Conversations with Ron Rash, Mae Miller Claxton, Rain Newcomb

Автор: Abdel-khalik, A Rashad (univ Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign,usa)
Название: Brazen: big banks, swap mania and the fallout
ISBN: 9811203121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811203121
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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For nearly two decades, countless non-profits in the U.S. were forced to pay big banks enormous sums of money to settle or terminate bilateral contracts known as Interest Rate Swaps (IRSs). Officials at non-profits had entered into these costly contracts unaware that each contract has only one winner, and that big banks did not intend to be the losers.

The effects of such monetary transfers have been catastrophic. Money-strapped non-profits had to dismiss schoolteachers, shut off water supply to thousands of poor households, and downsize many other essential public services. Local and state governments, public school districts, universities, hospitals and transit authorities from New York to Los Angeles have been among the largest hit.

This book presents selected cases and highlights the lack of evidence that decision makers at non-profits had fully understood the terms and complexities of IRSs. The evident unequal bargaining power thus gives rise to the high likelihood of unconscionable contracting. Additionally, for terminating these contracts, big banks collected huge sums of money for services that had not been, and will never be, rendered. Accordingly, questions arise as to whether these termination payments are tantamount to unjust enrichment.

Автор: Mae Miller Claxton, Rain Newcomb
Название: Conversations with Ron Rash
ISBN: 1496808967 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496808967
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Since the publication of Serena in 2008 earned him a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. 1953) has gained attention as one of the South's finest writers. Rash draws upon his family's history in Appalachia, where most members have worked with their hands as farmers or millworkers. In the Grit Lit or Rough South genre, Rash maintains a prominent place as a skilled craftsman and triple threat, publishing four collections of poetry, six short story collections, and six novels. Though best known as an Appalachian writer, Rash's reach has grown to extend well beyond Appalachia and the American South, spreading to an international audience.Conversations with Ron Rash collects twenty-two interviews with the award-winning author and provides a look into Rash's writing career from his first collection of short stories, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth in 1994 through his 2015 novel, Above the Waterfall. The collection includes four interviews from outside the United States, two of which appear in English for the first time. Spanning sixteen years, these interviews demonstrate the disciplined writing process of an expert writer, Rash's views of literature on a local and a global scale, his profound respect for the craft of the written word, and his ongoing goal to connect with his readers.

Автор: Randall Wilhelm, Zachary Vernon
Название: Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash
ISBN: 161117838X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611178388
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Описание: The first book-length examination of the award-winning author of poetry and fiction firmly rooted in AppalachiaSince his dramatic appearance on the southern literary stage with his debut novel, One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash has continued a prolific outpouring of award-winning poetry and fiction. His status as a regular on the New York Times Best Sellers list, coupled with his impressive critical acclaim—including two O. Henry Awards and the Frank O’Connor Award for Best International Short Fiction— attests to both his wide readership and his brilliance as a literary craftsman. In Summoning the Dead, editors Randall Wilhelm and Zackary Vernon have assembled the first book-length collection of scholarship on Ron Rash. The volume features the work of respected scholars in southern and Appalachian studies, providing a disparate but related constellation of interdisciplinary approaches to Rash’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.The editors contend that Rash’s work is increasingly relevant and important on regional, national, and global levels in part because of its popular and scholarly appeal and also its invaluable social critiques and celebrations, thus warranting academic attention. Wilhelm and Vernon argue that studying Rash is important because he encourages readers and critics alike to understand Appalachia in all its complexity and he consistently provides portrayals of the region that reveal both the beauty of its cultures and landscapes as well as the social and environmental pathologies that it continues to face.The landscapes, peoples, and cultures that emerge in Rash’s work represent and respond to not only Appalachia or the South, but also to national and global cultures. Firmly rooted in the mountain South, Rash’s artistic vision weaves the truths of the human condition and the perils of the human heart in a poetic language that speaks deeply to us all. Through these essays, offering a range of critical and theoretical approaches that examine important aspects of Rash’s work, Wilhelm and Vernon create a foundation for the future of Rash studies.Robert Morgan, Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell University and author of fourteen books of poetry and nine volumes of fiction including the New York Times bestselling novel Gap Creek, provides a foreword.

Автор: Stewart, Carol
Название: Rash resolve and life`s progress
ISBN: 1848933363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848933361
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition - The Rash Resolve (1724) and Life`s Progress (1748) - show her developing and adapting her ideas on the subject of passion and romance. Though superficially presented as cautionary tales, Haywood introduces a feminist slant.

Автор: Spill Frederique
Название: The Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash`s Writing
ISBN: 1643360191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643360195
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The Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash's Writing examines how the poet's language bristles with a variety of carefully registered sensory perceptions detailing minute objects, some of which, Fr�d�rique Spill argues, less poetic minds than his might consider insignificant. Through its eleven chapters, each devoted to a different book in order of publication, Spill's study shows how prone Rash is to making violence cohabit with beauty, thus imbuing the dreariest situations with a poignant brightness, an unlikely luminescence.

The overall discussion highlights the evolution of Rash's writing toward a dense inventiveness and a keen poetic awareness of the workings of the natural world, which reaches a peak with the publication of Above the Waterfall. However, readers more particularly interested in one specific book may consult chapters separately. The volume concludes with three interviews with Rash, respectively focusing on novels, short stories, and poetry.

Through close readings and systematic observations of Ron Rash's writing, Spill hopes to illuminate these seemingly insignificant details. They somehow contain larger elements�textual components that could remain unnoticed but might very well prove fraught with significance.

Автор: Jessica Baldanzi, Hussein Rashid
Название: Ms. Marvel`s America: No Normal
ISBN: 1496827023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496827029
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Описание: Contributions by Jos? Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin M. Peterson, Nicholaus Pumphrey, Hussein Rashid, and J. Richard Stevens Mainstream superheroes are becoming more and more diverse, with new identities for Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man. Though the Marvel-verse is becoming much more racially, ethnically, and gender diverse, many of these comics remain shy about religion. The new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is a notable exception, not only because she is written and conceived by two women, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson, but also because both of these women bring their own experiences as Muslim Americans to the character. This distinct collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies, religious studies, pedagogy, and communications to engage with a single character, exploring Khan's significance for a broad readership. While acknowledged as the first Muslim superhero to headline her own series, her character appears well-developed and multifaceted in many other ways. She is the first character to take over an established superhero persona, Ms. Marvel, without a reboot of the series or death of the original character. The teenager is also a second-generation immigrant, born to parents who arrived in New Jersey from Pakistan. With essays from and about diverse voices on an array of topics from fashion to immigration history to fandom, this volume includes an exclusive interview with Ms. Marvel author and cocreator G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar Shabana Mir.

Автор: Bawden James, Miller Ron
Название: Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood`s Golden Era
ISBN: 0813174384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813174389
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: In Conversations with Classic Film Stars, retired journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller present an astonishing collection of rare interviews with the greatest celebrities of Hollywood`s golden age.

Автор: Rashid Samory
Название: Black Muslims in the US
ISBN: 1137337508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137337504
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Black Muslims in the U.S. seeks to address deficiencies in current scholarship about black Muslims in American society, from examining the origins of Islam among African-Americans to acknowledging the influential role that black Muslims play in contemporary U.S. society.

Автор: , Rashad A. K.
Название: Brazen: Big Banks, Swap Mania and the Fallout
ISBN: 9813275561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813275560
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Описание: Following the 2008 Financial Crisis, news broke that big banks in the US were collecting hundreds of billions of dollars from non-profit parties. These enormous sums represented annual settlement and termination payments for bilateral contracts known as Interest Rate Swaps (IRSs). Starting in the late 1990s, big banks targeted non-profits for massive sales of all types of such contracts. Non-profits ended up being perennial losers, eventually owing enormous sums of money to the banks for nothing received.The effects of such monetary transfers have been disastrous -- money-strapped non-profits had to dismiss schoolteachers, shut off water supply to thousands of poor households and downsize many other essential public services. For example, over 108 public school districts and 105 government agencies in the state of Pennsylvania suffered massive losses because of dealing in IRSs. Local and state governments, universities, hospitals and transit authorities from New York to San Francisco have been and are among the largest hit. Moreover, about 500 hospitals ranging from charity to large healthcare centers became victims of bank-generated swap contracts. Members of the Service Employee International Union identified the curse of IRS payments to big banks as being 'Money for Nothing.'This book discusses selective cases of the costly undertaking of many, many non-profits whose officials were not informed that an IRS contract has only one winner, and that big banks had no intention of being the losers. The author lends support that, curiously, officials of non-profits relied heavily on the banks' self-serving representations with respect to IRS contracts. There is no evidence that any of these officials, and their advisors, fully understood the complexities, terms and nuances of IRS contracts offered by big banks. As a result, the contracting parties did not have equal bargaining power. Therefore, should not IRS contracts with non-profits be considered unconscionable contracts? Moreover, once an IRS is terminated, the presumed services of hedging, managing risk and betting would terminate. Thus, the huge sums of money big banks had collected for termination, based on the duration from the time of termination to maturity, were taken for services that had not been, and will never be, rendered. Could one then consider these termination payments tantamount to unjust enrichment?

Автор: Rashkin, Elissa J.
Название: The stridentist movement in Mexico
ISBN: 0739131575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739131572
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Stridentism (estridentismo) was a literary, artistic, and cultural movement founded in Mexico in the 1920s by poets Manuel Maples Arce, GermOn List Arzubide, and Salbador Gallardo, prose writer Arqueles Vela, painters Fermin Revueltas, Ram-n Alva de la Canal, Leopoldo MZndez, and Jean Charlot, and sculptor GermOn Cueto. This book is a wide-ranging

Автор: Jessica Baldanzi, Hussein Rashid
Название: Ms. Marvel`s America: No Normal
ISBN: 1496827015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496827012
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Contributions by Jos? Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin M. Peterson, Nicholaus Pumphrey, Hussein Rashid, and J. Richard Stevens Mainstream superheroes are becoming more and more diverse, with new identities for Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man. Though the Marvel-verse is becoming much more racially, ethnically, and gender diverse, many of these comics remain shy about religion. The new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is a notable exception, not only because she is written and conceived by two women, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson, but also because both of these women bring their own experiences as Muslim Americans to the character. This distinct collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies, religious studies, pedagogy, and communications to engage with a single character, exploring Khan’s significance for a broad readership. While acknowledged as the first Muslim superhero to headline her own series, her character appears well-developed and multifaceted in many other ways. She is the first character to take over an established superhero persona, Ms. Marvel, without a reboot of the series or death of the original character. The teenager is also a second-generation immigrant, born to parents who arrived in New Jersey from Pakistan. With essays from and about diverse voices on an array of topics from fashion to immigration history to fandom, this volume includes an exclusive interview with Ms. Marvel author and cocreator G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar Shabana Mir.

Автор: Singh, Rashna B.
Название: Goodly is our heritage
ISBN: 0810850435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810850439
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: An investigation into how constructions of character in children`s literature become cultural imprints that serve a functional purpose in the wider context of race and power.