<p>This publication marks the long overdue appearance in English of Jean Norton Cru's controversial classic on the nature of war, as told in the words of witnesses, the French soldiers in the trenches of World War I. "War Books: A Study in Historical Criticism" is a translation, by the author himself, of his work entitled "Testimony (Du Témoignage," Paris, 1931). Cru, French born and educated, was for many years both before and after the war a professor of French literature at Williams College. During the war he was engaged in some of the severest fighting before Verdun. "Testimony," here presented as "War Books," the title chosen by Cru himself, is a shortened version of the author's "Witnesses (Témoins," Paris, 1929), a monumental study of some three hundred renderings-diaries, memoirs, reflections, letters, novels-by French combat soldiers telling of their experiences and impressions of the war. Cru's selected editing preserves much of the critical and analytical introduction of the larger work and retains the bibliography, while reducing the number of authors excerpted. Originally published in 1988.</p>

War Books: A Study in Historical Criticism

History

Jean Norton Cru

Military

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Both scholarly and readable, "The Unseen Elderly" provides a fascinating study of elderly persons who live in the marginal social and economic environments of single-room occupancy hotels in America's inner cities. Urban anthropologist J. Kevin Eckert lived and worked in such hotels in the redeveloping area of downtown San Diego for over a year while he conducted this unique examination of the lives, values, norms, and special problems of the elderly residents and persons with whom they interacted. This book gives new information and fresh insight into the lives of a little studied category of the elderly and a unique perspective on the total environment of the downtown area of a major city. Originally published in 1980.

Unseen Elderly: A Study of Marginally Subsistent Hotel Dwellers

Politics & Social Sciences

Eckert, J. Kevin, Ph.D.

Social Sciences

Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind (Sdsu Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture Series)

Medical Books

CHOMSKY, Noam.

Psychology

Art historian Ida Katherine Rigby's Alle Künstler! War, Revolution, Weimar: German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters, and Periodicals allows readers to experience the anguish, frustration, and desperate experimentation which characterized German society in the wake of its bitter defeat in World War I. This cultural tumult (and ensuing aesthetic revolution) are nowhere more apparent than in the graphic posters, prints, and book/periodical illustrations produced by German Expressionist artists who joined the effort to reshape society between 1918 and 1922. In a bracing and profusely illustrated study, Rigby analyzes these artists' attempts to integrate art into the movement for social reform, and their eventual disillusioned withdrawal into realism. Although such well known artists as Kàuathe Kollwitz, George Grosz, and Otto Dix are given full consideration, an important feature of this book is the attention it pays to the minor figures who, many argue, were the most characteristic representatives of the Expressionist movement. Originally published in 1987, this classic work from the SDSU Press catalogue features over 100 illustrations. Includes index and a foreword Earl A. Powell, III. ISBN: 0-916304-62-0 large, 8.5x11 paperback Pages: 118 $28.00 retail second edition, corrected, 1987 first edition, 1983

Alle Kunstler: War--Revolution--Weimar : German Expressionist Prints, Posters, and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation

Rigby, Ida Katherine

Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Journey is a lavishly designed, hardback account of the life of an American original; authored by Jess Stoddart Flemion, a professor emerita, History, San Diego State University. Flemion co-wrote the book  with Coleen O'Connor.

Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Journey

Flemion, Jess

<p>Presented in this volume are the results of anthropological and ethnomusicological field research into the roles and meanings of music in village life in the Bhojpuri-speaking area of India (eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar). In describing the main occasions of which music is an important part, such as weddings, births, and mother goddess worship, "Chant the Names of God" shows how music responds to its social and cultural contexts. Transliterations and translations of over one hundred texts are included, along with musical transcriptions of representative songs, and photographs of musical performances. Originally published in 1988.</p>

Chant the Names of God: Musical Culture in Bhojpuri-Speaking India

Arts & Photography

Henry, Edward O.

Music

'One of history's most impressive field studies; an instant animal classic' TIMEJane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa.  It is a landmark for everyone to enjoy.

In the Shadow of Man (Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture, 4th)

Science & Math

Goodall,Jane

Biological Sciences

Clifford E. Trafzer is Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has published many books and articles, including Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest which he co-authored with Richard D. Scheuerman. This volume won the Governor's Award for the best non-fiction work on Northwest history. Richard D. Scheuerman is Associate Director of Soviet and East European Studies in Wheaton, Illinois. He has published several books on American Indian History, Including Wenatchi Indians: Guardians of the Valley which won the Robert Gray Book Award

Mourning Doves Stories

Jonathan Miller's Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture addresses the implications of repeated live performances for establishing a play's definitive text. Physician, author, stage producer, and director, Miller has produced twelve plays in the acclaimed BBC Shakespeare Series, directed six of them, and has directed at least a dozen opera productions for the English National and Frankfurt Opera Companies.wikiBIO: Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and has since become one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. His best-known production is probably his 1982 "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. In its early days he was an associate director at the Royal National Theatre and later he ran the Old Vic Theatre. He has also become a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in Britain and the United States of America.

The Afterlife of Plays (University Research Lecture Series No. 5)

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Jonathan

History & Criticism

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8 - 9 tall; 250 pages; Description: xii, 250 p. , 2 p. of plates : ill. (some col. ) ; 24 cm. Subjects: Jackson, Everett Gee (1900-1995) --Artists --United States --Biography

Goat Tails and Doodlebugs: A Journey Toward Art

Jackson, Everett Gee

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