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American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum [2 ...

American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum [2 ...

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Knopf, Kerstin, ed. North America in the 21st Century: Tribal, Local, and Global. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011. Knopf, Kerstin. “What, Are the Indians—Blue Now? Avatar's Tribal and Global Contents.” In Kerstin Knopf ...
Marea şi civilizaţia: o istorie maritimă a lumii

Marea şi civilizaţia: o istorie maritimă a lumii

Lincoln Paine

Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilization. A Maritime History of the World Copyright © 2013 by Lincoln Paine All rights reserved. This translation published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Group, ...
Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada

Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada

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Kerstin Knopf, University of Greifswald, Germany Kerstin Knopf holds an ma in American/Canadian, Hispanic and Scandinavian Studies and a PhD from the University of Greifswald in Germany. Her dissertation Decolonizing the Lens ofPower: ...
Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International ...

Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International ...

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KERSTIN KNOPF In Memory of Alootook Ipellie ... discusses the film's two sources: the ethnological colonial one (the journals of Rasmussen and FOUR The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History Post/Colonial Cinema Kerstin Knopf.
New Outlook

New Outlook

Alfred Emanuel Smith

By John Thomas Goodrich. Farrar and Rinehart. $2.00. A first novel by a young writer of great promise, about the unsheltered life in a religious college in the South. one more spring. By Robert Nathan. Knopf. $2.50. An almost too gende satire ...
New York Magazine

New York Magazine

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The Living and the Dead BY PAUL HENDRICKSON Alfred A. Knopf; 427 pages; $27.50 RISTOTECHNOCRAT ROBERT MCNAMARA, "AR- chitect" of the Vietnam War (if such a mess can be said to have been designed), is rivaled only by ...
The Director as Collaborator

The Director as Collaborator

Robert Knopf

New to the second edition: updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites new chapter on devised and ensemble-based ...
Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, ...

Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, ...

Robert Knopf

Based largely on concepts derived from Stanislavski's system of acting and method acting, the book focuses on action - what characters do to each other in specific circumstances, times, and places - as the engine of every play.
The Director as Collaborator

The Director as Collaborator

Robert Knopf

... side D. Mr. Puffer: Franklin Davis, Dan Post Agnes: Jane Calvert, Karen Linder 5 pm, side E: Narrator: Jenna Braun, Ashley Bueller, Valerie Smith I expect to post the cast list by Monday morning at noon, assuming there are no conflicts.
Marjorie Main: The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle"

Marjorie Main: The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle"

Michelle Vogel

Parish, James Robert, and William T. Leonard. The Funsters. New York: Arlington House, ¡979. Pasternak, Joe. Easy the Hard Way. New York: G.P Putnam's Sons, ¡956. Peters, Margot. The House of Barrymore. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ¡990 ...
South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics ...

South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics ...

Philip G. Grose

(See Ernest McPherson Lander Jr., A History of South Carolina, 1865-1960, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960, 172, and V. O. Key Jr., Southern Politics in State and Nation, New York: Knopf, 1949, 628.) Waring, whose ...
A Chef's Tale: A Memoir of Food, France, and America

A Chef's Tale: A Memoir of Food, France, and America

Pierre Franey

Originally published: New York: A.A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1994.
Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North ...

Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North ...

Kerstin Knopf

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto reasons that this self/other opposition does “not only fix the non-West as the object to be appropriated, but also transform[s] serious political issues into bad philosophical questions,” and that it furthermore is a.
Anthony Wayne: A Name in Arms

Anthony Wayne: A Name in Arms

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Richard C. Knopf presents a thorough account of the third campaign of the Indian Wars (1790-1795) told through the correspondence of Major General Anthony Wayne and the three Secretaries of War under whom he served: Knox, Pickering, and ...
What We See When We Read

What We See When We Read

Peter Mendelsund

In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature—he considers ...
The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that ...

The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that ...

Diana Fuss

3. Michael Anagnos, HelenKeller: A SecondLauraBridgman, 56th Annual Reportof the PerkinsInstitutionand Massachusetts School forthe Blind, 1888, 10– 14. Cited in Dorothy Herrmann, Helen Keller: ALife (NewYork: AlfredA.Knopf, 1998), 64.
CUM Notis Variorum

CUM Notis Variorum

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The 1982 edition of Barbara Kur- off's Song writer's market: where to sell your songs has just been published in Cincinnati by Writer's Digest ($12). Andrew Porter's Music of Three More Seasons: 1977-1980 was issued by Knopf in September ...
Canada from the Outside In. Le Canada Vu D'ailleurs: New ...

Canada from the Outside In. Le Canada Vu D'ailleurs: New ...

Pierre Anctil

Aboriginal Media on the Move An Outside Perspective on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Kerstin Knopf In the past few years we have witnessed the emergence of global mediascapes, a massive influence of Western (mostly ...
Rascal: A Dog and His Boy

Rascal: A Dog and His Boy

Ken Wells

Ken Wells. THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF This is a wotl: of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual ...
1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism

1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism

Nicole Eustace

“Bainbridge's Victory; or, Huzza for the Constitution Once More!,” c. ... in Nineteenth-Century New York (New York: Knopf, 1998); C. Dallett Hemphill, “ Isaac and 'Isabella': Courtship and Conflict in an Antebellum Circle ofYouth,” Early American ...
The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students ...

The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students ...

Tim Clydesdale

Other helpful typologies have been provided by Mary Grigsby (College Life, 92) and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (New York: Knopf, 1987). 4.
Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

Charles A. Riley, II

Greenwood Press, 1994. Nielsen, KimE. The Radical Livesof Helen Keller.New York: NewYork UniversityPress,2004. Niesser,Arden. The Other Sideof Silence: SignLanguage and theDeafCommunity in America.New York: Knopf, 1983.
Debating American Exceptionalism: Empire and Democracy in ...

Debating American Exceptionalism: Empire and Democracy in ...

F. Hilfrich

Frederick Merk, Manifest Destinyand Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation(New York: AlfredA. Knopf,1970), 24–34; ThomasR.Hietala, ManifestDesign: AmericanExceptionalism andEmpire (2nded., Ithaca: Cornell University Press, ...
Darling

Darling

Frederic Raphael

It was all happening. “Diana?” “Yes. Who's that?” “I rang to congratulateyou.” “ Robert?” “Robert? Who's Robert?” “Who is that?” “I read you're about torollwith Maxim.” “That's notyou,Mai, is it?” “Robert! Mai!What afull lifeyoumust lead.” “ Miles?
Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia

Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia

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Accordingly, Kerstin Knopf, in her comprehensive study of North American Indigenous filmmaking, aptly entitled Decolonizing the Lens of Power, argues that such a decolonization process works in a twofold manner: first, as a political struggle, ...
Jackson Squared

Jackson Squared

Smallwood F. Robert

Smallwood F. Robert, F. Smallwood Robert F. Smallwood. Acclaim for,. ROBERT. SMALLWOOD'S. WRITING “Robert Smallwood writes in a feral style... unique & gutsy and what I call writing without a net!” -- Rex Reed, New York Observer ...
Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of ...

Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of ...

Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

... and Public Policy(Baltimore:JohnsHopkins University Press, 2001); Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer, Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); DaleD. Goble, J. MichaelScott, andFrankW.
Wat we zien als we lezen

Wat we zien als we lezen

Peter Mendelsund

Peter Mendelsund is de huisontwerper van uitgeverij Alfred A. Knopf en voormalig pianist. Hij ontwierp omslagen voor onder anderen Martin Amis, Stieg Larsson, David Mitchell en Kazuo Ishiguro.

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