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The Faces of Reason

An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada1850-1950

By: Leslie Armour,Elizabeth Trott

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The Faces of Reason

An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada1850-1950

By: Leslie Armour,Elizabeth Trott

The Faces of Reason traces the history of philosophy in English Canada from 1850 to 1950, examining the major English-Canadian philosophers in detail adn setting them in the context of the main currents of Canadian thought. The book concludes with a brief survey of the period after 1950. What is distinctive in Canadian philosophy, say the authors, is the concept of reason and the uses to which it is put. Reason has interacted with experience in a new world and a cold climate to create a distinctive Canadian community. The diversity of political, geographic, social, and religious factors has fostered a particular kind of thinking, particular ways of reasoning and communicating. Rather than one grand, overarching Canadian way of thinking, there are “many faces of reason,” “a kind of philosophic federalism”. The book has two dimensions: “it is a continuos story which makes a point about the development of philosophical reason in the Canadian context.... it is a reference work which may be consulted by readers interested in particular figures, ideas, movements, or periods.”

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889208956

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9780889208957

Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers

Closing the Overland Trail/Opening the Union Pacific Railroad

By: Frances Elizabeth Strayer-Hanson,Frances E. Strayer-Hanson

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Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers

Closing the Overland Trail/Opening the Union Pacific Railroad

By: Frances Elizabeth Strayer-Hanson,Frances E. Strayer-Hanson

MEDICINE BOW, WYOMING home of Owen Wister s Virginian. When you call me that, smile. Learn the real history of Medicine Bow and its pioneers. Robbers Roost Ranch home of one of the world s great fossil beds. Discovered in the 1880s and 1890s, archeologists from all over the country came to dig for fossils at Como Bluff near Medicine Bow, Wyo. Fort Halleck, Overland Trail; First Home of John Sublet Jr. Was Wyoming s John Sublet (1840-1928) denied his rightful inheritance to his famous relative s estate, because of his African-American ancestry? Did the hearings on the famous Sublet Will end because a mixed-race man in the wilds of Wyoming was about to prove his relationship to this branch of the Sublet family? Elk Mountain, Wyoming---Home of the renowned GARDEN SPOT PAVILLION with the famous swing and sway dance floor. If you can t dance, hop on and ride! Learn the secret to the famous floor! Dancers from everywhere danced to the music of Harry James, Lawrence Welk, Tommy Dorsey, T. Texas Tyler, and many more famous bands. SADIE S GROVE---Talk of the old days always comes around to Sadie and Sadie s Grove. Learn who she was and why she has become a legend. One of the valley s ghost towns, Carbon, Wyoming was the first coal mine opened in Wyoming by the Union Pacific Railroad. Read about these courageous pioneers and their struggle to make a better life in the prairies and along the river in the Medicine Bow Valley. THE OVERLAND TRAIL; Historians say over 20,000 people a year crossed the Medicine Bow Valley on the Overland Trail. This book has over 1,000 names of people who crossed through or lived in the Medicine Bow Valley. From Hanna, Wyoming come exciting biographies, genealogies, myths, legends, and tales from when Hanna was an infant.

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266

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iUniverse

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1440156220

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9781440156229

Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt

By: Elizabeth Frood

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Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt

By: Elizabeth Frood

I. The Priesthood and Related Offices: -- 1. The high priests of Amun -- 2. Other priesthood and temple staff in Thebes -- 3. The Abydos priesthood -- 4. The priesthood of Onuris -- II. Artists -- III. Civil Officials -- IV. The Military -- V. Administering Nubia -- VI. Texts from Deir el-Medina.

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323

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Society of Biblical Lit

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1589832108

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9781589832107

The Complete Works (Illustrated Edition)

Novels, Short Stories, Novellas, Poetry & Essays, Including North and South, Mary Barton, Cranford, Ruth, Wives and Daughters, Round the Sofa, Sketches Among the Poor, The Life of Charlotte Brontë

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

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The Complete Works (Illustrated Edition)

Novels, Short Stories, Novellas, Poetry & Essays, Including North and South, Mary Barton, Cranford, Ruth, Wives and Daughters, Round the Sofa, Sketches Among the Poor, The Life of Charlotte Brontë

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

This ebook collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Introduction: "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell" Novels: Mary Barton The Moorland Cottage Cranford Ruth North and South Sylvia's Lovers Wives and Daughters A Dark Night's Work Short Stories & Novellas: Round the Sofa My Lady Ludlow An Accursed Race The Doom of the Griffiths Half a Life-Time Ago The Poor Clare The Half-Brothers Cousin Phillis Company Manners Mr. Harrison's Confessions The Sexton's Hero The Grey Woman Curious if True Six Weeks at Heppenheim Libbie Marsh's Three Eras Christmas Storms and Sunshine Hand and Heart Bessy's Troubles at Home Disappearances Lizzie Leigh The Well of Pen-Mortha The Heart of John Middleton Traits and Stories of the Huguenots Morton Hall My French Master The Squire's Story Right at Last The Manchester Marriage Lois the Witch The Crooked Branch The Old Nurse's Story Clopton House Crowley Castle Two Fragments of Ghost Stories The Shah's English Gardener Martha Preston The Deserted Mansion Uncle Peter A Visit to Eton The Cage at Cranford Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family The Ghost in the Garden Room Poetry: Sketches Among the Poor Bran The Scholar's Story Other Works: The Life of Charlotte Brontë The Last Generation in England Cumberland Sheep-Shearers Traits and Stories of The Hugenots Modern Greek Songs French Life An Italian Institution Shams A Fear for the Future Biography: Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by George A. Payne Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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e-artnow

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8027241324

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9788027241323

The Road to Hell

State Violence against Children in Postwar New Zealand

By: Elizabeth Stanley

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The Road to Hell

State Violence against Children in Postwar New Zealand

By: Elizabeth Stanley

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the New Zealand government took more than 100,000 children from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence and placed them under state care in residential facilities. In homes like Epuni and Kingslea, Kohitere and Allendale, the state took over as parent. The state failed. Within institutions, children faced abysmal conditions, limited education and social isolation. They endured physical, sexual and psychological violence, as well as secure cells, knock-out sedatives and electro-convulsive therapy. This book tells the story of 105 New Zealanders who experienced this mass institutionalisation. Informed by thousands of pages of Child Welfare accounts, letters, health reports, legal statements as well as interviews, Stanley tells the children’s story: growing up in homes characterised by violence and neglect; removal into the State’s ‘care’ network; daily life in the institutions; violence and punishment; and the legacy of this treatment for victims today. The state masqueraded as a good parent, but its violence and negligence made things worse for children. This book is a moving account of the experiences of those placed into state care, and a powerful call for redress and change. It was over and over, it wasn’t just one night, it was many drunken nights, you know the smell of alcohol and stuff like that. I was often beaten . . . I got so used to the beatings that I never used to cry any more . . . I hid under the cot, and every time I knew they were coming I’d have to come out and just be prepared for anything – Ed He said to me ‘You’re going somewhere’. He said it with glee. ‘You’re going somewhere where they know how to treat people like you’. It was like he knew what the place [Hokio] was like and what was in store for me and it gave him a great deal of pleasure. I find that really cruel – Ray . . . I remember looking out the window and said ‘There’s police out there, what’s going on?’ Yeah and they’d come to pick me up, to put me in the girls’ home . . . I was just in shock . . . they wanted to take me. ‘What have I done? . . . The police just took me down to the station...and then the social worker took me from there to Bollard and then I was chucked in the cells. – Nanette

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Auckland University Press

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1775588815

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9781775588818

No Place for an Angel: A Novel

By: Elizabeth Spencer

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No Place for an Angel: A Novel

By: Elizabeth Spencer

Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer's best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of midcentury America traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption in Kennedy-era America. Winner of five O. Henry Awards and the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, Elizabeth Spencer has long been considered a master of the short story, yet her novels are no less a showcase for her uncanny ability to depict how "twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting" (Alice Munro) the ties that bind families and marriages are. Nowhere are these skills more evident than in her fourth novel, No Place for an Angel, a Jamesian portrait of Cold War America that follows two fracturing marriages—Catherine and Jerry Sasser, a Texas heiress and a ruthless political fixer, and Irene and Charles Waddell, a worldly pair involved with American policymaking in Italy—as they cross paths from the oil fields of Texas to Rome and New York. Witty, mordant, but above all deeply perceptive of the secret emotional worlds of her characters, Spencer portrays the limitless ambition of the postwar world, the soaring rise of her characters, and, finally, their diminishing fortunes, which lead to smaller but firmer destinies.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1631490648

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9781631490644

The Identification of the Artisan and Artist

By: Elizabeth P. Peabody

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The Identification of the Artisan and Artist

By: Elizabeth P. Peabody

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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3752508701

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The Faces of Reason

The Faces of Reason

Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers

Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers

Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt

Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt

The Complete Works (Illustrated Edition)

The Complete Works (Illustrated Edition)

The Road to Hell

The Road to Hell

No Place for an Angel: A Novel

No Place for an Angel: A Novel

The Identification of the Artisan and Artist

The Identification of the Artisan and Artist

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