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Item “The Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time” A Study of Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet(Oakland University, 2001-10-01) Mitzelfeld, Pamela T.; Brieger, GottfriedContinuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty.Item Anatomy of a Failure: The Detroit Public School System(Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Brieger, Gottfried; Cole, Natalie B.For a few short years in the 1920s, a remarkable coalition of the city financial elite, politicians of all stripes, and the unions, united behind school improvement, and the system flourished, at least financially. Then came the Depression, and the elite were the first to pull out. Since that time, there has been a continual conflict over control of the school system, with the State, the mayor, the city council, the school board, and the unions jockeying for power. Especially today, with an annual budget of over a billion dollars, the plum is well worth fighting over.Item And This the Latest!(Oakland University, 2001-10-01) Murphy, Brian; Brieger, GottfriedContinuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty.Item Art in Rome: 313 - 1300 A.D. Recognition, Reconstruction, Restoration(Oakland University, 2000-10-01) Ngote, Louisa C.; Brieger, GottfriedThe influence of imperial Rome and Christianity on art and architecture in Rome from 313–1300 A.D, Emperors, kings, popes, and private citizens set policy, financed construction, and selected the best artists available.Item Ask the Professor: Especially One Who Knows the Answer(Oakland University, 2001-10-01) Garfinkle, David; Brieger, GottfriedIsaac Newton’s stunning success, the theory of gravity, seemed disturbing to many contemporaries; it required one to accept that heavenly bodies could act on one another at a distance with nothing intervening. To some, Newton’s “gravity” was a step backwards to a time when conceptual inventions like “instincts” and “humours” were invoked as explanations of scientific phenomena—explanations that explained nothing. Newton replied, “I feign no hypotheses,” hypotheses non fingo. But many of us never got beyond this stumper in physics and we would like know how action at a distance is possible. So we asked an Oakland expert.Item Bartering Books: Doing Research in Central Brazil(Oakland University, 2000-10-01) Karasch, Mary C.; Brieger, GottfriedThe author describes some of the more interesting characteristics of doing historical research on a remote region of Brazil in the late colonial period.Item Basic Training(Oakland University, 2003-10-01) Carleton, Alice M.; Brieger, GottfriedA young woman's experiences in military basic training,Item Item Bibliophily In the USA(Oakland University, 2002-10-01) Gerulaitis, Leonardas V.; Brieger, GottfriedThe state of bibliophily in the United States, starting with its colonial beginnings and tracing it to the present day.Item Book Review: Edmund Morris, Dutch(Oakland University, 2000-10-01) Appleton, Sheldon; Brieger, GottfriedBook review of a biography of Ronald Reagan.Item The Books I Wanted to Write(Oakland University, 2016-01-01) Brieger, Gottfried; Clason, Christopher; Garfinkle, DavidAuthor lists book titles he would have liked to have written and humorous descriptions of them.Item Item Item A Century of Dickinson Scholarship: Reflections of an Encyclopedist(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Eberwein, Jane Donahue; Brieger, GottfriedComments on editing an encyclopedia of more than a century’s worth of scholarship since Poems by Emily Dickinson first appeared in 1890, four years after the poet’s death.Item Item The Contributions of The Jam Handy Organization to American Commerce and Culture(Oakland University, 2002-04-01) Eberwein, Robert T.; Sandy, Bill; Brieger, GottfriedFilm to Jamison Handy was not an end in itself, but a means to an end, one of many ways to reach out and penetrate into the mind of the viewer..Where Hollywood used film as a substitute for the stage, a way to entertain, Handy saw it as a window, a way to take the viewer anywhere in the world.Item Contributors(Oakland University, 2002-04-01) Brieger, GottfriedOakland Journal Issue 4 contributors listItem Contributors(Oakland University, 2003-10-01) Brieger, GottfriedOakland Journal Issue 6 contributors listItem Contributors(Oakland University, 2000-10-01) Brieger, GottfriedOakland Journal Issue 2 contributors listItem Contributors(Oakland University, 2001-10-01) Brieger, GottfriedOakland Journal Issue 3 contributors list