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Critical Insights: Alfred Hitchcock (Salem Press)
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Why yet another essay collection on Hitchcock? First, and most obviously, Hitchcock is the type of genius about whom not enough can ever be written or even said. His body of work is so extensive, his quality so consistent, his themes so pervasive, and his style so innovative, that energetic and insightful discourse on his oeuvre can never be exhausted. Additionally, as times, borders, politics, technologies, and attitudes change, so, too, do our readings and understandings of Hitchcock and his films. In an increasingly postmodern world, we can recognize Hitchcock’s imprint everywhere, from movies to streaming television, from fiction to documentary, from literature to academia, from fashion to art, and even down to the very essential ideas about how our world and the people in this world think and operate. As a cursory glance through this book will show, Critical Insights: Hitchcock is intended to contribute to the ongoing discourse about the Master of Suspense, his body of work, and his larger influence on world culture. Contributors have been selected from across a generous array of experiences and disciplines, from online bloggers to home video enthusiasts to the highest levels of academia and Hitchcock scholarship. The resulting volume thus offers a wide range of essays, each of them intended for readers at the high school and/or undergraduate student level.
Critical Insights: Censored & Banned Literature (Salem Press)
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Critical Insights: Dystopia (Salem Press)
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Critical Insights: John Updike (Salem Press)
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Critical Insights: Literature in Times of Crisis (Salem Press)
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This volume is designed to offer a multifaceted exploration of the general theme of “Literature in Times of Crisis,” with the term “crisis” variously—and very broadly—defined. Like all the other volumes in the Critical Insights series, this one is divided into several sections.
Defining Documents in American History: The Gun Debate (Salem Press)
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Defining Documents in American History series, produced by Salem Press, offers a closer look at important historical documents by pairing primary source documents on a broad range of subjects with essays written especially for the series by a diverse range of writers. This established series includes thirty titles that present documents selected to illuminate specific eras in American history—The Emergence of Modern America through the 1970s, for example—or to explore significant themes and developments in American society—Immigration & Immigrant Communities; Dissent & Protest; Environment & Conservation; and The Legacy of 9/11. This set, Defining Documents in American History: The Gun Debate, offers in-depth analysis of thirty-five documents, including speeches, court rulings, legal texts, blog posts, manifestos, and legislative acts.
Defining Documents in American History: Secrets, Leaks, & Scandals (Salem Press)
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Defining Documents in American History: Secrets, Leaks & Scandals, offers in-depth analysis of seventy-five documents. The material is organized into six groups. Readers will find speeches, memos, letters, reports, transcripts, minutes, and testimony related to some of the nation’s most notorious scandals including Benedict Arnold’s letters to Major John André, the House that Tweed Built, impeachment proceedings against two presidents, the Teapot Dome Scandal, The Zimmerman Telegram, the Vietnam War, Watergate and Whitewater, reports from commissions that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy and 9-11, transcripts of trials, e-mails that document the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, the unmasking of Valerie Plame, minutes from a meeting just before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Manning-Lamo chat logs that detail how Manning leaked classified materials to Wikileaks, and e-mails hacked from John Podesta’s Gmail account demonstrating that Hillary Clinton was the beneficiary of a political favor during the 2016 primaries.
Defining Documents in American History: Supreme Court Decisions (1803-2017) (Salem Press)
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Defining Documents in American History: Supreme Court Decisions (1803-2017), offers in-depth analysis of a broad range of the landmark cases argued before the U. S. Supreme that have explored the Constitution and its amendments in cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona, and Obergfell v. Hodges. These cases have touched on the rights that underpin the nation’s laws: states rights, civil rights, voting rights, and women’s rights, as well as right to privacy, the definition of marriage, the limits on the powers of the executive branch, segregation, affirmative action, and the rights of defendants. This text closely studies sixty court opinions and delivers a thorough examination of the intent and impact of the majority rulings, as well as the significant concurrences and dissents prepared by the Supreme Court justices from Marbury v. Madison in 1803 to Cooper v. Harris in 2017. The material is organized under three historical groupings.
Great Events from History: LGBTQ (2nd ed.) (Salem Press)
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This present edition is devoted to LGBTQ events, to include queer, and that acronym could very easily have been lengthened to LGBTTTQIA, to include transvestite, transsexual, intersex, and asexual persons. But even that would not accommodate all the various kinds of identities that are now, often, designated simply as queer — a term that suggests something outside the traditional heterosexual binary way of thinking. We have chosen to use LGBTQ as the title of this new edition, and throughout the text. The second version of this book has been the inclusion of twenty-five or so completely new articles. Although these new articles extend the original volumes’ coverage to the present day, many of them discuss important events that occurred before 2006, when the first edition was published.
Historical Ipswich Newspapers (Digitized Collection)
Over 200,000 pages of Ipswich newspapers dating to as early as 1872. Titles include The Ipswich Chronicle and the Ipswich Observer. The collection is keyword searchable and fully indexed. This database is available from any location with internet access.
U.S. History (Gale in Context)
U.S. History provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the Revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror. An always-intuitive experience supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills.
War and Terrorism (Gale OneFile)
War and Terrorism contains millions of articles to help researchers gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection is intended for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science.
World History (Gale in Context)
World History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. World History merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.