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Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and ...

Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and ...

Deirdre Loughridge

Carol Vernallis, Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, ed. John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis ...
Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre ...

Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre ...

Deirdre N. McCloskey

This essential book collects together, for the first time, the writings of Deirdre McCloskey on economic history and the rhetoric of economics.
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, ...

Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, ...

Deirdre N. McCloskey

Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie.
Deirdre's Tale

Deirdre's Tale

Jennifer Campbell

In the wilderness of 1720's New Hampshire, Deirdre McGregor struggles to find her place in a male dominated world and at Brewster Tavern, danger lurks, in the form of pirate captain, Alberto Garcia, who has designs on her lush, young body.
Crossing: A Memoir

Crossing: A Memoir

Deirdre N. McCloskey

Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman.
Crossing: A Memoir

Crossing: A Memoir

Deirdre N. McCloskey

Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman.
Devising Performance: A Critical History

Devising Performance: A Critical History

Deirdre Heddon

A Critical History Deirdre Heddon, Jane Milling. Devising Performance A Critical History Revised Edition DEIRDRE HEDDON AND JANE MILLING © Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling 2016 All rights reserved.
Soldier Boys

Soldier Boys

Deirdre Savoy

Soldier Boys consists of four novellas that celebrate courage, honor, and appeal of Military men. In Deirdre Savoy's Fleet Week, a sexy songstress falls head over heels for a sexy younger Marine.
Jung: uma biografia, vol. 1

Jung: uma biografia, vol. 1

Deirdre Bair

Deirdre Bair toma o psicólogo suíço Carl Gustav Jung como tema de seu 'Jung, uma biografia'. O livro é fruto de cerca de oito anos de pesquisa, lidando com farta e por vezes inédita documentação.
How to be Human*: *though an Economist

How to be Human*: *though an Economist

Deirdre N. McCloskey

A witty and thoughtful romp through the profession and practice of economics
Economical Writing: Second Edition

Economical Writing: Second Edition

Deirdre N. McCloskey

A valuable short guide for mastering the craft of academic writing!
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

Chronicles the life of the French writer, examining her roles as author, philosopher, feminist, and companion to Jean-Paul Sartre
Down There: A Novel

Down There: A Novel

Pamela Redmond Satran

Deirdre, Juliette, Anne, and Lisa are best friends, each living 'the dream' in the suburbs outside of New York City: beautiful wedding, big house, picture perfect family.
Jung: A Biography

Jung: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

Discusses the achievements of the founder of analytical psychology, his professional relationship with Sigmund Freud, the widespread support for his ideas, and accusations that he was anti-Semitic and guilty of falsifying data.
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Deirdre N. McCloskey

High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work.
Saul Steinberg: A Biography

Saul Steinberg: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

The electronic version of this title does not contain the 35 Saul Steinberg illustrations that are available in the print edition.
The Rhetoric of Economics

The Rhetoric of Economics

Deirdre N. McCloskey

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul.
Samuel Beckett: A Biography

Samuel Beckett: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

Examines the psychological agonies of Beckett's young manhood, his World War II heroism, his enigmatic character, and the growth of his style which revolutionized modern theater.
Subject Matters: Subject and Self in French Literature from ...

Subject Matters: Subject and Self in French Literature from ...

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Indeed, in the preface to the first edition of her biography, Deirdre Bair acknowledges her belief that Beckett 'did not want this book to be written and would have been grateful if I had abandoned it',ii and she records the uncomfortable ...
Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage

Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage

Deirdre McFeely

The first full critical study of Dion Boucicault, one of the most dynamic and influential figures in nineteenth-century theatre.
Anais Nin

Anais Nin

Deirdre Bair

Bair's biography fills in the blanks and shows how Nin reflected the major themes that have come to characterize the latter half of the twentieth century: the quest for the self, the uses of psychoanalysis, and the determination of women to ...
The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Volume 13: Special ...

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Volume 13: Special ...

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It isbased ontheresearch conducted byPatrick Lonergan (Principal Investigator) and Deirdre McFeely (Postdoctoral Fellow). The database was designed and constructed by Natalie Harrower. The database allows for searching Shakespeare ...
Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with ...

Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with ...

Jessica K. Weir

In particular, thank you to Debbie Rose, Deirdre McKay, Lisa Strelein and Patrick Sullivan for your generous guidance and wisdom with what started out as a PhD thesis. Special acknowledgement goes to Debbie for her leadership as my ...
Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: ...

Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: ...

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With Deirdre McFeely, he is co-editor of a database on Shakespearean Performance in Ireland from 1660 to 1904, which may be viewed at http://www. irishtheatricaldiaspora.net/shakespeare. James J. Marino is associate professor of English ...
If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

Deirdre N. McCloskey

If You're So Smart will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who stand ready to engineer our lives. "Writing with delicious wit and great seriousness."—Publishers Weekly.
At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain ...

At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain ...

Susan R. Grayzel

I am also grateful for the comradeship of past and present history department colleagues, especially members of several writing groups (Nancy Bercaw, Erin Chapman, Deirdre Cooper-Owens, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Theresa ...
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

Deirdre N. McCloskey

In a book that looks at the birth of the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism in the 17th and 18th centuries, the author argues that economic change--including change today--depends less on foreign trade, investment or material ...
Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century: Disciplinary ...

Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century: Disciplinary ...

Deirdre Niamh Duffy

Accounting, Organizations and Society 16 (7): 673–692. Scriven, Michael. 1981. The logic of evaluation. Inverness, CA: Edgepress. Seigart, Denise M., and Sharon Brisolara. 2002. Feminist evaluation: Explorations and experiences. vol. 96.
The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism

The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism

Terence Brown

19 in her doctoral thesis 'dion Boucicault's irish Melodramas; national identity, Politics and the Press' (Trinity College, dublin, 2007), deirdre Mcfeely has shown how Boucicault's use of a version of this ballad in his play Arrah-na Pogue gave it  ...

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