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Religious Movements in Contemporary America
Irving I. ZaretskyIrving I. Zaretsky, Mark P. Leone. they do not find the resolution they seek through sect membership. The evidence suggests, while it does not prove, that for those who remain in the church socioeconomic conditions are improved, nuclear ...
The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of ...
Robert ZaretskyBy examining the conflict through the prism of each philosopher’s contribution to Western thought, Zaretsky and Scott reveal the implications for the two men as individuals and philosophers as well as for the contemporary world.
Psychic Healing
John WeldonOsteopath Irving Oyle's latestbook, The New American Medicine Show, advocates spiritism, andprominent psychiatrist ... Editors IrvingI.Zaretsky and Mark P.Leone's Religious Movementsin Contemporary America urges the professional ...
A Life Worth Living
Robert ZaretskyExploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and ...
Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe
Irving HowePresented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope.
Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks
PreviewIrving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920?93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation.
Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s
Irving SandlerThe critic and curator Irving Sandler was a key figure as a critic and friend to many artists as well as an employee of the influential Tanager gallery. Sandler was also an active presence at the famous Artists Club.
The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Richard Irving DodgeTHE EIGHT JOURNALS PUBLISHED IN THIS VOLUME, with entries dated between September 18, 1878, and December 18, 1880, are Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge's personal record of an eventful period in his career as a United ...
John Irving
PreviewExplores the author's literary works through critical essays that explore Irving's popularity, narrative perspective, and post-modernism from a variety of viewpoints.
The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Richard Irving DodgeIn summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to the Pacific Northwest, south through ...
Something about the Author
Lisa Kumar... photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. / Adler, Irving, and Joyce Adler, photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. BECHARD, MARGARET I Cohen, Santiago, illustrator. From an illustration in My Mom Married the Principal, by Margaret Bechard.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry: A Record of Over ...
Walter CalvertOn reel with Yorick, pseud. A letter concerning Mr. Henry Irving.
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby IrvingFor twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships.
Leila Khaled: Fighting for Palestine
Sarah IrvingIn this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image.
Astoria: or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
Washington IrvingThe first English edition was issued simultaneously with the American. John Jacob Astor persuaded Irving to undertake this story of his ill-fated enterprise at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1834.
Chronicle of The Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving ...
Washington IrvingThis is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter.
The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Richard Irving DodgeBlack Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge is by far the most detailed account yet available of the conflicting claims, interests, and populations that converged on the Black Hills during the key transitional period before the ...
Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies
PreviewLetter to Ralph M. Aderman. 9 January 1973. The Complete Works of Washington Irving Records. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. POCHMANN, HENRY A., et al. Washington Irving Manual (which went through several stages).
The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving
Andrew BursteinWith a historian’s eye for scope and significance, Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was a major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature.
My Movie Business
John IrvingBut My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen - for four different directors.
Five Things to Know About the Australian Constitution
Helen IrvingIn this excellent new book, Helen Irving delves into the mystery that is the Australian constitution by discussing the major national debates of recent years.
Meaning in Life
Irving SingerThis final book in Irving Singer's Meaning in Life trilogy studies the interaction between nature and the values that define human spirituality.
The Imaginary Girlfriend
John IrvingDedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a ...
Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters
PreviewThe following letter to Irving Lazar, Lerner's agent at the time, reveals Lerner's feelings on all three musicals: To Irving Lazar March 14, 1974 Dear fellow, Sorry I missed you in New York, but as I trust somebody told you, I was in Haiti for a ...
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