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Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems

Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's Poems

George Douglas Atkins

In this eminently readable book, G. Douglas Atkins continues the efforts undertaken in Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading to open eighteenth-century texts to the insights of recent critical theory.
Contemporary Literary Theory

Contemporary Literary Theory

George Douglas Atkins

George Douglas Atkins, Laura Morrow. «f. library. UC. Santo. Cruz. 198°. Copyright © 1989 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 88-14692 ISBN 0-87023-641-5 (cloth); 642-3 ...
Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading

Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading

George Douglas Atkins

More than an introduction, this book makes a significant addition to the current debate in critical theory. G. Douglas Atkins first analyzes and explains deconstruction theory and practice.
T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth

T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth

G. Douglas Atkins

In this lively and accessible book, G. Douglas Atkins moves beyond the familiar 'deep' readings and challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual world.
Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth

Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth

George Douglas Atkins

Through Experience to Truth George Douglas Atkins. FORM AND MEANING THE ESSAY'S IMMANENT P U R P O SI V E N E S S The critic of forms , . . conceives purpose as an immanent or indwelling rather than transcendent cause.
The Faith of John Dryden: Change and Continuity

The Faith of John Dryden: Change and Continuity

George Douglas Atkins

Change and Continuity George Douglas Atkins. 5 Change and Continuity in Dryden's Conversion Though few are now likely to question Dryden's sincerity in converting to Roman Catholicism shortly after James's succession in 1685, the ...
Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing

Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing

George Douglas Atkins

" When the essay combines good writing with the concerns of the personal, Atkins says, it becomes a form of criticism that is readable, vital, and potentially attractive to a large readership.
On Keats’s Practice and Poetics of Responsibility: Beauty ...

On Keats’s Practice and Poetics of Responsibility: Beauty ...

G. Douglas Atkins

Bush, Douglas. “Keats and His Ideas.” In The Major English Romantic Poets: A Symposium in Reappraisal, ed. Clarence D. Thorpe, Carlos Baker, and Bennett Weaver. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP. 231–45. Cox, Jeffrey N., Ed. Poetry and ...
Instructor's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Instructor's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Peter William Atkins

Provides solutions to the 'b' exercises, and the even-numbered discussion questions and problems that feature in the eighth edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry.
Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution: Nature's Answer to Drugs

Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution: Nature's Answer to Drugs

Robert C. Atkins

In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Atkins shares vital information on more than 120 supplements, including: The specific restorative powers of each nutrient How to determine the optimal dosage schedule How to obtain supplements that are new ...
False Relationships

False Relationships

Darrin Atkins

Darrin Atkins. Books by Darrin Atkins 0-595-26517-0 Watch the man named Steem run away in terror. The Quitter The Crooked Mechanics Don't Leave Lily You're Too Late Tamma Hermits Rest Still in Hollywood As Good as Dead Cooked ...
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro

Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro

André Soares

Strangely, Atkins was unaware of important people in Novarro's life, including Rex Ingram, Alice Terry, and Teresa Bracho. Reports about Novarro's October 1941 car accident do not name Atkins as his passenger. Atkins later said that he gave ...
Student's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Student's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Peter William Atkins

This solutions manual provides the authors' detailed solutions to exercises and problems in the seventh edition of Physical Chemistry by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula.
Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

Robert D. C. Atkins

This is an updated version of the book I wrote ten years ago to help as many people as I could to lose weight.
Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and ...

Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and ...

G. Douglas Atkins

This book revisits, from fresh perspectives, the late seventeenth-century version of the perennial warfare between Ancients and Moderns, then often instanced as 'the battle of the books.'
Using Dictionaries: Studies of Dictionary Use by Language ...

Using Dictionaries: Studies of Dictionary Use by Language ...

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Studies of Dictionary Use by Language Learners and Translators B.T. Sue Atkins. Table of Contents B. T. Sue Atkins Introduction....~~~~ 1 Jan H. Hulstijn & B. T. Sue Atkins Empirical Research on Dictionary Use in Foreign-Language Learning : ...
Atkins' Molecules

Atkins' Molecules

Peter William Atkins

New edition of the book that was called 'the most beautiful chemistry book ever written'.
Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth

Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth

G. Douglas Atkins

The essay, as a notably hard form of writing to pin down, has inspired some unflattering descriptions: It is a “greased pig,” for example, or a “pair of baggy pants into which nearly anything and everything can fit.” In Tracing the ...
Management Bites

Management Bites

Angela Atkins

Angela Atkins is an experienced human resources and training professional who's worked with hundreds of managers. She's also managed people herself, and made many mistakes because she didn't have this book!
Reading Essays: An Invitation

Reading Essays: An Invitation

G. Douglas Atkins

The book ends with a note on the writing of essays, furthering the author’s contention that reading should not be separated from writing.
Strategy and Purpose in T. S. Eliot’s Major Poems: Language, ...

Strategy and Purpose in T. S. Eliot’s Major Poems: Language, ...

G. Douglas Atkins

Addressed to both the specialist and the non-specialist, the close, meditative readings that form the center of this engaging book mirror its subject, capturing an instance of the 'impossible union' of differences and opposites that lay at ...
Dr. Atkins' Vita-nutrient Solution: Nature's Answers to Drugs

Dr. Atkins' Vita-nutrient Solution: Nature's Answers to Drugs

Robert C. Atkins

A guide to the medical benefits of vitamins and minerals includes a section on medical conditions that can be healed or improved through nutritional therapy
Reactions: The private life of atoms

Reactions: The private life of atoms

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins captures the heart of chemistry in this book, through an innovative, closely integrated design of images and text, and his characteristically clear, precise, and economical exposition.
Atkins' Physical Chemistry

Atkins' Physical Chemistry

Peter Atkins

This volume features a greater emphasis on the molecular view of physical chemistry and a move away from classical thermodynamics.
Four Laws That Drive the Universe

Four Laws That Drive the Universe

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins' powerful and compelling introduction explains what the laws are and how they work, using accessible language and virtually no mathematics.
Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance ...

Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance ...

Annette Atkins

Atkins eloquently portrays the extreme hardships of Minnesota farmers during the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s.
Employment Bites

Employment Bites

Angela Atkins

Angela Atkins is an experienced human resources and training manager who's worked in both large and small companies. She's learned some hard lessons, knows what makes great HR and has written this book so you won't make the same mistakes.
On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions ...

On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions ...

Peter Atkins

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers.

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