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The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to ...

The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to ...

Deborah R. Coen

"Deborah H'. Coen brings to vivid life the human seismographic networks in four different countriesr whose members were a principal source of data about earthc| ua kes before the '1930s. She treats her subject with a capacious interpretive ...
Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on ...

Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on ...

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Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen, eds., Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006); Deborah R. Coen, “Scaling Down: ...
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to ...

The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to ...

Deborah R. Coen

In The Earthquake Observers, Deborah R. Coen acquaints readers not only with the century’s most eloquent seismic commentators, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Karl Kraus, Ernst Mach, John ...
The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers

The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers

Cathleen Falsani

Coen fans, churched and unchurched of all faiths or none, will find in this book a spirited, thoughtful conversation with a good friend (who happens to be a film buff.) Readers will appreciate this examination of the intersection of popular ...
The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers

The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers

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The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers investigates philosophical themes in the works of these master filmmakers and also uses their movies as vehicles to explore fundamental concepts of philosophy.
The Coen Brothers: The Story of Two American Filmmakers

The Coen Brothers: The Story of Two American Filmmakers

Josh Levine

Full biography of the renowned film directors, the Coen brothers, and how they came to write, shoot, and direct some of the most gruesome, exhilarating, and funniest films of our time, including Barton Fink, Fargo, Blood Simple and the ...
FuturBalla: Life Light Speed

FuturBalla: Life Light Speed

Ester Coen

A vision that plumbed the greatest depths in order to transcend the limits of the frame in an ever-greater response to life, the ultimate signal of a universal force whose power reverberates in the “voices of nature”.--Ester Coen.
The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and ...

The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and ...

David Moon

I am grateful also to Seymour Becker, Deborah Coen, Peter Holquist, Jonathan Israel, Stephen Kotkin, Robert Layton, Jonathan Oldfield, Hamish Scott, Susan Smith-Peter, and Richard Wortman, who offered detailed comments on draft ...
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and ...

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and ...

Deborah R. Coen

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize–winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and ...
Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Margaret Wheatley

i, Aeron Miller xii, Meg Wheatley xviii, DanielSeguin.ca 3, Deborah Frieze 6, Paul Winder 9, Deborah Frieze 1617, Illustration by Todd Stewart 18, Deborah Frieze 21, Deborah Frieze 23, Alex Lewin 23, Deborah Frieze 26, Aerin Dunford 26, ...
When I Met the Wolf Girls

When I Met the Wolf Girls

Deborah Noyes

Deborah Noyes. Text copyright © 2007 by Deborah Noyes Illustrations copyright © 2007 by August Hall All rights reserved. ... Book design by Carol Goldenberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Noyes, Deborah. When I met  ...
Deborah

Deborah

Carol Fitzpatrick

God has called Deborah to lead the people of Israel out of captivity. But how can just one woman do this? Find out how God worked through Deborah to save His people. Illustrated.
Swallowing Geography

Swallowing Geography

Deborah Levy

Swallowing Geography is a stunning early novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted Deborah Levy. Embedded in this beautifully written novel is Deborah Levy's gift for blending fairytale with biting satire.
First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New ...

First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New ...

Diana Theodores

'3 Deborah Jowitt, Dance Beat, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., 1977, “Preface”, p. v. '3 Deborah Jowitt, The Dance in Mind, Boston: David Godine, 1985, “Preface ”, p. x. '3 Nancy Goldner, The Stravinsky Festival of the New York. The Deborah ...
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Deborah Tannen

In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton, eds., The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 1–11. Intertextuality in Discourse 57 performance: dialogic observations. Journal of Linguistic JWST555 -01 ...
Umberto Boccioni:

Umberto Boccioni:

Ester Coen

Traces the life and career of the Italian artist, discusses his connection to the Futurist movement, and looks at his paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
Waiting for Deborah

Waiting for Deborah

Betty Neels

When she is rescued by consultant Sir James Marlow, who seems to have taken an interest in her, Deborah, sorely lacking in self-confidence, vows to discover his true motives. Reissue.
Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese ...

Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese ...

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38 Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco A TOUGH GUY 55 Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco A SENIOR RED GUARD'S APOLOGIA 6} Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco THE 3,650 DAYS ...
Swimming Home

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy

Both profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials

Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials

Deborah Jones

Deborah Jones has embroidered it all, from slippery synthetic sheers to the thickest velvet.
One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond ...

One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond ...

Deborah Noyes

Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond in Myth, History, Science, and Story Deborah Noyes. Copyright text and photographs © 2006 by Deborah Noyes Nineteenth'century line art by Georges Cuvier Excerpt from "The Long ...
You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of ...

You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of ...

Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen's bestselling You Just Don't Understand: Conversations Between Women and Men made us aware of the deep and subtle meanings behind the words we say.
Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen

Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen

Deborah Madison

These are recipes to savor throughout the week—quick weekday meals as well as more leisurely weekend or company fare—and throughout the year.
Deborah Kerr: A Biography

Deborah Kerr: A Biography

Michelangelo Capua

"Scotland-born actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) provided the cinema with memorable studies of English gentility.
The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

Matthew Beedham

Deborah Guth: Distortions Reflected Clear In one of the most helpful discussions of the novel, Deborah Guth argues that Stevens does eventually see what he has lost. She begins, however, with an analysis of what the novel says without ...
The Ghosts of Kerfol

The Ghosts of Kerfol

Deborah Noyes

In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl.
Amor y Tacos: Modern Mexican Tacos, Margaritas, and Antojitos

Amor y Tacos: Modern Mexican Tacos, Margaritas, and Antojitos

Deborah Schneider

Libraryof Congress CataloginginPublication Data: Schneider, Deborah M. Amory tacos: modern Mexican tacos, margaritas, and antojitos / by Deborah Schneider. p. cm. ISBN 9781584798248 1. Tacos.2. Appetizers. 3. Cocktails. 4. Cookery ...
On Language and Sexual Politics

On Language and Sexual Politics

Deborah Cameron

This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume.

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