Anne Oates's Books

From the Mill to Monte Carlo

The Working-Class Englishman Who Beat the Monaco Casino and Changed Gambling Forever

By: Anne Fletcher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From the Mill to Monte Carlo

The Working-Class Englishman Who Beat the Monaco Casino and Changed Gambling Forever

By: Anne Fletcher

The only Monte Carlo gambler to devise an infallible and completely legal system to break the bank.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

355

Publisher

Amberley Publishing Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

1445671409

ISBN 13

9781445671406

Birdie Bowers

Captain Scott's Marvel

By: Anne Strathie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde, Bowers' boyhood obsession with travel and adventure took him round the world several times and his life appears, with hindsight, to have been a ceaseless preparation for his ultimate, Antarctic challenge. Although just 5ft 4in, he was a bundle of energy; knowledgeable, indefatigable and the ultimate team player. In Scott's words, he was 'a marvel'. This new biography, drawing on Bowers' letters, journals and previously neglected material, sheds new light on Bowers and tells the full story of the hardy naval officer who could always lift his companions' spirits.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

319

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0752478710

ISBN 13

9780752478715

Marry in Haste

By: Anne Gracie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Marry in Haste

By: Anne Gracie

From the award-winning author of The Summer Bride comes the first in a charming new historical romance series where marriages of convenience turn into true love matches. Major Calbourne Rutherford returns to England on the trail of an assassin, only to find he’s become Lord Ashendon, with the responsibility for vast estates and dependent relatives. Cal can command the toughest of men, but his wild half-sisters are quite another matter. They might just be his undoing. When he discovers that Miss Emmaline Westwood, the girls’ former teacher, guides them with ease, Cal offers her a marriage of convenience. But strong-minded and independent Emm is neither as compliant nor as proper as he expected, and Cal finds himself most inconveniently seduced by his convenient wife. Emm knows they didn’t marry for love, yet beneath her husband’s austere facade, she catches glimpses of a man who takes her breath away. As pride, duty and passion clash, will these two stubborn hearts find more than they ever dreamed of?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

322

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

042528381X

ISBN 13

9780425283813

From Ice Floes to Battlefields

Scott's 'Antarctics' in the First World War

By: Anne Strathie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Ice Floes to Battlefields

Scott's 'Antarctics' in the First World War

By: Anne Strathie

February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scott's conquest of the South Pole, but are forced by ice to return north before Scott's party returns. In New Zealand a reporter tells them that Roald Amundsen reached the Pole first. Returning to Antarctica in early 1913, they learn that Scott's party reached the Pole but died on the ice shelf. Back in Britain memorial services, medal ceremonies, weddings and resumed careers are abruptly interrupted by the First World War. Fit and able men, Scott's 'Antarctics' trade one adventure for another. By 1919 Scott's 'Antarctics' have fought at Antwerp, the Western Front, Gallipoli, in the Channel, at Jutland and in Arctic Russia. They serve on horseback, in trenches, on battleships and hospital ships, in armoured cars and flimsy aircraft; their brothers-in-arms include a prime minister's son and poet Rupert Brooke. As in Antarctica, life is challenging and dangerous. As on the ice, not all survive.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

331

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0750965789

ISBN 13

9780750965781

Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations

Weaving Together Society

By: Anne Porter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations

Weaving Together Society

By: Anne Porter

This book explores the roles of mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world in ancient Mesopotamia.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

401

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521764432

ISBN 13

9780521764438

Lowland Grassland and Heathland Habitats

By: Elizabeth Anne Clewett Price

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lowland Grassland and Heathland Habitats

By: Elizabeth Anne Clewett Price

Grassland and Heathland Habitats is a practical guide to the habitat types, flora and fauna of Britain's range of natural and semi-natural grasslands and heaths.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0415187621

ISBN 13

9780415187626

Ancient Egyptians at Play

Board Games Across Borders

By: Walter Crist,Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi,Alex de Voogt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ancient Egyptians at Play

Board Games Across Borders

By: Walter Crist,Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi,Alex de Voogt

The rich history of Egypt has provided famous examples of board games played in antiquity. Each of these games provides evidence of contact between Egypt and its neighbours. From pre-dynastic rule to Arab and Ottoman invasions, Egypt's past is visible on game boards. This volume starts by introducing the reader to board games as well as instruments of chance and goes on to trace the history and distribution of ancient Egyptian games, looking particularly at how they show contact with other cultures and civilizations. Game practices, which were also part of Egyptian rituals and divination, travelled throughout the eastern Mediterranean. This book explores the role of Egypt in accepting and disseminating games during its long history. Over the last few years, the extent and the modes of contact have become better understood through museum and archival research projects as well as surveys of archaeological sites in Egypt and its surrounding regions. The results allow new insight into ancient Egypt's international relations and the role of board games research in understanding its extent. Written by three authors known internationally for their expertise on this topic, this will be the first volume on Ancient Egyptian games of its kind and a much-needed contribution to the field of both Egyptology and board games studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1474221203

ISBN 13

9781474221207

Civil War Arkansas

Beyond Battles and Leaders

By: Anne Bailey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Civil War Arkansas

Beyond Battles and Leaders

By: Anne Bailey

This collection of essays represents the best recent history written on Civil War activity in Arkansas. It illuminates the complexity of such issues as guerrilla warfare, Union army policies, and the struggles hetween white and black civilians and soldiers, and also shows that the war years were a time of great change and personal conflict for the citizens of the state, despite the absence of "great" battles or armies. All the essays, which have been previously published in scholarly journals, have been revised to reflect recent scholarship in the field. Each selection explores a military or social dimension of the war that has been largely ignored or which is unique to the war in Arkansas—gristmill destruction, military farm colonies, nitre mining operations, mountain clan skirmishes, federal plantation experiments, and racial atrocities and reprisals. Together, the essays provoke thought on the character and cost of the war away from the great battlefields and suggest the pervasive change wrought by its destructiveness. In the cogent introduction Daniel E. Sutherland and Anne J. Bailey set the historiographic record of the Civil War in Arkansas, tracing a line from the first writings through later publications to our current understanding. As a volume in The Civil War in the West series, Civil War Arkansas elucidates little-known but significant aspects of the war, encouraging new perspectives on them and focusing on the less studied western theater. As such, it will inform and challenge both students and teachers of the American Civil War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

329

Publisher

University of Arkansas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1610750993

ISBN 13

9781610750998

The Unbounded Home

Property Values Beyond Property Lines

By: Lee Anne Fennell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Unbounded Home

Property Values Beyond Property Lines

By: Lee Anne Fennell

Lee Anne Fennell explores the relationship between home ownership and neighbourhood, arguing that the desire for active participation in local affairs is directly linked to conern about property values. She looks at how critical issues of neighbourhood control & community composition might be addressed through this link.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

311

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300155026

ISBN 13

9780300155020

Widows of the Ice

The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind

By: Anne Fletcher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Widows of the Ice

The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind

By: Anne Fletcher

New paperback edition - A moving and original account of the effect of Scott's tragic expedition on the men's wives and families, who fame and history have overlooked.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

Amberley Publishing Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

1445693771

ISBN 13

9781445693774

A Common Thread

Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry

By: Beth Anne English

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Common Thread

Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry

By: Beth Anne English

With important ramifications for studies relating to industrialization and the impact of globalization, A Common Thread examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959. Through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing Company, the book provides an informative historic reference point to current debates about the continuous relocation of capital to low-wage, largely unregulated labor markets worldwide. In 1896, to confront the effects of increasing state regulations, labor militancy, and competition from southern mills, the Dwight Company became one of the first New England cotton textile companies to open a subsidiary mill in the South. Dwight closed its Massachusetts operations completely in 1927, but its southern subsidiary lasted three more decades. In 1959, the branch factory Dwight had opened in Alabama became one of the first textile mills in the South to close in the face of post-World War II foreign competition. Beth English explains why and how New England cotton manufacturing companies pursued relocation to the South as a key strategy for economic survival, why and how southern states attracted northern textile capital, and how textile mill owners, labor unions, the state, manufacturers' associations, and reform groups shaped the ongoing movement of cotton-mill money, machinery, and jobs. A Common Thread is a case study that helps provide clues and predictors about the processes of attracting and moving industrial capital to developing economies throughout the world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0820336696

ISBN 13

9780820336695

The Real Liddy James

By: Anne-Marie Casey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Real Liddy James

By: Anne-Marie Casey

Liddy James is forty-four, fit, and fabulous. One of New York's top divorce attorneys, a bestselling author, and a mother of two, she glides through the courtrooms and salons of the Manhattan elite with ease. Despite a devastating divorce from her first love, literature professor Peter James, Liddy, Peter, and Peter's sympathetic new partner Rose have formed a modern family to raise Liddy and Peter's truculent teen and Liddy's adorable, if fatherless, six-year-old. With her lonely and impoverished New Jersey childhood far behind her, to the outside world Liddy's life is perfect. Until it isn't"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

338

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0399160221

ISBN 13

9780399160226

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fighting for Civil Rights

By: Michael A. Schuman,Anne E. Schraff

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fighting for Civil Rights

By: Michael A. Schuman,Anne E. Schraff

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream that, one day, all people would be viewed equally, no matter the color of their skin. And he fought hard for civil rights for African Americans, eventually even giving his life to the cause. This compelling biography explores Kings early life and his activism in his own words within the context of the Jim Crow American South, along with his victories and the way in which he changed our world. Students will be guided through their reading with a glossary of important terms, a timeline of Kings life and important events in the civil rights movement, and resources for further learning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

130

Publisher

Enslow Publishing, LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

0766085120

ISBN 13

9780766085121

Approaches to Learning

By: Anne Jordan,Orison Carlile,Annetta Stack

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Approaches to Learning

By: Anne Jordan,Orison Carlile,Annetta Stack

This book provides a really sound grounding in the theories that underpin successful teaching and learning. Without over-simplification it provides accessible introductions to the key learning theories with which teachers and students are likely to engage, and it has immense practical value." Professor Sally Brown, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK This comprehensive guide for education students and practitioners provides an overview of the major theories of learning. It considers their implications for policy and practice and sets out practical guidelines for best pedagogical practice. The book can be read as a series of stand-alone chapters or as an integrated overview of theoretical perspectives drawn from the philosophy, psychology, sociology and pedagogy that guide educational principles and practice. Each chapter contains: An accessible introduction to each theory A summary of key principles Critical insights drawn from the theories discussed Examples and illustrations from contemporary research and practice Summary boxes that highlight critical and key points made Practical implications for education professionals Approaches to Learning is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners who wish to reflect on their educational constructs and explore and engage in the modern discourse of education.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published Date

ISBN 10

033523643X

ISBN 13

9780335236435

Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651

By: Anne Laurence

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651

By: Anne Laurence

A comprehensive study of the careers, qualifications, duties, and activities of chaplains serving in all the various parliamentary armies ... A work of impressive scholarship which will remain an invaluable guide for all future research on the parliamentary armies. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORYAuthor Anne Laurence sets out to determine whether parliamentary army chaplains were responsible for the spread of radicalism in the Parliamentary forces.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

0861932161

ISBN 13

9780861932160

Herbert Ponting

Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker

By: Anne Strathie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Herbert Ponting

Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker

By: Anne Strathie

Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) was young bank clerk when he bought an early Kodak compact camera. By the early 1900s, he was living in California, working as a professional photographer, known for stereoview and enlarged images of America, Japan and the Russo-Japanese war. In 1909, back in Britain, Ponting was recruited by Captain Robert Scott as photographer and filmmaker for his second Antarctic expedition. In 1913, following the deaths of Scott and his South Pole party companions, Ponting's images of Antarctica were widely published, and he gave innovative 'cinema-lectures' on the expedition. When war broke out, Ponting's offers to serve as a photographer or correspondent were declined, but in 1918 he, Ernest Shackleton and other Antarctic veterans joined a government-backed Arctic expedition. During the economically depressed 1920s and 1930s, Ponting wrote his Antarctic memoir, re-worked his Antarctic films into silent and 'talkie' versions and worked on inventions. Like others, he struggled financially but was sustained by correspondence with photographic equipment magnate George Eastman, a late-life romance with singer Glae Carrodus and knowing that his images of Antarctica had secured his place in photographic and filmmaking history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

458

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0750997052

ISBN 13

9780750997058

Anne Sexton

A Self-portrait in Letters

By: Anne Sexton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Anne Sexton

A Self-portrait in Letters

By: Anne Sexton

A collection of letters written by poet Anne Sexton in which she describes her life, thoughts and feelings, with previously unpublished poems and family pictures and memorabilia.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

488

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published Date

ISBN 10

0618492429

ISBN 13

9780618492428

Ex Libris

Confessions of a Common Reader

By: Anne Fadiman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ex Libris

Confessions of a Common Reader

By: Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published Date

ISBN 10

1429929421

ISBN 13

9781429929424

Between the Enemy and Texas

Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War

By: Anne J. Bailey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Between the Enemy and Texas

Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War

By: Anne J. Bailey

Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements that characterized the conflict farther east. Instead, small units of Confederate cavalry and infantry skirmished with Federal forces in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana, trying to hold the western Confederacy together. The many units of Texans who joined this fight had a second objective—to keep the enemy out of their home state by placing themselves “between the enemy and Texas.” Historian Anne J. Bailey studies one Texas unit, Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, to show how the war west of the Mississippi was fought. Historian Norman D. Brown calls this “the definitive study of Parsons's Cavalry Brigade; the story will not need to be told again.” Exhaustively researched and written with literary grace, Between the Enemy and Texas is a “must” book for anyone interested in the role of mounted troops in the Trans-Mississippi Department.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

435

Publisher

Texas A&M University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0875655149

ISBN 13

9780875655147

Bradykinin, Kallidin and Kallikrein

By: Ervin G. Erdös,Anne F. Wilde

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bradykinin, Kallidin and Kallikrein

By: Ervin G. Erdös,Anne F. Wilde

Bradykinin is frequently referred to as an elusive substance; the editor of a comprehensive volume dealing with kinins thus has a difficult task. The com plexity of the issues calls for a large number of contributors who approach the topics from the various angles that are dictated by the sometimes divergent views of the individuals. The editor saw no reason to prescribe the mode of presentation, which was left to the authors and accounts for the variety of approaches. Contributors from nine countries were asked to participate in the volume. The chapters were organized to present, first, the history of the discoveries and methods of approach to kinin research. Then follows a discussion of the enzymes that release kinins, their substrates, and other enzymes that inactivate the peptides. If the release of kinin is important, then the inhibition of the releasing enzymes is of obvious interest and is described. Since the measurement of kinin ogen levels in blood has been frequently used as an indicator of kinin liberation, in addition to a separate chapter, kininogens are also mentioned where the functions of kinins are discussed. The conclusions drawn from establishing structure-action relationships for many analogs and the actions of kinins are indicated and summarized.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

787

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3642462227

ISBN 13

9783642462221

The Body Divine

The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Ramanuja

By: Anne Hunt Overzee

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Body Divine

The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Ramanuja

By: Anne Hunt Overzee

The book makes an significant contribution to comparative theology, and explores the wide-ranging implications of a religious symbol whose potency is perennial, cross-cultural, and of continuing contemporary importance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

238

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521385164

ISBN 13

9780521385169

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the reign of Charles II. 1665-1666

By: Mary Anne E. Green

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the reign of Charles II. 1665-1666

By: Mary Anne E. Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

766

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3752583428

ISBN 13

9783752583427

The Excellent Mrs Fry

Unlikely Heroine

By: Anne Isba

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Excellent Mrs Fry

Unlikely Heroine

By: Anne Isba

A brilliant new study of the Quaker social reformer, who transformed the lives of prisoners and made a lasting mark on English society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847250394

ISBN 13

9781847250391

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature

By: Anne Cotterill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature

By: Anne Cotterill

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191532061

ISBN 13

9780191532061

Thomas Hovenden

His Life and Art

By: Anne Gregory Terhune,Patricia Smith Scanlan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thomas Hovenden

His Life and Art

By: Anne Gregory Terhune,Patricia Smith Scanlan

A realistic genre painter and recorder of everyday activities such as those involving home and family, Hovenden had a particular gift for choosing subjects with wide recognition and appeal. His work reflects a Victorian ethos; unlike many artists of the time, however, Hovenden's work featured African American subjects in domestic settings. His firm belief in sentiment and beauty as the goals of artistic pursuits is evident in the nostalgic paintings for which he is best known, such as The Last Moments of John Brown, in which Brown is depicted stopping on his way to the gallows to kiss a young black child.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

294

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0812239202

ISBN 13

9780812239201

Sacred Gaia

Holistic Theology and Earth System Science

By: Anne Primavesi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sacred Gaia

Holistic Theology and Earth System Science

By: Anne Primavesi

Gaia, the scientific theory founded by James Lovelock in 1979, embraces the earth as a whole, dynamic entity whose sum is always larger than its parts. While science and theology are often seen as contraries, which negate or dilute one another, Gaia theory harmonizes both systems of thought. Sacred Gaia cogently describes Gaia theory's analysis of human and earthly evolution. Anne Primavesi's remarkable, effortlessly coherent book helps us to recognize the sacredness of our origins and our responsibility for the future.

Average ratings

N/A