books by Mercury Press     books:       Math Lessons for Elementary Grades1 review Dorothy Harrer Mercury Press, 1985 Math Lessons for Elementary Grades Subtitled: "From the notebooks of Dorothy Harrer, Class Teacher, Rudolf Steiner School, New York City, 1941 to 1971." From the book's Introduction by E. Piening: "These lessons show the ways in which certain topics were introduced and do not include every aspect of a main lesson, or of the math curriculum. It is hoped that teachers will find these chapters useful in developing their own ...             A Genealogy of Resistance: And Other Essays M. Nourbese Philip Mercury Press, 1998 a brilliant, compelling exploration in cultural history. Elegant, by turns fiercely questioning, magically lyrical, and gently probing, Philip's examination of issues of race and culture is always eloquent and commanding.             The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field David Lee Mercury Press, 2006 The Battle of the Five Spot is an engaging look at a milestone in jazz history. In 1959, when the Texas-born saxophonist Ornette Coleman brought his quartet to New York's Five Spot Café, the music spurred a stormy controversy, and a struggle between old and new styles of jazz that has never quite subsided. David Lee explores the debate around Coleman's innovation in terms of its relationships to social change and issues of power ...             Shorn5 reviews Larissa N Niec Mercury Retrograde Press, 2008 Repeatedly defies expectations Every time I thought I'd found a comfortably familiar fantasy trope in this novel, I found it turning into something richer and more complex. Shorn is set in a medievalesque society with a volatile mix of clan politics, religious intrigue, and inter-cultural conflict, none of which are written in a way as to allow the reader to come to easy conclusions about who is right and who is wrong, or ...             Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence M. Nourbese Philip Mercury Press, 1991 A woman, travelling alone through time, Africa, and unnamed lands, searches for Dr. David Livingstone, celebrated by the West as a "discoverer" of Africa. Looking for Livingstone explodes Western assumptions about the "silence" of indigenous peoples; this is an elegant work which beautifully gives voice to the ancestors to whom it is dedicated.             The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1961, Featuring McCaffrey's First Helga Story (Vol. 20, ... Anne McCaffrey, Brian W. Aldiss, ... Mercury Press, 1961 CONTENTS: ~ ~~ ~ Nomansland [Brian W. Aldiss]; Cosmic Sex and You [Nils Peterson]; Daddy's People [Richard Banks]; Dead Man's Bottles [Robert Graves]; The Hills of Lodan [Harold Calin]; Judas Bomb [Kit Reed]; The Ship Who Sang [Anne McCaffrey]; Softly While You're Sleeping [Evelyn E. Smith]; ARTICLE: My Built-In Doubter [Isaac Asimov]             Bouncin' With Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik Jack Chambers Mercury Press, 2008 An unflinching exploration into the short life and tragic death of a piano prodigy and composer whose small body of work left a monumental legacy.             Frontiers: Selected Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture 1984-1992 M. Nourbese Philip Mercury Press, 1992 This long-awaited collection of essays consists of selected writings from Guggenheim Fellow Marlene Nourbese Philip's wide-ranging appearances in magazines, newspapers, and journals, including FUSE. Biting, elegant, by turns fiercely questioning, magically lyrical, and gently probing, Philip's examination of contemporary issues of race and culture is always eloquent and commanding.             The Human Life1 review George O'Neil, Gisela O'Neil Mercury Press, 1990 Great Book On Biography and Spirituality George O'Neil did a great job by writing this study of Biography. The book describes the unfolding of the human life in terms of seven-year cycles and the challenges we face in keeping up the archetype of being human. Every seven years a new task lies ahead particularly after the age of 27 when most humans cease to develop inwardly. The book goes into detail about the need to understand the ...             Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries Di Brandt Mercury Press, 1997 Dancing Naked is a compilation of Di Brandt's essays on her past as a Mennonite woman, on language and community, and on poetics. Lyrical, pointed, open, and embracing, Dancing Naked also tells the story of a life lived through the direct confrontation of fear and rigidity, through to a revisioning of community and hope. Di Brandt's essays have appeared in a variety of books and magazines across the country.             The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 1963) Robert A. Heinlein, Joanna Russ, ... Mercury Press, 1963 130 pages.             Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949 Mark Miller Mercury Press, 1998 Such Melodious Racket traces, for the first time, the introduction, dissemination and early development of jazz in Canada. Beginning with the appearances in vaudeville of a pioneering New Orleans ensemble, the Creole Band, in 1914, and concluding with Oscar Peterson's celebrated US debut at Carnegie Hall in 1949, the book documents the activities both of the Americans who brought this audacious new music to Canada - the legendary Jelly Roll ...              search for books 1914-1949, 1984-1992, bouncin, centuries, coleman, culture, dancing, elementary, featuring, fiction, frontiers, genealogy, history, incomplete, livingstone, looking, magazine, mccaffrey, melodious, narrative, odyssey, ornette, resistance, richard, selected, september, strategies, twardzik, writing, writings books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen apparel: BlackHawk Warrior Wear Tactical I.T.S. Pants 87IT01 Available options: ... leave a comment home  impressum - about us