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Multidimensional Mind

Remote Viewing and the Evolution of Intelligence

By: Jean Millay

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Multidimensional Mind

Remote Viewing and the Evolution of Intelligence

By: Jean Millay

Characterizing the mind as a maze with multiple pathways, Jean Millay explores the realms of sensory perception, resonance, trance, memory, logic, and belief.

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North Atlantic Books

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1556433069

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9781556433061

Selected Poems

By: Jean Garrigue

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Feeling for the natural world, and especially for animals, runs equally deep. Her later work moves outward to wider perspectives on travel, politics, art, and literature itself, while exploring the philosophical questions of permanence and change, the role of the artist in an indifferent world, and the struggle of the spirit with the fact of death. Garrigue's lyrical vein broadens into a long, meditative lyric, often fused with a richly detailed evocation of place, that.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252062248

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9780252062247

The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924

By: Jean Toomer

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The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924

By: Jean Toomer

Mark Whalen's compilation offers a vital document for understanding the contexts, intellectual debates, and tensions undergirding Toomer's work, including his simultaneous feelings of attraction to and estrangement from rural southern life, the influence of technology on race and urban existence in America and the contradictory pulls of folk culture and modernist experimentation. The collection also charts the motives underlying Toomer's abandonment of the style that distinguished Cane, and his growing fascination with the teachings of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in 1924."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572334703

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9781572334700

Robert Graves

From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Robert Graves

From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete. The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected – until now. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final 'goodbye' to 'all that'. In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472929152

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9781472929150

A George Jean Nathan Reader

By: George Jean Nathan

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A George Jean Nathan Reader

By: George Jean Nathan

The selection in this one-volume anthology are representative of Nathan's entire oeuvre and include informal essays; criticism of famous plays of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; discussions of dramaturgy and aesthetics; profiles of noted producers, players, playwrights, and other writers; and letters that illuminate his writings.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838633692

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9780838633694

The Literature Workbook

By: Clara Calvo,Jean Jacques Weber

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The Literature Workbook

By: Clara Calvo,Jean Jacques Weber

The Literature Workbook is a practical introductory textbook for literary studies, which can be used either for independent study or as part of a taught class. Laying the ground for further study, The Literature Workbook introduces the beginning student to the essential analytic and interpretative skills that are needed for literary appreciation and evaluation. It also equips the teacher with practical tools and materials for use in seminars or when setting written assessments and projects. Arranged according to genre and chronology, the chapters acquaint the reader with a range of key figures in English literaure and encourage the reader to think about them in their historical and cultural contexts. Adopting a user-friendly case-study approach, each chapter contains * exercises and activities * discussion hints * project work * suggestions for further reading The Workbook also includes: * a glossary * a subject and name index.

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Routledge

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1134700326

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9781134700325

The Methodist Experience in America Volume 2

Sourcebook

By: Russell E. Richey,Kenneth E. Rowe,Jean Miller Schmidt

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The Methodist Experience in America Volume 2

Sourcebook

By: Russell E. Richey,Kenneth E. Rowe,Jean Miller Schmidt

Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses. From a Sunday school teacher's account of a typical Sunday morning to letters from presidents, from architects' opinions for and against the Akron Plan to impassioned speeches demanding full rights for African Americans, women, homosexuals, and laity in the Church, this riveting collection of documents will interest scholars, clergy, and laity alike. This Sourcebook, part of the two-volume set The Methodist Experience in America, contains documents from between 1760 and 1998 pertaining to the movements constitutive of American United Methodism. The editors identify over two hundred documents by date, primary agent, and central theme or important action. The documents are organized on a strictly chronological basis, by the date of the significant action in the excerpt. Charts, graphs, timelines, and graphics are also included. The Sourcebook has been constructed to be used with the Narrative volume in which the interpretation of individual documents, discussions of context, details about events and individuals, and treatment of the larger developments can be found.

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Abingdon Press

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1426764294

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9781426764295

Plain Seeing

A Novel

By: Sandra Jean Scofield

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Plain Seeing

A Novel

By: Sandra Jean Scofield

Told through "Emma Laura's book" and "Lucy's book," this is the story of Lucy whose mother died when Lucy was fifteen and of that mother, Emma Laura.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0060173424

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9780060173425

Finishing Touches

By: Jean Kerr

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Finishing Touches

By: Jean Kerr

THE STORY: Katy and Jeff Cooper have three sons (one a Harvard senior), a comfortable suburban home, and the prospect of a full professorship (English) for Jeff. But somehow the bloom has worn off their marriage: Jeff is at that dangerous age where

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0822204002

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9780822204008

War and Conflict Quotations

A Worldwide Dictionary of Pronouncements from Military Leaders, Politicians, Philosophers, Writers and Others

By: Michael C. Thomsett,Jean Freestone Thomsett

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War and Conflict Quotations

A Worldwide Dictionary of Pronouncements from Military Leaders, Politicians, Philosophers, Writers and Others

By: Michael C. Thomsett,Jean Freestone Thomsett

History is replete with pronouncements on war. Some reflect on man’s warlike nature (“We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth”—Homer); others deal with the practical strategies of the combatants (“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons”—Winston Churchill); and still others offer advice for avoiding conflict (“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war”—Desiderius Erasmus). More than 2,700 quotations on war and conflict are presented in this reference work. The quotations are arranged by more than 100 broad categories, from action to winning. For each, the quotation is first given, followed by its author, the work in which it appeared (when appropriate), and the date. The book includes numerous cross-references, and keyword-in-context and author indexes are provided for further utility.

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McFarland

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1476611483

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9781476611488

The White Rose

A Novel

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

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The White Rose

A Novel

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Marian Kahn, a forty-eight-year-old married professor of history at Columbia University, ought to be content with her life -- marriage, wealth, her famed discovery of the eighteenth century adventuress, Lady Charlotte. Instead she finds herself in love with Oliver, the son of her oldest friend. As their dangerous affair becomes more and more complicated, Marian and Oliver learn that love is seldom straightforward, but always a gift.

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Miramax Books

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1401359868

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9781401359867

This Year I Sing

366 Women's Stories from Three Generations

By: Jean Steiner,Mary Steiner Whelan,Shawn Whelan

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This Year I Sing

366 Women's Stories from Three Generations

By: Jean Steiner,Mary Steiner Whelan,Shawn Whelan

A compelling collection of 366 stories about women's lives, told from the perspective of three generations. The authors (a grandmother, mother, and daughter team) listened to women from all walks of life telling the truth of their lives. Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, stories may be read as daily reflections or as very short stories.

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A-Ha Publications

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0967992516

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9780967992518

365 Meditations for Women

By: Jean Abernethy

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365 Meditations for Women

By: Jean Abernethy

In this treasury of daily devotions, twelve Christian women writers share their faith and experiences by reflecting on the Bible, giving prayers of thanks, and telling inspirational stories.

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Dimensions For Living

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0687418860

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9780687418862

Sparks

By: Jean Stewart McLean

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Sparks

By: Jean Stewart McLean

Fifty years after her death in 1963, Jean Stewart McLean's poems, short stories, and one-act plays are published for the first time, in a definitive collection, edited and with extensive photos and commentary by her son, Don McLean. The author was born in 1917 in Rahway, N.J., growing up in the rectory of the church where her father was minister. Two of the plays in this book are set in small-town parishes. She wrote poetry as a girl, and at New Jersey College for Women studied literature and edited the literary magazine. Upon graduation, she was secretary to the editor of the Book of the Month Club in New York City, reveling in the literary atmosphere. She chose domestic life after marriage, settling in Princeton, N.J., and continued writing, primarily short stories and one-act plays. One of her stories was co-authored with her mentor, Dorothy Thomas. Her work was unpublished during her short lifetime, making the appearance of this collection particularly meaningful.

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Lulu.com

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130448212X

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9781304482129

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

By: Jean Kerr

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Please Don't Eat the Daisies

By: Jean Kerr

The “refreshing . . . laugh-out-loud” #1 New York Times bestseller about life in the suburbs that was adapted into a classic film comedy (Kirkus Reviews). One day, Tony Award–winning playwright Jean Kerr packed up her four kids (and husband, Walter, one of Broadway’s sharpest critics), and left New York City. They moved to a faraway part of the world that promised a grassy utopia where daisies grew wild and homes were described as neo-gingerbread. In this collection of “wryly observant” essays, Kerr chronicles her new life in this strange land called Larchmont (TheWashington Post). It sounds like bliss—no more cramped apartments and nightmarish after-theater cocktail parties where the martinis were never dry enough. Now she has her very own washer/dryer, a garden, choice seats at the hottest new third-grade school plays (low overhead but they’ll never recoup their losses), and a fresh new kind of lunacy. In Please Don’t Eat the Daisies “Jean Kerr cooks with laughing gas” as she explores the everyday absurdities, anxieties, and joys of marriage, family, friends, home decorating, and maintaining a career—but this time with a garage! (Time).

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Open Road Media

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1504055748

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9781504055741

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

By: Jean Webster

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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

By: Jean Webster

One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judy's former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Penguin

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110149557X

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9781101495575

Love Made Visible

Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage

By: Jean Gibran

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Love Made Visible

Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage

By: Jean Gibran

A TOUCHING MEMOIR OF ART AND MARRIAGE IN BOSTON’S VIBRANT SOUTH END In Love Made Visible, Jean Gibran portrays her role as spouse of a gifted artist and their often stormy family life together in Boston’s diverse South End. In the process, she vividly recalls to life the prolific Boston Expressionist art scene to which the South End was home. Retracing the course of her fifty-year marriage to sculptor Kahlil Gibran, cousin of the noted poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran, she reflects on the trials and joys of defying conventions of the 1950s, embracing another culture, raising a child in the household of a driven artist, and enabling her husband’s passion for sculpture and craft. Like her “mostly happy marriage,” and the fiercely local and independent artistic movement to which she pays homage, Gibran’s moving, idiosyncratic memoir finds its own form as she confronts the costs—and reaffirms the value—of creative commitment, in art and in life. Accompanying the memoir are a summary of the sculptor Gibran’s work, brief biographical sketches of many mid-twentieth-century artists and personalities who populated Boston and Provincetown, and commentaries by art historian Charles Giuliani of Berkshire Fine Arts and museum director and curator Katherine French of the Danforth Museum of Art.

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Interlink Publishing

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1623710529

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9781623710521

Black Poets of the United States

From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes

By: Jean Wagner

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Black Poets of the United States

From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes

By: Jean Wagner

Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252003411

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9780252003417

Sarcophagus

By: Jean-Pierre Chevalier

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Sarcophagus

By: Jean-Pierre Chevalier

In this stunning work of contemporary fiction, Chevalier has succeeded in illuminating one of the unspeakable tragedies of our age: the exploitation of illness. Rendering the depravity and misfeasance of our modern-day temples of medicine with scholarly aplomb, the gripping narrative in Sarcophagus chronicles the journey of an inspired physician and an intrepid biophysicist as they strive against all odds to develop the world's first effective targeted, injectable gene delivery system-the coveted holy grail of genetic medicine. It is a time in history when terminal cancer patients languish on the chain while medical institutions, academic research centers, and giant pharmaceutical companies struggle in unison against the emerging tide of genetic medicine in a misguided effort to maintain the authority and applications of their loathsome poisonous treatments. Written with the passion of a patient advocate and the omniscience of an astute insider, and set against the bleak and timely backdrop of clinical pathos, Sarcophagus is a compelling journey of discovery and descent into the netherworld of modern medicine as it stands poised at the threshold of history.

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iUniverse

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0595392288

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9780595392285

Eastern Starlight ~ A British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s

Volume 2

By: Jean Elder with Reg Mitchell

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Eastern Starlight ~ A British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s

Volume 2

By: Jean Elder with Reg Mitchell

Set against the backdrop of Japan's seizure of China's entire northeast, Eastern Starlight, a British Girl's Memoir of China in the 1930s is the second of a trilogy by Jean Elder, born in Hwangkutun village near Mukden, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, in 1912, year of the fall of the last Manchu Dynasty. The story continues as Jean and her mother survive the fearsome night assault on Mukden by the Imperial Japanese Army in September 1931, but are forced by the invaders to leave Manchuria. Jean accepts her brother Jim's offer to settle in Peking, intellectual crossroads and cultural oasis of the Orient, safe from China's expanding civil war and continuing clashes with the Japanese in Jehol. We meet her charismatic friends in L'Hotel de Pekin--Italian Count Galeazzo Ciano and his wife, Edda, daughter of Mussolini; Julius Barr, famed American aviator; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; William Henry Donald, referred to by historians as Donald of China; and the acclaimed March of Time photographer "Newsreel" Wong--and become a part of her intriguing social life with them. Chang Hsiao Liang (the Young Marshal), close to Jean and the Elder family, must take a self-imposed year-long exile from China to save face, after which he will be forgiven for the loss of Manchuria. Jim departs with the Marshal for Europe, and during her own leave of absence, Jean shares with us her straight-from-the-heart impressions of America during the Depression and her fascinating life at sea aboard the great liners of the era including Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic. She must defy cannon-firing brigands and snipers along the Yangtze River in order to reunite with Jim in Hupei Province, where the Marshal has reestablished command of his troops. Jean provides an unvarnished insight into the "anything goes" world of China in the 1930s including her harrowing escape in the dark from a pirate vessel while aboard a passenger steamer in the Yellow Sea. In Hankow, she is a frequent guest of the US Navy aboard USS Luzon (PR-7) and USS Tutuila (PR-4) during the swashbuckling days of inshore gunboat diplomacy in scenes much like those portrayed in the movie, Sand Pebbles. After a whirlwind courtship, she marries the love of her life, US Vice Consul Reginald Mitchell. This is the story of a British girl who grew up in China in the hands of an Amah with the good fortune of gaining dual perspectives of life, Chinese and Western, forever loyal to family and friends, compassionate toward others, true to her values, and humble as a person.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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168526915X

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9781685269159

Beethoven's Quartets

By: Joseph de Marliave,Jean Escarra,Hilda Andrews

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Beethoven's Quartets

By: Joseph de Marliave,Jean Escarra,Hilda Andrews

Remarkably readable and accessible, this classic exposition presents a bar-by-bar, theme-by-theme analysis of all 16 quartets and the Grosse Fuge. Joseph de Marliave eschews technical terms, focusing on mood and general effects and illustrating his remarks with 321 musical examples. In addition to musicological information, de Marliave provides a complete background, encompassing dates of composition, contemporary reactions, influences, and Beethoven’s transcendence of established forms. Clear analyses and a wealth of documentary material make this one of the most authoritative studies of Beethoven’s quartets, as well as one of the most enjoyable. Preface by Gabriel Fauré. Introduction, notes by Jean Escarra. Translated by Hilda Andrews.

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Courier Corporation

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0486439658

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9780486439655

Maryland

A History

By: Suzanne Ellery Chapelle,Jean B. Russo,Jean H. Baker,Dean R. Esslinger,Edward C. Papenfuse,Constance B. Schulz,Gregory A. Stiverson

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Maryland

A History

By: Suzanne Ellery Chapelle,Jean B. Russo,Jean H. Baker,Dean R. Esslinger,Edward C. Papenfuse,Constance B. Schulz,Gregory A. Stiverson

An engaging and accessible introductory history of the people, places, culture, and politics that shaped Maryland. In 1634, two ships carrying a small group of settlers sailed into the Chesapeake Bay looking for a suitable place to dwell in the new colony of Maryland. The landscape confronting the pioneers bore no resemblance to their native country. They found no houses, no stores or markets, churches, schools, or courts, only the challenge of providing food and shelter. As the population increased, colonists in search of greater opportunity moved on, slowly spreading and expanding the settlement across what is now the great state of Maryland. In Maryland, historians recount the stories of struggle and success of these early Marylanders and those who followed to reveal how people built modern Maryland. Originally published in 1986, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Spanning the years from the 1600s to the beginning of Governor Larry Hogan’s term of office in January 2015, the book more fully fleshes out Native American, African American, and immigrant history. It also includes completely new content on politics, arts and culture, business and industry, education, the natural environment, and the role of women as well as notable leaders in all these fields. Maryland is heavily illustrated, with nearly two hundred photographs and illustrations (more than half of them in full color), as well as related maps, charts, and graphs, many of which are new to this book. An extensive index and a comprehensive Further Reading section provide extremely useful tools for readers looking to engage more deeply with Maryland history. Touching on major figures from George Calvert to Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman to William Donald Schaefer, this book takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the history of the Free State. It should be in every library and classroom in Maryland.

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JHU Press

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1421426234

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9781421426235

Eastern Starlight, A British Girl's Memoir as the Wartime Wife of a U.S. Diplomat

Volume 3

By: Jean Elder With Reg Mitchell

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Eastern Starlight, A British Girl's Memoir as the Wartime Wife of a U.S. Diplomat

Volume 3

By: Jean Elder With Reg Mitchell

Set against the backdrop of Europe with World War II imminent, Eastern Starlight, a British Girl's Memoir as the Wartime Wife of a U.S. Diplomat, is the third book of a trilogy by Jean Elder, the first two of which are about her China years. We join Jean and her husband, US Vice Consul Reginald Mitchell, as the newlywed couple depart Shanghai for their first post together, Warsaw, Poland, an armed camp surrounded by enemy superpowers and a haven for spies. Jean draws us into the fascinating but fiercely demanding Foreign Service world of international relations face-to-face diplomacy in a lifestyle that few of her peers would ever know at age 23. She shares with us her experiences engaging with Ambassadors and Ministers and their wives and Papal Emissaries at grand diplomatic soirees and equally important, as a diplomatic hostess having to plan and manage teas and tiffins and dinner parties at home. Protocol is a carryover from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and rules about formal attire, such as all but swords and medals (ABSAM) and stringent social etiquette, are followed to the letter. Posted to Dublin, Irish Free State, Jean, becomes friends with Sinead O'Flanagan, wife of IFS President Eamon de Valera, who opposes Britain and intends to keep Ireland neutral in any future war with Nazi Germany. Returning "home side", Reg is assigned the newly created position of State Department Press Spokesman and White House Press Liaison. Through Jean's eyes, we have a colorful close-up view of pre-war Washington, a city of lovely parks, Christmas lights along bustling downtown sidewalks, Beaux Arts theaters, and large department stores. Assigned to our Legation in Port-au-Prince following Pearl Harbor, the respect accorded her by Haiti's mercurial President, Elie Lescot, is invaluable in gaining access to medical attention when Malaria strikes her family. Based on her riveting wartime diary, Jean brings to life for the first time her incredible journey as a mother with two young sons aboard a Liberty ship in an armed convoy having to survive multiple German air attacks at night in the Mediterranean to join her husband at the US Consulate, Port Sa'id, Egypt in 1944. Eastern Starlight is about a remarkable woman of her era, not only because of the life she led, but the kind of person she was-----her moral character and compassion, loyalty to family and friends, willingness to put others above herself, acceptance of people of all walks of life, and courage when in peril. This is a compelling story that will resonate with readers of all ages.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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Mapping Your Birthchart

Understanding Your Needs & Potential

By: Stephanie Clement,Stephanie Jean Clement,Cosmic Patterns

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Mapping Your Birthchart

Understanding Your Needs & Potential

By: Stephanie Clement,Stephanie Jean Clement,Cosmic Patterns

Mapping Your Birthchart" removes the mystery from astrology so readers can look at any chart and get a basic understanding of the person behind it. Learn the importance of the planets, the different signs of the zodiac, and how they relate to everyday life.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738702021

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9780738702025

Three Plays of Racine

Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus

By: Jean Racine

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Three Plays of Racine

Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus

By: Jean Racine

Describes the planning, building, and use of canals in nineteenth-century America and their impact on the history, economy, and westward expansion of the United States.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226150771

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9780226150772

Democracy in What State?

By: Giorgio Agamben,Alain Badiou,Daniel Bensaid,Wendy Brown,Jean-Luc Nancy,Jacques Rancière,Kristin Ross,Slavoj Žižek

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Democracy in What State?

By: Giorgio Agamben,Alain Badiou,Daniel Bensaid,Wendy Brown,Jean-Luc Nancy,Jacques Rancière,Kristin Ross,Slavoj Žižek

Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts current democratic practice with democratic communism. Daniel Bensaid ponders the institutionalization of democracy, while Wendy Brown discusses the democratization of society under neoliberalism. Jean-Luc Nancy measures the difference between democracy as a form of rule and as a human end, and Jacques Rancière highlights its egalitarian nature. Kristin Ross identifies hierarchical relationships within democratic practice, and Slavoj Zizek complicates the distinction between those who desire to own the state and those who wish to do without it. Concentrating on the classical roots of democracy and its changing meaning over time and within different contexts, these essays uniquely defend what is left of the left-wing tradition after the fall of Soviet communism. They confront disincentives to active democratic participation that have caused voter turnout to decline in western countries, and they address electoral indifference by invoking and reviving the tradition of citizen involvement. Passionately written and theoretically rich, this collection speaks to all facets of modern political and democratic debate.

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Columbia University Press

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023152708X

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Card Manipulations

By: Jean Hugard

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Card Manipulations

By: Jean Hugard

Over 100 tricks that can be done with any pack of cards. This rich collection has taught thousands of magicians how to perform dozens of eye-catching, yet really workable tricks. Over 200 illustrations.

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196

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Courier Corporation

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0486205398

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9780486205397

Long Island Seafood Cook Book

By: Justus George Frederick,Jean Joyce

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Long Island Seafood Cook Book

By: Justus George Frederick,Jean Joyce

Presents over four hundred recipes for preparing a wide variety of fish and shellfish, based on the cooking traditions of Long Island.

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353

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Courier Corporation

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0486226778

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Purposeful Parenting

Six Steps to Bring Out the Best in Your Kids

By: Jean Barnes

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Purposeful Parenting

Six Steps to Bring Out the Best in Your Kids

By: Jean Barnes

Be the Best Parent for Your Child Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it. Proverbs 22:6, NLT How you parent directly impacts who your children are and who they will become. No one is naturally born a good parent. It takes hard work, determination, and passionate intention to raise our kids right. In the end, we can either parent on purpose or idly sit back and allow everything else in the world to shape our children into the men and women they will become. In Purposeful Parenting, author Jean Barnes gives you six essential practices for successfully raising your kids. Learn how to: Show your children that you truly love them Use discipline to maintain life and freedom Recognize the purpose and passions in your childs heart Help your child build good character Empower your child to be responsible Persevere through difficult times and never give up You can be the parent youve always wanted to bethe parent God wants and your kids need, the parent with a purpose. Your life at home with your kids can be calmer, clearer, healthier, and happier today, starting right now. ~Dr. Jill Hubbard, New Life Live Radio

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768406781

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9780768406788

Walking Each Other Home

Spiritual Companionship for Dementia Caregivers

By: Jean Denton

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Walking Each Other Home

Spiritual Companionship for Dementia Caregivers

By: Jean Denton

Dementia changes everything—and not just for the person who receives the diagnosis. Each of the 5.6 million Americans with dementia has one or more caregivers struggling to make meaning while watching their loved one’s personality vanish. The caregiver is sure to be changed—not only by the myriad tasks and responsibilities, but by the soul-searching questions: Dare I hope? Who’s to blame? What do I do with my anger? Where’s God in this? These questions of doubt, guilt, intimacy, depression, and acceptance are ultimately questions of spirit. This book is distinctive: it directly addresses the spiritual needs of the caregiver. It invites the reader to explore his or her own spiritual journey rather than offering pre-determined answers. Appropriate, both for people with faith and people without religion, it encourages dementia caregivers to probe their spiritual questions along with a sympathetic author, one who walked her husband through early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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164065416X

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