Tag: #Book

• Columbus Day Book Highlights: Celebrating the Italian American Heritage

  Columbus Day Cambria Press Book Highlights: Celebrating the Italian American Heritage

  Cambria Press

  October 12, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, American history, Cambria Press

  #Book, Cambria author, Cambria book, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Columbus Day, fascism, Gelasio Caetani, Harlem, immigrant, Italian-American, Italy, Luciano Iorizzo, Mussolini, Pellegrino Nazzaro, Salvatore LaGumina, Salvatore Mondello, Sicilia Parra, Sicilian, Sicily, The Italian Americans, World War II

• Seeking Bipartisanship by Secretary Ray LaHood Makes Front-Page News

  

  Seeking Bipartisanship, the new book by Secretary Ray LaHood with Frank H. Mackaman of the Dirksen Congressional Center, made front-page news this weekend. An online article is also available. It notes that like Secretary LaHood, the atypical politician: The writing for the book also followed an atypical pattern. LaHood and Mackaman started in mid-2007, in…

  Cambria Press

  October 5, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, American history, American Politics, APSA, Cambria Press, Current Events

  #Book, American Politics, Bipartisan, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Congress, Democrat, Dirksen Congressional Center, Frank H. Mackaman, Peoria Journal Star, political science, President Obama, Ray LaHood, Republican, Secretary of Transportation, Seeking Bipartisanship, US House of Representative, Washington, White House

• Baojuan (Precious Scrolls) of China explained by Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University)

  What are the baojuan 寶卷 (precious scrolls) of China? Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University) explains: Precious scrolls (baojuan) is the name of a genre of prosimetric texts (texts written in an alternation of prose and verse) on religious subjects and written in vernacular Chinese. The most recent catalogue of precious scrolls lists more than…

  Cambria Press

  October 5, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture

  #Book, Asian Studies, baojuan, Buddhist sutra, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, China, Chinese, Ming dynasty, Precious Scrolls, Qing dynasty, Sinologist, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema