New Book: Dallas Business Journal 2016 Book of Lists

The Dallas Business Journal 2016 Book of Lists provides ranked listings of hundreds of Dallas area companies. The book also lists the names of key decision makers along with their titles and complete contact information, making this book ideal for sales prospecting, job searching, fundraising, and business research.

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New Book: When the Beat was Born written by Laban Carrick Hill, Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III.

 

The Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) is the book award selected by Texas school children.  Intended to encourage reading among 3rd to 6th grade students, the Texas Library Association selects  twenty notable books of which students must read or listen to at least fie on the list in order to be eligible to vote. Over 152,000 children voted for the award which means that the students read at least 760,000 books in order to decide on the winner!


The 2016 TBA recipient was Laban Carrick Hill and Theodore Taylor III for their book When the Beat was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop. This children’s book focused on a young boy who grew up to influence the development of  hip-hop and help define the hip-hop culture. Upon learning that his book won the award author Laban Carrick Hill said “I want to thank everyone down in Texas, especially the 153,000 kids who came out and read all the books on the list and voted for their favorite…” the illustrator Theodore Taylor the third, shared similar sentiments when the announcement of their success was given.


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New Book: God's Plot & Man's Stories by Leopold Damrosch Jr.

Leopold Damrosch argues that religion played a key role in the development of the English novel by demonstrating how the underlying Puritanical belief in a structured providential universe was placed beside an ordered structured narrative that sought to interpret the divine through fictional prose.  The book examines Puritan biography Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the works of John Bunyan. The book concludes with examinations of works by DeFoe (Robinson Crusoe), Richardson (Clarissa), and Fielding (Tom Jones). The book would be of interest to those interested in the development of fiction in the English language. It would also be of interest to students of Sociology interested in learning about the intersections of culture, religion, and literary expression. 

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New Book: From Mysticism to Dialog by Pual R. Medes-Flohr

Paul Mendes-Flohr illuminates Martin Buber's central themes in a wholly different light from that of the predominant line of interpretation. Consequently, Buber's work assumes even greater importance than previous analyses have assigned. Emerging from the narrowly conceptualized existentialist interpretations, he becomes an intellectually powerful figure, occupying a formidable position within the contemporary setting of German social theory. A publication in the Culture of Jewish Modernity series.


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New Book: Freakery by Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity--by comparison ordinary, tractable, normal.Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocation's of freak shows; and theoretical analyses of freak culture. Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives; laughing gas demonstrations in the 1840's; Shirley Temple and Tom Thumb; Todd Browning's landmark movie Freaks; bodybuilders as postmodern freaks; freaks in Star Trek; Michael Jackson's identification with the Elephant Man; and the modern talk show as a reconfiguration of the freak show. In her introduction, Thomson traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period and explores the constitutive, political, and textual properties of such exhibits. Freakery is a fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture.


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