—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, and others. Explore their lives and artistic roots, the heady world of Greenwich Village in the 1940s and 1950s, the influence of jazz, the voices of critics, and the enduring legacy of a uniquely inspired group of artists.
Author : Richard Carr
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412426
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Mister Martini written by Richard Carr and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2007. Spare yet evocative, the poems in Mister Martini pair explorations of a father-son relationship with haiku-like martini recipes. The martini becomes a daring metaphor for this relationship as it moves from the son's childhood to the father's death. Each poem is a strong drink in its own right, and together they form a potent narrative of alienation and love between a father and son struggling to communicate.
Author : Davida Charney
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809317646
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Constructing Rhetorical Education written by Davida Charney and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteen essays illustrating its many aspects, this book offers an argument for what it takes to construct a complete rhetorical education. The editors take an approach that is pragmatic and pluralistic, based as it is on the assumptions that a rhetorical education is not limited to teaching freshman composition (or any specific writing course) and that the contexts in which such an education occurs are not limited to classrooms. This thought-provoking volume stresses that while a rhetorical education results in the growth of writing skills, its larger goal is to foster critical thinking.
Author : Melissa Carol Walker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425217047
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Violet on the Runway written by Melissa Carol Walker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Violet Greenfield of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, believes herself too tall and skinny until a top modeling agent gives her the royal treatment in New York City, and Vi suddenly finds herself facing fame, popularity, and the jealousy of her best friends.
