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The Intimate Act Of Choreography

The Intimate Act Of Choreography

Finally, a comprehensive book that covers all aspects of choreography from the most fundamental techniques to highly sophisticated artistic concerns. The Intimate Act of Choreography presents the what and how of choreography in a workable format that begins with basics – time, space, force – and moves on to the more complex issues faced by the intermediate and advanced choreographer – form, style, abstraction, compositional structures, and choreographic devices.

The Metafictional Muse

The Metafictional Muse

The Works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass

McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass.

Selected Poems, 1969-1981

Selected Poems, 1969-1981

Shelton assembles the best of his previous work together with a selection of new poems.

Juan Peron and the Reshaping of Argentina

Juan Peron and the Reshaping of Argentina

Although Juan Peron changed the course of modern Argentine history, scholars have often interpreted him in terms of their own ideologies and interests, rather than seeing the effect of this man and his movement had on the Argentine people. These essays seek to uncover the man behind the myth, to define the true nature of Peronism.

More than Moonshine

More than Moonshine

A Narrative Cookbook Recounting the Southern Appalachian Way of Life in the Mid-Twentieth Century

The Spencers of Amberson Avenue

The Spencers of Amberson Avenue

A Turn-of-the-Century Memoir

This memoir introduces the family of Charles Hart Spencer and his wife Mary Acheson: seven children born between 1884 and 1895. It also introduces a large Victorian house in Shadyside (a Pittsburgh neighborhood) and a middle-class way of life at the turn of the century and includes family photographs taken by Mr. Spencer, who was a talented amateur photographer.

Blue Like The Heavens

Blue Like The Heavens

New and Selected Poems

“Aliveness is Gary Gildner’s striking quality,” Crystal McLean writes in the magazine New Letters, and thise selection of Gary Gildner’s previously published poems, plus eighteen new poems, demonstrates the aptness of that perception. Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Blue Like the Heavens also possess great emotional depth. Readers who complain about the obscurity of contemporary American poetry will delight in this book.

Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia

Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia

Ideology and Industrial Organization, 1917-1921

A profile of the Bolshevik attempt to build a a new state by mobilizing the working class, in effect building society, that in the end resulted in failed institutions and weakened bureaucracy.

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