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Throughout his writing life Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall's celebrated career, and includes poems recently published in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and the New York Times. It is Hall's first selected volume in fifteen ye...

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Reading Sexualities' shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being challenged and changed, and argues that by approaching the reading of sexualities responsibly, we become active participants in the political, empowering process of reading the self through the perspective of the other.

Donald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political, and psychological threats to patriarchy, the fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender roles and their own positions of power.

Die musikalische Akustik bietet die einmalige Möglichkeit, Wissenschaft und Kunst miteinander vereint zu erleben. Dieses Buch ist für ein einführendes Studium dieser im akademischen Lehrbetrieb oft vernachlässigten Materie gedacht - indem es weder wissenschaftliche noch musikalische Vorkenntnisse voraussetzt, ist es lesbar für den Neuling, aber gleichzeitig von Interesse für den erfahrenen Musiker. Seine klare Struktur, die einzigartige didakt...

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In "The Academic Community: A Manual for Change, "Donald E. Hall builds on his earlier "The Academic Self: An Owner's Manual" (2002) and confronts the most pressing issues in higher education today: the coherence of undergraduate instruction, priorities in graduate training, public perceptions of colleges and universities, and collegiality and cohesion within departments and institutions. Drawing on the dialogue-based theories of the German ph...

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Sometimes playful, always provocative, Professions is a collection of searching and candid conversations -- ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes -- on the issues that face literary and cultural critics today.This volume bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. Professions provides hard-to-get insider information for students contemplating an academic career. It also challe...

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Musical acoustics presents a unique opportunity to see science and art working together. This book is a balanced presentation of all aspects of musical acoustics. It explains how our ears and brains interpret musical events, and connects traditional physical analyses to musical reality. The purpose of the book is two fold: (1) To help students use simple physical concepts as tools for understanding how music works, and (2) To use students' int...