Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Women's Studies. "Since the 1960s Daniela Gioseffi has been an irrepressible and unforgettable voice in many of the key debates in American culture. Her...advocacy has given a special validity to her work in the fields of civil rights and of anti-war activism no less than in the struggles against mafia stereotypes and for an Italian American literary tradition. This book displays the depth and range of her commitment and contribution."--Robert Viscusi, Author: Astoria and Ellis Island, Founding President: The Italian American Writers Association

The fourth collection of the syndicated newspaper comic strip Candorville, by Darrin Bell. Barack Obama's historic election - not to mention Lemont's journalism career - hinges on a secret mission to rescue a prisoner of war. Lemont survives Embedded Journalists Boot Camp, but can he survive the boat mission up Vietnam's Nodung River with Anderson Cooper and a crew of misfit soldiers? And what horrifying secret awaits them all at the river's end? At home, Susan dates the Boyfriend-from-Hell as Dick Fink tries to steal her job. C-Dog goes to unbelievable lengths to prove Lemont's fiancee is cheating and that Lemont may not be Lionel's father. And when comedian George Carlin dies, Lemont accompanies him on his final journey and accidentally discovers the meaning of life. Candorville has been described as "This generation's Doonesbury, only a lot more surreal and irreverent." Contains a whopping 750 comics!

Overview of chromaticism -- Fundamental principles -- Harmonic concept of tonal chromaticism -- Superimposition in various harmonic situations -- Non-tonal chromaticism -- Voicings -- Melodic concepts -- Considerations of chromatic melodic lines -- Interval categories -- Practicing ideas -- Playing situations -- Musical relationships in the group -- Examples of chromaticism from jazz and classical repertoire -- Analysis of Liebman transcriptions -- Playing melodies -- Pattern and variational techniques -- Harmonization of a chromatic line -- Reharmonization of standards -- Analysis of complex chords -- Suspended chord terminology -- Liebman original compositions -- Line compendium -- Voicing compendium.

Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In addition to his recent recognition as a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, he has received the Order of Arts and Letters from France and holds an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. He has mentored many of today's most notable young jazz musicians worldwide and is a prolific writer on jazz. In What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist, friend, pianist, and noted jazz scholar Lewis Porter conducts a series of in-depth interviews with Liebman, who discusses his professional, personal, and musical relationships with Davis and Jones, as well as such notable musicians as Chick Corea, Richie Beirach, Michael and Randy Brecker, and many others. Through the interviews, Liebman discusses such personal matters as contracting polio as a child and the difficulties it caused as an adult during his rise as a jazz musician. He offers insights into the life of jazz performers of his generation, particularly the tumultuous period of the 1960s and 1970s. The book also features rare photos from Liebman's personal collection. A fascinating and witty storyteller, Liebman's stories in What It Is will appeal to jazz fans and scholars by providing a firsthand look into the creative life of one of America's leading jazz musicians.

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"The ethics of everyday life may sound mundane. However, while it is most certainly, and appropriately, mundane in the sense of being rooted in the material world, it is not mundane in a second sense - dull, or lacking interest. Ethical questions about our daily lives are, or at least should be, of great interest to us all. Moreover, many of the specific views I shall defend about everyday ethical issues are far from commonplace. That does not mean that they are either extreme or needlessly provocative. Instead, ordinary thinking about everyday ethics, much like ordinary thinking about other ethical questions, is often mired in convention and oversimplification. Any attempt to think freshly, with nuance, and without an ideological agenda, is likely to lead not only to unusual views about each particular question, but also to an unusual constellation of views about the different questions. Quotidian ethics Practical ethics is the area of philosophy devoted to asking and responding to practical moral questions. It is distinguished from other areas of moral philosophy, which focus on more theoretical questions, such as (i) those concerning the nature of morality (the domain of metaethics), and (ii) what makes some actions morally right and others morally wrong, or which character traits are virtues, and which are vices (the subject matter of normative ethical theory)"--

Originally published in 1913, When All Is Said and Done is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson's masterpiece, it was written in Yiddish and until now has been unavailable in a complete and accurate English translation. This version by acclaimed translator Joseph Sherman finally brings the novel to a wide English-speaking audience. Bergelson depicts the lives of upwardly mobile, self-aware nouveaux riche Jews in the waning years of the Russian Empire. The central character, Mirel Hurvits, is an educated, beautiful woman who embodies the conflict between tradition and progress, aristocracy and enterprise. A forced marriage of convenience results in Mirel's emotional disintegration and provokes a confrontation with the expectations of her pious family and with Jewish tradition. In a unique prose style of unsurpassable range and beauty, Bergelson reduces language to its bare essentials, punctuated by silences that heighten the sense of alienation in the story.

Book by Elkind, David

Between 1948 and 2016, David Goldblatt returned periodically to Fietas, a suburb west of Johannesburg’s city centre, to photograph the impact of punitive segregation and ethnic cleansing wrought by apartheid legislation on its residents and landscape. Moved by the life force of the predominantly Indian community’s families, shopkeepers, and small business owners, Goldblatt attempted ‘to grasp something of their life and what they had built.’ The resulting photographs, collected and published here for the first time, form a vivid social document of Fietas before, during, and after its destruction under the Group Areas Act. Earlier images of storefronts and domestic interiors contrast poignantly with those of their demolition from the late 1970s onwards. Dignified portraits of traders in their stores capture their determined efforts to build a life for their families. Interviews with past and present Fietas residents close the book, recalling the testimonials of Goldblatt’s subjects in The Transported of Kwandebele and Ex-Offenders at the Scene of Crime. Exemplary of Goldblatt’s empathetic and observational documentary style, these photographs and oral histories establish a generous exchange between photographer and subject. Together these materials preserve narratives of Fietas as a racially diverse community that existed in defiance of apartheid. An accompanying essay by Professor Ashwin Desai places Fietas within the wider historical context of Indian South Africans and racist ideology before and after the advent of apartheid, completing a compelling reference to a little known community forever changed by the darkest point in South Africa’s history. (Verlagsangaben)

The contributors to this collection offer a range of views on the growing political and economic challenges facing the Castro regime, how these challenges will be met, and Cuba's prospects for a peaceful transition to democracy.

When Neil Douglas rushes to the scene of a stabbing on Hampstead Heath, he forgets his police training, leaving a good Samaritan in hospital and a murderer on the loose. Tormented by guilt and memories of his father, Neil is determined to make up for his mistake by tracking down the killer in his own unofficial investigation. He has two weeks before the inquest and all the while he is baited over the air by Beth Porter, an attractive but ruthless radio phone-in show hostess. But who was the dead woman? Who is trying to hide every trace of her past? And does her death have anything to do with a five-year-old murder case in which Neil's victim was the prime suspect? The answers could cost Neil Douglas his career - or even his life.

Corporations with identity and soul build unparalleled cultures, satisfying their customers in ways no one else quite can. Every company and team has its own identity--a soul waiting to be discovered and used to unlock human energy and unleash new economic value. Doing this demands a new leadership outlook. Lead By Greatness , written by leadership consultant, rabbi, and speaker, David Lapin, provides this new outlook. Lapin clearly describes the step-by-step methods with which his international clients have translated this leadership philosophy into unrivaled economic growth. Drawing both on ancient wisdom and cutting-edge strategic thinking, Lead By Greatness will help you think about opportunities in ways you never have... and your competitors never will.