Author: Nelson George File Type: epub Thriller takes us back to a time in 1982 when Michael Jackson was king of the charts, breaking the color barrier on MTV, heralding the age of video, and becoming the ultimate representation of the crossover dreams of Motowns Berry Gordy, who helped launch Jacksons career with the Jackson 5. In this incisive and revealing examination of the making and meaning of Thriller, Nelson George illuminates the brilliant creative process (and work ethic) of Jackson and producer Quincy Jones, deftly exploring the larger context of the music, life, and seismic impact of Michael Jackson on three generations. All this from a groundbreaking journalist and cultural critic who was there. George questions whether the phenomenon Jackson became is even possible today. He revisits his early writings on the King of Pop and examines not only the stunning success of Thriller but also Jackson as an artist, public figure, and racial enigmaincluding the details surrounding his death on June 25, 2009.**

Author: Saidiya Hartman File Type: pdf R 92. Fall 2005 2006 The Regents of the University of California. ISSN 07346018,electronic ISSN 1533855X, pages 115. Direct requests for permission to photocopyor reproduce article content to the University of California Press at www.ucpress.edujournalsrights.htm.

Author: Arthur Milnes File Type: epub In celebration of Sir Wilfrid Lauriers 175th birthday -- November 20th, 2016 is Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day -- this is the first time his most important and iconic speeches will be published in book form, annotated and with essays by a stunning array of politicians, journalists, and acclaimed academics. Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways. These were the words used in triumph by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the night he was elected Canadas 23rd Prime Minister. They were also the words Sir Wilfrid Laurier used to call Canadians to greatness a century before. Canada Always brings together the most significant speeches of one of Canadas greatest leaders on the 175th anniversary of his birth. Readers will follow Laurier from his earliest years in Canadian politics, through his history-making fifteen-year Premiership, and then again as his generous vision of Canada is sorely tested by the flames and fire of the First World War. Edited by veteran political speechwriter and PM historian Arthur Milnes, Canada Always features essays of commentary by seven of Lauriers living successors as Prime Minister of Canada. They are joined by Mr. Justice Thomas Cromwell of the Supreme Court of Canada past Prime Ministerial chiefs-of-staff like Thomas Axworthy, Edward Goldenberg, Nigel Wright, Derek Burney, and Hugh Segal journalists Andre Pratte, Steve Paikin, Jane Taber, Lawrence Martin, and Andrew Cohen past and sitting Premiers Rachel Notley, Christy Clark, Jean Charest, Roy Romanow, Alison Redford, and Bob Rae distinguished academics including David Asper former US Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson (on Lauriers legacy in Canada-US relations) while the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair considers Laurier from his unique position as a past Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As Canada stands on the cusp of her 150th birthday, Canada Always will be an essential part of the library of any Canadian seeking a further understanding of the words that defined our nation Lauriers words. **

Author: Mirko Grmek File Type: pdf Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer of the field. The singular trajectory that took Grmek from Yugoslavia to the academic culture of post-war France placed him at the crossroads of different intellectual trends and made him an influential figure during the second half of the twentieth century. Yet, scholars have rarely attempted to articulate his distinctive vision of the history of science and medicine with all its tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. This volume brings together and publishes for the first time in English a range of Grmeks writings, providing a portrait of his entire career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Pathological Realities pieces together Grmeks scholarship that reveals the interconnections of diseases, societies, and medical theories.Straddling the sciences and the humanities, Grmek crafted significant new concepts and methods to engage with contemporary social problems such as wars, genocides and pandemics. Uniting some major strands of his published work that are still dispersed or simply unknown, this volume covers the deep epistemological changes in historical conceptions of disease as well as major advances within the life sciences and their historiography. Opening with a classic essay Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases, this volume introduces Grmeks notions of pathocenosis and emerging infections, illustrating them with historical and contemporary cases. Pathological Realities also showcases Grmeks pioneering approach to the history of science and medicine using laboratory notebooks as well as his original work on biological thought and the role of ideologies and myths in the history of science. The essays assembled here reveal Grmeks significant influence and continued relevance for current research in the history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science studies, and the philosophy of science.ReviewA medical doctor by training, [Grmek] opened a new chapter in the history of medicine. Instead of focusing on illnesses as a human condition and the historically changing means of their conceptualization and remediation, he paved the way for looking at diseases as historical agents, both in their interactions with each other and their impacts on the course of human culture, be it plague in the Middle Ages or AIDS more recently. . . He was a paragon of crossing boundaries national, cultural, linguistic, as well as disciplinary borders. (Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, from the foreword) About the AuthorMirko Grmek (Author) Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) was a Croatian and French historian, writer, and scientist. Hans-Jorg Rheinberger (Foreword By) Hans-Jorg Rheinberger is Professor Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.