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Levy, Andrew

Leebron, Fred

Leebron

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Harcourt College Pub.

Endocrinology is covered in the medical curriculum and has often been found to be a dry subject. But not with this book, which summarizes all the knowledge in this field required by a medical student in a concise and memorable way. In line with the new integrated curricula this book covers basic science alongside clinical information and is illustrated in full colour. It contains more than 450 MCQs, and over 160 tables, diagrams and illustrations. Genuine case histories are scattered throughout the text to bring the subject to life with real clinical examples, and over 100 bulleted key points help students with revision.

Endocrinology

Medical Books

Lightman, Stafford L.

Medicine

Oxford University Press

Labour Relations in South Africa provides a thorough and engaging introduction to the science and practice of labour relations in South Africa. The fifth edition presents a more critical and reflective approach, engaging with the various issues, shifts, and seismic events that have impacted this dynamic field in recent years. The text has been expanded to encompass a multifaceted perspective relating to business, science, law, economics, and sociology, and to focus more specifically on the context and dynamics of a developing country.

Labour Relations in South Africa

Business & Money

Bendeman, Hanneli

Dworzanowski-Venter, Bronwyn

Venter, Robert

Economics

Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke of a pen. In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declared his intent to set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. How did Carter succeed in the very action that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson claimed they fervently desired but were powerless to effect? And why has his name all but vanished from the annals of American history? In this haunting, brilliantly original work, Andrew Levy traces the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and passion that led to Carter’s extraordinary act. At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, Carter was one of the wealthiest men in America, the owner of tens of thousands of acres of land, factories, ironworks–and hundreds of slaves. But incrementally, almost unconsciously, Carter grew to feel that what he possessed was not truly his. In an era of empty Anglican piety, Carter experienced a feverish religious visionthat impelled him to help build a church where blacks and whites were equals. In an age of publicly sanctioned sadism against blacks, he defied convention and extended new protections and privileges to his slaves. As the war ended and his fortunes declined, Carter dedicated himself even more fiercely to liberty, clashing repeatedly with his neighbors, his friends, government officials, and, most poignantly, his own family. But Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of freedom, in that freedom-loving age. Why did this troubled, spiritually torn man dare to do what far more visionary slave owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Andrew Levy teases out the very texture of Carter’s life and soul–the unspoken passions that divided him from others of his class, and the religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a new light. Drawing on years of painstaking research, written with grace and fire, The First Emancipator is a portrait of an unsung hero who has finally won his place in American history. It is an astonishing, challenging, and ultimately inspiring book.

The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves

History

Americas

Random House]

“[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter’s story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory.” –The New York Times Book Review In 1791, Robert Carter III, a pillar of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy, broke with his peers by arranging the freedom of his nearly five hundred slaves. It would be the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite this courageous move–or perhaps because of it–Carter’s name has all but vanished from the annals of American history. In this haunting, brilliantly original work, Andrew Levy explores the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and emotion that led to Carter’s extraordinary act. As Levy points out, Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of emancipation, in that freedom-loving age. So why did he dare to do what other visionary slave owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Levy reveals the unspoken passions that divided Carter from others of his class, and the religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a new light. Drawing on years of painstaking research and written with grace and fire, The First Emancipator is an astonishing, challenging, and ultimately inspiring book. “A vivid narrative of the future emancipator’s evolution.” –The Washington Post Book World “Highly recommended . . . a truly remarkable story about an eccentric American hero and visionary . . . should be standard reading for anyone with an interest in American history.” –Library Journal (starred review) “Absorbing. . . Well researched and thoroughly fascinating, this forgotten history will appeal to readers interested in the complexities of American slavery.” –Booklist (starred review)

The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Random House Publishing Group

The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 68)

The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the time of Poe. It describes how America - through political movements, changes in education, magazine editorial policy and the work of certain individuals - built the short story as an image of itself and continues to use the genre as a locale within the realm of art where American political ideals can be rehearsed, debated and turned into literary forms. While the focus of this book is cultural, individual authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Edith Wharton are examined as representative of the phenomenon. As part of its project, this book also contains a history of creative writing and the workshop dating back a century. Andrew Levy makes a strong case for the centrality of the short story as a form of art in American life and provides an explanation for the genre's resurgence and ongoing success.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

United States

Andrew Levy's wonderful new book can be read, in part, as a meditation within and upon its title, _Continuous Discontinuous_. That is, it raises the question, what is or isn't discontinuous with what. The question pertains both to phrases of language and to moments of experience; it pertains, that is, both to meaning (those fragile junctures) and to identity (potential continuities of the self). The four forceful, lovely works collected here, though very different from each other, all represent profound and yet quickly changing encounters with sense and sensation. All are swiftly impressionistic and rigorously thoughtful.- Lyn Hejinian

Continuous Discontinuous: Curve 2

Poetry

Potes & Poets Press

Poetry. "Andrew Levy, in PAPER HEAD LAST LYRICS refreshingly overlaps and engages the paired territories of language and thought, of speech and writing, of the social sphere and the textual sphere in a book that doesn't collapse politics and actually existing social relations into a gooey borderless mess, but rather moves through them with equal amounts of anger, surveillance, emotive twinges, comedic timing, and uncanny combinations" --Jeff Derksen.

Paper Head Last Lyrics

Essays & Correspondence

Roof Books

A cultural history and personal account of the dynamics of migraine headaches recounts how the author has struggled with persistent migraines for more than three decades, traces the influence of the migraine in the arts and sciences, and evaluates the migraine's role in shaping individuals and society. By the author of The First Emancipator.

A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary

Professionals & Academics

Simon&Schuster

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