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Hershey’s Children’s Garden

Sun, 12 Sep 2004

Hershey’s Children’s Garden (2004)
A Place to Grow

By Maureen Heffernan

Since its opening in 1999, the Hershey Children's Garden at Cleveland Botanical Garden has been considered one of the best of the new public children's gardens that are being built throughout the country. Hershey Children's Garden: A Place to Grow celebrates the beauty, joy, delight, and horticultural and design excellence found within this special place.

Maureen Heffernan tells the story of how the garden was developed--from initial idea, to guiding philosophy, to its design, development, and opening day. Readers will gain an understanding of this ambitious garden, whose goal was no less than to create a half-acre urban Eden for children. The stunning color photography of Ian Adams, Janet Century, and Sara Guren brings to life this very active garden in all its creative glory and captures children and visitors of all ages interacting and delighting in the garden.

Through the example of the Hershey Children's Garden, Heffernan shows that children's gardens across the nation represent a new and exciting type of garden. Not just simple gardening plots, these new million-dollar-plus children's gardens are a breakthrough gardening concept that appears destined to join such categories as the rose garden, the herb garden, and the Japanese garden. Hershey Children's Garden documents and celebrates the planting of one such influential garden, the fruit of a remarkable vision in Cleveland.

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Directing Shakespeare

Mon, 15 Mar 2004

Directing Shakespeare (2004)
A Scholar Onstage

By Sidney Homan

An impossible question from a Chinese actor—“Why is Shakespeare eternal?”—drove Sidney Homan after fifty years in the theater to ponder just what makes Shakespeare...well, Shakespeare. The result, Directing Shakespeare, reflects the two worlds in which Homan operates—as a scholar and teacher on campus, and as a director and actor in professional and university theaters. His concern is the entire process, beginning in the lonely period when the director develops a concept, and moving into increasingly larger realms: interaction with stage designers; rehearsals; and performances in which the audience’s response further shapes the play.

Homan recounts the experience of staging King Lear accompanied by a musical score for piano, violin, and cello played live onstage. He discusses the challenge of making and trying to justify cuts in Hamlet. A casual remark from an actress leads to a feminist production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He describes the delicate collaboration between director and performer as he works with actors preparing for The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and Hamlet. Other chapters treat a set designer’s bold red drapes that influenced the director’s concept for Julius Caesar, and the cross-influence of back-to-back runs of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstsern Are Dead and Hamlet.

In a highly personal concluding chapter, Homan tells of joyously working with a spontaneous young actor playing Puck and with an audience of unruly teenagers who wept at a performance of Lear.

Delightfully written, and filled with practical insights, Directing Shakespeare draws together scholars, critics, and those who work in the theater to bring the written word to life.

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Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space

Wed, 30 Apr 2003

Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space (2003)

By Peter I. Rose

Peter Rose has spent a lifetime exploring patterns of culture, examining issues of race and ethnicity, working with refugees, teaching sociology, and roaming the world. In Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space, he reflects on his adventures and the formative experiences that led him to a fascination with lives that seem quite unlike our own.

Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space introduces us to many of those whom Rose has met along the way, a cast of characters as colorful as it is diverse. It includes his music-loving mother; his tour guides in China, Germany, and Israel; Indochinese refugees he followed to the United States; the notorious murderer, Nathan Leopold; the simple tailor, Mr. David; and three writers for whom Rose has a special affinity: Philip Roth, John Updike, and Paul Theroux.

Peter Rose gives us an entirely pleasurable and insightful look into the life of an American scholar actively involved in contemporary issues as he takes readers along on his field trips and guest appearances.

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Aquamarine Blue 5

Sat, 30 Nov 2002

Aquamarine Blue 5 (2002)
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism

By Dawn Prince-Hughes

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Writing in Disguise

Tue, 31 Mar 1998

Writing in Disguise (1998)
Academic Life in Subordination

By Terry Caesar

Writing in Disguise is a series of increasingly personal essays that both discuss and dramatize through firsthand experience the significance of subordination in academic life, in terms of issues and structures but above all in terms of texts. Some are written: memos, rejection letters, even resignation letters. Some are not: anecdotes, protests, jokes, parodies.

All of these texts have in common the imperative of disguise, represented as the most crucial consequence of dominant discourse, within which subordination might speak only by knowing its place, and write only by producing hidden transcripts.

Caustic, pointed, satiric, Writing in Disguise is an engaging critique of aspects of academia involving the misuse, misappropriation, and misappreciation of verbal communication in its many guises.

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Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century

Mon, 15 Dec 1997

Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century (1997)

Edited by Ronald E. Salomone and James E. Davis

Shakespeare is a central shaping and defining figure in our culture. His plays are being taught, filmed, and performed every day in many places and in most of the world's languages. At the same time, teachers and students from junior high through the early undergraduate years often struggle with the Bard in discomfort and negativity that can only be counter-productive.

Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century is by teachers and for teachers. Specifically, it is a collection of essays in which teachers describe their best ideas and experiences as they confront the challenges of bringing Shakespeare alive for students who often feel intimidated and less than eager to participate.

It is on behalf of these students that this book has been prepared. Written by middle school, high school, and college teachers from around the country, the essays record successful efforts at bringing Shakespeare and the student together in fresh, exciting, and productive ways.

From today's performance techniques, designed to make students active participants in the learning process, through a host of extra-textual resources such as festivals and films, to a look at applications of the computer and cyberspace, Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century is a book of success stories.

Covering the most contemporary issues, critical theory, and classroom approach, it is designed to provide teachers with a useful, friendly, and forward-looking resource as they continue to make Shakespeare available into the future.

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The African Experience with Higher Education

Sun, 01 Sep 1996

The African Experience with Higher Education (1996)

By J. F. Ade Ajayi, Lameck K. H. Goma and G. Ampah Johnson

There have been institutions of higher learning for centuries in Africa, but the phenomenal growth has taken place in the last fifty years, first in the later days of colonialism and then in the heady days of independence and commodity boom. Without them, there would have been no development.

The three highly distinguished authors have written the first comprehensive assessment of universities and higher education in Africa south of the Sahara. As can be seen from their biographies, they draw on experience from both francophone and anglophone Africa and from teaching in both the sciences and the arts.

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Ohio University in Perspective II

Thu, 01 Dec 1994

Ohio University in Perspective II (1994)
The Annual Convocation Addresses of President Charles J. Ping, 1985-1993

By Charles J. Ping

“This volume is a companion to Ohio University in Perspective, which brought together the annual convocation addresses of President Ping from the years 1975 through 1984. Like the earlier volume, Ohio University in Perspective II provides an important window onto the world of Ohio University during the president’s second decade of service. There is no convocation address for 1987 because President Ping was very deeply involved in the work of the Colloquium on the Third Century.

“The appendix brings together two documents from the period 1985-1994 pus the president’s inaugural address. The document entitled Toward the Third Century: Issues and Choices for Ohio University grew out of a colloquium convened by the president to provide a new educational plan for the University. The Board of Trustees adopted this report in January 1988 as Educational Plan II to supplement the previous plan adopted in 1977. A second colloquium, dealing with general education, produced the report entitled ‘The Continuing Reform of General Education’ to provoke campus discussion on ways to enhance the University’s general education program. Although not adopted as a set of changes to general education, the report set an agenda for continuing discussion and debate on strategies to improve general education and to integrate its goals more fully into campus life.

“The annual convocation addresses offer a vision of what Ohio University could become, and over the nine years they encompass, that vision increasingly became shared by the academic community. This volume is presented by the Trustees of Ohio University and the Ohio University Foundation as their gift to Charles J. Ping for his nineteen years of leadership to the University.”

—Foward by David Stewart, Provost

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Education In the Development of Tanzania, 1919-1990

Tue, 01 Nov 1994

Education In the Development of Tanzania, 1919-1990 (1994)

By Lene Buchert

Deals with the realities of education in a debt-ridden African country trying to cope with the pressures of externally imposed educational budgets.

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Wanasema

Tue, 15 Oct 1985

Wanasema (1985)
Conversations with African Writers

Edited by Donald Burness

There is a tendency to regard African literature as a homogenous product. Certainly it is true that African writers have created a vibrant, modern literature. Nevertheless, they come from specific societies and reflect vastly differing worlds.

Wanasema attempts to show some of the many faces of African literature. Dramatists, poets and novelists speak in these pages. They write in French, English, Portuguese, Arabic and indigenous languages. Some are Christian; others are Muslim. A variety of subjects are discussed, including the status of women, history, religion, politics, dress and education.

Taken together, the interviews in Wanasema suggest that Western students of Africa would do well to learn the languages of Africa. They suggest, too, taht there is a need to investigate further the relationship between Islamic North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and finally, that oral literature continues to be a vast marketplace for scholars. This book should interest African Studies specialists, of course, but also those whose concerns include literature, history and contemporary events in the non-Western world generally.

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