My Year is the title of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs, which began in 2000 with the turn of the 21st century. This volume covers cultural events from 2000, including essays on film, lite
Stay—Douglas Messerli’s 12th book of poetry, and his first since his 2012 publication of Dark—represents work the poet, dramatist, and prose writer has written from the millennium until the present, a
My Year is the title of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs, which began in 2000 with the turn of the 21st century. This volume covers cultural events from 2011, including essays on film, lite
The tenth volume in Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs beginning in 2000, Shadows explores issues of potential danger and despair in 2010, with essays and photographs of numerous books, plays
In My Year 2009: Facing the Heat, the 8th volume to appear in Douglas Messerli’s on-going cultural memoirs, the author expresses that he suspected, what with the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency
This is Douglas Messerli's eighth volume of readings, events, and memories.The connecting skein of Messerli's 2001 cultural memoir is a concept of hiding history, of somehow keeping the past secret. E
This is the seventh volume of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs.Swinging forward once more, Messerli discusses a society, "In the Gap," a cold war term that defines the position of a spy try
This is Douglas Messerli's sixth volume collection of readings, events, and memories.In his sixth swing back and forth from the turn of the twenty-first century to the present, Messerli considers the
Douglas Messerli continues his annual memoirs in this 2007 volume.In this, the fifth volume of Messerli's annual cultural memoir of "Readings," "Events," and "Memories," the author explores a world th
As in his volumes from 2004, 2005, and 2006, Douglas Messerli brings together pieces on art, dance, music, film, literature, and popular culture to reveal the tempo of world culture in each year since
Encompassing two hundred international movies, Douglas Messerli's Reading Films is a highly personal but profound discussion of some of the most important cinematic achievements from the earliest of f
Begun in the late 1990's, Dark, Douglas Messerli's 11th book of poetry, represents the often cloudy and frightening days of the new millennium, a world of political, social, and cultural upheaval. Des
In this, the third volume of his ongoing cultural memoir, Douglas Messerli explores figures and issues of 2006—the films of Robert Altman and Jean Renoir; The Queen; the writing of Guest, Hauser, Sorr
This second volume of Douglas Messerli’s ongoing “cultural memoirs” features twenty-two essays, reviews, and other pieces on figures such as Leonard Bernstein, Holden Caulfield, Lolita, Cole Porter, A
Begun as an exercise in which Messerli embedded the first word or two from lines of poetry by other poets, First Words gradually transformed into a personal document of despair and hope in the years 1
The seventh volume of this noted series is devoted to contemporary German-language poets, all of whom had fellowships at the Villa Aurora center for German writing in Los Angeles, representing some of
In this important new collection, publisher Douglas Messerli has collected 80 lyrics of American folksongs and popular music from the 19th century. Some of these songs, particularly the African-Americ
The fifth volume of the PIP series features the work of innovative poets of Southern California. This group of 25 poets does not write a particular “kind” of poetry but has worked together
The fourth volume of the ongoing PIP anthologies of world poetry presents work of 20 major international poets, including Vicente Alexiandre (Spain), Luis Cernuda (Spain), Andree Chedid (France), Oliv
Although best known for her fiction, short stories, and interviews, gifted author Djuna Barnes also published numerous plays in her lifetime. This play, from 1923–1924, and never before published, is
This practical reference reviews the epidemiology of hypertensive cardiovascular disease in menopause and its relationship to coronary heart disease-examining concurrent risk factors such as lipid abn
This 296-page volume was originally published as a small 86-page collection by New Directions. Now the great Dutch “Fiftiers” movement is completely representedby poetry, biographies, and bibliographi
Like the 1,200-page volume of American poetry before it, From The Other Side of the Century II explores literature of the last quarter century, this time American dramatic writing, making available i
Mountains of the World focuses on the human dimension of mountain development and on the science of mountain ecosystems, resources, and development. It begins by introducing the mountain cultures and
This book examines large-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, with a focus on South-East Asia. Thematic papers and detailed case studies put this phenomenon into specific historical and instit
Carl Schalk, author, editor, and lecturer, is one of the modern church’s most influencial composers of choral music and hymns. He has lifted for the church the importance and excellence of the Luthera
Tourism energizes economies and fuels the economic transformation of countries from Cape Verde to South Africa. Its benefits are clear: it can trigger infrastructure improvements, create good jobs, in
Introductory Guide to Cardiac Catheterization, Second Edition is an easy-to-follow "how-to" guide to diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization. This pocket-sized, concise manual presents pra
