University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The work of renowned thinker Eric Voegelin is largely rooted in his literary sensibility. Voegelin’s contributions to the field of philosophy grew from the depths of his knowledge of history’s most important texts, from ancient to modern times. Many of the concepts he emphasized, such as participatory...
by Tim Dayton
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible...
A Fatherless Child
Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. Yet many of those sons have themselves addressed the issue in autobiographical works that form the core of African American literature.
A...
Lonergan and Historiography
The Epistemological Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Although Bernard Lonergan is known primarily for his cognitional theory and theological methodology, he long sought to formulate a modern philosophy of history free of progressive and Marxist biases. Yet he never addressed this in any single work, and his reflections on the subject are scattered in...
Sailing with Noah
Stories from the World of Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Written by the president of the nation’s number-one zoo, Sailing with Noah is an intensely personal, behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. Jeffrey P. Bonner, who was trained as an anthropologist and came to the zoo world quite by accident, shares some of the most compelling stories ever told about...
Talk Thai
The Adventures of Buddhist Boy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
On one side of the door, the rich smell of sweet, spicy food and the calm of Buddhist devotion; on the other, the strangeness of a new land.
When Ira Sukrungruang was born to Thai parents newly arrived in the U.S., they picked his Jewish moniker out of a book of “American” names. In this...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Although the need for improved care for dying patients is widely recognized and frequently discussed, few books address the needs of the physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, hospice team members, and pastoral counselors involved in care. Care of the Dying Patient contains material not found...
Superfluous Southerners
Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1920-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In Superfluous Southerners, John J. Langdale III tells the story of traditionalist conservatism and its boundaries in twentieth-century America. Because this time period encompasses both the rise of the modern conservative movement and the demise of southern regional distinctiveness, it affords an...
The Dead End Kids of St. Louis
Homeless Boys and the People Who Tried to Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Joe Garagiola remembers playing baseball with stolen balls and bats while growing up on the Hill. Chuck Berry had run-ins with police before channeling his energy into rock and roll. But not all the boys growing up on the rough streets of St. Louis had loving families or managed to find success. This...
Entering the Fray
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white...
Communities of Death
Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
To 21st century readers, 19th century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin—the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memorializing provided opportunities...
Thyra J. Edwards
Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In 1938, a black newspaper in Houston paid front-page tribute to Thyra J. Edwards as the embodiment of “The Spirit of Aframerican Womanhood.” Edwards was a world lecturer, journalist, social worker, labor organizer, women’s rights advocate, and civil rights activist—an undeniably important...
Bataan Survivor
A POW’s Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
A forgotten account, written in the immediate aftermath of World War II, which vividly portrays the valor, sacrifice, suffering, and liberation of the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of one survivor.
The personal memoir of Colonel David L. Hardee, first drafted at sea from...
A Red Boyhood
Growing Up Under Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Many children growing up in the Soviet Union before World War II knew the meaning of deprivation and dread. But for the son of an “enemy of the people,” those apprehensions were especially compounded.
When the secret police came for his father in 1938, ten-year-old Anatole Konstantin saw...