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This book proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, and of the modernist period more generally, Jean Toomer's Cane (1923)--or rather, a way not to read Cane. Rather than focusing on the form of the book published by Boni and Liveright, what Toomer would later call a single textual "organism, " John K. Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines fr...

Judy Young (1940--2015) was a gifted but private poet. Over the years, she established provisional collections of her best work but refrained from seeking publication due to her trepidation with sharing her deeply personal poems with an audience. She found her voice in a collective group of creatives that included Susan Starr Richards, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, and the late Donna Boyd, Jane Gentry, Audrey Robinson, and Carolyn Hisel. This illustri...

In this fascinating tour of the way our brains control our most basic drives, John Young takes a small part of the human anatomy and explains its role in the regulation of our basic needs and desires, including sex, sleep, thirst, hunger and more. Drawing on the latest research, he conveys even complex ideas in accessible and enjoyable fashion.

This book is intended to be an accessible introduction to the cell biology of mammalian cells for junior or senior undergraduate students who have already had an introduction to biological sciences. This engaging and stimulating text focuses on current controversies in cell biology. To solve these puzzles, the reader will learn how to answer a number of fundamental yet hard-hitting questions in the field. He or she is thus able to approach the...

This book is intended to be an accessible introduction to the cell biology of mammalian cells for junior or senior undergraduate students who have already had an introduction to biological sciences. This engaging and stimulating text focuses on current controversies in cell biology. To solve these puzzles, the reader will learn how to answer a number of fundamental yet hard-hitting questions in the field. He or she is thus able to approach the...

Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else, but until the last 10 years or so, the precise reasons why these passions arise have not been understood very well. We now know that these, and other drives like the urge to sleep, are controlled by a small portion of the brain called the hypothalamus. This book presents the latest information about how the brain cont...

A thoughtful examination of rough drafts and marketing pressures that reveal conflicts and compromises between five great authors and their publishers

Offers the first book-length study of Tim O'Brien's archival papers at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O'Brien's works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such key texts as Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods.

These little stories tell about the adventures of a family that went up into the bush country of Northern Ontario back in the early 1900s. Someone who has never been to an undeveloped country, who has never had to fend for himself in the wild, who has never seen a bad brush fire can hardly imagine what it was like. But this family squatted on an abandoned homestead and over many years they hewed out a nice little home in the woods by a river. ...

Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature by John K. Young Jean Toomer's Cane was advertised as "a book about Negroes by a Negro, " despite his request not to promote the book along such racial lines. Nella Larsen switched the title of her second novel from Nig to Passing, because an editor felt the original title "might be too inflammatory." In order to publish his first novel as a ...

Sharp managers and entrepreneurs nowadays make it their business to have a good working knowledge of economics. That's because they know that trying to conduct business without a solid grasp of such essential economic facts of life as gross domestic product, the Federal Reserve, rates of exchange, inflation and unemployment, and the balance of trade would be like trying to sail without the proper navigational tools. Now The Portable MBA in Eco...