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Cargill: Trading the World's Grain
Wayne G. Broehl Jr.

Dartmouth, 1992

Leading business historian Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. offers the first full-scale history of Cargill and its rise to international leadership among the "big five" grain traders, a group whose distinctions are private ownership and a passion for secrecy, even though they deal in the most "public" of commodities, the grains that feed the world. In Broehl's account the Cargill story becomes a grand narrative history and reveals a classic example of the ...

Greek Today: A Course in the Modern Language and Culture

9 reviews
Peter Bien, Dimitri Gondicas, ...

Dartmouth, 2004

EXCELLENT FOR SELF STUDY
Learning modern Greek can be a bit of a daunting task. Specially if you have some knowledges of classical Greek . The modern pronunciation, the iotacism, words that looks alike but do mean something different.. well, it can be a bit scary. Now, I must say that "Greek Today" is a REALLY GOOD self study textbook. The main book is quite thick and is in a A4 format. It comes along with a ...

The Death Ship of Dartmouth (Knights Templar)

4 reviews
Michael Jecks

Headline Book Publishing, 2006

Run Up the Jolly Roger
Michael Jecks gave up a career in the computer industry when he began writing the internationally successful Templar series. Well all I can say is the Computer Industries loss is the reader's gain. He has now written about a score of the Knights Templar mystery books featuring Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock and there are more to follow. Michael's books are full of intrigue ...

Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)

1 review
Anna Munster

Dartmouth, 2006

Dazzling
This book is a virtuoso performance in its feminist exploration of the concerns of new media and the concept of embodiment.

The Goat Lady (Aspca Henry Bergh Children's Book Awards (Awards))

15 reviews
Jane Bregoli

Tilbury House Publishers, 2004

The Goat Lady - A quietly subversive children's book
The Goat Lady provides a great alternative to the slick consumerist books designed to instill brand loyalty to the corporate icons of Disney and Nickelodeon. For those parents who wish to influence their children's lives with virtues of simplicity, creativity, community, and love, The Goat Lady is a spare but warm counter-example to the harried and image-conscious world pervading American ...

Greek Today Workbook

4 reviews
Peter Bien, Dimitri Gondicas, ...

Dartmouth, 2004

An excellent workbook
This 200p, A4 format workbook is the must buy complement for anyone already using the main textbook "Grek Today" by Peter Bien Each chapter of that workbook does match each chapter of the main coursebook and gives you loads of various exercises, drills, Multiple choice, crosswords, fill in, phrases to translate.. along with some interesting input about Greek actual culture and civilisation. ...

Cargill: From Commodities to Customers
Wayne G. Broehl Jr.

Dartmouth, 2008

This final volume of Wayne G. Broehl, Jr.'s Cargill trilogy brings the history of this large privately held company up to the present day, offering a unique and informative behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's premier agribusiness corporations. The story picks up in 1977 as Whitney MacMillan begins his stewardship of the company and as Cargill begins to work its way through issues of corporate governance, business restructuring, and ...

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

155 reviews
Nathaniel C. Fick

Mariner Books, 2006

Outstanding read for warriors and civilians alike
In a time when many people already consider the war in Iraq pure hubris and stretching of muscles by a superpower gone mad, it is refreshing indeed to read true, honest stories from the men who fought the war. The good intentions, the fears, the disappointments and triumphs all paint a picture that is very different from the cynical jeering presented to us from almost all media outlets. ...

The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality

7 reviews
William Sloane Coffin

Dartmouth, 1999

Reading Bill Coffin is enhanced in Hearing him Preach
When I recently chose to go into the life of one who greatly influenced me in the 1980's I chose "The Heart is a Little Left of Center" because it's filled by Coffin's big & best themes! In his years while at Riverside he stayed busy with Conferences like Montreat Music & Worship Week! Not only did he admire my wife's soprano voice but I could sit next to him in the bass section of Elaine ...

Untangling the Ivy League (College Prowler) (College Prowler: Untangling the Ivy League)

10 reviews
Marc Zawel

College Prowler, 2005

Proud to be Ivy
This book is incredible! There are so many facts, figures, anecdotes, statistics etc. about The Ivy League (PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE) in this book that I was not aware of until now--and I am a Junior at Dartmouth--I attended Yale for a year, and I have visted four other Ivy schools on several occasions. After looking over College Prowler's grading criteria for each of the eight school sections, ...

On the Teaching of Creative Writing: Responses to a Series of Questions
Wallace Stegner

Montgomery Endowment, Dartmouth, 1989

One of America's finest writers talks about the difficulties, rewards, and importance of teaching creative writing. Wallace Stegner writes ". . . the language itself is an inheritance, a shared wealth. It may be played with, stretched, forced, bent; but I, as a writer or teacher, must never assume that it is mine. It is ours, the living core, as well as the instrument, of the culture I derive from, resist, challenge, and--ultimately--serve. . . ...

Rousseau on Philosophy, Morality, and Religion

1 review
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dartmouth, 2007

An Excellent Selection
Christopher Kelly's selection fills a notable gap in the otherwise overwhelming industry of Rousseau translations. There are dozens of editions of Rousseau's major works, such as the Social Contract and Discourses. But there have been literally no affordable English editions available of some lesser-known but extremely important and engaging works, such as the Moral Letters, Fiction or ...

The Familial Gaze

Dartmouth, 1999

Contemporary artists, writers, and theorists challenge standard interpretations of family photographs.

Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In (Reencounters With ...

6 reviews
C. L. R. James

Dartmouth, 2001

Great book from a brilliant mind.
CLR James was one of the earliest left wing thinkers to break from Orthodox Marxist dogmatism, even rejecting Leninism and the notion of the 'Vanguard of the Proletariat' all the way back in the late '40's, a move that left him alienated from the mainstream Left of the time and eventually led to his deportation in the 1950s. This book was written while he was in jail in New York awaiting his ...

Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps (Rousseau, ...

1 review
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dartmouth, 1997

A Superb Story
It is a pity that Julie, or the New Heloise is neither better known nor more widely read. It is one of the great novels. Rousseau may be most famous as a philosopher and Julie includes many philosophical passages, discussing issues such as education, virtue and religion, but he shows in this novel that he was both a fine writer and an able storyteller. The ideas he puts into the mouths of his ...

The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod

11 reviews
Cynthia Huntington

Dartmouth, 2003

This is a classic.
This book is destined to become a classic not only in the rich field of Cape Cod writing but in nature and memoir in general. Huntington's prose is simple and pure, evoking not only the outer landscape, but the inner landscape of a woman's mind. What a pleasure it is to be in a mind so generous, open, and curious about the world! This is a book I will read over and over.

Cargill: Going Global

1 review
Wayne G. Broehl Jr.

Dartmouth, 1998

An extraordinary story
If entreprenurial history fascinates you, this book will not let you down. Hardwork, genius, forsight, taking chances and a family that persevers make for some interesting history of America's largest privately held company.

Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present

Dartmouth, 1998

Acts of Memory presents 15 tightly integrated essays that illustrate the active role of individual and cultural memory in tying the past to the present. Memory, or memorialization, is a cultural activity occurring in the present that offers history another kind of source or document; one that provides insights into the past as it lives on today. The authors, in fields ranging from philosophy and history through literature and media studies, ...

Trauma and Visuality in Modernity (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)

Dartmouth, 2006

This groundbreaking collection is among the first in the field of art history to explore the relation between the traumatic and the visual field in the modern period. Ranging across media and spanning from the origins of modernity to the present, the essays gathered here pursue trauma as a structuring yet elusive subject of representation. Examining the most revelatory instances of encounter between event and image, between history and visual ...

Sick of Nature

5 reviews
David Gessner

Dartmouth, 2005

Don't Let the Title Fool You
A brilliant and funny examination of the literary, natural, and human world. Gessner's characters -- himself, especially -- are engaging, flawed and universal. His descriptions are unbeatable. His love of flora, fauna, and Cape Cod are palpable even through his most ironic musings. A book that defies category, there's something in it for everyone. If you like to take walks on the beach, if ...

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