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8 reviews
Frederick Turner

Counterpoint Press, 2004

Capturing a rich period in American music history
This novel based on the life of self-taught jazz pianist Bix Beiderbecke focuses on his career highlights and the evolution of the 1920s jazz scene, capturing a rich period in American music history by using the actual characters of the times and embellishing their stories. The result is a novel all the more compelling for its foundations in truth.

An Absolute Gentleman: A Novel (Counterpoint)

12 reviews
R. M. Kinder

Counterpoint, 2007

A rare, startling book
Last night I was up until 2:30am on a worknight reading this exceptional novel. It's one hell of a story, mega-creepy and the writing is exquisite and perfectly formed. A rare, startling book. You'll be recommending it to your friends if not pushing it into their hands. It's a novel for book lovers in many ways: set on a mid-western campus; the protagonist is a creative-writing professor; the ...

Adult Education 21st Century: Global Futures in Practice and Theory (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), V. ...

Peter Lang Publishing, 2003

Adult Education @21st Century tackles tough questions concerning how to respond to and engage with transnational education markets and multicultural diversity in a global environment typified by disorienting changes and continuities. Researchers from different countries demonstrate various ways in which the teachers of adults mediate and mitigate the oppressive consequences of the contemporary transition to globalization and the resentment and ...

8: All True: Unbelievable

3 reviews
Amy Fusselman

Counterpoint, 2007

A Haunting Book
This is a beautiful and haunting book -- half narrative and half philosophy. Amy Fusselman delves more and more deeply into the nature of cause-and-effect and into the nature of time itself as she explores events in her past and how they continue to resonate into her present. It is lyrcal, it is powerful, it is even funny. This is not a simple "I was a Victim" tale -- it is much more complex, ...

Adios Amigos: Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West
Page Stegner

Counterpoint, 2008

Page Stegner’s extensive writings on American history have made him a popular and critical favorite. Adios Amigos maintains his high standard. These essays expertly interweave natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number of the West's major whitewater rivers. Stegner moves effortlessly from his own experiences on the Colorado, Yampa, Green, San Juan, Dolores, and Missouri rivers to first ...

Acts of Alignment: Of Women in Math and Science and All of Us Who Search for Balance
Ana Pasztor, Judith J. Slater

Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2000

Acts of Alignment talks of the aspirations and desires of women in higher education in the fields of mathematics and science; of their journey to wholeness and excellence that comes from having the choice and flexibility to create and change their roadmaps at will and thus succeed in a world in which the accepted way of knowing has been different from theirs. This book analyzes women's alignment of their environment, visions, and missions in ...

Action Research As a Living Practice (Counterpoints, Vol 67)

Grove/Atlantic, 1997

This book aims to enlarge understandings of educational action research. Drawing from complexity theory, deep ecology, Eastern philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and literary theory, the essays in this collection show how participation in educational action research practices requires more of the researcher than the application of research methods. Each essay demonstrates how action research is a lived ...

Adapted physical education national standards: counterpoint response. (Adapted Physical Education National ...
James E. Rich

Challenge Publications Limited, 1993

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