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Gone boy : a walkabout / by Gibson, Gregory,1945-(CARDINAL)657759;
Subjects: Case studies.; Gibson, Gregory, 1945-; Bard College. Simon's Rock.; Murder; Gun control;
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Gone boy : a father's search for the truth in his son's murder / by Gibson, Gregory,1945-author.(CARDINAL)657759;
"On December 14, 1992, Gregory Gibson's eighteen-year-old son Galen was murdered, shot in the doorway of his college library by a fellow student gone berserk. The killer was jailed for life, but for Gibson the tragedy was still unfolding. The morning of the shooting, he learned, college officials had intercepted but not stopped a box of ammunition addressed to the murderer. They were also anonymously warned of the intended killing but failed to call the police. After years of frustrated attempts to find peace, Gibson woke one morning to a terrible vision of his own rage and helplessness. He knew he had to do something before he destroyed himself, and he resolved to discover and document the forces that led to Galen's death. Gone Boy follows Gibson as he visits the gun seller, as well as detectives, lawyers, psychiatrists, politicians, and college bureaucrats-- a cast of characters as vivid as those in a Raymond Chandler mystery. Hailed by the New York Times and others for its evocative style and courage in confronting guns, violence, and manhood in America today, this wrenching memoir speaks in the voice of a man struggling to turn grief and rage into acceptance and understanding."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Bard College. Simon's Rock.; Gibson, Gregory, 1945-; Murder; Gun control;
© [2011]., North Atlantic Books,
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College in prison : reading in an age of mass incarceration / by Karpowitz, Daniel,author.(CARDINAL)414477;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: A Note on Text -- 1. Getting In: Conflicting Voices and the Politics of College in Prison -- 2. Landscapes: BPI and Mass Incarceration -- 3. Going to Class: Reading Crime and Punishment -- 4. The First Graduation: Figures of Speech -- 5. Replication and Conclusions: College, Prison, and Inequality in America."This book tells the story of the Bard Prison Initiative--a unique example of academic excellence unfolding inside high-security prisons across New York. Through the Initiative, hundreds of incarcerated men and women go to Bard College full-time while still in prison, and thrive at the highest academic levels the college has to offer. This remarkable student body is demographically identical to the larger population of people in New York's prisons, and thus quite unlike those students who usually have access to, and succeed in, America's leading liberal arts colleges. Those who have graduated and left prison are thriving in for-private companies, leading service agencies, and completing further study at elite graduate schools for academia and the professions. The rigor and depth of what and how these students learn, and the careers they pursue once home, force us to rethink preconceptions about who is in prison, what American systems of punishment really mean, and the continued relevance of liberal learning"--"The nationally renowned Bard Prison Initiative demonstrates how the liberal arts can alter the landscape inside prisons by expanding access to the transformative power of American higher education. American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative, however, is different. As this compelling new book reveals, BPI has fostered a remarkable transformation in the lives of thousands of prisoners.College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided a high-quality liberal arts education--with courses ranging from anthropology to Mandarin to advanced mathematics--to New York State prisoners who, upon release, have gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how institutions can be reimagined and reformed in order to give people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities.Drawing upon fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI's development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts the educational histories of individual students, tracking both their intellectual progress and the many obstacles they must face. Analyzing the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions--the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary--he makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States"--
Subjects: Bard College; Prisoners; Education, Higher; Prison administration;
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The art of resistance [sound recording] : my four years in the French underground : a memoir / by Rosenberg, Justus,1921-author.(CARDINAL)815843; Shapiro, Rob,narrator.;
Read by Rob Shapiro.An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Rosenberg, Justus, 1921-; Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.; Bard College; World War, 1939-1945; Guerrillas; Jews, German; Jews; Holocaust survivors;
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The art of resistance : my four years in the French underground : a memoir / by Rosenberg, Justus,1921-2021,author.(CARDINAL)815843;
The free city of Danzig (1921-1937) -- A pogrom German-style (spring 1937) -- Preparing to leave Danzig (summer 1937) -- At the station (September 1937) -- Berlin (September 2-12, 1937) -- Paris (September 1937-September 3, 1939) -- "The phony war" (Paris, September 1939-June 1940) -- The debacle (Paris and Bayonne, June 1940) -- Toulouse (June and July 1940) -- To Marseille, in Marseille (August-September 1940) -- Over the Pyrenees (September 11-13, 1940) -- Walter Benjamin (late September 1940) -- Villa Air-Bel (November 1940-February 1941) -- Mafia (February-June 1941) -- Chagall (Spring 1941) -- Max and Peggy depart (July 1941) -- The expulsion of Fry; my mountain climbing adventure (August-December 1941) -- Grenoble (December 1941-August 26, 1942) -- Internment (August 27-29, 1942) -- Escape (September 6, 1942) -- Underground intelligence at Montmeyran (autumn 1942-March 1943) -- Manna from the skies (November 1943-May 1944) -- Last days on the farm (June 1944) -- Becoming a guerrilla (June 1944) -- Haute cuisine in the camp (June-July 1944) -- The ambush (July 1944) -- The 636th tank destroyer battalion (August-October 1944) -- The Teller mine incident (October 11, 1944) -- Homecoming to Paris (December 1944-February 15, 1945) -- Granville (February 15-March 8, 1945) -- Unrra (April 1945-October 1945) -- To America (October 1945-July 1946) -- Epilogue: what happened to.In 1937, after witnessing the violence of a Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris by his Jewish parents to finish his education in safety. Three years later France fell to the Germans and, alone and in danger, he fled south toward Marseilles, where he met and subsequently joined up with Varian Fry, an American journalist helping thousands of men and women escape the Nazis. With his German background, understanding of French culture, and fluency in several languages, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry's refugee network as a spy and scout and, when he was eventually forced to leave France, he continued working with the Resistance by recruiting men and women for the Underground army. At the end of World War II, he emigrated to America and built a new life for himself.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Rosenberg, Justus, 1921-2021.; Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.; Bard College; World War, 1939-1945; Guerrillas; Jews, German; Jews; Holocaust survivors; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
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The art of resistance [large print] : my four years in the French underground : a memoir / by Rosenberg, Justus,1921-2021,author.;
99-year-old literature professor Justus Rosenberg escaped the Holocaust and spent four daring years in the French Underground during World War II. Now he finally writes his own unforgettable epic. The Art of Resistance is unlike any World War II memoir before it. Its author, Justus Rosenberg, has spent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to American college students. Hidden within him, however, was a remarkable true story of wartime courage and romance worthy of a great novel. Here is Professor Rosenberg's elegant and gripping chronicle of his youth in Nazi-occupied Europe, when he risked everything to stand against evil. In 1937, after witnessing a violent Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent by his Jewish parents to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, the Nazis came again, as France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, Justus fled Paris, heading south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille who led a clandestine network helping thousands of men and women--including many legendary artists and intellectuals, among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst--escape the Nazis. With his intimate understanding of French and German culture, and fluency in several languages, including English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry's operation as a spy and scout. After the Vichy government expelled Fry from France, Justus worked in Grenoble, recruiting young men and women for the Underground Army. For the next four years, he would be an essential component of the Resistance, relying on his wits and skills to survive several close calls with death. Once, he found himself in a Nazi internment camp, with his next stop Auschwitz--and yet Justus found an ingenious way to escape. He two years during the war gathering intelligence, surveying German installations and troop movements on the Mediterranean. Then, after the allied invasion at Normandy in 1944, Justus became a guerrilla fighter, participating in and leading commando raids to disrupt the German retreat across France. At the end of the Second World War, Justus emigrated to America, and built a new life. For the past fifty years, he has taught literature at Bard College, shaping the inner lives of generations of students. Now he adds his own story to the library of great coming-of-age memoirs: The Art of Resistance is a powerful saga of bravery and defiance, a true-life spy thriller touched throughout by a professor's wisdom.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Large print books.; Personal narratives.; Rosenberg, Justus, 1921-2021.; Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.; Bard College; World War, 1939-1945; Guerrillas; Jews, German; Jews; Holocaust survivors; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
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Herakles : passage of the hero through 1000 years of classical art / by Uhlenbrock, Jaimee Pugliese.(CARDINAL)188542; Galinsky, Karl,1942-(CARDINAL)124801; Edith C. Blum Art Institute.(CARDINAL)161531;
Includes bibliographies.
Subjects: Art.; Exhibition catalogs.; Heracles (Greek mythological character); Hercules (Roman mythological character); Art, Classical;
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Center for Curatorial Studies tenth anniversary / by Cruz, Amada,1961-(CARDINAL)212184; Brunson, Cecilia.(CARDINAL)290330; Bonacossa, Ilaria.(CARDINAL)290471; Gugelberger, Rachel.; Ostrander, Tobias,1970-(CARDINAL)290475; Bard College.Center for Curatorial Studies.(CARDINAL)290331;
The arch of desire: women in the Marieluise Hessel collection / Cecilia Brunson, Ilaria Bonacossa -- Re(f)use / Rachel Gugelberger -- Text, texture, touch / Tobias Ostrander.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art, Modern;
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Second chances : Shakespeare and Freud / by Greenblatt, Stephen,1943-author.(CARDINAL)151234; Phillips, Adam,1954-author.(CARDINAL)808589;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- One. Shakespeare's first chance -- Two. No second chances -- Three. Second chances and delinquency -- Four. Shakespeare's second chance -- Five. Come again: on second chances -- Six. Remembering second chances: Freud and Proust -- Seven. Second chances: for and against -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again. Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from Oedipus Rex to Hamlet, explore the realization or failure of second chances-outcomes that depend on accident, acts of will, or fate. Such stories let us repeatedly rehearse the experience of loss and recovery: to know the joy that comes with a renewal of love and pleasure and to face the pain that comes with realizing that some damage can never be undone. Through a series of illuminating readings, the authors show how Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was its supreme interpreter. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation, of momentous shifts, constrained by time and place but often still possible. Ranging from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, and from D. W. Winnicott to Marcel Proust, the authors challenge readers to imagine how, as Phillips writes, "it is the mending that matters.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.; Opportunity.; Psychoanalysis.;
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The emerging figure / by Weber, Bruce,1951-(CARDINAL)158081; Dreishpoon, Douglas.(CARDINAL)178276; Norton Gallery and School of Art.(CARDINAL)133446;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 8-9).
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Coyne, Petah; Ladda, Justen, 1953-; Monti, John, 1957-; Newman, John, 1952-; Richter, Scott, 1943-; Shea, Judith, 1948-; Sculpture, Modern;
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