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Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876 (Contributions in Asian Studies)
 | asin: 0313277958 binding: Hardcover list price: $119.95 USD amazon price: $119.95 USD |
Brunton's memoir opens a window on life and times in Meiji Japan from 1868 to 1876, a crucial period in that country's transformation from a medieval backwater into an efficient modern society. Schoolmaster to an Empire, the premier volume in Greenwood's newly initiated Asian Studies Series, provides a rare first-hand account of a nineteenth century English engineer and his key role in the epic-making technical developments of the time. read more »
Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
 | asin: 0195052625 binding: Hardcover list price: $45.00 USD amazon price: $45.00 USD |
Written by six black women, these stories embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the first female slave narrative from the Americas, recounts one woman's suffering and courage in the pursuit of freedom. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) not only tells of a quest for personal freedom, but also concludes with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. read more »
Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University
 | asin: 0809325446 binding: Paperback list price: $29.50 USD amazon price: $29.50 |
Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University exposes the poor working conditions of contingent composition faculty and explores practical alternatives to the unfair labor practices that are all too common on campuses today. read more »
Hey, Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray
 | author: Alison Owings asin: 0520242246 binding: Paperback list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $16.95 USD |
Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate, illuminating, and often shocking behind-the-scenes stories of waitresses' daily shifts and daily lives. read more »
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
 | author: Kenneth Koch asin: 0684824388 binding: Paperback list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 USD |
In Making Your Own Days, celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no one had written about it before. Full of fresh and exciting insights and experiences, this book makes the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry clear for those who read it and for those who write it -- and for those who would like to read and write it better. read more »
