This unusual study brings together, for the purpose of illuminating comparison, two writers of apparently different worlds. A seventeenth-century poet and a twentieth-century novelist are found to share images, themes, and attitudes which suggest intriguing correspondences between them: each author helps us to read the other.

Marvell, Nabokov: Childhood and Arcadia

Literature & Fiction

Long, Charles 1947

Long, Michæl

Poetry

Oxford University Press

The Treadmill of Crime (New Directions in Critical Criminology)

Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions.  The Treadmill of Crime is written by acclaimed experts on the subject of green criminology and examines issues such as the crime in the energy sector as well as the release of toxic waste into the environment and its impact on ecosystems. This book also sets a new research agenda by highlighting problems of ecological disorganization for animal abuse and social disorganization.  This book will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the fields of criminology, political science, environmental sociology, and natural resources.

The Treadmill of Crime: Political Economy and Green Criminology (New Directions in Critical Criminology)

Business & Money

Stretesky, Paul

Lynch,Michael

Economics

Routledge

Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which "classical" music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture—in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the 1960s, Michael Long's entertaining and illuminating book surveys a complex cultural field and draws connections between "classical music" (as the phrase is understood in the United States) and selected "monster hits" of popular music. Addressing such wide-ranging subjects as surf music, Yiddish theater, Hollywood film scores, Freddie Mercury, Alfred Hitchcock, psychedelia, rap, disco, and video games, Long proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. Beautiful Monsters brilliantly considers the ways in which critical commonplaces like nostalgia, sentiment, triviality, and excess might be applied with greater nuance to musical media and media reception. It takes into account twentieth-century media's capacity to suggest visual and acoustical depth and the redemptive possibilities that lie beyond the surface elements of filmic narrative or musical style, showing us what a truly global view of late twentieth-century music in its manifold cultural and social contexts might be like.

Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of California Press

Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which "classical" music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture―in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the 1960s, Michael Long's entertaining and illuminating book surveys a complex cultural field and draws connections between "classical music" (as the phrase is understood in the United States) and selected "monster hits" of popular music. Addressing such wide-ranging subjects as surf music, Yiddish theater, Hollywood film scores, Freddie Mercury, Alfred Hitchcock, psychedelia, rap, disco, and video games, Long proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. Beautiful Monsters brilliantly considers the ways in which critical commonplaces like nostalgia, sentiment, triviality, and excess might be applied with greater nuance to musical media and media reception. It takes into account twentieth-century media's capacity to suggest visual and acoustical depth and the redemptive possibilities that lie beyond the surface elements of filmic narrative or musical style, showing us what a truly global view of late twentieth-century music in its manifold cultural and social contexts might be like.

Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media (Volume 10)

Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too political to describe the host of a children’s program known for its focus on feelings. We have restricted Fred Rogers to the realm of entertainment, children, and feelings, and we’ve ripped him out of his political and religious context. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister, and although he rarely shared his religious convictions on his program, he fervently believed in a God who accepts us as we are and who desires a world marked by peace and wholeness. With this progressive spirituality as his inspiration, Rogers used his children’s program as a platform for sharing countercultural beliefs about caring nonviolently for one another, animals, and the earth.
To critics who dared call him “namby-pamby,” Rogers said, “Only people who take the time to see our work can begin to understand the depth of it.” This is the invitation of Peaceful Neighbor, to see and understand Rogers’s convictions and their expression through his program. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, it turns out, is far from sappy, sentimental, and shallow; it’s a sharp political response to a civil and political society poised to kill.

Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Westminster/John Knox Press

Macbeth (Harvester new critical introductions to Shakespeare)

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

TWAYNE'S NEW CRITCAL INSTRUCIONS TO SHAKESPEARE HOW TO UNDESTAND IT

Macbeth (Twayne's New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare)

Dramas & Plays

Twayne Pub

This authoritative and comprehensive anthology contains classic, ground-breaking articles which present the rationale behind current methodology and identify specific applications suitable for a wide range of teaching situations. Introductory notes, written by the volume editors, precede each section and provide a cohesive overview of subjects treated. Discussion questions and suggestions for further reading give in-depth attention to each topic and alert readers to important differences of opinion.

Methodology in TESOL: A Book of Readings

Reference

Richards, Jack

English as a Second Language

Heinle ELT

A personal and financial retirement planning guide for lawyers.

Lawyers at Midlife: Laying the Groundwork for the Road Ahead

Clyde, John

Funk, Pat

Legal Education

Niche Pr

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