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Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company

Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company

This anthology celebrates more than twenty-five years of the Negro Ensemble Company’s significant contribution to American theater by collecting the ten plays most representative of the Company’s eclectic nature.

Dangerous Men

Dangerous Men

Winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Dangerous Men contains a wide variety of distinct voices, peculiar characters, and odd settings, with tantalizing emphasis on lonliness, loss, and the ever-present struggle to find one’s place in the world. These are stories you will not forget.

The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania

The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania

The new edition of this long unavailable classic features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Containing 416 black-and-white photographs, 81 measured drawings and an extensive text, this volume presents a splendid array of the early dwellings, barns, and other outbuildings, churches, arsenals, banks, inns, commercial buildings, tollhouses, mills, and even tombstones of western Pennsylvania.

Strategic Disagreement

Strategic Disagreement

Stalemate in American Politics

Although compromise is an inherent part of politics, many politicians chose not to adjust their goals for fear of losing supporters or a strong debate position. It is the strategies of these office holders that John Gilmour describes in Strategic Disagreement, illuminating lost opportunities to pass important legislation resulting from such disagreements.

The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925

The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925

A Documentary History
Edited By John C. Brereton

This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers’ testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.

Winner, 1997 CCCC Outstanding Book Award

Mad River

Mad River

Winner of the 1994 Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize and the 2000 Creative Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Between Languages and Cultures

Between Languages and Cultures

Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts

The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One

Government, Business, and Environmental Change

Now back in print, this is a pioneering analysis of an elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal, that has become the classic model for all such redevelopment projects.

All-American Girl

All-American Girl

Winner of the 1996 Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two

The Post-Steel Era

This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.

Departures

Departures

The stories in this extraordinary collection are set in Northern Ireland, specifically Belfast, the center for more than thirty years of fighting between Roman Catholic nationalists and Protestants loyal to the British crown. Cornell’s stories explore the emotional and psychological consequences of the struggle to endure not only violence, but loss, failure, and the inability to believe.

Thomas Mellon And His Times

Thomas Mellon And His Times

Publicly available for the first time, Pittsburgh entrepreneur, judge, and banker Thomas Mellon’s autobiography includes maps and rarely seen photographs. The preface by his grandson Paul Mellon and the foreword by David McCullough, along with the introduction, notes, and afterword by University of Pittsburgh professor Mary Briscoe, provide a historical and social context.

Toward a Feminist Rhetoric

Toward a Feminist Rhetoric

The Writing of Gertrude Buck

JoAnn Campbell has created the first collection of the major work of innovative thinker and educator Gertrude Buck. Examples of her writings on rhetorical theory, argumentative and expository composition, and other works demonstrate, along with Campbell’s informative introduction, the importance of Buck’s achievements in the male-dominated world of rhetorical composition.

Debt Wish

Debt Wish

Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development

Albert Sbragia considers American urban government as an investor whether for building infrastructure or supporting economic development. Over time, such investment has become disconnected from the normal political and administrative processes of local policymaking through the use of special public spending authorities like water and sewer commissions and port, turnpike, and public power authorities.

Poems Of The River Spirit

Poems Of The River Spirit

The locales of these poems range from the mountains of western Pennsylvania to the Andes, the subjects from memories of Kilwein Guevara’s native Colombia to a New York street scene. What characterizes all of them is precise and surprising language, a brilliance of effect, that establishes him as one of the most original young American poets.

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