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Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark ...

Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark ...

Chris Lear

What they managed to achieve in the face of such adversity is the stuff of legend and glory. In Running with the Buffaloes, writer Chris Lear follows the University of Colorado cross country team during one unforgettable NCAA season.
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide

Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide

Susan Elizabeth Farrell

In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transplants the tragedy of King Lear to the Cook family farm in Zebulon County, Iowa, in 1979. The Lear story is retold through the eyes of Lear's oldest daughter, Goneril, who, in the Shakespeare play, is one ...
Aristotle: The Desire to Understand

Aristotle: The Desire to Understand

Jonathan Lear

This is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started.
Aristotle and Logical Theory

Aristotle and Logical Theory

Jonathan Lear

Dr Lear explores Aristotle's philosophy of logic through logical consequence, validity and proof.
William Shakespeare: 'King Lear'

William Shakespeare: 'King Lear'

John Lennard

This book aims to introduce students (including those with little or no prior experience of the field) to the worlds of Shakespeare and his theatre revealed in King Lear.
Wisdom Won from Illness

Wisdom Won from Illness

Jonathan Lear

Can reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life.
It's a Scandal!: And Other Sketches

It's a Scandal!: And Other Sketches

Derek Haylock

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A Case for Irony

A Case for Irony

Jonathan Lear

Joan Didion has lamented that Obama’s United States is an “irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human.
Freud

Freud

Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact.
Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation ...

Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation ...

Jonathan Lear

"Jonathan Lear has shown us both Freuds texts and his subject matter from a new angle of vision, one that renders much recent controversy about psychoanalytic theory irrelevant. For any student of those texts this book is indispensable.
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

Jonathan Lear

But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle--whether happiness or death--the pictures fall apart.
Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile

Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile

Chris Lear

On Tuesday afternoon, Paul McMullen also decided to make a comeback, albeit with legs as Herculean as his 3:33 and 1:45 times for 1500 and 800 meters in summer a year ago. At the end of the fall, after a long and welldeserved layoff, ...
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists ...

Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists ...

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P40684 2007 577.27'9— dc22 2006103363 Printed in the United States of America Book design by Robert Overholtzer mp 10 987654321 "Love, Fear, and Witnessing" by Linda Lear. Copyright © 2007 by Linda Lear. Reprinted by permission ...
The Natural History of Edward Lear (1812-1888)

The Natural History of Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Robert McCracken Peck

In that golden age of colour-plate books, an era still celebrated for the great volumes created by John James Audubon and John Gould, Lear created some of the most spectacular natural history illustrations ever published.
Sharing the Years

Sharing the Years

Linda Lear Shofner

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Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Environmentalism

Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Environmentalism

Scott Gillam

Linda Lear. Rachel Carson: WitnessforNature. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1997. 227. 4. Rachel Carson. Silent Spring. 40th anniversary ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. 297. 5. Linda Lear. Rachel Carson: WitnessforNature. New York ...
The Practitioner's Credo: 10 Keys to a Successful ...

The Practitioner's Credo: 10 Keys to a Successful ...

John B. Mattingly

Any employee who thinks he or she has been the victim of sexual harassment should report promptly the alleged discrimination to Dr. John Mattingly, Dr. Chris Mattingly, or Dr. Chris Howell. Dr. John Mattingly, Dr. Chris Mattingly, or Dr. Chris  ...
Chris Matthews Complete Library E-book Box Set: Tip and the ...

Chris Matthews Complete Library E-book Box Set: Tip and the ...

Chris Matthews

Praise for Chris Matthews and Hardball “The best in the business!” —Thomas P. “ Tip” O'Neill, Jr. “Brilliant! God may take care of fools, drunks and the United States , but Chris Matthews has the goods on how Washington politicians take care of ...
The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness

The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness

Chris Cole

Body of Chris is the story of one man s struggle with mental illness and his fight against the delusion that he was the second coming of Christ."
Chris Matthews on Politics E-book Box Set: Hardball, Now, ...

Chris Matthews on Politics E-book Box Set: Hardball, Now, ...

Chris Matthews

PRAISE FOR CHRIS MATTHEWS'S PREVIOUS WORKS Hardball “Every so often a writer reads a book so incisive and so good that when he finally puts it down he says, 'Damn, I wish I had written this.' I just finished Chris Matthews's Hardball.
A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex

A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex

Chris Jericho

The controversial story of Chris Jericho, the former undisputed Heavyweight Champion of WWE. From the age of eight, Chris dreamed of becoming a wrestler. But it wasn't until he was 25 that he hit the big time.
Chris Carter at Large: Stories from a lifetime in motorcycle ...

Chris Carter at Large: Stories from a lifetime in motorcycle ...

Chris Carter

... up and looked over my shoulder and said “No, no Chris, a total will do. It's only a game.” As time went on I perhaps took him too much at his word. I was joined by a great lad from Shropshire called Peter Simcock who became my assistant.
A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom

A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom

Dudley Mecum

The falconer's horse guides Chris's steed in tandem along the wide field of the King's Court. Soon Chris spots the wizard alongside a stranger. When Chris approaches within earshot, the sage says, “You can dismount here. My acquaintance ...
Chris Powell's Choose More, Lose More for Life

Chris Powell's Choose More, Lose More for Life

Chris Powell

Been carb-cycling but need to shake things up? This book provides four different cycles--Easy, Classic, Turbo, and Fit--to help you find a plan that fits you. Chris also understands that weight loss plateaus when we get bored.
Fire Star

Fire Star

Chris d'Lacey

Another fantastic adventure in NY TIMES bestselling author Chris d'Lacey's dragon saga! In the thrilling third book in Chris d'Lacey's popular series, David Rain is faced with a perilous task.
Chris-Craft in the 1950s

Chris-Craft in the 1950s

Jack Savage

to gain an understanding of not only what characteristics made the boats popular, but also how Chris-Craft could improve them — and build them more cost- effectively, of course. Two products helped Chris-Craft do just that. Reaching back to ...
Before You Know Kindness

Before You Know Kindness

Chris Bohjalian

With this shattering moment of violence, Chris Bohjalian launches the best kind of literate page-turner: suspenseful, wryly funny, and humane. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Chris Bohjalian's The Light in the Ruins.
What It Means to Be a Buckeye: Urban Meyer and Ohio State's ...

What It Means to Be a Buckeye: Urban Meyer and Ohio State's ...

Jeff Snook

That reminds me of the greatest players I played with: Chris Spielman and Cris Carter. Chris Spielman's hard work and dedication was second to none. I remember Chris, as a freshman in the Rose Bowl game against USC, flipping over a ...

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