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BOOKSAfrican-American History & Radical Historiography: Essays in Honor of Herbert Aptheker, edited by Herbert Shapiro '64 (PhD). MEP Press 1998.
Explores cultural ideas of time in rural Trinidad, and the feelings of cooperation and conflict that result from using different models.
Samuel Beckett's 19 translations for Cunard's book, including the original French versions.
A continuation of the popular thriller series about a Seneca Indian guide who helps fugitives escape.
A look at how capitalism and democracy came into being and what the images of both say about satisfying human needs and wants.
(See Alumni Gazette, Settling the Dust.)
The how-to book about domesticity by a successful lawyer and former philosophy professor that has struck a surprisingly resonant chord with readers across the country.
The authors challenge parents, concerned citizens, and business leaders--as well as educators and policymakers--to consider a new definition of public education that supports uniform standards and greater innovation and flexibility. A University trustee, Kearns is former chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation and deputy U.S. secretary of education.
Leading political scientists--many of them from Rochester's political science department--contributed to this volume on democracies in Poland and Eastern Europe.
The fifth romance novel by a New York Times best-selling author.
The fundamentals of piano playing.
A collection of more than 600 equestrian-related quotations ranging from the Bible, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain to Roy Rogers, Groucho Marx, and Mr. Ed.
An examination of the ways in which reading can support math instruction and the reading practices that teachers can use to help students with math.
(See Alumni Gazette, Restoring the Balance.)
The importance of the church in the politics of the African-American community is shown through statistical data and stories about what influences political activism.
Rodning also is the author of several collections of poetry, paintings, and photographs based on arts of the Orient.
RECORDINGSBefore the Wind, recorded by Under Sky --Greg Osterberg, University Protestant chaplain; Boegart Bibby '97; Robert Baldwin '97E (MM); Jonathan Rickert '99; and Deborah Osterberg. Spiritual music ranging from reggae to rock styles.
Another recently released CD featuring Nexus is Garden of Sounds, BIS, with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.
Features nine opera singers performing classic western and country-western songs.
RECOMMENDED READINGSelected by faculty
"Lately, I have been using that time to achieve a goal I've set for myself of reading all of Shakespeare's plays," he says. "It's a way of immersing oneself in a human world and thereby becoming more human oneself."
"Even Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, such as these, contain some of the best writing in the English language and the 'invention' of characters that simply leap out of the page."
"For anybody interested in the exercise of political power I would strongly recommend the works of Caro. Besides illustrating the old adage that 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,' this book is a virtual handbook on the accretion and use of political power."
"Again the accumulation and use of power is the central focus of the work. But the book also contains an extraordinarily moving description of rural life in the Texas hill country prior to the time that Roosevelt's rural electrification policy came to Texas. The second volume details Johnson's invention of modern campaign techniques and how his first election to the U.S. Senate was the result of election fraud."
"It was Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt that led to his being selected to write the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan. The Roosevelt volume reads better than most novels and depicts a person worthy of appearing as a character in one of Shakespeare's plays."
"Professor Donald shows how deftly Lincoln worked with his contentious cabinet and managed to hold the Northern coalition together in support of the war effort."
"Although Ellis is an admirer of Jefferson, he does not blink at taking up such difficult matters as Jefferson's racism, his shilly-shallying over slavery, and his relationship with Sally Hemings. In the book, Ellis argues against Jefferson's having had a sexual relationship with Hemings, but when DNA analysis supported this theory, Ellis was quick to acknowledge that the conclusion in his book was incorrect."
"Sereny's book provides a fascinating insight into the workings of the hierarchy of the Nazi regime. But it goes further to depict how a talented and charming young man, step-by-step, fell 'in love' with Hitler, rose to power, and, despite being at the pinnacle of the Nazi regime, side-stepped the responsibility of learning--when he easily could have--about Hitler's systematic extermination of the Jewish population of Europe and Russia."
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