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After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. These twenty essays, primarily by historians, exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism even as they critically examine the implications of such approaches. <BR>While most of the contributors discuss British imperialism and its repercussions, the volume also includes, as counterpoints, essays on the history and historiography of France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Whether looking at the history of the passport or the teaching of history from a postnational perspective, this collection explores such vexed issues as how historians might resist the seduction of national narratives, what—if anything—might replace the nation’s hegemony, and how even history-writing that interrogates the idea of the nation remains ideologically and methodologically indebted to national narratives. Placing nation-based studies in international and interdisciplinary contexts, After the Imperial Turn points toward ways of writing history and analyzing culture attentive both to the inadequacies and endurance of the nation as an organizing rubric. <BR><BR>Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Augusto Espiritu, Karen Fang, Ian Christopher Fletcher, Robert Gregg, Terri Hasseler, Clement Hawes, Douglas M. Haynes, Kristin Hoganson, Paula Krebs, Lara Kriegel, Radhika Viyas Mongia, Susan Pennybacker, John Plotz, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Heather Streets, Hsu-Ming Teo, Stuart Ward, Lora Wildenthal, Gary Wilder<BR>
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- Excellent recipe book, and an excellent Kirsten book
- tasty and informative
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Kirsten's Cookbook: A Peek at Dining in the Past With Meals You Can Cook Today (American Girls Collection)
Jodi Evert , Terri Braun , and Susan Mahal
Manufacturer: Pleasant Company Publications
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ASIN: 1562471112 |
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Excellent recipe book, and an excellent Kirsten book.......2002-11-18
This delightful cookbook is part of the American Girls Pastimes series, and focuses on the sort of recipes that would have been used during the time of Kirsten Larson, 1854. The book begins with some historical notes on pioneer kitchens and eating, and includes a short prayer in Swedish (which my eleven-year-old daughter is trying to memorize). Then the book launches into the recipes. First comes breakfast with homemade sausage patties, hard-boiled eggs (and how to serve), Swedish rice porridge, round rye bread (all hand made), homemade butter, and ginger cookies. Next comes dinner with baked ham slice, Swedish potatoes (better than scalloped potatoes!), cabbage and apple salad, fruit soup, and Swedish almond rusks. Then comes favorite foods, which includes potato soup, Swedish meatballs, fresh applesause, Swedish pancakes, St. Lucia buns, and Pepparkakor cookies (ginger cookies, a traditional Christmas treat, but good anytime). The final chapter is on planning a pioneer party.
This is a very good recipe book. The recipes in here are all easily within the ability of a youngster who is guided by an adult with even moderate experience in the kitchen; no special tools are need. My daughter already made the Swedish pancakes (yum!), and is planning a Swedish meal (at which she'll recite the prayer). I can't wait.
This is a very nice book, an excellent recipe book, and an excellent addition to your Kirsten library.
tasty and informative.......2000-07-27
The recipes are wonderful, and the history is easy to take in. I learned quite a bit from this book without any suffering. There are lots of pictures, including photos. This is my kind of cookbook! I intend to buy the other cookbooks in this series.
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Finding the "CAN" in Cancer
Nancy Emerson , Pam Leight , Susan Moonan , and Terri Schinazi
Manufacturer: Lulu.com
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A compelling handbook for cancer patients, their families, and friends. Four long-term survivors, with more than 70 years of collective experience dealing with cancer, have put together a guidebook to help others who face this illness. The authors combine personal stories and experiences with practical tips for coping with side effects, information on tests and procedures, emotional and spiritual encouragement, and advice on how to let others help during this difficult time. "This book is many things: a pragmatic and practical handbook on dealing with the details of cancer treatment; a book with helpful and inspirational vignettes; and most of all, a story of friends...each exemplifies a depth of resourcefulness and optimism that has sustained them through the roughest of times." P. Kelly Marcom, MD Director, Breast Medical Oncology and Hereditary Cancer Clinic Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Samantha's Cookbook: A Peek at Dining in the Past With Meals You Can Cook Today (American Girls Collection)
Terri Braun , and Jeanne Thieme
Manufacturer: Pleasant Company Publications
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ASIN: 1562471147 |
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Mmm..Mmm..Better!.......2000-11-19
"Samantha's Cookbook" is a great book for young cooks. It brings girls back to the early 1900's. They have great recipes! If you ever have a project to do on the 1900's, this book would definetley help you! This is an awesome book and I highly recommend it!
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- Fantasy meets Myth
- One of those stories that stay with you...
- The Wood Wife- Marvelous
- Magical realism, faerie myths and art
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The Wood Wife (Fairy Tales)
Terri Windling
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
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Journalist and ex-poet Maggie Black has inherited the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Davis Cooper, with whom she corresponded for years, but never met. Maggie is a cosmopolitan woman of the West Coast and Europe, and a child of the Appalachian mountains; she has no interest in the desert. She has an ex-husband she still loves in L.A. And Davis Cooper drowned in the Arizona desert, the victim of a mysterious murder. Maggie has many reasons to stay away. Yet she moves to Cooper's desert home, seeking to unravel the secrets of Cooper and his late lover, the mad painter Anna Naverra. But these, Maggie will discover, are not the desert's only mysteries. Ancient powers are stirring--enigmatic and dangerous spirits that would use humans for their own purposes.
Terri Windling is the most important and influential fantasy editor of the 1980s and 1990s: Her many accomplishments include editing (and often discovering) a pantheon of fantasy gods--Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Jane Yolen, and many more. She edits, with Ellen Datlow, the indispensible annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the acclaimed revisionist fairy-tale anthology series that began with Snow White, Blood Red. She has won the World Fantasy Award five times. So it's not too surprising that her first novel, The Wood Wife, is well written, fascinating, insightful, and the winner of the 1997 Mythopoeic Award for Best Novel. --Cynthia Ward
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Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and he dreams. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death.Maggie is astonished by the power of this harsh but beautiful land and captivated by the uncommon people who call it home--especially Fox, a man unlike any she has ever known, who understands the desert's special power.As she reads cooper's letters and learns the secrets of his life, Maggie comes face-to-face with the wild, ancient spirits of the desert--and discovers the hidden power at its heart, a power that will take her on a journey like no other.
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Fantasy meets Myth.......2007-04-25
This is one of my favourite fictional works ever! It is superbly constructed, beautifully written and rattles along at a good pace, holding your interest. It is one of those books that is best appreciated in a single sitting, exploring the theme of the magick in the land, and the spiritual creatures which inhabit it. The interaction of the characters is very strong and well-written, and it does not fall down anywhere. This is a perfect book for any occasion, and anyone who loves the land should buy and read it.
One of those stories that stay with you..........2006-08-27
I've read this book 4 or 5 times and still enjoy it immensely. I first read it shortly after it first came out, and loved it then. I bought it completely by accident, finding it in an airport bookstore and not even realizing it was fantasy until I started reading it. (I originally thought it was a mystery, and since I prefer Sci Fi/Fantasy, I'm not even sure why I picked it up.)
The characters are well-formed and interesting, as is the plot. The descriptions of the southwest made me want to go there. Years later, spending time in Santa Fe, Canyon de Chelly, Sedona and elsewhere, I felt the images from the book floating back to me and had to re-read the book as soon as I got home from that trip.
I wish Terri would leave off editing and write more! Not that I have any complaints about her editing...
The Wood Wife- Marvelous.......2006-01-07
Having long been a fan of Brian Froud's faeries, I pictured his slightly quirky, sometimes frightening, sometimes sweet creatures when I read this enchanting tale. Imagine my surprise upon finishing the book when I discovered Terri Windling based her creatures on Froud's faeries?
Well written, thought out, and executed. The story holds you tight, sometimes with tingles up the spine...a murder mystery, love story, faerie tale, a stark and sureal look at desert life, and the life of the desert. I will read it again, and hope she writes a sequel, as my heart did not want the story to end.
Magical realism, faerie myths and art.......2006-01-06
"The Wood Wife" won the world fantasy award for a good reason - it meshes magical realism, faerie myths and the artwork of Brian Froud in a strong tale of old favourites - love, loss, friendship and sacrifice.
Poet Davis Cooper leaves all his posessions to a long time penfriend he has never met. She journeys into his life, slowly unraveling his story, encountering his creations and gathering awareness of the desert's secrets around her.
Characterisations and descriptions are original and vivid, enhancing the mental imagery available to the reader. Recommended.
Fresh and Unique.......2005-08-07
To have fantasy set in the Sonoran desert is a fresh thing, but the "magic" and the way it's described and portrayed is also unique. Strong characters and an intriguing, engaging plot make for a good read.
Be careful, though, of allusions to various works of art. The author tosses artist's names around like we all grew up with them. I actually DID grow up with them and was familiar with her allusions, but for those who didn't it's worth a google search now and then to get the richness of this very rich and layered prose.
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The Backwards Boots
Susan Terris
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
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ASIN: 0385089406 |
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- The Best Book Ever
- Very dark...depressing...questionable
- A great book IMHO
- Good!Emotional!
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Nell's Quilt
Susan Terris
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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ASIN: 0374454973 |
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It's 1899--the last year of the old century--a time of anticipation and change. For eighteen-year-old Nell Edmonds, however, the "turn" into 1900 is an ominous and terrifying period. Nell had hoped to follow in the footsteps of Grandmother Shaw by going to college, perhaps even fighting for women's suffrage in Boston. Instead, they offer her another way to leave the farm: her cousin, Anson, has asked for her hand in marriage. At first, Nell is outraged, but then she realizes that for her parents' sake she must accept Anson's proposal.
In the months before the wedding, Nell takes refuge in making a crazy quilt from Grandmother Shaw's scrap fabrics. Never one for needlework, she surprises everyone with her new self-discipline. Yet her family and friends are worried: Nell is obsessed with creating the quilt and she seems to be retreating deep into a world of her own, where no one can help her.
Susan Terris is the author of numerous books for young readers. Her more recent novel, "The Latchkey Kids," was praised by The Voice for Youth Advocates for its "well-written, realistic dialogue and situations." Ms. Terris lives in San Francisco.
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Two Thumbs Down.......2004-10-20
I have read good books, and this one is definately not one of them. It was horribly depressing and disgusting. I am apalled that I took my time to finish the book. It just kept getting worse and worse. The ending doesn't really have an ending at all. Would NOT recommend.
The Best Book Ever.......2002-12-30
i love this book i'm 14 and i had to read this book for a school project and i do not regret choosing this book. i loved it. highly recommended.
Very dark...depressing...questionable.......2001-09-22
I found this book very dark and questionable. I was not sure what the message of the author was. I know there was one, but it was depressing.
A great book IMHO.......2000-10-23
I think this is a great book.. I read it the first time when I was 14, and again at 18 and have been looking to buy it ever since! I beleive this book touches on a lot of things, yes anorexia being one of them (although it is never really fouced on, then again in the 1800s I don't think it was as widely known as know), as well as oppression of women, etc. I think anyone, young or old, should read this book!
Good!Emotional!.......2000-05-01
I think that the reader from New Jersey is wrong. I read this book when I was 10!(Of course,I was reading my Sweet Valleys that age ,too) I think it has nothing to do with anorexia!Her eating habits made the book realer!I thought the author should have ended the book properly.If you love sensative things,read it!
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- An eclectic collection of original free-verse
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Runes: A Review of Poetry: Mystery
Manufacturer: Arctos Pr
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ASIN: 0965701565 |
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"Runes, A Review of Poetry: Mystery" is an annual of 100 poems/poets on the theme of mystery in its many forms. It includes local, national, international poems as well as poems in translation. Runes has received extensive praise for the quality of the poems, the cohesiveness of the presentation of those poems, and the beauty and elegance of the book design.
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An eclectic collection of original free-verse.......2003-01-05
Collaboratively compiled and edited by C.B. Follett and Susan Terris, Runes: A Review Of Poetry is an eclectic collection of original free-verse by a very wide assortment of quiet talented poets. From reverence for the seasons, to practical difficulties of daily life, to solemn homages to the dead, Runes presents a series of vivid, inspirational, and memorable readings. Jesus in America: He stands on the corner/of Market Street/with hands agape at his sides./Each Tear from his eye reflects/the city's starvation./He opens his doors, the robes/of his church,/to reveal the neon heart/blinking through its thorns;/he looks up the huge golden arcs/of fast food reaching for heaven/from across the street./He is the bun of God, the cola of deliverance. Dancing Bear
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Nell's Quilt
Susan Terris
Manufacturer: FARRAR STRAUS AND GIROUX
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ASIN: B000OL7SBO |
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Susan Terris
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