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Mahalia Jackson: Singer

Mahalia Jackson: Singer

Charles K. Wolfe

A biography of the renowned gospel singer who hoped, through her art, to break down some of the barriers between black and white people.
Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship

Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship

Marjorie Heins

21. Dorothy Singer, Diana Zuckerman & Jerome Singer, “Helping Elementary School Children Learn About TV,” Journal of Communication 30(3), summer 1980: 84-93, 86. 22. Wanda Rapaczynski, Dorothy Singer & Jerome Singer, “ Teaching ...
Judaica Reference Sources: A Selective, Annotated ...

Judaica Reference Sources: A Selective, Annotated ...

Charles Cutter

In addition, he lists translations of Singer's works into English. This bibliography is continued by Roberta Saltzman in Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Bibliography of His Works in Yiddish and English, 1960-1991 (entry 2.37). 2.35 Moonan, Willard.
Gifts

Gifts

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gifts is a limited cloth-bound edition of six Singer stories, including “Gifts” in English and its original Yiddish. A beautiful slip-cased book that is perfect for I.B. Singer’s devoted readers.
Ray Charles: Soul Man

Ray Charles: Soul Man

Ruth Turk

A biography of the popular singer, who became blind as a young boy.
The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love

Irving Singer

In this second volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer returns to the subject of his earlier work, exploring a different approach.
The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, "Gimpel the Fool," in 1957, until 1981.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Adele: Soulful Singer

Adele: Soulful Singer

Heather E. Schwartz

7 Owen Tonks, “Adele Awarded MBE by Prince Charles and Calls Her Trip to Buckingham Palace 'Very Posh Indeed,'” Mirror, December 19, 2013, http://www. mirror.co.uk/3am /celebrity-news/adele-awarded-mbe-prince-charles-2943705.
The Singer's Gun

The Singer's Gun

Emily St. John Mandel

But there is someone on his tail and they are getting closer . . . The Singer's Gun follows Anton, Alex Broden - a detective on the trail of a people trafficker, and Elena, caught up in the investigation against her will.
The Singer-Songwriter Handbook

The Singer-Songwriter Handbook

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The use of the term “roots” in this chapter generally refers to the more contemporary musicians or singer-songwriters (from roughly the late 1980s onward) who are influenced by the same vernacular music (to borrow Benjamin Filene's use of ...
The Creation of Value

The Creation of Value

Irving Singer

" In The Creation of Value, the first volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer studies the nature of imagination, idealization, and love in the context of humanity's attempt to define itself through the pursuit of meanings and values ...
Lost in America

Lost in America

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Singer, a Nobel Prize-winning author, reminisces about his leaving his friends in Poland in the 1930's, his coming to America to join his brother in New York, and his experiences in this strange new land.
My Heart...My Love

My Heart...My Love

Maggie Sims

As the story unfolds, the reader uncovers the heights of a renowned 18th century singer juxtaposed to the seedy, treacherous existence of castrati. the amorous adventure of a young singer begins in Italy and takes him to the court of King ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Bibliography of His Works in ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Bibliography of His Works in ...

Roberta Saltzman

The text is divided into three sections, each arranged alphabetically. section A lists Singer's contributions to the Yiddish newspaper press; each entry includes the Yiddish title exactly as it appears in the original, an English ...
Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up

Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up

Irving Singer

Singer's writing on love embodies what he has learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other authors in the field and "trying to get a little further." This book continues his trailblazing explorations.
Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, ...

Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, ...

Jane Stadler

2001. “Television, Children and Multicultural Awareness: Comprehending the Medium in a Complex Multimedia Society.” In Handbook ofChildren and the Media, ed. Dorothy Singer and Jerome Singer, 359–374. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the ...

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the ...

P. W. Singer

In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the great­est revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare.
Meaning in Life

Meaning in Life

Irving Singer

This final book in Irving Singer's Meaning in Life trilogy studies the interaction between nature and the values that define human spirituality.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman.
Shosha

Shosha

Isaac Bashevis Singer

In the face of unimaginable horror, he chooses to stay... One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most personal works, Shosha is an unforgettable novel about conflicted desires, lost lives and the redemption of one man.
Television and Families

Television and Families

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Victoria Socha Dorothy Singer Jerome and Dorothy Singer George Comstock Astonish Me! Welcome to the Revolution Good Guys Make Good Shows Gary Goldberg in Conversation Family Ties: Sex at Sixteen? TV Violence: What's All the ...
Pharrell Williams: Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter & ...

Pharrell Williams: Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter & ...

Alexis Burling

Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter and Producer Alexis Burling. CONTEMPORARY LIVES GRAMMY-WINNING SINGER, SONGWRITER & PRODUCER www.abdopublishing.com Published by Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO, PO.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life

Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life

Janet Hadda

Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom, and unerring feel for the ...
Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

James Porter

Combining biography, folklore, oral history, and ethnomusicology, this book explores the life and repertoire of the Scottish traditional singer Jeannie Robertson (1908-1975) - an artist whom Alan Lomax hailed as "a monumental figure in ...
X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

Ray Davies

The Kinks lead singer and songwriter tells the story of his life and career to a nameless writer hired by "the Corporation" to be the rock singer's biographer, offering a vivid account of London, the swinging 1960s rock scene, and such ...
Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique

Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique

Irving Singer

In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united.

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