Author: Lawrence J. McCaffrey
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: irish, studies, america, textures
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815605218
ISBN-13: 9780815605218

Author: Shahla Haeri
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: contemporary, issues, middle, east, iran, shi, desire, temporary, marriage, law
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1989-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815624832
ISBN-13: 9780815624837

Author: William H. Phillips
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: scripts, short, writing
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1999-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815628021
ISBN-13: 9780815628026

A guide designed to help the beginning writer enter the world of short films, from travelogues to animated shorts. The book has been extensively revised and updated to include three new original short screenplays and detailed descriptions and photographs of two award-winning short films. Focusing on visualization, dialogue, settings, characters, structure and themes, the author provides a guide to writing scripts for films of less than 30 minutes, from gathering and organizing materials to writing, rewriting and formatting. Each new chapter includes revised ideas and examples. The glossary, bi

Author: Jerre Mangione
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: project, writers, federal, dream
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1996-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815604157
ISBN-13: 9780815604150

This programme to produce state guidebooks saved many literary careers during the Depression. Almost 7000 authors were involved, including Richard Wright, John Cheever and Saul Bellow.

Author: Barry Chevannes
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: communitarianism, utopianism, ideology, roots, rastafari
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1994-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815602960
ISBN-13: 9780815602965

Interviews with 30 converts from the 1930s and 1940s are a component of Barry Chevanne’s book, a look into the origins and practices of Rastafarianism. From the direct accounts of these early members, he is able to reconstruct pivotal episodes in Rastafarian history to offer a look into a subgroup of Jamaican society whose beliefs took root in the social unrest of the 1930s. The little that most people know about Rastafarianism has come through the Jamaican music, Reggae, which resonates with the contemporary social and political struggle of the poverty-stricken cities of Trenchtown and

Author: David Stifter
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: irish, studies, beginners, sengoidelc, old
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0815630727
ISBN-13: 9780815630722

An introductory text to the Irish language as spoken around the eighth-century c.e., covering all aspects of the grammar in a clear and intuitive format. David Stifter’s Sengoídelc (SHAN-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, this exhaustive handbook is also an invaluable reference work for students of Indo-European philology and historical linguistics. The author’s step-by-step presentation in an engaging styles lead the novice through the idiosyncracies

Author: Maren Lockwood Carden
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: corporation, modern, community, utopian, oneida
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1998-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815605234
ISBN-13: 9780815605232

This volume describes how the initiation of young girls into the sexual practices of the commune became a major source of conflict. The study appraises information about the history, practices, organization, and principles of Oneida.