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A Sense of Place

Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

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In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who ... Read more

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In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who
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The Creative Spark

How musicians, writers, explorers, and other artists found their inner fire and followed their dreams

by Michael Shapiro ...

Who is the market?Anyone who appreciates creativity or seeks to be creativeFans or the musicians, writers and other creative people interviewed in the bookAnyone who loves music and/or literature and wants to know the stories behind some of the great works of our timesSelf-improvers, seekers, and the intellectually curiousArtists and other creative types including writers, musicians, painters, ... Read more

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Who is the market?Anyone who appreciates creativity or seeks to be creativeFans or the musicians, writers and other creative people interviewed in the bookAnyone who loves music and/or literature and wants to know the stories behind some of the great works of our timesSelf-improvers, seekers, and the intellectually curiousArtists and other creative types including writers, musicians, painters,
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Living a Purposeful Life

Searching for Meaning in All the Wrong Places

by Kalman J. Kaplan ...

While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing and invigorating. No people seemed to search for meaning in their lives more than did the ancient and classical Greeks. They were not content with living simple lives but oftentimes took on gargantuan tasks ... Read more

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While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing and invigorating. No people seemed to search for meaning in their lives more than did the ancient and classical Greeks. They were not content with living simple lives but oftentimes took on gargantuan tasks
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American Deadline

Reporting from Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era

by Greg Glassner, Charles Richardson, Sandra Sanchez, Jason Togyer ...

Series series Columbia Journalism Review Books
The dramatic events of 2020—the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice—affected every corner of American life. What did these events mean for the residents of small towns and cities that are often overlooked by national newspapers? How do local stories change when they are told by journalists with roots in these communities? And what is lost as this kind of ... Read more

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The dramatic events of 2020—the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice—affected every corner of American life. What did these events mean for the residents of small towns and cities that are often overlooked by national newspapers? How do local stories change when they are told by journalists with roots in these communities? And what is lost as this kind of
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American Deadline

Reporting from Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era

by Greg Glassner, Charles Richardson, Sandra Sanchez, Jason Togyer ...

Series series Columbia Journalism Review Books
The dramatic events of 2020—the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice—affected every corner of American life. What did these events mean for the residents of small towns and cities that are often overlooked by national newspapers? How do local stories change when they are told by journalists with roots in these communities? And what is lost as this kind of ... Read more

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The dramatic events of 2020—the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice—affected every corner of American life. What did these events mean for the residents of small towns and cities that are often overlooked by national newspapers? How do local stories change when they are told by journalists with roots in these communities? And what is lost as this kind of
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The Logic of Language

A Semiotic Study of Speech

by Michael Shapiro ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign ... Read more

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This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign
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The Quest for the Golden Honey

by Michael Shapiro ...

Young bees strike out on their own in a pirate ship in search of treasure.Captain Mark and the rest of the baby bees have the adventure of their lives as they run into a notorious villain bee.Can they get past the villain bee and get the treasure? ... Read more

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Young bees strike out on their own in a pirate ship in search of treasure.Captain Mark and the rest of the baby bees have the adventure of their lives as they run into a notorious villain bee.Can they get past the villain bee and get the treasure?
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Genre and the City

Edited by Michael Shapiro ...

This book’s chapters analyze aspects of urban politics with a combination of critical thinking (influenced by Walter Benjamin, Jacques Ranciere, Henri Lefebvre, and Achille Mbembe, among others) and readings of artistic genres (film, literature, and architecture). The coverage of cities includes, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Nairobi, Boston, Berlin and Hong Kong. ... Read more

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This book’s chapters analyze aspects of urban politics with a combination of critical thinking (influenced by Walter Benjamin, Jacques Ranciere, Henri Lefebvre, and Achille Mbembe, among others) and readings of artistic genres (film, literature, and architecture). The coverage of cities includes, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Nairobi, Boston, Berlin and Hong Kong.
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Wrestling with Shylock

Jewish Responses to The Merchant of Venice

Edited by Edna Nahshon, Michael Shapiro ...

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments. In the ... Read more

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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments. In the
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Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman

Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal

Edited by Florentina C.Andreescu, Michael Shapiro ...

Series series Interventions
This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed, represented, and embodied in communist societies and on its transformation resulting from the political, economic, and social changes specific to the post-communist social and political transitions.During the communist period, the ... Read more

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This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed, represented, and embodied in communist societies and on its transformation resulting from the political, economic, and social changes specific to the post-communist social and political transitions.During the communist period, the
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Integral Representations For Spatial Models of Mathematical Physics

by Vladislav V Kravchenko, Michael Shapiro ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
This book provides a new mathematical theory for the treatment of an ample series of spatial problems of electrodynamics, particle physics, quantum mechanics and elasticity theory. This technique proves to be as powerful for solving the spatial problems of mathematical physics as complex analysis is for solving planar problems. The main analytic tool of the book, a non-harmonic version of ... Read more

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This book provides a new mathematical theory for the treatment of an ample series of spatial problems of electrodynamics, particle physics, quantum mechanics and elasticity theory. This technique proves to be as powerful for solving the spatial problems of mathematical physics as complex analysis is for solving planar problems. The main analytic tool of the book, a non-harmonic version of
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Integral Theorems for Functions and Differential Forms in C(m)

by Reynaldo Rocha-Chavez, Michael Shapiro, Frank Sommen ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
The theory of holomorphic functions of several complex variables emerged from the attempt to generalize the theory in one variable to the multidimensional situation. Research in this area has led to the discovery of many sophisticated facts, structures, ideas, relations, and applications. This deepening of knowledge, however, has also revealed more ... Read more

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The theory of holomorphic functions of several complex variables emerged from the attempt to generalize the theory in one variable to the multidimensional situation. Research in this area has led to the discovery of many sophisticated facts, structures, ideas, relations, and applications. This deepening of knowledge, however, has also revealed more
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