Gillian: 813 books
Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima
Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio...
A Body Thinking, a Mind Dancing
Dialogue on the Hobart Method®
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book is a journey in the footsteps of Gillian Hobart, creator of the “anti-method” Method that bears her name. By suggesting dance movement as a humanistic approach, the Hobart Method aims at the benefit of everybody’s inner world, in order to bring out its beauty. This three-person dialogue,...
by Richard Thompson Ford, Lauren Berlant, Mark Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
In recent decades, left political projects in the United States have taken a strong legalistic turn. From affirmative action to protection against sexual harassment, from indigenous peoples’ rights to gay marriage, the struggle to eliminate subordination or exclusion and to achieve substantive equality...
Gendered Militarism in Canada
Learning Conformity and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
“Despite Canada’s claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality.” —from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of militarism and gender influence lifelong learning...
Just One of the Boys
Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Female-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth century America, and began as the domain of mature actresses who desired to extend their careers. These women engaged in the kinds of raucous comedy acts usually reserved for men. Over time, as younger women entered...
Plates vs Plumes
A Geological Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Since the advent of the mantle plume hypothesis in 1971, scientists have been faced with the problem that its predictions are not confirmed by observation. For thirty years, the usual reaction has been to adapt the hypothesis in numerous ways. As a result, the multitude of current plume variants now...
by Gillian Gloyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This edition of the Bradt guide to Tirana by expert author Gillian Gloyer combines what to see and do with maps, walking tours , historical and cultural perspectives and suggestions for hotels, guest houses, restaurants, cafés and bars as well as detailed information on city transport, shopping,...
by Gillian Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer introduces readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds special satisfaction in overturning the vogue presuppositions of his peers. Gillian Dooley takes an expansive look...
The Age of Machinery
Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost all working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It probes...
Juana I
Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure at the heart...
Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730
Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Producing Women's Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favoured by women, but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical...
by Gillian Woods
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing key areas of debate, and a wide range of scholarship, Gillian Woods provides an invaluable introduction to the vast array of criticism surrounding one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
Hendrix
The Illustrated Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Hendrix is the definitive, illustrated biography of the man widely considered the greatest rock guitarist of all time.
Coinciding with what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 75th year on this mortal coil, this (incredibly) is the first full-blown illustrated gift book exploring the life and career...
by Gillian Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Included in this collection are the poet Gillian Clarke’s personal verses and stories from farmers in her family, her neighborhood, and Wales. There is an instinctive and deliberate unity of theme and idiom in this book, and its open structure naturally allows for the incorporation of her seven...