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Backroads of Southern California: Your Guide to Southern California's Most Scenic Backroad Adventures

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The perfect guide for day-trippers looking for unusual destinations, "Backroads of Southern California" also pays tribute to the area for those exploring these backroads from their armchairs. Covering nearly all of California's superlative natural locations, a local expert leads readers on 30 drives to the most scenic natural areas and sites that capture the region's colorful history. 140 photos, 120 in full color.

Reading Rhetorical Theory by Barry Brummett, ISBN 015508304X

An anthology of original readings, Reading Rhetorical Theory uses selections from primary sources to track the history of thinking. Two features of this book enable it to stand apart from other texts on rhetorical theory. First, its unique mix of readings blends traditional authors such as Aristotle, Plato, and Kenneth Burke with popular modern authors such as Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Second, the editorial introductions develop a consistent and unified perspective that allows for differing interpretations of rhetorical theory at the same time that it ties together the history of the subject. Reading Rhetorical Theory is appropriate in graduate or undergraduate courses that cover the history of rhetorical theory by using primary sources to track the history of thinking about human symbolic influence. Reading Rhetorical Theory by Barry Brummett, ISBN 015508304X
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Reading Rhetorical Theory by Barry Brummett, ISBN 015508304X

The Queen's Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum, ISBN 0306810085

This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism, subversion, and homage, Wayne Koestenbaum illuminates mysteries of fandom and obsession, and has created an exuberant work of personal meditation and cultural history. The Queen's Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum, ISBN 0306810085
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Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South

What role did gender play in the secession crisis? How did it affect the loyalties of the civilian population during the Civil War? In what ways did it influence the formation of the Ku Klux Klan? How did it affect labor conflict in the postwar textile industry? Why was the first woman U.S. senator from the South? What role did sexuality "and" gender play in the explosion of racial violence in the late nineteenth century? These questions and many others concerning the critical role that gender played in the major events of the nineteenth-century South and the nation more generally are addressed in this fascinating collection of essays by renowned historian LeeAnn Whites. Together these pieces argue that gender matters not only in the lives of individuals, but also along racial and class lines across the social order. This provocative collection is ideal for classroom use, as it covers a broad chronological scope and range of events in Southern history. Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South
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Making Faces, Playing God: Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup by Thomas Morawetz, ISBN 0292752474

"This book is entirely unique, very well written, dramatic, and, at the same time, philosophical. It is likely to appeal to a very large audience, including anybody interested in the visual arts, in film, in theater, in philosophical problems of transformation, and in the unconscious generally."--Melvin R. Lansky, M.D., UCLA Medical School and Los Angeles Psychoanalytic InstituteWearing a mask--putting on another face--embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other." Morawetz begins by discussing the cultural role of fantasies of transformation and what these fantasies reveal about questions of personal identity. He next turns to professional makeup artists and describes their background, training, careers,... Making Faces, Playing God: Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup by Thomas Morawetz, ISBN 0292752474
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Porsche: The Road Cars by Laurence Meredith, ISBN 076031005X

This wide-ranging pictorial history celebrates the race-bred heritage, the innovative engineering, and the imaginative designs that have distinguished Porsche's superlative sports cars over the last half-century. Particular attention is given to the fact that the differences between road and race editions have never been absolute, as witnessed by the fact that owners of some competition 911s still enjoy their cars on both the street and track. Archival photographs -- including production line images -- are accompanied by modern photos of restored cars at speed and at rest. Porsche: The Road Cars by Laurence Meredith, ISBN 076031005X
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Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, ISBN 0385337817

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was...the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.
An all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement, and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs and deadly force that were used to destroy it.
A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning... Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, ISBN 0385337817
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