Fourth Person Singular

Fourth Person Singular
Author: Nuar Alsadir
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786940191

Original and ambitious poetry that makes readers pay attention to the current conversation about the nature of lyric and human relationships in the 21st century.

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
Author: Nuar Alsadir
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781913097950

Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.

Master of Poisons

Master of Poisons
Author: Andrea Hairston
Publisher: Tordotcom
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250260558

“This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is medicine for a broken world." —Daniel José Older Named a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020 Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile. Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men. Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Nuer Conquest

The Nuer Conquest
Author: Raymond Case Kelly
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1985
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780472080564

A study of Nuer expansionism with implications for research into the relationship between social and material causes of change

Academia's Golden Age

Academia's Golden Age
Author: Richard M. Freeland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 545
Release: 1992
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 0195054644

This book examines the evolution of American universities during the years following World War II. Emphasizing the importance of change at the campus level, the book combines a general consideration of national trends with a close study of eight diverse universities in Massachusetts. Theeight are Harvard, M.I.T., Tufts, Brandeis, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts. Broad analytic chapters examine major developments like expansion, the rise of graduate education and research, the professionalization of the faculty, and the decline ofgeneral education. These chapters also review criticisms of academia that arose in the late 1960s and the fate of various reform proposals during the 1970s. Additional chapters focus on the eight campuses to illustrate the forces that drove different kinds of institutions--research universities,college-centered universities, urban private universities and public universities--in responding to the circumstances of the postwar years.

Poems

Poems
Author: James B. Dollard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1910
Genre:
ISBN:

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis
Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2011-06-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 030779783X

From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with “Aaron Green,” a Freudian analyst in New York City. Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its development in the United States. It provides rare insight into the contradictory world of psychoanalytic training and treatment and a foundation for our understanding of psychiatry and mental health. "Janet Malcom has managed somehow to peer into the reticent, reclusive world of psychoanalysis and to report to us, with remarkable fidelity, what she has seen. When I began reading I thought condescendingly, 'She will get the facts right, and everything else wrong.' She does get the facts right, but far more pressive, she has been able to capture and convey the claustral atmosphere of the profession. Her book is journalism become art." —Joseph Andelson, The New York Times Book Review

More Shadow Than Bird

More Shadow Than Bird
Author: Nuar Alsadir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 9781844718870

The poems in More Shadow Than Bird are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived. The quirky perspective and musical surface of these poems makes them engaging— deceptively catchy, even— as a mysterious darkness tows from beneath to draw the reader deeper in. This consciousness, even as it operates on a more philosophical level, is embodied—not abstract or removed— conveying a sense of rawness and honesty that is rare in non-representational work.

Nuar

Nuar
Author: Cassandra Chandler
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781945702877

A love that spans the galaxy--a bond that won't be denied.The Cygnian people are facing extinction. Offspring are rare and almost all are male. Without hope for finding a soulmate and creating a family of his own, Nuar follows his crown prince on a strange mission to a primitive planet filled with sentients whose apparent fragility hides strengths he would never have expected.Lian Wei wants to keep working on her agricultural research without distractions. She's one of the few Earthlings who know that aliens exist--and that they need Earth's help to survive on worlds ravaged by overharvesting their resources. To make things worse, a new faction has risen in the galaxy determined to wage war.The Cygnians have been neutral in the battles up to now, but with their sudden and unexpected interest in Earth, there's a chance at an alliance that could further protect the aliens Lian now calls friends. She wants to help, but when Nuar and his fellow Cygnian warriors arrive in her home town, she can't seem to get a grip on her reaction to Nuar.Together, will they find a path to a better future for both of their people, or will their fears and preconceptions destroy their chance at a happy ever after?